Magneto (birth name: Max Eisenhardt; alias: Erik Lehnsherr and Magnus) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (cover-dated September 1963) as an adversary of the X-Men.
The character is a powerful mutant, one of a fictional subspecies of humanity born with superhuman abilities, who has the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Magneto regards mutants as evolutionarily superior to humans and rejects the possibility of peaceful human-mutant coexistence; he initially aimed to conquer the world to enable mutants, whom he refers to as Homo superior, to replace humans as the dominant species. Writers have since fleshed out his origins and motivations, revealing him to be a Holocaust survivor whose extreme methods and cynical philosophy derive from his determination to protect mutants from suffering a similar fate at the hands of a world that fears and persecutes them. He is a friend of Professor X, the leader of the X-Men, but their different philosophies cause a rift in their friendship at times. Magneto’s role in comics has progressed from supervillain to antihero to superhero, having served as an occasional ally and member of the X-Men, even leading the New Mutants for a time as headmaster of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
Ian McKellen has portrayed Magneto in various films since X-Men in 2000, while Michael Fassbender has portrayed a younger version of the character in the prequel films since X-Men: First Class in 2011. Both actors portrayed their respective incarnations in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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I’m glad someone else found my weird thoughts interesting. Also I’d love to know the history of any kink, it’s all pretty neat to me.
Well I mean I’m pretty into hypnosis. I’m not like uhh suuper well read in How We Got To Where We Are Currently but I know that like hypnotism wasn’t really like investigated until a few centuries ago (ok wikipedia says late 1700s was when white ppl got started doing it and writing about it in books but it does astutely point out that trances (a pretty central element of hypnosis) were very much a thing before that) (and also like it is yknow possible to like go into a trance without it having anything to do with hypnosis like if you have adhd hyperfocus can ‘be’ a trance and yknow stuff like that).
Anyways one of the common tropes is like ‘oh you’re brainwashing someone into being your [sex] slave’ right but like the thing is that the word brainwash was invented by like one of the proto-cia guys (I don’t feel like looking up his name right now lol) who invented the whole idea of brainwashing in order to explain why people would choose to support communism. If the communists are using what’s basically magic to get people to support them then that way you don’t have to engage with any actual arguments for why people might choose to become communists.