Post by Magneto on Jul 18, 2013 20:02:26 GMT -5
Origin
Magneto's childhood
Max Eisenhardt was born in the 1920's to a middle class Jewish family and his father, Jakob Eisenhardt was a World War 1 veteran. The family managed to survive discrimination and hardship during the Nazi's rise to power, the Nuremberg laws and the rise of the Kristallnacht. In the early 1930's, Max and his family fled to Poland, where they were captured during the Nazi invasion and sent to Warsaw Ghetto. The family managed to escape the ghetto, but are betrayed and captured again. Max's mother, father and sister get executed, but Max survives and is captured again, this time sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he became a Sonderkommando. While at the concentration camp, Max was reunited with a girl he had fallen in love with when he was younger by the name of Magda. He married her and they made their escape during the 1944 revolt. He and Magda moved to the Ukraine city of Vinnytsia, where they started their new lives together. Max adopted the name Magnus and they had a daughter named Anya.
They lived a happy life until one night Max 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 on that evening, he returned home to find his house on fire with his daughter Anya trapped inside. He went inside to rescue her but he was too late and she died. Enraged, he used his new powers to kill the surrounding mob that started the fire. Magda, terrified of her husband's strange new powers, 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 grew up to be Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, respectively).
During the next few years Max had an identity forger named Greg Odekirk create him a new identity and he reinvented 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 and met Professor Charles Xavier. The two became fast friends while having intellectual debates about mutation and the future. When Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker attacked a young patient named Gabrielle Haller, Xavier and Magneto revealed their powers to each other in order to save her.
Following the battle, Magnus disappeared and the two would not meet again for many years. During the next few years, he worked for a CIA agency hunting Nazis, but this association ended when they murdered a girl whom Magnus was becoming close to. He later resurfaced in the guise of Magneto, attacking Cape Citadel and was stopped by the original X-Men, a confrontation that would spark a decades long rivalry.
Character Evolution
In his initial appearances Magneto was portrayed as a quasi-psychotic would-be tyrant who would abuse and berate his subjects (physical abuse to lackeys like the Toad while the 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 with his WWII back-story and the revelation that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were his children.
Following the Secret Wars, where Magneto found himself allied with his long time rivals the X-Men, we saw a much softer Magneto engaged in an intimate relationship with a human woman named Lee Forrester. After this relationship ended Magneto would once again ally himself with his old friend Charles Xavier and then, when Xavier became trapped in space, he took over the school as its Headmaster. During this time with the X-Men and, more importantly, the New Mutants we saw Magneto as a caring and kind, albeit still very strict, teacher willing to do anything for his students.
Magneto
Ironically enough it was such concern for the welfare of his students that sent his back down the path to villainy. After the Secret Wars II and Mutant Massacre Magneto allied himself (with Storm's permission) with longtime X-Men enemies the Hellfire Club. It was this association and the moral quandaries that came with it that led Magneto to make some poor decisions and his own students "firing" him as their headmaster. This reversion to evil was punctuated by his time in the Savage Land with Rogue where he murdered the priestess Zaladane in cold blood.
When he resurfaced, we saw a Magneto that more closely resembled the original portrayal of the character, a cold blooded leader of fanatical followers, willing to do anything to advance his cause of mutant supremacy. This was further shown during Fatal Attractions with his brutal assault on Wolverine as he torn the adamantium right from his body. His righteous fury and anger eased off when he was given the ruined country of Genosha to build a mutant homeland with. During this time readers saw Magneto as dictator but not the tyrant that was expected, as he was shown to truly care for his subjects. Unfortunately, this benign period would not last, as he eventually he would return to conquest when he declared open war on humans and was stopped only when his spinal cord was severed by Wolverine.
When next the real Magneto was seen he was brought down several rungs by both his injuries and his guilt over the murder of Jean Grey which had been done in his name by "Xorn" as well as the destruction of his country. During the Genoshan Excalibur series, Magneto is shown feeling remorse (which he hadn't ever really shown, always feeling that the deaths around him were just casualties of war). He was also shown at his most parental when his daughter the Scarlet Witch had a mental breakdown.
In the next few years, we saw a Magneto who was a bit of an amalgam of all the past Magnetos. He is shown to have genuine concern for his family and his fellow mutants, though he is still willing to fight the Avengers to accomplish his goals (like his early appearances). Magneto has joined the X-Men on Utopia, vowing loyalty to Cyclops and saving Kitty Pryde, and has shown regret for many of his past actions.
Major Story Arcs
War on Humanity
After decades of lying low, Magneto burst into the public eye leading the team the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants, a squad who demanded not only equal rights, but absolute supremacy for mutant-kind. Their vicious attacks against humans led them to attract the attention of Professor Xavier and his X-Men, who are able to repel the frequent attackers.
