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'Charles Francis Xavier', also known as 'Professor X', is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero, known as the leader and founder of the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appeared in ''X-Men'' #1 (September 1963).
Throughout most of his comic book history, Xavier is paraplegic, although his body houses one of the world's most powerful mutant minds. A high-level telepath, Xavier can read, control and influence human minds. A scientific genius with a superhuman ability to absorb information, he is also a leading authority on genetics, mutation and psionic powers.
Xavier’s mission is to promote the peaceful affirmation of mutant rights, to mediate the co-existence of mutants and humans and to protect society from antagonistic mutants, including his old friend, the militant Magneto. To achieve this aim, he founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (later named the Xavier Institute) to teach mutants to explore and control their powers. Its first group of students were the original X-Men. Xavier's students consider him a visionary and often refer to their mission as "Xavier's dream". However, he also has a manipulative streak which has resulted in several significant fallings-out with allies and students.
He also often acts as a public advocate for mutant rights and is the authority most of the Marvel superhero community turns to for advice on mutants. However, his status as a mutant himself and leader of the X-Men has only recently become public.
In the comics' history, the X-Men rarely operate without Xavier. He also appears in both X-Men animated series and in many video games, although usually as a non-playable character due to his physical limitations. Patrick Stewart plays him in the 2000s film series, as well as providing his voice in some of the X-Men videogames (including some not connected to the film series).
Fictional character biography
Origin
Charles Francis Xavier was born in New York City to the wealthy Brian Xavier, a well-respected nuclear scientist, and Sharon Xavier. After Brian died in an accident, his science partner Kurt Marko comforts and marries the grieving Sharon. When Xavier's telepathic mutant powers emerge, he discovers Kurt cares only about Sharon's money.
After the wedding, Kurt moves in with the Xaviers, bringing with him his son Cain. Kurt quickly grows neglectful of Sharon, driving her to alcoholism, and abuses both Sharon and Cain. Cain takes out his frustrations and insecurities on his stepbrother. Charles once uses his telepathic powers to read Cain's mind and explore the extent of his psychological damage, which only leads to Cain becoming more aggressive toward him and Charles feeling Cain's pain firsthand.
Sharon died soon after, and a fight erupts between Cain and Charles that causes some of Kurt's lab equipment to explode. Mortally wounded, Kurt drags the two children out before dying[1][2].
With help from his powers and his natural genius, Xavier becomes an excellent student and athlete, though he gives up the latter, believing his powers give him an unfair advantage[1][4]. He graduates with honors at the age of 16 from Harvard University[5].
In graduate studies he receives Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, and Psychology[6] and does a two year residence at Oxford University[7]. He is later appointed Adjunct Professor at Columbia University[8].
At graduate school, he meets a Scottish girl named Moira Kinross, a fellow genetics student with whom he falls in love. The two agree to get married, but soon, Xavier is drafted into the Korean War. He carves himself a niche in search and rescue missions alongside Shadowcat's father, Carmen Pryde[9], and witnesses Cain's transformation into Juggernaut. During the war, he receives a letter from Moira telling him that she is breaking up with him. He later discovers that Moira married her old boyfriend Joseph MacTaggert, who abuses her[1][7][12].
The First Evil Mutant
Deeply depressed when Moira broke off their engagement without explanation, Xavier began traveling around the world after leaving the army. In Cairo, he meets a young girl named Ororo Munroe, who is a pickpocket, and the Shadow King, a powerful mutant who is posing as an Arabian crime lord. Xavier defeats the Shadow King, barely escaping with his life. This encounter leads to Xavier's decision to devote his life to protecting humanity from evil mutants and safeguarding innocent mutants from human oppression[7].
Xavier and Magneto part ways due to the differences in their beliefs on how to help mutants. Art by Carlos Pacheco.
Meeting Magneto
Xavier visits his friend Daniel Shomron, who runs a clinic for traumatized Holocaust victims in Haifa, Israel. There, he meets the man who becomes Magneto, a Holocaust survivor who works as a volunteer in the clinic, and Gabrielle Haller, a woman driven into a catatonic coma by the trauma she experienced. Xavier uses his mental powers to break her out of her catatonia and the two fall in love. Xavier and Magneto become good friends, although neither immediately reveals to the other that he is a mutant. The two hold lengthy debates hypothesizing what will happen if humanity is faced with a new super-powered race of humans. While Xavier is optimistic, Magneto's experiences in the Holocaust lead him to believe that humanity will ultimately oppress the new race of humans as they have done with other minorities. The two friends reveal their powers to each other when they fight Nazi Baron Wolfgang von Strucker and his HYDRA agents, who kidnap Gabrielle because she knows the location of their secret cache of gold. Magneto attempts to kill Strucker but Xavier stops him. Realizing that his and Xavier's views on mutant-human relations are incompatible, Magneto leaves with the gold. Charles stays in Israel for some time, but he and Gabrielle separate on good terms, neither knowing that she is pregnant with his son, who grows up to become the mutant, Legion[14].
Lucifer
In a strange town near the Himalayas, Xavier encountered an alien calling himself Lucifer, the advance scout for an invasion by his race, and foiled his plans. In retaliation, Lucifer dropped a huge stone block on Xavier, crippling his legs[15]. After Lucifer leaves, a young woman named Sage hears Xavier's telepathic cries for help and rescues him, bringing him to safety, beginning a long alliance between the two[16].
In a hospital in India he is brought to, an American nurse, Amelia Voght, looks after him, and as she sees to his recovery, they fall in love. When he is released from the hospital the two move into an apartment in Bombay together. Amelia is troubled to find Charles studying mutation, as she is a mutant and unsettled by it. Though, she calms when he reveals himself to be a mutant as well. They eventually move to the United States, living on Xavier's family estate. But the night Scott Summers moves into Xavier's mansion, Amelia leaves him, believing Charles would have changed his view and that mutants should lay low. Yet he is recruiting them to what she believes is a lost cause. Charles tries to force her to stay with his mental powers, but immediately ashamed by this, lets her go. She later becomes a disciple of Magneto[17][4][19].
The X-Men
Over the years, Charles makes a name for himself as geneticist and psychologist, apparently renowned enough that the Greys were referred to him when no other expert could help their catatonic daughter, Jean. Xavier trains her in the use of her telekinesis, while inhibiting her telepathic abilities until she matures[20]. Around this time, he also starts working with fellow mutation expert, Karl Lykos, as well as Moira MacTaggert again, who built a mutant research station on Muir Isle. Apparently, Charles had gotten over Moira in his travels to the Greek island of Kirinos[7]. Xavier discusses his candidates for recruitment to his personal strike force, the X-Men, with Moira, including those he passes over, which are Kurt Wagner, Piotr Rasputin, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, and Ororo Munroe. Xavier also trains Tessa to spy on Sebastian Shaw[22][23][24].
