8 Most Brutal Things Magneto Has Ever Done

6. A Coin Through The Skull - X-Men: First Class

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Coming off the back of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it's fair to say that expectations were extremely low for Matthew Vaughn's 2011 X-Men: First Class.

After two fantastic opening entries in the greater X-Men movie franchise, fans had soured on the property due to the overall disappointment of The Last Stand and Origins. As a result, it was a massively welcome surprise that First Class turned out to be one of the finest X-Men pictures of the entire series.

Set in the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, audiences got to see the formative years of Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, and several other key X-Men players. And by the time First Class came to a close, Michael Fassbender's Lehnsherr had truly begun his ascension to the dark side - not least in how he clinically, brutally offed Kevin Bacon's Sebastian Shaw.

In an act of revenge for Shaw having decades prior killed Erik's mother, the future Magneto uses a tormented keepsake of a Nazi coin as his eventual murder weapon of choice. With Shaw immobilised, Erik counts to three and uses his famed powers of magnetism to slowly push this coin into Shaw's skull, through his brain, and out the back of his head.

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