
After watching his mother (Éva Magyar) shot and killed in front of him because he is unable to engage his powers to move a metal coin, Erik is brutalized by the sadistic Nazi doctor Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon).
Going back in time to 1944, X-Men audiences now get to meet the famous comic book mutants before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr (played as young men by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender) found themselves on opposite sides of a war to protect or destroy mankind.Ĭaught up in the horrors of the Nazi uprising, 12-year-old Erik (Bill Milner), who eventually becomes Magneto, is a young Jewish child in the Warsaw Ghetto.

When filmmakers run short on a sequel storyline, they can always opt for a prequel plot.
