Amazing Spider-Man #36

Posted by: cyberghostface "To the specifics of Doom and Magneto being there and being upset…understand that both characters have always styled themselves as men of the people, though the sorts of people vary a bit obviously, one mutant, the other not. Doom sees himself as a benign ruler of his people, who does what’s necessary. He lost his own mother and father to casual hatred. I think the randomness of 9/11; the sheer cruelty of it to total bystanders would have offended him. Most of the people he’s gone up against were those he thought he had a reason to go after. There’s always been a sense of noble royalty about him, and nobility doesn’t do some things…and some things must be condemned. As for Magneto…as someone who, as a child, was in the camps, whose parents were also killed through bigotry and institutionalized cruelty (see a pattern here?), he too would have been offended by this. When you remember his roots, and put it in perspective with the whole America/Israel/Arab situation, I don’t think his reaction is at all inappropriate. There could’ve also been mutants in those two buildings; probably were. But even if they weren’t…they weren’t killed for what even Magneto would consider the right reasons. You’ll note that he is using his abilities to lift girders…because you can see the lines of force…but you don’t see him actually doing it or acknowledging it. I think he’d almost not want to be noted doing it. But he’d do it." -- J. Michael Straczynski (  Scans under the cut...  ) comments