The anti-mutant armor of Iron Man demonstrates why Magneto could never defeat him.

By Benjamin bailey

      IRONMAN & MAGNETO

It appears obvious that Magneto would easily defeat Tony Stark in a confrontation between the two despite the fact that their paths hardly ever cross because of Magneto's control of magnetism, which would allow the mutant villain to squash Iron Man into a ball of twisted metal and severed flesh. That ostensibly apparent result, meanwhile, couldn't be further from what would actually occur if Magneto and Iron Man engaged in combat, and Iron Man's anti-mutant suit demonstrates why.

At the time of his introduction, Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, better known as Magneto, was a mutant zealot who devoted his life to destroying humanity's rule over the planet so that mutants might take control and rule it. Magneto employs his Omega-level mutant abilities, such as the ability to manipulate metal, control the electromagnetic spectrum, and generate force fields around himself, in his attempt to establish mutant supremacy through widespread terrorist attacks. These abilities make him both extremely dangerous offensively and almost untouchable defensively. A human superhero without any special abilities is Tony Stark, better known as Iron Man. Instead, with his genius-level intellect providing him the ability to defeat any villain he encounters, Stark uses his own specially created suits of high-tech armor.

Tony Stark is an armored gladiator who fights for entertainment in the limited series Iron Man: House of M by Greg Pak and Pat Lee. However, due to the social issues in his reality, Stark decides to use his mechanical prowess and inherent heroism in the fight to free humans from their mutant overlords. Magneto is the undisputed dictator of this alternate reality, which Scarlet Witch created, and mutants are the dominant species, with humans being viewed as inferior beings. After discovering a conspiracy hatched by Hank Pym and his own father, Howard Stark, Iron Man strives to protect mutants from an extinction-level onslaught while battling Magneto's oppressive regime. Following Iron Man's victory over his father

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Magneto cannot damage Iron Man's armor because the suit's countermagnets prevent him from doing so. While this armor alone demonstrates that Magneto couldn't simply crush Iron Man inside of his own armor, it also raises a much more significant point about Tony Stark as a hero. Iron Man created his anti-Magneto suit not because he intended to battle Magneto but rather because he is genuinely ready for anything. When Iron Man's day starts in this issue, he has no idea that he will end up facing Magneto, but that hasn't stopped him from devising a suitable defense to protect himself from the Master of Magnetism should their paths ever meet.