Post by Magneto on May 6, 2006 15:42:06 GMT -5
Name: Unknown
Alias: Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, Erik the Red, Grey King, White King, Michael Xavier, "the Creator," White Pilgrim, Prisoner #214782, Magneto
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Side: Anti-SHR
Appearance: [shown in image]
Height : 6'2"
Weight : 190 lbs
Eye Colour : Bluish-grey
Hair Colour : Silver
Mutation/Powers: Arguably one of the most powerful superhumans on the planet, Magneto is a mutant with the superhuman power of magnetokinesis. He can shape and manipulate magnetic fields that exist naturally or artificially. Magneto can thus lift, move, and manipulate objects (sometimes weighing many thousands of tons), and manipulate bloodflow to others' brains to cause aneurysms or unconsciousness. He can absorb and redirect electricity, control ferrous particles in the atmosphere, even the very air, alter the Earth's magnetic field which extends into space as the Magnetosphere, increase his own strength to the extent of being able to exchange blows with at least Colossus, fly in or beyond the Earth's atmosphere, and achieve an indefinite range of other effects.
With the primal forces of nature at his command, Magneto has stopped armies, moved mountains, and threatened to devastate the world with apocalyptic floods and earthquakes. Magneto once blanketed the entire globe with a self-generated electromagnetic pulse that caused widespread devastation. It is unclear, however, whether he must draw magnetic force from outside himself (if so, then he can do so over vast distances). It could also be that he can both naturally generate and draw on the earth's magnetic field to increase his power, effectively making him both a reservoir and a conduit.
Although Magneto's primary power is magnetism, he seems to have some ability to project or manipulate any form of energy that is related to magnetism, or the entire electro-magnetic spectrum. He can open wormholes through space, create almost impenetrable force fields, and become invisible by deflecting visible light around his body. He can fire bolts of electricity and of pure magnetic force and can create enough intense heat to destroy a metal door, as he is able to manipulate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. (He has also dispersed a "flame cage" created by the original Human Torch, but whether he had simply expanded his personal force field or employed something else entirely is unclear.) He can also reverse lasers, electricity, and other forms of radiation or energy when fired at him. In addition, he can create anti-gravity fields and does so whenever he levitates non-magnetic objects. However, Magneto tends to use magnetism.
Magneto also possesses some psychic abilities, such as the ability to create a psychic shield for protection against psionic attack. At times he has read minds, astral projected and, aided by a device of his creation, controlled minds. (Note: He has controlled minds without the device, but only through manipulating the iron in blood and redirecting its flows through the brain) Charles Xavier referred to Magneto's "latent telepathy."
Magneto'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 great amounts of magnetic forces. When his powers are not at their peak, he appears to have greater difficulty controlling forces other than magnetism.
Magneto's suit is made of flexible metal bonded on the molecular level, providing protection against projectiles, energy weapons, and concussive force. His helmet, which is built out of the same metal as Charles Xaviers "Cerebro", allows him to keep telepathic attack from harming him and also shields his mind from "Cerebro".
Magneto is an expert on genetic manipulation and engineering with knowledge far beyond that of contemporary science. He is considered to be a genius within various scientific fields. He has the technology to mutate humans in order to give them superhuman powers or create adult clones of human beings and then manipulate the genetic structures of these clones during their development. He has created artificial living beings, designed magnetically-powered skycraft and spacecraft, complex robots and computers and magnetically-powered generators.
Magneto is a skilled strategist and has more than a rudimentary knowledge of hand-to-hand combat.
History/Background:
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,as the entire Nazi military would not have presented an insurmountable challenge to Magneto in his prime. However, since he was so 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.
Magneto's experience in the death camps shaped his outlook on the situation that mutants faced in the Marvel Universe, and influenced the course of his subsequent career. As a result Magneto's status as hero or villain is a complex one. 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. His methods are often extreme, but his goals are often noble at their root.
Determined that such atrocities as those in Nazi camps would never be committed against mutant-kind, he was willing to use deadly force to protect mutants. He expressed the belief that mutants (Homo superior) would eventually become the dominant life form on the planet.
Magneto first came to the public eye as a superpowered terrorist with an attack on the American military base at Cape Citadel. He was thwarted by his old friend Xavier's mutant students, code-named the X-Men. He briefly conquered the tiny 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.
