10 Powers Comic Book Characters Only Used ONCE

10. Magneto - Hypnotism

The X-Men's nemesis, Magneto, is a mutant with the ability to create electromagnetic fields, allowing him to control metal. As his powers intensified, he developed other abilities including flight, force-fields, wormhole creation, and healing.

Probably the weirdest power Magneto has performed occurred in X-Men #18. The story begins with Magneto successfully infiltrating Professor X's mansion. He traps the X-Men inside a high-altitude hot-air balloon before casting it into the sky.

As Magneto claims the X-Men's home as his new base and begins destroying Cerebro, he is interrupted when Angel's parents arrive to check on their son. To stop them from calling the police, Magneto uses "magnetic attraction" hypnotism to convince them to go to sleep.

Here's a question; if Magneto can hypnotise people, why hasn't he done this before? Why doesn't he hypnotise the X-Men to stop fighting him? Why doesn't he tell Professor X to abandon his cause to bring peace between humans and mutants? Why doesn't he make the leaders of the world do whatever he wants? The only time he decided to use this ability was to trick Angel's parents to take a nap!