Jonah Magnus

Jonah Magnus was the founder of the Magma Institute. His current body is that of Elias Bouchard.

Personality
Elias makes creepy advances towards the show's female characters.

Everybody hates him, and this is implied to be due to the fact that he is gay.

Sexist.

Obsessed with his apperance.

Petty.

Description
Elias is extremely flamboyant and effeminate.

He has a thick Russian accent.

He is a Middle Eastern caricature.

Jewish.

Pre-canon
Jonah Magnus was born in Soviet Russia, where he was an oppressed poor person. He wants power and control because of communism reasons. He kidnapped a woman as his bride and took her to a secluded place to win her over. He began working with the Eye and researching the fears after the death of his wife to attempt to bring her back from the End. He gains a group of friends that is called a "sacrilegious sex cult." He kills Mordecai Lukas's wife after his friend Barnabas Bennett got thrown into the Lonely for being in love with her. He falls in love with a woman who got possessed by all the Fears due to Robert Smirke. He, Peter, and Gertrude get into a love triangle that ends up with Gertrude and Elias being married. Elias makes a pact with the Eye to make Gertrude fertile, but she cheated on him and had a child with Leitner. Hooked up with Peter Lukas once.

Season Two
Elias kills Jurgen Leitner.

Season Three
Elias gets Melanie to join the Institute. Elias flirts with John prompting Melanie to want to kill him. Elias reveals to Melanie the information that she is infertile to traumatize her into stop trying to kill him.

Season Four
Jonah starts the apocalypse.

Season Five
Jonah Magnus gets a redemption arc and dies as a good guy since the fact that he started the apocalypse for love proves that he has a heart. He gets killed by John after John gives him a speech on how if you are poor you should just work harder and leave the system and if you do that one day you'll be rich too. After he dies everything goes back to normal since he is the King of the Ruined World, and the Fears were tied to him.

Dead Wife
Jonah kidnapped a woman as his bride and took her to a secluded place to win her over. She eventually died of unknown means. Her death, and the possibility of resurrection, was the motivation behind him researching the fears and working with the Eye.

Gertrude Robinson
Gertrude, Peter, and Elias were in a love triangle that ended with Elias and Gertrude getting together. Elias and Gertrude used to be married. Elias made a pact with the Eye to make Gertrude fertile, but she cheated on him and had a child with Leitner. Elias kills Gertrude because he thinks that she is seducing his girlfriend.

Petra Lukas
Petra Lukas and Elias used to be married but are now divorced.

Melanie King
Melanie attempts to murder Elias since he flirted with John. But at the same time she also secretly had feelings towards him.

Unnamed Dead Woman
Elias and Peter Lukas both fell in love with the same woman, who was killed by Simon Fairchild by throwing her off the Tundra. They now work together to avenge her death.

Jonathan Sims
Elias flirts with John at one point which serves as motivation for Melanie to kill Elias. John was thought to possibly his son, but is not.

Possessed Woman
Robert Smirke wanted to balance and control the fears but she got possessed by them and killed him. Jonah was in love with her as well, and sometimes she shows up at the Institute to taunt him.

Peter Lukas
Peter and Elias are rivals but also allies because they fell in love with the same woman and are now working together to avenge her death. They got into a love triangle over Gertrude. They hooked up once in the past.

Voyeurism

 * He is able to use his powers to view people from afar.

Trivia

 * Elias has an estranged child that was only referenced one for three episodes.
 * He is queercoded but also straight.
 * He is a worse version of the literary character Dorian Gray.
 * He is a fan favourite character.
 * Fans have made video edits of the character to the song "Womanizer" by Britney Spears.
 * He goes golfing on the weekends.