Magneto is one of the most infamous and powerful mutants, possessing the ability to manipulate magnetic fields. The self-titled "Master of Magnetism" has played many roles in his long life: terrorist, savior, revolutionary, ruler, conqueror, teacher, villain, and antihero. He is currently allied with Cyclops and the X-Men of Utopia.
After the Schism, Magneto remained on Utopia alongside Cyclops. He became part of Cyclops' new "Extinction Team" to help prove that the X-Men are "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" while also defending mutant rights. Magneto is also faced with a ghost from his past in the form of his clone, Joseph. Disguised as Magneto, Joseph kills a group of anti-mutant protesters and Magneto must clear his name.
The man that would become known as "Magneto" was born Max Eisenhardt in Germany during the 1920's to a middle class Jewish family. His father, Jakob Eisenhardt, was a World War I veteran and a proud German. The family struggled against discrimination and hardship during the Nazi's rise to power, the Nuremberg laws, and Kristallnacht. In the early 1930's, the family fled to Poland, where they were captured during the Nazi invasion and sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. They managed to escape the ghetto, but were captured again. Max's mother, father, and sister were executed, but Max survived (potentially thanks to an early manifestation of his powers) and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. There, Max became a Sonderkommando, forced to dispose of gas chamber victims. While at the camp, Max was reunited with a girl he had fallen in love with during his school days named Magda. Max and and Magda escaped when Auschwitz was liberated and were soon married.
They moved to the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, where they started their new lives together. Max adopted the name "Magnus" and Magda gave birth to their daughter who they named Anya. Magnus worked as a carpenter to support the family and for a time they lived happily. One night Magnus was attacked and instinctively lashed out with his mutant powers of magnetism (which had never surfaced before due to a bout of scarlet fever as a child), killing the attackers. Later that evening, he returned home to find his house on fire, with Anya trapped inside. Magnus rushed inside to rescue her but he was too late.
Enraged at the death of his beloved daughter, he used his new powers to kill the surrounding mob that started the fire. Magda, terrified of her husband's strange abilities, fled to the forest and never saw her husband again. Magda made her way to Wundagore Mountain, where she gave birth to twins Pietro and Wanda (who would grew up to be Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, respectively). Magda later disappeared, presumed deceased. During the next few years Magnus had an identity forger named Greg Odekirk create him a new identity, reinventing himself as a gypsy named "Erik Magnus Lehnsherr".
It was while using this identity that he went to Israel to help at a psychiatric hospital. There, he met Professor Charles Xavier. The two became fast friends, playing chess and having intellectual debates about mutation and the future of mankind. When Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker attacked a young patient named Gabrielle Haller, Xavier and Magnus used their powers in order to save her. Following the battle, Charles and Magnus realized they had very differing ideologies. Magnus disappeared and the two friends would not meet again for many years. During the next few years, Magnus worked for the CIA hunting Nazis, but this association ended when they murdered a girl he was becoming close to. Magnus eventually resurfaced, now using the identity of the mutant supremacist "Magneto". He attacked Cape Citadel and was stopped by the original X-Men, a confrontation that would spark a decades long rivalry.
Magneto was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby in 1963. He made his first appearance in X-Men #1, becoming the very first foe of the iconic mutant team. Creator Stan Lee stated that he "did not think of Magneto as a bad guy. He was just trying to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racist. He was trying to defend mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly, he decided to teach society a lesson. He was a danger of course, but I never thought of him as a villain." Lee also explained that he originally planned for Magneto to be Professor Xavier's brother rather than simply an old friend.
In his initial appearances, Magneto was portrayed as a would-be tyrant who would often abuse his subjects (he physical abused his lackey Toad, while Scarlet Witch was psychologically tormented into obedience). Eventually, (as Marvel did with many of their long-lasting villains over the years) Magneto was given a more humanized portrayal as a Holocaust survivor who wanted to ensure that mutants would not suffer the same fate his family did for being born different.
