[ SECRET POST #2245

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⌈ Secret Post #2245 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 098 secrets from Secret Submission Post #321.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 3 4 - come on, troll with a little more subtlety ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Magneto, like any good supervillain type, doesn't think of himself as evil. And like most people, he can't conceive of himself as being capable of evil. When Marvel does go there with his character, risking the lives of innocents, they're not ignoring his background. One of the basic components of his character is that he's so afraid of being on the receiving end of another holocaust in a human-mutant conflict that he's willing to do terrible things to prevent it. If killing a few humans will protect mutants from the threat of internment camps, he's willing to go there.

The point of his character is to show just how dangerous fear can be when you let it rule your decisions. The books are about intolerance and racism in the end, and fear is a big part of that story.

Magneto at his worst is acting on fear, trying to prevent some imagined (or sometimes not so imagined) greater evil. Xavier is about hope, and about breaking down the fear on both sides. Knowledge is his weapon -- you fear what you don't understand. That's why his character runs a school.

There's a bit of a Cold War analogy in there somewhere too -- every time one side, mutant or human, escalates to protect against the threat of the other, the other must respond in kind. It's interesting to note that the writers avoided casting Magneto as representative of the USSR in that analogy, and both Magneto's group and Xavier's contain Russian members. In 2013, that's not at all remarkable, but in the 1960's, American pop culture usually went the other way.

[lynx]

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