Magneto Hero Or Villain
Magneto: hero or Villain? When we think of villains there are several that quickly come to mind. For Batman there is the Joker, Superman has Lex Luthor as his great revel, and Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin. Yet no other character is as complex as the X-Men's villain, Magneto. From they very beginning of the comic series there has not been a person that has crossed the line between hero and villain as much as Magneto. Even though he has helped and saved the X- men on several occasions. What still makes him the villain? Along with that, why is Wolverine a hero when he has a bad attitude and kills more people then Magneto? When you start talking about Magneto you have to start at the beginning of his story. As a young child he is put
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While his thought on mutant and human relations differ from the X-Men you hardly ever see Magneto flat out killing them. This is because he is fighting for all of mutantkind, so it would be unwise to kill those he is trying to free. He has even gone as far as saving the lives of several X-Men. As seen in X2, when there plain is about to crash Magneto steps in and saves the lives of seven "enemies." Magneto is such a tough character to understand because he is, as Fingeroth puts it in his chapter Values and Villains, a "right man." This type of villain is the most dangerous because they feel what they are doing is right. It also means that they think they are the hero, and anyone that gets in their way is the villain. What makes this type of villain so menacing is the fact that they will stop at nothing to gain their goals(163). This type of villain also has something that most normal villains do not, and that is a well-defined set of morals and values. For Magneto these morals come in several different types. The first one is the felling of needing to save the mutants from a existence of second class citizenship or something even worse. This type of morality is usually thought of as being right. Saving a whole group of people from being persecuted. Because of the way that Magneto fells he has to handle this injustice is what gets him in
While his thought on mutant and human relations differ from the X-Men you hardly ever see Magneto flat out killing them. This is because he is fighting for all of mutantkind, so it would be unwise to kill those he is trying to free. He has even gone as far as saving the lives of several X-Men. As seen in X2, when there plain is about to crash Magneto steps in and saves the lives of seven "enemies." Magneto is such a tough character to understand because he is, as Fingeroth puts it in his chapter Values and Villains, a "right man." This type of villain is the most dangerous because they feel what they are doing is right. It also means that they think they are the hero, and anyone that gets in their way is the villain. What makes this type of villain so menacing is the fact that they will stop at nothing to gain their goals(163). This type of villain also has something that most normal villains do not, and that is a well-defined set of morals and values. For Magneto these morals come in several different types. The first one is the felling of needing to save the mutants from a existence of second class citizenship or something even worse. This type of morality is usually thought of as being right. Saving a whole group of people from being persecuted. Because of the way that Magneto fells he has to handle this injustice is what gets him in