The_Tempest
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Originally posted by DARTH POWER
You think so?I think he just didn't trust humans to treat Eric fairly. Plus as violent as Eric is he usually only kills humans in self defense (just in this movie it was a preemptive strike based on what he found out about the future).
Not saying Eric's not bad in this movie, but he's not a black and white character, and it wasn't a black and white situation. And as Charles said when Beast asked him the same thing, he had hope for both Raven and Eric.
The thing I found hilariously stupid in this movie is giving zero explanation as to how Xavier was alive. (Even if you count the end credit scene from X3 that still doesn't explain how he's in an exact copy of his body including the paralyzed legs).
I do. Magneto is my favorite character in the cinematic X-Men universe, but young!Magneto especially doesn't suffer quite enough for his negligence and cruelties, in my opinion. I was so intensely satisfied when Charles punched Eric in the face in this film after (unintentionally or not) paralyzing him and ruining his life.
But then, naturally, we had to have a scene where Magneto "turns it around" on Charles in the plane because Azazel and co. were killed in a war Magneto helped start... but it's Xavier's fault for not preventing it.
Then, young!Magneto
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nearly assassinates the president, buries Xavier under a mountain of rubble, tortures Wolverine before dispatching him ("so much for being a survivor"😉, and generally acts like a total dick... and Xavier just lets him go without warning or threat? Not even a "Hey, your helmet's off and I could effortlessly lobotomize you, but I'm going to let you go just this once... keep that in mind the next time you and I get into it, *******."
I think there needed to be a scene in which he was put in his place. Kinda like the finale of the first X-Men movie: Magneto threatens to fight the impending war by any means necessary and Xavier, for a beautiful second, drops the warm demeanor and tells his "old friend" that he'll always be there to stop him, every single time.