Max Eisenhardt, the man who would become Magneto, faced unimaginable
discrimination and evil during the Third Reich? s rise to power in World War
II. He survived, thanks in part to the manifestation of his mutant power to
control magnetic fields. Following the war, he resolved that such a fate would
never befall mutant kind. An uncompromising freedom fighter for his fellow
mutants, his extreme beliefs for mutant superiority drove a wedge between
Magneto and his close friend, Professor Xavier. Magneto? s vision for mutant
kind caused him to form the Brotherhood of Mutants, who fight for mutant
supremacy. Mortimer Toynbee, known as Toad, is a genetically flawed mutant.
Visibly mutated since birth, he was abandoned by his parents to an orphanage
where he was ostracized for his appearance. When Magneto discovered and
recruited him, Toad embraced the mission to conquer the human race who had
rejected and degraded him. Toad serves Magneto as an unquestioning lackey
using his mutant abilities of enhanced jumping and prehensile tongue.