re: #292 Lidane

Magneto’s entire character is defined by his life as a German Jew during the rise of the Nazis. You couldn’t separate him from his religious views if you tried. Yes, he’s a villain, but he’s a sympathetic one.

It’s one of the things I love about Marvel, actually. They’ve never been afraid to have their characters exist in the real world and face real issues.

Point of order: His religious views weren’t the full issue, since the Nazis would have brutalized him and murdered members of his family even if his family was all atheists. That they were Jews by ancestry was enough to trigger the Nazis psychotic hatred of Jews.