Lensherr, Eric

[Eric Lensherr]

ERIKMAGNUSLENSHERR

Name: Erik (Eric) Magnus Lensherr
Nickname(s): Eric, Erik Magnus, Eric Lehnsherr, Eric M. Lehnsherr, Eric Magnus Lensherr
Age: 82
Gender: Male
Birthday: July 7
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Job: Resistance Leader, Former teacher, Former headmaster of Xavier's school
Powers: Magneto's mutant powers give him mastery over all electromagnetic forces. He can perceive the magnetic forces of the earth and bioelectrical patterns of all living beings. He can draw on and use the magnetosphere of the planet, which extends far into space, as well as other planets and the ambient electromagnetic energies found in space. He can use his power to reshape even the most indestructible metals in existence, including Adamantium. (He can create fields of magnetism strong enough to manipulate non-ferrous items as well.) He can control even the most insignificant magnetic particles in the atmosphere and living beings, reversing their blood flow or ripping out any ferrous elements through their tissues. He can even affect the structure of atoms through the electromagnetic bonds between electrons and the nuclei. He has demonstrated the ability to lift tens of thousands of tons with his magnetic powers, although the greater he exerts himself the greater the physical and mental stress. He can erect magnetic force fields with a very high degree of impenetrability (he has blocked the blast of two tactical nukes) around himself or others for protection and can fire bursts of magnetic or electrical energy, including very powerful EMP's,

Because of its nature, electromagnetism being one of the four Foundation Forces of the Universe (along with gravity, and strong and weak nuclear bonds), Magneto's power is "for all practical purposes limitless". Although Magneto's primary power is control over magnetism, he can also project and manipulate electricity as well as any form of energy that is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light, heat, radio waves, ultraviolet light, gamma rays, and x-rays. He can also manipulate gravitons to create an anti-gravity fields and has created traversable wormholes between two points on this planet. It has been theorized that perhaps Magneto may be living proof of Einstein's "Theory of Everything", otherwise known Unified Field Theory, that all forms of energy are interrelated. However, Magneto relies principally on magnetism since it is somewhat more difficult for him to manipulate other forms of energy.

However, Magneto must channel these fields through his nervous system and if he is injured his ability to channel large amounts of force and wield forces beyond magnetism is greatly hampered. His paralyzation following the events of Eve of Destruction, for instance, left him almost completely powerless. By using his power on vast scales, such as lifting and building Asteroid M, he has frequently overloaded his nervous system, creating a chemical imbalance which some have theorized leads to his megalomaniacial episodes. On a couple occasions he has burned his abilities out completely through overuse, falling back on machines or other mutants to boost his powers until he can find a way to regenerate them.

While the films have Magneto relying on his helmet to protect him from telepathic attack, this is not the case in the comics books. In the books, Magneto seems to possess some limited telepathic abilities, though the source of them has been much debated. Magneto has demonstrated the ability to ward off telepathic attacks from some of the worlds most powerful telepaths by force of will alone (not wearing the helmet at all), it took Professor Xavier and Jean Grey together to wipe Magnetos mind. Magneto has also exhibited powers of astral projection and has shown himself sensitive enough to pick up on the feelings of others, such as the New Mutants, passively. It is unclear whether this is from a latent telepathic ability or training (such as Dr. Strange has). It has been theorized amoung fans that because brainwave's are bio-electric in nature, Magneto may be able to mimick certain affects of telepathy through the use of his electromagnetic powers. In the past he has also claimed to be able to control the minds of others, though it has been a long time since he has claimed this and he cannot seem to do so without technological aid.

Magneto is scientific and tactical genius. He can use his magnetic powers in more than one way simultaneously allowing him to completely assemble a complicated machine within seconds or fight off multiple opponents using different attacks successfully. He is highly skilled and imaginative beyond the realm of normal science in the areas of engineering, genetics, and computer science and posses technology it has been said, that Reed Richards would envy from a combination of his own work and that of alien technology (The Stranger, Shi'ar, etc.) he has encountered and assimilated into his own.
Position: Both Supervillain and Antihero depending on how you view him.

Play by: Sir Ian McKellen
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 190
Body Type: Thin
Hair: Silver/White
Eyes: Blue-grey
Tattoos and Piercings: Concentration camp tattoo

Likes: Mutants
Power
Control
People listening to him
Mutant superiority
Chess
Charles Xavier
Pyro (Views him as a son)
Dislikes: The Cure
Being stopped
Being interfered with
People rooting through his mind
Losing
Mutant suppression
Humans
Strengths: His abilities
Natural leader
Calm
Patient
Brilliant Strategist
Weaknesses: If he is in an area with no metal, Magneto is almost completely helpless
His age
The remnants of his loyalty to Charles
His physical condition
Fears: Something happening to Charles
Mutant extermination
Being imprisoned
Failing his mission
Personality: Magneto has endured many hardships over the course of his life. He has seen both the good and the bad that human kind has to offer. Magneto’s personality is mostly characterized by his despise of the treatment of mutants. He would want nothing more than to see mutants rise out of their chronic state of fear and oppression. Sometimes these beliefs go too far and he loses sight of the real goal. Magneto can often be impulsive and makes decisions without the consult of others, especially if it has to do with other mutants.

