10 Comic Book Story Arcs EVERYONE Hated

In X-Men Annual 2001, the titular heroes discover a mutant called Xorn. Because Xorn's mutation caused his brain to develop a star, he must wear a specially designed helmet to risk incinerating everyone around him. Believing Xorn to be a compassionate man, the X-Men invited him into their ranks.

But during the Planet X saga, Xorn revealed he was none other than Magneto! At the time, this was a great twist since Mags had infiltrated the X-Men mansion when they were at their most vulnerable. However, the story arc goes off the rails when the Master of Magnetism destroys most of New York and murders Jean Grey, before later perishing in Cassandra Nova's genocidal attack on the mutant haven of Genosha.

Now, since Marvel can't just kill off the X-Men's arch-nemesis, we know Magneto would come back somehow. So what did the creative team do? Was this Magneto a clone? A robot? An illusion?

Nope, it turns out that Magneto WAS Xorn after all! This means that Xorn was pretending to be Magneto... pretending to be Xorn.

And that sums up why so many readers have such a hard time getting into the X-Men...