augustus pugin 🌖>Magneto regards mutants as evolutionarily superior to humans and rejects the possibility of peaceful human-mutant coexistence; he initially aimed to conquer the world to enable mutants, whom he refers to as Homo superior, to replace humans as the dominant species, and occasionally advocated for human genocide.
>Writers have since fleshed out his origins and motivations, revealing him to be a Holocaust survivor. His extreme methods and cynical philosophy derive from his "Never again" determination to protect mutants from suffering the same fate as the Jews at the hands of a world that fears and persecutes them.
>In a 2008 interview, Stan Lee said he "did not think of Magneto as a bad guy. He just wanted to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racist...he was trying to defend the mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly he was going to teach society a lesson. He was a danger of course...but I never thought of him as a villain."[19]
>Writers have since fleshed out his origins and motivations, revealing him to be a Holocaust survivor. His extreme methods and cynical philosophy derive from his "Never again" determination to protect mutants from suffering the same fate as the Jews at the hands of a world that fears and persecutes them.
>In a 2008 interview, Stan Lee said he "did not think of Magneto as a bad guy. He just wanted to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racist...he was trying to defend the mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly he was going to teach society a lesson. He was a danger of course...but I never thought of him as a villain."[19]
