: This's Magneto, our boss-- though he doesn't really DO much... He doesn't even order us around! Mystique does that!
: I guess he's just a really shitty boss, yo!
: Poor, inept Magneto...
: I'm glad I never had to call him "boss"!
: Nah, YOU just had to take orders from Toad! XD
: SHADDUP! >.< (Rosiel: Okay, okay, maybe I should make him an angry face soon...)
: HEY! What's so wrong with that?!

Name: Erik Magnus Lensherr (or just plain Magnus, because apparently, the real Erik doesn't exist, or some weird shit like that-- but that's in the whacked-out comics! In Evo he says "My name is Erik Lensherr", so yay!)
Age: Old enough to've been in the Holocaust
Relatives: Magda (wife; deceased), Anya (daughter; deceased), Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (daughter), Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver (son)
Nifty Mutant Power: He controls all forms of magnetism and... metal... and... is just plain neato. :P Supposedly, he can kill people with the iron in thei blood, soooo one wonders why he doesn't just kill the X-Men, or Senator Kelly, or something the easy way. Of course, one of the cool things about Magneto is that he's not THAT bad a villain :D
First Appearance: Season 1, Episode 1 - "Strategy X"
Fave Quote: "Pietro, I am you-- oops! Sorry! Vadar influence here..."
: Huh?!

Random Crap: Magneto started his life off as Erik Magnuss Lensherr, a happy gypsy lad! Yes! He was a gypsy, NOT Jewish-- unless he was a Jewish gypsy, I dunno... Anywho, according to the movie, only the Jews were in concentration camps, therefore, in movieverse, Mags is Jewish, SO he might be Jewish in the show-- oh, why the hell does this matter?! ANYWAY! Magneto was a gypsy, and the Nazis didn't like gypsies, so off to the concentration camps (Auschwitz) he and his family went. Stupid Nazis. His whole family died there, and he met Magda, his future wife while saving her (I THINK) from being raped/beaten/or killed by guards.

Due to the trauma and physical hardships gained from life in Auschwitz, his powers didn't emerge until he was in his twenties-- and thus it screwed up his life even more. You see, our pal Erik was quite happy with Magda and their four-year-old daughter Anya. He lived in a lil town, had a job, and everything was happy and shit... until his powers emerged and the townsfolk got mobby and burned his house-- with Anya in it. So, he killed them (I think), and Magda ran off to escape her scary husband and give birth to her kids (she was pregnant and he didn't know :P) where he couldn't find them-- Mt. Wundagore. So, with the help of the High Evolutionary and his wacky animal sidekicks, she gave birth to Pietro and Wanda... then ran off to die in the snow, I think, making life kinda difficult for the kiddies, who were given to a gypsy family, the Maximoffs. 'Course, for a long time, Magneto had no idea Wanda and Pietro were his kids (but he seems to know in Evo)-- not even when they were in the Brotherhood!

Blah blah, stuff happened, blah. Now Magneto's the leader of the Brotherhood, the rival group to the X-Men, which is headed by his ex-bestest pal Charles Xavier. Ooooh. One can only wonder what future hijinks will ensue! Well, maybe not, because Magneto shot off into space at the end of Season 1, but he should be back for Season 2. Eh.

UPDATE: That up there *scrolls up* Is Magneto's comic past mixed with some Evo. After I wrote that, more info on our pal Magnus popped up in the show. Apparently, in Evo, his history's not nearly as wacky. He was a gypsy/Jew (still dunno which since the comics contradict themselves by saying in one issue that he's a gypsy and in another that he's Jewish) kiddie in a "Prisoner Camp" not at all run by Nazis (they're just generic badguys, since apparently they were never referred to as the Nazis in the ep) in World War II. Instead of being a badass who escaped with Magda, he was rescued by Logan and Captain America along with the other prisoners, and helped them out by using his special powers, which had already manifested.

After that, he... presumably got married and had kids, since he was around for Pietro and Wanda's childhood. When the kiddies were around 10 (or older), he tossed Wanda into an "Institution" because he couldn't control her. Then, sometime after that, he must've ditched Pietro, too, because their relationship in "Speed and Spyke" shows that they don't live together anymore. Dunno what happened to his wife or how Pietro and Evan knew each other since they were babies, and yet Evan has no recollection of Wanda. Confuuusing.

Anywho, he founded the Brotherhood of Mutants, blah blah, did the Asteroid M thing, and has since popped up at random times making people in Evoverse miserable.

Personal Opinion: I love EvoMags and... uh... yes. He's a bastard, but I love him!

Old vs. New: Me likies Canon Mags very much! XD He's waaay cooler than Evo Mags! He has a personality and... he used to be my favorite character, so I have to like him :P Ultimate Magneto's scaaary, though.... but plain ol' Mags is cool! And what the hell is up with him lately? Is he still "dead"? Oh well, he's died many times... Er, uh... woo! I love Magneto! Evo Mags is boring, and Movieverse Mags was... well... he was okay. I really love Ian McKellen.