Prior to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' release last May, there were an awful lot of hard-to-believe rumours that started doing the rounds online. Most of those didn't end up panning out, prompting a lot of fans to declare those Illuminati cameos a "disappointment."
Had we not been fed so much utter nonsense prior to the sequel's debut, there's a very good chance those cameo appearances from Mister Fantastic and Black Bolt would have blown our minds. Unfortunately, when we'd been promised everyone from Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man to Magneto, anything less was always going to underwhelm!
In reality, the Master of Magnetism actually came pretty close to making an appearance, and reliable sources have previously revealed that a stand-in was used for the villain's unseen scenes.
The plan had been for Michael Fassbender or Sir Ian McKellen (depending on who was chosen to reprise the role) to shoot their scenes down the line, and it's now been revealed that Magneto was indeed once set to play a prominent role in the Doctor Strange sequel.
We don't have too many specifics, but have to believe the Magneto Variant would have been revealed as the father of the Wanda Maximoff who fell under the control of Earth-616's Scarlet Witch. For comic book fans, this would have been nothing short of epic, but the blockbuster was arguably already busy enough as it was.
There's always a chance this idea will be revisited in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty or Avengers: Secret Wars, though we wouldn't bank on the MCU's Magneto being Wanda's father. After all, it wouldn't make sense to cast an actor that old as the character when the X-Men franchise is rebooted.
What are your hopes for Magneto in the MCU?
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