After escaping the horrors of Nazi Germany, the young Erik Lehnsherr emigrates to the United States at some point, arriving at Ellis Island. [10] Turner was allegedly allowed to look through various back issues of Marvel Comics and select a character he thought had potential for a cinematic origin story; he decided upon Magneto. [150] He has demonstrated the ability to shield his mind, while in intense meditation, so completely that even Emma Frost was not able to read his thoughts, despite being directly in front of him and actively attempting to do so.[98]. This first issue really grabs you, and while there are a few small problems, like what's going on with Mangeto's powers and it being tough to swallow that Magneto is a bit of a Punisher archetype, the overall book is still fantastic. "What if the Age of Apocalypse had not ended?" Apparently, while Magneto is enormously powerful, his potential is limited. An equivalent analogy could be made to [Israeli prime minister] Menachem Begin as Magneto, evolving through his life from a terrorist in 1947 to a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years later. Its reappearance and recreation in 2011's X-Men: First Class further underscores its value and importance to the franchise's legacy. As the opening chapter in a story that will continue throughout X-Men Black, it's just enough to whet your appetite, but Nadler and Thompson's take on classic archvillain Apocalypse, Geraldo Borges' artwork, and the hook that reveals itself at the twist at the chapter's end will have readers intrigued. Magneto and Charles Xavier devise a plan to send one of their own back through time through Kitty Pride's secondary mutant power of chronoskimming, allowing her to project a person's consciousness back to their own past self and creating the possibility of changing the past into a more hopeful present and future. Magneto is forced to accept for the sake of preserving the current fragile peace of global mutant-human relations, which had improved primarily due to the general public's mistaken assumption that he had personally saved the world by singlehandedly stopping nuclear armageddon. She asks him how he managed to stop hurting people; he explains that he stopped killing because he had already slain many in revenge and it ultimately didn't make him feel any better. [146] His powers extend into the atomic level (insofar as the electromagnetic force is responsible for chemical bonding), allowing him to manipulate chemical structures and rearrange matter, although this is often a strenuous task. [62], His relationship with the New Mutants deteriorates even further when they see him and the Hellfire Club negotiating with the demons of the Inferno incident. Like his mother he cannot touch anyone. Later, Magneto became ruler of the nation Genosha. Here, the X-Men franchise splits into a second . The Marvel Legends Magneto Helmet is available for pre-order on Zavvi now for 99.99, with a firm release date to be announced very soon. [88], Marvel's editor in chief at that time, Joe Quesada, elaborated on the issue of Xorn and Magneto, stating that "Kuan-Yin Xorn came under the influence of as-yet-to-be-revealed entity that forced him to assume the identity of Magneto. X-Men: First Class (stylized on-screen as X: First Class) is a 2011 superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. The Magneto figure comes with replaceable heads for both Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen's versions of Magneto. Enrique uses his position to further his needs and curry favor with influential figures, including King James of Scotland; towards this end, he has all 'witchbreed' killed. Magneto's powers then go nova as all the powers of the Earth's North and South Magnetic poles and all the bio-electric energies of the Earth are channelled through him and he reflects on his life role. To save the mutant race, he must also protect the humans, who are currently celebrating him as a hero and look on with fascination at what he attempts to do when Earth-1610 throws Sentinels against him. Even teams like the Avengers have fallen to Magneto. Magneto triumphs over the clone, sending him crashing into a South American barn. [111] Following the defeat of Cyclops, Magneto and the other former members are reported to have gone on the run. Under his new mentor's influence, the embittered Magneto starts to distort Earth's magnetic field, threatening the collapse of human civilization. [74] This pod is intercepted by Astra, a former ally who now desires his death. He is first seen at the Jerusalem Habitat, welcoming several ambassadors from several countries as the newly appointed Krakoan ambassador. He is almost unbeatable in a fight due to his unbreakable skeleton and healing factor, listed by Nick Fury as a Power Level 9 threat. [44] Seeing Luna as a bond to the human race he has rejected, Magneto tries to reach out to his children. Because not all magnets work the same and are made of different elements, they can be classified into different types. [P 7], In X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Magneto frees Mystique from a mobile mutant prison, but abandons her after she is struck by a dart meant for him, containing a new "cure" for mutant powers derived from the mutant Leech, leaving her human and useless to him. He is nearly killed by an enraged Weapon X, but is saved by the intervention of his wife. For example, while Jean Grey is both a telepath and a telekinetic, she is only an Omega level telepath. He can manipulate a large number of individual objects simultaneously and has assembled complex machinery with his powers. 4 Answers Sorted by: 28 By officially, you mean mentioned by Marvel comics writers either in writing, or in passing dialog in a comic, to be an Omega-level mutant, then the answer is NO. X-Men Origins . . Professor X, brought to near-death due to the strain of the battle and previously sustained injuries, asks Magneto to take over his school and the X-Men. Magneto then uproots the Golden Gate Bridge, taking the battle to the Worthington facility on Alcatraz Island, but ends up being depowered when Beast injects him with the serum, but later manages to move a metal chess piece slightly, hinting that his powers are not fully gone. ", "X-Men: 5 Times Michael Fassbender's Magneto Was Comics Accurate (& 5 Times He Wasn't)", "X-Men: 25 Little Known Facts About Magneto Only Mutants Know", "Film Theory: How to KILL X-Men's Magneto! "[5][7] culminating in the first season finale and second season premiere, in which Polaris gives birth to her daughter, Magneto's granddaughter, whom she names Dawn. Lehnsherr takes the helmet himself to lock Xavier out while exacting his revenge on Shaw: using the very coin that Shaw once tried to make the young boy move, he forces it into his brain, killing him. He takes pleasure knowing his former friend is dead (unaware that he is in fact alive and was simply transported into the future). [183] Later the Exiles learn that Magnus' corpse is trapped inside the Crystal Palace. [40], Magneto later gathers a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and with them battles Captain America. [196] However, they are revealed to be illusions by Mister Sinister and Apocalypse.