Magneto

Alias
Creator Erik the Red II Magneto White King II
Nick Name
Master of Magnetism
Civilian ID
Max Eisenhardt Alias Erik Magnus Lehnsherr Michael Xavier
Occupation
Mutant Rights Activist Terrorist Ruler of Genosha
Legal Status
Citizen of an unknown European country with an international criminal record.
Nation or Planet of Origin
Unknown country in Europe.
Group Affiliation
Acolytes Brotherhood of Evil Mutants Excalibur II Hellfire Club New Mutants Savage Land Mutates
Base of Operations
Asteroid M Avalon (space station) Genosha, Africa Savage Land, Antarctica
Height
6' 2"
Weight
190 lbs.
Eye Color
Blue-Grey
Hair Color
Silver
Skin Tone
Caucasian
Known Powers
Mutation resulting in ability to manipulate and perceive both natural and artificial electromagnetic fields. Magnetic manipulation can be used to facilitate flight, create magnetic force fields, lift great weights up to 100 tons, manipulate metals into any shape and even effect the iron in the blood of other creatures. Limited psychic skills capable of creating mental barriers and read minds on a basic level. Genius level intelligence capable of devising a multitude of scientific devices for magnetic manipulation.
Accessories
Helmet: Headgear designed to block telepathy and the effects of mind control.
Common Enemies
Red Skull X-Men
Regularly Appearing
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1 Excalibur Vol. 2 Magneto: Dark Seduction Magneto Rex Professor Xavier and the X-Men Uncanny X-Men X-Men Vol. 1 & 2 X-Men: Magneto Teastament
First Appearance
X-Men Vol. 1 #1 (Sept. 1963)
Creator
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Origin
Long before he learned of his mutant powers, the man known as Erik Magnus Lehnsherr felt the bitter sting of discrimination. Interred as a youth at the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, Poland, he was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. This experience bluntly and irrevocably demonstrated the potential inhumanity of an intolerant majority. After World War II, Magnus married Magda, a Gypsy girl he had rescued from Auschwitz. Their first child, Anya, was born several years later. When a mob prevented the couple from rescuing their young daughter from a fire, Magnus lashed out with his fledgling mutant abilities. In a white-hot moment of rage and pain, he killed his attackers and several onlookers. A terrified Magda fled, never having revealed that she was pregnant. She would give birth in secret to the twins Pietro and Wanda, who as adults would join Magnus' mutant terrorist group the Brotherhood of Mutants as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. The twins would later reform and join the Avengers. After the disappearance of his wife, Magnus moved to Israel and worked as a volunteer orderly at a psychiatric hospital that treated Holocaust survivors. There, he befriended Charles Xavier, a young mutant telepath. Xavier held fast to his optimistic belief that Homo Sapiens and Homo-Superior could coexist, while Magnus foresaw mutants as the new minority to be persecuted for their differences. Desperately trying to share his friend's hope, Magnus could not reconcile the injustices he had endured and began planning his campaign against what he perceived to be an inferior species, man. Swearing history would not repeat itself, he was determined to conquer the human race to prevent the oppression of mutant kind, and Magnus became known to the world as the genetic terrorist Magneto.