Is Magneto a hero, not a villain?

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He seeks to subvert the status quo and treat non-mutants the way they have always treated mutants.

What I find interesting is that this sort of thing should turn more people towards Xavier's way of thinking, and make those in power reconsider the way they treat others not like themselves.

Instead though, and this is where it's frustratingly close to the way things seem to work, the powers that be get afraid of being treated the way they treat others...and so they treat those others even more harshly.

He is a terrorist, albeit a sympathetic one, but he's not really looking for change so much as he is taking someone's office.