Magneto: Super Villains

The villain Magneto killed millions of people, Loki the great trickster god who managed to kill over 80 people in his first 2 days on earth and Khan opened fire on unarmed Captains of Starfleet during a meeting. All three are seen as classic super villains out for blood. Can their actions be justified though? Can we truly justify the actions of a great super villain by their past experiences, by their perspective or even by their personality traits twisting their morals into something more? We will be travelling through these avenues and back alleyways to discover the truth of whether a Villain's actions can truly be justified by their way of life and who they are as a person.

Magneto, formerly known as Max Eisenhardt, is known as one of the …show more content…
So we have the reasons for his actions and the basic back story of his views but now we must connect this with the actual personality and persona of Magneto himself. Magneto has the personality type ENTJ. Those with this personality type are very ambitious and driven in their motives and are known as born leaders. This is why Magneto found himself suddenly going from an apprentice to Professor Xavier in X-men First Class to leader of the mutants in a short time. Those with this personality type are also very dangerous when messed with and even though they might not show it openly they truly love those they call family and would do anything to help them in times of trouble. Those with this personality type also tend to hold onto bad feelings for years which explains Magneto still seething hatred against humans for what they did to his family and friends during WW2 and the exact same genocide on his now mutant family in present day Marvel universe. Magneto’s bias against humans can be traced back to trauma when he was younger. A study found that children are more likely to commit bad decisions later on in life due to violent emotional trauma as a child. Magneto witnessed the death of family and friends …show more content…
He is portrayed by the actor Tom Hiddleston in the Marvel adaptations of the Thor comics. Tom Hiddleston was asked in an interview “His views and choices on his portrayal of the God of MIschief Loki” in which Tom Hiddleston replied “I would say it's both. There are certainly elements of Kenneth Branagh's Loki (if we can call it that) in the sort of broken prince, the damaged, vulnerable, lost child is still there. But also Joss Whedon's charming psychopath is still there, too. And I think the thing that Alan brought to the table for this particular version is the playfulness. He really wanted Loki to be a trickster, to inhabit his moniker as the God of Mischief. And make mischief, so that's what I did.” Loki is a cannoned frost giant and was given up at birth by his parents and left to die on the frozen wasteland of jotunheim. Odin felt pity for Loki and so he took him to Asgard and raised him as one of his sons and princes of Asgard. We see Loki go from a harmless prince of Asgard to a psychopathic killer in the period of a couple of weeks. We see the subtle shift in Loki’s persona as more of his past is brought to light. Loki sees himself as a mere child standing in the shadow of the rest of his family's greatness, shunned and abandoned Loki felt alone and wished only to be seen. The fact that those from Asgard are from the norse mythology they would follow those of the scandinavian tendencies. A