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Doesnt never wake you in the middle of the night
The feeling at one day theyll come for you and your children
It doesnt do what do you do when you wake up to that ive in a great sweat of pity for the poor soul that comes to my school
Looking for trouble
All superhero stories are a meditation of identity
Because the mask in the costume is often a representation of a solution
That the character has developed in response to a traumatic event
It persononifies a transition
Everything you did made me stronger
But villains tend to refuse to change
Instead of becoming travellers
They become obstacles for the journeys of others
Therefore for magneto that helmet in the costume functions as an inverse
My name is namrik
My name is magmeto
Its a fixed aspect of his identity that prohibits him from changing
Because instead of offering a solution to his trauma
It just keeps referring him back to it
Now magnetos journey is incredibly way to examine
Because first doesnt have a conclusive ending in second its non chronological
Therefore the direction of the character arc is not only constantly being redirected
But his themes are constantly being overwritten
So this sa will have to prioritize spotlighting thethematic patterns
More than utilizing a comprehensive reading
Because was just the most effective way to stabilize it and let me think of ic magneto light and the introduction with welcome to duck indiorigininx menmenrology
Magneto is an an bodiment of an entire position
When we first introduced to him
Hes a victim of the holecoand when when had departs with chilles
There are both figures
Who overlook the come conflicict not subjects
But as influences
Ive heard these arguments before it was a long time ago
Mankind has has vovolved ince said yes it do us as a result
Magneto is in the character
But a force of nature
His first plan was to win the war
Before it begins by turning everyone into a mutant
Even if a risks wiping the mallout and an extwo
Magneto is developed further as being representative of the exact fears
That people have of of mutins to the extent that within the climmax
He almost wipes out the entire human race
Both striker and magneto deploy the same strategy to win this conflict
Therefore the both operating under the same set of values
Despite holding two different positions instead the exavious the only character that thinks outside of their limits
So magneto doesnt just represent a promumuting sentiment
But it represents a cycle of fear and hatred subsequently in expenandal last stand is by how peaceful the world has become magneitis s ideologies directly threatened by the existence of a cure 我的一个for eric
The cure represts in imbalance of power
I opposed to an opportunity for peace
They were force that cure upon us as a result
Eric becomes the one
Who starts the war
His value degrades as the story developed its no longer about his desire to protect his people or expanding the margins of a shared identity
Which is what he wanted originally
But its about winning against the enemy and poetically
In the end
He is punished with the life off the enemy released for a while
My gneeters first first said appearances shows that eric has the capacity to change
He could have been in a good man
But he condemned his own life because of his own hubris
So on the conceptual level magneto is a study of collective trauma
Which is when painful memories are transmitted between generations
Because of a shared identity about noabout iormination
Every one of us inhered stories from the communities were born into be at proprofessial al thnicical class
And we incorporate these historities into our personal narratives
Therefore as authoritative sybobol eriics traumas as hoicict survivor becomes a logic
That frames the lives of his followers
Everyone is equally afraid of a mutant holow cost
And that separation between people and the politics of people is what makes magneto with the villain
Eric began unwilling to die for his belies
Because he wanted to ensure that his logic of power can survive in the new world
When the war was imminent
He had no hesitation in becoming a mass murderer
And when choles dies he carries on of his work ensuring that there will definitely be a battle
Thethematically magneto is a living propacy
His fear of what is possible
Is what makes it possible
Because that fear its what tramps everyone else
This is the first act of a story
So how do you take the propacy out of the man
The exmman preico was gave eric an opportunity by letting go of his symbolic presence
Both x man first class in days of future
Pass it fits together
To show the characters rise and fall framed under a battle against time
Itself killing sure why not bring you peace
Peace was never an option first by going back in realizing specttrory further by showing exactly how the hollauast rurupture is mind
The theme of magneto being a living propacy is ererly four shadowed here as a race between eric
Reinventing as identity with charles
And reinventing it with shore on this world could be ours
Both man offers him different ooortunities to make pipece with his trauma by giving him access to a different continuity
When understanding the past
Eric can either accept the message of love
Where perseseverance and empathy should define his life or a message of strength
Where power is what defines him is what his role should be the world should defines his ad secondly the prequoes draw a clear distinction between eric and magneto
Because eris transmation comes from an act of failure
The very meaning of magneto from the helmet to his mission is now retrooactively context realized as shows legacy
If youre in there i like you to know that
I agree with every word
You said sure
Himself killed eriics mother and was involved in the holausts
Therefore magneto is not eric
But as the rhetoric that consumed eric the son who lost his mother was replaced by someone who sympathizers with the murderer
And this distinction becomes the main focal point in this future
Past
In the past
There is only magneto
Someone who has disposed all of his humanity
In the name of his ideological mission
Securing our future
He was willing to kill mistake logan and even the president to deliverhis message
And in the future
There is only eric
The helmetless friend
Who values life
This much just life
And stands side by side of people
He dissceeed with because hes free from his politics
Hes just a good man
Consequently this entire second act of magnetuous journey is not about what eric represents on a collective level
