MAGNETO
Earth-295

Real Name: Erik Magnus Lensherr

Identity/Class: Alternate Earth (Earth-295), human mutant, naturalized citizen of the United States, former citizen of Germany

Occupation: None, former director of mutant affairs, former rebel leader, former orderly

Group Membership: X-Men (Beak/Barnell Bohusk, Banshee/Sean Cassidy, Blink/Clarice Ferguson, Dazzler/Alison Blaire, Exodus/Bennett du Paris, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Morph/Kevin Sidney, M.O.D.O.K./'Charles Xavier', Nightcrawler/Kurt Darkholme, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Rogue/Anna Marie Lensherr, Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff Lensherr, Sabretooth/Victor Creed, Silver Samurai/Kenuicho Harada, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Sunfire/Shiro Yoshida, Weapon X/Logan, Wild Child/Kyle Gibney, Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair, Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff-Lensherr, X-23/Kirika Yashida, Xorn/Paige Guthrie)

Affiliations: Angel (Warren Worthington III), Bishop, Bova, Peter Corbeau, Destiny (Irene Adler), Exiles (Blink/Clarice Ferguson, Holocaust/Nemesis, Mimic/Calvin Rankin, Morph/Kevin Sidney, Namora, Sabretooth/Victor Creed), Gateway, Generation Next (Chamber/Jonothon Starsmore, Colossus/Peter Rasputin, Husk/Paige Guthrie, Know-It-All/Claudia, Mondo, Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde, Skin/Angelo Espinosa, Vincente/Vincente Simetta), Gabrielle Haller, Human Resistance (David Moreau, unidentified others), Robert Kelly, Mystique (Raven Darkholme), Nanny, Illyana Rasputin, Daniel Shomron, Timebroker, X-Ternals (Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Jubilee/Jubilation Lee, Lila Cheney, Strong Guy/Guido Carosella, Sunspot/Roberto "Bobby" da Costa), Charles Francis Xavier, X-Man (Nate Grey), X-Force of Earth-616 (Deadpool/Wade Wilson, E.V.A., Fantomex, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Wolverine/James Howlett), X-Men of Earth-616 (Iceman/Bobby Drake, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Storm/Ororo Munroe), X-Terminated (Fiend/Francesca Stark, Prophet/William Stryker)

Enemies: Absorbing Man (Carl Creel), Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur), Black Legion (Beta Red, Demon-Ock, Grimm Chamber, Iron Ghost, Orange Hulk, Zombie Sentry/Robert Reynolds), Candra's Heralds (Candra, Death, Gideon, Sabretooth/Victor Creed, War), Diablo (Esteban Corazón del Ablo), The Guthries (Amazon/Elizabeth Guthrie, Cannonball/Sam Guthrie, Husk/Paige Guthrie, Icarus/Josh Guthrie), Holocaust (Nemesis), Horseman of Death (Maximus Boltagon), House of Agon (clones of Black Bolt/Blackagar Boltagon, Crystal/Crystalia Amaquelin, Gorgon, Karnak, Lockjaw, Medusa/Medusalith Amaquelin, Rhino, Triton), Infinites (Vanisher and unidentified others), Morlocks (Annalee, Feral, Leech, Marrow, unidentified others), Mr. Sinister (Nathaniel Essex), Legion (David Haller), Madri (Jamie Madrox), Mudir Rictor (Julio Richter), Prelate Delgado, Prelate Alex Summers, Prelate Scott Summers, Prelate Unus, Mikhail Rasputin, Sinister Six (Cloak/Ty Johnson, Dagger/Tandy Bowen, Phoenix/Jean Grey, Sauron/Karl Lykos, Sonique/Terry Rourke), Sugar Man, Weapon X (Logan)

Known Relatives: Charles Lensherr (son, deceased), Magda Lensherr (wife, deceased), Pietro Maximoff Lensherr (son, deceased), Rogue Lensherr (wife, deceased), Wanda Maximoff Lensherr (daughter, deceased)

Aliases: "Bucket head", "old man" (nicknames used by Weapon X)

Base of Operations: formerly New Atlantis, Atlantic Ocean;
    formerly the Xavier Institute, Washington D.C.;
    formerly the Xavier estate, the Dead Zone (formerly known as Westchester, New York);
    formerly the underground X-Compound, Kentucky;
    formerly the mountains of New Mexico;
    formerly Mount Wundagore, Transia;
    formerly Haifa, Israel;
    formerly mobile throughout Eastern Europe

First Appearance: X-Men: Alpha I#1 (February, 1995)

Powers/Abilities: Magneto was a mutant with the ability to shape and manipulate magnetic fields. He used his powers in many different ways, including creating personal force fields, flight, and energy blasts. Magneto was a self taught genius in multiple scientific fields including mechanical engineering and genetics. After overexerting himself in combat, Magneto permanently lost half his power. Some time before his death, his spine was crushed, forcing him to rely on a wheelchair.

Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White

History:

(X-Men II#40 (fb) - BTS) - Following the tragedies that befell him earlier in life, including surviving death camps and losing a wife and a daughter, the man who would become Magneto wandered the Earth looking for a purpose. Eventually, his travels led him to Israel. Now calling himself Erik Lensherr, he started to work as a volunteer orderly at a hospital in Haifa. There, he met doctor Daniel Shomron, a psychiatrist specializing in treating traumatized victims.

(X-Men II#40 (fb) - BTS) - Daniel Shomron introduced Erik to his colleague Charles Xavier, who had come to Haifa to consult on the curious case of the catatonic Gabrielle Haller. Erik was amazed when Xavier effortlessly managed to reach her. The two men struck up a fast friendship.

(Uncanny X-Men I#320/X-Men II#40 (fb) - BTS) - Charles Xavier's mentally unstable son Legion decided he had to help his father by going back in time to kill his greatest enemy: Magneto. Though the X-Men tried to stop him, Legion managed to travel two decades into the past, inadvertently taking some of the X-Men with them. As a result of Legion's unorthodox temporal transfer, everyone was rendered amnesiac upon arrival. Legion was later spotted wandering the Haifa docks and taken to the local clinic.

(X-Men II#40) - Erik surprised Charles Xavier at the clinic with a new lightweight wheelchair he had discreetly crafted with his magnetic abilities. After dodging some of Charles' questions about his hidden talents, Erik agreed to meet him and Gabrielle for dinner later that night. He wondered to himself if he should confide in Charles that he was a mutant. He then went to check on "John Doe", an amnesiac patient (actually the time tossed David Haller). When Erik was briefly distracted because he saw Xavier outside courting Gabrielle, Legion telepathically zoned in on the darkness in his mind, but was overcome with the memories of the horrors Erik had endured. Horrified at being violated, Erik ran out of the room and went looking for Charles so he could help the boy. When they returned to John Doe's room at the hospital, they found Haller writhing in pain on the floor, projecting garbled memories of his experiences on Earth-616.