Magneto has long been the face of mutant separatism, in opposition to Charles Xavier's ideal of coexistence with humanity. Believing that mutants are the next stage in human evolution, he sought to assert their dominance over the planet. This was Magneto's means of assuring the survival of his people in a world that hates and fears them for there very existence. Though not a hero, Magneto is charismatic, noble, and wise. His long and turbulent friendship with Charles Xavier has been a cornerstone for both men's lives, as a rivalry that has lasted decades.
After decades of lying low, Magneto burst into the public eye leading the team the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Demanding not merely equal rights, the Brotherhood sought supremacy for mutant-kind. Their vicious attacks against humans led them to attract the attention of Professor Xavier and his X-Men, who are often able to repel the group.
During a particularly heated battle with the X-Men, Magneto wounds and nearly kills Kitty Pryde (then only fourteen). Stricken with the revelation that he’s become a horrific extremist, willing to murder even children to achieve his goals,Magneto renounces his terrorist ways. He seeks out his former wife Magda and learns the truth about Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver: that they are his children. While the pair accept that he’s their father, they reject Magneto's leadership for his abusive treatment of them over their years in the Brotherhood. Time would eventually heal their wounds, and they would come to a grudging acceptance of him. Magneto joins the X-Men after being persuaded to give human/mutant co-existence a chance by Professor Xavier. This comes at a time when Charles is badly injured in battle and Magneto takes over the reins of his school, teaching young mutants to control their powers and use them for the betterment of both humans and mutants.
Even Wolverine, previously extremely wary of the mutant leader, grew to accept him. Rogue began to feel romantically towards Magneto, despite their age difference. It appeared Magneto was truly a changed man. The Mutant Massacre spurred on by the Morlocks would reverse a great many of these feelings when one of Magneto's star pupils, Cypher, is killed by a human. Magneto goes so far as joining longtime longtime X-Men rivals the Hellfire Club and many of his human-hating ways resurface. Ultimately, Magneto would view this as a failure on his part and retire to Asteroid M to live in seclusion.
While living in isolation, a group of mutants led by Fabian Cortez calling themselves the Acolytes approached Magneto asking for his leadership. Magneto decided that his best course of action would be to create a nation for mutants unto themselves and goes so far as declaring Asteroid M such a nation. The X-Men respond by assaulting the asteroid, with Cortez’ betrayal leading to Magneto’s ultimate defeat. Magneto retreats to his back-up space station Avalon. During the X-Men’s siege of Avalon, Magneto used his powers to rip the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton. An angered Xavier lashed out, wiping Magneto's mind and leaving him in a catatonic state.
After believing Magneto gone for good, the newest teacher at the Xavier Institute, the enigmatic, masked Xorn, revealed himself as Magneto in disguise to Professor Xavier. "Magneto", along with several mutants he had been teaching, staged an attack on Manhattan. This included murdering five thousand humans in crematoriums, mirroring his Holocaust persecution.
The X-Men doubted his legitimacy as the real "Master of Magnetism", but his addiction to the power-enhacing drug “ Kick” allowed him to assault and kill Jean Grey by giving her a planetary-scale stroke. An enraged Wolverine decapitated the alleged Magneto, who was later revealed to be an imposter under the influence of Sublime.
After Wanda devastatingly, but accidentally, disbanded the Avengers and was rendered unconscious, Magneto appeared and demanded to have his daughter remanded to his care. Magneto watched over his sleeping daughter, kept unconscious by Xavier. Pietro demands that Magneto save her. Magneto retorts that it’s out of his hands and there’s nothing he can do. On the one hand Wanda is indeed his flesh and blood, but on the other hand, she’s clearly had a mental breakdown. The combined forces of the X-Men and the New Avengers arrive on Magneto's doorstep. Before they can act, the world flashes white and when it returns it has been remade as a world where mutants are the dominant species and humanity is on the decline. Magneto is now ruler over the sovereign nation of Genosha, the dominant superpower in the world, and mutants hold almost all worldwide positions of power.
The world has been reversed: mutants now subjugate and legislate against humans, waiting for them to die out over the natural course of their existence. When Wolverine and a mysterious girl named Layla Miller begin restoring the memories of the heroes, they stage a daring coup against Magneto’s headquarters where Wanda is kept. The revelation comes out that it was actually Pietro, not Erik, who convinced Wanda to remake the world in this image. As the world crumbles around them, Wanda utters three simple words: No more mutants. When everything returns to normal, 99% of the world’s mutant population has been depowered.