[197]. Magnus quickly shows the potential to be an even more powerful master of magnetism than his father. However, the New World is under the threat of impending doom, and Richard Reed determines that to restore balance, Enrique has to co-operate. [volume&issueneeded] He has also, on rare occasions, been shown reading others' dreams, issuing telepathic commands, and probing the minds of others. Magneto then attacks Red Skull, all while Red Skull tells Magneto that Professor X's greatest fear was him leading the X-Men. [92], Magneto, his powers artificially simulated by a suit designed by the High Evolutionary, reactivates Sentinels to attack the X-Men, who had recently relocated to San Francisco. The story also has at least one child who talks like a post-graduate thesis too many. For unknown reasons, he left her before their son Peter was born. He believes that mutants ("Homo superior") will become the dominant life form on the planet and he sets about either creating a homeland on Earth where mutants can live peacefully, or conquering and enslaving humanity in the name of mutantkind. [125] As the energies of Earth-616 and Earth-1610 inched closer to impact cascade and send chaos through the streets, Magneto (aided by his daughter Polaris) are taking the fight to this "other" Earth, battling the parallel Sentinels sent after them. [34] Along with Namor, Magneto later attacks New York City. Magneto is a book with a purpose and it feels right. Sensing her brother's death, Wanda resurrects him and retaliates with the phrase "No more mutants", changing the world back to its original form and causing ninety-eight percent of the mutant population to lose their powers, including Magneto. Magneto learns the zombified Fantastic Four of his reality had tricked Reed, in a plan to allow the zombies to cross to Reed's universe for more victims. [106], In the 2012 storyline "Avengers vs. X-Men", Magneto fights Iron Man when the X-Men will not give Hope Summers to the Avengers. Since only Wolverine can survive being sent back half a century, Kitty sends his mind back to his 1973 self, before Raven could murder Trask and be captured. After escaping, he learned at the cost of his own daughter's life that he had the mutant ability to generate and control magnetic fields, a condition that caused . [145] While the maximum amount of mass he can manipulate at one time is unknown, he has moved large asteroids several times and effortlessly levitated a 30,000 ton nuclear submarine filled with sea water from the depths of the ocean. [179], As the X-Men use the M'Kraan Crystal to send Bishop back in time to return the timeline to its proper course, Magneto and Nate Grey square off in one last fight against Apocalypse and Holocaust. When the X-Men try to explain to Magneto that his plan will actually kill the world leaders, turning the whole world against mutants, he refuses to listen, but his plan is foiled by Logan and the X-Men, and Magneto is imprisoned in a specifically built prison of plastics. He possesses Magneto and briefly reactivates his powers before being defeated by the New Avengers and a cadre of heroes, including Magneto's former son-in-law Vision and Inhuman S.H.I.E.L.D. While in jail awaiting trial, Magneto appoints a restored Jean Grey as the new leader of the X-Men in his absence. Inside the mansion, Erik finds Jean in company with Vuk, a woman unknown to him. [3], Following this, Magneto constructs a machine to amplify his powers and blackmail the world into creating a mutant nation. Each class has its own unique abilities and strengths which you can use to your advantage when building a team. The Exiles first mission involves a reality where all superpowered individuals have been either exterminated or imprisoned. Quicksilver attacks Magneto with his new powers from the Mists, and savagely beats him until his own daughter Luna stops him. Magnus was enraged at the mob for preventing him from rescuing Anya, and his powers were unleashed, killing the mob and destroying a part of the city. He meets his end when a plane gets magnetised towards him, killing many in the process. [17] Actors who auditioned for the younger Magneto in the prequels include Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Andrew Garfield, Jack Huston, Eddie Redmayne and Frank Dillane.[18][19]. When En Sabah Nur threatens Quicksilver and Raven, Magneto turns on him. This entity took them to a planet he created called the Battleworld to participate in a personal experiment of his to observe the concept of the battle between good and evil which would later be known as the Secret Wars. When the vibranium is restored, Magneto's powers are restored as well. Magneto agrees and chooses not to return to the courtroom. For all intents and purposes, Magneto of Earth-616 has no effective upper limits to his magnetic powers. [142], Magneto is a mutant with the power to manipulate magnetic fields to achieve a wide range of effects. Stryker nearly succeeds in having his mutant illusionist son Jason trick Xavier into killing the world's mutant population with a specifically built copy of Cerebro, but Magneto is immune to their telepathic powers due to his helmet and stops Jason, only to have Mystique trick Jason to force Xavier to "kill all humans" instead. "What if Legion killed Magneto?" Character Class: Mutant. During the destruction, Colossus places Magneto in an escape pod sending him back to Earth. The Christians later refused to let him return to his Jewish family, saying that giving him back to the 'Christ-killers' would damn his soul to Hell. This triggers a bout of anti-mutant hysteria while Prince runs a presidential campaign, but is eventually defeated. [78] He rules Genosha for some time with the aid of many who had previously opposed him, including Quicksilver, Polaris, and Fabian Cortez, and engages in a brutal civil war with the island's former human rulers. The series has been cancelled with issue #21 being its last issue which saw Magneto failing to stop the Ultimate Marvel Earth from colliding with the 616 Earth and thus resulting in the deaths of Magneto and his daughter Polaris. Magneto tends to Wanda, increasingly becoming more withdrawn and angry. After the military is bested, a soldier on board disables the mutants' collars, allowing them to defeat the aliens. [P 4], In 1973, a time-travelling Logan convinces Hank McCoy and the young Charles Xavier to break Lehnsherr out of his plastic prison beneath The Pentagon as part of an effort to avert a dark future. His wife's name was Isabelle (whom he still possibly loves), and is aware from the beginning of his familial relationship with Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. [127], As part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel branding, Magneto has been returned to life with no memories of his apparent demise. A subsequent scheme of revenge orchestrated by an embittered former X-Man later forces Magneto to confess the truth to the rest of the shocked team of X-Men. The X-Men respond by hacking into Avalon's own computer systems to teleport a small team to the station with the aid of Colossus[71] (who joined Magneto's Acolytes moments after his younger sister Illyana's funeral[72]). He has many 'demons' of his past that continue to haunt him, although while he is with his friend, Professor X/tortoise, they fade. Magneto sees this cure as an attack on mutant-kind as a whole, and raises an army of mutants, including a resurrected and corrupted Jean Grey, to