WTF is the deal with Magneto?

[gaz973]

I thought he exploded in the helicopter in New Avengers during that whole weird Xorn thing.

 

He did. That's the last we saw of him.

Xorn storyline happened before the New Avengers were formed.

 

No, the Xorn storyline continued right after House Of M in New Avengers #21. Xorn takes over a new Mutant. The new mutant then kills all of Alpha Flight except Sasquatch and then attempts to take over Magneto. The helicopter he is in then explodes.

 

Okay, you are getting your stories mixed up a bit.

In House of M #7, Scarlet Witch speaks the phrase, "No More Mutants". Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of mutants find themselves human, including Magneto and Quicksilver. In New Avengers the collective power signatures of the mutants arrive in North Pole, Alaska and with a mutant postal worker, Michael Pointer. Disoriented, he enters Canada and, wielding the power of fifty mutants, kills the superhero team Alpha Flight. Spider-Man finds that its energy signatures match up with the depowered mutants. On Genosha, the Collective repowers Magneto, who recognizes the intelligence controlling it as "Xorn." Xorn explains that he took the image of Magneto, because he knew mutants would follow him, and that they needed the real Magneto again. Iron Man, Ms. Marvel and the Sentry combine their powers and send the Collective/Xorn into the sun; Michael is separated from the Collective. However, Pointer still has access to the powers of the Collective, and, as of the end of the Civil War miniseries, is coerced into joining the newly formed Omega Flight, using a suit designed to harness his powers.

 

Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada in a 2006 Newsarama interview reiterated the Shen Xorn/Kuan-Yin Xorn explanation, but added that "because Xorn's powers were psychokinetic, and his personality was so strong, it basically remained an almost disembodied sentient thing among the big ball of mutant energy. When that energy got sucked down to Earth by Michael and all absorbed by him, Xorn was the dominant personality in the mix, and that's what drove him towards Genosha and Magneto." This remains the official explanation of the Xorn character and its relationship to Magneto.

 

Later that same year, when asked about Xorn's identity at the 2006 San Diego Comic Con Wildstorm Comics panel, Grant Morrison made clear his original intent for the character, stating "He was Magneto from the very beginning – it was always Magneto."

 

Yes, this is what happened and the last that was seen of Magneto was that he had his powers back and got blown up. I'm sure it won't be long before he's back again, I just hope they decide what kind of personality he has and stick with it. I like the tortured Mutant leader who is neither friend nor enemy to the X Men but will do anything to ensure mutant survival, way more interesting than bland mutant psychopath.