Magneto, like many other mutants, emigrated to Cyclops’ Utopia island. When he arrives, Xavier demands he leave, but Cyclops overrules him and allows Magneto to stay after the former tyrant praised Cyclops for finally uniting mutantkind. Xavier refuses to accept Magneto’s change of heart and telepathically attacks him, but Cyclops stops the attack and orders Xavier to leave. Magneto laments the future of their race, but Cyclops assures him that Hope Summers, the Mutant Messiah is alive and well. Magneto swears fealty to the X-Men and is made a senior member of Cyclops’ cabinet.
He’s still not fully accepted, however, as Cyclops reprimands him for taking what he believed to be too much initiative by constructing a giant support column to not only support Utopia, but house the Atlantean refugees, calling the structure New Atlantis. To finally atone for his past sins, he journeys to the top of a mountain to reflect and finally realizes what he can do: bring Kitty Pryde back to Earth. He saw the massive bullet she was trapped in when he was in the High Evolutionary’s space station and uses his abilities to bring her back, but he lapses into a coma.
Magneto comes out of his coma right after Hope was teleported into Utopia by a dying Nightcrawler. With the Nimrod Sentinels laying siege to Utopia, Magneto stopped Hank McCoy from leaving his patients as he stated that he had made certain promises to himself, which precluded him from laying in bed while his people were in danger of genocide. Magneto prepares for battle and manage to hold off a squad of Nimrods by attacking them with electrical blasts before finally dismembering the robots by pulling shards of iron from the core of Utopia through them. The wounded but victorious Magneto then gave a speech to the awed young mutants that surrounded him that it was their destiny to inherit the world.
Magneto receives a lead from Dr. Nemesis on one of his old Nazi tormentors. Erik reveals to Wolverine's X-Force that he is aware of their existence, and trades his silence for the murder of the Nazi officer. Wolverine takes the task on alone and completes it.
Magneto appears alongside Emma Frost, Colossus, Namor, and Iceman at the unveiling of a mutant museum in San Francisco under orders from Cyclops. The highly publicized event is attacked by the new Hellfire Club. Each of the X-Men present are taken down one by one through technology specifically designed to defeat each of them. Magneto is shot with a miniaturized neutron star. The Hellfire Club then attaches brain slugs to the X-Men to keep them unconscious. Idie, the only mutant left in the museum unscathed, kills the remaining Hellfire members to save everyone.
The Hellfire Club unleashes a giant Sentinel, charged with destroying Utopia. Cyclops and some of the younger mutants prepare to stand their ground, while Wolverine demands that the children run and save themselves. The Sentinel winds up being defeated. However, the X-Men are split between Cyclops and Wolverine. Magneto remains loyal to Cyclops and stays on Utopia.
Magneto is later assigned to Cyclops' new "Extinction Team", which also consists of Namor, Danger, Magik, Colossus, Storm, Hope, and Emma Frost. In a training exercise between the Extinction Team and Hope's Lights, Magneto is attacked by Zero and reacts by brutally by ripping him in half with his magnetic powers. Zero is able to pull himself back together (which Magneto knew he was capable of doing), but Magneto is harshly reprimanded by Hope and Cyclops for attacking so harshly during a training exercise.
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After the apparent death of Jocasta, Hank Pym calls for Cyclops, Emma Frost and Magneto to aid him in his investigation. Upon their arrival to the West Coast Academy, Magneto agrees to assist so long as Quicksilver refrains from involving himself in any mutant affairs. He claims that Pietro coerced his sister into the events that led to her breakdown and cites his misuse of the Terrigen Mists and the war that was caused due to it. Magneto also says he sees through Pietro's excuse of a Skrull impersonator. Finesse attacks Magneto in Quicksilver's defense to which he restrains her. Quicksilver attacks his father to defend his protege and a small battle ignites between the Avengers Academy and the X-Men. Emma freezes everyone in place as they resolve their differences. Quicksilver agrees to consult with a mutual member of the X-Men on any mutant affairs, just not Magneto as Erik scans Jocasta's body. He discovers a significant amount of tachyons and antiparticles suggesting some sort of portal was used to attack her.
