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Originally posted by tjcoady
But Magneto has really rarely killed anyone. You could count on one hand, without using your thumb, the number of "named" characters he's killed, and you wouldn't really need many more fingers to count civilians that Eric has taken out.
Well coincidentally I was browsing through uncannyxmen.net today and their random fact generator thingy said this
A crowd once attacked Magneto, preventing him from rescuing his daughter Anya from a fire. Enraged, he used his newly manifested powers to slay the mob and the innocent onlookers. (Classic X-Men #12)
And that's just one issue, here's more......
The soldiers pursued Magnus and caught up with him the next morning. When they tried to arrest him for “crimes against humanity,” he renounced their authority over him and used his newfound powers to force them to kill each other. Unlike his early attack on the villagers of Vinnitsa, this attack was purposeful and controlled but no less deadly. Years of being hounded, persecuted and tortured by mankind’s capacity for inhumanity finally boiled over and Magnus gave in to the rage that had filled his life since youth, directing it against his would-be captors. [Uncanny X-Men #304]Little has been revealed about Magnus’ activities in the years that followed, though he spent some time working with a covert government agency, hunting down Nazi war criminals who had eluded capture prior to the Nuernberg Trials. His codename was Magneto and he used his powers to mete out justice to those who had persecuted his people.[Classic X-Men #19]
(THIS ONE DIDN'T KILL ANYONE BUT ATTEMPTED TO)
He set a bomb to kill his adversaries and a larger nuclear device to obliterate all of Santo Marco if the first bomb failed. He and the Brotherhood fled the nation, but Quicksilver couldn’t stand the thoughts of numerous innocent people dying, so he remained long enough to assist the X-Men in defusing the nuclear bomb. [X-Men (1st series) #4]
Japheth (Maggott) begged Magneto to rescue his father and Magnus lashed out with his powers, killing every member of the militia. Shocked by this slaughter, Japheth denounced Magneto’s methods - as he knew that Magneto could have simply stopped the men rather than kill them. Magneto parted ways with young Japheth, excusing him for his youthful optimism and urging him to seek him out when he came to realize that humans and mutants could never co-exist peacefully. [X-Men (2nd series) #76]
Magneto withdrew to his base in the Savage Land, where he came across a badly decomposed Rogue and a possessed Carol Danvers fighting each other to the death. (The Siege Perilous had split off the Danvers personality and given her a body, which the Shadow King soon corrupted.) Realizing the two women shared one lifeforce between them, he knew he could only save one of them. Using the devices of his base in the Savage Land, Magneto restored Rogue to full health, killing the other woman in the process. [Uncanny X-Men #269]
Regaining his power, he killed Semyanov and a helpless Zaladane, making it clear that he had turned his back on Xavier’s way for good. He feared that a kinder gentler Magneto would not be able to save mutantkind. Rogue was turned away by Magneto's bloodthirstiness and she ended their romance before it even began. [Uncanny X-Men #274-275]
Magneto unleashed a worldwide electromagnetic pulse, which fried all active electrical devices over the globe, resulting in a global blackout and the deaths of thousands. Xavier decided that it was time to end his eternal conflict with Magneto and launched an attack on Avalon with a handpicked group of X-Men, among them also Magneto’s son, Quicksilver. Things escalated during the fight and, when Magneto was about to kill Quicksilver, Wolverine attacked him brutally, only further angering the master of magnetism. To hurt the feral X-Man as much as he had him, Magneto destabilizes the adamantium bonded to Wolverine’s bones on a molecular level, causing the metal to ooze out of his pores. Acting on instinct of retribution, Xavier used his powers against Magneto as he never had before, intending to rid the world of his old foe permanently, by mentally removing that which made Magneto a threat - his hatred and ego itself. Their mission complete and needing to tend to the severely wounded Wolverine, the X-Men returned to Earth, leaving the vegetative Magneto in the care of Colossus. [X-Men (2nd series) #25]
That's the main examples up until Wolvie loses his adamantium. There are several more examples after that including Magneto/Xorn impostor who kills Jean Grey.
These examples of course don't include all the times he has held numerous people's lives (including the planet on occasion) hostage or the many times he has attempted to kill his own brotherhood or attempted to kill the X-men or caused deaths through inaction ✅
