Geek Time

Magneto is the scar tissue on a wound that never quite healed. It doesn’t matter if it is emotional, mental, or physical. It gets better to a point, and you may even forget it is there. 

But eventually it is ruptured, or you remember the bad times. Something causes it to flare up. The pain burns like the moment you were first hurt, and it tears into you like nothing else.

That’s Magneto.

The greatest lie X-Men fans believe, is that he is one.

I agree with Cullen Bunn’s take on Magneto. He is a monster. From time to time, he will have bouts of regret, or moments where he remembers he has a conscious, but the man who was fueled by those feelings no longer exist.

He was born from the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps.

He might have had a chance at being human after those events, but life had other plans for him. He is defined by pain, and loneliness.

My first Magneto story was Uncanny X-Men 274-275. Claremont defined who he was for me in those issues, and the interpretation has held through, to this day.

He may forget who he is every now again, but something will inevitably bring it all back.