Dabbling in genetics, Magneto created an artificial humanoid whom he named Alpha the Ultimate Mutant. Unfortunately, as often happens with artificially created creatures, Alpha rebelled against his creator. Alpha reduced Magneto to infancy using his powers. Magneto was placed in the care of Xavier's former love interest, Professor Moira MacTaggert at Muir Island. It was later revealed that MacTaggert tinkered with the infant Magneto's genetic code in an attempt to remove any genes that might cause him to become the "evil" mutant he would become in adulthood. She claimed that she had hoped to cure both Magneto and her own young son, Kevin, of the problems and dangers that their mutancy caused them. However, any genetic tampering lost its effect once Magneto first activated his powers again. Later, Magneto was eventually found at Muir Island and restored to early adulthood by the alien Shi'ar agent Davan Shakari, who normally goes by the code-name "Erik the Red".
Magneto returned to his attempts at global conquest, and was opposed time and again by the X-Men and a number of other heroes. In his most audacious attempt to conquer the world, he threatened the governments of the world with earthquakes and volcanic activity. Though he had no qualms about sinking a Russian submarine, killing all aboard after the submarine had attacked him, then raising a volcano in the city of Varykino as an object lesson, he did give time for a mass evacuation before lava swept over the city. Likewise, he was shocked when he physically struck down the adolescent X-Man Kitty Pryde in battle. Remorseful at how he had almost killed such a young girl, Magneto put an end to his attempt at world conquest and retreated to rethink the path his life had taken.
Magneto later discovered that former Brotherhood members the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were actually his children, but when he tried reaching out to them they pushed him away saying they couldn't forgive him for his past actions and being related would not change that.
Magneto found himself allied with Professor Xavier and the X-Men when a group of heroes and villains were abducted by the Beyonder, a nearly omnipotent yet frustratingly short-sighted being, to an alien world to participate in the Secret Wars. This surprised many of the other heroes who still believed he was a villain and it was up to the X-Men to defend them.
After the Secret Wars were over, Magneto was transported back to his base Asteroid M where the alien Warlock, fleeing from space to Earth, collided into the asteroid breaking it to pieces. Magneto was sent falling towards Earth where he fell into the Atlantic Ocean sustaining serious injuries. He was rescued by Lee Forrester, the captain of the fishing trawler Arcadia. Lee helped him recuperate from his injuries and the two shared a small romance.
After recuperating from his injuries, Magneto was asked to aid the X-Men in battling the Beyonder who had returned. Magneto stayed with the X-Men even after the Beyonder was defeated. His association with the heroic team softened his views on humanity and Magneto surrendered himself to the law in order to stand trial for his past crimes. A special tribunal was organized and Magneto intended to abide by whatever verdict was brought. The trial started well for Magneto as the tribunal chose to strike all charges against him from prior to his "rebirth" deeming that this had constituted a figurative death of the old Magneto. However, it was then interrupted by the attack of Fenris, the twin children of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Fenris was defeated but Professor X was brought to the point of death due to the strain of battle and previously sustained injuries. Xavier asked Magneto to take over his school and the X-Men, telling him that doing so would make amends enough for his past crimes (although Xavier was at this point an observer at the trial and had no legal authority to do so). Magneto agreed and chose not to return to the courtroom. Instead he took over Xavier's school under the assumed identity of Michael Xavier, Charles Xavier's cousin. Seeing him try to reform, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver later began accepting him as their father.
Though Magneto made a substantial effort as the headmaster to the New Mutants and an ally to the X-Men, his tenure was disastrous. He was forced to deal with the death of all of the younger students, the New Mutants, and their traumatic return to life after being slain by the godlike Beyonder. He was manipulated by the White Queen, mutant headmaster of the rival school "The Massachusetts Academy", battled legally recognized heroes such as the Avengers and the Supreme Soviets. He was unable to prevent his students Roberto Da Costa and the alien Technarch Warlock from running away from the school, saw the death of the young mutant student Douglas Ramsey, and witnessed on national television the apparent death of all of the senior X-Men. Feeling that desperate measures needed to be taken, Magneto forged an alliance with the X-Men's enemies the Hellfire Club and went so far as to oust longtime co-chair Sebastian Shaw in order to establish himself as the Hellfire Club's Grey King.
