11 Heroic Acts In Movies That Changed Absolutely Nothing

3. Magneto's Entire Army Dies For Nothing - X-Men: The Last Stand

The definition of "heroic" here is up for debate, but there's no doubting that Magneto and his Brotherhood Of Mutants believed themselves to be in pursuit of the most just cause in Brett Ratner's wayward threequel. They were the self-appointed heroes of mutant kind, united in their efforts to stop humankind from wiping them out at a genetic level, like a world full of self-righteous Hitlers, and they were willing to do whatever it took to protect their kind from total annihilation.

Magneto used that commitment to his advantage, sending his army of pawns to their deaths against the human army and Professor X's band of X-Men who for some reason ignored all precedent to believe that humans could live in peace with mutants if they were just given enough chances. Tens, if not hundreds of mutants met their end on that battlefield, as Magneto and his two powerful sidekicks - Pyro and Phoenix stood and watched - despite the fact that Phoenix could have basically blinked and made all of the army and the X-Men cease to exist in roughly a nano-second.

All of those Brotherhood heroes died for precisely no reason. They didn't gain any advantage, and they didn't even need to sacrifice themselves in the first place, which is precisely why Magneto gets such a bad rep.