User blog comment:Jlurocks/Confused/@comment-4651179-20120326015017/@comment-32856285-20120326162156

He's an anti-villain, he believes his choices are for the benefit of Mutants (who have been called out in vulgarity, racism, monsters, and later casr them out). Magneto believes he is suppose to be the mutant's champion, their savior, the mutants messiah for a new order where peace and justice still lives without anyone hunting them down like animals.

I quote on Rorschach for this: "This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll look down and whisper 'No.' They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman. Decent men who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say"