Well, Alex does mention that Xavier may still be alive in there.
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Well, Alex does mention that Xavier may still be alive in there.
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jim hammond roasts the actual hitler alive and he gets lauded as a war hero with statues and whole army bases named in his legacy.
magneto cinder blocks a functional nazi who is trying to start a new wave of concentration camps among other atrocities and he is "no better than him??"
WTF
they are mad at a holocaust survivor killed a Nazi lol wtf.
While I think the heroes killing has become more common, this is a long held rule of the heroes. Writers tend to ignore it when they want to write violent stories but it still gets mentioned every once in a while. Part of the whole Schism in X-Men dealt with how characters like Storm did not like that Cyclops was willing to kill, since "X-Men do not kill".
Yep after reading this today's issue it's no wonder polaris is magnetos favorite child.
I'm not necessarily arguing that Red Skull doesn't deserve to die. What I am saying is that MOST heroes will object to killing someone in circumstances like that. Do I even have to explain that? We've seen this dozens and dozens of times in dozens and dozens of comics. It's the NORM for heroes to act that way.
If you disagee with their reaction fine... I'm just saying it's what any comic book reader at this point should frankly expect from MOST heroes (short of say Wolverine or Punisher).
And for Alex and Rogue in particular, I imagine if there's even a chance Xavier is still alive in there then on a personal level that would make it that much worse. Again, you can argue that they shouldn't necessarily prioritize Xavier in such a situation but it's nonetheless understandable they would react the way they're reacting. Rogue especially if she just talked to him.
Rogue literally killed Wanda when she thought she was responsible for Xavier's death. Now she thinks she can save Xavier and Magneto took that from her. I am sure her choice of line in in character for Remender's Rogue. I don't know. He unleashed the Red Onslaught so now everyone is in big trouble.
Exactly! This whole scene just feels culturally tone deaf of the heroes. It goes beyond superheroics and mutants. Red Skull is super hitler.
Nevermind that this isn't the first time Magneto has tried to kill Red Skull. He just decided to make it quicker and more definitive this time.
Not by everyone. There will never be a consensus on whether killing is ever justified. I think most people reading UA #25 will cheer on Magneto but it'd be wrong to have every character be on board with what he did. As much as some will say taking lethal action is the only just course, others will refute that based on their own moral grounds.
I am very much against casual killing by superheroes. However, the Red Skull, who has been wielding Xaviers telepathy as a weapon of mass hate indoctrination and who has been building concentration camps for mass murder is fair game. There is a degree of scale between "heroes" like the Punisher killing random drug dealers and a hero like Magneto killing a Hitler analogue and that scale is between petty crime and genocide.