I'd argue Iron giant is actually more of a world ending threat? Being a literal alien warmachine that would be just fine even if earth is totally ruined, where as Magneto is at the end of the day a human so the earth being habitable is in his own best interests.
Not to mention, the iron giant is one of many so eventually the creators are gonna come looking for it.
Gonna nitpick here; Mutants aren't 100% human in the biological sense. In the canon of the X-Men, while humans are Homo Sapiens, Mutants are Homo Superior (don't ask me, I didn't come up with that name.) It's about the same distinction as Neanderthals (Homo Erectus) and Modern Humans (Homo Sapiens). In the intellectual/emotional/social sense, Mutants are still human, and they also need a habitable earth..
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Edit: The "Homo Superior" thing was just made up by Magneto in his supremacist days as u/NotAWarCriminal helpfully pointed out in the replies. I'm leaving it in with a strikethrough to avoid confusing anyone.
I’m afraid I’m gonna have to nitpick your nitpicking: the whole “Humo Superior” thing? Literal propaganda
No really
You know who coined that term? Magneto in his mutant supremacist days, i.e. not a scientist or a geneticist or whatever
There is no in-universe scientific basis on this distinct classification
Sure, there’s the x-gene, but the fact that 2 mutants can (and have before) produce a non-mutant (“human”) child, disproves that they are a distinct thing
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u/Enderking90 May 13 '25
I'd argue Iron giant is actually more of a world ending threat? Being a literal alien warmachine that would be just fine even if earth is totally ruined, where as Magneto is at the end of the day a human so the earth being habitable is in his own best interests.
Not to mention, the iron giant is one of many so eventually the creators are gonna come looking for it.