It's funny because when Stan Lee came up with Magneto, he didn't have any backstory aside from "Mwah ha ha, I am the founder of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, I hate humans and will enslave all of them because I am the master of magnetism. Now I will use magnetic waves to set this bank on fire!"
Which, when he said that he envisioned him as a Malcolm X figure, really lets you know a few things
I very much doubt he actually thought of him as a Malcolm X type at the time of his creation. Plus Jack Kirby probably did most of the work creating Magneto anyway. Plus X-Men was a third-string comic until Chris Claremont started writing it.
Exactly
So either Stan Lee thought Malcolm X was some sort of black supremacist supervillain or he's stealing credit from Claremont
He was an absolute shitheel
He’s a Zionist who actually lived in Israel, so…
Yeah. A whole point about his character is that oppression doesn’t automatically induce compassion and solidarity in its victims. Sometimes like in his case, it does the exact opposite and the victim wonders why can’t they be the hammer for once.
i'm not familiar with the arc they're doing (and don't want to know) but he doesn't stay libbed out forever and that means the narrative is going to say "see, liberalism doesn't work"
my partner did comment on the very clearly explained fascist shit the equalists or whoever are saying
the friends of humanity are explicitly fash yeah, based on the klan and shit.
Movie!Magneto just wanted to give everyone in the world mutant powers, and this was for some reason portrayed as a bad thing.
edit: Then again, the mutants losing their powers was also portrayed as a bad thing, which seems to suggest that the movie creators believe that genetic determinism is a good thing.
idk if i woke up with blue skin breathing fire i'd be kinda upset, i'd get over it but still
