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brevoortformspring answered:
Wolverine has also continually expressed regret and a desire to better himself, and that has been a constant throughout almost the entirety of his published character history. That is why he is a samurai.
Magneto has never expressed anything except justifications for his actions. Justifications are what people say to others and to themselves in place of accepting responsibility.
Wolverine was also subjected to some of the most bigoted, hateful, and cruel experimentation ever committed upon a mutant. When he was an assassin for Department H, he was under their control like the Winter Soldier was under the control of the KGB (replaced with Hydra in the movie version). The Winter Soldier was a victim of other people’s manipulations, and they used his skills and abilities to hurt people without his consent.
Wolverine has been used as a weapon by others for most his exceptionally long life. It is one of the struggles that character continually faces, and it that makes him interesting to read. Is he more than just a weapon? Is Wolverine just an animal, or is he a man? That was why Jason Aaron had him become headmaster of Xavier’s: it was a very satisfying way to payoff years of character building. But, of course, all of Logan’s enemies resented him for trying to be better than he was. Logan wants to be a better man, and that is why Sabretooth hates him. Sabretooth cannot figure out why Wolverine has the friends and the respect that he never gets. It is because Logan wants to be a better man.
Magneto sees himself as a victim, and he justifies all of his actions through that lens. All of them. To Erik, everything he does is justified by either his past or his species. He can wipe out a whole town, destroy Manhattan, launch Nukes out of Cape Canaveral… Does not matter. Erik thinks his actions are justified, and that he has no need to better himself.
So, yes: there is a big freaking difference between Magneto and Wolverine.
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