XMen 10 Harsh Realities Of Being Magneto

X-Men: 10 Harsh Realities Of Being Magneto

Magneto’s life has been full of trials and tribulations, but the suffering has definitely outweighed everything else.

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Magneto is one of Marvel’s most intriguing characters, hero or villain. Once the X-Men’s greatest foe, Magneto went from a cackling Silver Age stereotype to a nuanced and powerful character who is more popular than most of Marvel’s heroes. He’s been a villain, a hero, and everything in between, his story fleshed out in such a way that even at his most despicable he’s compelling.

Magneto’s life has been full of trials and tribulations, but the suffering has definitely outweighed everything else. Magneto’s powers may make him formidable but his life has been full of harsh realities that have kept it from being great.

10 Every Dead Mutant Child Wears On His Heart

Magneto is, at his core, a man who loves his people more than anything. Magneto’s entire mission and nearly everything he’s done in his life has been about fighting for mutantkind and every dead mutant is a new tragedy for Magneto, especially the young ones. Adults can fight, but every time an enemy of mutantkind targets a mutant child and succeeds, Magneto dies inside.

God Loves, Man Kills is a perfect example of this. The death of mutant children spurred him on to team up with the X-Men, his sworn enemies. To Magneto, every dead mutant child is a knife through his heart and a loss that can never be made better.

9 He’s Dealt With Racism His Whole Life

Magneto grew up a Jew in Europe during a time of unprecedented anti-Semitism, which culminated in the Holocaust and the loss of his family in Auschwitz. After his mutant powers developed, he had to deal with racism on two fronts- the anti-Semitism that has always been the backdrop of Christian European culture and the racism of humans against mutants.

For his entire long life, Magneto has had to deal with the fact of people hating him for nothing more than how he was born. People have literally created entire industries in order to kill people like him since he was a child.

8 He’s Been Betrayed By His Own People More Than Once

Magneto is a man who people listen to. Calling him magnetic is both cliche and a bad pun, but it’s also accurate. Magneto has always been able to get people to follow him, bringing them into whatever cause he was espousing at the time. Unfortunately for him, Magneto has often chosen followers who were in it for the power and not the cause, something that has bitten him in the past.

Magneto is not a selfish man; he doesn’t want power for its own sake but so he can ensure the safety of his people. Every betrayal by a fellow mutant is a terrible thing to Magneto, as it’s not something he could ever conceive of.

7 He Never Wins

Magneto has been fighting for the mutant cause for most of his life and yet has rarely if ever made any headway. He’s had to deal with the fact that no matter what he does, things never get any better for mutants. This was understated when Xavier and Moira MacTaggert showed him her many lives went and the tragedy of mutantkind was revealed to him.

Magneto has to live with the fact that over the years, nothing he’s done has ever worked for mutantkind. He’s never been able to actually save them from the racism of humanity or even made a dent in humanity’s ability to destroy his people. Even Krakoa is constantly in danger from the vastly superior numbers of humanity.

6 His Hatred Of Humanity Is Constantly Justified By Their Actions

The racism that has affected Magneto’s life since the beginning molded his approach to human/mutant relations. Magneto was taught by these situations that humanity would always try to destroy that which was different or what it was afraid of. Magneto learned that there was no co-existence with the bigoted masses- only domination or extinction.

Magneto can be a cruel man but that cruelty comes from what the world has shown him. Magneto’s rage at humanity is constantly proven correct by the race’s actions. He has never been given a reason not to hate humanity.

5 Sixteen Million Mutants Died On Genosha And There Was Nothing He Could Do About It

Mutants are experiencing having a secure home and power for the first time with Krakoa, but it isn’t the first mutant nation. That was Genosha, which the UN ceded to Magneto after he threatened to reverse the magnetic poles of the Earth. Genosha didn’t last very long as a nation, though. The island’s population of sixteen million mutants was wiped out in an attack by three Mega-Sentinels.

Usually, Magneto would have crushed them, but he was gravely injured because of a battle with the X-Men and his powers were at their lowest ebb; there was nothing he could do but watch as his people were burnt to ash in front of him.

4 His Accomplishments Are Often Meaningless

Magneto is a man who has set out to do great things and often succeeded. He was able to prove that he deserved the title of one of the most feared people on Earth, but in the long run, all of the impressive things he has done are meaningless. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants never gained any power for mutants. He beat the X-Men but never turned them to his side. His Acolytes betrayed him and Genosha was destroyed while he was powerless.

For all of the amazing things that Magneto has done, not a single one of them had much of a long-term effect on the world. Even the impact of Krakoa, perhaps his greatest accomplishment, can’t be counted yet as its survival isn’t guaranteed.

3 He Spent Years Battling His Best Friend

Saying Magneto and Professor X have had a tumultuous relationship is putting it nicely. The two men became fast friends while working with Holocaust victims as young men. They made a great team and shared a desire for making a place in the world for mutants. However, their lives had made them into different people and that set them on a collision course later in life.

Beyond working together to lay the seeds of Krakoa, Xavier and Magneto spent years at each other’s throats. Xavier was literally Magneto’s only actual friend in the world and the two of them tried to kill each other for years, with Xavier even mindwiping him and leaving him for dead. Their relationship has mended but Magneto still had years where he and his only friend were trying to kill each other.

2 His Deficiencies As A Father Damaged His Children

Magneto is one of the most powerful beings on Earth, but all of that power hasn’t helped him be a better father. His first daughter, Anya, was killed because of him using his mutant powers. Even though it was revealed they weren’t his children, he was an often cruel and manipulative father to Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, something that played a factor in the tribulations of their lives. He treats Polaris like she barely exists most of the time.

Magneto loves his children but he has no idea how to be a good parent. He’s so obsessed with his mission that his loved ones have greatly suffered because of it.

1 Everything He Loves Is Taken From Him

Magneto is a man of many sides but one thing has molded him more than anything else- loss. From the loss of his home in the German occupation of Poland and the death of his family in Auschwitz to the death of his first daughter Anya and his wife Magda leaving him, Magneto’s early life was characterized by loss. Over the years, it kept happening; every attempt at building something was destroyed.

All of the things Magneto has loved have been taken from him; even being the father of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Krakoa is the only thing that has proven to have any staying power and even that could be taken away at any time. Magneto’s life has been defined by loss, something which has molded him.

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