An anti-mutant rally is torn apart and its members killed, apparently by Magneto. Iron Man and Captain America investigate the incident and call Cyclops and Magneto to answer some questions. Magneto claims innocence, though his DNA was located at the scene.
Iron Man begins to harshly accuse him as Magneto displays his powers and their inability to stop him. He leaves, assuring them he will find out who was responsible. Magneto asks Emma Frost to help tap into the magnetosphere to find who was capable of this sort of attack. Magneto discovers it was his clone: Joseph.
Erik sits in a bar in the Appalachian mountains and overhears a television news report from Christopher Bach, a politician in Chicago calling for Magneto to be brought to trial. He leaves and heads toward an abandoned steel mill nearby but is captured and brought inside before Joseph. Astra reveals she has revived him as Joseph questions Erik's current standing with the X-Men. Erik reminds Joseph that he is only a clone which sets him off. Joseph unleashes his cloned and deformed Brotherhood on Erik who manages to defeat them and impale Astra. He forces Astra to teleport them both to Utopia. Magneto heals his wounds and attempts to interrogate Astra. When he is unsuccessful he asks that the Cuckoos read her mind.
As Joseph tears apart Chicago it is revealed that Astra made a deal with Christopher Bach to clone Magneto and have him stage attacks to swing his political favor. Joseph tells Bach this was Astra's arrangement and he want's no part of it. Joseph proceeds to destroy Millenium Park as Magneto arrives and takes on Joseph. The two exchange devastating blows with full subway trains before Erik is left defeating Joseph with his bare fists. Magneto turns Joseph in to Cyclops as Christopher Bach is shown crushed by debris.
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When Captain America arrives on Utopia to discuss Hope and the returning Phoenix Force, Magneto stands in the background along with the Extinction Team. Once Cyclops blasts Captain America, Magneto lifts Colossus into a magnetic fastball special and launches him into the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Magneto then saves Emma Frost from Iron Man but Quicksilver jumps in to stop him. Magneto takes on Iron Man who is wearing a carbon nano fiber suit. Unable to control his suit, Magneto drops a tower of Utopia on Iron Man, crushing him. Tony comes through the rubble and fires 2 million neodymium high grade magnets to counter Erik's powers. Magneto blasts through them but Tony activates satellites around Jupiter and siphons the planets magnetic field unleashing it in a uni-beam and firing back at Erik. Erik destroys the satellites and creates his own suit of armor and begins to punch it out with Iron Man. During the fight he begins to realize that the Phoenix is most likely going to destroy them and winds up getting distracted and punched out by Iron Man. Magneto is left floating in space.
Magneto's mutant power gives him mastery over all forms of magnetism. He can perceive the magnetic forces of the Earth as well as the bio-electrical patterns of all living beings. He can draw on and use the magnetosphere of the planet, which extends far into space. Magneto can use his vast power to reshape even the most indestructible metals, including the adamantium in Wolverine's skeleton. He been shown controlling the most insignificant magnetic particles in the both atmosphere and in living beings, reversing their blood flow or ripping out any ferrous elements through their tissues. Magneto can also create fields of magnetism strong enough to manipulate non-ferrous items, though he may be using anti-gravity fields to do this. He has demonstrated the ability to lift thousands of tons with his magnetic powers, although the greater he exerts himself the greater the physical and mental stress. Magneto also has the ability to increase his physical attributes by directing his magnetic powers inward. He has been seeing increasing his physical strength, durability as well as speed and reaction time.
Magneto can create powerful magnetic force fields for personal protection, project blasts of electricity or magnetic energy, and generate powerful electromagnetic pulses. He can also assemble complicated machines within seconds through the use of his powers. Although Magneto's primary power is the control over magnetism, he can also manipulate any form of energy from the electromagnetic spectrum. This includes visible light, radio waves, ultraviolet light, gamma rays, and x-rays. It is more difficult for Magneto to manipulate other forms of energy, so he predominately only uses magnetism.
