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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5592583" data-attributes="member: 8835">Ultimately yes, superheroes are magic.  And comicbook physics is more like RPG physics than real world physics.As for the coin push, consider:he moved it slowly so that it did not impart extra kinetic energy to shaw, thus increasing his ability to resist the coin being pushed into his headhe could have reshaped the edge of the coin (not seen from the camera) to be sharper, to enable it to be pushed in better.Once it entered the cranium, all bets are off.  He could have spun that sucker around his head like a blender in there.  There's no reason to assume that he simply pushed it into the center of his brain, neatly between the 2 lobes.technically, magnetism can affect other metals, like Aluminum or Lead.  Mythbusters tested the bullets on a magnet, which though busted, did demonstrate that a large enough magnetic field does impact even lead.  Another Discovery channel show from a few years back demonstrated that running an aluminum blade through a pair of magnets would signficantly impede its progress.  They used it to create a magnetic brake for an escape chair.In the comics, at one point Magneto's power was sufficient to control minds by manipulating the iron in the blood in the person's brain.  Suffice it to say that hero's powers tend to be extended in ways that serve the plot.</blockquote>