When Xavier tested Banshee, he was given powers that mimicked Wolverine's, including claws, enhanced senses, and a healing factor. [130], Following X’s apparent death after the Shadow King exploded from his skull, the psychic villain tears the X-Men apart until X literally pulls himself back together (a feat he later refuses to explain), and he and Psylocke team up to harness the power of all of Earth’s psychics to destroy the Shadow King. Some years ago, I made a study of various forms of possible defense against my own psychic abilities. Magneto and Xavier reveal that they have invited all mutants, even those who have fought against them in the past, to Krakoa, to form a society. With help from his longtime lover, Lilandra, Xavier escapes back to Earth with several of his X-Men. Following her husband's accidental death, Sharon married Brian's colleague, Kurt Marko. Professor Charles Francis Xavier (colloquial: Professor X) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. This new body possesses functional legs, though the psychosomatic pain Xavier experienced after living so long as a paraplegic takes some time to subside. 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. [volume & issue needed]. Summers would go on to lead the X-Men. As Javier had no other choice, he agreed. This team included Vulcan as a member. [9][10], With help from his superhuman powers and natural genius, Xavier becomes an excellent student and athlete, though he gives up the latter, believing his powers give him an unfair advantage. When I finish speaking, a blueprint for this armor will be downloaded.". [volume & issue needed], In Ultimate X-Men #78, Xavier is apparently killed by Cable who was trying to prevent the horrible events in the future. Both actors reprised the role in the film X-Men: Days of Future Past. In a prelude to House of M, Magneto's daughter Scarlet Witch suffers a mental breakdown and causes the death of several Avengers. It turns out that these are the X-Men of an alternative 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. He tries to get her attention by wearing wigs, throwing a dance for both orphanages, and trying to alter her memory. [109] Xavier is seen using his powers to help his son Legion control his many personalities and battle the Nimrods. President X also started the 'Genoshan Police Action', also known as the 'Genoshan War'. He asks Cyclops to send out a team to find out about the mutant. Despite this, his status as a mutant himself and originator of the X-Men only became public during the 2001 story "E Is for Extinction". As a result of being out, 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. Exodus nearly kills Magneto, and Xavier drags Exodus onto the Astral Plane, putting Xavier's own newly restored mind at stake. Charles accompanied MacTaggert, MIB and a US Coast Guard assault team to arrest Shaw on his yacht. 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. The X-Men dispatch them, but Trask sees the error in his ways too late as he is killed by his creations. Before he settled into the superhero life, Charles Xavier spent some time as a globe-trotter. [153] However, Cable infiltrates the X-Mansion and secures all encrypted files before Bastion has a chance to decrypt them. [166], Professor X has appeared on a number of animated television shows including the X-Men animated series voiced by Cedric Smith,[167] X-Men: Evolution voiced by David Kaye,[citation needed] and in Wolverine and the X-Men voiced by Jim Ward. [3], Shortly after returning from Japan, Logan is greeted by a restored Charles Xavier and repowered Magneto, who inform him that a darkness is coming that could destroy their kind and that he is needed. Wolverine then tells the Professor that he hopes he will one day be able to forgive him for choosing to kill Romulus. [35], 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.[36]. [132], Xavier and Magneto later meet with Raven Darkholm inside his sanctum. Javier agreed, and parted with his old friend. Uncertain about his dream's validity, Xavier announces that he will step down as headmaster and be succeeded by Jean Grey. Xavier attempts to have Scott give him permission to scan Scott's mind for traces of Sinister's influences, but instead, Scott turns the tables on Xavier by revealing that he has secretly invited Emma Frost into their entire meeting and also into Xavier's mind. [citation needed], He has appeared in eleven live-action X-Men feature films to date. [volume & issue needed], In this timeline, his former love interests include Mystique and Emma Frost. Cain, Kurt's son by a previous marriage, came to live at the Xavier’s Westchester mansion shortly thereafter. After Dr. Xavier's death in an accident, Sharon married his colleague Dr. Kurt Marko who brought his son by a previou… Psylocke is in command and has a plan which mainly consists of Archangel using metal and Mystique morphing into his mother. Xavier's subsequent rescue team consists of Banshee, Colossus, Sunfire, Nightcrawler, Storm, Wolverine, and Thunderbird. He soon after founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and ran from his family's Westchester mansion, which had been converted into a base of operations at which he trained mutants for his personal strike force known as the 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. Later, a fight erupted between Cain and Dr. Marko, that caused some of Dr. Marko's lab equipment to explode. Xavier also trains Tessa in order to spy on Sebastian Shaw. Miss Sinister arrives and attempts to manipulate Daken who reveals that the psychic bomb in his head restored his memories and stabs Miss Sinister in the chest. In a virtual environment created by Professor X, Cerebro executes the Xavier Protocols against the X-Men. He claims he was unable to distinguish that Black Bolt had been replaced by a Skrull, and his powers were tested quickly by the Black Bolt Skrull. Emma is horrified until Cloak fades into the grave and discovers there is no body inside. [54][55][56], 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. He never formed the X-Men, with only Warren Worthington working for him as a secret serviceman. Learning that Kitty Pryde had mastered the ability to project someone's consciousness into the past, Xavier proposed that he be sent back to 1973 to prevent Raven assassinating Bolivar Trask, which had been identified as the catalyst for their current circumstances. Xavier is able to walk on this world and carries a spear. [96] Following his encounter with Cain it has been revealed that Xavier is now searching for Rogue. As a result, Magneto founded the X-Men and sought human/mutant co-existence in Xavier's name- even naming his new son with Rogue 'Charles' after his friend- but Haller's rampage also prompted Apocalypse to awaken decades before the world was ready for him, resulting in Apocalypse conquering North America and most of the world, eventually forcing Magneto's X-Men to attempt a daring mission to gain the power necessary to go back in time and save Xavier from Haller as they recognised how vital Xavier was to the future. In Ultimate X-Men #80 it is revealed that he is in fact alive, and a captive of Cable in the future. [volume & issue needed] He also approaches the New X-Men in an attempt to help them figure out a non-violent way to help against the Purifiers, but is quickly rebuked by Surge, who questions where he was when they were getting attacked the first time, and that they didn't need to learn from him. With the Shadow King certain of his victory, he fails to realize that Xavier's apparent 'surrender' to his game was really just him biding his time until the Shadow King's influence was distracted long enough for him to drop his already-subtly-weakened guard long enough for Xavier to break his bonds, luring in the three aforementioned X-Men as their identities were already fundamentally malleable. [129], Proteus has started his garden and his seeds are planted all over the world. This Xavier head would later aide a cross-dimension X-Men team in defeating ten evil Xaviers who are scattered throughout the multiverse and threaten existence itself. Upon Cyclops' return, Xavier removed Cyclops' memories of the death of Vulcan and his teammates; and began assembling yet another team of X-Men. Xavier is a member of a subspecies of humans known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. During that year, however, America assumed a direct military role in the Vietnam War. Onslaught wreaks havoc, destroying much of Manhattan, until many of Marvel's superheroes—including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk—destroy him. [volume & issue needed]. 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. Nova then takes over Xavier's body. 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. Vulcan skirmishes with the X-Men and eventually flees into space. He moved the White House from Washington to Westchester, New York, letting the capital fall to waste and corruption. It contained a holographic image of Charles Xavier, reading the following message: "Moira, Scott, Jean; if you three are seeing these images, then I have become a mortal threat to my X-Men. From a social policy and philosophical perspective, Xavier deeply resents the violent methods of those like his former close friend and occasional enemy, the supervillain Magneto. Later on Genosha, Magneto is seen staring at a grave for the Professor, with the epitaph "He died so Genosha could live". He also founds the X-Corporation, or X-Corp (not to be confused with the X-Corps), with offices all over the world. He later grows up to attend the University of Oxford, where he earns a Professorship in Genetics and other science fields, and goes on to live in first Oxford and then Londonfor a number of years. [74], As Beast cures the Legacy Virus, many infected Genoshan mutants recover overnight, providing Magneto, the current ruler of Genosha, with an army to start the third World War. She later becomes a disciple of Magneto. He saved Magneto's life from a sniper attack and joined him, hoping to influence Magneto's actions into benevolence. Mit 17 Jahren lernte er Erik Magnus… Charles Xavier is a genius with multiple doctorates. When Jean Grey learned of Xavier's mind blocks from Magneto, she and the Professor telekinetically fought and she destroyed his body. [volume & issue needed], In Marvel Zombies Return however, another alternative Xaiver is zombified and turned into a human-detection system, his brain being permanently connected up to Cerebro so that he can find any remaining human beings. Xavier refuses. 