While The X-Men's Magneto might be the most popular character to ever use the moniker in Marvel Comics, he's not the first character to do so. In the comic, Larken is a massive man hired as a carnival strong man after a group of men sees him lift and throw a car. However, after being insulted during his act, Larken attacked a crowd member and was fired.
He finds out about the government needing volunteers to send to space and is chosen as a candidate. However, after encountering a cosmic cloud in space, Larken is given the power to attract things with his arm like a magnet and is known as "Magneto.
It's funny to see a Marvel character consistently being referred to as Magneto in the issue that's not the X-Men character, but that's the name Hunk was given after gaining powers. Two years later, the mutant Magneto would appear in X-Men 1 and solidify himself as the most iconic character to use the name.
Against Magda's wishes, they moved to the Soviet city of Vinnytsia. His first day in the city brought tragedy. After settling his family down at an inn, Max found work on a construction site. The foreman took note of Max's precarious living situation and lack of connections in the city and attempted to cheat him out of his day's pay.
In a fit of rage, Max's magnetic powers resurfaced, and he launched a crowbar at the foreman's head. Max ran from the job site back to the inn — and found, to his horror, that it was on fire, with his young daughter inside.
Max realized that he could use his powers to create a protective shield around himself and Magda, and he set about attempting to save Anya from the burning building. However, he was stopped by police who had been called by the foreman. A mob formed and subdued Max as he tried to break free and pull his daughter from the flames.
They did not release him until Anya's body fell from the building and landed in front of the crowd. Losing control of his powers, Max sent out a powerful electromagnetic pulse that killed several policemen and bystanders. Magda was shocked by her husband's destructive powers and corrosive anger — she called him a monster and fled into the night. Max escaped the city and buried Anya's body in the woods.
He assumed another new identity, taking on the mantle of the Sinti Romani Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, in order to avoid authorities and search for Magda. As Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto traveled to the newly founded nation of Israel. It was here that he met a young Charles Xavier , when the both of them were working at a mental hospital. They bonded while caring for a catatonic patient named Gabrielle Haller, arguing as they did about the place that mutants held in the world. Neither man revealed that they had mutant powers, but they staked out their positions of mutant superiority and coexistence and held fast to them.
Yet another extremely stressful situation forced them to reveal their powers, when an evil organization called HYDRA led by a Nazi named Baron Strucker came to abduct Haller. The location of a cache of ill-gotten Nazi gold had been implanted in Haller's memory, as it turned out. Charles and Erik had to use their hidden abilities to save Haller. Shortly after they teamed up for a rescue mission, Erik realized that he could not settle his and Charles' differences of opinion on the future of mutants and he set out on his own.
Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr were products of their environment. Xavier had a relatively untroubled life, growing up in an upper-crust home in the United States. He was allowed to come into his mutant powers gradually, surrounded by comfort, and with the tacit approval of the people around him. On the other hand, Lehnsherr's entire life had been an education on the extreme cruelty that people can unleash on those they perceive as different. His heritage led to his entire family being killed.
Every time he had revealed his powers to humans, he had been chased out of town. He simply couldn't fathom's Charles' view of mutant and human harmony. Erik's time as a Sonderkommando made him entirely aware of the source of Nazi gold stashes, of the kind secreted away in Haller's memory.
He had, as part of his work, learned to strip gold out of the teeth of murdered Jewish people, for the benefit of the Nazis. It stood to reason that he should use the stolen gold to prevent anything like that genocide from happening again, this time to mutantkind. Initially, Magneto set up a base of operations off-world. Asteroid M became a home for disillusioned mutants who believed in Magneto's cause.
Magneto again appears on the scene during the events of AXIS, in which the Red Skull had taken the brain and telepathic powers of the deceased Charles Xavier, one of Erik's oldest friends. In his quest for revenge against the Red Skull, Magneto found out that Red Skull had used his new powers to wreck havok among the world and even founded his own concentration camp for mutants on the island of Genosha, Magneto's former base.
As many of the heroes whom apposed the Red Skull in the initial assault fell, Magneto sought out a group of relunctant villains whom helped him fight the Red Skull. Eventually, Magneto and the rest of the heroes and villains where succesfull in taking out the Red Skull, after which Magneto took his rightfull place in Genosha, helping out the mutants that had been captured by the Skull some weeks before.
Although Magneto started rebuilding Genosha, all seemed for nothing when the Universal Incursion started happening. The multiverse had began to unravel, as each time, two planet earth's from two different universes collided, ending both universes.
