Magneto is a perfect example of how an antivillain should be written. He kills people, some innocent, some not even the people he hates, is a dark character, yet he's the good guy. He's a primary antagonist yet protagonist in some films. He is willing do kill those who threaten his kind who do consist of some innocents. Some powerful involved in the US government. He is anti-patriotic; he may even be viewed as that of a terrorist like that of Christopher Nolan's Joker. He captures an innocent teen X-Men who has potential as a protective soldier in Rogue, nearly killing her when she was defenseless. He uses Jean Grey, his best friend's protege against the X-Men and nearly kills everyone with a force and character so mentally unstable. He also nearly destroys the world with the upcoming of the Sentinels program vs not only mutant kind but humanity too.
He has the background of a Polish Jew with parents killed by the Nazis, opposed to those of the idealistic straight laced Superman-inspired American and blonde haired Captain America. He was a key example of a Bronze Age of comics writing, promoting diversity, and darker more realistic and empathetic storylines and villains compared to the absolute of those like the Red Skull and Baron Zemo.
Loki has plotholes. There's no logic as to how his powers are written nor is it credible that people in the same universe understand his powers. Dumb Thor who can fly doesn't save Loki who can fly falling from a bridge at the end of Thor, and Loki's anyway.
They spend time on a plot twist involving him being a frost giant baby that doesn't explain how he has Asgardian appearance or power.
That's not to say Magneto didn't have plotholes. He had a huge one in one of his most famous movies, X-Men: Days of Future Past, blaming Nazis and humans for the death of his parents, when it was Sebastian Shaw, mutant who was responsible. But you can clearly tell his pain and other strengths of his story compared with Loki.
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