Could a sniper kill Magneto?
- Thread starter Brawndo
- Start date
Some people are arguing that everything is magnetic to some degree, if so, giving Magneto unlimited power. Wouldn't that make things worse for him ,since he would be detecting fields from everything this side of creation and would need to be nothing short of God to find the needle in the haystack whizzing right at his dome? He doesn't need plot armor, he has fan armor, because nothing you say is going to convince them that anyone or thing could get the drop on him.Chrinik said:
I didn't bother reading to find out if this was brought up, but here's the quick and simple. Magneto controls magnetic energy in a stronger sense than the magnets you're thinking of. First off, he controls all metals, second, he is more than capable of putting up forcefields to protect himself (you see him casually holding off Cyclopse's blasts all the furking time), and third, he senses metal. I mean everywhere.
Recently in the comics Magneto tried proving himself worthy of the X-men (because mutants were recently decimated and they have to stick together) by saving Kitty Pryde, who had, in a previous story, saved the earth by phasing a planet cracking bullet through the planet while inside. Before anyone asks, these make sense in context. He sensed that bullet, after years of it travelling through space at a speed that would make the Flash god "Dayam!" and brought it back just as fast.
Add to that the fact that he's a known mutant terrorist, a holocaust survivor, and has had experience in the field and with paranoia for years, he could tell when someone's aiming a sniper at him and crack the guy's skull with said bullet before the man had finished aiming. You don't fight the X-men with just controlling metals, you fight the X-men by being the most badass and powerful mother furker to walk the earth.
Recently in the comics Magneto tried proving himself worthy of the X-men (because mutants were recently decimated and they have to stick together) by saving Kitty Pryde, who had, in a previous story, saved the earth by phasing a planet cracking bullet through the planet while inside. Before anyone asks, these make sense in context. He sensed that bullet, after years of it travelling through space at a speed that would make the Flash god "Dayam!" and brought it back just as fast.
Add to that the fact that he's a known mutant terrorist, a holocaust survivor, and has had experience in the field and with paranoia for years, he could tell when someone's aiming a sniper at him and crack the guy's skull with said bullet before the man had finished aiming. You don't fight the X-men with just controlling metals, you fight the X-men by being the most badass and powerful mother furker to walk the earth.
He has an electromagnetic field around him, so yes, he can "feel" or sense metals within that radius. That said, bullets (typical ones, anyway) are lead. Non-ferrous, as in, non-magnetic. Any gun would realistically take him down.
That said, it's known that he controls/feels all metal, not just ferrous ones, so who knows?
That said, it's known that he controls/feels all metal, not just ferrous ones, so who knows?
Taking the clip from /watch?v=cNbXq2RNyC4 as evidence, first impression was that he senses the increase iron in the security guards blood stream, but the line "never trust a beautiful woman, especially one who's interested in you" could mean he was expecting Mystique to find a way of smuggling metal to him.
He may have been toying with the guard, although he could've sensed the iron, by process of "scanning" every guard that entered his cell.
The question is whether magnetic force travels fast enough to keep above the speed of sound, if he were shot at from behind from a great enough distance? I don't know relativity too well
If I were him, I would be using my power to constantly scan my location for all the metal in my surroundings. Best bet is to use a gun made entirely from plastic and composites, with ceramic bullets (maybe radioactively poisoned bullets if they will have to go into his body (helmet) and they mightn't be able to penetrate as far as a metal bullet(?)).
(When a bullet is fired at your head, the first thing you see is the muzzle flash, then (maybe) the blur of the bullet, then nothing. By the time the sound reaches your ears, the part of your brain that processes sound has been turned into soup.)
He may have been toying with the guard, although he could've sensed the iron, by process of "scanning" every guard that entered his cell.
The question is whether magnetic force travels fast enough to keep above the speed of sound, if he were shot at from behind from a great enough distance? I don't know relativity too well
If I were him, I would be using my power to constantly scan my location for all the metal in my surroundings. Best bet is to use a gun made entirely from plastic and composites, with ceramic bullets (maybe radioactively poisoned bullets if they will have to go into his body (helmet) and they mightn't be able to penetrate as far as a metal bullet(?)).
(When a bullet is fired at your head, the first thing you see is the muzzle flash, then (maybe) the blur of the bullet, then nothing. By the time the sound reaches your ears, the part of your brain that processes sound has been turned into soup.)
It's a vibranium and steel alloy, the guy who designed it kept incredibly poor notes so stuff like the temperatures and the ore ratios were lost and it could never be replicated. But the two metals they used were able to be melted down and mixed before cooling into it's permanent shape. It's not completely indestructible, just practically. The Beyonder (a vast cosmic being) managed to crack it and more recently it was shattered by a magic hammer nin Fear Itself.kickassfrog said:
This is why I don't like comic books, they tend to become absolutely ridiculous. You have stuff like Wolverine being thrown into the sun and Magneto altering the entire world's magnetic field. What I liked about First Class was that while the mutants were clearly powerful, they still had limitations and could be killed or stopped by humans.ravensheart18 said:
That's the thing isn't. "You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun." Mind you, when they finally DO decide to kill a character it never is as good as the times that they've always managed to avoid dying.Brawndo said:
Bullets are not made of magnetic materials. Lead and Copper will not be affected by Magneto's powers.
Therefore, yes. Unless you had a steel-core round, he could do nothing about it, and snipers don't usually use armor-piercing rounds (steel or tungsten core rounds).
Therefore, yes. Unless you had a steel-core round, he could do nothing about it, and snipers don't usually use armor-piercing rounds (steel or tungsten core rounds).
The real question is whether magnetic force travels faster or behind the speed of the bullet?Joshimodo said:
Magneto has always struck me as the well prepared type, I'm sure he would have some sort of defense up constantly and subconsciously as well as some sort of larger field around him so that he could feel the presence of any sort of metal, though that wouldn't help when a bullet is approaching too quickly, I don't think.Brawndo said:
I'll just conclude it with Magneto's the shit.
It would probably just be easier to make a list of things hazardous to Magneto's health. Like say:
Old Age
The Hulk
Food that is Hard to Chew
Jean Grey
Being in a small room with Galacta
An angry X-23
I think I'll let someone else continue.
Old Age
The Hulk
Food that is Hard to Chew
Jean Grey
Being in a small room with Galacta
An angry X-23
I think I'll let someone else continue.
The Ghosts could just use their Tele/Psi powers to kill him. Hell, if we're talking about any of the named Ghosts/Spectres, most of them could just think Magneto out of existence, particularly Kerrigan.nklshaz said:I think the Ghosts from Starcraft 2 could do it. Screw the sniper rifles, they could just drop a damn nuke
Magneto's big thing is the magnetism. Otherwise, he's not really all that beefy. So long as you're not wearing any magnetic materials, I really don't see why you couldn't take him head on. Sniping just seems like overkill. Ceramic knife, or hell, even a good hunk of obsidian, and just stab the guy.