You know, I know a lot of people detested Last Stand…but it’s scenes like the ones above that will always have some of the most visceral reactions for me. It really, in my opinion, demonstrates the difference in the paths Charles and Erik took and the almost inevitable destinations those paths led to.
Erik wanted to create a world safe for mutants…so he created (or at least attempted to create) and army…to rage a war and try and bring about a new world order. Yet his followers, though they vastly outnumbered the Xmen in ls stand, were still defeated and scattered like sheep in the end, leaving Magneto powerless and by all appearances utterly alone without even his own mutation to comfort him.
Charles Xavier on the other hand didn’t build an army but a school…a small close knit community of mutants who in essence became eachother’s family and fought only as a last resort. And yet they defeated an armMagneto’s grossly larger army and (the pheonix and then afterwards thet went back home, grieved and continued on doing exactly the same work Charles had done.
Two men, both with different approaches to the same challenge, and yet in the movieverse, at least, only one’s legacy truly outlived him.
It’s a powerful lesson I think, about the way we choose to live in the world.
This made me choke up a little.
Reblogging because of the amazing comment above.
I think that in the end, Magneto was respected but feared. And Charles was respected but loved.
Boom. And with this analysis, good night to me and my broken heart.
Perfect comments are perfect. We will now go cry in a corner.
