Magneto (film character)
Fictional character of 2000-19 X-Men film series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Erik Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto, is a character primarily portrayed by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in 20th Century Fox's X-Men film series. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, he has appeared in eight installments of the franchise. McKellen played Magneto in the original trilogy films X-Men (2000), X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), in addition to making a cameo in The Wolverine (2013); while Fassbender portrayed a younger version of the character in the prequel films X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix (2019). Both actors' iterations appeared in different time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).
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First appearance | X-Men (2000) |
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Full name | Erik Lehnsherr |
Alias | Henryk Gurzsky |
Species | Human mutant |
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Spouse | Magda Gurzsky (wife) |
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Relatives | Dawn Dane (granddaughter) |
Religion | Judaism |
Nationality | German Jew-American |
Auschwitz number | 214782 |
As in the comics, Magneto is depicted as a powerful mutant, a fictional subspecies of humans born with superhuman abilities, who can manipulate and generate magnetic fields. He is a Holocaust survivor who regards mutants as being superior to humans, and seeks to enable them to replace mankind as the dominant species on the planet.