(Uncanny X-Men I#321) - Erik and Charles were shaken by what they had witnessed in John Doe's room and it was a topic of discussion for the next several weeks, though they still wouldn't acknowledge they themselves had powers. Some time later, while at a local bar, their conversation about the implications of a potential new race of homo superior was cut short when Xavier instigated a bar brawl to stop patrons from bullying a disabled street performer. With Erik's aid, Charles knocked out all the assailants. Though he admired his friend's kind heart, Erik had a hard time stomaching his naivete, especially Xavier's line "every dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for". He promised to one day carve them on his tombstone.

(Uncanny X-Men I#321 - BTS) - David Haller remembered who he was and left his hospital room to complete his mission. He encountered his mother Gabrielle and telepathically made her believe he was Charles. He then forced himself on her.

(Uncanny X-Men I#321) - When Charles Xavier picked up Gabrielle's mental distress, he and Erik hurried to her side where they found a furious, powered up Legion hovering over her unconscious body. As soon as Legion spotted Erik, he announced that he had come to kill him before he could become the greatest villain the world has ever known.

(X-Men II#41) - Erik was forced to openly use his magnetic abilities to defend himself against Legion's psionic assault. Taking the fight to the skies over Haifa, their altercation drew the attention of the X-Men who had also been stuck in the past for several weeks. While he tried to survive Legion's attacks, Erik listened to his deranged opponent explain why he had to die, all the while wondering why he kept calling him 'Magneto'.

(X-Men II#41) - BTS) - Apocalype watched media coverage of Legion and Erik's fight. Seeing powerful mutants out in the open a decade earlier than his ally Mr. Sinister had predicted, En Sabah Nur decided now was the time to launch his war against humanity. 

(X-Men II#41) - Legion was briefly taken down by the arriving Iceman who flash froze every drop of moisture in Haller's body, effectively turning him into a solid ice statue. This only allowed Erik a moment's relief, Haller soon recovered and was seconds from killing him. At the last possible moment, Charles Xavier jumped in and caught the lethal psychic blast meant for his friend. Xavier instantly perished, causing the timeline to forcibly correct the temporal paradoxes Xavier's demise had caused.

(X-Men II#41 - BTS) - As Legion, Storm, Iceman and Psylocke vanished, Erik only barely noticed that the time-displaced Lucas Bishop remained, his mind now damaged by the temporal energies that spirited Legion and his fellow X-Men away.

(X-Men II#41) - Holding his friend's dead body in his arms, Erik vowed to dedicate his life to honoring Charles' legacy.

(Amazing X-Men I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Erik saw to it that Charles was buried on the Xavier family estate in Westchester County. Keeping his promise, Erik had the quote "Every dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for" put on his friend's tombstone.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Apocalypse declared war on mankind just as Erik was starting to work out ways in which he could make Xavier's dream of a world where humans and mutants would live together peacefully a reality. Erik began to gather a mutant army to fight off En Sabah Nur.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Traveling through Germany, he discovered Pietro and Wanda Maximoff who he was surprised to find were actually his children. He invited them to help him create a team of mutants to protect those who could not protect themselves. As Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, the siblings embraced their father's cause.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men: Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magnus went public with his intentions to train mutants in the use of their powers. He was approached by John and Elaine Grey who wanted his help to deal with their young daughter Jean who had trouble with her psionic gifts. Jean became the first mutant other than his children to join Magnus' cause. Because he had limited experience with telepathy, he focused Jean's training on the development of her telekinetic potential instead.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) -  At the same time Magnus was assembling his students, Apocalypse also gathered a legion of mutant followers who believed in his survival of-the-fittest mantra. By the time Lensherr had gathered his team, christening them "X-Men" in honor of his fallen friend, Apocalypse had grown too strong. The eternal mutant had started to gain more and more control over substantial sections of North America.

(X-Man '96 I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magnus continued to encounter like-minded mutants such as the master inventor Forge, the shapeshifter Kevin Sydney and the illusion casting Jason Wyngarde.

(X-Man '96 I#1) - Responding to a call for aid from Forge, Magnus traveled to Niagara Falls where he rescued a future version of X-Man (Nate Grey) who had traveled from Earth-616 back to Earth-295 to stop the villainous Sugar Man who had already built a base near the falls. Magnus was surprised to hear the young mutant refer to him as 'Magneto' and even more stunned when the boy proved capable of shutting down his magnetic powers. Magnus proved instrumental in helping Forge and X-Man stop the Sugar Man from releasing a deadly virus into the water supply and he helped free Kevin Sydney and Jason Wyngarde in the process. In the aftermath, he begrudgingly agreed to reconstruct the fargate device that let Forge send Nate Grey back to Earth-616. He then left to take Sugar Man's venom to a climate cold enough to kill all pathogens.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Now calling himself Magneto, Erik took his X-Men into hiding, traveling to the mountains of Transia where he set up a base on Mount Wundagore. There, aided by the evolved cow-woman Bova, he provided a place for young mutants to learn how to master their powers and fight for genetic equality. Among his more international recruits were Russia's sole surviving superhero Colossus and the Japanese national hero Sunfire.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 (fb) - BTS) - To keep abreast of what was going on in the world, Magneto launched a system of spy satellites that allowed him to monitor any part of the world from Wundagore.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 (fb) - BTS) - To ensure his young wards had the best possible chance of survival, Magneto proved to be a stern, often brutal taskmaster. He subjected his most promising recruits to daily, rigorous training exercises in a combat simulator his students dubbed "The Killing Zone".

