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Name: Erik Lehnsherr Door: Test drive (dominant) Canon: X-Men Movies Canon Point: After First Class, before Days of Future Past Age: Early 30s (saying 33) Appearance: linking this out History: Erik was born in the early 1930s to a German Jewish family. Fearing the worst, he and his parents fled to Poland in the 40s but were caught and brought to a concentration camp. While being separated, Erik's mutant powers awoke and under extreme stress he pulled down a set of gates before being knocked out by a guard. Due to these powers, Erik was led to Klaus Schmidt, a Nazi officer who wished to study mutants. Erik's mother was brought in as a stressor, and Schmidt killed her only so Erik could demonstrate. In his anger, he killed two of the soldiers by crushing their heads in their helmets, and made a mess of the office. The next few years were spent imprisoned at Auschwitz as an experiment. After the war, Erik was hell-bent on revenge and followed a trail to Schmidt, now under the alias Sebastian Shaw, to the coast of Miami. He tried to kill Shaw on his boat but was stopped by Emma Frost, a telepath working with Shaw. Ending up in the water, he reached out to try and halt the entire boat, but wasn't powerful enough. Charles Xavier, another telepath who had been hired by the CIA, jumped in to keep Erik from drowning. He was summarily invited to join the CIA as well, and agreed on the premise that it would help him relocate Shaw. He had pilfered the information he needed and was on his way out, but was urged by Charles to stay. Erik decided to insert himself into the mission to locate and recruit other mutants to CIA headquarters, and both he and Charles went on a cross-country roadtrip to do just that. Shaw, along with teleporter Azazel, came to CIA HQ to poach their recruits. After killing many of the agents, Angel volunteered to go with them. Shaw killed Darwin, who tried to stop them from taking Angel. After this, Charles invited all the mutants to come to his unused mansion in New York, as it was safer than CIA HQ (spoilers: it's really not.) Around this time, Charles and Erik take a trip to Russia to discover from Emma that Shaw's objective is to start a nuclear war, and as tensions rise culminating in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the young mutants decide they will fight Shaw together. Erik does manage to kill Shaw, and steals his telepathy-blocking helmet. When he emerges, he discovers that both the Cuban and American navies have decided the mutants are all a threat and were ordered to annihilate all of them, not just the ones who were in cohorts with Shaw. Angrily, Erik stopped all the missiles in midair and turned them back on both armadas. Charles pleaded with Erik not to start a war and Agent Moira MacTaggert tried to distract him by shooting at him, but he maneuvered the bullets away. One of the stray ones ended up in Charles's back, paralyzing him instantly. This was enough to stop Erik, who dropped the missiles in the water and avoided starting World War III. However, Charles rejected Erik's ideas about human nature and refused to join his cause. Half of the mutants there, including Mystique, agreed with Erik and left with him. Erik started up the Brotherhood of Mutants, and became politically active. He managed to convince Kennedy to give a speech about uniting mutants and humans, but Kennedy was assassinated shortly after. Erik tried to save him, but due to his interference with the bullet, he was convicted in his timeline of killing Kennedy. He was sentenced to life underneath a secure vault under the Pentagon. Personality: Erik's defining trait is his anger. He has known immense personal suffering and the writers fridge people he loves ad nauseam whenever they need for him to be the villain. His measures are usually reactions to some way he has been wronged, and his anger draws him to vengeance and violence. One of his issues is that he isn't satisfied when the immediate source of wrongdoing is eradicated - his countermeasures are extreme and generally considered terroristic. He is stubborn, focused and often tunnel-minded. While believing that in order to keep Mystique's blood from falling into enemy hands, he tries to kill her. As a result, he shoots her leg and her blood is gathered from the sidewalk. Everyone else present had attempted to stopped him from trying to do so, but in his arrogance he chose to ignore them. It is due to this arrogant nature that he often creates his own obstacles, such as broadcasting an attempted presidential assassination on national television. Though he was already infamous, this act was widely publicized and even taught in history lessons in American high schools ten years after the fact. Erik definitely has a flair for the dramatic, whether it's trying to kill Nixon on tv, or trying to start World War III, or trying to raze the entire planet. He does things in extremes, usually with the idea that he has already lost everything and won't care about the consequences later. He is usually charismatic by default, but when he's inspired to give a speech, he also becomes a megalomaniac. He likes to keep up with current events and politics, and is generally erudite and cultured. He plays chess, enjoys debating, and dresses nicely when he's in civilian clothes. He carries himself well and is also good