>>123446350Joseph was originally meant to be the real Magneto, de-aged and amnesiac, given a second chance at life, due to the popularity of the heroic Magneto in Age of Apocalypse. Magneto fell to Earth in an escape pod, Joseph was first seen emerging from the same pod, wearing the same robe.
Plans later changed, and Scott Lobdell had planned to reveal Joseph was in fact Proteus, and the real Magneto would return at the end of Zero Tolerance, but after Lobdell was replaced, Joseph ended up being a clone, and died trying to save the world from his creator, Astra, and Magneto.
Then Astra brought him back, brainwashed him to be a villain, impersonate Magneto and fight him, then Kwannon cut his head off.
