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marvel - Who stopped the bullet in the first X-Men movie?


When Rogue ran away to the train station and



Magneto was abducting her to use her for his machine



Magneto, Toad and Sabertooth ran into Jean Grey and Prof X outside the station. Magneto then grabs all of the guns from many policemen's hands and aimed them back at the officers. After some dialogue, Magneto fires one of the guns, but the bullet is stopped before hitting someone's head. The scene then cuts to Jean Grey looking at the bullet as if she had something to do with stopping it, but Magneto mentions that he can't stop all the bullets.


So did Jean Grey stop the bullet or did Magneto? The bullet was still being driven into the officer's head, which suggests that Magneto was controlling it as it wouldn't be moving forward anymore if it was stopped. But why would there be so much emphasis on Jean during that scene if she didn't have anything to do with stopping the bullet?



Answer



Magneto stopped the bullet.


The scene already had Magneto controlling the guns, locked and loaded to fire at the police before Xavier controlled Sabertooth and Toad. He basically had them as hostages during their conversation.



Magneto controls the guns to point to the police holding them.


He fires the bullet and stops it with some effort. Now if he were to fire all the guns, it would take a lot of effort to stop each bullet, which he claims he may not be able to control. So he puts it to Charles: either kill me and also risk the lives of the policemen with guns pointed to them, or let me go (paraphrased).


A spinning bullet, stopped by Magneto


There was some emphasis with Jean next to Charles Xavier, with the back and forth scenes, to highlight that Charles had a difficult decision to make, with someone there to witness it, his star pupil. Either Xavier kills Magneto in cold blood and risk the lives of the policemen there, but ending the evil plot Magneto was planning and rescue Rogue... or let him go and fight another time.


Also, I don't believe Jean had enough control with telekinesis to stop a bullet either. At least not yet.


Jean Grey sitting next to Xavier


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