10 Deaths That Movies Totally Forgot About

3. Everyone Killed By Magneto - X-Men: Apocalypse

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20th Century Fox

The further along Fox's X-Men franchise went, the more hilariously nonsensical its own internal logic became, and this arguably reached a risible zenith in X-Men: Apocalypse.

After his wife and daughter are killed, Magneto (Michael Fassbender) turns to the dark side and joins Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), and later uses his powers to alter the Earth's magnetic field, causing mass destruction across the globe and untold millions of deaths.

And yet, by film's end Magneto does the most predictable thing imaginable - flips yet allegiance yet again and helps defeat Apocalypse, before being welcomed back into the warm bosom of his old pal Charles Xavier (James McAvoy).

There's a chumminess to Magneto and Xavier's dynamic as the film closes out that's majorly disquieting because, if you're paying attention at all, you likely haven't forgotten that Magneto wiped out a metric crapton of people a short while prior.

Even accepting that Magneto was manipulated by Apocalypse, personal responsibility has to come into play somewhere when you're an ultra-powerful mutant capable of such attrocities. 

 
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