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| The X-Axis review makes it clear that Claremont seems to be retconning most of dear Magneto's history since he left the first time and it's clear why. His Magneto was a villain, but was never a Doctor Doom or a Red Skull, he spent more time fighting the X-Men than trying to take over the world and I think Claremont carefully made sure that Magneto's human bodycount was zero. I have that big gap in reading X-Men between the Age of Apocalypse and Morrison taking over X-Men, but I would suspect that Claremont will claim that any time Magneto has been shown to do something which killed or harmed humans will be a clone or evil twin from another dimension or some other bullshit. Claremont needs to keep Erik's hands clean, because he sees him as exactly the same as Charles, just with a dark kink. And in many ways thats what the writers who immediately followed him were happy to play along with, it's only Grant that take the view of 'What people often forget, of course, is that Magneto, unlike the lovely Sir Ian McKellen, is a mad old terrorist twat. No matter how he justifies his stupid, brutal behaviour, or how anyone else tries to justify it, in the end he's just an old bastard with daft, old ideas based on violence and coercion. I really wanted to make that clear at this time.' I suspect that if the X-office hadn't asked for Magneto to be brought back then Claremont would have done it anyway. He thinks Magneto is a nice guy that's just misunderstood. Preumserably when Claremont gets round to developing the Excalibur team it'll be Charles and Erik, together at last as they were always meant to be, fighting to redeem Erik in the eyes of the world. I think Claremont sees an X-Universe without the yin and yang of Xavier and Magneto as a cold and too scary place. It's interesting that when Xavier left to go into space with Lilandra Magneto took a much more passive role with the New Mutants then effectively disappeared from the continuity for several years as well. |
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