I would do something like this:
sage: m = matrix([[var('x%s%s'%(i,j)) for j in range(2)] for i in range(2)]); m
[x00 x01]
[x10 x11]
sage: m.characteristic_polynomial().polynomial(QQ).subs(x=m)
[0 0]
[0 0]
--Mike
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