Originally Posted by
gurkle
Before he was a Holocaust survivor, before he had a tragic past - in other words, before X-Men 150 (and maybe that one page of him looking at his dead wife in X-Men 125), Magneto was not the complex, morally ambiguous characters most people remember. He was, in fact, maybe the most over-the-top, ranting, raving, cartoonishly evil supervillain in Marvel. Even Doctor Doom occasionally showed a bit of dignity in this era, but Magneto just wanted to wipe out humans and take over the world with his master mutant race, so he tended to be seen doing stuff like this.
Or this (wait, he planted cameras at Charles Xavier's funeral?).
And somehow fittingly, Jack Kirby's last issue of Fantastic Four has Magneto as the bad guy, trying to start a war between humans and sea dwellers so mutants can take over.
I'm not going to argue that Magneto should go back to this, and unless he's hopped up on drugs or being written by Grant Morrison (those two things may be redundant), he's not going to. But I'm wondering if you have favorite moments of crazy ranting raving silent-movie villain Magneto, aka the Magneto people knew from 1963 to 1979 or so. He's not subtle, but he sure knew how to do evil laughs, evil terrorist demands, evil science experiments, evil mind control and, well, anything evil, really.