Xavier founds Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which provides a safe haven for mutants and teaches them to master their abilities. In addition, he seeks to foster mutant-human relations by providing his superhero team, the X-Men, as an example of mutants acting in good faith, as he told FBI agent Fred Duncan[25]. With his inherited fortune, he uses his ancestral mansion in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York as a base of operations with technologically advanced facilities, including the Danger Room - later, Fantomex mentions that Xavier is a billionaire with a net worth of 3.5 billion dollars.[26]. Presenting the image of a stern teacher, Xavier makes his students endure a rigorous training regime[27].
Xavier's first five students are Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, and Angel, who become the original X-Men[28][29].
Throughout most of his time with the team, Xavier uses his telepathic powers to keep in constant contact with his students and provides instructions and advice when needed. In addition, he uses a special machine called Cerebro, which enhances his ability to detect mutants and to allow the team to find new students in need of the school[30].
Among the obstacles Xavier faces is his old friend, Magneto, who has grown into an advocate of mutant superiority since their last encounter and who believes the only solution to mutant persecution is domination over humanity[31].
When anthropologist Bolivar Trask resurfaces the "mutant problem", Xavier counters him in a televised debate, however, he appears arrogant and Trask sends his mutant-hunting robot Sentinels to terrorize mutants. The X-Men dispatch them, but Trask sees the error in his ways too late as he is killed by his creations[32].
At one point, Xavier seemingly dies during the X-Men's battle with the sub-human Grotesk, but it is later revealed that Xavier arranged for a reformed former villain named Changeling to impersonate him while he went into hiding to plan a defense against an invasion by the extraterrestrial Z'Nox, imparting a portion of his telepathic abilities to the Changeling to complete the disguise[33].
New Team and Shi'ar
When the X-Men are captured by the sentient island Krakoa, Xavier assembles a new team to rescue them, including Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Wolverine. After the mission, the older team of X-Men, except for Cyclops, leave the school, believing they no longer belong there, and Xavier mentors the new X-Men[34][35].
Xavier forms a psychic bond across galaxies with Princess Lilandra from the Shi'ar Empire. When they finally meet, it is love at first sight. She implores the professor to stop her mad brother, Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, and instantly aids her by deploying his X-Men. When Jean Grey returns from the Savage Land to tell him that all the X-Men are dead, he shuts down the school and travels with Lilandra to her kingdom, where she is crowned Empress and he is treated like a child or a trophy husband[36][37].
Xavier senses the changes taking place in Jean Grey, and returns to earth to help. Shortly thereafter he battles his pupil after she becomes 'Dark Phoenix' and destroys a populated planet in the Shi'ar Empire. It hurts Xavier to be on the opposite side of Lilandra, but he has no other choice but to challenge the Shi'ar Imperial Gaurd to a duel over the fate of the Phoenix. Xavier would have lost against the greater power of the Dark Phoenix, but thanks to the help Jean Grey gives him (fighting her Phoenix persona), Xavier emerges victorious; she later commits suicide in order to prevent herself from endangering more innocent lives.[38]
Xavier walks again. Art by Paul Smith and Bob Wiacek.
The Brood
When the X-Men fight members of the extraterrestrial race known as the Brood, Xavier is captured by them, and implanted with a Brood egg, which places Xavier under the Brood’s control. During this time, Xavier assembles a team of younger mutants called The New Mutants, secretly intended to be prime hosts for reproduction of the aliens. The X-Men discover this and return to free Xavier, but they are too late to prevent his body from being destroyed with a Brood Queen in its place, however, his soul remains intact. The X-Men and Starjammers subdue this monstrous creature containing Xavier's essence, but the only way to restore him is to clone a new body using tissue samples he donated to the Starjammers. This new body possesses functional legs, though the psychosomatic pain Xavier experienced after living so long as a paraplegic takes some time to subside. Subsequently, he even joins the X-Men in the field, but later decides not to continue this practice after realizing that his place is at the school[39][40][41][42].
More Injuries
After taking a teaching position at another school, Xavier is severely injured and left for dead as the victim of a hate crime. Callisto and her Morlocks, a group of underground-dwelling mutants, get him to safety. One of the Morlocks partially restores Xavier's health, but Callisto warns Xavier that he isn't fully healed and that he must spend more time recuperating and restrain himself from exerting his full strength or powers, or his health might fail again. Xavier hides his injuries from the others and resumes his life[8].
Legion
Charles meets with former lover Gabrielle Haller on Muir Isle and discovers that he is her teenage son's father. The boy, David, is autistic and suffers from multiple personality disorder and has vast psionic powers like his father. After helping him and his team to escape from David's mind, Xavier promises he will always be there for him[44].
Back To The Shi'ar
A reformed Magneto is arrested and put on trial. Xavier attends the trial to defend his friend. Andrea and Andreas Strucker, the children of presumed dead Baron Von Strucker, crash the courtroom to attack Magneto and Xavier. Xavier is seriously injured. Dying, he asks a shocked Magneto to look after the X-Men for him. Lilandra, who has a psychic bond with Xavier, feels that he is in great danger and heads to Earth. There, she takes Xavier with her so Shi'ar advanced technology can heal him[45].
Xavier leaves Magneto in charge of the school, but some of the X-Men are unwilling to forgive their former enemy, and the original five X-Men form a team called X-Factor.
In the meantime, Charles becomes stranded in space with the Starjammers, but he is reunited with his lover Lilandra and relishes his carefree lifestyle. Xavier joins Lilandra in her cause to overthrow her sister Deathbird, taking on the powers of Phoenix temporarily wherein he is named Bald Phoenix, but sees that he must return to help the X-Men[46][47][48].
X-Cutioner's Song
A healthy Xavier returns from the Shi'ar Empire and resumes his responsibilities. In a battle with his old foe, the Shadow King, in the "Muir Island Saga", Xavier’s back is broken, returning him to his former paraplegic state. In the following months, Xavier rebuilds the mansion, which previously was rebuilt with Shi'ar technology, and restructures the X-Men into two teams[49][50].
While holding a mutant rights speech, Xavier is nearly assassinated by Stryfe in the guise of Cable, being infected with a fatal techno-organic virus. For reasons of his own, the villain Apocalypse saves him. As a temporary side-effect he gains full use of his legs and devotes his precious time to the youngest recruit on his team, Jubilee[51][52].
Generation X and the Xavier Institute For Higher Learning
With all his students now highly trained adults, Professor Xavier renames his school the Xavier Institute For Higher Learning. Also, he assumes control of a private institution, the Massachusetts Academy, making it a new School for Gifted Youngsters. Another group of young mutants is trained here, Generation X, with Banshee and Emma Frost as headmaster and headmistress, respectively[53].
Onslaught
Professor X is for a time the unknowing host of the evil psionic entity Onslaught, the result of a previous battle with Magneto. In that battle, Magneto uses his powers to rip out the adamantium bonded to Wolverine's skeleton, and a furious Xavier wipes Magneto's mind, leaving him in a coma[54][19][56]. From the psychic trauma of Xavier using his powers so violently and the mixing of Magneto's and Xavier's repressed anger, Onslaught is born. Onslaught wreaks havoc, destroying much of Manhattan, until many of Marvel's superheroes—including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk—destroy him[57]. Xavier is left without his telepathy and, overcome with guilt, leaves the X-Men and is incarcerated for his actions[58][59][60]. He later returns to the X-Men after '', in which he is shocked by the cruel act of being turned over to the mutant-hating Bastion, and following a clash with the sentient Cerebro and a team of impostor X-Men[61][62][63].
