REAL
NAME: Erik Lensherr
KNOWN ALIASES: None
IDENTITY: Known to the general public
OCCUPATION: Adventurer,: freedom fighter
CITIZENSHIP: Unknown
PLACE OF BIRTH: Someplace in Europe
MARITAL STATUS: Married
KNOWN RELATIVES: Rogue (wife), Charles Lensherr
(son); Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver, son), Wanda Maximoff
(Scarlet Witch, daughter, deceased), Magda (wife, deceased)
GROUP AFFILIATION: X-Men
EDUCATION: College
HISTORY: Erik Lensherr’s life changed
the day his good friend Charles
Xavier was murdered by Legion,
a time-traveling madman. Legion, who was actually the future
son of Charles Xavier, traveled back in time to murder the
man who would become his father’s nemesis in the future,
Magneto. When Xavier sacrificed his life to save Magneto
reality changed. And it appeared Xavier’s dream of
coexistence between mutants and humans would die with him.
Xavier’s death profoundly changed Lensherr’s life. He made a promise
on that day to carry on Xavier’s dream: to take mutantkind by the hand
and create a world where homo sapiens and homo superior would live together
peacefully. This dream would never come to pass. The mutant known as Apocalypse
made his presence known over a decade earlier than he would have if not for
Legion’s interference in the past.
As Apocalypse made his play for world
domination, Magneto gathered a mutant army of his own. He began with his children,
Pietro and Wanda. He learned of their existence while traveling through Germany
and invited them to help him create a team of mutants to protect those who could
not protect themselves. Both Quicksilver
and Scarlet Witch embraced their father’s cause and helped him gather
his team.
During this time Apocalypse grew stronger. He gathered a legion of mutant followers
who believed in his survival-of-the-fittest mantra. By the time Magneto had
gathered his X-Men team together, Apocalypse
had grown too strong and had gained control of a substantial section of North
America. The X-Men, named after Xavier and his dream, went into hiding and used
guerrilla tactics against Apocalypse’s army.
In the early days of the X-Men’s existence, Magneto provided a place
for young mutants to learn how to use their powers and fight for genetic equality.
Hidden in the Wundagore Mountains, this would be the X-Men’s base of operations
for years.
Surrounded by a team he knew he could trust, Magneto began to counterattack
Apocalypse. When Magneto learned Apocalypse had sent his Horsemen to Florida
to launch the United States nuclear arsenal, he and his team rushed to stop
them. He left his daughter, the Scarlet Witch, in charge of the young mutants
not yet ready to fight for the X-Men. One of these young mutants, a girl named
Rogue, had just been delivered to Wundagore
by Mystique.
The X-Men were successful in Florida but that success came with a price. Apocalypse’s
son, Nemesis, attacked Wundagore and killed
the Scarlet Witch. Ravaged with guilt, Magneto considered giving up. The X-Men
rallied around him and convinced him to go on. The young girl Rogue, who had
promised Scarlet Witch she would care for her father, told Magneto his daughter
believed in what they were doing and would have wanted him to carry on. Magneto
did just that, but he swore he would have his revenge on Nemesis.
That revenge would come years later in Japan. Attempting to prevent Apocalypse
and Nemesis from turning Japan into a wasteland, Magneto led a team of X-Men
into Tokyo. Apocalypse and Nemesis were recovering from a gigantic plasma explosion
unleashed by a captured Sunfire. Nemesis absorbed
the plasma energy and believed that power would be substantial enough to defeat
Magneto and his X-Men. He attempted to kill Magneto’s son, Quicksilver.
The enraged Magneto used his powers to tear Nemesis apart leaving him for dead
on the battlefield.
As time passed, Magneto grew closer to Rogue. Unfortunately, Magneto’s
close friend Gambit also cared for her. Magneto
expressed his growing feelings for Rogue when he told her that since both of
them possessed magnetic powers they actually cancelled each other out. And the
two kissed. Gambit witnessed this and was enraged. Moments later, during a sneak
attack by an evil mutant named Wolverine, Rogue chose to save Magneto instead
of Gambit. The Cajun mutant left the X-Men, and Magneto and Rogue carried on
their romance.
Magneto and Rogue married and had a son, Charles. They would continue their
war against Apocalypse, doing what they could to stop the madman’s plans.
But it became clear to them that they were fighting a losing battle. Not until
the reappearance of Bishop, an X-Man from the
true Marvel Universe timeline and a man Magneto had not seen since the murder
of Xavier twenty years, did Magneto realize there was hope.
Magneto learned another reality existed, one in which Apocalypse was not ruler
of America. One in which Xavier was not killed and he created the X-Men. Seeing
the desperate nature of the world he currently lived in, Magneto took the chance
to change the past for the better. He sent Nightcrawler, Colossus and Shadowcat,
and Gambit and his X-Ternals on separate missions to retrieve the necessary
items and people to travel back in time to save Charles Xavier. He then sent
the rest of his X-Men team, including his wife Rogue and son Quicksilver, on
missions to save as many humans as they could from the upcoming genetic war
in case Bishop was truly mad.
While his X-Men were scattered across the globe, Magneto stayed in Westchester
with Bishop and his young son, Charles.
The three of them were ambushed by Apocalypse there. Magneto. Bishop, and eventually
his young son, were all captured. Magneto was taken to the New York City capital
of Apocalypse’s kingdom and tortured. He was eventually freed by Sinister’s
genetic clone named Nate Grey.
With all elements now in place, Magneto was able to send Bishop back in time
to prevent Legion from murdering Charles Xavier. The original Marvel Universe
timeline was restored, and Charles Xavier was saved. But somehow, the Age
of Apocalypse still remained.
With Bishop safely sent back in time, Magneto turned his efforts back towards
Apocalypse. Using all of his magnetic powers Magneto tore Apocalypse apart.
Magneto was able to reunite with his wife and son as the nuclear weapons launched
by the Human High Council rained down on New York City. How the Age of Apocalypse
survived not only Bishop saving Xavier in the past but also the nuclear holocaust
which was going to obliterate them all is unknown, but Magneto and his X-Men
stand ready to rebuild the earth and face any threats that may come their way.
HEIGHT: 6 ft. 2 in.
WEIGHT: 210 lbs.
EYES: Blue
HAIR: White
SUPERHUMAN POWERS: Magneto is a mutant
with the ability to shape and manipulate magnetic fields.
He uses his powers in many different ways, including creating
a personal force field, flight, and energy blasts.
|