While many of the Marvel heroes tried to stop these incursions, Magneto also did his best in stopping the incursions. He, as well as all other heroes however failed, and the Marvel universe was seemingly destroyed forever. They are trying to find a cure for the Terrigen Mist when they discover that someone is gunning for healers. The Dark riders are their opponents, but they appear to being controlled by a unknown source.
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's been shown controlling the most insignificant magnetic particles in both the atmosphere and in living beings, reversing their blood flow or ripping out any ferrous elements through their tissues.
Magneto can create electromagnetic fields 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 he undergoes.
Magneto has the ability to increase his physical attributes by directing his magnetic powers inward. He has been seeing increasing his physical strength and durability, as well as his 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. After his exposure to an attack from the Phoenix Force, Magneto's powers have been greatly reduced. He has shown limits in only being able to dismantle a few sentinels at a time, and has been forced to become more precise in his attacks, resulting in him using metallic objects as projectiles more frequently.
Magneto has also shown he can overexert himself rather quickly, resulting in physical harm. Despite these limits, Magneto has still shown the ability to fly and use his powers in a precise and accurate manner.
Recently, in a fit of rage, he made a skyscraper collapse. Perhaps this shows his powers are returning to their once former glory or that in cases of extreme emotion, his powers get stronger than their current state.
Magneto has trained himself to defend his mind against even the strongest telepathic attacks. Due in part to his long history with Charles Xavier , he possesses a great deal of knowledge in devising technology to block psychic assaults. Magneto's helmet greatly augments his already immense mental fortitude, and even without it he has been shown resisting the intrusion of immensely powerful psychics such as Xavier and Emma Frost whose telepathy Magneto resisted even when she possessed the Phoenix Force , though with great effort.
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, though he prefers the use of his mutant powers in most combat situations. He is an able athlete despite his age, and keeps himself in excellent physical condition.
Magneto is an excellent strategist, both in actual battles and games of chess, and has extensive combat experience. He has successfully held his own in combat against entire groups of superhuman adversaries, such as the X-Men and the Avengers.
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. After losing most of his power due to exposure to the Phoenix Force, Magneto has resorted to donning a new outfit, including a utility belt. He has shown to keep small, metallic objects, such as nails, in his pouches to use as weapons. In times of being out of his suit, Magneto carries knives and bullets on his person.
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".
Magneto and the X-Men fought against the forces of Apocalypse who, without the interference of Xavier was able to take over North America. 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 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.
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. 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 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 others powers, Magneto was fused together with the Brotherhood members and they became the new entity known as Brother Mutant, who possessed their combined powers.
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.
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. Ultimate Magneto's background differs greatly from his mainstream 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. Magneto is the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants and they are based out of the Savage Lands. 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. When they refuse, 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 and tells him that his daughter is attracted to him. He seems to like the idea of Wanda being with Scott. Due to the US government spotting the Blackbird leaving when the X-Men rescued the president'said daughter, the government now knows the location of the Savage lands. They send all their remaining Sentinels after Magneto, but he takes control of them and rewires them to hunt humans.
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, seemingly killing. After his defeat at the hands of the X-Men, he was brainwashed by Xavier. He lived a normal life thinking he was just a normal human until he is freed by the Brotherhood.
After gaining his consciousness back, Magneto devises a plan to make the X-Men and the Ultimates fight each other. When coming into contact with the Ultimates, Magneto shoots his son, Quicksilver, in the kneecaps. He says that it is not for betraying hjm, but instead for working with the humans. He has a plan to reverse the earths magnetic poles and hires the mutant Forge to make a machine that will amplify his powers.
Magneto later devises a plan where he has Polaris framed and imprisoned with him. Forge builds a machine that can Mimic Magneto's and Polaris' powers and uses it to frame Polaris.
During this time Mystique come to the prison and trades places with magneto. Forge uses the machine again later in to make it look like Mystique has Magneto's powers when fighting the X-Men where she is defeated and imprisoned in Magneto's place while he escapes. After the death of his daughter, Magneto uses a machine built by Forge to amplify his powers and reverse the magnetic poles. For some reason, this causes a great flood, killing millions. Magneto then kills his long time enemy, Charles Xavier.
The X-Men and the Ultimate team up and defeat him. Magneto is killed when Cyclops decapitated him with his optic blast. 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. 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. In an Old West version of the Marvel Universe, Magneto is the leader of the Magnus Gang, a notorious band of outlaws who have taken over a small town. In the present, he and his gang begin kidnapping visitors so the victims can be controlled by a crazed version of Professor X known as Pastor Xavier.
