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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Magneto represents all repressed peoples in my view, not just Jews or just Israel. He is indeed an antagonist of the cringing, snivelling Xavier, who chooses to abandon his people to gain some level of favour from the racist humans.
Magneto believes in doing whatever is right, he believes in his right to protect himself and his people by any means necessary. He meets violence with violence when necessary. Xavier believes that the best thing is to grovel before tyranny and even assist in it if it saves your own skin.
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It's easy to side with Magneto and feel sympathy for his cause until you see his solution is to kill everyone who is different from him. How does that make him any better? You did realize that Magneto continually tries to commit acts of genocide, right? And since there's no time when genocide is justified, he's the antagonist.
Xavier doesn't abandon his people, he knows that violence will only bring more resentment from the humans. That resentment will only lead to more violence and then who has he helped?