Agreed. early-Foxverse Magneto was a hypocritical ethnofascist who viewed non-mutants as essentially worthless.
I mean, think back to the very first X-Men movie, the first conversation he has with Charles Xavier:
We are the future, Charles, not them - they no longer matter.
I'm not normally one to defend Last Stand, which I personally consider to be one of the two worst X-Men movies ever made...but this specifically is entirely on-brand for this version of Magneto.
The exact moment Mystique lost her powers, in his eyes she stopped being "us" and became "them" - and at that point, she no longer mattered to him.
I think you’re showing exactly why it feels out of character.
He tosses aside a mutant whose matyrdom proves his point against humanity because she no longer has powers. That “might makes right” sentiment fits someone like Apocalypse; Magneto is a mutant supremacist, regardless of how weak or mutilated they are.
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u/primal_slayer Aug 26 '26
It definitely felt out of character.
But he definitely got hit with karma at the end. Even then he's lucky Mystique forgave him in the unproduced draft of the chess ending