Omegavegeta wrote:
Granted, I LOVE Fassbender's Magneto, but Xavier was kind of a douche for most of the movie. I really want them to make an R rated Magneto movie where he goes around and kills ****'s the whole time. I would give Hollywood all of my money for that.
I think that the problem I have with Magneto is that they're always trying to portray him as a guy who intends to do the right thing, has a cause worth fighting for (even if you don't agree with how he's doing it), and that makes him sympathetic. But then, inevitably, right when he could actually "do the right thing", his inherent "evil" shows up and he does something stupid and /******** requiring the heroes to stop him. He can't just take a victory for the team, but always has to take that extra step to fully insane megalomaniacal villain.
In X1, he's portrayed as just trying to induce mutation in world leaders so they'll "join the cause", and the audience is led to believe he doesn't know it'll kill those afflicted. But then, when he's told what will happen, he goes ahead with the plan anyway.
In X2, he's fighting with the good guys to stop the evil Stryker's plan to wipe out all mutants. But then, upon succeeding, he once again steps into nuttyland, and decides that using the bad guys doomsday weapon to kill all the humans on the planet is a great idea. It's a moronic idea, even if it works.
In X3, he's once again fighting against evil human oppression of mutants, but right when he *could* gain sympathy for his plight, he descends into tactics and methods that reveal his innate need to do the dumbest thing possible so as to make sure everyone knows he's the real bad guy. Of course, the film was so bad that it's not even sure what he thought he was going to "win" in the first place, but it was still the same pattern.
In First Class, he's on the side of the good guys (more or less), but once again, he seems unable to stop at just defeating the bad guy, but has to take whatever plan/weapon that guy was using and decide to co-opt it for his own agenda (and kick it up a notch for good measure). In this case, even going so far as to don the just defeated bad guy's helmet.
Same deal in DoFP. Takes the bad guys weapon, turns it to his own ends, and becomes the villain of the story. There's like 8 different ways he could have handled that situation without making himself into the bad guy and forcing his allies to stop him. It's like the guy doesn't learn (although in this case, I suppose it's the earlier films in which he didn't learn).
I get that they're trying to play him as complex and conflicted, but you'd think the writers would at least mix it up a bit for his character. He's kind of a one trick pony.