History ComicBook / MagnetoTestament

* EvilTeacher: The headmaster of Max's school is a firm antisemite. When Max wins a gold medal for javelin throwing at the school's track and field, he goes on to accuse Max of using a defective javelin that nullifies his win, saying he may only keep the medal if he reproduces his winning throw with a "regulation" javelin that is purposefully much heavier. When Max does manage to reproduce his throw, implied to be the result of his emerging mutant power, the headmaster calls him "cheating Jewish scum" and expels him.

* DeathGlare: Max gives one to Jakob's old army friend turned government employee Jurgen Scharf whom he had saved in WWI after he says that he and Jakob are "even now" after keeping a Nazi beating of Jakob for "making trouble" in Scharf's office from ending in Jakob's death. Jakob and Max had only gone to see Scharf to see if he could help Jakob get his job back after losing it because of the Nuremberg Laws, with the "trouble" being Jakob waiting hours to meet with Scharf, and while Scharf's intervention kept the beating of his old friend from being fatal, Max no doubt would have rather he'd have prevented his father's beating altogether.

* EvilTeacher: The headmaster of Max's school is a firm anti-semite. When Max wins a gold medal for javlelin throwing at the school's track and field, he goes on to accuse Max of using a defective javelin that nullifies his win, saying he may only keep the medal if he reproduces his winning throw with a "regulation" javelin that is purposefully much heavier. When Max does manage to reproduce his throw, implied to be the result of his emerging mutant power, the headmaster calls him "cheating Jewish scum" and expels him.

* DadTheWarVeteren: Max's father Jakob fought for Germany in World War I.
* DeathGlare: Max gives one to Jakob's old army friend turned government employee Jurgen Scharf whom he had saved in WWI after he says that he and Jakob are "even now" after keeping a Nazi beating of Jakob for "making trouble" in Scharf's office from ending in Jakob's death. Jakob and Max had only gone to see Scharf to see if he could help Jakob get his job back after losing it because of the Nuremberg Laws, with the "trouble" being Jakob waiting hours to meet with Scharf, and while Scharf's intervention kept the beating of his old friend from being fatal, Max no doubt would have rather he'd have prevented his father's beating altogether.

* EvilTeacher: The headmaster of Max's school is a firm anti-semite. When Max wins a gold medal for javlelin throwing at the school's track and field, he goes on to accuse Max of using a defective javelin that nullifies his win, saying he may only keep the medal if he reproduces his winning throw with a "regulation" javelin that is purposefully much heavier. When Max does manage to reproduce his throw, implied to be the result of his emerging mutant power, the headmaster calls him "cheating Jewish scum" and expels him.

* DadTheWarVeteran: Max's father Jakob fought for Germany in World War I.
* DeathGlare: Max gives one to Jakob's old army friend turned government employee Jurgen Scharf whom he had saved in WWI after he says that he and Jakob are "even now" after keeping a Nazi beating of Jakob for "making trouble" in Scharf's office from ending in Jakob's death. Jakob and Max had only gone to see Scharf to see if he could help Jakob get his job back after losing it because of the Nuremberg Laws, with the "trouble" being Jakob waiting hours to meet with Scharf, and while Scharf's intervention kept the beating of his old friend from being fatal, Max no doubt would have rather he'd have prevented his father's beating altogether.

* EvilTeacher: The headmaster of Max's school is a firm anti-semite. When Max wins a gold medal for javlelin throwing at the school's track and field, he goes on to accuse Max of using a defective javelin that nullifies his win, saying he may only keep the medal if he reproduces his winning throw with a "regulation" javelin that is purposefully much heavier. When Max does manage to reproduce his throw, implied to be the result of his emerging mutant power, the headmaster calls him "cheating Jewish scum" and expels him.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: Max's former teacher Fritz Kalb is murdered in Auschwitz, his body disposed of in the crematorium.

* MeaningfulRename: Erich was the name of Magneto's uncle and the young boy ends up becoming far more like his uncle than his father.

* BigDamnHeroes: ''Brutally'' subverted in the scene where the [[spoiler: Max's family is caught. All the emotional beats of Max suddenly finding the power within him and shielding everyone from gunfire are set up in a neat little row... And then it ''doesn't happen'' and everyone but him is killed.]]

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''Magneto: Testament'' is a 2008 storyline from Creator/MarvelComics, focusing on [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]'s origin story, from his days as a young Jewish boy named Max Eisenhardt in Germany to his time as a prisoner of Auschwitz during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.

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''Magneto: Testament'' is a 2008 storyline from Creator/MarvelComics, focusing on [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]'s origin story, from his days as a young Jewish boy in Germany to his time as a prisoner of Auschwitz during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.

* DontCreateAMartyr: Magneto's uncle Erich stops him from killing a Nazi at the Warsaw Ghetto who murdered a Jew for stealing bread, arguing the Nazis would have slaughtered a hundred Jews in retaliation.
* DoomedByCanon: Magneto's family and later his wife Magda, and their daughter Anya.
* DownerEnding: By the end of the story, Magneto has lost his family and his love Magda.
* FaceHeelTurn: Over the course of the story, Magneto changes from a friendly Jewish boy in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany to, well, ''Magneto''.

* KilledOffscreen: Magda's mother Anya is killed in the gas chambers at some point prior to her reuniting with Magneto in Auschwitz.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Magneto's teacher Fritz Kalb is murdered in Auschwitz, his body disposed of in the crematorium.

* UncertainDoom: Max's uncle Erich doesn't join his family in escaping the Warsaw Ghetto, staying to fight back against the Nazis. He never appears again, leaving it unknown whether he lived or died.