Unlimited Awesomeness

The Combatants

Iron Man, aka Tony Stark is a confessed genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. He’s the president of Stark Industries, one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world, but he was smart enough to keep the best weapon for himself. The Iron Man armor is a technological masterpiece, the most advanced threat response system on the planet, loaded with every kind of sci-fi armament imaginable, all powered by a reactor the size of your fist. It makes one man the equal of an entire tank division and it will fold to fit inside a briefcase. Iron Man has fought technological terrorists, mystic warlords and alien gods, and even survived two punches from the Hulk. Even Doctor Doom has expressed an admiration for Stark’s work. A whole new movement of supercrime was formed as evil geniuses and mad scientists attempted to copy his design. Thugs in knock-off armor are just one more part of the job. As a founding member of the Avengers and former head of SHIELD, Tony Stark is probably the most powerful man with no powers in Marvel. Just don’t tell Nick Fury.

Magento, aka Erik Lensherr, aka Max Eisenhardt is one of the most powerful men with powers in Marvel. With the power to bend metal to his will and an eye for ostentatious acts of destruction he became known as the angry militant voice of mutant politics. He has routinely battled the X-Men to a standstill and even single-handedly defeated the Avengers. Magneto was once one of the most feared supervillains in the world—the UN once gave him his own country just to be rid of him. Although he is no longer a villain, he is still rightly feared. After the near extinction of the mutant race, Magneto finally made pilgrimage to the island Utopia and pledged allegiance to Cyclops, determined to fight for the future of his species even if he wasn’t the glorious leader he’d always imagined. Lucky for him, the X-Men can always use a guy that can dismantle killer robots with his mind.

The Throw Down: Honestly, I don’t see how this can’t be the most one-sided fight of the year, if not ever. Iron Man is a dude in a metal suit—the name says it all. Magneto isn’t the guy who’s pretty good with magnets—he’s the MASTER of MAGNETISM. He could toss Iron Man around like a hackey-sack and then shell him like a peanut. Of course Stark will undoubtedly come prepared in a suit made from some kind of super-science plastic, but unless they’re fighting in a cornfield somewhere, they’ll still be meeting on a battleground surrounded by, if not made of, METAL! A guy who can use an entire city as a weapon versus a man in a rubber suit with lasers—who do you bet on?

The Verdict: Magneto by a (possibly literal) landslide. Its possible Stark could develop some kind of technological means to counter mutant powers, but he won’t because that would negate the entire reason for this epic crossover series. Sorry, Tony. This is gonna hurt.

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