A survivor of Auschwitz who can move metal with his mind, and who has concluded that people like him will never be safe by asking.
Magneto’s first scene is a boy being pulled away from his parents at the gates of a camp, and the films never let anyone forget it. Everything he does afterwards proceeds logically from having watched what a society does to a minority when it decides to, and the series is honest enough not to give him a bad argument.
He and Charles Xavier agree on the facts and disagree about what follows, which is why they keep working together and keep ending up on opposite sides of a field.
Show detailsTwo actors, and a real choice
Ian McKellen plays him in the original trilogy and beyond; Michael Fassbender plays him across the four prequels. McKellen has the greater number of released films by one, which is why this catalogue lists him, and Fassbender carries the run where the character’s history is actually told.
There is no correct answer here, only a recorded one.