I've never seen the show before this was posted on the X-Men subreddit:
https://youtu.be/kkeT4zT_2WU?t=603
As a new comics reader, this makes me think of his line about pawns in Last Stand, to say nothing of abandoning depowered Mystique. Just wondering if this portrayal also inspired by the Fox movies.
In Evo, he did some pretty shady ****, some of which I feel the writers themselves overlooked. But this is a whole other level than just framing Angel to make humans hate him.
When I was reading Uncanny #150, I was extremely curious to see my first Comics Magneto. (it was on a suggested classics reding list for Krakoa) Was he virtuous leader or power-hungry? Righteous warrior or mad with vengeance?
I like how it looked like he was being "exposed" as the latter as he kept being thwarted and frustrated by the X-Men, right until he was overcome with fury and ready to kill a mutant child. But then he recoils in horror at what he almost did.
In a way, my ead on Magneto is similar to Wolverine, a man straddling two natures who constantly war for control of him. It's the human and the bestial with Logan, but for Mags it's the desire to do good warring with bitterness and anger.
And then there's this Magneto who seems to just be kind of a prick, right down to the voice-acting given to him.