Max Eisenhardt/Magneto

Subject Facts

Full Name: Max Eisenhardt
Codename: MAGNETO
Age: 50s
Gender: Male
Archetype: Neutral
Aliases: Prisoner 214782, Master of Magnetism, Erik Magnus Lenhsherr, Magnus, White King, Grey King, the Leader, White Pilgrim, Phantom Saboteur, Michael Xavier, Merciless Magneto, Erik the Red, The Creator
Marital Status: Widower
Affiliation: Quiet Council of Krakoa, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, X-Men, Hellfire Club, Young X-Men, Astonishing Avengers, Excalibur, Acolytes, New Tian, New Mutants, Savage Land Mutates, Mossad, Genoshan Cabinet, Marauders, S.H.I.E.L.D, Rom Tribe, Sonderkommando, Magneto's Army

Subject Attributes

Superhuman Abilities:

Magnetokinesis: Magneto is a mutant with the superhuman power to channel, manipulate, and generate magnetic fields that exist naturally or artificially.

Electromagnetic Sight: By concentrating, Magneto can perceive the world around himself as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. He can perceive the natural magnetic auras surrounding living beings and percieve their current physical and mental condition.

Energy Absorption: The ability to absorb different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum via magnetic force to temporarily boost his own strengths.

Geomagnetic Link: Magneto is linked very closely to Earth's EM Field. As it is affected, so is he. He knows instinctively all that happens to it, and with this link, is granted an odd sort of immortality. The Earth lends him strength by its simple existence. He draws on it all unconsciously.

Magnetic Flight: Magneto has the ability to fly by either gliding along the planet's natural magnetic lines of force or simply creating a repulsive force through magnetism. Magneto is also capable of sustaining flight for very long distances and at varying speeds. By using his magnetic powers, Magneto can virtually travel at trans-light speeds; however, in order to travel in space, Magneto also requires his force field to breathe.

Magnetic Force-fields: The ability to erect a powerful force field that can be quickly expanded to protect large areas, or even used to suspend objects in the air.

Magnetic Pulse: The ability to focus magnetic energy into powerful concussive blasts for various purposes.

Metallic Bonding: Magneto possess the power to atomically bond metallic substances to any designated surface material. This technique allows metallic alloys to be blended with the earth, water, and air.

Matter Manipulation: Magneto is able to manipulate matter even to the subatomic level for a number of purposes. This might explain why he is not limited to objects with metallic properties and is able to manipulate objects with non-metallic properties like wood, stone, plastics, etc. to such a degree. This is due to the electromagnetic force which exits between atoms and other subatomic particles.

Organic Iron Manipulation: The ability to control the traces of iron within organic matter, which allows full control over an opponent's body. This power can manipulate the iron-enriched blood-flow to one's brain to induce aneurysms or unconsciousness, alter thoughts and perceptions, or blank a person's mind completely. It can even remove ferrous compounds from the bloodstream entirely through a person's skin.

Electromagnetic Spectrum Manipulation: Magneto has an extensive ability to project or manipulate any form of energy that is related to the electromagnetic spectrum. He can fire and absorb bolts of electricity and magnetic force, reverse lasers and other forms of radiation or energy, create enough intense heat as infrared radiation to level a city, manipulate gravity, and become invisible by deflecting visible light around his body.

Superhuman Stamina: By drawing on Earth’s magnetic field, a user can dramatically increase the overall efficiency of his/her musculature. While enhanced in this way, the muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins than the musculature of a normal human, allowing for far greater endurance during physical activity.

Superhuman Strength: The vast amounts of magnetic energy contained in Earth’s EM field can be channeled through the body for the purpose of granting vast superhuman strength of undefined limits.

Telepathic Resistance: The ability to create powerful electromagnetic shields around him or his mind in order to block out or dampen attacks or mind probes from telekinetic or telepathic mutants.

Superhuman Durability: Under normal conditions, Magneto possesses the physical durability of a man in his prime. He can channel vast amounts of magnetic energy through his body for the purpose of granting himself vast superhuman durability, to the point of withstanding devastating attacks.

