I’ve been dreaming of a Magneto movie where he is proven to be unequivocally right and in the end half of the X men defect and join him in overthrowing SHIELD or something.
Or just a Magneto movie where he doesn’t just randomly decide to start murdering someone or betraying everyone around him because “he only knows vengeance” or some other bullshit to remind you he’s supposed to be the bad guy.
Seriously, he’ll be strategic, logical, and the most insightful character throughout most of each movie and then to balance that out, they need to make him throw all of it away to do something overtly evil that deviates from his plan or the plan suddenly has a twist that involves someone’s death with little to no good justification. Why? Because he’s supposed to be the baddie.
For once, just drop the act and let us have a cool Magneto that makes sense and doesn’t do deranged shit. Idgaf if he’s meant to be the villain or an antagonist, everything he does is more interesting than the tired platitudes Prof X and crew give us. The plot always ends up the exact same. In Dark Phoenix and even for a bit in Apocalypse they decided to ease up on him and let Magneto just be cool, but they still had to add enhinged, murderous rage scenes and spontaneous moments of betrayal that are otherwise completely inconsistent with his character and goals.
We don’t need a clear black and white, good vs evil story.
Nah, magneto makes sense. Someone who survives the Holocaust and then says “no one should do genocide like this again, which is why I must do genocide?” It’s not like there’s an entire country based on that exact thing, that would be silly.
Good point, but what I meant were the smaller actions like suddenly turning on other mutants at critical moments that don’t make sense. His ideas to eradicate humans to protect mutants made sense as “I’ll achieve my goals by any means necessary” is his M.O.
One of the ones that bugged me the most was in First Class. They are trying to prevent the humans from being able to acquire and exploit Mystique’s DNA, so immediately after preventing her from being captured, he decides that it’s best if she dies to prevent that from ever happening. This logic can be justified, but he decides to accomplish this by shooting her in a location the humans control, in essence spreading her DNA everywhere and presumably leaving her body behind for them to exploit anyway.
It completely defeats the purpose of everything he was working towards and negates what he had just accomplished. It was those kinds of inconsistencies that bug me.
I’ve been dreaming of a Magneto movie where he is proven to be unequivocally right and in the end half of the X men defect and join him in overthrowing SHIELD or something.
Or just a Magneto movie where he doesn’t just randomly decide to start murdering someone or betraying everyone around him because “he only knows vengeance” or some other bullshit to remind you he’s supposed to be the bad guy.
Seriously, he’ll be strategic, logical, and the most insightful character throughout most of each movie and then to balance that out, they need to make him throw all of it away to do something overtly evil that deviates from his plan or the plan suddenly has a twist that involves someone’s death with little to no good justification. Why? Because he’s supposed to be the baddie.
For once, just drop the act and let us have a cool Magneto that makes sense and doesn’t do deranged shit. Idgaf if he’s meant to be the villain or an antagonist, everything he does is more interesting than the tired platitudes Prof X and crew give us. The plot always ends up the exact same. In Dark Phoenix and even for a bit in Apocalypse they decided to ease up on him and let Magneto just be cool, but they still had to add enhinged, murderous rage scenes and spontaneous moments of betrayal that are otherwise completely inconsistent with his character and goals.
We don’t need a clear black and white, good vs evil story.
Nah, magneto makes sense. Someone who survives the Holocaust and then says “no one should do genocide like this again, which is why I must do genocide?” It’s not like there’s an entire country based on that exact thing, that would be silly.
Good point, but what I meant were the smaller actions like suddenly turning on other mutants at critical moments that don’t make sense. His ideas to eradicate humans to protect mutants made sense as “I’ll achieve my goals by any means necessary” is his M.O.
One of the ones that bugged me the most was in First Class. They are trying to prevent the humans from being able to acquire and exploit Mystique’s DNA, so immediately after preventing her from being captured, he decides that it’s best if she dies to prevent that from ever happening. This logic can be justified, but he decides to accomplish this by shooting her in a location the humans control, in essence spreading her DNA everywhere and presumably leaving her body behind for them to exploit anyway.
It completely defeats the purpose of everything he was working towards and negates what he had just accomplished. It was those kinds of inconsistencies that bug me.