10 Awesome Movie Characters Ruined By Terrible Writing

Magneto is easily one of the greatest of all the X-Men characters, brought to vibrant life by Ian McKellen in the original trilogy, while his younger self was lent a spirited rendition by Michael Fassbender.

But the X-Men series also quickly found itself stuck in a rut with Magneto as a character, falling into a repetitious cycle of having him do very bad things only to be sorta-forgiven for it in the end.

This reached self-parody levels in X-Men: Apocalypse, where rather than simply oppose Xavier (James McAvoy), Magneto used his powers to affect the Earth's magnetic poles, causing worldwide destruction, likely killing tens or even hundreds of millions in the process.

And yet, by film's end this all appears to be forgiven as nothing more than a minor inconvenience - a simple, predictable quirk of Magneto's character.

To make matters worse, he returns in Dark Phoenix to once again stand against most of the heroic mutants, this time as him and Beast (Nicholas Hoult) attempt to kill Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) in revenge for Mystique's (Jennifer Lawrence) death.

By this point, Magneto had become a pure caricature of himself, a character so predictably untrustworthy that his sheer presence made all the other X-Men look stupid for even associating with him.