Magneto War
Xavier questions his dream again and Magneto shortly thereafter is confronted by the X-Men. After the battle, the UN concedes Genosha to Magnus, and Wolverine is angered by Xavier stopping him from getting his revenge on Magneto. Charles and Logan are later trapped in a dimension with different laws of physics, wherein they have to coordinate their moves together and, in the process, gain a better understanding of the other's views[64][65].
The Twelve and Cadre K
Apocalypse kidnaps the fabled "Twelve", twelve special mutants, Xavier included, whose combined energies would grant him omnipotence. After Apocalypse's defeat with the help of Skrull mutants, Xavier goes with the young Skrulls known as Cadre K to train them and free them from their oppressors, and eventually returns to aid in Legacy Virus research[66][67][68][69].
Moira's death
Mystique and her Brotherhood start a deadly assault on Muir Isle by releasing an altered form of the Legacy Virus, all in retaliation against the election campaign of Robert Kelly, a seeming mutant-hater. Mystique blows up Moira MacTaggert's laboratory complex, fatally wounding her. Charles goes to the astral plane to meet with her and retrieve information on the cure to the Legacy Virus, but after gathering the information does not want to leave her alone. If not for Jean pulling him back, the professor would have died with his first love, who states she has no regrets[69].
Crucifixion
As the Legacy Virus is cured, many infected Genoshan mutants recover overnight, providing Magneto, current ruler of Genosha, with an army to start the third World War. He demands Earth's governments to accept him as their leader, and abducts and crucifies Xavier in Magda Square for all to see. Though a loyal member of Magneto's Acolytes, Amelia Voght couldn't stand to see her former lover punished in such a manner and sets him free. Jean Grey and rather untrained newcomers, as most of the team are elsewhere, distract Magneto and Wolverine guts him. Xavier is too late to intervene[71].
Cassandra Nova
When Xavier's evil twin Cassandra Nova, whom Xavier attempted to kill while they were both in their mother's womb, orders a group of rogue Sentinels to destroy the independent mutant nation of Genosha. Magneto, who is Genosha's leader, appears to die along with the vast majority of the nation's inhabitants. Nova then takes over Xavier's body. Posing as Xavier, she reveals his mutation to the world, something he needed to do but did not want to sully his reputation over,[72] before going into space and crippling the Shi'ar Empire. The X-Men restore Xavier, but Lilandra, believing that too much disaster has come from the Shi'ar's involvement with the X-Men, annuls her marriage to Xavier. Lilandra previously had gone insane and tried to assassinate Charles on a trip to Mumbai. During this period, a mutant named Xorn joins the X-Men. Xorn uses his healing power to restore Xavier's use of his legs[73].
Juggernaut reformed
When the X-Men receive a distress call from a Scottish island, they are surprised to find Juggernaut with nowhere to go, as the island was destroyed by his further mutated partner in crime, Black Tom Cassidy, who died. Xavier reaches out to his stepbrother and offers him a place in his mansion, with Cain reluctantly accepting. The Juggernaut redeemes himself over the next few weeks and joins the X-Men. Xavier finds out that Cain's father preferred him to his own flesh and blood and that they both thought they deserved the abuse they incurred by Kurt; Cain believed this because his father loved someone else's child more than him, and Charles felt guilty about getting in the way. That it is why neither of them stopped Kurt Marko with their powers[74].
X-Corporation and "Xorn's" Betrayal
Now outed as a mutant, Xavier makes speeches to the public about mutant tolerance. He also founds the X-Corporation, or X-Corp (not to be confused with the X-Corps), with offices all over the world. The purpose of the X-Corp is to watch over mutant rights and help mutants in need. As a result of being outed, the school no longer hides the fact that it is a school for mutants and it opens its doors for more mutant (and even human) students to come in. A student named Quentin Quire and members of his gang start a riot at the Xavier Institute during an open house at the school. As a result, Quire and two other students are killed. Uncertain about his dream's validity, Xavier announces that he will step down as headmaster and be succeeded by Jean Grey. Afterwards, Xorn reveals himself to be Magneto, having apparently not died in the Sentinel raid on Genosha. "Magneto" then re-paralyzes Xavier, kidnaps him, and destroys the X-Mansion (killing several of the students). Then Xorn/Magneto assaults New York, where Cyclops, Fantomex and a few students confront him. After the rest of the X-Men arrive, Wolverine decapitates Xorn/Magneto, who shortly before killed Jean with an electromagnetically induced stroke. Xavier leaves the mansion for Genosha to bury Xorn/Magneto, where it is revealed that the real Magneto is still alive there, and the attacker was an impostor. He and Xavier then start up a team of mutants named "The Genoshan Excalibur"[75][76].
"Danger"
With Jean dead, Xavier leaves the school to Cyclops and Emma Frost. Xavier travels to Genosha, where he meets with the real Magneto. The two resolve their differences and attempt to restore their friendship while they work together to rebuild and restore order to the destroyed island nation. At the mansion, the Danger Room, the X-Men’s simulated reality training chamber, gains sentience, christens itself "Danger", assumes a humanoid form, and attacks the X-Men before leaving to kill Xavier. With Magneto's help, Xavier holds off Danger until the X-Men arrive. Danger flees, but not before revealing to Colossus that Xavier has known it to be sentient ever since he upgraded it. Colossus is especially offended by this because he had been held captive and experimented upon. Ashamed, Xavier tries to explain to them that by the time he realized what was happening, he could see no other course. The disgusted X-Men leave[77][78][79].
House of M
Magneto's daughter, the Scarlet Witch, suffers a mental breakdown and causes the death of several Avengers. Magneto brings her to Xavier and asks him to use his mental powers to help her. Although aided by Dr. Strange and the appearance of Cassandra Nova, Xavier is unsuccessful. Xavier orders a meeting of the X-Men and Avengers to decide Wanda's fate[80]. Her brother Quicksilver, believing the heroes plan to kill her, speeds off to Genosha and convinces Wanda that she could right the wrongs she inflicted by using her powers to alter reality. Wanda uses her powers to make the world a place where mutants are the majority, humans the minority, and Magneto their ruler. In this reality, Xavier is believed to have died years before while helping to free Genosha.
After mutant Layla Miller restores the memories of some of the X-Men and Avengers, they head to Genosha where they discover that Magneto has erected a memorial garden for Xavier commemorating his death. They are horrified until Cloak fades into the grave and discovers there is no body inside. After a battle, Scarlet Witch again uses her powers to restore reality and, as a slight against her father, causes 91.4 percent of mutants to lose their powers, leaving the mutant race on the brink of extinction and causing the lost powers to become an energy mass, the Collective. With reality restored, Xavier is still missing and the X-Men are unable to detect him with Cerebro.[81]''
Vulcan
It is revealed that prior to sending the new team of X-Men to rescue the others on Krakoa, he had sent another team comprised of Moira's students, one of whom was Cyclops' and Havok's long-lost brother Vulcan[82]. After the team freed Cyclops and Vulcan revealed their connection, the team was killed. Cyclops escaped, but when he made it back to Xavier, Xavier wiped the traumatizing knowledge that his newfound brother had died saving him from Cyclops' brain. He then assembled another new team of X-Men to rescue the others on Krakoa, and no one else knew anything about Moira's students.