stop the manufacturing of this cure. He was portrayed as a Jewish Holocaust survivor; while searching for his wife Magda, a Sinti, Magneto maintained a cover identity as a Sinti. The film would also have portrayed Charles Xavier as a young soldier in the Allied companies that liberated the concentration camp young Erik Lehnsherr was imprisoned in. [97] Despite Xavier being apologetic and appreciative for what he'd done, Magneto leaves Utopia for nearby Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. Instead, he takes over Xavier's school under the assumed identity of Michael Xavier, Charles Xavier's cousin. More than once, dialogue refers to him actually consuming the flesh of human beings as he literally considers them to be animals. Magnus's last name is revealed to be Magnisky, which the Ellis Island agent misheard as Magnus. [76] Since the world believes Joseph to be the real Magneto, Magneto takes his time to plan. [P 3] During this time, Erik hunts for Nazi war criminals across the globe, including Schmidt, whom he tracks down on a cruiser near a dock. Both actors portrayed their respective incarnations in X-Men: Days of Future Past. [volume&issueneeded], Following the 2016 "Inhumans vs. X-Men" storyline, Magneto is killed by Psylocke per their agreement that she do this if he was to ever regress back his previous megalomaniacal approach to protecting mutantkind. Following this, Manhattan Island and most of North America are enveloped in nuclear bombs. [21], In the comics, Magneto's real name has been revealed to be Max Eisenhart, with Erik Magnus Lehnsherr being an assumed identity; in the films, this name is never used, only that of Erik Lehnsherr. [volume&issueneeded], 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". The six classes available are Mutant, Mystic, Science, Skill, Tech, and Cosmic. Born a Jew in the Venice Ghetto, he was taken in by a Christian priest and baptized. [168][169][170], Eric Diaz of Nerdist called Magneto #1 "tight, disturbing and even managed to be funny at times," asserting, "Of all the classic super villains in the Marvel and DC universes, Magneto is the easiest sell as an ongoing series, simply because on some level we all sympathize with him. [12], Michael Fassbender originally filmed a scene for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness reprising his role as Magneto in a similar way to how Patrick Stewart reprised his role as Charles Xavier, appearing as his character's Earth-838 variant. In the final battle of X-Men: The Last Stand, Magneto is injected with the mutant "cure", and loses his powers. Magneto wounds Frenzy by firing a medical laser into one of her eyes. 10. [70], The United Nations Security Council, in response to a resurgent Magneto, votes to activate the "Magneto Protocols" a satellite network, in slightly lower orbit than Avalon, which skews the Earth's magnetic field enough to prevent Magneto from using his powers within, preventing him from returning to the planet's surface. He eventually hides out with a small group of human survivors, a female cop, a lone father and his daughter. He is considered an Omega Class mutant, a mutant so powerful, his abilities can affect or even destroy the entire world. He tried to recruit her into the Brotherhood. Alpha rebels against his creator and reduces him to infancy. [P 6] In the 2000 film, Magneto has Mystique capture Senator Robert Kelly, a vehement hater of mutants, and subject him to a massive dose of electromagnetic radiation which mutates him and later, unbeknownst to Magneto, kills him. Pak based Magneto Testament on accounts from Holocaust survivors. This created confusion among some readers as to Magneto's heritage,[22] until his Jewish background was confirmed in Magneto: Testament.[1][23]. He recalls picking up the Sugar Man's power amplifiers and his powers go into hyper-drive and he starts having brain aneurysms. [180], In this possible future, when Sentinels rule North America, Magneto is in a wheelchair and, like the rest of the surviving X-Men save Wolverine, held in a mutant concentration camp, his powers suppressed by an inhibitor collar. The suicide bombers also try to blow the Triskelion. Few villains have had the same effect on the Marvel Universe as Magneto, and he's changed the way fans perceive antagonists. Full Name Erik Magnus Lehnsherr Alias Magneto War Henryk Gurszky Origin X-Men (2000) Occupation Co-Founder and Leader of the X-Men (formerly) Founder and Leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants Member of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (formerly) Powers / Skills Magnetokinesis Ferrokinesis Flight Forcefield creation Genius-level intellect [190] A flashback revealed that he took down Hawkeye's group of Avengers with help from the Thunderbolts who were coerced by Baron Helmut Zemo. He can also channel his powers through his own body to increase his strength and durability far beyond human limits and has a baseline reaction time 15 times faster than those of regular humans. [29] He tries to make the Toad infiltrate the X-Men. [93] After extensively examining the Dreaming Celestial, the High Evolutionary subjects Magneto to a dangerous technological procedure, restoring his powers. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, he has appeared eight installments in the franchise. Magneto regards mutants as evolutionarily superior to humans and rejects the possibility of peaceful human-mutant coexistence; he initially aimed to conquer the world to enable mutants, whom he refers to as Homo superior, to replace humans as the dominant species. Scarlet Witch uses her abilities to keep Magneto from being harmed. Director Matthew Vaughn's First Class follows a twenty-something Magneto (Michael Fassbender) hunting Nazis in the 1960s. Due to Jean Grey's abilities to connect minds together, Magneto learns the truth about mutants: they were created accidentally by some scientific experiments and not by God's wish. [44][45], Magneto finds himself allied with Professor Xavier and the X-Men when a group of heroes and villains are abducted by the Beyonder, a nearly omnipotent alien being. [24] MCU writer Jeff Loveness would likewise cite the X-Men films version of Magneto's dynamic with Charles Xavier as a template for the one Kang the Conqueror and Janet van Dyne have in the film. He saves Reed Richards of the Ultimate Universe from the Zombies and brings him to their hideout, a subway station. He plans on using Scarlet Witch's power to shape reality in his image. [P 3], Lehnsherr becomes protector and president of an island of mutants in exile, Genosha. He is a genius with competence in various fields of advanced science, especially in genetic manipulation, particle physics, engineering, and other fields of technology. Magneto, when properly written, is a truly terrifying villain yet one you completely understand, and even sympathize with. [90], In the 2008 storyline "X-Men: Divided We Stand", Magneto appears, apparently at the behest of Exodus and claiming to be powerless, to help restore the broken psyche of Professor Xavier. [volume&issueneeded] In Marvel Zombies vs. Age of Ultron Magneto is revealed to have become a zombie. Originally an enemy of the X-Men and a global menace to humanity, Erik Lehnsherr would ultimately become an ally of his former enemies, choosing to put aside his goals of advancing homo