MagnetoReal Name: Erik Lensherr
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 195 lbs.
Power Level: 14
STR: +1 (12),
DEX: +1 (12),
CON: +1 (12)
INT: +6 (22),
WIS: +5 (20),
CHA: +5 (20)
Tough: +1/+15, Fort: +5, Ref: +5, Will: +13Skills: Bluff 7 (
+12), Computers 4 (
+10), Concentration 9 (
+14), Diplomacy 5 (
+10), Disable Device 4 (
+10), Intimidate 11 (
+16), Knowledge (life sciences) 8 (
+14), Knowledge (technology) 6 (
+12), Language 4 (
+4), Notice 5 (
+10), Sense Motive 5 (
+10)
Feats: Assessment, Attack Focus (ranged) 4, Attack Specialization 2 (Magnetic Blast (Blast 15)), Cult Hero (Radical Mutants +4 / General Population -2 ), Inspire 3 (+3), Inventor, Leadership, Limited Luck 4 (Power Stunts of Magnetic Control), Luck 7, Master Plan
Powers: Magnetic Control 14- Damaging
- Accurate 3
AP:
Electromagnetic Pulse b]
• Nullify 14
- counters: all electronic effects
- Nullifying Field (70-700 ft. radius)
- Selective
- Progression, Increase Area 3
AP: [b]Magnetic Blast• Blast 15
- Cone Area (Targeted)
AP:
Magnetic Field Manipulation• Telekinesis 11
- Damaging
- Perception
- Accurate
AP:
Metal Snare• Snare 14
- Burst Area (General)
- Selective
- Custom (Break DC and Toughness limited to available metal)
- Medium
Magnetic Flight • Flight 8
Magnetic Forcefield • Force Field 14
- Impervious
Power Mastery• Enhanced Trait 4
- Limited Luck 4 (Power Stunts of Magnetic Control)
Sense Magnetic Fields• Super-Senses 12
- Awareness: Magnetic Awareness (Mental)
- Detect: Magnetic Fields (Mental) 2 (ranged)
- Extended: Detect (Magnetic Fields) 5
- Penetrates concealment: Detect (Magnetic Fields)
Device 2 (Hard to lose)
•
Immunity 10- mental effects
Attack Bonus: +5 (Ranged: +9, Melee: +5, Grapple: +6)
Attacks: Area Attack: - (Magnetic Snare: Snare 14)
Area Attack: - (Electromagnetic Pulse: Nullify 14)
Ranged Attack: +13 (Magnetic Blast: Blast 15)
Melee Attack: +5 (Unarmed Attack: Damage 1)
Perception Attack (Magnetic Field Manipulation: Damaging Telekinesis 11)
Perception Attack (Magnetic Control: Damaging Telekinesis 14)**
*Limited to metal
Defense: +8 (Flat-footed: +4), Knockback: -14
Initiative: +1Languages: English, German, Epsilon-Omega, Other Language, Other Language
Totals: Abilities 38 + Skills 17 (68 ranks) + Feats 21 + Powers 117 + Combat 26 + Saves 16 + Drawbacks 0 = 235
OriginErik Lensherr is a Mutant Supremacist with virtual mastery over magnetic fields, although he would bristle at the term. He prefers terms such as “post-human” or Homo Superior. In the early 1990s, he approached telepath Charles Xavier after hearing of his work with other post-humans. Lensherr and Xavier found each other fascinating, as both looked to the future of post-humans. They became close friends and developed an ideology regarding post-humans as mankind's next step in evolution. Eventually, both men left their wives to found the Brotherhood of Mutants, a safe haven for persecuted mutants.
In 1992, the Brotherhood relocated to a remote Pacific island, called the Savage Land, to found a new civilization. Erik even devised a new language for this new world, called Epsilon-Omega, based on Esperanto and featuring its own script.
Increasingly convinced humanity would not peacefully relinquish the planet to the Homo Superior, Erik became more radical, regarding the Savage Land's citizens as an army. Abandoning his human name, Erik took the title Magneto. Realizing that Xavier didn't agree with his views, a paranoid Magneto took to wearing a helmet to prevent psychic intrusion into his mind. Xavier finally fled with a handful of followers. Magneto chose to punish Xavier impaling him with a metal spike which left him a paraplegic. Soon after, Magneto led the Brotherhood in an anti-human campaign of political assassinations and terrorist bombings. In his first great act of terrorism, on February of 2008 Magneto bombed Capitol Hill.
