"Magneto’s an old terrorist bastard. I got into trouble—the X-Men fans hated me because I made him into a stupid old drug-addicted idiot. He had started out as this sneering, grim terrorist character, so I thought, Well, that’s who he really is. [Writer] Chris Claremont had done a lot of good work over the years to redeem the character: He made him a survivor of the death camps and this noble antihero. And I went in and shat on all of it. It was right after 9/11, and I said there’s nothing f*****g noble about this at all."
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Grant Morrison, Playboy Magazine, quoted in Grant Morrison: ‘Batman Is Very, Very Gay’, Andy Hunsaker, Crave Online, Apr 26th, 2012.
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