superior to fight for the greater good. Back in 2023, Magneto protects them by fighting the Sentinels alongside other mutants, and is injured when impaled by debris from an explosion. During the Nazi regime, the family is taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, where Lehnsherr, then a boy, is separated from his parents, causing him to manifest his mutant power and bend the metal gate separating them until the Germans knock him unconscious. Captain America pitched an idea to Magneto that involved a piece of land in the western United States be granted to the mutants that would be their independent nation with the condition being that no inhabitant there would set foot on US soil. "[15][16], Asked about the Malcolm X/Martin Luther King Jr. parallels, Claremont also said "It was too close [in the 1970s]. - Prominently features Magneto continuing his role as leader of the X-Men, continuing after the events shown in Age of Apocalypse. [1] Surviving discrimination and hardship during the Nazi rise to power, the passing of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, and Kristallnacht, Max and his family fled to Poland where they were captured during the German invasion of Poland and sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In order for Magneto's vendetta to resonate with audiences brand new to this world, this reboot/prequel goes back to the moment that . From him, Magneto acquires the means to initiate his plan, and thanks him in true Magneto style where he leaves Sugar Man barely alive. [120] After the villains were inverted by the spell cast by Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom, the group was soon named the Astonishing Avengers. En Sabah Nur talks Magneto into joining him as one of his four Horsemen. Erik meets Charles Xavier and some of the X-Men outside the house where Jean is; Xavier warns Erik that if the public sees the mutants fighting each others on the street, they will see them as "violent freaks", and all they had achieved for mankind's tolerance of them may be lost. [136] Magneto is shown to be a prisoner of Viper and the Femme Fatales where Mindblast and Sapphire Styx put Magneto in a weakened state. Magneto was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby in 1963. [28] He creates Asteroid M, an orbital base of operations in a hollowed-out asteroid. Upon learning of this truth, Magneto pleads mercy from Cyclops, stating that Xavier would have done so, but Cyclops disintegrates Magneto's head with an optic blast. In the film's final scene, he's shown waiting to play chess in the park, now . Unknown assailants arrive, in league with Vuk; they are all revealed to be alien shapeshifters who once lost their home planet to the Phoenix Force and now hope to exploit the flawed Jean, its newest host, with the hopes of clearing the Earth to be their new home. It is also noted that he verbally mistreats them, hinting that he regards them as a living reminder of having an inter-species relationship. Angel is killed by Sabretooth and Wolverine is killed when Magneto removed the adamantium from his body after controlling Cyclops' visors and Iron Man's lasers to shoot him. On occasion he has altered the behavior of gravitational fields around him, which has been suggested as evidence of the existence of a unified field which he can manipulate. [86], During the "House of M" storyline, Magneto's daughter Wanda suffers a mental breakdown over the loss of her children and starts to warp reality in order to recreate them, until Doctor Strange put her into a coma to stop her. During the 2014 "AXIS" storyline, Magneto enters the island of Genosha to find that it has turned into a concentration camp for mutants. While Magneto denied any knowledge of taking Wolverine's body, he works to destroy the launch site and purge Madripoor of Viper's criminal empire while also pursuing Viper. [8], In the years before the 2000 X-Men film was finally released, a number of alternate screenplays were presented by various writers and ultimately dismissed. He just wanted to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racisthe was trying to defend the mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly he was going to teach society a lesson. [64] His temporary alliance with the Red Skull an unrepentant Nazi war criminal is a highly uneasy one. [e] In the films, Peter has at least one sister who is unnamed; an extended scene in X-Men: Days of Future Past - The Rogue Cut hints at the two having another unnamed sister. What if? Lehnsherr acknowledges the incompability of his and Xavier's philosophies and leaves Division X and the X-Men, embracing his mutant identity of Magneto. Magneto kills Red Skull while the others look on in horror. He's also no slouch on damage himself. agent Daisy Johnson. They discover that this Scarlet Witch is actually a Doombot in disguise. Magneto uses his powers to alter Rogue's DNA so they can touch and kiss. [82], While Magneto recovers from his injuries, Genosha is attacked by an army of Sentinels sent by Xavier's long lost twin sister Cassandra Nova Xavier. helicopter. Polaris chides him for so reckless an action as she goes to the rescue while Magneto reminisces the reason he's currently exhibiting this level of power. Magneto ( / mnito /; birth name: Max Eisenhardt; alias: Erik Lehnsherr[needs IPA] and Magnus) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. X-Men #2). On several occasions, he has attempted to implement unflinchingly genocidal plans for humanity. Within the context of the stories . "[14] In the same interview, he also revealed that he originally planned for Magneto to be the brother of his nemesis Professor X. Months before the final Incursion happened, Briar established at least initial contact with several scientists which included Doctor Doom, Mister Fantastic, the High Evolutionary, Mister Sinister, Doctor Nemesis, and Dark Beast. [101] Magneto holds off a squad of Nimrods, dismembering the robots by pulling shards of iron from the core of Utopia through them. Using ancient and advanced alien technology he found near the core of the earth, Magneto creates the artificial humanoid "Alpha the Ultimate Mutant". [83] The attack comes just after Polaris (one of the survivors) discovered the truth about her biological relationship as Magneto's daughter. He, Jean Grey, Scott Summers and Ororo Munroe destroy the ancient mutant with their combined powers. In order to stop Stryker, he and Mystique joins forces with the X-Men to save his old friend Xavier from Stryker's forces. Combine tons of Prowess with Armor Break, Bleed, and Degeneration. The X-Men then help rebuild America in record time, and Magneto is made Federal Director of Mutant Affairs of the government of the newly restored United States of America, with the X-Men deputized as a mutant police force sanctioned to bring to justice the remaining survivors of Apocalypse's regime. In addition to his powers, Magneto has many other skills. [volume&issueneeded], In the Amalgam Comics universe, Erik Magnus is a heroic defender of Metamutants, leading his Brotherhood to save and protect them. [70] Instead, the Acolyte Chrome encases him in a protective shell, saving him from the subsequent explosion. He attempts to decapitate the Colonel as well but only succeeds in slicing off the top half of Colonel America's brain. "[176] Matt Lune of CBR.com said, "X-Men Black: Magneto #1 gives us two stories, and each have their merits. Michael Fassbender took over for Ian McKellen in 'First Class' and 'Days Of Future Past,' adding untold levels of sexuality to the character's mutant leadership. 