Later, when the Collective energy mass revives Vulcan, and the enraged youth attacks the X-Men, causing Xavier to come out of hiding; his legs have been restored to him after the House of M presumably by Wanda, though he is no longer a mutant, though this is reversed very shortly (in comic timeline) after the events of House of M, similar to Magneto. Vulcan gets Xavier to tell the X-Men what he had done. After Vulcan is defeated and flies off into space, Cyclops tells Xavier that he is no longer wanted at the X-Mansion for what he did, though some of the other students are more forgiving.
In spite of Cyclops' feelings, Xavier nevertheless forms a new team consisting of Havok, Nightcrawler, Marvel Girl III, Polaris, Warpath and Darwin[83] to confront Vulcan before he can enact his vengeance against the Shi'ar empire. While en route to the Shi'ar home world, he is abducted by agents of the Shi'ar Vice Chancellor K'Tor. He is later thrown into the M'Kraan Crystal by Vulcan after Vulcan's marriage to Deathbird on the World With No Name. Darwin follows Charles into the crystal and pulls him out. This somehow restores his lost telepathy, and then he, Nightcrawler, Warpath, Darwin and Hepzibah escape to Earth, with help from his lover, Lilandra. This leaves Havok, Polaris and Rachel behind but they form a new Starjammers with Ch'od, Raza and Korvus[84][85]
Return To Earth
Upon returning, he begins a search for his missing associate Magneto, hoping to find him before the US government does. He is still team leader and his team now consists of Nightcrawler, Warpath, Storm, Darwin, Hepzibah and Caliban. He and Nightcrawler are the ones searching for Magneto. The rest of the team are looking for the Morlocks, who have been taken control of by Masque, who is also looking for Magneto[86]. Xavier talks to Val Cooper about what has happened to Caliban and how the O
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===World War Hulk===
In a flash back, Professor X is having a meeting with Tony Stark. Professor X is informing him on the situation with the Shi'ar and Vulcan. This gives Tony an idea. He asks Charles if he can ask Havok to keep an eye out for The Hulk. Charles is puzzled by this and Tony tells him the story and then asks him what he would have said if he'd been there. Back in the present, Charles is working with Cerebra, hoping to find more mutants. Above him, his students are training when The Hulk arrives demanding to see Xavier. Charles gets the other students down into the subbasement to protect them and The Hulk tears through the ranks of the New X-Men and Beast. Once Hulk defeats them all, the ''Astonishing X-Men'' team arrives, but Charles goes out to see The Hulk before he attacks them too. He looks into Hulk's mind and sees what happened to him and is shocked. The Hulk asks him the same question Tony asked: What would he have said if he'd been there?
The Professor then admits to the Hulk and to the X-Men, that he would have banished the Hulk for some extended time for the Illuminati to find a cure. He then admits to them that he made some mistakes that harmed his students, so he is willing to give himself up. However the X-Men, now seeing their mentor admitting his mistake, are not willing to give up the Professor without a fight. As the Hulk goes through each of the X-Men and soundly beats them, the escaping students of the X-Mansion see the battle that has taken place. The Stepford Cuckoos use their telepathy to contact the extended members of the X-family including X-Factor, Uncanny X-Men, and Excalibur. Excalibur member Cain Marko, the former Juggernaut tries to use the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak in order to teleport himself into the battle, in promising that he would retake the mantle of the Juggernaut. The Juggernaut appears within the battle ground just as the Hulk defeats Wolverine, by punching him repeatedly in the head. The Hulk quickly notices the depowerment of the Juggernaut and defeats him by punching him toward the ground. The Hulk quickly asks for more opponents just as the members of the Uncanny and X-Factor teams appear in front of him[88]
The Hulk tries to fight off the extended X-family, as Jamie Madrox and his clones gather up the X-men. Various attempts were made to slow the Hulk down, from implanting him with knifes to crashing the Blackbird at him. Cain makes a last plea the Cyttorak gem to repower him, but it was unable to do so until Cain embraced his former identity. After he did so the Juggernaut returned to full power. He engages the Hulk in a no-hold match up, and manages to match his opponent pound for pound. The Hulk manages to stop him in his tracks, despite the Juggernaut's "unstoppability" enhancement, and neither appears to be moving from the deadlock, but it is ambiguous whether or not he was extremely slowly being pushed back a few centimetres, or if both of them were simply using the ground for leverage. The Juggernaut is momentarily distracted by Xavier and since the Hulk was short on time before the countdown, the latter simply decides to use the Juggernaut's nearly unstoppable momentum against him by stepping out of the way in combination with an additional push, letting him walk deep into the nearby lake.
With his opponent temporarily disposed of the Hulk heads towards Xavier, who once again surrenders. However the X-men, despite their beaten condition, tries once again to overcome the Hulk. The New X-men member, Mercury decides to go to the offensive, and the brief battle leads them towards the graveyard housing all of mutants passed away since M-day. Mercury explains why she and the X-men can't stop fighting for their extinction-threatened species and that he isn't the only one grieving the loss of loved ones.
The Hulk reaches the conclusion that both Xaiver and the X-men have suffered enough, and leaves the mansion in peace. During the aftermath, the Juggernaut warns Xavier not to follow him, as he isn't going to like what he sees. The mini-series ends with Cyclops starting to forgive his former teacher, as they try to patch up the wounded.
Recently, the Infinity Gems are revealed to be in the possession of the Illuminati. [89] Reed Richards and the Illuminati gather the Gems and the Gauntlet and decide to will the objects out of existence to prevent them from ever being used again. The Watcher Uatu, however, reveals that the Gems must exist as part of the cosmic balance. The Gems are then separated and each is placed in the care of an Illuminati member (Professor X being the steward of the Mind Gem), who has vowed to never use the gem or reveal their locations.
Powers and abilities
Cerebro, as seen in the ''X-Men'' films.
Professor X is a mutant who possesses vast psionic powers, arguably making him one of the Marvel Universe's most powerful telepaths,[6] but may be outstripped by Moondragon, Xemnu, Overmind and the Shadow King, who have occasionally demonstrated power enough to control the populations of entire planets, as well as his son, David Haller (Legion), and by the Contemplator, who can allow his mind to encompass entire universes at a time. He is also rivaled by his twin sister Cassandra Nova. Despite the raw potential of certain young Omega-level mutant telepaths, such as Jean Grey and Rachel Summers, when they are empowered by the Phoenix Force, his experience, skill and training thus far gives him an edge. Telekinesis may be a part of his genetic mutation as his sister Cassandra displayed this power.
