Something to keep you going while I finish packing my flat into boxes

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1016539]

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[johanna-alice.livejournal.com]

Its a bit before that. Have a look at Fredrick Nietzshe's Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Would Professor X's approach be akin to that of Nietzsche's Ultimate Man, and that of Magneto his Overman?

[johanna-alice.livejournal.com]

I'll stick my hands up and say I'm not sure. I've never done much more than soak up odds and sods of philosophy.

As I understand it though, Neitzsche's Ubermensch can be translated as either ultimate or over-man. In which case Prof. X / Magneto are merely different sides of the same coin. This motif of antagonists merely making different moral choices that lead them to 'good' and 'evil' is something that recurs again and again in popular fiction. I suppose one could argue that this popular trend could have been deliberately utilised rather than being a cultural influence...