After abducting Nocturne and Morph , Magneto and his crew are confronted by the Exiles. They quickly overpower the heroes, and capture Iron Lad in order to take him to Pastor Xavier. However, Magneto secretly colludes with Blink so that everyone can escape from the mad Xavier, who has been forcing the Magnus Gang to do his bidding. While the rest of the Magnus Gang members flee, Magneto is confronted by T'Challa , the son of the murdered Wakandan ruler.
Now a gunslinger known as the King, T'Challa has been hunting Magneto for years in order to avenge his father. The two engage in a gunfight, and Magneto is killed after the King shoots him with special vibranium bullets. The episode is infamous for the ending, where Mr. Fantastic defeats Magneto by tricking him with a wooden gun. Magneto appeared as a villain in the episode "When Magneto Speaks People Listen," voiced by Michael Rye.
Initially using the alias "Mr. M," Magneto uses his powers to shut down Earth's communications satellites and cause a blackout in New York City, resulting in chaos. His plot is ultimate thwarted by Spider-Man , who manages to turn Magneto's own powers against him by using a microwave relay. Though the world's communications are restored, Magneto manages to escape.
He is last seen vowing revenge against Spider-Man for foiling his plan. Posing as an escape artist called Proton the Great, Magneto infiltrates a convention for America's prison wardens and police chiefs and takes all of the attendees hostage. With the guests at his mercy, he demands that the members of his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants be released from the various prison where they are held.
Unfortunately for him, it turns out that Spider-Man, Iceman and Firestar were all present at the convention in their civilian identities, leading to a showdown with Magneto. The heroes manage to overload Magneto's powers, which temporarily shorts them out and renders him unconscious. Magneto also makes a cameo appearance in the episode "A Firestar is Born" as part of a flashback. 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. Though he is mostly villainous, he retains much of his tragic back-story and maintains his turbulent friendship with Charles Xavier. He is against humans and believes that the Mutants or Homo Superior should replace humans as the dominant race.
He has Mystique and numerous other similar minded mutants working for him and also attempts to recruit some of the X-Men to his cause. 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 appears in several episodes of the series, voiced by Maurice LaMarche. He is an ally of Doctor Doom and is shown trying to train his children to follow his legacy.
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 appears in an arc of the show, voiced by Banjo Ginga. He attempts to sway a young Japanese mutant named Noriko Ashida to his side, but is opposed by the heroes. 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.
Magneto is eventually able to free himself when Mystique concocts a plan to smuggle metal inside the bloodstream of one of the security guards. At the end of the film, Magneto is stripped of his powers after Beast forcibly administers the cure to him, though it is hinted his powers may someday return.
In the prequel 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. He initially begins as a protagonist, but ultimate leaves the X-Men after killing Sebastian Shaw. He goes on to form the Brotherhood of Mutants by using the remaining members of the Hellfire Club.
The elderly Magneto once again played by McKellen makes a cameo at the end of the film, where he recruits Wolverine for a mission against the Sentinels. Both McKellen and Fassbender reprise their roles in the sequel, with Fassbender playing the young Magneto in , and McKellen playing the older Magneto in In the future, Magneto who has regained his powers after the cure from The Last Stand faded is one of the last surviving mutants in a world dominated by the Sentinels. He has reconciled with Charles and allied himself with the remaining X-Men.
He and Charles devise a plan to have Kitty Pryde send Wolverine back in time to prevent the assassination of Bolivar Trask , whose death led to the creation of the Sentinels in the first place. Back in the 's, the young Magneto is shown imprisoned in a plastic cell underneath the Pentagon after being convicted for the murder of John F.
Magneto claims to have been framed for the crime, but it is left ambiguous as to whether or not this is true. Charles, Wolverine, Beast, and Quicksilver spring Magneto from his prison, and ask for his help in convincing Mystique to spare Trask.
Erik agrees, and initially seems to genuinely wish to repair his friendship with Charles, but this proves to be a ruse. He attempts to murder Mystique, but is stopped by Beast and flees.
Erik later hijacks Trask's prototype Sentinels in a plan to kill President Richard Nixon and conquer the world, and ends up battling the X-Men.
Back in the future, the heroic Magneto is mortally wounded while trying to protect the temple where Kitty is enabling Wolverine's mental time travel.
As he dies, Erik apologizes to Charles for all of the bloodshed he had caused over the years, and states that he wishes he and Charles could have put aside their differences all those years ago.
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