Superhuman Reflexes: He naturally possesses enhanced reflexes. He can further enhance this reflexes with magnetic energy, to the point he can pluck out of the air with his hand, superhumans as swift and fast as the likes of Northstar with ease.

Superhuman Speed: By using magnetic propolsion Magneto is capable of reaching superhuman speeds very easily whether if he is Earth bound or not.

Standard Abilities:

Multilingual: Magnus is a polyglot, fluent in English, German, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Arabic. He successfully deciphered the ancient language of a lost civilization.

Master combatant:
Max received military training in hand-to-combat, but 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.

Genius level Intellect: Max is a genius mastermind with competence in various fields of advanced science, especially genetic mutation, particle physics, engineering, and robotics. He has engineered advanced robots, super powered artificial intelligence, space stations, devices capable of nullifying mutant powers except for his own, devices that generate volcanoes and earthquakes. He possesses extraordinary skill in reading the microexpressions on others' faces and sensing what they are thinking and feeling, whether they are lying, fearful, etc., a skill which he refers to as "taking your enemy's measure".

Master Strategist & Tactician: Max is an excellent strategist, tactician, and born leader. He is capable of overcoming multiple opponents efficiently. He’s an excellent and skilled chess player.

Indomitable Will: Max will strive to complete his tasks, no matter what it takes.

Paraphernalia:

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.

Armor: 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 a result of various lightweight, but highly durable, metallic alloys that further protects him from many forms of physical injury

Subject Weaknesses:

Max’s ability to wield his superhuman powers effectively is dependent upon his physical condition. When severely injured, his body is unable to withstand the strain of manipulating magnetic energy. He is also susceptible to physical and mental fatigue that can ultimately affect his ability to adequately use his powers.

Subject History

Max Eisenhardt was born and raised in Nuremberg, Germany by a middle class Jewish family. His father, Jakob Eisenhardt, was a WWI veteran. The family struggled against discrimination and hardship during the Nazi’s rise to power, the Nuremberg laws, and Kristallnacht. Max's mother, father, and sister were executed, but Max survived thanks to an early manifestation of his powers and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. During his imprisonment, Max became a Sonderkommando, forced to dispose of gas chamber victims. While at the camp, Max was reunited with a girl he had fallen in love with during his school days named Magda. Max and Magda escaped when Auschwitz was liberated and were soon married. They moved to the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, where they started their new lives together. Max adopted the name "Magnus" and Magda gave birth to their daughter who they named Anya.

Magnus worked as a carpenter to support the family and for a time he lived a happy life. One night Magnus was attacked and instinctively lashed out with his mutant powers of magnetism, killing the attackers and destroying part of the city. Later that evening, he returned home to find his house on fire, with Anya trapped inside. Magnus rushed inside to rescue her but he was too late. Enraged at the death of his beloved daughter, he used his new powers to kill the surrounding mob that started the fire. Magda, terrified of her husband's strange abilities, fled to the forest and never saw her again. During the next few years Magnus remained incognito and had an identity forger named Greg Odekirk create him a new identity, reinventing himself as a gypsy named "Erik Magnus Lehnsherr". It was while using this identity that he went to Israel to help at a psychiatric hospital. It was there he would meet Professor Charles Xavier, the two became friends, playing chess and having intellectual debates about mutation and the future of mankind.

When Baron von Strucker and HYDRA attacked the hospital and injured a young mutant, Xavier and Magnus revealed their powers in order to save her. Following the battle, Charles and Magnus realized they had very differing ideologies. Magnus disappeared and the two friends would not meet again for many years. During the next few years, Magnus worked for the CIA hunting Nazis, but this partnership ended when they murdered a girl he had formed a close relationship with. Magnus would subsequently disappear.

Max Eisenhardt eventually resurfaced, now using the identity of Magneto bursting into the public eye. He attacks Caped Citadel, but was stopped by Professor Xavier and the original X-Men, a confrontation that would spark a decades long rivalry. He creates Asteroid M, an orbital base of operations in an hollowed out asteroid that he wanted it to be a homeland for all mutant kind. Some months later, Magneto is leading a team of mutants which he named the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Demanding not merely equal rights, the Brotherhood sought supremacy for mutantkind. Their vicious attacks against humans led them to attract the attention of Professor Xavier and his X-Men, whom where often able to defeat the group. Magneto did however not just fight against the X-Men but many other superhero groups such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Magneto then creates the Savage Land Mutates. During one of Magneto's plans, Professor Xavier sought the help of the Defenders. Magneto had made a new mutant-like entity named Alpha The Ultimate Mutant.

