10 Movies With Ridiculously Subtle Foreshadowing That Nobody Noticed
7. Magneto Had Planned The Coin Meets Forehead Kill For A Long Time - X-Men: First Class
Before he was reduced to gleefully promoting British mobile companies, Kevin Bacon looked to be having a resurgence. His popularity was rising thanks to the Six Degrees game, Footloose was getting remade and he was the villain in the reboot prequel X-Men: First Class. And not just any villain. Sebastian Shaw is innately cool (despite sharing a name with the actor who played old Anakin in Return Of The Jedi) with an all threatening power and the film version only pushed it further, making him the nemesis of previous super-villain Magneto.
Bacon didn't seem to make much of an impact on fans, but what did was the creative death Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goodman cooked up for him. Finally cornered by Magento and frozen in place by Xavier, the former rams a Nazi coin all the way through his skull, mushing brain matter like EE mushes Bacon's appeal.
If that seems an elaborate death for Magneto to come up with in the spot, that's because he didn't. When we first see the Michael Fassbender version of Erik Lehnsherr he uses a photo of Shaw as the mutant equivalent of a dart board, planting the same coin in the centre of the pictures forehead. Foreheadshadowing you could say. But I wouldn't, because it makes no sense and isn't that funny.