X-Men: Apocalypse Final Trailer Breakdown - 26 Things You Need To See

21. Magneto's Family

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It had been rumoured for a while, but the catalyst in Magneto's turn to Apocalypse's side is influenced by the death of his new-found family, meaning after he left Washington in Days Of Future Past he really did leave the cause behind (if not for long).

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I'm pretty intrigued by this, seeing as it's another new element to the Charles-Erik dynamic. It's not alluded to how the family died, although it won't have been Apocalypse, surely (you don't get people to help you by killing their wife), which begs the question - what happened?

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