Professor X is able to read or project his thoughts into minds within a radius of approximately 250 miles. With extreme effort, he can greatly extend his reach. He can psionically manipulate the minds of others, warp perceptions to make himself seem invisible or project illusions, cause loss of particular memories, and induce pain or temporary mental and/or physical paralysis. Within close range, he can manipulate almost any number of minds for such simple feats. However, he can only take full possession of one other mind at a time, and must strictly be within that being's physical presence. He can cause total amnesia. He can even project powerful mental bolts of psionic energy, enabling him to stun the mind of another being into unconsciousness, completelely shut down minds and bodies, or cause death. However, these bolts only inflict damage upon other minds, not physical force.
Xavier can perceive the distinct mental presence/radiations of other superhuman mutants within a small radius of himself. In order to detect mutants beyond this radius, he must amplify his powers through Cerebro and subsequently Cerebra, devices which are sensitive to the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that contains mental frequencies. He can learn foreign languages by reading the language centers of the brain of someone adept, and alternately "teach" them to others. Xavier once trained a new group of mutants mentally, subjectively making them experience months of training together, while only hours passed in the real world.[91]
Professor X can project his astral form, the sheath of his life essence, onto abstract dimensions congruent to our own known as astral planes. There, he can use his powers to create ectoplasmic objects, control his surroundings, and even control and destroy the astral forms of others. He cannot project this form over long distances on the earthly plane.
In the movie continuity Professor X could speak with his own voice through an individual he had assumed control of.[92] Here Cerebro could endow him with enough power to possibly end the world.[93]
After being de-powered by the Scarlet Witch[94][95], and then re-powered by the M'Kraan Crystal, ''Uncanny X-Men'' writer Ed Brubaker, has claimed that Charles' telepathy is more powerful than previously. The extent is unknown, but he proved unable to affect the Hulk.[96]
Charles is a gifted genius with multiple doctorates. He is world-renowned as a geneticist, is an expert in mutation, possesses considerable knowledge of life sciences and psionics, and is the inventor of Cerebro.[6]
In his travels in the east, Xavier learned martial arts, acquiring "refined combat skills" according to Magneto. When these skills are coordinated in tandem with his telepathic abilities, Xavier becomes capable of sensing the intentions of others and countering them efficiently. He also has great knowledge of pressure points.[98] When Charles served in the military, he specialized in search and rescue missions.[99]
Dark side
In a number of comics, especially moreso in recent years, Xavier is shown to have a dark side, a part of himself that he struggles to suppress. Perhaps the most notable appearance of this character element is in the Onslaught storyline, in which the crossover event's antagonist is a physical manifestation of that dark side. Also, Onslaught is created in the most violent act Xavier claims to have done: erasing the mind of Magneto. In ''X-Men'' #106 (August 1977), the new X-Men fight images of the original team, which have been created by what Xavier says is his "evil self ... who would use his powers for personal gain and conquest," which he says he is normally able to keep in check.
In other instances, Xavier is shown to be secretive and manipulative. During the Onslaught storyline, the X-Men find Xavier's files, the "Xavier Protocols", which detail how to kill many of the characters should the need ever arise, such as if they went rogue.[100] ''Astonishing X-Men'' vol. 3, #12 (August 2005) reveals that when Xavier realizes that the Danger Room has become sentient, he keeps it trapped and experiments on it for years, an act that Cyclops calls "the oppression of a new life" and equates to humanity's treatment of mutants. In '' #6, a de-powered Xavier is forced to admit that he had sent a group of hastily trained young mutants to Krakoa to save the original X-Men, resulting in their deaths. Because one of the mutants is Cyclops' brother Vulcan, Xavier erased Cyclops' memory of the event. He further manipulated the rescue team of new X-Men by making them think the meaningless noises the island made were intelligible speech—evidence that the island was alive—to match the new memories he had given Cyclops.
Xavier has multiple secrets that he hides from the X-Men beyond the Krakoa and Danger incidents. Since the inception of the X-Men, he has created and maintained a network of mutant espionage agents to work in dealings that are too dubious for the public eye of the X-Men, even entrapping Mystique into helping him (even though she killed his dear friend, Moira McTaggert). He has also been part of the secret Illuminati society responsible for shooting Bruce Banner into space.
There is also the issue that plagues only the longest of long-time X-Men readers. Throughout the years it has been implied that Xavier has always known about mutants beyond those he chose to be his X-Men. He has admittedly hand-crafted who he picked to be his core team members. This has serious implications however. For instance, it can be implied that Xavier must have always known about "Morlock" mutants, those with severe physical mutations, yet out of the utility of public appeal chose young mutants that he gave a life of privilege (though accompanied with life-threatening missions). Xavier intentionally let some mutants be his vision in Westchester, while others lived lives of horror and daily prejudice on the streets of Manhattan and around the world.
Additionally, after the events of M-Day, Xavier is nowhere to be found, even though he knows that the X-Men are looking for him, that his ancestral home has been invaded by Sentinels, and that his school and the mutant community at large are in a state of crisis. Once he reemerges, he explains that he hid in England during this time out of embarrassment over losing his abilities and his role he played in the House of M saga.
In the ''Mutant X'' comic book series, set outside the Marvel Universe continuity, Xavier travels the world capturing telepaths for the purpose of stealing their mental energy. Xavier takes control of S.H.I.E.L.D., captures Gambit's daughter, and attempts to kill the X-Men with a nuclear strike. An alternate-reality version of Xavier is the enemy in the first story arc of the ''Exiles'' series. In ''Ultimate X-Men'', Xavier frequently lies to other characters, including the X-Men, or even manipulates them when he feels it is necessary. Xavier tells the American president that he has killed Magneto, but instead he has blocked Magneto's memories and created a new personality and memories for him, along with a new life working with mentally challenged children. In issue #65, unbeknownst to the rest of the team, he directs Angel to become his mole in Emma Frost's Academy of Tomorrow in the guise of expelling the student. In ''Ultimate X-Men'' #58, he defuses a hostage situation by hiring the mutant bank robbers for a mission in which the X-Men cannot be implicated, and making the police believe they have killed them.
In the film '', Wolverine questions Xavier's ethics when he discovers that the professor instituted mental blocks in the mind of Jean Grey to subdue her uncontrollable powers, thus creating her alternate personality, the Phoenix. Xavier states that he does not have to answer to him and that he chose the lesser of two evils, as the Phoenix persona is dangerous. After his death, he transfers his essence into a comatose man, committing himself to another nebulous moral front.
Romantic interests
A brilliant student intent on undertaking graduate studies, Xavier enters England's Oxford University, where he meets and falls in love with a young Scotswoman named Moira Kinross with a brilliant mind that matches his own. Their passionate discussions on genetic mutation give way to an equally passionate romance. They plan to be married, but after finishing his work at Oxford, Xavier is drafted and sent to Asia. It has also been hinted that Mister Sinister interferes with Moira and Xavier's relationship as he is posing as a professor at Oxford at the time. Deeply depressed when Moira breaks off their engagement without explanation, Xavier begins traveling abroad after leaving the army. He later discovers that Moira married her old boyfriend Joseph MacTaggert, who abuses her. He renews his friendship with Moira MacTaggert, who is now a renowned geneticist, and they begin discussing the idea of founding a school for mutants. Charles' ex-fiancée turns up as a lifetime friend who interacts with the X-Men often. He nearly follows her to death to be with her when she is fatally injured.