28. Magneto has apparently freed Forge from prison and there are signs that he is building something. That . [147] Another way in which Magneto frequently uses his power is the projection of force-fields which selectively block out matter and energy. [56] This deeply traumatizes the entire group. They mistakenly release a totally evil and depraved version of Professor Xavier who uses his mental powers without remorse or mercy. It is implied but never stated that he devised the X-Men's plan to escape from the camp and send Kate Pryde's spirit back through time. [33] He then captures the X-Men, but with the help of the Avengers and a rebellious member of the Brotherhood, Toad, Magneto is defeated again. On: July 7, 2022 Asked by: Aubrey Vandervort Advertisement Wolverine is one of a number of mutants who have the power of regeneration from injuries. To that end, he works with Namor and the Atlanteans by constructing a pillar supporting Utopia on the surface that would provide a home for the Atlanteans, which Magneto would later refer to as New Atlantis. Magneto's supposedly last moments are spent revealing to Genosha Polaris' status as his daughter. This more than makes up for him not having any superpowers. agents, Carol Danvers, and Iron Man, as well as timely assistance by Clint Barton and Hank Pym's sacrifice, they fail to blow up the SH.I.E.L.D. Thanks to the S.H.I.E.L.D. In the Ultimate Marvel comics, Magneto, a.k.a. [5], Seeing conditions for mutants grow progressively more perilous, Magneto begins seeking allies to protect mutants from humanity. However, the tribunal is interrupted by an attack from Fenris, the twin children of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. His first solo title was a one-shot special, Magneto: The Twisting of a Soul #0 (Sept. 1993), published when the character returned from a brief absence; it reprinted Magneto-based stories from Classic X-Men #12 and 19 (Aug. 1987 and March 1988), by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Bolton. Bryan Singer has made it clear that the cut (from the theatrical film) scene is merely a nod to the fans who would get the reference, since in the comics Magneto has a daughter named Lorna Dane, also known as Polaris, with powers virtually identical to Magneto's. He fails to stop Jean, having been consumed by her own inner darkness, called the Phoenix, from killing his old friend Charles Xavier. He also has some military training in hand-to-hand combat and has been shown to be effective with his fists, but he prefers to use his powers when in combat situations. Polaris is shocked to see the energy levels her father is exhibiting, all the while trying to protect the people caught in the crossfire of Magneto and the Sentinels. In a way, it seemed like that would be too raw. [96] Now considered a member of the X-Men, Magneto assists them in stabilizing the asteroid from sinking into the Pacific. Lehnsherr uses his magnetic powers to control the massive anchor and its chain to destroy the ship with, though Schmidt and his compatriots escape. During his youth, he suffered atrocities at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz. Xavier rescues Lehnsherr in the water and brings him to Division X, a CIA project to bring mutants over to the side of the US government and prevent them from becoming hostile instead. He is involved with a shadowy government conspiracy involving mentally conditioned assassins, and is ultimately killed by Logan after arranging the death of Charles Xavier.[193]. [57] Magneto is then manipulated by Emma Frost into battling sanctioned heroes the Avengers and the Supreme Soviets. Iceman has quietly become one of the X-Men's most powerful omega-level mutants. The force necessary to move the massive Golden Gate Bridge (in The Last Stand) would require a force a million times stronger than the strongest magnet created by humans so far.[23]. Magda, terrified at Magnus' power, left him and later gave birth to the mutant twins Pietro and Wanda before she died. Enraged that Quicksilver had done all of this in his name, Magneto kills him. However, the strain of using his power at such intensity and duration leaves him comatose. [4] Initially "unstable" due to her bipolar disorder,[5][6] the first season follows Polaris while pregnant, as she struggles with whether to "accept the mantle of her birthright, [whether] it [is] her job to be Magneto in his absence? You couldn't really do a Dr. Doom series, or a Joker series (both have been tried, both didn't really work), and have it connect with an audience in the same way, but Magneto is an entirely different animal. [77] Then he kills George Odekirk, the forger that created his "Erik Lehnsherr" alias, to prevent his true identity from being discovered by Sabra and Gabrielle Haller. Omega level is a classification of a single mutant power. [63] Magneto later ousts longtime Hellfire Club co-chair Sebastian Shaw in order to establish himself as the head of the Hellfire Club. [133] Magneto was approached by Captain America whose memories were altered by Red Skull's clone using the powers of Kobik to cause Captain America to think that he was a Hydra sleeper agent. He is later saved by Medusa and about to best Emma for her traitorous act, but Havok prevents him and Medusa from executing Emma for the sake of his late older brother. Omega Protocol Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden, Magneto then voluntarily goes into U.S. government custody as penance for his deception. Superhero All four major X-Men mutant classifications explained By Chris Arrant published 30 August 2022 The major X-Men mutant classifications are complicated. [46], After the Secret Wars, Magneto is transported back to his base, Asteroid M. The alien Warlock, traveling to Earth, collides into the asteroid, breaking it to pieces. ", "Black Panther Villain Influenced By Heath Ledger's Joker", "Magneto - X-Men - Movie - 10" Figures - Toy Biz Action Figure", "Marvel Legends Celebrates the X-Men Movie's 20th Anniversary", "Hasbro Marvel Legends X-Men 20th Anniversary Figures Available for Pre-Order", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magneto_(film_character)&oldid=1157594928, This page was last edited on 29 May 2023, at 17:30. Escaping from the mass grave, he was ultimately captured yet again[25] and sent to Auschwitz, where he eventually became a Sonderkommando. He appears in Ultimates 3 along with the Brotherhood members Mystique, Blob, Sabretooth, Lorelei, and Multiple Man). [54] The Beyonder plagues him yet again, slaying Xavier's current students, the New Mutants,[55] and bringing them back to life soon after. - Magneto is the focus of this issue, through his mere absence is a departure from the Legion Quest and Age of Apocalypse storylines. Holocaust, Sinister, Mikhail Rasputin and Abyss are Apocalypse's horsemen, and while Magneto's team is composed not only of X-Men but also of standard "evil" mutants from traditional timelines, including mutants such as Sabretooth, other individuals who are "heroes" in Earth-616 serve Apocalypse in this timeline. Magneto's first villainous act is attacking