Magneto: Super dick.

[The Curmudgeon]

Every Fortress member worth their salt knows about Magneto. Dark, angry, deep, powerful.. easily one of the most feared villains in all of comics.



Seriously, who wouldn't be afraid of that?

But there was a time, the 70s to be exact, where Magneto wasn't really the Master of Magnetism. He wasn't the X-Men's most feared foe, he wasn't some world conquering power... he was just a bit of a dick, really.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkc_Myyye20

Who the fuck comes up with a plan to topple one of the most powerful super powered groups but doesn't actually know how to get there? Is there any other villain, super or not, who has to stop and ASK FOR DIRECTIONS??

Why does he even have a car? Why does he even bother driving it into traffic in the first place? And why was popping a sign onto the floor supposed to make us quake in fear?

What a dick.

[trashcanman]

I had to pause and have a good laugh at the beginning when the attendant advises Magneto he might need to get some gas for his car and Magneot says "nobody tells me what to do!" And I thought referring to himself in the third person was Doom's thing.

Turns out he's also an idiot and a little bitch to boot. Let's see how his confrontation with Mr Fantastic worked out.



I guess it didn't occur to him to get the cops' guns after they showed up and Reed told him the gun he held him at bay with was fake. God, 70's tv was bad.

[The Curmudgeon]

And even if the gun WAS real, Reed could have killed him and dug his grave by the time Magneto was finished talking about how foolish his plan was. He had the gun pointed right at his fucking face.

And, yeah, my favourite part is the "Nobody tells me what to DOOO", and the fact his eyeballs almost pop out of the side of his head.

Was that stupid robot thing in any actual comics?

[trashcanman]

No. Apparently the rights for The Human Torch were somehow tied up so they had to replace him with that. I know I read a comic where Spidey needled the FF about that. I'm thinking it was in "New Avengers". I laughed pretty hard.