Magneto is a genius with competence in various fields of advanced science, especially genetic mutation, particle physics, engineering, and robotics. His intellect has allowed him to create many advanced and complex machines, most of which are well beyond the scope contemporary science. He has engineered advanced robots, space stations, devices capable of nullifying mutant powers except for his own, devices that generate volcanoes and earthquakes, and devices that block telepathy. He can create artificial living beings (such as Alpha the Ultimate Mutant) and fully-grown adult clones, as well as mutate humans in order to give them superhuman powers.
Magneto has some military training in hand-to-combat, and is capable of holding his own in a fight, but prefers the use of his powers in most combat situations. He is an able athlete, despite his advanced age, and possesses exceptional stamina.
Magneto is an excellent strategist, both in actual battles and games of chess, and has extensive combat experience. He has successfully held his own against entire groups of superhuman adversaries, such as the X-Men and the Avengers.
Magneto is a polyglot, fluent in English, German, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Arabic. He has even managed to decipher the ancient language of a lost civilization.
Magneto's helmet is designed to prevent telepathic intrusion or psionic attacks. This is accomplished via technology of Magneto's own design wired into the helmet itself. The helmet has become something of a symbol, an integral part of Magneto's persona. When Magneto was thought dead after the sentinel attack on Genosha, t-shirts adorned with the image of him wearing his helmet and featuring the slogan "Magneto Was Right" started being worn by disenfranchised mutant youth as a symbol of rebellion.
The costume that Magneto wears is actually a type of armor that he has created through the use of his magnetic powers. The costume is an amalgam of various lightweight, but highly durable, metallic alloys that further protects him from many forms of physical injury.
In a world where Charles Xavier died before ever forming the X-Men, it was up to Magneto to create and led the team against the ruler of this desolate future, Apocalypse and his Horsemen. In the Age of Apocalypse Magneto found this world's X-Men after the death of his friend Charles Xavier, at the hands of Xavier's own son David who traveled back in time to kill Magneto hoping to fulfill his "father's greatest wish". In honor to his friend´s memory, Erik decided to fight Apocalypse and his twisted plans. Magneto and the X-Men fought against the forces of Apocalypse who, without the interference of Xavier was able to take over North America. In the first mission as X-Men in Cape Citadel, Magneto´s daughter Wanda was killed provoking his misery and anger. For years the X-Men opposed Apocalypse´s forces.
Holocaust, Mr. Sinister, Mikhail Rasputin and Abyss are the final Apocalypse's horsemen, and while Magneto's team was composed not only of X-Men but also of standard "evil" mutants from traditional time-lines, including mutants such as Sabretooth, other individuals who were "heroes" in Earth 616 serve Apocalypse in this timeline. In this time-line, Magneto was married to his former protege Rogue, and being able to touch due to his magnetic mastery over his own bio-aura, were able to have a son together who they named Charles, in honor of Xavier.
Magneto and Charles are later personally captured by Apocalypse himself, though they are rescued by Rogue and the other X-Men, including X-Man, who raid Apocalypse's citadel in a desperate final attempt to save all of reality from M'Kraan crystallization. In this final confrontation, Magneto uses his maximum magnetic power to destroy Apocalypse once and for all. When the world is about to end a shinny power stopped the nuclear bombs and saved all humanity. All people assumed that Magneto stopped the bombs and made him a global hero, nevertheless Magneto knows that he didn't stop the bombs.
A year later had passsed of Apocalypse´s defeat and Magneto had created the Bureau of Mutant Affairs in order to capture all former allies of Apocalypse, focusing on Sinister´s trace. It was revealed that Magneto knew that Jean Grey was the mutant who stopped the bombs but he keept the secret so he could create a new world based on confidence on mutants and humans alike. But later Sinister appeared with Jean Grey and a group mutants brainwashed named as Sinister Six, who revealed the truth about Magneto. In the confrontation many mutants died of both sides, incluiding Magneto´s son Pietro, but Magneto managed to free Jean from Sinister´s influence and finally killed the villain. Due to his false heroic acts Magneto get imprisoned. Some years later he is killed by Weapon X who was became the new Apocalypse.
