![]() Maybe there’s a reason the people fear mutants so much. I know, he’s the moral compass that all the X-Men are expected to follow.īut most importantly, don’t screw with the professor. Yes, he doesn’t want to endanger the lives of his students. ![]() Painfully.Īnd the peace-loving, human-loving Professor X? Sure, he’s not an advocate of violence. Luckily, the X-Men will protect you the best way they know how. Can’t turn your body into ice or command telekinesis? Magneto thinks you’re better off dead. Sure, he’s fictional, but he would hate you. Yet send a group of six children and their paraplegic teacher after him and he folds like tissue paper. He’s wiped out cities and set off nuclear reactors. In the Ultimate Marvel universe, no villain has accomplished as much as Magneto in terms of amount of destruction. Sure, he’ll start with the advantage, but that’s because superheroes are reactive and not preventative. As in every time he tries to do something. ![]() Cue the boasting:Īs sweet as Kanye West’s beats are, he can’t shift the earth’s poles and flood the planet. If you can jump ten feet, you can use it to pick chicks up at the bar, but you’re not going to trash talk other dudes who can make lightning storms or shoot eyeball beams. The problem with such power as that is it’ll go to your head. Essentially, that means don’t bring anything around him of sentimental value: What does magnetic manipulation actually mean? It’s fairly vague, but by changing the magnetic fields that are always around us, Magneto can fly, bind superheroes, control metal, etc. Okay, you’ve realized he’s delusional and egotistical, but to be fair, so would you if you had his mutant powers. What do you do?ĭid you say hit the teenager with a chair? No? See, this is why you’d be a terrible supervillain. She’s young, but even she must understand the threat approaching mutantkind in these tumultuous days. You’re staring each other in the eyes as she contemplates the offer just presented. You’ve gone into a long soliloquy about why your way is right and if this young girl wants to join your cause, she’ll not only be rewarded, she’ll be fighting for the safety of her people. Even when he’s in that delightful plastic prison you know from the X-Men movies. Doom, the key characteristic of every major Marvel supervillain is that all their schemes and desires are coated in a thin layer of mental instability. But that’s also why you’d make a terrible supervillain. them” mentality is rarely if ever that cut-and-dry. And by well I mean mutants are a roach infestation that needs to be removed with lots of bug spray and some boot stomping.īecause you’re a rational person, you understand that the “us vs. Now certainly killing seven billion people may be a bit extreme, but don’t forget that in the Ultimate universe, mutants are not treated especially well. Every action he takes is based around this idea: Let’s examine three important components of Magneto’s arcs in Ultimate X-Men. This Magneto, while still just as arrogant and evil, is far darker and crazier. We’re going to talk about the Magneto from the Ultimate Marvel line that ran through the 2000s. So that’s why modern Magneto’s posture and muscle tone are so fantastic.īut enough speculation. Couple that with the always ten to fifteen years rule that the Marvel universe has been around, Magneto is now probably in his late 40s or early 50s. ![]() An alien agent later aged him to the “prime” of his life. Luckily, because comics are comics, Alpha the Ultimate Mutant turned Magneto into a baby as revenge in 1974. And how scary exactly is an 85 year-old Magneto? Except that the Holocaust was in the early 1940s and the Marvel universe takes place in present day. His origin story and beliefs are tied directly with his experiences as a child in the Holocaust. But like I said a few articles back, while most characters get their origin stories updated so they stay roughly the same age, Magneto doesn’t get such a luxury. Simply, Magneto believes the mutants to be superior beings, while Professor X and the X-Men just want the mutants treated as equals. Magneto, seeing the mutant race hated and discriminated against, plans to overthrow the humans and rule or destroy or manipulate them for his own goal of mutant superiority. Ultimate Magneto’s wild ride Posted: | Author: Jason Levine | Filed under: Characters, Marvel | 3 Comments
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