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(cross-posted from another thread)
Blah. A junkie magneto is the last thing I needed. This is all turning into a retread of making your villains idiots at a point where you hate them, as seen Riot at Xavier's. QQ, the coolest character was only doing it for the girl and to be, like, famous.
This is such nonsense. It just seems like you're missing the point - it's not about making them idiots, it's about making them human. I think the issue was really about figuring out what would happen if Magneto was actually real, and was allowed to run rampant. It's a story about his flaws as a person, and serves to counteract years of "but Magneto's really a good noble guy, really" bullshit. This is what he really is, a vain, narcissistic, megalomaniac bent on genocide, but with no real plan for what comes next. He's a child, emotionally. I'm glad that Morrison foregrounded the obvious rather than clinging to Claremont's old romantic tragic figure.
Quentin Quire, on the other hand, was just an angry kid with a mind clouded by drugs, who wanted to fit in and had a crush on a girl and that made him do stupid things. He's a pretty typical teenager, really. It was very true to life.
Quentin and Magneto are the antagonists, they aren't meant to be Cool (though they seem that way at first), but with both stories, we're being shown what happens when you take their aggressive radical ideas and put them out in the world. They fail, and it becomes clear that it's not been about changing the world at all, it's always been about their fragile egos. |
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