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Magneto (alias Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) is a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. He has at various times been a supervillain, a superhero, and an anti-hero and in his role as a villain - arguably his most famous role, though not his most complex - he is the primary antagonist of the X-Men. He was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, though it was writer Chris Claremont who would later flesh out and develop the character into the one he is today.

Just as Professor X was inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., it is possible that Magneto could have been inspired by Malcolm X.

Publication history

Magneto has appeared in various issues of Uncanny X-Men, X-Men and several other Marvel Universe titles throughout the decades. This popular character would receive his own title one day. When the character returned to plague the X-Men and the world in 1993, Magneto received a special one-shot issue. The one-shot featured reprinted Magneto stories of old. These stories originally appeared in issues of Classic X-Men. The stories themselves were written by Chris Claremont and drawn by British artist John Bolton.

In 1996, Magneto was given another mini-series, this time to be written by Peter Milligan and with Kelley Jones Gary as artist. As it turns out to be, that this four issue mini-series actually featured Joseph, a younger clone of Magneto.

Character history

Early life

Magneto is a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp. As a young boy with his power over magnetism not yet developed, he and his family were persecuted for being Jewish. Magneto witnessed the murder of his family by the Nazis during the Holocaust. He alone survived and was sent into the camps being forced by the Nazis to work in the Sonderkommandos.

Magneto has since been tormented by the fact that he could have put a stop to the entire process had he only been aware of his full powers at the time. The entire Nazi military would not have presented an insurmountable challenge to Magneto in his prime. However, since he was malnourished and sickly while in the camps, he may not have been in a condition to use his powers even if he were aware of them.

After World War II, he married the gypsy Magda, a fellow survivor of the Nazi death camps and sired a daughter, Anya. Magneto consciously used his mutant abilities for the first time to protect Magda and himself from a fire. Unfortunately, he was unable to rescue his daughter from the blaze due to his inexperience coupled with interference from a mob of angry humans. He unleashed his powers to decimate the human crowd in revenge. Terrified by Magneto's powers, Magda fled.

Months later Magda would discover that she was pregnant. She died giving birth to the mutant twins Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, under the auspices of the artificially evolved cow midwife Bova. While searching for his wife during this time, Magneto, realizing that his name was known to his pursuers, paid a forger named George Odekirk to create the cover identity of "Erik Magnus Lehnsherr" for him. His true name remains unknown.

Magneto made his way to the newly created nation of Israel. There he befriended Charles Xavier while working at a psychiatric hospital near Haifa that tried to help traumatized Holocaust victims. Neither revealed to the other the fact that he was a mutant. The two held lengthy debates hypothesizing what would happen if humanity were to be faced with a new, super-powered, race of humans. The two friends revealed their powers to each other when they prevented Nazi Baron Wolfgang von Strucker and his HYDRA agents from obtaining a large cache of Nazi gold. Magneto had presumably killed Strucker by dropping the cave in on him, but Strucker somehow managed to survive and resurfaced much later. Realizing that his and Xavier's views on mutant-human relations were incompatible, Magneto left with the gold.

Rise of Magneto

Magneto's experience in the death camps had shaped his outlook on the current situation that mutants faced in the Marvel Universe. Determined that such atrocities will never be committed against mutant-kind, he was willing to use deadly force to protect mutants. He had several times expressed the belief that mutants (Homo superior) will eventually become the dominant life form on the planet. He constantly wavers between wanting to exist in harmony with Homo sapiens, wanting a separate homeland for mutants and wanting to enforce his superiority over all humanity. Magneto's status as hero or villain is a complex one. His methods are often extreme, but his goals are often noble at their root.

Magneto came to the public eye as a genetic terrorist with an attack on the American military base at Cape Citadel (his first comic book appearance, in X-Men #1). He was thwarted by his old friend Xavier's mutant students, code-named the X-Men. He briefly conquered the tiny (fictional) South American nation of San Marco after forming the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, which included his children Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, though their familial ties were unknown to all three at the time. He invaded in the hopes of establishing a mutant homeland there, but was once more foiled by the X-Men. He went on to create an orbital base of operations in an asteroid which he dubbed Asteroid M, in which he and his mutant followers had hollowed out a large habitat for themselves.

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