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The slogan “Magneto was right” has often been repeated in X-Men comics and online discussions since 2001’s Eve of Destruction storyline, in which the anti-hero was believed to have been killed, while protecting the mutant Utopia of Genosha.
Adherents to the Magneto was Right dogma believe Magneto’s death, and subsequent events in the X-Universe, prove that the master of electromagnetism was right in his opposition to Prof Charles Xavier’s quest for peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. After his apparent death, mutants suffer endless persecution, and thousands die at the hands of humans and their Sentinel robots.
Max Eisenhardt (Magneto’s real name) grew up in Nazi Germany, and saw his family being killed at Auschwitz. This shaped his later belief that the only way to ensure his new family, the mutant race, doesn’t suffer a similar fate, is by eliminating the human threat completely.
The irony of his intended mass genocide is apparently lost on both Magneto, and the Magneto was Right brigade. In protecting his new family, he resorts to exactly the same actions which led to the death of his human family.
They also fail to acknowledge the impact Magneto’s continued threats and violent excursions by his teams of mutant extremists had on the humans’ decisions to wage war on Homo Superior, who had hitherto lived relatively peacefully alongside their less gifted Homo Sapiens brothers.
