Villains who were right: Magneto

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Marvel Comics villains who were right: Magneto

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[TheWarmachine]

Magneto: *gets his heart ripped out*

Also Magneto: "I didn't hear no bell!"

[MusicLover-myfo]

"I say as I have too many times before, never again." - Magneto

[mattgunnell]

Love the use of Magneto as examples of various philosophical schools of thought. It shows that no one can easily be put in a box and classified.

[theonewhoisbetterthanyou]

*Magneto (X-Men The Animated Series-1992):* “When I Was A Child, My People Talked While Others Prepared For WAR! They Used Reason While Others Used TANKS, And They Were Destroyed For Their Trouble. I Won't Stand By And Watch It Happen Again, I WON'T!”

[TheWarmachine]

"The last will and testament of Charles Francis Xavier. As you all will see, his fortune, his school. Everything he built, everything he fought for... Now belongs to me, *my X-Men."* - Magneto

[DarthNinja]

Now you should do, "Marvel Heroes who were wrong"

[TheWarmachine]

0:01 Magneto is just sitting there.... *MENACINGLY!!!*

[baconlife]

Magneto for real is one of the best written characters in fiction

[KOFNY]

For the 10+ years I’ve been watching comic book YouTube I always felt like I never quite saw anyone really talk about how great and compelling of a villian magneto was. His backstory is so real and adds so much to him

[Straighttothepointgospel]

Magneto is forever my favorite character.

[JanieGamez-dnig]

My favorite thing about villains is when they are nice to children. Like when the joker was talking to the son of one of his henchmen. I'll always remember moments like that in comics

[TheJoyfulReaper]

Dont forget Cletus Kasady (Carnage) dropping bombshell gems like "Don't be mad at a clown for being a clown, instead ask why are you at the circus?"

[aaronkozbial]

I love the philosophical aspect of this video so much. You should do Luthor’s assertion that Superman on Earth blunts the humanity’s ability to do for itself

[blacksmoke]

The only problem I have with Magneto is that he didn't have a special interaction with Dr Doom in MarvelvsCapcom 3. Dr Doom kept talking crap everytime he went up against an X men, saying "I'll make you wish you were facing Magneto."

He even calls them Mutant scum after defeating them. Like me personally, I wouldn't take that level of disrespect.

[marqusrylander]

The Alex Ross art in the thumbnail goes SO fucking hard.

[thedappermagician]

Magneto Testament definitely scarred me a bit. And then I looked up all of its historicity.
And that scarred me more

[Mech]

Speaking as a jewish person, and being able to empathize with Magneto's knee-jerk refusal to accept that the people who do not belong to your social and cultural demographic will ever accept you for various, often illogical reasons? There is a phrase we have that Magneto exemplifies, eloquent in its brevity, masterful in its simplicity and its capacity to extend to all facets of his character.

"Never forget"

He can never, WILL never forget the atrocities committed against his fellow jew, and fellow mutant, by a population that said the quiet part out loud and acted on it. The quiet part that rests in the heart of- while not all, so very many people in the world. That they will never accept you, see you as fundamentally different and not worthy of their compassion, respect or benefit of the doubt, and that the only way you can keep yourself from being hurt is by remembering what they did before so you don't make that mistake again.

It's the philosophy of a trauma survivor, not wrong to think that way, but too damaged and scared to ever trust opening up again. It's the reason why Magneto's mutant-ruled world didn't work, because his entire motivation was predicated on a foundation of "Never again", but for that to work there needs to be someone else out there that would presumably want to hurt you. When you rule, you need a different rallying cry, and while I am in no way saying that he IS one, his philosophy, in that way, has similar themes to facism, in that it NEEDS an enemy to rally against in order to charismatically call people to their leader's side, which is why it failed- in basing his rallying cry around fear and rebelling against oppression, there was no solid, unifying force to keep them together once they won.

Charles' perspective meanwhile, while too naiive and inactive to properly understand how to reach people in the way that Magneto's would, is more sustainable in the long-term, as it pulls people together through understanding and companionship, giving them a reason to stay together and goals to work for in the future after they presumably are the ruling or accepted party.

It's a perfect example of how extreme hatred and extreme pacifism will never accomplish your goals. You need to be ruthless when necessary, and you need to give people something to stand for by themselves, on their own merits, through no enemy on the horizon, but by what they want to be moving forward.

[jonchapa]

Magneto is my number 1 best written character in Marvel.

[PoppyPitts-vmjx]

This one was pretty informative, appreciate it!

[Byrdstar-unme]

Even as a kid I always cheered for Magneto and went crazy with excitement when people joined his side