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - While his students prepared for their inevitable encounter with Apocalypse and his forces, Magneto would make frequent clandestine trips behind enemy lines to make contacts, look for new recruits and gather valuable technologies.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto encountered the mutant called Weapon X. He invited him to join his X-Men on Wundagore, promising the feral Canadian a real workout. During this time period he also encountered the shapeshifter Mystique who told him Apocalypse was trying to recruit her ward Rogue.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Mystique delivered the young mutant Alison Blair to Magneto who offered to train her in the use of her ability to transform sound into light.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto surprised his team by shifting the Killing Zone to level four after he caught them celebrating the fact they had just beaten its third level. He then shocked them even more by introducing Weapon X as their newest, most dangerous member. Logan immediately proved this by succumbing to a berserker rage that the inexperienced telepath Jean Grey managed to temper with Magneto's guidance.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 - BTS) - Magneto ordered his students to give the now calmed down Logan a tour of the facilities.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto was interrupted by Bova during a quiet moment of contemplation about his long dead friend Charles Xavier and the monumental task that lay ahead of him. She reminded him Mystique had arrived to see him. During their meeting, the shapeshifter agreed to leave Rogue in his care, much to the young girl's own surprise. Magneto comforted Rogue who was upset about her energy draining powers, assuring her that they would find ways to control her abilities and that she was safe and among family.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 - BTS) - Traveling aboard their Celestial ship, Apocalypse and his heralds Candra, Gideon, Death, Sabretooth and War appeared over New York City to announce the end of human domination was near. They later attacked Cape Citadel, intending to take control of the nation's strategic air command and all United States missile sites around the world.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Monitoring the attack on Cape Citadel, Magneto was convinced he had to act now. He assembled his team of X-Men, but insisted his daughter Wanda stayed on Wundagore to protect the younger mutants and Rogue. He then led his charges to the hangar bay where they were surprised to find a state of the art jet plane waiting for them.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 - BTS) - Not too long after Magneto and the X-Men left, Wundagore was attacked by Magneto's son Nemesis. Wanda and Rogue succeeded in beating him back, but Maximoff was mortally wounded in the process. With her dying breath, she insisted Rogue told her father Wundagore wasn't safe anymore. She also insisted Rogue was kind to him because he needed love and support.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto led the X-Men in opposing Candra and her troops who attacked to buy Gideon time to gain control over the nuclear missiles. Magneto easily deflected Sabretooth's assault, but this left him open to Candra's psionic blast. After a while he was forced to leave the battlefield to stop Gideon who had just initiated the countdown sequence. Magneto made the tactical error of using his magnetic powers on Gideon who absorbed, amplified and redirected the energy back at Magnus. Still capable of using his powers, Magneto broke free by drawing a massive amount of power from the Earth's magnetic field and using it to overload his opponent. Gideon exploded and the released magnetic energy short-circuited the launch sequence computers.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 - BTS) - After the X-Men beat Candra and the Horsemen, Apocalypse showed himself briefly to gloat about Magneto's demise before ordering his Ship to fire on the young mutants and Sabretooth, who had betrayed Candra and the others.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto recovered from the destruction of missile command in time to disable Ship's weapons array with a wide magnetic pulse. After Apocalypse left, he congratulated the X-Men on their first successful mission. But by the time they returned home to Wundagore, Magneto had to mourn the loss of his daughter Wanda.

(Weapon X I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto, Bova and the X-Men laid Wanda Maximoff-Lensherr to rest on Mount Wundagore.

(X-Men Alpha I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto had dealings with the young mutant Warren Worthington who would become the neutral information peddler Angel.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Their fight against Apocalypse took Magneto and the X-Men to Eurasia where they picked up a number of new recruits, including the weather goddess Storm. In Japan, Magneto proved instrumental in keeping Sunfire alive after he had overloaded his thermonuclear powers in an attempt to kill Apocalypse and Nemesis. Magneto constructed a containment suit that would keep Yashida safe from his own powers.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magneto led a small band of X-Men to oppose Nemesis who was leading the culling of Japan. When Nemesis was about to kill Quicksilver, Magneto grew so incensed at the thought of losing another child to the villain that he used his powers to tear him apart from the inside. Magneto left Nemesis for dead on the battlefield, unaware that he was quietly retrieved by Dark Beast who began work to turn him into the far more powerful Holocaust.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magneto was surprised when Sabretooth and his ally Wild Child showed up at Wundagore. Creed had been sent to Apocalypse's prison by Holocaust for disobeying orders where he befriended Wild Child. After some tense moments with Weapon X, both he and Wild Child were allowed to join.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Because Wundagore's security had been compromised, Magneto eventually moved the X-Men to a luxury loft in the mountains of New Mexico (see comments).

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - During a confrontation with prelate Alex Summers and his Infinites, Magneto's life was saved by the young mutant thief Gambit. Magneto invited him to join the X-Men and the two struck up a fast friendship.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - When Katherine Pryde survived the Chicago cullings to become the X-Men's youngest member, Magneto ordered Weapon X to oversee her training. With Magneto's blessing, Logan prepared her for her future role as the team's ghost assassin. He also provided her with metallic claws similar to her mentor's.

(Factor-X I#3 (fb) - BTS) - During an attack on one of Apocalype's processing plants, Magneto was forced to leave Jean Grey behind. As a result, Jean spent months in the Pens where Mr. Sinister examined her DNA and found she possessed the desired genetic potential to create offspring powerful enough to take on Apocalypse himself.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto continued to grow closer to Rogue, eventually appointing her as his second-in-command.

(Factor-X I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X blatantly disregarded Magneto's standing orders regarding Jean. He went to the Pens to free the woman he loved. This led to a brutal confrontation with prelate Scott Summers which cost Logan his left hand and Summers his left eye.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2) - Weapon X and Jean Grey returned to the X-Men's New Mexico base to inform Magneto that they were leaving the team. When Magneto resisted, Logan was ready to fight his way out but Jean convinced her lover it would be better if they just left. Magneto watched them go in quiet resignation. He then ordered Quicksilver to lead the team through a battle exercise and was about to join them when he picked up a telepathic message from Jean Grey telling him she'd forgiven him.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 - BTS) - When Holocaust heard Weapon X and Jean Grey had left, he realized the X-Men were weakened. Eager to exact vengeance on Magneto for making him dependent on his armor, he summoned the services of the powerful mutate Wolverine. He ordered him to locate the X-Men and force Magneto to watch as he killed his son Quicksilver.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2) - Days later, Magneto took his team to Colorado to deal with with a horde of bandits terrorizing Denver. Rogue and Gambit were worried about Magnus, who appeared distracted.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 - BTS) - Wolverine observed the X-Men's fight against the bandits and used his powers to take control of two unsuspecting members, giving them power ups and sending them against Magneto. One of them threw a non-metallic knife at Magneto, successfully wounding him. When Gambit ordered a strategic retreat, Wolverine concluded that he had to alter the parameters of his mission: it wasn't Quicksilver who was the most valuable to him but either Rogue or Gambit. Forcibly taking charge of the surviving bandits, Wolverine tailed the X-Men back to their New Mexico headquarters.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2) - Back at the base, Magneto's wounds turned out to be superficial. Rogue insisted on remaining behind to talk with Magneto, much to the chagrin of Gambit who had been gathering up his courage to ask her to marry him. At the same time Rogue tried to comfort Magneto who was pushing himself harder than ever to prepare their upcoming missions. He admitted to Rogue that the departure of Jean and Logan forced him to face the possibility that the X-Men might be a failed concept born of his own ego. Rogue outright dismissed that notion, pledging her undying loyalty to him. She left the noticeably touched Magneto behind to get some sleep.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 - BTS) - Wolverine led his hopped up band of bandits through the Rocky Mountains, hot on the trail of the X-Men's scent. At the same time Rogue had a heart to heart with Quicksilver to really make sure there wasn't any bad blood between them because Magneto recently made her his second-in-command. Quicksilver assured her it was okay. They then spotted Magneto leading the X-Men in an impromptu late night training session outside the compound.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2) - After the training, Magneto ordered his team to bed because they had another mission early in the morning. Gambit wanted to stay behind to talk about Rogue and the possibility she might be able to touch people again. Magneto was hesitant to discuss this given his own growing feelings for Rogue, but was spared the admission because Rogue herself joined them and asked to talk with Magnus. Gambit left but stuck around enough to witness Magneto combining his magnetic powers with Rogue's to safely touch in a loving embrace. Gambit was so angry at this perceived betrayal he attacked his friend, but their fight was cut short by the arrival of Wolverine's bandits.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 - BTS) - The X-Men attacked the bandits with Sabretooth taking charge and loving every minute.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2) - Magneto and Rogue remained to the side for a minute to discuss what had happened, failing to notice Wolverine was approaching them from behind. He downed Magneto and got ready to kill Rogue to fulfill his mission, but Gambit intervened allowing Magneto time to recover. However, Wolverine cornered both men and forced Rogue to chose between the two of them. When she picked Magneto, Gambit was heartbroken. He managed to beat the nigh invulnerable Wolverine by sticking a sizeable rock in his belt and charging it until his opponent was launched off the mountain like a rocket. In the aftermath, unable to handle seeing his love in another man's arm, Gambit took a leave of absence from the team.