Xavier goes to Haifa, Israel, where he falls in love with Gabrielle Haller, a catatonic Holocaust victim he forces back to awareness. Xavier and Haller are unaware when he leaves Israel that she is pregnant with his son, who would become the autistic mutant known as Legion. They separate on good terms.
American nurse Amelia Voght helps him recover from his debilitating injuries from his assault by Lucifer in India. She makes cheering him up in the hospital her pet project. They live together both in Bombay and Westchester, but she then leaves as Xavier gathers students. Xavier feels he failed her, and in a passing "maddened panic" tries to force her to stay, with her feeling betrayed. He encounters her again as an Acolyte of Magneto, and eventually she saves his life.
Charles becomes romantically interested in Teri Martin, the mother of a young mutant girl he is trying to help, after the Z'Nox incident. He decides that he has no room for romance at the time (''X-Men: Hidden Years'' #1-22).
Shi'ar Princess-Majestrix Lilandra forms an intense psychic bond with Xavier across the vast distance that separates their two planets, which leads her to him after she flees her Empire, in search of help against her villainous brother. Xavier has dreamt of her and Lilandra has known they were soul mates. They fall in love at first sight. Later, he helps overthrow her sister as well to return the throne to Lilandra. They are wed until The Shi'ar Counsel annuls their marriage on the grounds that involvement with Xavier has caused trouble for the Empire. However, as seen in the recent ''Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire'' storyline, Lilandra still loves him, despite their troubles. No child has resulted from the union in the canon universe (he and Lilandra do have a child together in ''X-Men: The End'').
In one instance in the start of ''Uncanny X-Men'' (issue #3), Professor X privately reflects upon his love for Jean Grey, but does not pursue it due to his feeling inadequate about being in a wheelchair, and the age difference and sacredness of the teacher-student relationship.[101] Although Xavier never again displays a romantic interest in Jean, the idea that he once entertained this thought becomes one of his "dark secrets" and is revisited when the Professor's dark side manifests in the form of Onslaught and reveals it to Jean. There is debate however that it is more a loving father figure relationship as Professor X has known Jean from the age of 11. He also loves her in ''Ultimate X-Men'' as it is said in the ''Phoenix'' arc and in the ''Cable'' arc.
Inspirations
Professor Xavier's character development has been inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.[102], and from inspection of the name, may also be a derivative of St. Francis Xavier, Marie François Xavier Bichat, or Charles Xavier from Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 book ''Pale Fire.'' Writer Scott Lobdell established Xavier's middle name to be Francis in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #328 (January 1996).
Other versions
1602
Professor X is Carlos Javier in the miniseries Marvel 1602, set at the end of the Elizabethan Era in an alternate universe. He is the founder of a school for "witchbreed," and his students are the Marvel 1602 versions of the original X-Men. He relies on Hal McCoy (Beast) to carry him, as he is paralyzed from the waist down; his paralysis is not explained.
Earth X
In the Earth X reality, Professor X is killed along with all the other telepaths when the new Red Skull's powers manifest themselves. Scott Summers aka Cyclops takes over the role of leader, recruiting a new team, who calls him Mr. S.
Marvel Zombies
In the Marvel Zombies one-shot ''Marvel Zombies: Dead Days'', a zombified Alpha Flight attacks the X-Mansion. Storm informs the X-Men during the battle that Alpha Flight ripped Xavier to pieces. Cyclops, trying not to deal with the fact that Xavier is dead, continues to fight.
===''Shadow Xavier''===
In the first arc of New Excalibur the team is brought together partly as a response to a clash between Dazzler and a group of homicidal mutants bearing a resemblance to the Original X-Men. It turns out that these are the X-Men of an alternate universe where Charles Xavier is possessed by the Shadow King and has gone on to use his mind-controlled and thoroughly corrupted X-Men to wipe out all the other superhumans. This version of Xavier could walk, and insists that his followers refer to him as 'Master'.
Ultimate Charles Xavier
In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Professor Charles Xavier is the world's most powerful telepath, the founder and patron of the X-Men and a world-famous lecturer for pacifism and mutant emancipation. In contrast to his mainstream version, he is publicly open about his mutant status from the beginning and also has limited telekinetic abilities. He leaves his wife Moira MacTaggert with their sick son David to pursue Magneto's dream of a mutant society, but Magneto turns on him, crippling him with a shard of metal.
Xavier also repeatedly tampers with other people's minds to reach his goals, but he recognizes his flaws. In one instance, Xavier found that Iceman had told a girl several secrets about the X-Men and was forced to erase the conversation from their minds. He generally believes that reading minds without permission is unacceptable. Or so he leads his students to believe. In ''Ultimate X-Men'' #40, when Angel flies away, the Professor sends Storm after him because he telepathically knows that Angel is attracted to her.
Similarly, Beast questions whether Xavier had made Storm love him.
In this timeline, his former love interests include Mystique and Emma Frost. In ''Ultimate X-Men'' #77, he tells Cyclops that he is in love with Jean.
In ''Ultimate X-Men'' #78, Xavier is apparently killed by Cable who was trying to prevent the horrible events in the future. In ''Ultimate X-Men'' #80 it is revealed that he is in fact alive, and a captive of Cable in the future.
In other media
Television
Professor Xavier, as he appeared in ''X-Men The Animated Series''.
Xavier made his first ever animated appearance on the 1966 ''Marvel Super Heroes'' episode of ''The Sub-Mariner'' with the original X-Men line-up (Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, and Jean Grey). Interestingly enough, the X-Men were never referred to as the ''X-Men''. They were instead, referred to as 'Allies for Peace'. The characters kept their original looks and individual names from the comics though.
Xavier has appeared in four different X-Men cartoons. The first is the 1989 pilot ''Pryde of the X-Men'', voiced by John Stephenson.
Xavier made frequent guest appearances on the animated series ''Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends'' (voiced by Stan Jones).
Xavier next appeared in the ''X-Men animated series'', which ran on Fox Kids from 1992–1997. Voiced by Cedric Smith, he appears in 20 episodes as a core member of the regular character lineup. In this series he uses a hovering wheelchair similar to that provided by Lilandra in the comics. Smith also voiced the role in two episodes of ''Spider-Man'' featuring the X-Men.
He appeared as a regular cast member in the Kids WB animated series ''. Here, he is voiced by David Kaye, who doubled as the voice for En Sabah Nur.
Professor X appears in the ''Robot Chicken'' episode "Sausage Fest" voiced by Seth Green.
Films
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Xavier appears in the three live-action feature film adaptations ''X-Men'', ''X2: X-Men United'' and ''. He is played by Patrick Stewart.
Stewart, who gained fame among science fiction fans for his portrayal of Captain Jean-Luc Picard on '' (and who like Xavier is bald), was a long-time fan favorite choice to play Xavier, before the movie was even announced.
