10 Exact Moments Fans Turned On Their Favourite Movie Characters
9. Magneto - Single-Handedly Putting the Bullseye On Mutants' Backs
Picture the scene. You're a mutant, hated and feared by people the world over. The United States government has overseen the development of Sentinels, a new, highly advanced mutant hunting robot designed solely to eradicate your kind. However, with a little creative ingenuity you successfully sabotage the Sentinels' public unveiling, causing the robots to attack every nearby human (including the President). Having accomplished this, do you:
a) Leave quietly, content in the knowledge that the Sentinel program won't receive a cent more funding after such a public humiliation.
Or...
b) Decide to immediately go on TV and say "Yeah, that was totally me, a mutant! You guys are right to want to kill us because we will murder all of you given half the chance! COME AT ME, BRO!"
No prizes for guessing which option Magneto chose. Never before has a movie character done something so smart, only to immediately follow it up with something so, so dumb.
Magneto's frustration at being hated for his differences made him an easy figure to sympathise with, but his decision to promote mutant supremacy at the exact moment he'd struck a powerful blow against government-mandated bigotry was a colossally stupid move. Should have quit while you were ahead, Mags...