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. Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spider-Man's First Appearance), Tales of Suspense #39 (Iron Man's First Appearance), Incredible Hulk #181 (Wolverine's First Appearance), Central Intelligence Agency (Earth-10005)/Members, 18 Appearances of Charles Xavier (Earth-10005), Minor Appearances of Charles Xavier (Earth-10005), Media Charles Xavier (Earth-10005) was Mentioned in, 28 Images featuring Charles Xavier (Earth-10005), 2 Quotations by or about Charles Xavier (Earth-10005), Character Gallery: Charles Xavier (Earth-10005). The astral form of his head appears above his and he tends to mostly use his powers to prey upon the fears of his enemies. [77], 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. They soon found the rift, and Javier had no choice but to make a deal with his old friend, Enrique, who was the only one with the power to open the rift to put the man back. Er hat aber im Gegensatz zu Magneto telepathische Fähigkeiten. Xavier makes the connection Milbury and X-Men villain, Mister Sinister, who has apparently long been manipulating Charles' life in addition to other X-Men. in Psychiatry. [volume & issue needed], Nicholas Fury, the Queen of England's spymaster, came to visit Javier at his school and warn him of the danger posed by Elizabeth's death and the eventual rise to power of King James of Scotland, who had no love for witchbreed. The family lives in a very grand mansion estate in Westchester County because of the riches his father's nuclear research has brought them. Xavier left the X-Men for good then, and traveled the world seeking out telepaths, whom he captured and incarcerated around the globe. A side effect of his telepathy is that he has an eidetic memory and his brain can assimilate and process impossibly huge amounts of raw data in an astonishingly short amount of time. By the early 1970s, Xavier's school was defunct, and he reverted his mansion to a private residence … In short, Cassandra Nova offers an alternate image of Charles Xavier if he was evil. Just as everything appears to be under the Juggernaut's control Xavier reappears and informs him that everything that has just taken place except for Juggernaut destroying the bar took place in Cain's mind. He carves himself a niche as a soldier in search and rescue missions alongside Shadowcat's father, Carmen Pryde,[16] and witnesses Cain's transformation into Juggernaut when he touches a ruby with an inscription on it in an underground temple. In the Marvel Zombies/Army of Darkness crossover, a zombified Beast informs Doctor Doom of Xavier's death, and that it was the Zombie Reed Richards who reprogrammed Cerebro to seek out humans. [112] Eventually, Cyclops and Frost come to possess the full Phoenix Force, and Professor X is instrumental in confronting them both, and dies in the ensuing battle with Cyclops. 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. Just as Daken appears to have won Xavier pulls both of them onto the astral plane revealing that the psychic bomb had little effect on him because his psyche was already shattered. The disgusted X-Men leave.[81][82][83]. Charles reads Carter's memories and discovers that when the two were children they were used as test subjects by Nathan Milbury of the Black Womb Project, with the approval of Charles' father, Doctor Brian Xavier. Harry Lloyd portrayed the character in the third season of the television series Legion. In contrast to his mainstream version, he is publicly open about his mutant status from the beginning and also has limited telekinetic abilities. Charles Francis Xavier was the mutant son of wealthy nuclear researcher, Dr. Brian Xavier, and his wife, Sharon Xavier-Marko. Kurt quickly grows neglectful of Sharon, driving her to alcoholism, and abuses both Charles and Cain. [165] During the X-Termination crossover, AoA Nightcrawler's trip home resulted in the release of three evil beings that destroy anyone they touch. After a pitched battle, Xavier donned his psychic armor, and he and Sinister released a giant replica of Galactus in order to induce fear in the citizens of Earth, on which Xavier could feed his power. "[133], Xavier is revealed to have upgraded Cerebro with the help of Forge, which is now able to copy and store the minds of mutants in a database. [105], After the events of Utopia, Xavier has come to live on the risen Asteroid M, rechristened Utopia, along with the rest of the X-Men, X-Club, and mutant refugees and is also allowed to join the Utopia lead council (Cyclops, Storm, Namor, Iceman, Beast, Wolverine and Emma Frost).