There never were two ways. Magneto was always public, and Xavier was always private, but both responded to the same thing. Now maybe Magneto WAS behind blowing Genosha up, but that may not be the case. Maybe Magneto DID enable Cassandra Nova to fight Xavier, but it backfired when she destroyed Genosha. Magneto amplified Lorna and his powers to make the radio signal and martyr himself. Then hid and waited, possibly building a new identity to attack and disable the agency responsible for the genocide. Maybe Cassandra was never responsible for the nano-sentinels, true...
Knowing the X-Men would show at the crash site, maybe Magneto engineered their development and laid them all over the Genoshan ground zero, as a trap and a bit of electromagnetic Montezuma's revenge, as phase one of his return.
Then Charlie/Cassandra f'd up by going public -something Magneto knew Charles would never do. With that action, Cassandra may have tipped her hand to Magneto's calculations, escalating the game and opening new avenues to Magneto's gameplay.
By tracking the X-Men's televised movements in Hong Kong, he was bale to utilize his agents, the Cuckoos, to throw off Emma and make the team believe he was a superpowered Chinese mutant. He then sent Esme and her sisters to the school to keep tabs on Emma, and ready the school for his eventual enrollment as a teacher. Esme may have psychically prodded Scott to fetch Xorn, who would be able to "cure" the nano-sentinels. The Stepford Cuckoos and Beak and Angel win the Imperial invasion, and Xorn's a new teacher.
Riot is instigated by QQ, who is manipulated by the Cuckoos to emulate OLD Magneto. And after being defeated, emulates post-Genosha Magnetoxorn.
Emma is killed to test Phoenix.
This is all BULLSHIT. Sophie died. if Magneto was some kind of sheep in wolf's in sheep's clothing, Emse wouldn't have engineered her death. Let Phoenix burn them all. I'm done hoping for the best.
Magneto's power signature has always been blue. |
