Former X-Men Reader. Magneto?!? AOA??!?

External Since: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 173

Billy Bissette <baines RemoveThis @coastalnet.com> wrote in
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> Dan McEwen <ferroSPAMboy RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in
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>> OTOH, some of the things Xorn did (creating a
>> gravitational field to deal with G-Type) are beyond what we've ever
>> seen Magneto do.
>
> From what I recall, G-Type starts to say it is magnetic, not
> gravitational, but is taken out of action before he can finish
> speaking. (Xorn's supposed powers included gravitation, while Magneto
> of course would be magnetic. I recall this section being one of the
> big clues that Xorn was Magneto.)

I'd missed that. Presumably, Xorn would be expected to have any "power"
associated with a star.

>> Yet, if he was using it at the time, he remained remarkably
>> sane. In fact, he was damn sane when that mutant child died in
>> Mutant Town.
>
> One thing to remember about Mutant Town is that Xorn/Magneto is the
> narrator for that issue. The whole issue is a story he is telling
> Xavier, so we do not know what is true and what is a lie. We only
> know what Magneto wanted Xavier to believe.

That could make sense. We do know he couldn't have gone too far off the
wall. That sort of news would have reached Xavier.

>> Had he been on Kick, Magneto would have torn the place down - or
>> at least killed all the humans in the vicinity. I'm going to stick
>> with the idea that Kick only came into play with Magneto shortly
>> before he got his head lopped off.
>
> Again, we don't know what impact Kick had upon Magneto. We know
> Beast was taken over entirely, becoming a host body for Sublime. We
> know the average mutant just went a bit nutty after a while.

Magneto did. The Omega Gang did. Emma Frost said she did. My point
was that Magneto couldn't have been on it at that moment because, while
using, it makes the person insane.

External Since: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 173

Billy Bissette <baines.DeleteThis@coastalnet.com> wrote in
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> mimf <mimf.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in
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>> Was that in the Annual where he was thinking things like "If I could
>> save them all I would..."? That issue was one of the reasons I have a
>> hard time with Magneto as Xorn. It seemed to be specifically written
>> for a Xorn who had always been a healer.
>
> There are two ways to look at this.
>
> The first is that Magneto was just acting as his created persona.
>
> The second, and the one that people on this group seemed to accept
> at the time, is that Magneto really is talking about himself. He
> would have saved them all. He would have built heaven on Earth, if
> they had let him.

Okay, so he went on a rampage looking for a "cure" to save someone
(mutants, in this case). Once he had the cure, he would have become
something better, a person who didn't have to go around using terrorist
actions to further his goals. Could be. Did anyone who analyzed this
stuff come up with the same opinion?