In December 2004, Twentieth Century Fox hired screenwriter Sheldon Turner to draft a script for ''Magneto'', a spin-off that focuses on the mutant supervillain. The script includes Professor X, a soldier in the Allied Forces who helps liberate Nazi concentration camps. He meets Magneto after the war, finding a bond with their mutant powers, but their moral differences drive them apart.[103] Instead of McKellen and Stewart, though, actors in their 20s will be cast to portray the characters.[104]
Xavier's favourite book is known from the ''X-Tinction'' storyline to be T.H. White's ''The Once and Future King''. Magneto (who apparently shares Xavier's passion for the novel) can be seen reading it at the beginning of ''X2'' while in prison, and also paraphrases White's famous lines about territory and war, saying, "When will these people learn to fly?" Also, at the close of the film, Xavier asks his students if they are familiar with the work.
Mutant Profile
A natural genius, Charles Francis Xavier completed high school at 16. He attended Oxford University, earning Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, and Psychology. An unknown incident left Xavier paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. He is the founder for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and runs Xavier's from his family's Westchester mansion, which has been converted into a base of operations at which he trains mutants for his personal strike force known as "The X-Men." The base includes subterranean medical labs, a training facility called "The Danger Room," an aircraft hanger, and Xavier's mutant detection device code named "Cerebro." Xavier is regarded as an authority on genetic mutation, as well as an advocate of peaceful relations between human and mutant kind. He has uncharted telepathic powers. At present counting, Xavier is the most powerful telepath on the planet.
'Prof. Xavier's Powers': ESP and the ability to alter and manipulate minds at will. Xavier can leave his body in astral form and appear as an image in the mind of others. (X-MEN: THE LAST STAND DVD)
In the first two films, it is implied that Xavier is one of the most powerful mutants in the world. In the first ''X-Men'' film he is able to control both Sabretooth and Toad at the same time and speak through them, in an attempt to talk Magneto out of his plans against humans. In ''X2'', he can "freeze" crowds of people casually without the aid of Cerebro. When his powers are magnified by Cerebro, he can locate any mutant in the world. If he concentrates hard enough, he can kill all mutants or humans and possibly everyone in the world.
Plot summaries
In ''X-Men'', released July 14, 2000, Xavier helps Wolverine try to put together his past and prevent Magneto from mutating the leaders at the World Summit. In ''X2: X-Men United'', released May 2, 2003, he his kidnapped by William Stryker, brainwashed, and forced to use dark Cerebro to kill all the mutants in the world and then the humans before being stopped by the X-Men and saved.
In ''X-Men: The Last Stand'', released May 26, 2006, Xavier tries to help Jean Grey regain control of her seemingly unlimited powers, but Phoenix completely takes over Jean and escapes the mansion. When Xavier follows her, Magneto has also located her. Rather than starting a fight outside her house, Xavier lets Magneto come with him. Xavier tries to calmly talk Jean into returning to the mansion, but Magneto turns the unstable Jean against the Professor. This causes Xavier to panic and speak to Jean in a less calm manner, now flatly telling her that she's a danger to everyone, including herself.
He uses the fact that Jean killed Scott Summers to try to bring her back to herself, but it has the exact opposite effect he was hoping for, further angering the Phoenix instead of stunning her into realizing her evil potential.
After much argument, the Phoenix manifests its great powers as she tries to keep Xavier from re-establishing the psychic blocks to imprison it again. She pins Magneto on the ground, levitates the entire Grey home (along with Wolverine, Storm, the Juggernaut, and Callisto), and holds Xavier afloat above his wheelchair as she and Xavier struggle (telepathically) for control of Jean's mind. It should be noted that although she disintegrates the Professor, after the credits, it is revealed that he has transferred his mind into another body. Moira MacTaggert, who is apparently close to Xavier, shockingly addresses the patient as Charles when he greets her in Stewart's distinctive British accent. On the DVD Commentary, it is revealed that the body on Muir Island was a "P. Xavier". One of the writers noted that this is an original twin brother, written for the scene, who was born braindead (due to Prof X's amount of power). This brother can apparently walk. This is an example of a comic book death; this scene was not in the script but was secretly added during filming.[105]
Additionally, there is nothing in the film to suggest that the Juggernaut is related to Xavier, other than perhaps a shared British nationality.
Internet Parody
In the My Way parody The Juggernaut Bitch based on the X-Men Animated Series, Professor X, referred to simply as 'Charles', is a prominent character in the parody and its two sequels. He is voiced by Xavier Nazario.
Video games
Professor X appears in most of the X-Men video games. He is almost always an NPC and advises the X-Men on various missions in the role playing games. In the case of the fighting games, he appears in some of the characters' endings. He appears in the '' game for the Sony PlayStation, as an unlockable playable character.
Xavier is also a playable character in the game ''X-Men Legends'', and its sequel '' (in the first game, he is playable in one level and when all danger room discs are completed; in the second, he is playable once all the Danger Room missions are completed. He also appears as a major NPC in both games). Patrick Stewart voices Xavier in both ''Legends'' games.
He appears in the training modes for , voiced by Daran Norris
He has appeared as a NPC in the game '', voiced by Tom Kane. He helps the heroes by using Cerebro to locate Nightcrawler and Jean Grey. He was amongst the heroes who were defeated by Doctor Doom. Also in the game, if the player chooses to save Jean Grey from being dropping into the Infinity Vortex, Mystique will avenge Nightcrawler by infiltrating the X-Mansion at night to vent his frustration upon Professor X where he will die in a coma months later and his death will cause the X-Men to disband forever. When it came to the Heroes and Villains expansion pack, Professor X has special dialogue with Magneto.
Others called Entity/Onslaught
There have been other characters in the Marvel Universe that have used the mantle of both 'Onslaught' and 'Entity', however Charles has been the only Professor X.
Entity
★ In the Microverse, a living planetoid that hatched a multitude of eggs and then seeded them throughout space at tachyon speed was known as 'Entity'. It first appeared in ''Micronauts'' vol. 2 #1-2
★ In 1870, an extraterrestrial creature, known as 'Entity', exposed humans to advanced weaponry but was convinced by the Rawhide Kid not to kill the Wizard of the West after he abused his weapons. It first appeared in ''Marvel Holiday Special 1996''.
★ A star-like being known as 'Entity' was created by the merging of the Nest in ''Marvel Team-Up Annual'' #1.
★ Protector was called 'Entity' in ''Nova'' vol. 1 #8.
★ Ralphie Hutchins's final evolution was known as 'Entity'. He was the embodiment of compassion and first appeared in ''She-Hulk'' vol. 1 #25.
★ The sentience of the Resurrection Stone, was known as 'Entity' and first appeared in ''Defenders'' vol. 1 #104 and ''Avengers'' vol. 1 #209
★ When Silver and Auric merged following their apparent deaths, they were known as 'Entity', and the absorption of energy released from the implosion of the Sphinx appeared in ''Alpha Flight'' vol. 1 #121. It initially sought to kill the Brass Bishop for attempting to auction off their bodies but was dissuaded by Heather Hudson and disappeared.