a United States military base called Cape Citadel after bringing down missiles. A magneto is an electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce periodic pulses of alternating current.Unlike a dynamo, a magneto does not contain a commutator to produce direct current.It is categorized as a form of alternator, although it is usually considered distinct from most other alternators, which use field coils rather than permanent magnets. Magneto was imprisoned in a special plastic cell in the Triskelion following the events of "Return of the King", the sixth arc in the series. Just as the burden of maintaining the deception eventually begins to take its toll on an extremely stressed Magneto, he is secretly visited by Mister Sinister (who everyone has assumed to have been killed by X-Man), who reveals to him just what really happened when the bombs fell. Taking the opportunity for revenge, Wolverine attacks the depowered Magneto, crippling him with serious injuries. [volume&issueneeded], Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants allied with Doctor Doom, Hulk, Namor, Red Skull, and Ultron in a plot to take over Manhattan. [volume&issueneeded], He also appears in the Japanese story of The little peach boy in which he and his children are demons who have taken over a town. He and Longshot then exit the Triskelion unharassed and Magneto makes it clear to Longshot that he has something different planned than any of his more typical world-domination schemes. [volume&issueneeded], Most recently, Magneto has shown up in the "Aftermath", following the death of Charles Xavier. In the main story, Claremont and Talajic provide an interesting character focus that, while not necessarily breaking any new ground, reinforces Magneto's situation and pushes him forward with a new objective and a potential new character or two. [141] It turns out that he was non-lethally impaled by Uranos' fists after briefly using the metal emitted from Lodus Lugos. Unlike Classic Magneto, this fresh version of Magneto (House of X) will be ready to fight alongside any #Metal and #Hero Champions and give them some serious stat boosts. This is merely Magneto's trial for a greater plan of mutating many of the world's heads of state at an international meeting on Ellis Island. Then soon after, Nick Fury arrives. In the wake of the massive anti-mutant uprising, combined with the discovery that the Terrigen Mists that were spread in the atmosphere are harmful to mutants, Magneto has gathered together a team of mutants (consisting of Archangel, M, Psylocke, and Sabretooth) as his own X-Men in order to defend mutants at any cost. [80] Intending to declare war on humanity, he captures Professor X to use as a symbol with which to rally his troops. Magneto acknowledges the irony of working with normal humans, but believing that "Beggars can't be choosers when you're down to the last few people alive". [49], After recuperating from his injuries, Magneto is asked to aid the X-Men in battling the returned Beyonder. [153] He is fluent in many human languages and once single-handedly deciphered the unknown language of a lost civilization. [42], Magneto's first steps towards a change in character begin during an encounter with the X-Men, when he lashes out in anger and nearly kills Kitty Pryde, stopping short when he sees that the X-Man that he attacked is a Jewish child precisely the kind of person he claimed he was fighting to make a better world for. As in the comics, Magneto is depicted as a powerful mutant, a fictional subspecies of humans born with superhuman abilities, who can manipulate and generate magnetic fields. Aside from a brief mention in the Ultimate Six arc of Ultimate Spider-Man, he was then unseen until "Magnetic North", the 12th arc and the final run for writer Brian K. Vaughan. a skill which he refers to as "taking your enemy's measure". [43], Magneto later discovers that former Brotherhood members the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are actually his children, simultaneously learning about their recent marriages to the Vision and Crystal. He is currently seeking out Anna-Marie Rankin on behalf of Shaw so that they may use her against "Unus the Untouchable", a crime boss and enemy of Shaw and Magnus. Magneto is eventually restored to adulthood, but to his physical prime rather than his older, chronological age, by the alien Shi'ar agent Erik the Red. He guides the group through several Habitats, then reveals that he is aware of their true nature of being potential plants within Krakoa. However, Magneto instead picked out of the lineup the Sugar Man. It had only been a few years since the assassinations. Though the men try to handle things peacefully, Nina herself is a mutant; her powers are triggered by the stress and she inadvertently lashes out at those threatening them. Hawkeye later mentioned to Old Man Logan that he and Absorbing Man killed Thor. [75], After cloning Magneto, Astra restores Magneto's memories and powers before attempting to kill him. Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto: A Nazi hunter and mutant capable of manipulating and generating electromagnetic fields. [volume&issueneeded], Being unable to reunite with his family left him psychologically scarred. Meanwhile, Thompson, Nadler and Borges' Apocalypse backup puts the villain back on the table in a fresh way that will be interesting to watch moving forward. [122] After Daniel Drumm's ghost possesses Scarlet Witch and works with Doctor Doom to reverse the inversion spell, Magneto was affected by it and stopped being a threat to mankind. Matthew Vaughn had already cast James McAvoy as Charles Xavier before starting to go through auditioners for the Magneto role; he quickly recognized the acting chemistry between McAvoy and Michael Fassbender upon pairing them together. The helicopter, however, explodes upon take-off through unknown means as Magneto uses what was left of the energy provided to him by Xorn to escape. [78] However, the United Nations, manipulated by its mutant affairs officer Alda Huxley, cedes to Magneto the island nation of Genosha, which had no recognized government. I've been a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz for almost two years. It just fit."[17][18][19][20]. Magneto's first original title was the four-issue miniseries Magneto (Nov. 1996-Feb. 1997), by writers Peter Milligan and Jorge Gonzalez, and penciller Kelley Jones. Trask escapes, but Lehnsherr decides to kill Raven to protect their future, but only manages to injure her, leaving her blood on the streets for Trask Industries to obtain. After reluctantly killing Scarlet Witch, Magneto covered this up to Baron Zemo by stating that he did not kill Scarlet Witch. Following the worldwide devastation caused by Magneto, the American government brings in new anti-mutant laws. [117] When Havok, Rogue, and Scarlet Witch want to leave the island and alert the rest of the Avengers and X-Men of what Red Skull is doing, Magneto says he's going to stay and fight. [123], When Magneto arrives on Genosha and is confronted by S.H.I.E.L.D. [volume&issueneeded], With the help of Nick Fury and Thor, Enrique participates in the restoring of the world. Magneto brings the bullet back to Earth, drawing Kitty out of it and levitating her safely to the ground. [184], In the reality of Marvel Zombies, Magneto and his Acolytes were