10 Dumbest Sci-Fi Movie Decisions (That People Survived)

Charles Xavier worked tirelessly throughout the movie to keep his new friend from going nuts and killing everyone. After all, Eric (Magneto) is easily the most powerful mutant he's ever come across, and the man is filled with anger and thoughts of vengeance.

His powers manifested in one of the most horrific places on Earth: Auschwitz. It was there that he witnessed his mother's death, and it was also where he, as a mutant, was born. After the war, he spent his time hunting down and killing Nazis, and while that's a fine profession, it didn't quench his desire for vengeance.

By the end of the movie, after the mutants succeeded in stopping the bad guy on a Cuban beach, the combined Naval efforts of the United States and the Soviet Union aimed and fired upon the group of mutants gathered there.

Magneto stopped the ordinance mid-flight, but as he turned the munitions back towards the vessels that fired them, Charles was able to bring him back to Earth by saying the one thing you should never say to a Holocaust survivor: "They were just following orders."

In the end, both Navies survived when the X-Men got in Magneto's way but had that not happened, firing off those rounds should have resulted in the sinking of both fleets, all because Charles picked the worst possible defence.