10 Worst Things Magneto Has Ever Done
3. Took Over Genosha
The island nation of Genosha has been a recurring part of the X-Men mythos for decades.
In a deliberate parallel to South Africa, Genosha was introduced as an incredibly wealthy country whose success was due to its use of mutant slaves. The X-Men were eventually able to topple its tyrannical government, but, as a result, the country was plunged into a brutal civil war between humans and mutants.
After Magneto's mind was restored, he built a machine that greatly amplified his powers. He then threatened to once again disrupt Earth's electromagnetic field unless the U.N. allowed him to built a country just for mutants.
The world's governments caved in and gave Magneto control of Genosha. He was actually able to restore a level of peace to the country, but he only achieved this by forcing the entire human population to leave Genosha or die.
Magneto then did what pretty much everyone expected him to do, use the Genoshan population to raise an army for world domination. Luckily, Magneto's master plan was stopped by the most powerful force in the Marvel Universe... editors.
What was supposed to be a huge epic was instead cut down to a few issues. Magneto was stopped by a ragtag group of X-Men and then revenge-stabbed by Wolverine for good measure.
Then Genosha was blown up by Sentinels.