All 8 Marvel Movies Featuring Magneto in Order

Magneto is among the most popular X-Men ever appearing in the comics and live-action movies. Magneto has appeared in eight movies so far and was played by two actors, Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender.

1. ‘X-Men: First Class’ (2011)

This movie shows us how everything began in terms of forming X-Men in the first place. We also meet Eric when he was a young boy during the Holocaust and when he discovered he had his powers. Years later, he befriends Charles Xavier, and they start training the First Class of X-Men. Their different mindsets on how to lead the mutants eventually lead them on different paths.

2. X-Men (2000)

The events of this movie happen many years after the events in ‘First Class.’ Eric and Charles are much older now, and Magneto is ready to lead the mutants into a war against humans because he thinks that mutants should not be considered lesser species.

 3. ‘X2: X-Men United’ (2003)

In this sequel, Colonel William Stryker initiates a war on mutants and kidnaps Professor X. Magneto teams up with the X-Men to stop Stryker’s plans. It is considered one of the best movies in the franchise.

4. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

This is the final movie in the original trilogy, and the mutants face the danger of extinction when the ‘mutant cure’ is invented. Magneto tries to recruit Jean on his side when her alter ego, Dark Phoenix, awakes.

5. ‘The Wolverine’ (2013)

Magneto and Charles appear briefly in this one in the post-credits scenes, seeking Wolverine’s help, and this appearance sets up the events for the next movie on the list.

6. ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ (2014)

In the future, mutants are facing extinction. Magneto and Charles sent Wolverine in the past to alter important events. In the past, young Eric and Charles had to put their differences aside and work together. This movie erases everything after the ‘X-Men: First Class’ events and sets the new timeline.

7. ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ (2016)

The movie is set in the 1980s in an alternate timeline. Apocalypse, an all-powerful ancient mutant, is set to wipe out modern civilization, and he recruits Magneto as one of his Horsemen.

8. ‘Dark Phoenix’ (2019)

After Jean absorbed the Phoenix Force, she left the X-Men and turned to Magneto for refuge. She declined her offer and was later determined to kill her because of what she’d done to Mystique.