For more information see: Age of Apocalypse
Like is mainstream counterpart, Magneto was fighting against humanity. However, he eventually found peace when he married Rogue and had a son named Magnus. Magnus inherited his father's powers and was well on his way of becoming even more powerful that Magneto, until one day he disappeared. In truth, he was taken away from this reality by the Timebreakers and was placed in the new Exiles team. Magneto was sure that his son had just left home to start his own life until his burned corpse was sent back. Magneto was left with only a small note explaining what happened to his son.
Magneto lead the Brotherhood of Mutants who included Storm, Havok, The Scarlet Witch, Quicksliver and Wolverine. He worked along side many villains which included Doctor Doom, Ultron, Namor and the Hulk to attempt to kill Reed Richards but were thwarted by the combined powers of the Avengers, Fantastic Four and the X-Men. Magneto was ultimately killed by Mockingbird who was enraged by the death of Hawkeye.
Magneto was a female in this reality and lead the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Along with her Brotherhood, she attempted to take over the world by making herself more powerful. In a attempt to fuse together each other's powers, Magneto was fused together with the Brotherhood members and they became the new entity known as Brother Mutant, who possessed their combined powers.
Magneto was Enrique, Grand Inquisitor of the Catholic Church. He is charged with hunting down “Witchbreeds”, what the church termed mutants in this universe. What the church did not know was the Enrique, assisted by his children Petros and Wanda (though they were not aware he was their father), was smuggling mutants who could pass for human out of Europe while burning only those that could not, such as Angel, at the stake. When his secret activities were discovered by the church, he, along with Wanda and Petros, were forced to flee to the New World to the colony of mutants he had secreted out of Europe. After he assisted in helping return Steve Rogers to the proper time stream, he left Wanda and Petros in Carlos Javier's care with the instruction that Carlos was not to tell them he was their father. He then left, sailing north for the colony of his “Brotherhood”.
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Magneto is confined in a wheelchair and is being held in one of the concentration camps by the Sentinels. When Franklin Richards was able to set free all mutants in the camp, Magneto stayed behind to stall the Sentinels long enough to escape. He was subsequently killed.
For more information see: Days of Future Past
Magneto is the leader of the X-Men which consists of himself, Polaris, Quicksilver, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Mystique.
Character Evolution:
Ultimate Magneto's background differs greatly from his mainstream (616) counterpart. Here he was born Erik Lensherr. Erik killed his mother (his father's fate is unknown) when he found out that his mother was a project manager of the Weapon X program and had kept and tortured Wolverine, Erik freed Logan and then fought his way out. Magneto's mother had wanted to "cure" mutants, and her son. However, it has also been alluded to that he is from a very wealthy and well-connected family that he has parted ways with. His wife's name was Isabelle, and he is aware from the beginning of his familial relationship with Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. It is also noted that he verbally mistreats them, hinting that he regards them as a living reminder of having an inter-species relationship. This version of Magneto is significantly darker and more cynical than the mainstream version, regarding all humans with utter and unwavering disdain and likening them to "insects".
An arrogant fantasist who gradually sank deeper and deeper into his self-proclaimed role as Mutant Messiah, Eric Lensherr eventually reinvented himself as Magneto, the leader of the Brotherhood Of Mutants and a ruthless terrorist who is willing to kill hundreds in the name of mutant supremacy. On several occasions Magneto has attempted to implement unflinchingly genocidal plans on humanity. He commands a noticeably larger Brotherhood than his mainstream counterpart and has displayed enough power to defeat the Ultimates.
Additionally, he was the one to cripple Professor X. Before the end of their association, Xavier and Magneto shared a very intense intellectual friendship. Using his knowledge of technology and genetics, Magneto helped Xavier to create the Savage Land as a mutant utopia. He also created an artificial language called Epsilon-Omega, based on Esperanto and featuring its own script, for mutants to use in the Savage Land, as a rejection of human languages. They even have plays, poetry, and songs in this language.
