Anyway, if Kurt Wagner thinks he's got daddy (or mummy) issues, he hasn't got anything on the progeny of the master of magnetism. For all intents and purposes, Magneto's like Vince Vaughn in that movie where he finds out he accidentally fathered, like, a million children. Except Erik Lensherr was never hard up enough to start donating to sperm banks for extra cash, he just got around a bunch. Even if he seems to forget about it from time to time. The two most famous examples are the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who both served on his earliest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Mutants - prior to them dropping the "Evil" from their title, which always seemed like a huge PR blunder - and that was because he rescued them both independently from anti-mutant mobs. It would be until a good 200 issues later when he realised they were his kids, and had decades of alimony payments to catch up on. It was even worse for Polaris, who shares her father's control of metal but wasn't brought up until the mid-seventies. He just left for a packet of cigarettes and never came back.
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