a few of the survivors following a plague that caused an undead-like effect in "super-powered beings". He is a friend of Professor X, the leader of the X-Men, but their different philosophies cause a rift in their friendship at times. [132], In the 2017 "Secret Empire" storyline, it is revealed that Magneto wants to help the time-displaced original X-Men back to their home timeline. [P 5] Some time before the events of X-Men (2000), Magneto discovers that Hans von Shank, a Nazi war criminal whom he recognizes as one of his chief tormentors in Auschwitz, is still alive and imprisoned; he breaks into the old man's prison cell to kill him, but Xavier shows up and talks him out of it. Magneto is vastly rewritten to be an anti-mutant industrialist with magnetic superpowers named Thomas Prince, who recruits Jason Wyngarde from the X-Men and uses him to frame them for murder. They are instructed to save the one individual who can save this broken reality. [109] Magneto asks Professor X for his help as the Phoenix Force-powered Emma Frost's rule becomes more tyrannical. He is rescued by Lee Forrester, the captain of a fishing trawler. Worried, Lehnsherr returns home only to find the authorities waiting for him with non-magnetic weapons, having taken Magda and Nina hostage to convince "Gurzsky" to turn himself in to the Interpol. In Xavier's it was the constant attempt to find a better way As we got distance from the '60s, the Malcolm X-Martin Luther King-Mandela resonance came into things. However, Magneto's "mercy" is merely a ruse, as he secretly sends his lackey Sabretooth out to kill the man anyway shortly after. [118] Red Skull now has the group mind-controlled. He tells Magneto to bow if he wants his daughter to remain alive, but Magneto performs a sneak attack enough to break Red Skull's control over the others. [volume&issueneeded], Recently, Magneto has resurfaced in Egypt alive where he is being worshipped as a God. [58] Magneto submits to a trial once again, but uses mind-control circuitry he salvaged from the wreckage of Asteroid M to alter the opinions of the head justice in charge of the trial. He 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. [110] Magneto later joins the Avengers, the X-Men, and Hulk in confronting the Phoenix Force-powered Cyclops. He can also affect non-metallic and non-magnetic objects to a lesser extent. Magneto spares Mindblast's life and leaves her as a gift for helping him to escape. In response, Magneto generates an electromagnetic pulse not only destroying the satellites, but deactivating every electric device on Earth within minutes. This book has a very talented writing and art team behind it. Known by many names, Erik Magnus Lehnsherr is a powerful mutant willing to go to any extreme to protect his species as Magneto, the master of magnetism. Omega? [134] At the time when Emma Frost meets with Hydra Supreme Steve Rogers the same time the resistances are fighting back Hydra, Magneto flies outside the Hydra Helicarrier and uses giant shards of metal to attack it. His powers are uncontrollable, causing him to wear a magnetic-dampening harness around his chest. Instead, he was convinced by Gabrielle Haller to let go of his hatred. After the battle, Erik meets with Charles as a friend, bringing with him a chess board and finally reconciles from their old differences. He then gathers a group of angry and disillusioned mutants including his own, albeit at the time unbeknown to him, son and daughter Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, and formed the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to further his goals. What Is A Class 5 Mutant? The version of Magneto seen in Ruins is shown as a demonstrator protesting the corrupt regime of President Charles Xavier. Lehnsherr also gets to know Raven, Xavier's shapeshifting mutant foster sister, and Hank McCoy, a mutant with a genius intellect. [50] Magneto stays with the X-Men even after the Beyonder is defeated. [139], Working with Charles Xavier and Moira X, Magneto helps establish the new sovereign mutant nation known as Krakoa. Magnus appears to owe most of his success to Sebastian Shaw, the latter stating that the months of practice it took Magnus to lose his eastern European accent is the only thing that Magnus did not get from him. The latter becomes very annoyed at this, demanding double rations when Magneto is caught. [137] When Kitty Pryde destroyed the psychic-enhancement equipment on Mindblast's back, Magneto recovers and starts to take revenge on Mindblast until Kitty suggests he leaves her and helps to stop the rocket that will be sent to Soteira. [volume&issueneeded], While Enrique is attempting to have Angel killed, the witchbreed is rescued by Iceman and Cyclops. He's also one of the most popular, which is why he's reformed multiple times in the past. Before the publication of X-Men: Magneto Testament, Magneto's personal background and history were invented[21] in The Uncanny X-Men #150 (Aug. 1981). Toad forces Magneto to constantly dance and humiliates him at every opportunity by forcing him to become a Jester. [179], It is later revealed that the day was saved by Jean Grey, who manifested the Phoenix Force at the point of near-death. He even uses the electromagnetic energy that surrounds earth to fly. The Stranger encases Magneto and Toad in a special cocoon and spirits them away to another planet, the Stranger's laboratory world. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (cover-dated September 1963) as an adversary of the X-Men. No Marvel text has ever mentioned him as an Omega-level mutant. [26] As part of the 2000 film's 20th year anniversary in 2020, Hasbro released action figures in the Marvel Legends series from the film, with Magneto being released in a two-set with Professor X. Magneto also never helped found the X-Men like in the films, where he is shown to have helped Charles Xavier organize the team when they were still friends. Lehnsherr and Xavier track down other mutants, Havok, Banshee, Darwin and Angel Salvadore until they have a team ready to challenge Shaw. - Following the death of Professor X, Cyclops, and Jean Grey at the hand of. Erik Lehnsherr's background differs greatly from his mainstream history. Magnus lives a lonely life, and is eventually forced to join the Exiles, a group of alternative reality mutants forced to repair broken realities. [91] Together they revive Xavier before being attacked by Frenzy. In the books, Quicksilver / Peter Maximoff has a twin sister named Wanda, also called Scarlet Witch; for a long period of time they were considered to be Magneto's children. Max Eisenhardt Current Alias Magneto Aliases Erik Magnus Lehnsherr Status Alive Gender Male Birthplace Nuremberg, Germany Species Mutant Creators Stan Lee, Jack Kirby First Appearance X-Men #1 (July, 1963) "My name is Max Eisenhardt. Erik Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto, is a character primarily portrayed by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in 20th Century Fox's X-Men film series. In a 2008 interview, Stan Lee said he "did not think of Magneto as a bad guy. Numerous comics speak of the X-Men's daily struggle to manifest Xavier's dream, where humans and mutants live in peace and harmony together, as equals. [11][12] Magneto opposes the pacifist attitude of Professor X and pushes for a more aggressive approach to