Comic is Classic X-Men Issue #54 https://batcave.biz/reader/17480/118617
Magneto: let's decomission all nuclear weapons and have peace X-men: but what about freedom?
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The thing about magneto is that he was right a lot of the time but other times he was that image of those black dudes whipping the white guys in a cottonfield but completely unironically
Magneto is the first villain who got hit with the "oh shit he's right, make him kick a puppy" ray
The problem is that Marvel keeps making Humanity the Hitler-Sapiens so even apocalypse's kill all humans theory starts becoming more justified
One of the nice ambiguities of Magneto is his costume. Traditionally prime colors (the art ones not physics) are for heroes and secondary for villains or “monstrous” heroes like the Hulk and Thing. There are some exceptions but most golden to Bronze Age heroes fit this pattern. Once you see this you can’t unseen it everywhere.
Magneto though is one of the few/earliest with both a primary color (red) and secondary (purple). The contrasting heroic and villainous aspects of his character.
Also red is traditionally a color of revolution and purple of monarchy, so he contains that contradiction as well. He is both the mutant revolutionary but also would be mutant king.
Finally he has a cape which are less common in marvel but still generally heroic garment, but then he has a sinister looking helmet which is more of a villain item. Often when he is more heroic he is depicted sans helmet and putting it on is when he descends into villainy (it’s telepathy blocking was actually invented by the movies).
Second panel Magneto walking has emoji potential
I always admire comic book characters ability to speak a full sentence while being pummeled or launched into the air
The reason X men doesn't work is because the main villain is basically the only person in the universe that is thinking about anything
I gotta be real, if that universe existed and I lived in it i would be nervous that any random can just get the power to control the weather and stuff at that kind of scale. A lot could go real bad real quick. Some teenager finds out he creates a nuclear explosion when he stomps his feet or things along those lines being a factor would be really scary.
Just wait for the next comic where everything is reset you can forget all about it.
I think there've also been multiple global infections - viral, psychic, and nanotech - that were all designed to either make people hate mutants (more), randomly make them into mutants, or just plain ol' kill mutants. Marvel Earth is cursed.
There's already mass shootings all the time, throwing mutants into that mix is no good. However mutant Luigi
This is increasingly where the world is heading, so it's actually quite prescient! Read X-Men spinoff novella "Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones"
Need to have a Magneto movie, I'm thinking the plot is that he wants to stop the government from doing fashy shit, gets stopped by the X Men because Professor X wants to 
the fash out of office, the fashy shit happens exactly like the fashy government guys said it would, Magneto gets busted out of plastic jail by radicalized former X Men, saves the world by killing a bunch of fashy government dudes. Film ends with him standing by Prof Xs grave, who was killed by the FBI, and teasing a sequel where he will fully overthrow the government. It'd be the best X Men film since Logan.
There was supposed to be one but then they fucked up X-Men Origins: Wolverine enough that it got turned into X-Men First Class instead
Cowards couldn't even let Magneto actually destroy that Navy squadron.
:marge-holding-potato: I just think he's Mag-neato
"What gives you the right to decide humans should stop destroying the planet and themselves so we can all live in a golden age of prosperity?!"
(Ignore Professor X's Star Trek cosplay)
WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? STALIN?
So what is Magneto's goal in regards to non-mutants exactly? Enslave them? Kill em all? Something else?
Usually he’s more about making a mutant homeland that ranges from pro-national liberation metaphor to pro-Zionism metaphor depending on the author.
As with all things comics: it depends on the writer. Some writers do approach him as a genocidal mutant supremacist who sees humanity as inferior beings....but thats frankly boring and shallow. The more interesting take on magneto is that he's basically a pragmatic fatalist. His experiences in the Holocaust and the nature of mutation and evolutionary history have convinced him that coexistence simply isn't possible. Tragic though it may be, a genocidal war that ends with one survivor is unavoidable and inevitable.
To this point...he's had several solutions he's been open to. He's seen killing them all as the most likely outcome but he's also considered complete peaceful separation or even co-existsnce.
During Claremont's run (this issue is from that run) it was conquer humanity and rule via an enlightened monarchy until they went extint naturally like it happened with neanderthals
what no theory does to a mf
It's probably different with each reboot and timeline. In the first movie, he built a machine in the statue of liberty to turn everyone into a mutant I think.
"Look that sounds great, but you killed some people (who admittedly also killed a LOT MORE people and were trying to kill you) so were gonna have to overthrow you in the name of freedom and democracy."
The Marvel Way.
Was his organization still called "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants" at this point?
To quote tumblr
like you all wouldnt be hyped as fuck to join a gay rights club called the “brotherhood of evil gays”
He was solo in this issue.
Magneto and some versions of Dr. Doom are way too sympathetic at points.
So naturally they have the do random evil shit at points like being friends with Captain Israel.
Doesn't Dr. Doom know all futures and is the only one smart enough to save humanity or something?
No clue. I'm more of a Dark Horse guy.
That woman who was so callous that The Hulk was too disgusted to smash her and just left?
Is she still gonna be in the new marvel slop or did they actually cut her?
Usually when a person tries to change it for thw better make it utopian or some shit, even with less side effect, there is always some shit like "oh youre trying to play god" or life is meaningless without struggle. Then in the next couple of issues there is the reminder that there exists the plane of hell where countless innocents are tortured for eternity and the so called villain you lectured probably would have rid the multiverse of it
Watch Metallic Rouge, the Blanquist "villain" ultimately triumphs over the liberal antihero even after her death at the hands of an annoying determinist.
I love the guy in the foreground "YOU'VE GONE MAD"
That would be dumb ass Cyclops.
one eye; checks out
"Also we're doing this one evil thing because you mustn't agree with the villain"
Least evil Mossad agent