Apocalypse vs. Magneto(616)

Magneto has changed not only significantly, but several times in the last 38 years. A feat from 1972 is really only relevant if we're specifying something like a classic Magneto. I mean, in his early appearances he couldn't even fly. 
 
Magnetic fields have been used in real life to levitate things like plastic figurines, spiders, and tiny frogs. It takes enormous amounts of power, but a sufficiently powerful magnetic field can be effective even on objects that are normally electrically neutral. If you think about it, all normal matter contains electrons and protons, which are charged particles, so a fine enough control, or enough pure raw power, would be able to affect matter on an atomic level. 
 
Control over the electromagnetic force in general should also allow for the manipulation of electricity and light waves (heat, ultraviolet, x-ray, radiation, visible, radio-waves, etc). Magneto should actually be capable of quite a lot; the electromagnetic force is probably the most versatile and useful of the 4.

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I believe it was explicitly stated a few times in AoA, and at least once by Apocalypse himself, that Magneto permanently lost half his power (due to strain, apparently) when he pulled Apocalypse's Celestial spaceship out of the sky. So AoA Mags being weaker than normal 616 Mags isn't idle speculation or anything, it is confirmed within the AoA story itself, and is a well known fact to both Magneto and Apocalypse. 
 
Another fairly obvious explanation is that in the AoA, Fabian Cortez would have never screwed around with Magnus's powers and caused him to discorporate into the magnetosphere (or whatever the hell supposedly happened to him), and so he would not have received the large power boost that made him so formidable during the Fatal Attractions arc.

 Apoc could attack mags many ways including mentally,which has beaten mags in the past,plus mags limeted powers wouldn't hurt apoc who could just snap his fingers and make mags explode,also when did mags and dr doom fight?

" @Edamame: I'm talking about in reality,not comics,electro magnetic powers can't do all that,the x-men movies were more realistic about powers and it showed mags limitations. "

" @Edamame: I'm talking about in reality,not comics,electro magnetic powers can't do all that,the x-men movies were more realistic about powers and it showed mags limitations. "

" @bigalow said:

" @Edamame: I'm talking about in reality,not comics,electro magnetic powers can't do all that,the x-men movies were more realistic about powers and it showed mags limitations. "

Didn't you make this same argument already on this thread a couple of days ago? We already responded, and you're wrong. Electromagnetism is one of the 4 fundamental forces of nature, and from a human standpoint arguably the most useful and versatile. It goes far beyond the ability to just move metallic objects around (like I mentioned before, even in real life we can make magnetic fields that can levitate spiders, frogs, and garden gnomes). "

" @difficlus: How would you explain Magneto being able to control Proteus' pure psionic energy form? In the comics (Necrosha), Magneto stated that "it" was close enough to the EM spectrum for him to manipulate, but can more be said about this? It is rather vague.    Thanks. "

" @Tesseract:  No,i don't hate him,i don't hate fictional charecters, but it's true mags is a washed up,overexposed charecter that needs to go somewhere. "

I think Apocalypse is more powerful in general and far more versatile. I give this to Apocalypse, despite his tendency to jobby against characters who have no business surviving an angry grimace from him.

It says it on websites about comic charecters when explaining apocs powers

" It says it on websites about comic charecters when explaining apocs powers "