But is about what his trauma means on an individual level
We thing sorry
But we do not the horror of what happened to a massive child oriented his life backwards in such a way that the only imagination he has of the future is another disaster like the holocost
But his refusal in developing his vision is what brings about the end of the world
His attempt to kill mistake is what gives trust that dna needed and his assaulant white house and call for mutant revolution is what ensures mutant aniosity
Who he is
Who he was
And who he can be directly spotlighted here and as a result due to time travel
Hes been forced to reach his limits earlier in his life
So what happens when you take away the prophecy from eric exmalapopolilis and dark phoenix are specifically stories about erica not magneto
Because after the events of the white house
He is accidentally created a new sociopolitical landscape as made what he symbolized irrelevance shes my hero i want to be like a masstie is now in international icon and peaceful coo existence has didirecachieved as a result
Therefore eric has now been forced to hide and reinvent his identity as a father and as a simple factory work friends with ordinary humans
He is as far as you can get from his original destiny
Which on one hand
This is a paoff to future eriks last words
Because now he has a whole decade of peace to himself
And on the other hand
Deconcondes des the theme of trauma
Because hes been able to appropriate the pain of his past and produce a new life
Outwford theres a particular moments
He says with his daughter of what he tiontions
What happened to his parents
What happened to them
Your parents theever taken for me
Where was a little boy
But theres still here in science
And here by being able to talk about the past and attribute positive meaning to it
Eric no longer identifies himself as a son without a mother
Or under the logic of the perpetrator but as a parent
Himself a father looking after his daughter
But then he loses ses them
And ther
Ther can drive situation and aparcolcolypse reopens this wound going as far as bring him to elschfz
To literally create a hole
Again thethematically speaking apocalypse represent all that he was previously from the origan attrilogy
Someone whos more of a concept than a person
And symbolizes the logic of power and conflict
And very much pivots around the same theme of collective identity
We will lead those that survive into a better one
This cn turn further divergers eric and gnenettoo further he doesnt want to wear the helmet and fight under this set of ideals
He only does it because he doesnt have anything else whatever is you think you saw me child
I buried it with my family as a result x mantapoclipse offers a climmax for eriks character
Because its the final breath magnedo takes before evaporating
And it begins with eric finally taking the opportunity
He refused in first class by reinventing his identity with charles
You have more family than you know you never had the chance to save your family before
But you do know the closing scene goes as far as echoing his conversation with chose from exmand one
But as friends contemplating the future
I opposed to bitter rivals challenging each others
Vision off the future
Consequently the original exmentroology now retroacactively serves as premanmamapping his character
Who he is now exists in constant perpetual contrast with who he could be
Which is udly fitting for a character
Who is always haunted by his past
And thats precariousness is directly played within dark phoenix say the old friendship childls stay out of my way
Which is of deeply troubled film
My even made fun of it
When i was experimenting with esa formats
But hery exside of the story plays with the contrast
The heaviest st his written with completely diametricopposing motives to his original accounterpart
And next three he discards ds mistike
When she turned human
But now he goes on a ramppage to avenge her rents
Instead of trying to selfishexexploit gene for his own politics
He wants to kill er in memory of a friend and instead of illegally occupying a forest with his army
He legally holds a place with a peaceful mute and community us government
The same pieces of the story prespresent here are ororganied
Completely differently
This is very much very aa new man wandered her dead
I had a change heart
The first x man ended with charles s visiting eric to play chess as respectful rivals
But the final image of this entire saga is eric visiting charles to play chess
In order to comfort and mental him
Then you offered me home id like to do same for you despite the uncertainty of the future beard with muttins and humans or earth and aliens
What happens is this friendship will enduure in the face of all of it
Eric became magneita
When he left charles
And now as eric
He returns to him
History doesnt end with him
Plain chess by himself
But now ends with him
Sharing a moment with a friend
This is not exactly if being intended ending clearly
Because its designed very oververtly to be followed by something
But theres a certain poetry to it and for this reason
Eriks whole journey is shaped like a funnel
It begins with his idency
Being defined by its membership to a collective trauma
Then it develops into a man
Overcoming his individual trauma
And finally his free livings
Life through community
Which brings in peace to a lifetime of bad memories
How did you stop
Ihave lived with vengeons
My home le life
It since i was a child
I hurt people yes
Kill people
Kill whatever
I thought like paying go away
Didnt matter how many salls i sent on it
So i stopped as the personal scope of eriks life gets smaller
He becomes more and more liberated
Therefore all the right cards and thethematic overrighprespresents thread ad erics journey fits together as exploration of the limits of numonic authorship
All the drama pivots around a question about how the past influences the construction of identity of the the present and the destination that is realized
Is that there is no destination
There is no answer
Because a personal past is only what its interpreted into being
Therefore the solace
That the story finds
Comes in the form of being
Able to look at the past through the lenth of the presence
Regardless were all managers of our own personal temporal horizons
And eric shows us that the decision of where to go doesnt start with what happened long ago
But starts right now i love my body too every tuesday night
And i thank of you