Reformation Period
Headmaster
During a particularly heated battle with the X-Men, Magneto wounds and nearly kills Kitty Pryde, then only fourteen. Stricken with the revelation that hefs become a horrific extremist, willing to murder even children to achieve his goals, he flees, renouncing 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 hefs their father, they reject his leadership for his abusive treatment of them over their years in the Brotherhood, but 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 X. 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 and Rogue began to feel romantically toward him, despite their age difference.
The Mutant Massacre spurred on by the Morlocks would reverse a great many of these feelings when one of his star pupils, Cypher, is killed by a human. Magneto goes so far as joining 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.
Mutant Separatism
While living in isolation, a group of mutants led by Fabian Cortez calling themselves the Acolytes approached the disgraced leader asking for his leadership. Magneto decides 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 Cortezf betrayal leading to Magnetofs ultimate defeat, leading him to retreat to his back-up space station Avalon. During the X-Menfs siege of Avalon, Magneto used his powers to brutally rip the adamantium from Wolverines skeleton and an angered Xavier lashed out, wiping his mind and leaving Magneto in a catatonic state.
Xorn
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 some exceptionally powerful mutants under his care, stage a vicious attack in Manhattan, including murdering five thousand humans in crematoriums mirroring his Holocaust persecution. The X-Men doubt his legitimacy as the real master of magnetism, but his addiction to the power-enhacing drug gkickh allows him to assault and kill Jean Grey by giving her a series of strokes using his electro-magnetic power. An enraged Wolverine decapitates the alleged master of magnetism, later revealed to be an imposter.
House of M
House of Magnus
After Wanda cataclysmically, but accidentally, disbanded the Avengers and was rendered unconscious, Magneto appeared and demanded to have his daughter remanded to his care. Magneto watches over his sleeping daughter, kept unconscious by Xavier, Pietro demands that Magneto save her. Magneto retorts that itfs out of his hands and therefs nothing he can do. On the one hand, she is indeed his flesh and blood, but on the other hand, shefs clearly lost her mind and is responsible for destroying one of Earthfs greatest teams. The combined forces of the X-Men and the New Avengers arrive on their doorstep, but 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 rules over the sovereign nation of Genosha, the dominant superpower in the world, and mutants hold almost all worldwide positions of power.
The world has become the reverse of the 616 Universe: mutants subjugate and legislate against gsapiens,h almost just 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 Magnetofs headquarters where Wanda is kept with her children. The revelation comes out that it was Pietro, not Eric, who remade 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 worldfs mutant population has been depowered.
Nation X
Magneto, like many other mutants, emigrated to Cyclopsf 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 Magnetofs 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 Cyclopsf cabinet.
Hefs 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 Evolutionaryfs space station and uses his abilities to bring her back, but he lapses into a coma.
Second Coming
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.
Powers and Abilities
Magnetic Field Manipulation
Master of Magnetism
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 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.
Genius-level Intellect
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.
Master Combat Strategist
Magneto is a skilled leader, as well as a master strategist and tactician with extensive combat experience. He has successfully held his own against entire groups of superhuman adversaries, such as the X-Men and the Avengers. 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 powers in most conflicts.
Multilingual
Magneto is a polyglot, fluent in English, German, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Portuguese. He even managed to decipher the unknown language of an ancient, lost civilization.
Equipment
Magneto's helmet
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 his helmet and featuring the slogan "Magneto Was Right" started being worn by disenfranchised mutant youth as a symbol of rebellion and the pro-mutant cause.
Personal Information
¡Height: 6'2"
¡Weight: 190 lbs (86 kg)
¡Eyes: Bluish-gray
¡Hair: Silver (formerly black)
¡Unusual Features: Magneto was devolved into an infant by Alpha the Ultimate Mutant and regrown by Eric the Red into an adult, so despite his much greater chronological age, he appears to still be a man in his physical prime
¡Identity: Publicly known
¡Citizenship: German
¡Place of Birth: Germany
¡Marital Status: Widower
¡Occupation: Adventurer, mutant rights activist, former would-be conqueror, sovereign ruler of Genosha, teacher of the New Mutants, headmaster of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, terrorist, secret agent, Nazi hunter, volunteer hospital orderly, carpenter
¡Education: Some public schooling, unspecified advanced training in genetic engineering and robotics
¡Known Relatives: Jakob Eisenhardt (father, deceased), Edie Eisenhardt (mother, deceased), Erich Eisenhardt (uncle, deceased), Ruth Eisenhardt (sister, deceased), Magda Lehnsherr (wife, deceased), Anya Lehnsherr (daughter, deceased), Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) (daughter), Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) (son), Lorna Dane (Polaris) (daughter), Vision (former son-in-law), Crystalia Amaquelin (Crystal) (former daughter-in-law), Luna Maximoff (granddaughter), Thomas Shepard (Speed) (grandson), William Kaplan (Wiccan) (grandson), Joseph (clone, deceased)
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Magneto's childhood
Max Eisenhardt was born in the 1920's to a middle class Jewish family and his father, Jakob Eisenhardt was a World War 1 veteran. The family managed to survive discrimination and hardship during the Nazi's rise to power, the Nuremberg laws and the rise of the Kristallnacht. In the early 1930's, Max and his family fled to Poland, where they were captured during the Nazi invasion and sent to Warsaw Ghetto. The family managed to escape the ghetto, but are betrayed and captured again. Max's mother, father and sister get executed, but Max survives and is captured again, this time sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he became a Sonderkommando. While at the concentration camp, Max was reunited with a girl he had fallen in love with when he was younger by the name of Magda. He married her and they made their escape during the 1944 revolt. He and Magda moved to the Ukraine city of Vinnytsia, where they started their new lives together. Max adopted the name Magnus and they had a daughter named Anya.