The creature however turned on him and reduces him to infancy. The child was brought into the care of Charles Xavier, who brought him over to his former lover Moira McTaggert. She took care of the infant Max for some months before and even tried to alter his genetic code but fails to change his true nature. He was restored to his prime age as a young man by the Shi’ar agent Erik the Red. Now once again in his physical prime and stronger than before, Magneto battled the X-Men on Muir Island before disappearing. A powerful alien being; the Stranger encases Magneto in a special cocoon and spirits him away to another planet, the Stranger's laboratory world. He would later return to capture the X-Men, but was badly injured after being attacked by Wolverine. The injuries forced Magneto to flee, allowing the X-Men to thwart his plan. Magneto later assembles a new Brotherhood of Mutants, and with them battles Captain America. He then successfully opposes Doctor Doom's conquest of Earth. Magneto still sought out to win his war against humanity. During a particularly heated battle with the X-Men, Magneto wounds and nearly kills a young mutant named Kitty Pryde. Stricken with the revelation that he’s become a horrific extremist, willing to murder even children to achieve his goals, Magneto renounces his terrorist ways. He seeks out his former wife Magda and learns of her death, but also the truth about his twin children Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. 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 yet frustratingly short-sighted being. Magneto is later transported back to his base, Asteroid M, where the alien Warlock, traveling to Earth, collides into the asteroid, breaking it to pieces. Magneto is sent falling towards Earth and is rescued by Lee Forrester, the captain of a fishing trawler. After fully recovering, he aids the X-Men in defeating the return of The Beyonder. Magneto joins the X-Men after being persuaded by Professor Charles Xavier to try things his way.

Magneto proved to be a valuable ally and the X-Men started to trust him. Eventually Wolverine and the others, previously extremely wary of the mutant leader, grew to accept him. It appeared Magneto was truly a changed man, and even allowed himself to be put on trial in Paris, France. However, the trial was interrupted by a battle before it could be finished. His old friend Charles Xavier is badly injured in battle and Magneto takes over the reign of his school, teaching young mutants to control their powers and use them for the betterment of both humans and mutants. He started teaching the New Mutants and fought alongside the X-men. This, at first was very difficult for many of the team-members, since most of them always battle against Magneto the villain. When part of Magneto's old Asteroid M base crashed down onto the Earth, he went to survey one of the impact sites and destroy any dangerous weaponry that might be inside. However, he was soon confronted by the Avengers, who mistakenly believed him to be there for sinister purposes. Despite trying to explain himself, Magneto ended up fighting against the heroes, which only got worse when the X-Men arrived to back him up. After finding his old helmet in the ruins of Asteroid M, Magneto began to feel tempted by his past, believing that he could use the old mind control circuits within to brainwash the planet's population so that all feelings of bigotry would be erased. After using the device on Captain America, Magneto learned that Steve Rogers never hated mutants, Magneto surrendered himself to the Avengers and allowed himself to be put on trial once again. After finally destroying his helmet and being found innocent of his past crimes, a largely surprised Magneto now felt like a free man and returned to his position as headmaster of the Xavier School.

Some time passed, certain events would reverse a great many of those feelings soon. The Mutant Massacre occurred, in which many of the Morlock would be killed by the mutant-hunting Marauders. Some months later, during the events of the Fall of the Mutants, Magneto's star pupils, Cypher, was killed by a human-sentinel. This incident and the fact that he could not have protected an innocent young mutant under his care, started breaking Magneto internally. At this time, he also lost contact with the X-Men when the team went to Australia. In finding security for his New Mutant students, Magneto went as far as joining longtime X-Men rivals the Hellfire Club in hope of providing the security for them that he could not give. The New Mutants, however, wanted nothing to do with Magneto anymore, feeling he had betrayed them. Magneto, now angry, left the New Mutants and after this, Magneto’s hatred for humans resurfaced. Ultimately, Magneto would view his role as leader of the X-Men and teacher of the New Mutants as a failure on his part and he retired to Asteroid M to live in seclusion.

