It would be prime motivation. But Erik being tortured by a fellow mutant would have done more to turn him away from mutant superiority than towards it, surely?
Yeah, Magneto's "I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU JUST SAID...buuut you killed my mother so you die now" moment felt off. It doesn't give him pause that he agrees with the mutant who tortured/experimented on him in the name of "mutant superiority"? (The movie seemed to sometimes forget that Shaw WAS a mutant. Like when they were all, "You think they're all like Moira!" "And you think they're all like Shaw!" but Shaw ISN'T A HUMAN come on guys flip the next page of the script.) And then he puts on his helmet and starts working with all the people who were loyal to Shaw? I suppose you could connect this with X1, where Magneto uses a mutant kid as a lab rat to further his goals, to show that he had become what he'd hated. But the more I think about it the more I wish they had held off on Magneto becoming the Big Bad, and focused more on the time Xavier and Magneto spent building the school and eyesexing each other.
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Date: 2011-06-09 01:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, Magneto's "I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU JUST SAID...buuut you killed my mother so you die now" moment felt off. It doesn't give him pause that he agrees with the mutant who tortured/experimented on him in the name of "mutant superiority"? (The movie seemed to sometimes forget that Shaw WAS a mutant. Like when they were all, "You think they're all like Moira!" "And you think they're all like Shaw!" but Shaw ISN'T A HUMAN come on guys flip the next page of the script.) And then he puts on his helmet and starts working with all the people who were loyal to Shaw? I suppose you could connect this with X1, where Magneto uses a mutant kid as a lab rat to further his goals, to show that he had become what he'd hated. But the more I think about it the more I wish they had held off on Magneto becoming the Big Bad, and focused more on the time Xavier and Magneto spent building the school and eyesexing each other.