Magneto and the Brotherhood: good or evil?

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Since I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at 16,I have felt that people don't understand us individuals in the autistic spectrum.Overall,we are feared and hated ignorant individuals.Now there is a movement to cure autism once and for all,just like the third X-Men film.As rockstar Ronnie James Dio,said he wants to end autism once and for all,this really offends and I guess we feared.In regards to X-Men comics,I relate more to Magneto,because I will do anything to protect other individuals with the spectrum that I have,but not the use of force.

Magneto is hard to understand largely because Marvel changed his character over the years.

In his initial creation, he was just evil.

When the Marvel Universe kicked in, they started making characters more rounded. Good guys had flaws, bad guys had virtues.

After that, we see that Magneto is more of a tragic villain. A good person subjected to horrors that make him angry, bitter, vengeful.

When you call your team "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants," you're probably evil.

Actually, he's a very smart guy who's doing what he does for the right reasons, he's just not doing them in the right way.

I would do the same in his situation.

coregazer, Magneto could be looked at as being both good & bad depending upon the scenario as, he did try to alter people in the first film, with the belief if everyone was a mutant that all people would have a greater understanding yet, such actions could be seen as destructive therefore, that would be his evil side. In the 2nd and 3rd films, though he tried to show the dark-side of humanity by pointing out it's reluctance to accept mutants as well, trying to impose the all-so wonderful cure down many a mutant's throat's symbolically speaking wherein, he might be looked at as some sort of civil rights fighter of sorts just, tended to go about it in a more militant manner, this could be seen as his good side.Anyways, Magneto himself once had been the adminstrator of Professor X's school in the comic series so, hes' not totally bad but, not totally good either more somewhere in the middle you could say..


ProfessorX

I don't think they are evil as much as misguided

I have to go with evil. He just doesn't want to protect mutants from normal humans and believes the ends justify the means, instead, he wants complete domination and/or destruction of normal humans. No matter how you slice it, that's evil.

Evil is a point of view. It is true that I sympathise with both Eric Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier. While Xavier is more humane, I can better relate to Lehnsherr because his tragic childhood totally explains and sort of justifies his latter actions.