Reticently

And he still lost to Squirrel Girl lol. 

True, but I’m actually staying with comic reality where his power basically just gives him infinite energy to utilize.
 
It mostly depends on the author and tone of the story. He can vary wildly from nigh omnipotent to magnet man. Usually based on how seriously the author wants to take control over a fundamental force.
 
And magnet man is always who I kill first in MegaMan 3, so that’s pretty weak.
 
But yeah, comic powers are wildly inconsistent basically at all times.

Look, I'd be reluctant to invoke reality too much here.  If you want to say he can do anything you can conceive of the actual electromagnetic force doing, then you can look at the joules necessary to exert that force, convert that number of joules into moles of ATP that would have to be biochemically available in whatever tissue he actually performs his manipulation with (his brain?), and see that for physiological limitations at best he'd be able to magnetically fling metal about as far as he could throw it with his arm.
 
Exerting enough energy to lift a car would probably kill him.
 
Or we could look at it in terms of comic book reality, where every power is basically magic because it'll do whatever the author wants it to do in that moment.  And because the author whims are reality there, Magneto has to own his loss to Squirrel Girl so how good could his powers actually be?

Look, I'd be reluctant to invoke reality too much here.  If you want to say he can do anything you can conceive of the actual electromagnetic force doing, then you can look at the joules necessary to exert that force, convert that number of joules into moles of ATP that would have to be biochemically available in whatever tissue he actually performs his manipulation with (his brain?), and see that for physiological limitations at best he'd be able to magnetically fling metal about as far as he could throw it with his arm.
 
Exerting enough energy to lift a car would probably kill him.
 
Or we could look at it in terms of comic book reality, where every power is basically magic because it'll do whatever the author wants it to do in that moment.  And because the author whims are reality there, Magneto has to own his loss to Squirrel Girl so how good could his powers actually be?

It's great! Go read it.

When are we gonna talk about how powerful the Thanos helicopter really is?
 

I mean, telekinesis could do that too, just doesn't need a few iron atoms to explain how it works.

I mean, telekinesis could do that too, just doesn't need a few iron atoms to explain how it works.

Guess this requires research of the most nerdy kind to see how power of magnetism would differ in practice from telekinesis.

Like I said he wins fights, but at the end of the day his powers are mostly fancy telekinesis.  There's probably a hard cap on how much happier that makes his life.

The ol' Irish Goodbye.  My wife and I joke about it at least once a month, and neither of us even smoke.
 
I had to get my son CoVid tested about 3 weeks ago.  They had a drive-up testing set-up where the nurse in full PPE just came up to the car door where his carseat is.  He didn't love getting the nasal swab, but it was over quick and he enjoyed the lollipop they gave him.  Results back in 48 hours.
 
Negative test (and he was sneezing a lot so I wasn't even particularly suspicious that it was CoVid anyway).

Mainland US history classes teach basically nothing about PR.  Footnote level info.  Learned a lot from this though:
 
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The ol' Irish Goodbye.  My wife and I joke about it at least once a month, and neither of us even smoke.
 
I had to get my son CoVid tested about 3 weeks ago.  They had a drive-up testing set-up where the nurse in full PPE just came up to the car door where his carseat is.  He didn't love getting the nasal swab, but it was over quick and he enjoyed the lollipop they gave him.  Results back in 48 hours.
 
Negative test (and he was sneezing a lot so I wasn't even particularly suspicious that it was CoVid anyway).

The ol' Irish Goodbye.  My wife and I joke about it at least once a month, and neither of us even smoke.
 
I had to get my son CoVid tested about 3 weeks ago.  They had a drive-up testing set-up where the nurse in full PPE just came up to the car door where his carseat is.  He didn't love getting the nasal swab, but it was over quick and he enjoyed the lollipop they gave him.  Results back in 48 hours.
 
Negative test (and he was sneezing a lot so I wasn't even particularly suspicious that it was CoVid anyway).

The ol' Irish Goodbye.  My wife and I joke about it at least once a month, and neither of us even smoke.
 
I had to get my son CoVid tested about 3 weeks ago.  They had a drive-up testing set-up where the nurse in full PPE just came up to the car door where his carseat is.  He didn't love getting the nasal swab, but it was over quick and he enjoyed the lollipop they gave him.  Results back in 48 hours.
 
Negative test (and he was sneezing a lot so I wasn't even particularly suspicious that it was CoVid anyway).

Good news everybkdy, its Strep Throat.
 
😂.... 😭
 
Now we gotta pay for two more doctor's appointments just to get prescribed some basic ass anti-biotics.
 
HealthCare be wack.

The ol' Irish Goodbye.  My wife and I joke about it at least once a month, and neither of us even smoke.
 
I had to get my son CoVid tested about 3 weeks ago.  They had a drive-up testing set-up where the nurse in full PPE just came up to the car door where his carseat is.  He didn't love getting the nasal swab, but it was over quick and he enjoyed the lollipop they gave him.  Results back in 48 hours.
 
Negative test (and he was sneezing a lot so I wasn't even particularly suspicious that it was CoVid anyway).

The ol' Irish Goodbye.  My wife and I joke about it at least once a month, and neither of us even smoke.
 
I had to get my son CoVid tested about 3 weeks ago.  They had a drive-up testing set-up where the nurse in full PPE just came up to the car door where his carseat is.  He didn't love getting the nasal swab, but it was over quick and he enjoyed the lollipop they gave him.  Results back in 48 hours.
 
Negative test (and he was sneezing a lot so I wasn't even particularly suspicious that it was CoVid anyway).