(Astonishing X-Men I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto welcomed Kevin Sydney to the team as the Changeling. The shapeshifter's distinctive purple costume evoked a rare moment of wit from Magnus who openly wondered: "...Any shape imaginable and you chose that?!"

(Gambit and the X-Ternals I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto once saved Lila Cheney from Sinister's Gene-Patrols. He freed her from the asylum she was kept at, though she had no idea she was a mutant. Her mind proved incapable of coping with the scope her abilities when they first manifested, causing her to forget about them altogether.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magneto, Quicksilver and his mother Mystique traveled to Germany to save mutant teleporter Kurt Darkholme from a mob of religious zealots who were ready to burn him at the stake. Mystique left Kurt in Magneto's care, which paved the way for him to become one of the team's most stalwart and lethal members.

(Gambit and the X-Ternals I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Through unrevealed circumstances, Magneto once saved the life of Peter Corbeau, who served as En Sabah Nur's librarian. In return, Corbeau provided him with access codes to Apocalypse's stockpile of advanced technology.

(Amazing X-Men I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto once faced the teleporting Infinite Vanisher in battle.

(Tales from the Age of Apocalypse I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto once again moved the X-Men's base of operations. This time, he personally dug a cavern and network of tunnels underneath the ruins of the Guthrie family farmhouse in Kentucky. There, hidden by radioactive residue, the team continued their underground rebellion.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto embarked on a one man rescue mission to save the powerful psionic Bennett du Paris from the Madri. He succeeded in singlehandedly routing Apocalypse's order of priestly scholars.

(Amazing X-Men I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto personally oversaw Bennett's recovery and training and allowed him to join the X-Men as Exodus. Aware of his new recruit's potentially limitless power, Magneto felt it necessary to restrict Bennett's access to the full array of his abilities, fearing it might otherwise corrupt him. Fiercely loyal to Magneto, Exodus accepted the X-Men's leader's judgement without question.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - During a raid on one of Sinister's Breeding Pens the young mutant teleporter Blink was rescued by the X-Men. Sabretooth took it on himself to oversee her training, ultimately convincing Magneto she could be a member of the team even though she was emotionally traumatized by her experiences.

(Tales from the Age of Apocalypse I#2 - BTS) - Sunfire was captured by Apocalypse's forces and handed over to the Inhuman Maximus, now better known as Apocalypse's Horseman Death, who subjected him to a series of torturous experiments.

(Tales from the Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Magneto took a risk trying to rescue influential politician Robert Kelly from one of Apocalypse's Central American detention centers. He went in on his own and was almost defeated by the camp's metahuman guardians Diablo and Crusher Creel. The arrival of Rogue and Nightcrawler helped turn the tide. With the villains defeated and Kelly saved, Magneto apologized for going in alone, explaining that he wanted to protect his X-Men. The matter was quickly tabled when Nightcrawler told him Mystique believed she'd located Apocalypse's hideout.

(Tales from the Age of Apocalypse I#2 - BTS) - After learning that Apocalypse was hiding aboard his alien space ship over the Blue Area of the Moon, Morph (posing as Sabretooth) tried to convince the still traumatized Blink to help them out.

(Tales from the Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Allowing himself a rare moment of weakness, Magneto opened up to Rogue about his doubts concerning their continued crusade against Apocalypse, wondering if they had achieved anything of note. Rogue refused to entertain her husband's notion that their work had been in vain, reassuring him in time for Morph to tell them Blink was ready to take them to the Blue Area. Magneto led the assault, fascinated by the discovery there were alien ruins and a breathable atmosphere on the Moon. Moments later they engaged Death and his underlings, clones of the Inhuman family. Magneto personally dealt with Crystal and Gorgon, but was unable to defend himself against the water manipulating Triton who succeeded in knocking him out.

(Tales from the Age of Apocalypse I#2 - BTS) - The Inhumans also defeated the other X-Men. Death had them brought on board Ship where he chained the mutants up in preparation for exposing them to the Terrigen Mists so they could become the vanguard of a new army he'd use against Apocalypse.

(Tales from the Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Magneto and the others revived in time to see prelate Scott Summers turn against Death out of disgust over his treatment of Sunfire who was still a fellow mutant. Without his containment suit, Sunfire's atomic fire flared out of control, causing massive damage to Ship which allowed Blink the opportunity to teleport her teammates back home. Magneto, containing Sunfire in a magnetic shell, watched with the others as the explosions rocking Ship were visible from Earth. He then assured Rogue that he still held out hope, even though the war would rage on.

(Amazing X-Men I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto came close to defeating Apocalypse when he caused his massive Celestial Ship to crash from the skies. The effort nearly proved too much for him: he was left with injuries so severe he lost about half of his power.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1) - After learning Colossus had lost his will to fight, Magneto allowed him to go into semi-retirement by asking Peter and his wife Kate to help train the next generation of mutants.

(Blink I#1) - Magneto chewed out Blink after she disobeyed orders during a field mission to Chicago. While he sympathized with her experiences growing up in one of Apocalypse's death camps, he couldn't allow her personal feelings to endanger the entire team. If she stepped out of line again, he promised her she wouldn't be part of his X-Men anymore.

(Blink I#4) - Magneto and the X-Men were delighted when Blink returned to them after an unplanned solo adventure to the Negative Zone.

(X-Men Alpha I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto moved the X-Men to Charles Xavier's estate in Westchester which was now part of the Dead Zone surrounding Apocalypse's citadel in the former New York City. The team avoided detection through advanced technology that masked their presence.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magneto asked Colossus to return to active duty to carry out an unrevealed mission that left him so injured, only Magnus' control over metal kept him alive. As a result, Peter could no longer revert to his human form.

