10 Movie Characters Who Had Every Right To Become The Villain

Comic book villains don't come much more iconic than this metal manipulator, and one of the major reasons Magneto remains one of Marvel's most captivating big bads is the fact that his origin story is about as tragic as it gets.

As a young boy, Erik Lehnsherr was forced to experience the horrors of the Holocaust up close, with this mutant ultimately being separated from his Jewish parents when they were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp. Sure enough, that horrendous time spent here - a spell that saw his mother being murdered in front of him by Nazis - had quite the effect on the eventual pal/enemy of Charles Xavier. 

In the years that followed, Magneto regularly fought to protect mutants as soon as it became clear that some humans were looking to exterminate them. While his methods were sometimes a bit questionable - like attempting to forcefully turn world leaders into mutants and kill all humans via Cerebro - Magneto's motives are definitely justifiable.

He's seen the absolute worst of humanity and is just trying to keep his kind from being subjugated or destroyed.