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Magneto

Magneto

a.k.a. Erik Lehnsherr

14 figures · Marvel · 7 manufacturers

14FIGURES
7MAKERS
2008EARLIEST
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Peace was never an option.
— X-Men: First Class (2011)

THE LEGEND

Erik Lehnsherr survived humanity's worst camps as a child and drew one conclusion he has never abandoned: never again, and never at anyone's mercy. The Master of Magnetism commands every scrap of metal on Earth, from the iron in a guard's blood to satellites in orbit, and he has bent bridges, submarines and stadiums to make a single point: mutantkind will not wait politely to be exterminated. The tragedy is that his best friend agrees with the diagnosis and despises the cure. Erik and Charles Xavier have spent a lifetime playing chess over the same board, each certain the other is the naive one. Magneto is not a monster. He is a survivor who decided the next war would not find his people unarmed, and that is what makes him unanswerable.

OFF THE PAGE

Magneto debuted in 1963 as a stock villain and became something far greater when Chris Claremont gave him his history: a Holocaust survivor whose extremism grows from real atrocity. It remains the gold standard for villain-deepening in comics, an antagonist whose argument you cannot fully dismiss. Ian McKellen gave him gravity and mischief; Michael Fassbender gave him rage and grief; the helmet, which keeps Xavier out of his head, became an icon in its own right. Every "villain who has a point" of the past thirty years walks a road Magneto paved.

IN SIXTH SCALE

Magneto is a regal figure in sixth scale: the crimson armor, the sweeping cape, and that unmistakable helmet, with comic-styled and film-likeness versions serving different shelves of the Marvel mutant wing. Levitation poses and metal-debris effect parts are where he comes alive; a Magneto with both feet on the ground is only half the argument. Set him opposite an X-Man and the chessboard builds itself. The full brotherhood is below, newest first.
THE ARCHIVIST'S ESTIMATES · MAGNETO

THE SCOUTING REPORT

THE CABINET · 117 FILES

The Archivist's estimates, scribbled between shelf dustings. Not canon, not law, and absolutely worth arguing about in the Courtyard.

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Magneto
PEAK SUPERHERO CLASS· CASTER
LIFESPAN
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VITALITY13
STRENGTH8
DURABILITY42
SPEED12
BATTLE IQ58
POWER84
VITALITY13STRENGTH8DURABILITY42SPEED12BATTLE IQ58POWER84
What they can do in a fight.

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