Erik Maximoff

Max Eisenhardt

Henrik Lehnsherr

Erich Eisenhardt (late maternal uncle)

Ruth Maximoff (late sister)

Magda Lehnsherr-Maximoff (late wife)

Anya Lehnsherr (late mother-in-law)

Wanda Maximoff (daughter)

Pietro Maximoff (son)

Bad (formerly)

X-Men (formerly)

Brotherhood of Mutants (formerly)

Horsemen of Apocalypse (formerly)

superhero (formerly)

supervillain (formerly)

anti-hero

Erik Maximoff is Magneto

## Origins

### Founding the X-Men

Erik was born on January 30, 1930, to a Jewish family in Germany. His family was originally from Sokovia, but had moved to Germany two generations prior. Due to his family's religious background, Erik 's family was sent to a concentration camp during World War II, with only Erik surviving. Erik's mutant powers awakened while he was at the camp. After World War 2, Erik moved to England.

Once he reached the age of 30, Erik's aging slowed down tremendously, due to his mutant abilities. Still, he did not notice this until much later. He eventually realized that he was not aging once reached the age of 50, but still appeared to be in his early 30s.

He continued to live a normal life until 1988, when he met Magda Lehnsherr. The two married three years later, and gave birth to twins the following year. Erik was finally happy, but that happiness did not last long, as mercenaries hired by anti-mutant extremists attacked his home and killed his wife. His children survived, but he did not find that out until many years later. Believing his entire family to be dead, Erik changed his name to Henrik Lehnsherr, choosing the last name to honor his late wife, and began to move around Britain, eventually meeting Charles Xavier. He told Charles his real first name, but not his last, and the two became good friends. Despite this, Erik stayed on the move to avoid anti-mutant extremists.

This was Erik's life for many years, that is until 2018, when Charles called him and told him that he was making a school in New York to teach young mutants how to control their powers, and planned to use this school to help mutants be more acceptable to society. Charles asked Erik to be a teacher at the school, which he accepted.

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A few weeks after starting to teach at Charles Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters, Erik and Charles came up with the idea to have the students who were most skilled with their powers, should they choose to, join a team run by the school that would allow them to act as superheroes. Charles and Erik lead the team, with Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Hank McCoy, Kitty Pryde, Bobby Drake, and Warren Worthington III acting as the other members. He took the codename of "Magneto."

The first big situation that this team, which called themselves the "X-Men," was tasked with was taking down a mutate who called himself "Mr. Sinister." Sinister believed in mutant eradication, and was working to construct a machine that would kill anyone who was born with an X-gene. Sinister was stopped by the X-Men, but not before telling Erik that he was the one who had hired the mercenaries to kill his family. Erik then attempted to kill Sinister, but was stopped by the other X-Men, which caused Sinister to get away. Following this, Erik determined that Anyone who stood against mutantkind needed to be eradicated, and left the school and the X-Men.

### The Brotherhood of Mutants

Following his fallout with Charles and the X-Men, Erik formed a group of mutants who believed in his philosophy, and together, they formed the Brotherhood of Mutants. Alongside Mystique, Pyro, Avalanche, Mastermind, Blob, and Toad, they planned to transform everyone who was not a mutant into one. They would do this by using a radar device that they had planted on the Statue of Liberty to force everyone in the world who did not have an X-gene to develop mutations. Additionally, Erik constructed a helmet out of vibranium to keep Charles from being able to read his mind. Once the X-Men learned of his plan, they attacked the Brotherhood on The Statue of Liberty and managed to stop the device in time. Still, the Brotherhood managed to escape.

## Avengers Alliance

### The Masters of Evil arc

While Baron Zemo was creating the Masters of Evil, Erik gathered more mutants to his cause as planned launch an attack on Charles's school. Once the X-Men determined that they did not have enough people to stop the Brotherhood, they enlisted the help of the Avengers, who accepted their requests and quickly took down the Brotherhood.