Magneto would spend months living in isolation, until a group of mutants led by Fabian Cortez calling themselves the Acolytes approached Magneto, who pledge their service and allegiance to him. Under the influence of Fabian Cortez, he declares Asteroid M a homeland for mutantkind, obtaining nuclear weapons from a Soviet submarine he had previously destroyed and placing them around the Asteroid pointed towards Earth. Magneto was opposed by the United Nations Security Council and created the Magneto Protocol. Which served to limit Magneto’s power and was easily dismantled by the Master of Magnetism. The X-Men responded accordingly by assaulting Magneto and his group of mutants. While the X-man Rogue tried to bring peace between the former allies, it ultimately had no effect. Magneto turned his back on the X-men for good, feeling they had not only betrayed him in not trusting his judgement, but also betraying their friendship. The X-men then assaulted the asteroid, with Cortez’ betrayal leading to Magneto’s ultimate defeat. Magneto retreated to his back-up space station Avalon where he grew even more bitter with rage and hatred. Magneto however soon encountered the X-men once again, during the X-Men’s siege on Avalon. During this conflict, Magneto still held back against his former allies, until the X-Man Wolverine attacked him and almost gutted him. He then used his powers to extract the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton, almost killing him. Xavier in a fit of rage wipes Magneto's mind and leaves him in a catatonic state. The X-man Colossus turned sides on the X-men and helped Magneto out of Avalon and returned him to a reconstructed Astroid M. This action later leads to the creation of Onslaught, an omnipotent being formed from the combination of Xavier and Magneto's own dark sides, the darkness in Magneto's soul latching on to its counterpart in Xavier when he launched such a devastating assault.

For some months, the catatonic Magneto sat on his thrown on Asteroid M, being served by the remaining Acolytes. This all changed when a refugee named Holocaust infiltrated the base and brought it down around them. Magneto was saved by Colossus and found himself alone again back on Earth. It was then that a mutant teleporter named Astra, as a way of revenge, restored Magneto's memories and created a clone named Joseph from his DNA. It was her plan to kill Magneto after that, but the clone went out of control and during a confrontation, Magneto managed to escape. For some months, it was thought that Jospeh was actually Magneto. The clone even became an ally to the X-men. It took a few more months before Magneto finally made himself known to the world once again. During this time, he engages in a pair of brief diversions, first posing as "Erik the Red" and revealing Gambit's past crimes to the X-Men, resulting in Gambit's expulsion from the group. Then he kills George Odekirk, the forger that created his "Erik Lehnsherr" alias, to prevent his true identity from being discovered.

Disguised as a normal human, Magneto placed the fate of humanity in the hands of a USA veteran man name William Jones. Magneto engaged William in conversation often testing Jones into showing signs of hatred towards mutantkind. Magneto eventually showed him his powers and told him who he really was. William became afraid and told him in all honesty that he would like him to be gone from this world, not because he hated him, but because of his overwhelming power and what he was capable of. Having perverted his supposedly objective experiment in human nature to his own ends, Magneto thanked William and left him to meet his cadre of robots at the magnetic north pole, where he began to manipulate the Polar magnetic fields. Only if the United Nations would meet his demands, Magneto would stop destroying the Polar magnetic fields. Luckily, the X-Men intervened and managed to defeat Magneto, with Magneto's clone Joseph dying in the process. His defeat was, however, not before the United Nations met his demands, giving Magneto his only island to rule, the nation of Genosha.