Major Story Arc:
Ultimate Magneto originally recruits Wolverine to infiltrate the X-Men and kill Professor X. While with the X-Men, Wolverine joins them for an attack on the Brotherhood. Magneto appeals to them with his own ideals of mutant superiority. He dismisses the X-Men however Cyclops returns later after a fight with Professor X. Magneto asks Cyclops to address him as father when in front of Quicksilver. When the Sentinels attack all mutants in major cities, Magneto takes control of them and rewires them to hunt humans. Cyclops reveals to have been spying on the Brotherhood and calls the X-Men for help. Magneto is about to crush the President between two cars but is stopped in time by Professor X. Wolverine stabs him in the chest from behind and Quicksilver takes off his helmet. Professor X is able to take control of Erik's mind and turns him into a super magnet, crushing him in front of everyone.
When turning an asteroid away from the Earth, the Sentry had come in contact with a disease that turned normal people into flesh craving zombies. The majority of Earth's superheroes had become infected, and in turn ate virtually all of the human population. Magneto alone remained, and sought to protect the few remaining humans that also survived. When Mr. Fantastic from the Ultimate Universe came to the Zombie Universe Magneto takes him in, and then offers to stay behind when Reed left in order to destroy the device that linked the two worlds.
For more information see: Marvel Zombies
Magneto is the ruler of Sentinel City, a city made out of mutant-hunting robot Sentinel in the Savage Land.
For more information see: Earth X
When the Scarlet Witch reforms reality she creates the House of M, a world where mutants rule under Magneto and humans are the oppressed minority.
For more information see: House of M
Magneto is the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutant Terrorists. He plans on stealing a power circuit from the X-Men and attempt to wipe out humanity. The cartoon opens with him already apprehended by the military, but Emma Frost breaks him out to resume the attack. Meanwhile, Kitty Pryde, a young teenager, is arriving at the Xavier Institute to learn about the strange powers plaguing her.
Magneto is one of the primary antagonists through most of the series’ run. Though he is mostly villainous, he retains much of his tragic back-story and maintains his turbulent friendship with Charles Xavier.
Magneto again returns as the primary antagonist of the series, though he’s cast in a much more mysterious role for the first portion of the series.
Magneto controls the island nation of Genosha in this series, using it as a haven for any mutant who desires sanctuary from the persecution of humanity while plotting against the X-Men.
Magneto is seen targeting a mutant girl, Annie Claremont, in hopes of recruiting her to help him to wage war against the humans, he eventually crosses paths with Iron Man and War Machine.
Magneto’s desire for mutant supremacy stems primarily from his time in a concentration camp in World War II. He brings together the Brotherhood of Mutants consisting of Mystique, Sabretooth, and Toad and plans to use a machine that turns people into mutants against a UN summit so that the world leaders will have to acknowledge the persecution that mutants endure.
Magneto is left to rot in a plastic prison in which not one scrap of metal is permitted. He is periodically visited by an anti-mutant military extremist named William Stryker who uses a strange chemical to force Magneto to tell him about Xavier’s institute. Magneto is eventually able to free himself when Mystique concocts a plan to smuggle metal inside the bloodstreams of one of the security guards. On the loose, Magneto launches a counter-attack against Stryker using his insulated helmet to block out Stryker’s manipulation of Xavier’s mental powers.
Magneto and Xavier are shown visiting Jean Grey when she’s very young, wanting to help her harness her powers before they become too volatile. Fast-forward to the present where Magneto is once again plotting against the X-Men and humanity at large for introducing a mutant “cure” into the world.
In the prequel/reboot to the X-Men film trilogy, the origins of how Erik Lehnsherr becomes Magneto are explained. Erik meets a young mutant, Charles Xavier, and together they form the X-Men.
| Super Name: | Magneto |
| Real Name: | Max Eisenhardt |
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Erik Magnus Lehnsherr The Master of Magnetism Max Eisenhardt Prisoner #214782 White King Grey King Michael Xavier Erik the Red White Pilgrim The Creator |
| Publisher: | Marvel |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | X-Men #1 |
| Appears in: | 2323 issues |
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