That was the nazi ideal. The Treaty of Versailles made the Germans third class citizens in their own country. Hitler comes along and spurs the Aryans into scapegoating the Jews for their problems and tells them they must fight for their divine right.
Mags went through that and decided that mutants were divinely better and wanted to scapegoat humans for all mutant problems. If it wasn't for him and his attacks for the sake of his people mutant and human relations would be much improved.
Mags is a Jewish Nazi Mutant! He doesn't resemble the ideal, he is the ideal that some people are simply born better and deserve an elavated place. He abandoned his people (Jews) for his new people (mutants). I'm curious how many Jewish people his attacks have killed and whether or not he even cares.
He is in no way, shape, or form a Nazi. He's not a fascist, his main goals aren't to wipe out the human race or anything like that. He is an elitist, I'll grant that, and cares for mutants more than he cares for humans, of course, but he's a militant mutant leader. What would you expect? What he wants is that he wants mutants to have rights and respect from the rest of the world, and is simply willing to use violence to acheive these goals. If he's comperable to anyone, it's Malcolm X. He even said, later in his terrorist career when he was a bit more mellowed out, that often times he makes himself out as more of a villain simply to make more peaceful Mutant groups like the X-Men look better by comparison, and cause the humans to villify only specific, individual mutants, as oppossed to mutants as a whole.
Why? Was there a reason besides money, because he would have made more money marketing his glue then he ever could have with crime. He can make glue powerful enough to trip up Spidey and the Thing, but he can't make glue that have good civilian uses? Plot hole. Is he a masochist? Is that why instead of sharing a beach with a trophy wife and millions of dollars, he is sharing a cell with Bubbha the love sponge?
1) As I said, he was a wanted criminal
before he invented the glue. So, he couldn't make money off of it, as he hadn't invented it yet. It was only after that he had tried selling government weapons blue prints to foreign countries, a very serious crime, that he invented the glue. By the time he invented the glue, there was already no turning back.
2) Not everyone has clear cut, reasonable motivations. Not every character needs clear cut, reasonable motivations. Sometimes people do stupid things becsause they think they will turn out well, and when they don't, they have to deal with the consiquences. Yes, The Trapster could have simply applied his scientific skills to making money and would have been well off. But he got greedy. He became a criminal because he thought he could get away with it. And by the time he ever realized his mistakes, he was already at the point of no return. Is it pathetic? Yeah, a little bit. But a pathetic backstory doesn't make a bad character. It just makes a flawed one.