(X-Men Alpha I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto and Rogue consummated their love. After the birth of their son Charles, they decided they needed to keep the child safe while they and the other X-Men continued to oppose Apocalypse's rule. Magneto constructed Nanny, a robotic caregiver outfitted with sufficient defensive and offensive capabilities to keep the child safe.

(Astonishing X-Men I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto assured the Human High Council that the X-Men would work with them to help evacuate as many humans on the eastern seaboard as possible.

(Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1 - BTS) - Despite the fact that Apocalypse felt Magneto had gone soft by having chosen to follow the dream of another, he still listed Erik Lensherr and his wife Rogue among those he deemed worthy of survival in his Chosen files. Apocalypse concluded that he and Magneto were destined to face one another and that there would be only one survivor.

(X-Men Alpha I#1) - Magneto took his X-Men to Seattle to investigate reports of cullings. They ran into prelate Unus and a small army of Infinites who were attacking the time-lost Bishop, now an elderly man. While the X-Men engaged his troops, Unus figured he could take out Magneto with a plastic gun loaded with non-ferrous shells. However, Iceman killed Unus before he could even fire a single round. The victory brought Magneto no joy as he looked out over the piles of fresh corpses, telling Quicksilver that he too once believed that mutants were superior until Charles Xavier changed his mind.

(X-Men Alpha I#1 - BTS) - Sabretooth tried to question Bishop after rescuing him from the Infinites, but he proved uncommunicative. Blink was sent to get Magneto.

(X-Men Alpha I#1) - When Magneto approached, Bishop recognized him and rushed to attack Magnus, shouting cryptic phrases about their shared past until Magneto put him to sleep by magnetically slowing the flow of blood to his brain. Magneto ordered the team to take the mysterious mutant home with them. Back in Westchester, Magneto and Rogue checked to see how their young son was doing, with Rogue lamenting that she needed to be able to touch her child. Magneto assured her they would find a way.

(Astonishing X-Men I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Sunfire and Blink stayed behind to gather more evidence on the Infinites and their culling campaign.

(X-Men Alpha I#1) - When they tried to talk to Bishop, he continued to accuse him of having something to do with Charles Xavier's demise. Magneto felt the need to knock his house guest out again and came up with a new plan. Without any active telepaths on the team, he decided it would be best if he guided Rogue in absorbing Bishop's memories to learn what he knew.

(X-Men Alpha I#1 - BTS) - The risky experiment created an unexpected feedback loop that made Magneto and Rogue relive the history of Earth-616 and how that reality turned out for the better with Charles Xavier alive in it. Magneto also learned he needed something called the M'Kraan crystal if he wanted to set the world right.

(X-Men Alpha I#1) - Rogue dismissed what she saw as a mere dream, but Magneto was deeply shaken. He ordered Nightcrawler to reach out to his mother and had Rogue send word to Colossus and Shadowcat while he prepared the X-Men and their allies for the difficult tasks ahead.

(Gambit and the X-Ternals I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto contacted his old friend Gambit and asked him to come by the mansion because he had a mission for his X-Ternals. He also reached out to Peter Corbeau to call in the favor he owed. In preparation for the X-Ternal's mission he ordered the scientist to start scanning the heavens to locate the Shi'ar galaxy.

(Amazing X-Men I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto put out a call to the retired X-Man Banshee, imploring him to briefly return to the fold because he had need of him. Sean Cassidy complied.

(X-Calibre I#1) - Magneto reached out to Mystique and ordered her to work with Nightcrawler to extract the blind mutant seer Destiny from Avalon. When she refused, Magneto threatened to reveal her location to Apocalypse if she didn't cooperate. And, as an added bonus, complying would also mean Magneto himself wouldn't hurt her either. Mystique grudgingly complied.

(Gambit and the X-Ternals I#1) - Magneto accompanied Gambit to the X-Ternals' hidden base of operations in the tunnels under Manhattan. He waited for the X-Ternals to return, startling the wary band of thieves with his presence. Gambit talked them down and explained that Magneto needed them to steal the M'Kraan Crystal. Magneto then took them through the tunnels to access Apocalype's stash of technological treasures. Once inside, they were attacked by the Madri who proved no match for the mutants. After reconnecting with Corbeau, the team learned that they were headed for outerspace and that Lila Cheney was a mutant teleporter.

Moments after her powers flared up and they were getting ready to move, mudir Rictor and a squad of Infinites showed up. Magneto ordered Gambit and his people to teleport away, leaving him to deal with the Infinites. However, he was unable to prevent Rictor from entering the teleportation rift after Gambit and his team had gone through. In the aftermath, he tried to apologize to Corbeau for the impossible situation he had placed him in, but Corbeau wasn't interested. Instead, he told him to get out while he activated the facility's self-destruct mechanism.

(Generation Next I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto got in touch with Colossus and Shadowcat and ordered them to have their students ready to go. Magneto then left Westchester with Bishop, traveling across two hot zones and the prairie before reaching the base of Generation Next in the Rocky Mountains.

(Generation Next I#1) - Magneto interrupted the team's impromptu training session, displeased with Peter and Kitty for apparently ignoring his orders. He took them to meet Bishop, explaining that their part in his elaborate plan is helping him locate the means to travel through time. He asked the technopathic Know-It-All to scan Apocalypse's data banks for information on chrono-variant mutants. She gathered a list with mostly deceased subjects, including prelate Gallo and T. Edenfox, as well as Flashback who was missing in action. Much to Colossus' surprise, the most likely candidate was his own sister Illyana who was also presumed dead. Instead, they learned, she was being held at The Core, the primary energy plant for Apocalypse's empire in Seattle.

(Generation Next I#1 - BTS) - Before returning to Westchester, Magneto ordered Kitty, Peter and their students to rescue Illyana and bring her to him.

(Astonishing X-Men I#1) - Magneto told the X-Men that he had recently discovered evidence that made him question everything they stood for, right down to their very existence. While the team tried to swallow the notion that their entire life might be the result of a cosmic mistake, Blink and Sunfire teleported in from their scouting mission which ended in a major battle against Apocalypse's forces. Sunfire had lost control over his powers, forcing Magneto to erect a giant metal hand to snuff his flame. Before Blink could close her portal, prelate Delgado poked his head through and instantly determined the location of the X-Men's base. Blink killed him with her powers and then reported that the cullings have resumed on a massive scale, carried out by Holocaust himself.

(Astonishing X-Men I#1) - Magneto was faced with multiple problems that required his immediate attention: the upcoming evacuation, the cullings and Bishop's claims. Talking over the situation with an incredulous Nightcrawler, he asked for Kurt's trust before announcing he was splitting up the team to try and tackle all three crises.

