23 X-Men Movie Mistakes You Probably Missed

8. Literally The Worst Kidnap Attempt Ever - X-Men

Again, another indication that Magneto isn't quite the super-villain he claims to be, and not just in the terribly scripted The Last Stand. As early as the first X-Men movie, Magneto was making questionable decisions when it came to strategising his attempts to wipe out Homo Sapiens forever, and when broken down, his long-game attempt to kidnap Rogue was ridiculously ill-conceived and unnecessarily drawn out.

Instead of simply using Mystique's ability to masquerade as Bobby Drake and invite his sort-of girlfriend for a romantic walk around the less tightly-secured perimeter areas of the mansion's grounds and then grabbing her, Magneto instead relies on the emotions of a teenage girl to underpin his plan. He romantically spurns her, sending her into an emo-spiral that makes her run away and into the awaiting arms of the Brotherhood (despite a surprisingly nailed on guess by Xavier at which train Rogue is on), which wouldn't have been a certainty at all. So why complicate it, when it's obvious that Xavier's Institute has literally no way of detecting if Mystique is on the grounds pretending to be someone else?