### Age of Apocalypse

After two consecutive failures, Erik took more time to come up with a new plan, distancing himself from the Brotherhood, and changing his name to Max Eisenhardt, after his uncle, to avoid the police. While he was scheming, however, Apocalypse awoke from his slumber and came to him, telling him that we wished to make mutants the ruling species on Earth. Apocalypse then asked for Erik to become one of his Horsemen, which Erik accepted. Apocalypse then granted him more power and transformed his appearance. Following this, Erik helped Apocalypse gather more followers to complete his plan.

Eventually, Apocalypse made the mistake of merging both Erik and Charles together, creating a being even more powerful than himself known as "Onslaught." Onslaught quickly killed Apocalypse and heightened the powers on everyone on the planet who had super powers, not just mutants, and mind-controlled them to do his bidding. Despite this, some Avengers managed to escape the mind-control in various ways, allowing them to regroup. Eventually, Jean Grey managed to unmerge Charles and Erik, destroying Onslaught and undoing most of what Apocalypse did. Seeing what happened, Erik determined that he was wrong to try and eradicate those who were anti-mutant, and apologized for everything he had done. Charles offered him a place on the X-Men, but he declined and went into hiding, coming out of hiding whenever he was needed.

## Appearance

Erik appears to be in his mid-40s, despite actually being in his 90s. He has black hair and blue eyes, along with an average, but slightly muscular build. He tends to wear jeans and a brown or grey button-up shirt.

When on the X-Men, Erik wore a yellow and blue spandex costume with a blue cape. His suit matched the other X-Men at the time.

After forming the Brotherhood, Erik started wearing a suit that looked nearly identical to how his classic suit looked in the comics, though the red parts were black. The purple parts were unchanged.

When he became one of Apocalypse's horsemen, the black parts on his suit became a crimson red. Additionally, his eyes turned pale white, and his face was always covered in shadow, appearing similar to how he does in this picture.

## Powers and Abilities

* Magnetokinesis. Erik is able to move metal with his mind, though there has to be a significant amount of it. It is not known how much this actually is, but he cannot use the metals inside of humans to move them unless they have a metal implant.
* Flight. Erik is able to move a piece of metal under his feet and move it with his mind, essentially allowing him to fly.
* Slow aging. Erik ages much slower than a normal human. Despite being in his 90s, he has only physically aged about 15 years since he turned 30.
* Genius Intellect
* Skilled in boxing
* Able to speak English, German, Italian, Russian, and Sokovian. He can also change his accent to sound either British or German.
* Strong willpower

### Former Powers (granted by Apocalypse)

##### These powers were temporarily given to Erik by Apocalypse:

* His magnetokinesis was enhanced to the point where he could move anything with any amount of metal in it. This meant that he was now able to use the metals inside of humans to move them around, which he could not do before. Additionally, this allowed him to move himself, allowing himself to fly more efficiently.
* While it was never shown, his decreased aging was slowed down even more.
* Magnetic force-fields. Erik was able to create force-fields out of magnetic energy.
* Metal shifting. Erik was able to temporarily melt metal in order to change its shape.

Additionally, when wearing his helmet, he is completely protected from all psychic attacks and influence. Additionally, when wearing it, his mind cannot be read.

## Trivia

* Like all of the X-Men in MR, some of Erik's powers were taken away, leaving him only with the bare essentials for his character.
	+ Despite this, many of his powers from the source material were temporarily given back to him by Apocalypse.
* Erik was given slower aging in order to make his character work in a modern setting, as it is getting to the point where that is becoming near-impossible to do.
* Erik's real name was changed to Erik Maximoff to "make things simpler when it comes to his family."
* Despite how Wanda and Pietro are no longer his children in the mainstream Marvel comics, they are undeniably his in MR because RealGechoman44 believes that the change in Earth-616 was "incredibly stupid."
* Unlike most versions of the character, Erik's name is pronounced "Mag-NET-Oh" in MR, and not "Mag-NEET-Oh." This is because RealGechoman44 does not like the official pronunciation because magnets are not pronounced "mag-neet," and magneets do not exist.