Family: Magda (wife, presumed deceased), Anya (daughter, deceased), Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch, daughter), Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver, son), Lorna Dane (Polaris, daughter), Thomas (grandson), William (Wiccan, grandson), Luna Maximoff (granddaughter)
Pets: none
History: Born Max Eisenhardt to a Jewish-German family in 1928, he was living in Nuremburg during the Nazi's rise to power. Max' nuclear family included himself, his parents (Jakob and his Edith), and an older sister (Ruth), but he has stated that prior to the Holocaust his was a large extended family which was completely wiped out (though it is possible that some might have escaped to other countries). He was also very close to his father's brother Erich. It is probably from his uncle that Max would later take on "Erik" as an alias.

After Kristallnacht, the Eisenhardts fled to Poland where they became trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto. While trying to escape the Ghetto, Max's family was killed by Einsatzgruppen, one of the roving task forces deployed by the Nazis to eliminate political dissidents, intelligentsia, Jews, Gypsies, and anyone else perceived to be a threat, usually by firing squad. Max's family, along with others, were lined up in front of a trench and shot. However, Max's nascent mutant powers emerged enough to shunt aside or blunt the impact of the bullets. He fell into the trench with his family and left for dead. Max managed to crawl out of the trench and make it to a nearby town where he was captured and sent to Auschwitz, the most horrifically efficient death camp in the Third Reich.

Because of the starvation, over-work, torture, and disease, Max's mutant abilities remained dormant throughout his time in Auschwitz and for years afterwards. He survived by becoming a sonderkommando, one of the prisoners that helped the Nazi's herd the Jews into the gas chambers, move the bodies to the crematorium, and then disperse the ashes. Most sonderkommando were shot and replaced on a regular basis to keep the Jews and the outside world from knowing too much about the Nazi's operations. How Max survived these purges is unknown. Witnesses stated that Max used his position to help people, mostly likely by passing along food and medicines the sonderkommando found in the clothes of the Jews herded into the gas chambers.

It was in Auschwitz that he was reunited with a first first love, a Gypsy named Magda. They managed to conduct a budding relationship within the sexually and ethnically segregated confines of the camp. In 1944, the Nazi's ordered the extermination of the Gypsies in Auschwitz. Some of them escaped by hiding among the Jewish population and it is possible that Magnus helped arrange for Magda's safety this way. As the Russian troops advanced, the Nazis began to dismantle the camp. As they began to massacre the female prisoners, Magnus rushed the guard attempting to kill Magda and beat him to death with his own rifle.

They escaped the camp and fled east into Carpathian Mountains in the Ukraine where they recovered, married and had a baby girl, Anya. When Anya was four or five, Magnus moved his family from the countryside to the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa in order to peruse an education as an engineer. Tragically, the first night the family was there the inn they were staying at caught fire. Returning from a day laborer job, Magnus discovered his powers in the course of saving his wife. However, he was beset by the police upon emerging from the inn and kept from saving Anya who burned to death before him. In his grief and rage he lashed out, killing the entire mob.

It is unknown whether or not she knew she was pregnant with Magnus' children the time, but Magnus did not. Months later she gave birth to twins, naming them Pietro and Wanda, on Wundergore Mountain and then immediately fled into a blizzard where it is assumed she perished. The twins were eventually adopted by the Gypsy Maximoff couple.

While trying to find his wife and elude from those hunting him for the deaths of the mob in Vinnitsa, Magnus paid a forger to create a new identity as Erik Lehnsherr, a Sinte Gypsy. Years later he abandoned his search and emigrated to Israel (probably under this identity), finding work as a volunteer orderly in a psychiatric hospital under the name of "Magnus" in Haifa where he first met Charles Xavier and Gabrielle Haller. While becoming friends, Xavier and Magnus had many discussions about humans coexisting with super-humans. They soon realized that their opinions differed and each could not be persuaded to agree with the other. Given his experiences, Magnus felt that humans would never be able to accept that which was different from them and saw mutants as being superior to humans. An encounter with the Nazi splinter group Hydra cemented these beliefs and Magnus disappeared for many years.

It is known that during this time period, Magneto hunted Nazi's for an intelligence agency, most likely CIA. However, he violently ended his association with them when they attacked him, slaying a woman he was growing close to, for hunting down and arresting one of the Nazi's America was using in their fight against the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. Magnus has also shown a highly disciplined mind and practices Yoga and meditation. He may also have spent some of this period studying these practices in the East.

When he finally did reappear in the public eye, he had turned to terrorism with the goal of mutant supremacy and had taken the name "Magneto". He attacked the Cape Citadel military base, but was repelled by the X-Men, students of his old friend Charles Xavier. Magneto formed the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and in attempting various schemes of conquest he and his team often found themselves facing off against Xavier and the X-Men. With and without the Brotherhood, Magneto would often face off against them or other superheroes such as the Avengers, Thor, and the Fantastic Four.

