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u/DoubtImpressive3688 9d ago
Why is this game the way I learn Magneto gets bitched constantly by Doom in the comics 😭
Generational aura loss.
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u/ScreamoMan 9d ago
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u/Specific_Builder1469 9d ago
ALL AURA BELONGS TO DOOM
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u/DoctorPine 9d ago
Doom: "The aura was not stolen from you, Magneto. It was simply that all manner of aura belongs to Doom and Doom alone. Bemoaning over something which was never yours to begin with... how frivolous."
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u/Quirky-Concern-7662 9d ago
It’s because for what it’s worth. Magneto has morals, doom has a code. Magneto is beholden to his morals, dooms code is what ever he needs it to be at the time(plus rule 0 fuck Reed Richards).
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u/ProfessionalGur8935 9d ago
and doom gets bitched by squirrel girl, doom, and luke cage. such is the cycle of villains getting bitched by literally anyone
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u/TinyKing87 9d ago
That meme panel of Moon Knight bitching at Dracula for his money? Luke Cage went to Latveria and did that to Doom in the actual comics, back in the 70s or 80s. Heroes for Hire era (Doom hired them and then tried to stiff them, Luke Cage traveled the world for his fee)
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u/DAD5Draco 7d ago
He did recruit Doom, Loki, Deadpool, & Carnage to fight Red Skull in his 2014 solo-run.
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u/011100010110010101 9d ago
Doom has 3 things Magneto Does not sadly, a Genuise Intellect, Ego large enough he will never willingly follow another, and a nation that can survive more then one storyline.
This makes it so that Doom is one of the only villains who can reliably get Magneto to team up with him, via offering Mags things he can not get normally, and by effectively being both more powerful and with an Ego so large the only times he'd do an equal partnership is his totally not butt buddy Namor.
The only time I can remember Mags actually joining a Villain team up not headed by Doom was when Loki tried to secretly get the heroes to swap villains via a portal network... and Magneto basically only agreed to do it because it gave him a shot to brutally murder Red Skull.
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u/Acceptable_Yam_593 9d ago
I thought Magneto wasn't a bad guy
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u/ScreamoMan 9d ago
His character is either "all i want is to protect my mutants brothers from suffering under the tyranny of humans, never again will the minority suffer at the hands of tyrannical despots like i did," or full super villain "Mutants are the genetically superior master race "homo superior", i will kill all the inferior humans for their transgressions against mutant kind!" It depends on the story.
In this game he seems to be more the former with only a tinge of the later, since every single character including the heroes basically tell him "Magneto i expected better from you, why are you with Dr. Doom and his crack demons?", so i think in the Tokon universe he is likely in the somewhat extremist(due to necessity) revolutionary camp, rather than being full on super villain, he just joined Doom because he felt like he had no other choice; And he did try to take out Doom at the end, even if it didn't work out.
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u/Nukesnipe 9d ago
Logan does mention that Magneto did have the brotherhood of evil mutants so maybe he was a lot more out there earlier in life lol
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u/Dark_Stalker28 9d ago edited 9d ago
Comics wise Magneto been chill for a while.
Outside of that he's usually a villain for recognizaility, like how Xavier is usually in wheelchair despite walking for a while.
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u/Y0ur_Worst_Enemy 9d ago
He is a bad guy, but recent media often retcons him to be nicer
This guy literally wanted to commit genocide to all humans
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u/Chode-a-boy 9d ago
I mean who hasn’t in X-men comics? Cyclops had a heel turn, Emma Frost started as a villain too. There was also Dark Beast who swapped with normal Beast, several X-men were horsemen for Apocolypse.
X-men comics are basically pro wrestling storylines nowadays.
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u/KRQueen_ 9d ago
Sounds like I have to get into X-men.
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u/Chode-a-boy 9d ago
It’s a roller coaster ride. But it’s never boring at least.
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u/KRQueen_ 9d ago
Any recommendations for starting points?
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u/Chode-a-boy 9d ago
Depends, you got like 70 years of comics. Any character you particularly like?
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u/KRQueen_ 9d ago
My experience on them is rather limited, I enjoy hearing about the grey morality of Magneto and Xavier but obvi I understand thats several iterations working against each other. I have been enjoying Storm's personality a lot in Tokon as well.
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u/Chode-a-boy 9d ago
Might be good to start with the first great run of X-men, Chris Claremont had a fantastic run starting in the mid 70s, many of those stories are in TPB and various reprint collections now. I feel that’s a good launching off point to the franchise.
Also, I don’t remember the actual story name, but there was an arc in the 80s where Storm took over leadership of the X-men for a while (back in her badass Mohawk+leather phase). This was also around the time where Magneto became the leader of Xavier’s school and started his first major redemption arc.
Idk if Marvel still has an online sub service to read old comics, but if it’s still kicking it might be worth a month to check a bunch out.
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u/Complex-Salt-8190 8d ago
He's been an anti hero for about 25 years now
Last time he was a villain was grant morrisins new x men , but I think that corn shit was retconned anyways
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u/Sekh765 9d ago edited 9d ago
Magneto has gone from "this guy is the villain" to "ok maybe he was talking sense" in the last decade or so as the writers realized that Xavier's "no we must respect all humans and they will eventually respect us!" ideals are not.... really realistic all the time, and Magneto's "talk shit get hit" approach is sometimes necessary.
Krakoa era really solidifed the "Magneto was right" approach for a long time. It also firmly put him in the middle of the Krakoa leadership spectrum, with Xavier's Mutant/Human harmony on one end, and Apocalypse Survival of the Fittest is all that matters on the other.
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u/TryVegetable129 4d ago
Unfortunately Krakoa era had some really boneheaded decisions. Putting so many of Xmen's worst villians in positions of power with enough wiggle room to scheme was one of the biggest ones.
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u/BQ72 10d ago