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It’s day three of the 30-Day Marvel Challenge, and I have to pick out my favorite diva character. I’ll be honest: I don’t know that many divas in Marvel’s repetoire. I tend to avoid reading about them because they’re the kind of person that I can’t stand. In fact, there’s only one diva that I know of.

Emma Frost, The White Queen

I didn’t learn who Emma was until I first saw in Wolverine and the X-Men, but she has quite the history in the comics. Introduced all the way back in 1980 during Chris Claemont’s legendary run, she’s the daughter of a wealthy family from Boston. Once she discovered her mutant powers as a telepath, she used them to advance her standing in life, becoming the White Queen of the secret Hellfire club. In her first appearance, she tried recruiting a young Kitty Pryde to her school (and the Hellfire Club), only to be defeated by the X-Men and seemingly killed.

She only faked her death, though, and she and the X-Men would clash several more times over the years. When most of her students were killed by a time-travelling villain, though, she becomes an ally to the X-Men. After making her way to Magneto’s mutant island-nation of Genosha, Frost lost another group of students when most of the island was slaughtered by Sentinel Robots. She joins the X-Men as a full-fledged member, and after Jean Grey dies, starts dating Cyclops. Last I heard, she got forced out of the X-Men after a war between them and the Inhumans due to helping to start the war. I think, I don’t know.

In all her appearances, the key thing I remember about Emma Frost is her “high-and-mighty”, queen-bee demeanor. She’s always acting reserved and refined, and when she was with the X-Men, that didn’t win her any favors. There was also the fact that she talked a emotionally-fragile Cyclops into having a psyhic affair with her, too. If I’m honest, if Emma frost was a real person, I doubt that I would get along with her that well. She’s a diva who likes to act high-and-mighty. Still, I know that she can be a good person, as seen in Wolverine and the X-Men when she sacrificed herself to save the X-Men.

Marvel is no stranger to amazing villains, many of whom have gotten the big screen treatment. The MCU has given us great takes on villains like Thanos, Loki, and Killmonger. Willem Dafoe gave gave us an amazing version of the Green Goblin. But of all the villains in the Marvel Comics, only one can be the best. For me, hat spot goes to Max Eisenhardt, AKA Magneto

Magneto, The Master of Magnetism

There are villains out there are far more powerful and evil than Magneto: Dr. Doom, Thanos, Ultron, Kang, the Red Skull, to name a few. The reason he gets my pick for favorite villain has nothing to do with his power or feats. I chose him because he’s the one a lot of people can sympathize with.

For those don’t know, Magneto was born to a German-Jewish family as the Nazi’s rose to power. His entire family was murdered during the Holocaust, so he knew first hand what humans would do to those who were different. He escaped Auschwitz alongside his future wife, Magda, and tried to move on from his past. No matter how hard he tried, though, he couldn’t forget the horrors of the Holocaust. When he learned he was a mutant and that there were others like him, he knew what was coming, what humanity would do. So, he vowed to never let that happen, regardless of what lines he had to cross.

What separates Magneto from other villains is his motives. Yes, there is the desire for world domination and power, so his ego is a part of this. At his core, though, he’s a man who saw the darkest of human nature, and he never wants to see that again. The worst part, though, is that on some level, Magneto’s right.

Ask yourself right: do you think the fears of Magneto are unfounded? That this could never happen? It happens all the time. Persecution, racism, genocide, destruction of entire cultures. The Holocaust isn’t even the biggest example! This stuff has been happening since humans got the idea that one way of life is better than everyone else.

Magneto was broken by war and violence, and since he saw that it got results, he responded in turn. He hasn’t always stayed a villain, staying more in the grey area between villain and anti-hero at times. He remains a tragic victim as much as an agressor, and that’s what makes him such a good villain. It’s why I like him so much, and why he’s my favorite villain.

Hey, guys! Jay here! I just wanted to let everyone know that I now have my own Tumblr account: animeniacfan. As to why, there’s a simple reason: fanboy urges.

In the week leading up to the series finale for Star vs The Forces of Evil, I got into reading and looking at fan art online. The show’s got a sizable fan art community, and I couldn’t help myself, so I decided to set up shop on Tumblr to help expand my blog. I’ll be sharing my posts on Tumblr along with other social media sites, and also sharing some of the cool stuff that I find on there. Things like artwork, stories, that sort of thing.

To start us off, I wanted to share the work of this awesome artist, MoringMark. He makes SvTFOE comics so well done that you could mistake them for being from the show itself. Right now he’s working on his fan sequel to the show, Echo Creek: A Tale of Two Butterflies. Taking place fourteen years after the finale, it follows the adventures of the now teenaged Meteora and Mariposa as they spend their summer vacation fighting bad guys. It’s only a few chapters in, but it’s really good! Here’s a link to it:

Enjoy!