Seeing that mutantkind was confronted with far more perilous times than ever before, Magneto began seeking allies in order to protect mutants from humanity. Towards this end he participated in the "Acts of Vengeance" alongside such established villains as Doctor Doom, the Wizard and the Mandarin. He also confronted Red Skull, an unrepentant Nazi war criminal, on whom Magneto took revenge by entombing him alive. He worked alongside the American intelligence agent Nick Fury as well as a number of Russian operatives in order to re-establish peace in the Savage Land. Tired of the constant state of strife, Magneto built a second orbital base where he hoped to live a life of quiet seclusion. He was by this point a figurehead for the cause of mutanthood and was sought out by a number of new mutants calling themselves the Acolytes.
After this, Magneto set his sights significantly lower than world conquest; he sought only a haven for mutantkind. He first attempted to make the orbital base known as Asteroid M such a haven but was opposed by the governments of the world and the X-Men. The X-men did not know if Magneto was returning to his villainous ways or not and so they confronted Magneto. At the time the X-men were divided into the Blue team and the Gold team. Xavier made the mistake of sending the Blue Team, led by Cyclops, who had never trusted Magneto, not even when Magneto had reformed.
Without giving Magneto a chance to explain himself, Cyclops ordered the others to attack. During the battle Wolverine, who had been friends with Magneto when Magneto had been on the team, attempted to kill him much to Magneto's shock. With the exception of Rogue, none of the X-Men were any different.
Feeling betrayed by his former allies, Magneto fled. He later discovered how Moira had tampered with his mind when he had been de-aged as a child. Magneto felt enraged, feeling that his redemption had been a lie. Though it was later revealed that the genetic tampering had lost its effect when he had first used his powers after being re-aged and thus his actions had never been influenced by Moira's tampering, the damage had been done. He became the X-Men's enemy once more.
Later, the United Nations Security Council, in response to a resurgent Magneto, voted to activate the "Magneto Protocols" - a satellite network; in slightly lower orbit than Avalon, which skewed the Earth's magnetic field enough to prevent Magneto from using his powers within, preventing him from returning to the planet's surface. In response to the activation, Magneto generated a massive electromagnetic pulse not only destroying the satellites, but deactivating every electrically powered device on Earth within eleven minutes. The X-Men responded by hacking into Avalon's own computer systems to teleport a small team to the station with the aid of Colossus (who had joined Magneto as one of Magneto's Acolytes). There the X-Men engaged Magneto in battle. Finally, Wolverine launched a killing strike which led Magneto to respond by ripping the adamantium from Wolverine's bones. This act of self-defense enraged Xavier to the point where he mindwiped his former friend leaving him comatose, an action which later led to the creation of Onslaught.
Magneto then remained in this state on Avalon worshipped by his Acolytes, under the leadership of Exodus until Avalon itself was destroyed. During the destruction, Colossus placed Magneto in an escape pod sending him back to Earth. This pod was intercepted by Astra, a former ally of his who now desired his death. She cloned Magneto and when the clone was ready, she restored Magneto's mind since she felt there was no point in killing him unless he knew it was her doing it. After a pitched battle, Magneto triumphed over the clone sending him crashing into a Mexican barn. However, weakened by this, the real Magneto went into hiding while the clone became known as Joseph and eventually joined the X-Men.
Magneto then took this time to plan since the world believed Joseph to be the real Magneto. He engaged 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 killed Odekirk to prevent his true identity from being discovered by Sabra and Gabrielle Haller.
Following this, Magneto constructed a machine with which to amplify his powers and blackmail the world into creating a mutant nation. The X-Men and Joseph, who had fallen under Astra's control again, opposed him. The X-Men defeated Magneto leaving his powers severely depleted from over-strain and Joseph sacrificed his life to restore the Earth to normal. The United Nations manipulated by Alda Huxley, the United Nations mutant affairs officer, ceded the island nation of Genosha which had no recognized government to Magneto. Magneto ruled that nation for some time with the aid of many who had previously opposed him, including Quicksilver, Polaris, and the founder of the Acolytes, Fabian Cortez.
Despite the UN's hopes that Genosha's ongoing civil war between humans and mutates would destroy or at least occupy him, Magneto managed to crush all opposition to his rule and rebuilt the nation by forming an army of mutates dedicated to his cause, with more mutants coming from all over the world seeking sanctuary in Genosha.
Eventually, he was able to use the Genegineer's equipment to fully restore his power. Intending to declare war on humanity, Magneto captured Professor X using him as a symbol with which to rally his troops. In the Eve of Destruction storyline, Jean Grey recruited a new lineup of X-Men to assist Cyclops and Wolverine in rescuing Xavier and defeating Magneto. Taking the opportunity to get his revenge, Wolverine attacked the defeated Magneto leaving him with serious injuries and crippling him for a time.