A difficult task lay before him since the country was wrecked during the civil war between humans and mutants after the uprising of the former mutant slaves. Magneto however soon managed to establish a government and tried to bring order to the nation. Despite some difficulties, Magneto managed to succeed. He even got help from his son and daughters, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Polaris, during this time. Genosha became a utopian nation for mutants where they could live in peace and freedom. Some months later, Magneto kidnapped Charles Xavier in order to show him what he had achieved. A newly formed team of X-men managed to free Xavier, while Wolverine fatally injured Magneto in the process. Later, as Magneto was healing from his last battle against the X-men, it was during this time that a full frontal Sentinel attack was undertaken on Genosha by the menace known as Cassandra Nova, who now had possession over the Sentinels, only after killing Bolivar Trask's nephew, Donald Trask and obtaining his DNA. Magneto was seemingly one of the first to fall in battle. A giant airplane with the appearance of an iron fist entered the tower in witch Magneto was located. After this first attack, a huge Sentinel destroyed the entire city, leaving almost everyone dead in it's wake. When the X-men came to investigate they saw the slaughter of countless mutants. A true new dark age for the mutants had begun. While investigating, the X-men found a tape that was made by Magneto a few minutes prior to his seeming death. He told his nation to never give up and be strong, even in the darkest of times. It seemed that Magneto, had finally perished in battle.

The X-Men and the world believed Magneto to be dead for good, the newest teacher at the Xavier Institute, the enigmatic mutant known as Xorn, revealed himself as Magneto in disguise to Professor Xavier. Xorn quickly defeated the X-men and, along with several mutant students he had been teaching the last months, staged an attack on the island of Manhattan. This included murdering numerous humans in crematoriums, mirroring the Holocaust persecution. The X-Men however doubted his legitimacy as the real "Master of Magnetism". The X-men regrouped and fought Xorn. His addiction to the power-enhancing drug named “ Kick” however allowed Xorn to assault and kill Jean Grey by giving her a planetary-scale stroke. An enraged Wolverine decapitated the alleged Magneto, who was later revealed to be an impostor, actually Xorn under the influence of X-men enemy Sublime. The real Magneto had never left the island of Genosha after the attacks and massacre by Cassandra Nova. Eventually, Charles Xavier contacted Magneto and went to Genosha to figure out what Magneto’s next move should be. He was now the world's most hated man, even though it had not been him that attacked humankind this time. Magneto was furious to think that people would actually think him able to do those horrible acts. Magneto and Xavier remained on the island for a longer period of time, in the meantime finding other survivors of the Sentinels attacks. The two became close friends once more over the period of time and Magneto finally seemed to have forsaken his more violent ways. Things all changed when Charles and Erik saw a news broadcast that showed images of Erik's daughter, Wanda Maximoff better known as the Scarlet Witch, to have suffered a nervous breakdown hurt and killed many of her former Avengers teammates in the process. She had been taken into custody. Magneto donned his uniform once more and went straight to New York City, leaving Charles and his more peaceful life behind.

After Scarlet Witch devastatingly, by accident, disbanded the Avengers and was rendered unconscious, Magneto appeared and demanded to have his daughter remanded to his care. The Avengers and the X-men at this point found out that Magneto was still alive and that he was not the one responsible for the attacks on New York City, which where actually Xorn's. The Avengers accepted a grieving father's demands and gave Wanda, somewhat reluctant, over to Magneto. Magneto then returned back with Wanda to the island of Genosha where he and Charles Xavier had spent their last months. Magneto watched over his sleeping daughter, kept unconscious by Xavier. However, both the X-men and the newly formed Avengers saw Wanda as a threat and where planing to bring Wanda in, or even have her killed should that be necessary. Magneto's son, Quicksilver delivered this news and demanded that Magneto saved her. Magneto responded that it was out of his hands and there was nothing he could do. The X-Men and the New Avengers arrived on Genosha. Before they could act however, the world flashed white and when it returned, reality had been rebuilt as a world where mutants where the dominant species and humanity was on the decline. Magneto was now ruler over the sovereign nation of Genosha, the dominant superpower in the world, and mutants held almost all worldwide positions of power. The revelation came out that it was actually Quicksliver, not Magneto, who convinced Wanda to rebuild the world in this image. Enraged that Quicksilver had done all of this in his name, Magneto kills him. As the world crumbled around them and returned to normal reality, Wanda resurrects Pietro and retaliates with three simple words: No more mutants. When everything returns to normal, the world’s mutant population have lost their powers, including Magneto. This day would be known as M-Day.

