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Originally Posted by aberkok
I once read that Magneto was an allegory for Malcolm X and Xavier was an allegory for Martin Luther King.
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When Magneto was first created he was just a generic villain and Prof. X was generic good guy. At first there wasn't the anti-mutant bias in the X-men comics (in the first issue they are helping the US military who gladly accepts the help) the later comics would introduce. Once the Anti-mutant thing came about a good number of changes happened.
While I don't believe Marvel or any of the writers have come right out and said it, X-men writers realised that they could use these counterpoints as an allegory for Malcolm X and MLK without being overly controversial because after all it's just a comic about mutants right?
Also Magneto's jewish roots were ret-conned in. His time in the concentration camps were an earlier ret-con where he was presented as a Gypsy.