(Astonishing X-Men I#1 - BTS) - Rogue took her team to Chicago to stop Holocaust and his Infinites. Magneto was too busy to see his wife and his teammates off.

(Amazing X-Men I#1) - Magneto, Bishop, Nanny and Charles watched Quicksilver's X-Men team prepare for their upcoming mission to Maine to aid the evacuation of civilians from the East Coast. He gave them a pep talk and some mission specific instructions before sorting out a dispute about transportation. Instead of having the fliers on the team carry theme there or letting Iceman convert everyone to moisture, Magneto allowed Exodus to discover he had the power to teleport. Though hesitant to try this untested ability, DuParis trusted Magneto enough to make a successful first attempt.

(X-Man I#1) - Magneto was arguing with Bishop over sending away the X-Men on dangerous missions without telling them the whole truth. Magneto was convinced he had done the best he could and refused to be judged. Their argument was witnessed by young Nate Grey who was eavesdropping in psionic form. Magneto briefly sensed a glimpse of the teenager, wondering if it was a sign he was under too much strain or a vision of a greater import.
 
(X-Man I#2) - Magneto was tending to Charles when the boy picked up the psionic presence of X-Man and Theresa Cassidy. Magneto didn't see anything, but trusted his child enough to immediately take an imposing defensive stance. The two teen mutants were so intimidated, they immediately left.

(Astonishing X-Men I#2) - Much to Bishop's dismay, Magneto took the time to enjoy a quiet moment with his son, holding the helpless boy in his arms while he slept. When Magneto told Bishop that he wasn't sure he could sacrifice his son's life to recreate the world in its proper order, Bishop repeated his earlier claims about this reality being a kind of cosmic accident. None of that mattered to Magneto: to him, all Charles was is love and love is never an accident. He asked Bishop to give him tonight to say goodbye to his child.

(Amazing X-Men I#2 - BTS) - Apocalypse, having learned the location of Magneto's base, ordered his troops to prepare for an assault which he intended to lead himself.

(Astonishing X-Men I#3) - Magneto was preparing Bishop for his own mission: going back into their shared past to kill Legion. Magneto wanted to make sure Bishop was capable of pulling the trigger. They were interrupted when Nanny's sensors picked up a security perimeter breach. Immediately switching to Defcon: Armageddon, the robotic nursemaid grabbed Charles and turned her body into an impenetrable cocoon. Nanny then dropped through the floor to the labyrithine sewers below the mansion. With Charles relatively safe and secure, Magneto and Bishop decided they'd best prepare for the coming attack.

(Amazing X-Men I#3 (fb) - BTS) - When the mansion's meager defense fields also registered a perimeter security breach, Magneto and Bishop went out to patrol the grounds.

(Amazing X-Men I#3) - During the patrol, Magneto found himself visiting Charles Xavier's grave. He spent some time at the site until Bishop angrily reminded him they didn't have time for this. When the time-tossed mutant pulled a gun on him, Magneto calmly asked him to fire over his shoulder, having already sensed the electromagnetic disturbance caused by his old foe Vanisher teleporting in troops. Before Magneto could fight him again, Vanisher popped out again. Bishop and Magneto made short work of the Infinites, but were ill-prepared for Apocalypse joining the fray. En Sabah Nur easily defeated Bishop and had Magneto on the ropes with limited effort. Ready to sacrifice his own life, Magneto set Bishop's energy blaster to overload but Apocalypse coldly wondered if Magneto had courage enough to leave his young son to fend for himself. Magneto backed down, got knocked out and was taken prisoner by Apocalypse and his forces.

(Amazing X-Men I#3 - BTS) - When the X-Men returned home, all they found was Magneto's damaged helmet.

(Astonishing X-Men I#4) - Magneto was taken to Apocalypse's citadel in the heart of what was once known as Manhattan. There, with his assistant Rex looking on, En Sabah Nur began to torture his opponent, showing him footage of his wife who was still on a mission to stop Holocaust. Magneto proved defiant and tried to strangle his foe, but Apocalypse happily reminded him of all his recent victories: from capturing him and Bishop to crippling the Human High Council's Eurasian resistance.

(X-Man I#4) - Apocalypse was furious when Shadow King reported that Nate Grey was still alive. He vowed to deal with the young telepath himself, but first he focused on personally overseeing the torture of Magneto.

(X-Man I#4 - BTS) - X-Man tried to reestablish his psi-link with Magneto, which led to him having a vision about Magnus' torture at the hands of Apocalypse. He immediately flew off to New York to free the master of magnetism.

(Weapon X I#4 - BTS) - When Magneto proved "determined to be obstinate and non-communicative", Apocalypse left the interrogation to "more inclined towards crudity and force" so he could deal with with other matters.

(X-Men Omega I#1) - Apocalypse enjoyed watched Holocaust torture Magneto, especially when he sensed the master of magnetism's resolve was weakening. He then asked his assistant Rex to confirm that the trap had been set. Magneto boastfully proclaimed that the X-Men would continue without him, leading Apocalypse to calmly tell him he was aware of Magnus' master plan after the Madri read Bishop's mind. He then presented him with the M'Kraan crystal that had recently been delivered to him by Guido, his double agent within the X-Ternals. Before knocking Magneto out, Apocalypse told him the X-Men would be coming for the crystal and he was ready to stop their attempt to wipe out this timeline.

(X-Men Omega I#1 - BTS) - Warren Worthington sacrificed his life to blow up the forcefield generator protecting Apocalypse's citadel. As a result, Nate Grey and the X-Men were free to enter the base while Prelate Summers and Jean Grey had a chance to evacuate Sinister's test subjects from the Pens underneath En Sabah Nur's headquarters. Without the forcefield, Apocalypse's citadel was vulnerable to the Human High Council's impending bombing raid.

(X-Men Omega I#1) - Magneto regained consciousness in time to hear Rex confirm the Shadow King's shocked announcement that the Human High Council had managed to sneak their atomic bimbs past the Atlantic Defense wall. As a result, the entire midwest was now a radioactive crater. This caught Apocalypse off guard long enough for Nate Grey to join the fray, liberating Magneto and handing him his helmet. X-Man focused on Holocaust and the two of them crashed through the floor, landing near the M'Kraan crystal where the X-Men had already put Destiny and Illyana at work to confirm Bishop's claims. Magneto joined them, greeting llyana and telling the young girl that he couldn't create a better world without her. Illyana agreed to cooperate and joined Destiny and Bishop who entered the crystal. Magneto ordered his X-Men to protect the crystal at all costs.

(X-Men Omega I#1 - BTS) - Colossus, already in a fragile mental state after watching his students die, swore he would kill Magneto if his sister was not returned to him. Nevertheless, he agreed to defend the crystal and tore into Apocalypse's forces like a man possessed. Before the fight was done, he inadvertently killed his own wife, forcing Gambit to put his fellow X-Man down.