For the following months, Magneto wandered the Earth. He would later contact his old friend Xavier, leading them both into trouble when Magneto's old soldiers, the Acolytes, showed up to kill Xavier. They no longer listened to Magneto, because he was no longer a mutant. Magneto and Xavier managed to break free of the Acolytes and stop them from further pursuit. The two then went their separate ways again. Some months later, Magneto contacted the High Evolutionary, who managed to return Magneto's lost mutant powers. This all happened during a ruse where he attacked the X-Men once again. He was now the only mutant to regain his powers after losing them on M-Day. Magneto, with his powers back, stood for a choice, returning to his old ways or now join the X-men on their homebase known as Utopia. Since no more than two-hundred mutants remained after M-Day, Magneto joined them in order to stand stronger together. He embarked on a journey to Utopia where he was met with anger by the X-men. When he arrives, Xavier demands he leave, but Cyclops overrules him and allows Magneto to state his business. Magneto then fell down on his knees and praised Cyclops' leadership and asked him if he could join them. Xavier refused to accept Magneto’s suspicious acts and change of heart and telepathically attacks him, but Cyclops stops the attack and orders Xavier to leave. Magneto laments the future of their race, but Cyclops assures him that Hope Summers, the Mutant Messiah is alive and well. Magneto swears fealty to the X-Men and is made a senior member of Cyclops’ cabinet. He’s still not fully accepted, however, as Cyclops reprimands him for taking what he believed to be too much initiative by constructing a giant support column to not only support Utopia, but house the Atlantean refugees, calling the structure New Atlantis. Magneto finally decides to 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. In a final bid to gain the trust of the X-Men, Magneto enters a deep meditative catatonic state to focus his powers at an interstellar distance and reverse the path of Breakworld's metal bullet. He saw the massive bullet she was trapped in when he was in the High Evolutionary’s space station and uses his abilities to bring her back. However, the strain of using his power at such intensity and duration leaves him comatose.

Time went on, 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. One day, Magneto receives a lead from X-men teammate Dr. Nemesis on one of his old Nazi tormentors. Erik reveals to Wolverine's X-Force that he is aware of their existence, and trades his silence for the murder of the Nazi officer.

With an earthquake inbound for San Francisco, Magneto uses his powers to stabilize the city's buildings, structures and metal vehicles, and to smooth the earth movements themselves, thus preventing any major damage and saving many lives. Magneto appeared alongside Emma Frost, and other X-Men members at the unveiling of a mutant museum in the city of San Francisco under orders from Cyclops. The highly publicized event is attacked by the new Hellfire Club. Magneto is shot with a miniaturized neutron star. The Hellfire Club then attaches brain slugs to the rest of the X-Men to keep them unconscious. Idie the only mutant left in the museum unscathed, kills the remaining Hellfire members to save everyone. The Hellfire Club unleashes a giant Sentinel, charged with destroying Utopia. Cyclops and some of the younger mutants prepare to stand their ground, while Wolverine demands that the children run and save themselves. The Sentinel is defeated. However, the X-Men are divided between Cyclops and Wolverine. Magneto remains loyal to Cyclops and stays on Utopia.

Magneto is later assigned to Cyclops' new Extinction Team, during a training exercise between the Extinction Team and Hope's Lights, Magneto is attacked by Zero and reacts by brutally tearing him in half with his magnetic powers. Zero is able to pull himself back together which Magneto knew he was capable of doing. Magneto is harshly reprimanded by Hope and Cyclops for attacking so harshly during a training exercise. After the apparent death of Jocasta, Hank Pym calls for the aid of Cyclop’s X-Men. Upon their arrival to the West Coast Academy, Magneto agrees to assist so long as Quicksilver refrains from involving himself in any mutant affairs. He explains to them that Pietro coerced his sister into the events that led to her breakdown and cites his misuse of the Terrigen Mists and the war that was caused due to it. Magneto is later faced with a ghost from his past in the form of his clone, Joseph. Disguised as Magneto, Joseph kills a group of anti-mutant protesters witch causes a conflict between Magneto and the authorities and the Avengers. The Avengers claim Magneto to be the perpetrator. However, Magneto soon found out that the mutant teleporter Astra, an old nemesis to Magneto as well as the person who created the original Joseph, was to blame for the new Joseph and the murders. Eventually Magneto managed to clear his name and defeated Astra while Joseph was brought over to Cyclops where he was imprisoned.

