#in the original timeline - in erik's old age he does emulate shaw

[bardicious]

Okay, okay, okay, one thing I don't like about First Class, and its technically a big one, Sebastian Shaw should not have been a mutant. Like that dude didn't do much of anything with his powers till the end anyway. But he could have manipulated many mutants in the camps to think they were his creation. And simply manipulated them to be loyal.

It's one of those glaring things, that makes Erik's argument fall apart, Erik attempts to kill all humans because they supposedly can't be trusted, but being tortured by Shaw should have shown him that being mutant didn't make you all that great either. Shaw leaves a flaw in Erik's thinking that's always irritated me.

Where as, if they did have Charles experimented by both his own father (human) and Mr. Sinister(mutant), while having a stepfather that was human as well and didn't hate Charles, but a step brother who was also experimented on and might be some kind of mutant beating Charles. Plus Raven's perceived revulsion of Charles' telepathy. Charles may have at least had a well rounded understanding that it's not mutants or humans that are terrible, but its the whole lot of them and can't even be distinguished by Charles.

That's a real big flaw, tho, making Shaw a mutant, I don't think I can cope. lmao.