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Comic is Classic X-Men Issue #54 https://batcave.biz/reader/17480/118617

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[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 18 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

So what is Magneto's goal in regards to non-mutants exactly? Enslave them? Kill em all? Something else?

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Usually he’s more about making a mutant homeland that ranges from pro-national liberation metaphor to pro-Zionism metaphor depending on the author.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 16 points 16 hours ago

As with all things comics: it depends on the writer. Some writers do approach him as a genocidal mutant supremacist who sees humanity as inferior beings....but thats frankly boring and shallow. The more interesting take on magneto is that he's basically a pragmatic fatalist. His experiences in the Holocaust and the nature of mutation and evolutionary history have convinced him that coexistence simply isn't possible. Tragic though it may be, a genocidal war that ends with one survivor is unavoidable and inevitable.

To this point...he's had several solutions he's been open to. He's seen killing them all as the most likely outcome but he's also considered complete peaceful separation or even co-existsnce.

[–] Pili@hexbear.net 17 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It's probably different with each reboot and timeline. In the first movie, he built a machine in the statue of liberty to turn everyone into a mutant I think.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

During Claremont's run (this issue is from that run) it was conquer humanity and rule via an enlightened monarchy until they went extint naturally like it happened with neanderthals

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 16 points 16 hours ago

wut what no theory does to a mf