• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Magneto also has a tendency to shoot first and target civilians, including civilians sympathetic to his cause. He’s a sympathetic figure and he has a point, but he’s only a hero half the time for a reason.

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      30 days ago

      Well, yeah, he’s on the right side, so writers have to make him do objectively unforgivable things for seemingly no reason in order to ensure the reader doesn’t sympathize with someone challenging the status quo.