at making small talk and issuing threats. He has a dry sense of humor, referring to himself as a "lab rat" and interrupting an intimate moment by announcing himself with saying "kinky." When he pushes a student off of a satellite dish to see if he can fly, he laughs it off saying to another character, "you were thinking [of doing] the same." Otherwise he has a serious disposition. Due to his past, Erik is slow to trust and usually distrustful of humans in general. He can get on with individual humans, but believes on a whole that they will feel threatened by mutants and will eventually try to commit genocide against them. Because he is a holocaust survivor, he will stop at nothing to ensure that the same thing does not happen to mutants. Usually, he believes he's doing the right thing by his people. He thinks that mutants and humans cannot coexist peacefully, and would do anything in his power to ensure the safety of mutants as a population. He thinks of mutation as a gift, and finds all manners of mutations beautiful. He encourages Mystique, for instance, to embrace the physical mutations she has to hide . Despite everything, Erik is a family man at heart. After going underground, he wanted to start over. He got married and had a child, and worked in a steel mill. He's depicted to be a loving husband and a good father, and being content in eschewing his powers in order to raise a family. His posture also changes during this time to be more relaxed and comfortable. All of this was going well until there was an earthquake, and Erik used his powers to save a coworker from a hot vat of melted steel. He was recognized as Magneto and gave himself up willingly so his captors wouldn't harm his wife and daughter. He has a skewed and often conflicting view of empathy and danger. He has no problem sinking Wolverine to the bottom of the Potomac, threatening to drop a plane out the sky while he is on it, and casually brandishes a gun in front of a room full of teenagers. He kidnapped Charles at Apocalypse's behest but was perhaps the one to fold up his jacket to cushion his head before he came to consciousness. Sometimes he attempts genocide on humans, missing the fact that this is feeding an endless loop where humans will find mutants dangerous and try to battle their own extinction at his hand. Of all the relationships he has, there isn't one more famous than the one he has with Charles Xavier. They are friends with differing ideals and politics, and often find themselves at opposite ends of a battlefield. But Charles is possibly the only person who consistently believes in Erik, and despite their differences Erik respects Charles's efforts in the mutant community. It's no better demonstrated that Erik holds Charles in the highest regard than when, at the eleventh hour, it's the nostalgic memory of Charles that inspires Erik to join the X-Men's efforts in defeating Apocalypse. He also has an on-again off-again working history with Mystique, at some point becoming her mentor. Often they agree, but Mystique finds Erik too extreme. He has a nearly-nonexistent relationship with his two remaining children, Peter and Lorna. Peter confessed to Mystique that he was Erik's son, but has not told Erik. Presumably his relationship with Peter's mom was short. Though Lorna is not mentioned in the movies, their father-daughter relationship is plaintive in the television series. He is not from a timeline where she is conceived yet, so I don't have to figure out whether or not he knows she exists. He does have another daughter, but due to copyright issues, she doesn't exist in the X-Men movieverse, though this is subject to change since Fox recently merged with Disney. If she does exist, she would be Peter's twin sister, and in the same vein that Erik is unaware of Peter in this timeline, he would also be unaware of Wanda. Since he has lost both his parents, his wife, and his daughter as a direct cause of being related to him, it is unknown whether he purposely distances himself from the rest of his family as being associated with him is dangerous. Powers and Abilities: He has a control over magnetism, but in the movieverse the writers interpret him to have a control over metal, regardless of whether or not it's ferrous. In the comics he has a much larger range of powers regarding magnetism (including fast flight, control over light, etc) and it's unlikely they'll touch on those in further installments of the X-Men movies, but not impossible. If they do extend his powers, I will request specific additions at that time. His powers as of Apocalypse are extreme as he destroys cities all over the planet from a single location, so I'm going to go ahead and cap his power level around where he is in Days of Future Past. He can kind of float but not really fly, lift a stadium, stop and move bullets, and give himself stitches in the back of his head. The helmet that he stole from Shaw also blocks telepathy. He also has an ability to learn languages very quickly, and he currently speaks the following: German (native), Yiddish (native), Hebrew (fluent), English (fluent but pretty much native), Polish (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish (unknown but presumably fluent) Inventory: 1 pair of wayfarer sunglasses 1 locket that contains photographs of his parents 1 extremely ugly telepathy-blocking helmet Samples: thoughts, speaking |
