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Everyone @ me when I tweet a little too intensely about the Claremont Run:

...his old friend's work–considering abandoning his mission to learn control of his abilities.

Lee & Kirby's Magneto wasn't given the benefit of the doubt; nor the same tragedy or pathos in motivation.

Claremont's embrace of those is what gives the man–not the monster–his name.

...to facilitate his final transformation into Magneto.

Classic X-Men #19 suggests that it isn't just his inhumane treatment by humans that cements his "madness", but a rebound effect of the untrained use of his powers.

Earlier, Erik mused over Charles' dream as he read of...

...hoping to impart an important lesson on power to Erik.

No differently than their willingness to work with Nazis to advanced their goals are they willing to use mutants as weapons, undermining Erik's own humanity while providing him the distance from it necessary...

...stories. That fear of rejection has tempered his passion in other relationships, even putting pause to his developing relationship with Isabelle as he's reminded of his earlier loss of wife and child.

Her acceptance–and amazement–of Erik's abilities and "clearly superior"...

...also an exploration of his guardedness and resistance to vulnerability in his relationships.

Even beyond of his traumatic childhood in the camps, Erik's relationships–both platonic and romantic–have been characterized by fear and loss, a beat introduced in earlier backup...

...was still willing to work with–and mostly believed in–existing power structures to preserve human life after the Holocaust destroyed his own.

His faith in humanity lingered–a demonstration of what remnants of his capacity for hope remained, only to be crushed by backup's end.

...the once-evil Master of Magnetism but for the attention and care it pays its antecedents, beautifully culminating the first decade of Claremont's Run on Uncanny X-Men.

The past, present, and future all bore witness to Erik's trial; now they'll all bear witness to his promise.

...deaths at the flood's hands.

Erik manages to make it to the surface with Charles in tow, landing them in a garden–important symbolically as a place of restoration, healing, and personal growth–where a dying Charles begs Erik to take up his dream.

The intimate moment shows...

...the floor beneath him and the judges.

The personal nature of the revenge scheme starts to come into view for the trapped mutants as they announce their combined hatred of Erik, Charles, and Gaby.

Erik still has trouble putting a name to the faces but prepares to sacrifice...