In the case of "X-Men," though, the story of the origin takes us back to Auschwitz in 1944, where a young Jewish boy used the name Erik Lehnsherr found to have mental strength to manipulate metal. That's not good news, as Erik the subject of crazy genetics lab Sebastian Shaw, a suavely sinister Kevin Bacon.
X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events.
Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto ’ s Brotherhood and Professor X ’ s X-Men.