Following this attack on Washington, the U.S. government unleashed robotic Sentinels on the mutant population in retaliation. When Xavier's new students, the X-Men, interfered, Magneto learned Xavier had survived, and sent Wolverine to slay his former friend. He also had Jenna Bush kidnapped. This temporarily halted the Sentinel campaign and the X-Men soon rescued her.
In April of 2008, American authorities located the Savage Land and foolishly launched a massive Sentinel attack. Magneto used his ability to manipulate the mechanical components of the Sentinels to reprogramming them to assault Washington. While the Sentinels wreaked great destruction of the US capital, Magneto dragged President Bush naked on to the White House lawn. The X-Men intervened, and Magneto was defeated when his son Pietro, convinced that genocide was going too far, removed his helmet, leaving him vulnerable to Xavier's powers. Xavier claimed to have killed Magneto, but had instead secretly brainwashed him, hoping to rehabilitate him.
For some time an amnesiac Erik lived peacefully as a Manhattan social worker looking after disabled children; however, in November of 2008, the Brotherhood eventually learned he was alive, and restored his memories. Magneto resumed the bombing campaign, bombing Chicago among other acts of terrorism.
Magneto even destroyed the Brooklyn Bridge and eventually attacked the Triskellion. During the attack, he wiped the Triskelion computers of all information concerning the Brotherhood. He also shot his son Quiksilver in the knee caps, making Wanda watch as a punishment for their betrayal of the Brotherhood ideals. During the attack on the Triskelion the loss of power caused many prisoners to escape and Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk, escaping briefly eating six of the staff.
Gathering every mutant he could into a floating Arctic Citadel, Magneto hatched a new plan to make war on the human population. His powers enhanced by a machine of the mutant inventor Forge's design, Magneto intended to reverse Earth's magnetic field, leaving humanity to perish in the ensuing environmental chaos. Magneto entered the device and began to reverse the earth’s magnetic poles. At the same time a force of Brotherhood mutants attacked Camp X-Factor, a prison for post-human at Guantanamo Bay, and released all of the post-humans there including Xavier. Before Magneto could complete his plan, the X-Man Cyclops interrupted Magneto and revealed that he had signaled the other X-men. The others arrived and a fight ensued. The post-human, Shadow Cat used her phasing powers to sabotage the amplification device, but not before Magneto managed to use it to destabilize a nuclear reactor just north of Miami. The plant neared meltdown as some of the mutants from Camp X-Factor arrived to save the inhabitants of the surrounding area. Back at the floating citadel, the X-men defeated Magneto and prevented him from taking his own life. Marvel Girl, a psychic powered X-Man, allowed the Phoenix Force to take control and uprooted the entire nuclear reactor and plant from the ground. She then levitated it up into the sky and contained the explosion and subsequent radiation with her powers.
Magneto was then turned over to the Ultimates. As a result of the X-men’s efforts the White House arranges for a pardon and makes the decision to bring the X-men under government authority.
Several months later, while attempting to aid the Chicago Fire Department, another magnetically powered post-human Polaris lost control of her powers and accidently killed several firemen and bystanders.
Polaris was taken into SHIELD custody. Her magnetic powers forced them to house her in the same cage as Magneto.
Four students of the Academy of Tomorrow, Havok, Northstar, Cannonball and Susnpot, attempted to liberate Polaris. They were opposed by the Ultimates and The X-men. However, it was revealed be merely a diversion orchestrated by Magneto.
During the fight a shape-changing post-human Mystique and Forge manage to sneak into the Triskelion and release Magneto. Magneto also released many of the Triskellion prisoners. These events caused SHIELD to end its allegiance with the X-men thereby revoking all funding. Magneto ultimately escaped the Triskellion by putting a disguised Mystique in his place.
Eventually Magneto ordered the illusion creating post-human Mastermind to replace Mystique in impersonating Magneto, allowing her to rejoin the Brotherhood to continue his war on humankind.