Though all three were unaware of their relationship at the time, his twin children Pietro and Wanda were part of the Brotherhood as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, something Magnus would later come to deeply regret as he was verbally abusive and callously abandoned them to harm and capture on a few occasions. Xavier remanded the infant Magnus to the care of Dr. Moira Mactaggart. While under her care, Dr. MacTaggart discovered certain instabilities in Magnus' nervous system that caused him to become more emotionally and mentally unstable the greater amounts of power he used. She experimented on the infant Magnus in hopes a way of finding a cure for her son Proteus. However, her experiments were unsuccessful.

He also discovered that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were his children. He rushed to tell them immediately of his discovery, but while they accepted the truth, both still harbored great resentment against him for his treatment while in the Brotherhood and rejected him. Over the following years, they would waver between warily accepting him and rejecting him outright, never forgiving him for his treatment of them and his criminal actions in the past. However, when Mutant Massacre occurred in the Morlock Tunnels, Congress introduced the Mutant Registration Act and Eric decided to set up a trial for the case. Trying, convicting and later exiling Remy LeBeau for the crimes, exposing Remy's darkest secret to the world.

Magneto planned on using a machine he built to mutate the leaders at the world summit on Ellis Island, though he was unaware of its lethality. He was stopped by the X-Men and jailed in a plastic prison.

William Stryker built Magneto's plastic prison and used a mind serum--generated by his mutant son--on Magneto to find out about Xavier's school and Cerebro. Mystique helped him escape after finding his location on a computer in Stryker's assistant's (Lady Deathstrike's) office. She injected one of the prison guards with liquid iron one night, and Magneto was able to use it to break out. He and Mystique teamed up with the X-Men to stop Stryker from using Cerebro to kill all the mutants in the world. Magneto managed to stop it but then reversed it to kill all humans. Cerebro was then stopped by the X-Men.

He made his Brotherhood into a huge army to wage war on Worthington Labs, the company responsible for creating the cure for mutation.

Role Play Sample: Tristan found himself at a shopping mall of all places. It was odd to say the least. He rarely came into a place like this. It wasn't as though he had much reason to. As a hunter of the supernatural, he learned to carry only the essentials with him. Just enough clothing to cover whatever alias he needed to be and just enough equipment to be prepared for whatever might come his way. Why was he at a shopping mall then? Curiosity. It was a bad habit of his. He wanted to know everything about whatever he came across. This place was like a concrete, multi-level labyrinth and he just had to know what they kept in here.

People were milling about everywhere. There were people on cell phones, people carrying lots of bags and people who just kinda sat there eating. They were packed in like sardines and the more he observed, the more he figured out why the place was built the way it was. They wanted to keep people inside as long as they could. The longer people stayed there, the more things they bought.

He wasn't worried about getting distracted by a phone call from one of his friends. he'd left his phone in his truck because it allowed him more time to explore this new concrete jungle. He had money and credit cards on him. he was an impulsive person and though he didn't need anything, it was nice to know he could buy something if it suited his fancy. His parents hadn't been wealthy and he had been taught to save money. That was for the birds.

He figured that if he had money he might as well spend it. It was paper with ink, that was all he saw it as. He spotted a cafe' and decided to stop by and see what they had. He had no idea what a smoothie was, but the names of them sounded interesting. As he pondered what one he might like to try, someone banged into him from behind. That, in turn, caused him to bang into the blond in front of him. That was really smooth. He stood up quickly and tried to think of what to say. "Sorry about that. I guess people are pretty eager to get themselves something. Must be pretty good considering the line.." Not the coolest opening line in the world.

Tristan looked at the woman he'd just bumped into. A sheepish grin was on his face. To say he was embarrassed was an understatement. He kicked himself mentally for not standing his ground firmly. The blond was very attractive, about a foot shorter than him, but that only made her look more delicate. She was definitely a looker. He was glad he'd stopped by. He smiled when she stuttered, he thought it was cute. He listened to her statement and nodded in agreement. "Must be downright incredible then."

"Let me make it up to you. Lets start with me buying you a smoothie and go from there." He hardly knew the girl, but there was something familiar about her. It was as though he had seen her somewhere before. He couldn't tell where he'd seen her. He'd been around for a very long time and it was hard to place people when you'd met so many of them. She had a certain innocence, a sort of ethereal glow about her as though she was not of this Earth. He brushed it off as the bad fluorescent lighting in the building.

"I'm Tristan. Tristan Baxter. What's your name?" He offered her his hand. It was only proper to introduce himself after that awkward moment. He saw the line move forward a bit, but made no move forward. He was much more interested in finding out who this woman was than he would be in some fruit drink. He waited for her answer.

Name: Magneto
Age: Take a guess
Contact Info: PM
Experience: A few years