They lived a happy life until one night Max 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 on that evening, he returned home to find his house on fire with his daughter Anya trapped inside. He went inside to rescue her but he was too late and she died. Enraged, he used his new powers to kill the surrounding mob that started the fire. Magda, terrified of her husband's strange new powers, 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 grew up to be Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, respectively).
During the next few years Max had an identity forger named Greg Odekirk create him a new identity and he reinvented 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 and met Professor Charles Xavier. The two became fast friends while having intellectual debates about mutation and the future. When Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker attacked a young patient named Gabrielle Haller, Xavier and Magneto revealed their powers to each other in order to save her.
Following the battle, Magnus disappeared and the two would not meet again for many years. During the next few years, he worked for a CIA agency hunting Nazis, but this association ended when they murdered a girl whom Magnus was becoming close to. He later resurfaced in the guise of Magneto, attacking Cape Citadel and was stopped by the original X-Men, a confrontation that would spark a decades long rivalry.
Character Evolution
In his initial appearances Magneto was portrayed as a quasi-psychotic would-be tyrant who would abuse and berate his subjects (physical abuse to lackeys like the Toad while the 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 with his WWII back-story and the revelation that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were his children.
Following the Secret Wars, where Magneto found himself allied with his long time rivals the X-Men, we saw a much softer Magneto engaged in an intimate relationship with a human woman named Lee Forrester. After this relationship ended Magneto would once again ally himself with his old friend Charles Xavier and then, when Xavier became trapped in space, he took over the school as its Headmaster. During this time with the X-Men and, more importantly, the New Mutants we saw Magneto as a caring and kind, albeit still very strict, teacher willing to do anything for his students.
Magneto
Ironically enough it was such concern for the welfare of his students that sent his back down the path to villainy. After the Secret Wars II and Mutant Massacre Magneto allied himself (with Storm's permission) with longtime X-Men enemies the Hellfire Club. It was this association and the moral quandaries that came with it that led Magneto to make some poor decisions and his own students "firing" him as their headmaster. This reversion to evil was punctuated by his time in the Savage Land with Rogue where he murdered the priestess Zaladane in cold blood.
When he resurfaced, we saw a Magneto that more closely resembled the original portrayal of the character, a cold blooded leader of fanatical followers, willing to do anything to advance his cause of mutant supremacy. This was further shown during Fatal Attractions with his brutal assault on Wolverine as he torn the adamantium right from his body. His righteous fury and anger eased off when he was given the ruined country of Genosha to build a mutant homeland with. During this time readers saw Magneto as dictator but not the tyrant that was expected, as he was shown to truly care for his subjects. Unfortunately, this benign period would not last, as he eventually he would return to conquest when he declared open war on humans and was stopped only when his spinal cord was severed by Wolverine.
When next the real Magneto was seen he was brought down several rungs by both his injuries and his guilt over the murder of Jean Grey which had been done in his name by "Xorn" as well as the destruction of his country. During the Genoshan Excalibur series, Magneto is shown feeling remorse (which he hadn't ever really shown, always feeling that the deaths around him were just casualties of war). He was also shown at his most parental when his daughter the Scarlet Witch had a mental breakdown.
In the next few years, we saw a Magneto who was a bit of an amalgam of all the past Magnetos. He is shown to have genuine concern for his family and his fellow mutants, though he is still willing to fight the Avengers to accomplish his goals (like his early appearances). Magneto has joined the X-Men on Utopia, vowing loyalty to Cyclops and saving Kitty Pryde, and has shown regret for many of his past actions.
Major Story Arcs
War on Humanity
After decades of lying low, Magneto burst into the public eye leading the team the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants, a squad who demanded not only equal rights, but absolute supremacy for mutant-kind. Their vicious attacks against humans led them to attract the attention of Professor Xavier and his X-Men, who are able to repel the frequent attackers.
