About
“Magneto Was Right” is a phrase used to describe the Marvel Comics character and X-Men villain, Magneto, and how his extremist means to achieve equality for the fiction race called the mutants is the correct way, as opposed to the pacifist approach that his enemies the X-Men use.
History
The precursor to the phrase was first in the 2001 X-Men storyline “Eve of Destruction” where Magneto is believed to be killed protecting a mutant utopia called Genosha which got destroyed by sentinels, anti-mutant robots that were designed by humans, and left some recordings of his supposed last moments in which he talks about his ideals like mutant superiority. Because of this, mutants all around the world considered Magneto a martyr and in the 2003 X-Men series written by Grant Morrison a character called Quentin Quire, a rebellious kid at Xavier’s School For Gifted Mutants wore a T-shirt with the phrase “Magneto Was Right”, similar in design to that of Che Guevara T-shirts.
Many within the comic book community took to the design, and the phrase spawned fanart, people created replica T-Shirts of the original one used in the comics, fanpages and websites dedicated to it. It also sparked discussion on whether Magneto truly is correct on comic book forums and messageboards
Cyclops Was Right/Rightclops
“Cyclops Was Right” is an offshoot of Magneto Was Right. In the 2012 crossover event Avengers vs X-Men (AvX) the X-Man Cyclops argues with Captain America, causing a divide between the 2 superhero groups, Cyclops character changed and became much darker and similar to Magneto. Later in one of the tie-ins Cyclops is talking to Wolverine about how he considers himself a martyr and says that one day kids will wear a “Cyclops Was Right” T-Shirt. This caused more discussions in the comic book community, and people made fan art and T-shirts similar to Magneto Was Right. This new phrase caused people to nickname the new Cyclops as “Rightclops”.
