Alright. Keep this nice and simple. Magneto = Jew from Auschwitz. Magneto = trying to prevent another time where humans destroy what they do not know. But Magneto wants to exterminate the other humans for not being a meta-human. He already views it as he is stuck in a perpetual holocaust. He thinks he knows human reactions to everything that he is doing and that they will try to kill him and all the other mutants simply because they do not know them or what they are.
Magneto misses one thing in all of his assumptions. Even when the Jews were interned in camps, they had somebody to eventually rescue them. Annihilation is not the only option and I don't actually think Magneto realizes that since the Mutant Registration Act perpetuates every bit of negative thought Magneto has ever realized. Only when you realize that because of Magneto's actions, the rest of the world reacts negatively. It is my personal belief that if the antagonist had never destroyed humanity's faith in mutants then the end result would have been far more positive than the negative results that came from him.
That was very wordy and complex. But I really think the Magneto is a weak character. I do follow X-Men comics occasionally and, in the end, he never becomes more than he is. His motives never change. And I think there is something flawed in that. I feel like he is a dynamic and fluid character and that his past would not keep him so stagnant and hell-bent on changing other humans into homo-superiors, as he puts it. That's just my thoughts on the topic.
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