Ironically, I love that icon :). (Partly because comics Magneto is right way more often - if also wrong more often because comics are like that - and partly because I love Quentin and his stupid edgy t-shirt.)
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.
Sadly, I think Erik internalised way too many of Shaw's master race ideals - you can see that again when he teams up with Apocalypse, who's essentially the same. It's hardly surprising he feels that way given how young he was when Shaw got hold of him, but that doesn't make it OK.
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!)
All else aside: has he even thought about the fact that if he'd succeeded in killing all humans on either of the occasions when he tried, he'd be putting thousands of mutant children through much of the exact same trauma that he went through? He's not the only mutant with a human mother!
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Date: 2018-07-16 04:34 am (UTC)Ironically, I love that icon :). (Partly because comics Magneto is right way more often - if also wrong more often because comics are like that - and partly because I love Quentin and his stupid edgy t-shirt.)
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.
Sadly, I think Erik internalised way too many of Shaw's master race ideals - you can see that again when he teams up with Apocalypse, who's essentially the same. It's hardly surprising he feels that way given how young he was when Shaw got hold of him, but that doesn't make it OK.
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!)
All else aside: has he even thought about the fact that if he'd succeeded in killing all humans on either of the occasions when he tried, he'd be putting thousands of mutant children through much of the exact same trauma that he went through? He's not the only mutant with a human mother!