Some time later, when Captain America arrives on Utopia to discuss Hope and the returning Phoenix Force, the two teams agree to disagree on how to handle things. This causes a rift between the two superhero teams. Where most of the X-men believe the Phoenix Force to be a force that can reignite the dying mutant race, the Avengers believe it will cause nothing but destruction. During this, Magneto stands with the X-men's Extinction Team led by Cyclops and helps him gain the advantage during the first fight that ensues as a difference in opinion. Magneto also helps the X-men and Avengers during the following days in search of Hope and later when five of the X-men gained the Phoenix's powers. The Phoenix Five used their vast power to end wars, hunger, disease, and thirst on Earth and created a global utopia. The Avengers continued to oppose them, believing that the five would eventually lose control. After the events, Magneto remained wanted by the Avengers and authorities.

Later, Magneto rescues Cyclops out of prison and joins his group of rogue X-Men. Magneto, Cyclops, and Magik began liberating mutants who had been unjustly imprisoned by various authorities and offer them help with controlling their powers and joining their rebellion. Magneto is left powerless due to a blast from the Phoenix Force, as well as the rest of the team's due to their exposure. Magneto seemingly betrays the X-Men in order to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. and reveals to them what Cyclops' team is up to. He reveals himself to the rest of the X-Men that he betrayed them in order to act as a double agent since the team is on the run. Magneto helps build the New Charles Xavier school from the remnants of an old Weapon X facility. He also helps in recruiting new mutants and even recruits some from Jean Grey Institute while in disguise. Magneto now in Limbo, a magical dimension also known as Otherplace, with the team to fight the threat of Dormammu and his demons. Magneto and the team hold out long enough for Magik to absorb Limbo, defeat Dormammu and cast them out back to their dimension. Cyclops confronts Magneto about his loyalties, Magneto explains to Scott that he wants the end goal to be the same as Scott and the two have a conversation to further strengthen their relationship and come to terms with their standings in regards to each other. Magneto is there with the rest of the team when Emma is helping the new mutant David Bond, control his powers to show off what he can do. Magneto and the rest of the X-Men help rescue Fabio from S.H.I.E.L.D.

During these events, Magneto receives a message from Maria Hill, briefly telling him that if he wishes to continue talking with her he will have to talk to Dazzler, the new mutant liaison. Magneto ends up returning to the X-Men's hideout, where he watches a pro-mutant rally supporting Cyclops with the team. Magneto shows up late to help battle Blockbuster sentinel, and he delivers the final blow before the sentinel is called back by its master. In a moment of uncertainty about his purpose, Mystique posing as Dazzler reveals herself to him and invites him to come to Madripoor. There Max learns that Madripoor has been transformed into a new safe haven for mutants. He also learns of the creation of the ‘kick’ drug. Later, Magneto is taken to the skyscraper where Mystique along with Sabretooth and the new Silver Samurai, try to convince Magneto to be part of the newly reformed Brotherhood of Mutants. Magneto quickly realizes the nightmare they’re creating. In his rage he attacks the team and causes for the skyscraper to collapse, and escapes in a helicopter, heading off on his own.

Magneto later finds the Red Skull, mutants greatest enemy. 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 concetration camp for mutants on the island of Genosha, Magneto's former base. Magneto is captured and mind-tortured by Red Skull. He is given visions of those closest to him suffering while being unable to do anything to stop it. He is later freed by Wanda and two other mutants. 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. In a fit of rage over finding mutants being used for freak medical experiments, Magneto kills the entire S-Men team. Magneto kills Red Skull while the others look on in horror. He believes everything is over only for Red Skull to reappear as a giant called Red Onslaught. 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 Red Onslaught. 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.

