10 Movies Where The Hero Turns Evil In The Sequel

When Jean Grey joined forces with Magneto in X-Men: The Last Stand, Ian McKellan's character had already been the franchise's major antagonist since it began. The origin of his heel turn was then told, as Michael Fassbender took on the character in X-Men: First Class.

Originally on something of a revenge tour, Erik Lehnsherr was full of hate before he met Charles Xavier. The two became good friends and eventually X-Men together, before Magneto killed Sebastian Shaw, paralysed Professor X, and formed the Brotherhood of Mutants as something of an antithesis to the X-Men. Not only did he betray Charles when he left, he took Raven, Charles' oldest friend with him.

Jumping ahead several decades, and Wolverine was forced to go into the past to prevent Mystique from kickstarting the Sentinel programme and destroying the future for all mutants. Though Magneto was working together with Professor X in the 'present' when Logan was sent back, the 1973 version of the Master of Magnetism couldn't have been much more villainous. He was in prison for killing the President, after all, and did his level best to kill another.

Though Raven was ultimately convinced to return to Charles and the X-Men by the end of the movie, Magneto was forced into hiding before attacking the world as one of Apocalypse's Horsemen in the underwhelming X-Men: Age of Apocalypse.