I've been thinking about X-Men alot lately since this election.....read into the background of it a while back and it's now my favorite Marvel franchise of alltime.
Lowkey it's about race.
Professor Xavier and his school represent the Martin Luther King point of view.
Magneto and the mutant brotherhood represents the the Malcolm X point of view.
Professoor Xavier and his mutants realized they needed to use their powers that the humans hated for good and be seen as accepted by them
Magneto and them tried....and gave up. And decided to say "fukk humanity, they will always hate us".
Keep in mind Magnus was a Jew who escaped the Holocaust.
Feeling like Colossus before he turned into a villain.
Behind every villain is a former hero.