Magneto began rebuilding Genosha only to find himself in the middle of multiverses clashing and breaking realities. These events were set in motion by Dr. Doom and The Molecule Man by killing his counterpart, which would set off the early death of his counterpart's universe, and be the origin of the incursions. The multiverse had began to unravel, as each time, the two planet earth's from two different universes collided, ending both universes. While many of the superheroes tried to stop these incursions, Magneto also did his best in stopping the incursions as the world watched. He, as well as all other heroes however failed, and both universes were seemingly destroyed forever.

Reed Richards and Dr. Doom would eventually restore both universes. With everything back to normal, Magneto has been returned to life with no memories of his apparent demise. 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 is now leading a team of X-Men consisting of Psylocke, M, Archangel and Sabretooth in order to protect mutants at any cost. It is discovered that an Inhuman can predict the future through visions and therefore prevent crimes before happening. These events divides the superheroes, including the X-Men, launching a second civil war. One team sides with Captain Marvel, who believes that the perpetrators of future crimes indicated by the Inhuman’s visions should be arrested to prevent said crimes, while an opposing team led by Iron Man believes this would violate individual civil liberties. Magneto and some of the X-Men side with Iron Man while the rest of the mutants side with Captain Marvel.

Later, The X-Men work on discovering any potential cures to the Terrigen cloud that has been toxic to mutants with the help of the Royal Family. The decision on how to deal with the current situation divides the X-Men. Magneto's team of X-Men disbands and Psylocke kills him for taking part in Emma's deceptions that led to the war. Upon being left for dead in the Savage Land, his body was found by Exodus and healed by Elixir. Magneto 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. With the Terrigen cloud gone and changes to both the Royal Family and the X-Men, Magneto decides he wants to help the time-misplaced X-Men back to their timeline. Captain America reaches out to Magneto with an idea 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 human there would set foot on US soil. When Hydra takes over the United States, Magneto gives in to Captain America's deal. As a result, New Tian is formed somewhere in California and Magneto fakes his death so that he can hide out in Madripoor. 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. This would be the beginning of the end for the HYDRA empire behind the curtain.

Subject Interview

I’ve been known by many names.
Max. Erik. Magnus. Magneto.

The hard cold rain pounded out of the sky, he felt and heard every lightning and thunder come and go. It was a heavy thunderstorm, he was glad the motel staff provided him with a coffee maker. He poured the freshly brewed coffee into a stainless steel mug, and placed the pot back in its place before he reached for the cup. It was hot and he could almost taste it, he also liked the smell. Erik posted himself in front of a mural which consisted of key destinations across North America, thumbtacks here and there piecing together a trail of red twine from one city to another, some newspaper clippings, some marked with red circles and others with distinctive notes. The motel room was small and poorly lit, but his living conditions were the least of his concerns. He was on the run, and had confidence that the government agencies wouldn’t find him in this decrepit motel room. He wasn’t planning on staying long.

Each name marks its own sins.
And one day I’ll answer for those offenses.
..But not today.

Magneto focused on a particular territory on the map to his right, while forcing two thumbtacks into the wall to his left. A dozen of the flat-headed pins orbiting his right hand, it was in his nature to use his powers, he would never deny himself of this gift. A gift he sometimes considered a curse. Magnetism was more than a part of his mutant genes, it was also one of his many talents. Erik closed his eyes savoring a sip of the coffee, he placed the mug on the nearby table. He continued to play with the handful of floating thumbtacks with his right hand as his mind painted those memories of his childhood days so vividly.

Erik was no fool, he opened his eyes and with a swift motion of his right hand the objects ceased to circulate. Clearly not what he wanted to do at the moment, those memories of his past are the reason for his actions. Everything he was doing is to protect mutantkind. Erik manipulated the thumbtacks as easily as a conductor directed an orchestra. He contorted the pins into the wall creating an X directly over the capital of the United States of America. He smiled, determined to reach Washington once his business with certain targets were taken care of, he stopped himself from any further thinking.

A lightning flashed across the gray sky followed by a thunder that echoed for miles. Erik took one more look at the wall mounted with all of the information he assembled, as he made his way to the crumbling piece of furniture to rest. He would need it, knowing tomorrow would bring him closer to his goal.

Author's Notes

Player Alias:
Nero

Other Characters:
Peter Parker / Spider-Man

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