achieving civil rights for mutants. Magneto and his current right hand Briar worked with a chemist under Magneto's employ to pump him up with a new cocktail of various drugs to amplify his powers, but Magneto needed further assistance. He attempts to kill Jean, but she fights back, breaks his helmet and telekinetically throws him out of the building. He is visited by a Jean Grey in distress. "[172], According to Diamond Comic Distributors, X-Men Black: Magneto #1 was the 31st best selling comic book in October 2018. They even have plays, poetry and songs in this language. Answer (1 of 5): No. Young Magneto. A powerless Magneto is attacked by Xorn, who has somehow evolved into a being of pure energy and merged with both an energy absorbing mutant named Michael Pointer and free floating mutant power energy that manifested after Scarlet Witch depowered the bulk of the mutant population. [135], During the "Hunt for Wolverine" storyline, Kitty Pryde leads Domino, Jubilee, Psylocke, Rogue, and Storm to Madripoor when they suspect that Magneto has excavated Wolverine's body. This triggers Lehnsherr to use his powers to crush metal items in the room, killing the German guards by crushing their helmets, and destroying an adjacent laboratory room. After Richards escapes with all three of the civilian survivors and his teammates, Magneto stays behind, not wanting to die but acknowledging that he is the only one capable of destroying Richards' dimensional transporter so that the zombies won't infect Earth-1610. He then frees Emma Frost from her military prison, hoping that she can replace Xavier as his new ally. He commands a noticeably larger Brotherhood than his mainstream counterpart and has displayed enough power to defeat the Ultimates (even Thor, a literal god, on two occasions by taking his hammer). He intends to kill Nixon as a final warning, but the "president" is in fact Raven, who shoots Magneto with Stryker's non-magnetic gun and knocks him out. Determined to keep such atrocities from ever being committed against mutantkind, he is willing to use deadly force to protect mutants. ", "12 Facts About The 90s X-Men Cartoon That Even Professor Xavier Doesn't Know", "X-Men First Class Matthew Vaughn Interview Part Two Production", "Fox Negotiating With Michael Fassbender For Magneto Role In 'X-Men: First Class', "Aaron Johnson Seems Locked Into 'X-Men: First Class,' Frank Dillane Also Up For Role", "X-Men: Days of Future Past Cut Scarlet Witch Out; Who Is the Third Sibling? He has demonstrated the capacity to produce a wormhole and to safely teleport himself and others via the wormhole. In Genosha, Magneto hears Wanda's psychic cry for help and creates a wormhole, whisking her away before the Avengers are able to stop her. "There's a lot of talk online now that Magneto stands in for Malcolm X and Xavier stands in for Martin Luther King, which is totally valid but for me, being an immigrant white, to make that analogy felt incredibly presumptuous. The character is a powerful mutant, one of a fictional subspecies of humanity born with superhuman abilities, who has the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. However, the scenes were ultimately cut from the theatrical release.[13]. He drops many of them with a rain of metallic debris, but is swiftly bitten by the zombie Wasp. He then makes a speech to the whole world where he warns it about the consequences of trying to challenge the mutants, declaring that mutant-kind is the future and will inherit the Earth from humanity. They band together and attack Magneto in Genosha, believing him to be the one responsible. After confirming that the Skull was the original one who had worked with Hitler, Magneto takes revenge upon him by entombing him alive. Lehnsherr agrees with Shaw's ideas of mutant supremacy, but nonetheless makes it clear that he is still on a path of revenge for Shaw's murder of his mother. Schmidt, who had observed Lehnsherr's earlier display, attempted to coerce him to demonstrate his power by having him move a coin. Marvel Studios. [P 11] According to longtime franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner, the Xavier/Magneto dynamics had run its course and while it will always be essential to the X-Men mythos, she thought that there were other X-Men stories left to be told. Nate Grey jams the original fragment of the M'Kraan Crystal into Holocaust, crystallizing them both, while the battle between Magneto and Apocalypse ends with Magneto using his control of magnetism to rip the techno-organic Apocalypse in half. Magneto and some of the X-Men side with Iron Man, while Storm and the other X-Men side with Danvers. [31] Magneto escapes to Earth by repairing a spaceship on the Stranger's planet, but leaves the Toad behind. Lists 10 Details About Professor X & Magneto's Relationship The Movies Didn't Show By Srijani Ganguly Published Dec 12, 2020 Magneto and Professor X have a long history that is so complex that the live-action movie adaptations cannot possibly include everything about them. To make sure you pick the best characters for your squad, here's a breakdown of each class: MCOC Mutant Class Tier List (2023) He has a close relationship with Mystique, and arranged for her to be freed from the Triskelion by having Mastermind take her place. They are defeated by the peach boy (Cyclops) and animals that resemble other X-Men: Beast, Angel, and Iceman. With his imminent appearance in #11, currently known as "Deadpool 3," it's as good a time as any to rank the top 10 prior appearances of Wolverine in live-action cinema. When they come back to haunt him, he no longer believes in the friendship, thinking himself a danger to those around him. . [P 4], In 1983, Lehnsherr is still the world's most wanted man, living an unassuming life in Poland under the alias of Henryk Gurzsky. [173][174][175], Jamie Lovett of Comicbook.com gave X-Men Black: Magneto #1 a grade of 3 out of 5, writing, "Chris Claremont has a talent for filling in every corner of a character's personality, and that talent is on display in X-Men Black: Magneto, where we learn about Magneto's appreciation for speculative fiction, but his actual characterization of Magneto feels all over the place. You may be looking for the mutant with the same name from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He made his first appearance in X-Men #1, becoming the very first foe of the iconic mutant team. Lehnsherr learns that Schmidt is himself secretly a mutant who worked with the Nazis out of convenience and has now assumed the identity of Sebastian Shaw and is working with the Russians instead, and the CIA hopes to use their own team of mutants to help in learning what Shaw's plans are and stop him. Magneto is left a broken man. [103][104] The Avengers attempt to stop Magneto, before Wiccan teleports Magneto and the Young Avengers to Wundagore Mountain. In response, Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants take over Manhattan, using their powers to shield it from the world and make it a safe haven for mutants. It is revealed in Marvel Zombies: Dead Days that he and Fabian Cortez made a deal with an unknown entity from another universe to damage the Earth to let mutants become the dominant force. 20 ] he & # x27 ; s first Class follows a twenty-something Magneto ( Michael Fassbender ) Nazis! 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