(X-Men Omega I#1) - Forming a makeshift armor from nearby pieces of metal, Magneto joined Rogue to face Apocalypse who played his trump card: his servant Guido still had their son Charles. However, Rogue mercilessly tore into Guido and reclaimed the boy.

(X-Men Omega I#1 - BTS) - Apocalypse slipped away to retrieve the original M'Kraan crystal shard, figuring he could use it to travel to Earth-616 and claim that world for his own.

(X-Men Omega I#1) - Twenty years in the past, the fight between Legion, Magnus, Xavier and the X-Men was interrupted by the arrival of the elderly Bishop who fatally wounded Legion by forcing the boy to his powers on himself. Legion slowly died in Bishop's arms while Charles and Magnus looked on. As soon as David Haller perished, the X-Men were drawn back to their own present as the timeline began to correct itself.

(X-Men Omega I#1) - Magneto and Nate Grey caught up with Apocalypse and pressed the attack, though Holocaust soon showed up to distract Grey. Overconfident, Apocalypse thought Magneto weak, leaving him vulnerable to the mutant master of magnetism's ultimate feat of power. He focused his strength and tore En Sabah Nur apart from the inside. He didn't have long to celebrate: the Human High Council's atomic bombs were only minutes away. Magnus rushed to his wife and son and held them close as they watched the explosions approaching in the distance. Moments before the blast wave consumed them, he talked of Charles Xavier, thanking his long gone friend for changing his life.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5 (fb) ) - Mere seconds before the bombs reached them, Magneto witnessed the explosives getting wiped out by a giant, flying energy raptor he sensed was connected to Jean Grey. He even heard her in his mind, telling him that they had won.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1) - A split-second after learning of Jean's involvement, Magneto was congratulated by Quicksilver and the others for saving them all. Before he could tell them the truth, the story of his supposed bravery began to spread and inspire the survivors. Magneto agreed with young Illyana that Bishop had left them with the gift of hope. To give people a symbol of that hope, he flew to Liberty Island and magnetically reconstructed the devastated Statue of Liberty. When he returned to Rogue and Illyana, they had been joined by Weapon X who handed Jean Grey's corpse to him. Logan asked the mournful Magneto to give her a proper burial before taking off for parts unknown.

(Age of Apocalypse I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Heralded as a hero for his actions, Magneto was approached by newly elected US president Robert Kelly to become his acting director of mutant affairs. Working out of the new Xavier Institute in Washington D.C., he set out to hunt down and capture everyone who worked for Apocalypse.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men: Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Following the fall of Apocalypse, the masked female mutant Xorn (secretly the vengeful Gen Next member Paige Guthrie) was discovered in Dark Beast's Pens. Magneto offered her a place among the X-Men.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - In the aftermath of the final battle against Apocalypse, Wild Child discovered the mostly feral were-mutant Rahne Sinclair in the ruins of New York City. With Magneto's aid, Sinclair slowly regained a tentative handle on her humanity.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men: Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - After learning that his old friend Sunfire was still alive, the Silver Samurai came to the United States and joined the X-Men. Unknown to his teammates, he also delivered a top-secret weapon to Magneto (see comments).

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men: Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magneto asked Beak to join the team, ignoring protests about young Barnell's limited mutant abilities. Some even considered Beak's membership a political move to placate his father, an influential senator. However, Magneto had complete faith in Beak.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1) - Over the course of several months, Magneto's frustration over having to live a lie started to gnaw at him. One night, he was shocked to find himself mocked by Mr. Sinister.

(Age of Apocalypse I#5 (fb) ) - Mr. Sinister, wearing a bomb belt rigged to explode when exposed to magnetic energy, had came to talk. He explained to Magneto that he needed to stop chasing after him. If he didn't comply, Sinister promised to expose the lies Magneto had allowed to perpetuate about his part in saving the eastern seaboard. Sinister told him it was all Jean's doing and that she was still alive and in his possession. Magneto wanted to rescue her, but for the sake of untold others he decided to keep the secret and agreed to Sinister's terms.

(Age of Apocalypse I#2 (fb) ) - Magneto and the X-Men met Kirika Yashida, the daughter of Weapon X and Mariko who had been captured by Mr. Sinister and kept in his lab in a stasis pod marked X-23. Once revived, it became clear she was a mutant with powers similar to her father. Magneto took her in, oversaw her training and even granted her request to have adamantium grafted to her skeleton and bone claws.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men: Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Magneto sent Exodus, Iceman and Morph on a secret mission from which they did not return.

(Age of Apocalypse I#1) - A year after Apocalypse's downfall, president Kelly and Magneto held a press conference at the White House to update the media on their progress. Despite critical questions from reporters like Trish Tilby, Magneto impressed the press corps by showing them live footage of the X-Men taking down the Hellions who were holed up at the Massachusetts Academy. Later that evening, while having dinner with his X-Men, he caught flack from the Silver Samurai who was incensed at the notion of being used to send fellow mutants into the cruel hands of human jailers. Magneto reminded the Samurai that the newly signed Bishop Treaty assured a fair and proper trial for everyone.

(Age of Apocalypse I#1 - BTS) - In dire need of allies to help him deal with the more powerful renegade mutants, Magneto sent X-23, now known as Kirika, to Canada to locate Weapon X. Logan was stunned to learn was his daughter.

(Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Magneto accompanied his X-Men down to the tunnels underneath New York City to offer the Morlocks amnesty. However, after years of serving as lab animals for Apocalypse, they were wary of authority figures. Their leader Marrow attacked the team's envoy Silver Samurai and the crazed Feral slashed open Xorn. Even Magneto was hit by a psychic attack from Annalee which showed everyone his greatest fear: Phoenix and Mr. Sinister. The X-Men were unable to effectively fight back because of the power dampening Morlock Leech, but after he was knocked out by Storm, the team regained the upper hand. They beat the Morlocks and made sure Magneto was rushed to the Xavier Institute infirmary.

(Exiles I#60) - The Exiles and their newest member Holocaust materialized on Earth-295 to carry out the Timebroker's latest order: kill Magneto and his X-Men. Blink and Sabretooth were understandably hesistant, but Holocaust took great joy in attacking Magneto's Washington headquarters which was empty because his arrival happened to coincide with the New York Morlock mission.

(Age of Apocalypse I#2 - BTS) - Quicksilver learned of the attack on the Xavier Institute and was stunned to find the mutant energy signatures registered at the site were more than familiar. He rushed to tell his father.

(Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Magneto was so demoralized by the failed Morlock mission that he felt Xavier's dream might not be achievable if even their fellow mutants now despised them. Rogue lifted his spirits and insisted he accompanied Quicksilver, Sunfire and Gambit on a mission to Mexico to trace the strangely family energy readings they picked up at the Xavier Institute.