★ A being that formerly dwelled within the Void dimension and possessed Mikhail Rasputin was known as 'Entity'. It drove him insane, causing him to create Gene Nation and first appeared in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #374, however was retconned to have possessed him in ''X-Men'' vol. 1 #28.
★ A being known as 'Entity' saved Beta Ray Bill from death while he was on Asgard in ''Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill'' #6.
★ In the Ultraverse, there was a being known as the 'Entity "from the Moon"' which first appeared in ''Break-Thru'' #1 but was mentioned in ''Strangers'' #1.
Onslaught
Onslaught was a sentient psionic entity created from the consciousness of two mutants - Professor Charles Xavier, telepathic founder of the heroic X-Men, and Magneto, self-styled Master of Magnetism. During a battle between the X-Men and Magneto's Acolytes, Xavier used his telepathic powers to shut down Magneto's mind, rendering him catatonic. During the psionic contact, Magneto's anger, grief and lust for vengeance entered Xavier's consciousness, combining with every long-suppressed negative feeling Xavier had endured during the last 30 years. This aggregation resulted in the being known as Onslaught. Onslaught kidnapped Franklin Richards, Nate Grey (X-Man), and Professor Xavier, and proceeded to terrorize New York. Then, in one final attack, many of Earth's heroes sacrificed themselves to bring him down. These heroes were really sent into a pocket reality created by Franklin Richards, and came back shortly afterwards.
Toys
Professor X has been released as a figure by Toybiz a total of three times, once in the Marvel Legends series 9, and once with the movie release.
See also
★ Niles Caulder is the paraplegic leader of the original Doom Patrol. Like Professor X, Caulder recruits a group of reluctant outcasts to fight crime. Much has been made in the striking similarities between these two characters. They both share a dark side; Caulder, however, surrenders to his dark side while Professor X tries to suppress his. Their respective enemies are also similarly named: the X-Men fight the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, while the Doom Patrol fight the Brotherhood of Evil. However, because of their close proximity to release (roughly a month), there is little merit to the argument that one is a copy of the other, and can be marked up as a coincidence, akin to the similarities between Swamp Thing and Man-Thing.
★ Mister X (comics)
References
1. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #12
2. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #38-42
3. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #12
4. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #309
5. ''Excalibur: Prelude to the House of M'' #11-14
6. Science of the X-Men, Yaco, Linc, Haber, Karen, , , I Books/Marvel, 2004, ISBN 0-743-48725-7
7. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #117
8. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #192-193
9. ''Excalibur'' vol. 3 #11-14
10. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #12
11. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #117
12. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #389
13. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #117
14. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #161, 321
15. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #20
16. ''X-Treme X-Men'' #44
17. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #39-42
18. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #309
19. ''X-Men'' vol. 2 #25
20. ''Bizarre Adventures'' #27
21. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #117
22. ''Professor Xavier and the X-Men'' #4
23. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #300
24. ''X-Treme X-Men'' #3, 9
25. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #38
26. ''New X-Men'' #129
27. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #1-6, 11
28. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #46, 56, 53
29. ''[Uncanny] X-Men''#1
30. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #1-7, 11
31. ''X-Men'' # minus 1
32. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #14-16
33. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #41-42
34. ''Giant Size X-Men'' #1
35. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #94-95
36. ''[Uncanny] X-Men'' #105-109, 114, 117-118
37. ''Classic X-Men'' #31
38. ''See Dark Phoenix Saga''.
39. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #154-158, 161, 167, 184
40. ''Marvel Graphic Novel'' #4
41. ''New Mutants'' #1-3
42. ''Secret Wars'' #12
43. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #192-193
44. ''New Mutants'' #26-28
45. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #199-200
46. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #201
47. ''New Mutants'' #50-51
48. ''X-Men: Spotlight on... Starjammers'' #1-2
49. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #279-280
50. ''X-Men'' vol. 2 #1-3
51. ''X-Cutioner’s Song crossover''
52. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #297
53. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #318-319
54. ''Fatal Attractions crossover''
55. ''X-Men'' vol. 2 #25
56. ''Wolverine'' vol. 2 #104
57. ''Onslaught crossover''
58. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #337
59. ''X-Men'' vol. 2 #57
60. ''Onslaught: Epilogue''
61. ''Operation Zero Tolerance crossover''
62. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #360 & 362-364
63. ''X-Men'' #80 & 82-84
64. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #368-369
65. ''X-Men'' vol. 2 #88
66. ''X-Men'' vol. 2 #90
67. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #379
68. ''Maximum Security crossover''
69. ''Dream's End crossover''
70. ''Dream's End crossover''
71. ''Eve of Destruction crossover''
72. Marvel - Professor X History
73. ''New X-Men'' #114-117, #121-126, #133
74. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #411-412, 429
75. ''New X-Men'' #128-132, 135-138, 146-150
76. ''Excalibur'' vo. 2 #1-8
77. ''Excalibur'' vol. 2 #9-10
78. ''New X-Men'' 155-156
79. ''Astonishing X-Men'' vol. 3 #7, 9-12
80. ''House of M'' limited series
81. ''House of M #1-8
82. ''Deadly Genesis'' #1-5
83. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #475
84. ''X-Men Deadly Genesis'' #1-6
85. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #475-486
86. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #487
87. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #488
88. ''World War Hulk: X-Men'' #1-3
89. ''New Avengers: Illuminati'' #2 (February 2007)
90. Science of the X-Men, Yaco, Linc, Haber, Karen, , , I Books/Marvel, 2004, ISBN 0-743-48725-7
91. ''X-Men: Deadly Genesis''
92. ''X-men Movie''
93. 'X2''
94. ''House of M''
95. ''Decimation''
96. ''World War Hulk: X-Men'' #1
97. Science of the X-Men, Yaco, Linc, Haber, Karen, , , I Books/Marvel, 2004, ISBN 0-743-48725-7
98. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #321
99. ''X-Men'' Vol. 1, #12; ''Uncanny X-Men'' #389
100.
101. X-Men [1st series]: 1–6, 11
102. The Unauthorized X-Men: SF and Comic Writers on Mutants, Prejudice, and Adamantium (p. 142), DeCandido, Keith R.A., Haber, Karen, Wein, Len, , , Benbella Books, 2006, ISBN 1-932-10074-1
103. Fox pages Turner to pen Magneto spinoff pic
104. Fox, Marvel move on 'Magneto'
105. That X-Men secret ending!
Sources
★ Sanderson, Peter (April 17, 2006). ''X-Men: The Ultimate Guide''. DK CHILDREN (3rd ed.). ISBN 0-756-62005-8.
★ Barney-Hawke, Syd, Moreels, Eric J. (April 1, 2003). ''Marvel Encyclopedia Volume 2: X-Men''. Marvel Comics. ISBN 0-785-11199-9.
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★ Marvel Entertainment (May 7, 2003). ''The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game''. Marvel Comics. ISBN 0-785-11028-3.
External links
★ Uncanny X-Men.Net Spotlight On Professor X
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