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I just saw the actual words ‘We know Magneto’s story intimately. It has been told often. He was a victim once. And then he decided that Genocide was okay. ‘ used by someone trying to assert that Magneto is a bad bad naughty villain and not a victim at all except oh that one time

I

I have no words

I’m really glad someone else called out that bullshit before I did. People just whittling down 50 years of characterization to “And then he decided Genocide was okay” like??? 

Max I didn’t realise you reblogged it with that gif I’m dying.

But yeah what ahuraboltagon said. At the risk of coming off as Taking Fiction Way Too Seriously, I also find it sketchy as hell to say something like ‘he was a victim once’ to describe like…living through the Holocaust…and general oppression…that persists through his (and other mutants’) entire life…y’know.

I think people forget that it wasn’t only the horrors of the Holocaust that made Magneto the way he is. He survived that and he escaped, he made a life for himself, married the love of his life and had a daughter. Then humans burnt down his house. They wouldn’t let him save his child from the blaze. They held him down and beat him while his only child was burning to death in their family home. His rage overcame him and he used his powers to get revenge, and in horror, his wife fled. His daughter died, and his wife disappeared. He survived the genocide of his people and tried to live a normal, happy life afterwards only to have that taken away from him by humans again. It’s the repeated tragedy and pain that broke (or made) Magneto.

None of this justifies the things he did in later life, of course, but it offers an explanation. I don’t think people really understand when they say things like that OP. If you survived all of that… do you think you would be clear headed? Do you think you wouldn’t be clouded by despair and rage? Do you think you wouldn’t be unstable for a long, long time? No. 

All in all: don’t try to summarise the long history of a man you don’t understand. His story can’t be so easily explained in that way. 

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29. kshdk said: My opinion on Mags in “You started out hella good, and then everything went hella bad”
30. kshdk said: … That is so freaking stupid.. Mags makes a LOT of mistakes, and the person he becomes in most of the comics are a bad bad person, no discussion. But Marvel First Class / DofP I still have hope, and I understand his reason.