Magneto is the manifestation of the saying, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." You could probably reasonably say:
Professor X : Magneto :: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : Malcom X
Professor X and the X-Men were all for mutant equality, but they always favored peaceful acceptance. Conversely, Magneto recognized that large portions of society would never accept mutants. It also bears mentioning that Magneto carried some "racist" (for lack of a better word) tendencies towards non-mutants. In his view, non-mutants are lesser beings.
Magneto has repeatedly had turns of being extermonationist against regular humans, and even when he isn't he's still often portrayed as mutant nationalist, modelling his vision for Genosha off of Israel, which he has repeatedly stated his support of in a very "You lived through the logical conclusion of that shit personally, how are you THIS determined to still get it wrong‽"
Poison Ivy has turns of being an eco-fascist, and her more just being an anti-social eco-anti-hero now is often billed as being a direct result of her treatment at Arkham when before she wanted to actually kill everything but plants. Not even all humans, all everything that isn't either a plant or a plant symbiote, and while that would be am incredible spec-evo project, it would also make her the single most genocidal psychopath in earth's history assuming lichens don't achieve sapience to start making a contest of it.
For just wanting to save his wife, Mr. Freeze sure has a lot of arrests on his record involving trying to plunge gotham into a new ice age, which, just look at Extra History's series on the little ice age to get an idea of just how horrible doing that on purpose to a society is.
Stop whitewashing terrible people who just happen to even tangentially look like a cause you agree with.
That's how we get Joker being seen as justified because one too many people feel personally attacked for cat calling women to smile more and ....motherfucker I think I just figured out why the incels latched onto him so hard.
Yes but from the very beginning, Eddie Brock's Venom would protect who they (their chosen pronouns) considered innocent. They would use extreme measures to do it though like killing a mugger. So from the start, he always tried to do good.
I would definitely put Deadpool in this category though. Deadpool was first introduced by taking out the X-men. A couple of miniseries of him going up against the Juggernaut, people asked more from him. The "merc with the mouth", which seemed like a villain rip off of Spider-man, turned to a psycho then to a good guy through a change of heart. His character changes with each new series.
Reagan is popular to blame but this suggests it started before him.
I dunno, sometimes I see somebody acting monstrously and wish an alien abomination would have him for lunch.
I am pretty sure that racism existed before Reagan became president.
Can someone explain this like I'm five?