Reformation Period
Headmaster
During a particularly heated battle with the X-Men, Magneto wounds and nearly kills Kitty Pryde, then only fourteen. Stricken with the revelation that hefs become a horrific extremist, willing to murder even children to achieve his goals, he flees, renouncing 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 hefs their father, they reject his leadership for his abusive treatment of them over their years in the Brotherhood, but 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 X. 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 and Rogue began to feel romantically toward him, despite their age difference.
The Mutant Massacre spurred on by the Morlocks would reverse a great many of these feelings when one of his star pupils, Cypher, is killed by a human. Magneto goes so far as joining 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.
Mutant Separatism
While living in isolation, a group of mutants led by Fabian Cortez calling themselves the Acolytes approached the disgraced leader asking for his leadership. Magneto decides 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 Cortezf betrayal leading to Magnetofs ultimate defeat, leading him to retreat to his back-up space station Avalon. During the X-Menfs siege of Avalon, Magneto used his powers to brutally rip the adamantium from Wolverines skeleton and an angered Xavier lashed out, wiping his mind and leaving Magneto in a catatonic state.
Xorn
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 some exceptionally powerful mutants under his care, stage a vicious attack in Manhattan, including murdering five thousand humans in crematoriums mirroring his Holocaust persecution. The X-Men doubt his legitimacy as the real master of magnetism, but his addiction to the power-enhacing drug gkickh allows him to assault and kill Jean Grey by giving her a series of strokes using his electro-magnetic power. An enraged Wolverine decapitates the alleged master of magnetism, later revealed to be an imposter.
House of M
House of Magnus
After Wanda cataclysmically, but accidentally, disbanded the Avengers and was rendered unconscious, Magneto appeared and demanded to have his daughter remanded to his care. Magneto watches over his sleeping daughter, kept unconscious by Xavier, Pietro demands that Magneto save her. Magneto retorts that itfs out of his hands and therefs nothing he can do. On the one hand, she is indeed his flesh and blood, but on the other hand, shefs clearly lost her mind and is responsible for destroying one of Earthfs greatest teams. The combined forces of the X-Men and the New Avengers arrive on their doorstep, but 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 rules over the sovereign nation of Genosha, the dominant superpower in the world, and mutants hold almost all worldwide positions of power.
The world has become the reverse of the 616 Universe: mutants subjugate and legislate against gsapiens,h almost just 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 Magnetofs headquarters where Wanda is kept with her children. The revelation comes out that it was Pietro, not Eric, who remade 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 worldfs mutant population has been depowered.
Nation X
Magneto, like many other mutants, emigrated to Cyclopsf 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 Magnetofs 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 Cyclopsf cabinet.
Hefs 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 Evolutionaryfs space station and uses his abilities to bring her back, but he lapses into a coma.
Second Coming
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.
Powers and Abilities
Magnetic Field Manipulation
Master of Magnetism
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 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.
Genius-level Intellect
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.
Master Combat Strategist
Magneto is a skilled leader, as well as a master strategist and tactician with extensive combat experience. He has successfully held his own against entire groups of superhuman adversaries, such as the X-Men and the Avengers. 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 powers in most conflicts.
Multilingual
Magneto is a polyglot, fluent in English, German, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Portuguese. He even managed to decipher the unknown language of an ancient, lost civilization.
Equipment
Magneto's helmet
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 his helmet and featuring the slogan "Magneto Was Right" started being worn by disenfranchised mutant youth as a symbol of rebellion and the pro-mutant cause.
Personal Information
¡Height: 6'2"
¡Weight: 190 lbs (86 kg)
¡Eyes: Bluish-gray
¡Hair: Silver (formerly black)
¡Unusual Features: Magneto was devolved into an infant by Alpha the Ultimate Mutant and regrown by Eric the Red into an adult, so despite his much greater chronological age, he appears to still be a man in his physical prime
¡Identity: Publicly known
¡Citizenship: German
¡Place of Birth: Germany
¡Marital Status: Widower
¡Occupation: Adventurer, mutant rights activist, former would-be conqueror, sovereign ruler of Genosha, teacher of the New Mutants, headmaster of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, terrorist, secret agent, Nazi hunter, volunteer hospital orderly, carpenter
¡Education: Some public schooling, unspecified advanced training in genetic engineering and robotics
¡Known Relatives: Jakob Eisenhardt (father, deceased), Edie Eisenhardt (mother, deceased), Erich Eisenhardt (uncle, deceased), Ruth Eisenhardt (sister, deceased), Magda Lehnsherr (wife, deceased), Anya Lehnsherr (daughter, deceased), Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) (daughter), Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) (son), Lorna Dane (Polaris) (daughter), Vision (former son-in-law), Crystalia Amaquelin (Crystal) (former daughter-in-law), Luna Maximoff (granddaughter), Thomas Shepard (Speed) (grandson), William Kaplan (Wiccan) (grandson), Joseph (clone, deceased)
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