Soon after this, Genosha was decimated by yet another rogue mutant -- Cassandra Nova Xavier, Charles Xavier's previously unknown dead sister, whom Xavier had killed in the womb. Magneto and 16 million mutants who were gathered at Genosha were reported deceased. Months after the event, a team of X-Men searching in the debris found what was apparently a recording of Magneto's last words. Mutant-supremacist ideas, attributed to him, became wide-spread in the mutant community with some holding him as a martyr of the mutant cause.
Meanwhile, the mutant known as Xorn had joined the X-Men after being rescued from captivity in China. Xorn was said to be a Chinese mutant with a "star for a brain" and wore a face-concealing metal helmet with a skull-like motif. He also possessed nebulous healing powers, although the only time he was shown to heal anyone was when he deactivated a number of microscopic Sentinels and simultaneously restored Professor Xavier's ability to walk.
In the Planet X storyline, he eventually removed the helmet, revealing Magneto's face beneath. It was alleged that Xorn never existed and was simply an identity conceived wholly by Magneto. Having "exposed his deception", he then schemed to destroy the X-Men and reverse the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field, increasing his power with the use of a mutant drug called "Kick". He recruited the Special Class and Esme from the Xavier School to serve as his Brotherhood of Mutants, though most eventually turned against him. Before being decapitated by Wolverine, "Magneto" killed Jean Grey using a lethal electromagnetic pulse that caused her to have a massive stroke and devastated much of New York City.
Some time later, the X-Men found another Xorn, who identified himself as Shen Xorn and revealed that the "Magneto" who devastated New York was Kuan-Yin Xorn, his brother and said that he believed that someone else was controlling his brother. Who, as yet, remains unknown.
It has now been hinted that the mystery surrounding "Xorneto" was caused by Magneto's daughter, the Scarlet Witch, as she was losing control of her reality warping powers. In fact it was Scarlet Witch's reality warping powers that created an alternate universe where mutants were the majority leaving humans as the minority. This was all brought about by Quicksilver who convinced Scarlet Witch that she could make Magneto's dreams become reality. It was there that with the help of Layla, a mutant who had "Seen" the real world, helped set things right. Magneto even killed Quicksilver in a furious rage by pummeling a sentinel down on him. Using her new powers, Wanda revived Quicksilver explaining to Magneto that all he wanted was for him to be happy. With this and the phrase "No more mutants" Wanda put the world back to normal but with over 90 % of mutants' powers lost, including Magneto's making him a broken man. Magneto has since arisen to criticise his son, Quicksilver, for his quest to restore mutant powers. However, a future event suggests that he is himself set to be repowered. That time is now, with the emergence of new registration act. Magneto may have to resort to violent methods in order to maintain mutant order.
Sample Post:
Metal.
It was the one thing that Erik had grown to love all his life. It reminded him of mutant kind. Their existence, their difference, the usefulness and their disregard. Almost everything about metal shone some hint or another at Erik and frankly, he was getting quite sick of it. Why? Because it proved that he had nothing better to do.
Standing on the rooftops, the wind caressing his silver hair and the sky illuminating the world, was one man. One man who had done so much for mutant kind that it had astonished himself.
His name was Magneto.
The extravagant garb of black made him as distinctive as anything even without his helmet and his steel eyes scanned the are in which he was standing in.
Humph.
After all this time trying to rule the world and all they could do was pass a new registration act. An act that just proves how much homo sapiens need mutant kind. So whose side was he on? He felt that he didn’t need to care about Charles and his gang of upstarts known as the X-men. After all the world had forgotten the power of Magneto. Maybe it was time to bring about a new order. Maybe the government’s divided sides could mean a new brotherhood, a brotherhood involving anti-registration members. A brotherhood of Freedom.
Summoning the tiniest amount of magnetic energy, Erik descended from the roof his majestic cape swirling upwards. He landed down on the ground as lightly as a feather. It was time, his feet softly tapping the floor. It was time to begin an order of freedom.
I know it makes it difficult to think of a way to get his powers back, but you can go with the earlies suggestion of Dark Beast having helped restore them if you like. Say Magneto had refused his help before but he grew so desperate to help the Registration situation he agreed.
