Honestly, though, I was really disappointed in the ending of First Class - his dialogue with Shaw was appalling. There's so many moments in the series where Magneto does (or tries to do) good, but Shaw's behaviour towards him and Erik's behaviour towards other mutants have very nasty parallels. How extreme he gets could be argued as in or out of character, but I think you're entirely right that through every movie the baseline characterisation is that he needs to be in charge and feels justified hurting people "for the greater good" (and the greater good has a really, really wide definition!)
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Date: 2018-07-15 11:19 am (UTC)Honestly, though, I was really disappointed in the ending of First Class - his dialogue with Shaw was appalling. There's so many moments in the series where Magneto does (or tries to do) good, but Shaw's behaviour towards him and Erik's behaviour towards other mutants have very nasty parallels. How extreme he gets could be argued as in or out of character, but I think you're entirely right that through every movie the baseline characterisation is that he needs to be in charge and feels justified hurting people "for the greater good" (and the greater good has a really, really wide definition!)