I think if Magneto was written in the present age, he would have been written without the mustache twirling aspect. It has become much more popular to portray both antagonists and protagonists with more depth and grey areas. For that matter, we saw it in some of the recent X-Men movies.
Depends on who writes him. The modern Marvel Cinematic Universe has more than its fair share of mustache twirlers.
Sure, I’m talking general trends.
Black Panther’s Killmonger: Saw injustice against Black people and how Wakanda was doing little to stop it.
Thanos: Motive changed from trying to impress Death (the Marvel entity) to watching his home planet of Titan starve to death from overpopulation, leading to killing half of life.
Scarlet Witch: Mom misses her husband/kids!
He-Who-Remains: Sure he kept a timeline devouring monster at the end of time, but it’s for the greater good!
I’ll spot you Scarlet Witch, who is more the victim of her own despair than a sincere villain. But Killmonger’s regicide and subsequent civil war never seem to do more than satisfy his own ego. Thanos is even worse. I almost prefer the incel-esque literally horny for death motivations over the dime-store eugenics.
I’ll spot you that they’re more well-spoken. They sound sophisticated in their delivery, rather than like some cackling madman a la Skeletor or Ming the Merciless. But then you stop to think about what they’re actually doing, and its just tying damsels to the railroad tracks on a grander scale.
I think if Magneto was written in the present age, he would have been written without the mustache twirling aspect. It has become much more popular to portray both antagonists and protagonists with more depth and grey areas. For that matter, we saw it in some of the recent X-Men movies.
Depends on who writes him. The modern Marvel Cinematic Universe has more than its fair share of mustache twirlers.
Eh. I don’t think they ever topped the original. Ian McCallen was in peak form.
Sorry to be pedantic, but a great man deserves it; it’s Sir Ian McKellen
Sure, I’m talking general trends.
I’ll spot you Scarlet Witch, who is more the victim of her own despair than a sincere villain. But Killmonger’s regicide and subsequent civil war never seem to do more than satisfy his own ego. Thanos is even worse. I almost prefer the incel-esque literally horny for death motivations over the dime-store eugenics.
I’ll spot you that they’re more well-spoken. They sound sophisticated in their delivery, rather than like some cackling madman a la Skeletor or Ming the Merciless. But then you stop to think about what they’re actually doing, and its just tying damsels to the railroad tracks on a grander scale.
That’s a great sentence.