Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr)
TMDB
Secret Wars, Comics: To stop an incursion that is colliding two Earths, Magneto drains Polaris' power and is destroyed on Genosha before reality is restored.
Cinematic
Mutant who controls electromagnetic fields and moves metal, and who calls himself Magneto. The page lists him as an X-Men member, tied to Avengers: Doomsday (unreleased) and an alternate universe, and gives no biography.
Comics
Max Eisenhardt, called Magneto, is a Holocaust survivor and mutant who commands magnetism. He began as the X-Men's chief enemy and founder of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, ruled Genosha, then taught the New Mutants and joined the X-Men. He helped found Krakoa and sat on its Quiet Council, died defending Arakko, and was resurrected. He now lives with the X-Men in a factory in Alaska while a degenerative illness wears him down.
Fox films
A mutant who commands magnetic fields and metal. Tortured as a boy by Sebastian Shaw, he befriends Charles Xavier in 1962, then splits from him and leads the Brotherhood of Mutants against humanity. He is imprisoned, cured at Alcatraz in 2006, regains his power, and as an older man dies defending the X-Men's hideout in the 2023 future.
Timeline 22 events
- Silver · Comics: Magneto seizes the nation of Santo Marco with his Brotherhood, then loses his orbital base Asteroid M when the Scarlet Witch sabotages it during a fight with the X-Men.
- Silver · Comics: Magneto retreats to the Savage Land, remakes the natives into the Savage Land Mutates who worship him as the Creator, and fights the X-Men there.
- Bronze · Comics: The mutant Alpha turns Magneto into an infant, and Charles Xavier places him in Moira MacTaggert's care at the Mutant Research Center on Muir Island.
- Modern · Comics: Wounded Charles Xavier leaves for space and asks Magneto to take over as headmaster of the school for the New Mutants.
- Modern · Comics: After a duel with Sebastian Shaw he is declared the Grey King of the Hellfire Club, then leaves the New Mutants and rebuilds a fancier Asteroid M.
- Modern · Comics: The United Nations cedes the island nation of Genosha to Magneto as a homeland for mutants after he seizes control of the planet's magnetosphere.
- Modern · Comics: Mega-Sentinels attack Genosha, apparently killing Magneto, who is later found alive in the rubble by Xavier.
- Modern · Comics: In the House of M reality he rules Genosha, kills his son Quicksilver, and loses his powers when the Scarlet Witch declares no more mutants.
- Modern · Comics: Powers restored with the High Evolutionary's help, he arrives in peace at Utopia, the former Asteroid M, and meets Cyclops.
- Secret Wars · Comics: To stop an incursion that is colliding two Earths, Magneto drains Polaris' power and is destroyed on Genosha before reality is restored.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Hiding in Madripoor, he accepts a deal from Hydra's Captain America for a sovereign mutant country named New Tian in exchange for neutrality.
- Fresh Start · Comics: With Xavier and Moira MacTaggert he sets up the mutant nation of Krakoa and takes a seat on its Quiet Council.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Having resigned from the council and joined Arakko's Great Ring, he is mortally wounded fighting the Eternal Uranos and dies in Storm's arms.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Storm brings him back from the land of the dead, and months after the Orchis war he moves to Alaska to join Cyclops' new X-Men.
- 1944 · Fox films: Erik is torn from his parents at Auschwitz and his powers first show as he bends a gate (timeline: original).
- 1962 · Fox films: Erik hunts Shaw, meets Xavier, Mystique and Moira MacTaggert, and trains with the first class of young mutants at Xavier's mansion (timeline: original).
- 1962 · Fox films: During the Cuban Missile Crisis he kills Shaw, turns the fleets' missiles back on them, and a bullet he deflects cripples Xavier, ending their partnership (timeline: original).
- 1963 · Fox films: He is blamed for the Kennedy assassination and held beneath the Pentagon by Trask Industries (timeline: original).
- 1973 · Fox films: Magneto remains imprisoned in the Pentagon cell while Mystique kills Bolivar Trask in Paris, and the younger Magneto is later freed by Wolverine and Quicksilver (timeline: original, revised).
- 1986 · Fox films: By this year Magneto is free again and visits the child Jean Grey with Xavier, wanting to use her power, then later leaves the school to refound the Brotherhood (timeline: original).
- 2006 · Fox films: Magneto gathers a Brotherhood army against the mutant cure, recruits Jean Grey as the Phoenix, and assaults Alcatraz, where Beast injects him with the cure (timeline: original).
- 2023 · Fox films: The older Magneto is fatally wounded defending the mutant hideout from Sentinels, apologizes to Charles, and the future is erased (timeline: original).
home of
Krakoa, Genosha, Asteroid M, Savage Land, Arakko
enemy of
Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), Red Skull, Moira Mactaggert, Mojo, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Storm, Beast (Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy), Iceman, Professor X, Jean Grey, Angel (Warren Worthington III), Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), Rogue, Sebastian Shaw, Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock, variant), Havok, Mystique (Raven Darkholme)
allied with
Apocalypse, Bishop, Moira Mactaggert, Wolverine (Logan), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Storm, Professor X, Angel (Warren Worthington III), Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Emma Frost, Mystique (Raven Darkholme), Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Steve Rogers, Shuri, M'Baku, Thor, Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock, variant), Magik, Sunspot, Polaris, Sabretooth (Victor Creed, Earth-41578 variant), Juggernaut (Cain Marko, conjectured), Warpath, Banshee, Multiple Man, Kid Omega, Anole
parent of
Polaris, Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)
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