(Exiles I#61) - Magneto and his X-Men caught up with the Exiles in Yucatan near one of Dark Beast's hidden laboratories. The Timebroker had just told Namorita that Magneto had to die, which didn't sit well with her. She listened to Magneto chastise Blink, Sabretooth and Morph for working with the son of Apocalypse, though he wasn't aware Morph was not from Earth-295. After a brief fight, Holocaust was ready to kill Magneto but he was stopped by Namorita who convinced him to hold back. After all, they had been trying to rid themselves of the Time Broker, the last thing they needed to do was follow his orders. Seeing her logic, Holocaust broke off the attack and allowed Blink to teleport them away. A confused Magneto stayed behind to watch the Timebroker vanish as well.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3 - BTS) - While Magneto was away, Xorn revealed herself to be Paige Guthrie, a former student furious at being left to die in the Portland Core in the last days of Apocalypse's reign. Now out for revenge, she reconnected with the other members of the Guthrie family who arrived at the Institute for a final showdown. The Guthries chained up Charles Lensherr and waited for the X-Men to return.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#4) - Moments after new recruit Psylocke rescued Charles, Magneto returned home and made short work of the Guthries with a little help from Rogue who wanted to personally pay back Paige for having taken Charles. With their dying breath, the Guthries revealed the secret deal Magneto made with Mr. Sinister.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5) - The X-Men quietly listened to Magneto's explanation of his complicated relationship with Sinister and the way he had purposefully maintained the lie that he saved them all single-handedly. When he finished his story, Rahne Sinclaire attacked him, but most of the others backed their leader's decisions, though Weapon X remained mostly furious. His lies meant Jean now continued to be in the hands of a mad man.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5 - BTS) - After Logan calmed down, he sensed a smell on Paige Guthrie that clued him into Sinister's location. Since Guthrie reeked of the stench of New York and the harbor, the team correctly deduced Sinister and Jean were on Liberty Island.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6) - Before they went down to Sinister's underground lair, Weapon X slashed Magneto's helmet, a symbolic gesture to force the X-Men's leader to stop hiding behind a mask. He then promised Magneto he would never forget this, let alone forgive him. Upon locating Sinister's underground lair, Magneto and the others were confronted by the former Horseman, the Sinister Six and the newly revived Jean Grey.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6) - During the fight against Sinister and his Sinister Six, Magneto proved crucial in aiding Jean to reject Sinister's mental manipulation. This left him open to Sauron's attack, but he was saved by Quicksilver who intercepted the lethal attack. Furious over the loss of another child, Magneto manipulated the Silver Samurai's blade to tear his enemy apart. By then, Jean Grey had killed Mr. Sinister which ended the hostilities altogether. In the aftermath, after burying his son, Magneto turned himself in for having lied to the public about his role at the end of Apocalypse's reign. While he waited for his trial in prison, Magneto left Jean to lead the X-Men in his stead.

(Uncanny X-Force I#12 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto was eventually released from prison.

(Exiles I#84) - Magneto and Rogue met with Sabretooth when he returned to Earth-295 for a brief visit to check on Wild Child. He was disturbed to learn Gibney was still missing in action, but the Lensherrs assured Creed that finding him remained a top priority, even though it's not even clear if he's still alive. Before Magneto could make a case for having Sabretooth and Blink rejoin his X-Men, the Tallus summoned Creed to aid in the rescue of another reality (see comments).

(Uncanny X-Force I#12 (fb) - BTS) - Relations between humans and mutants steadily deteriorated over the years. Everything changed with the rise of Clan Akkaba, headed by Weapon X who was possessed by the Celestial Death Seed that once empowered Apocalypse. Now known as Weapon Omega, he took over New York City with the help of a fleet of modified Sentinels and the villainous Black Legion. The X-Men continued to fight the good fight, but they lost a fair number of members along the way.

(Uncanny X-Force I#19.1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto was unable to prevent the Black Legion's Demon-Ock from crushing his young son Charles.

(Uncanny X-Force I#12 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto's spine was severely damaged when he tried to save Charles. Now confined to a wheelchair, it fell to Jean Grey to prop up the remaining X-Men.

(Uncanny X-Force I#11 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto and the X-Men relocated to the underwater city of New Atlantis.

(Uncanny X-Force I#11) - Magneto and Jean were surprised when Nightcrawler returned to base with the 616-versions of Logan, Psylocke, Deadpool and Fantomex. They had come to Earth-295 looking for a Celestial Lifeseed.


(Uncanny X-Force I#12) - Earth-616's X-Force and Magneto's X-Men joined forces to secure another Celestial Lifeseed and find a way to return them to their native reality. Thanks to the X-Men's newest member M.O.D.O.K., they located usable Lifeseeds within a Celestial killed by Apocalypse years earlier. They then set out to free the teleporter Gateway from Clan Akkaba's prison The Sky. Magneto joined Gateway's rescue effort, magnetically commandeering a recently captured Sentinel that allowed the mutants access to the prison. Magneto, guarded by Silver Samurai, stayed behind in the Sentinel to actively misaligne and scramble the other Sentinels' sensors.

(Uncanny X-Force I#13) - Magneto and his X-Men quickly realized the Black Legion had prepared an ambush for them. While his teammates fought for their lives inside the prison trying to reach Gateway, Magneto's Sentinel was attacked by its metallic brethren.

(Uncanny X-Men I#13 - BTS) - Magneto and the Silver Samurai managed to escape from the other Sentinels relatively unscathed.

(Uncanny X-Force I#19.1 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto and his X-Men got involved in a convoluted plan concocted by the X-Terminated and the Human Resistance's geneticist David Moreau. In order to end the mutant threat, Moreau had secretly cloned Wanda Maximoff in order to use her reality altering powers to erase the mutant X-gene. Because this cloned Wanda was mindless, they needed the powerful telepath Jean Grey to access her powers.

(Uncanny X-Force I#19.1) - Magneto and Rogue were on hand to join Jean at Moreau's lab. He was horrified when he spotted several clones of his long dead daughter, causing him to rise up out of his chair to magnetically destroy all but one. Before he could deal with Moreau, Weapon Omega and Clan Akkaba attacked their location. Magneto and Rogue tried to buy Jean and Moreau some time, but they proved no match for their former teammate who first killed Rogue and then took his time to end the life of Magneto, promising him this was not personal.

(X-Termination I#1 - BTS) - Magneto was laid to rest with the other fallen X-Men in a memorial garden outside New York City, complete with lifesize statues.

(Rise of the Powers of X I#5) - Magneto was among the many deceased mutants from countless realities whose souls were summoned to the White Hot Room by Earth-616's Jean Grey to help her and the Phoenix finally defeat the multiverse spanning threat of Nathaniel Essex.