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Real-Life 'Star Wars' X-Wing To Launch Next Week (Switched)

Oct 4th 2007 4:49AM "May the Dorks be with you!"



This from somebody whose screen name is Duchovny2?

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May 23rd 2006 4:58AM The analogy works. Magneto is not a coward. He is very 'human'. As a survivor of the Nazi internment camps. He alone survived the slaughter of everyone he loved. Then, later in life, his mutant powers surface, but way to late to do his family any good. This slightly unhinges him, especially when he and his friend Charles Xavier start seeing the potencial for the same thing to happen to mutant kind at the hands of 'normal' humanity. Xavier decides to walk the road of tolerance, the road of Dr Kings 'dream'. Magneto believes first in separation, then in domination, as he sees his 'kind' increasingly threatend with imprisonment or extermination time and again. Over time, as the character evolves further, he begins to see the mutant race as the rightful rulers of the world, finally taking the motto 'never again' to such an extreme that he eventually becomes everything he once hated. So, you could say that he started out as a militant/defender of his race like Malcom X, only to become more and more like Hitler as his own hatred and intolerance consumes him. If, as I understand it, Malcom made the opposite journey to the road of tolerance before his death. Magneto's version can simply be seen as a 'what if'. A warning