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Professor Charles Francis Xavier, also known simply by his codename Professor X, is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, and Harry Lloyd in 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise produced by Marvel Studios, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name ...
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Professor X ( Prof. Charles Francis Xavier) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963). The character is depicted as the founder and occasional leader of the X-Men .
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Any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
—Professor X
Charles Xavier is a mutant gifted with vast telepathic powers, a specialist in mutant biology and sociology and the founder of the Uncanny X-Men as Professor X. With immense support from Dr. Moira MacTaggert, his life has become dedicated to fulfilling his dream of mutants and humans coexisting peacefully. As a young man, he traveled around the world to better comprehend mutantkind, meeting a dear friend and ruthless rival, the man who would become known as Magneto.
After becoming paraplegic following a conflict against the villain Lucifer in the Himalayas, Xavier transformed his family's ancestral home into the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, a sanctuary for mutants to train and learn about their abilities. Under his supervision, Professor X's students formed the first X-Men, a super hero group who fight for a world that hates and fears them, guided by Xavier's dream. Through the years, Xavier and his X-Men found themselves at odds with both humans and mutants with diverging ideologies, especially Magneto, who believed in mutant supremacy.
Early Years
Charles Francis Xavier was the mutant son of a wealthy nuclear researcher, Dr. Brian Xavier, and his wife, Sharon. The Nuclear Research Facility where Dr. Xavier worked in Alamogordo, New Mexico was actually a cover for the study of genetic mutations, secretly run by Dr. Nathan Milbury (one of Mister Sinister's many aliases). While still gestating in his mother's womb, Charles recognized his twin as a malignant presence which he preemptively tried to kill with his nascent psychic abilities, causing the fetus' miscarriage. Since a very young age, Charles was subjected to Sinister's experiments, alongside Carter Ryking, his best friend and son of one of Dr. Xavier's colleagues, Dr. Alexander Ryking. When Charles was nine, Dr. Xavier died in an accident in Alamogordo and the project was deactivated. Sharon moved to their ancestral mansion in Westchester after marrying her late husband's ex-colleague, Dr. Kurt Marko, in hopes of maintaining a well-structured family for Charles. However, Dr. Marko had married her for her wealth and due to being jealous of Dr. Xavier, though it might also have been due to Mister Sinister's machinations, as a way to keep Charles under his watch through Marko. Charles faced problems with his new family when Marko brought his teenage son, Cain Marko to live in the mansion, as Cain constantly bullied Charles. To make matters worse, Dr. Marko violently abused Sharon. With his growing telepathic powers, Charles attempted to alleviate her pain by sharing it. However, Charles could not prevent his mother's ruin, as she succumbed to alcoholism and died of a broken heart. When Cain attempted to extort money from Dr. Marko by accusing him of murdering Dr. Xavier, a fight erupted between father and son, causing some of Dr. Marko's lab equipment to explode. Dr. Marko was mortally wounded but managed to drag the two children to safety before dying, begging forgiveness for not saving Dr. Xavier when he had the chance and telling Charles to keep his powers secret from Cain. From then on, the orphans Xavier and Marko lived as enemies under the same roof as Xavier realized the potential of his mutant powers. Due to his telepathy (which cost him his hair), Xavier excelled in most activities he engaged in, causing Marko's jealousy to escalate to the point he provoked Xavier into a car crash, badly injuring him and making him part ways with his step-brother. A brilliant student, throughout his educational career Xavier attended Harvard University in his early teens graduating when he was sixteen years old.
Moira
Intent on undertaking graduate studies, Xavier won a scholarship to England's Oxford University, to gain his Ph.Ds. in Genetics and Biophysics. Studying the consequences of genetic mutations in society, Xavier dreamt of peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans. During a fair in Oxford, he was approached by Moira Kinross, who questioned his wonderful dream for the future of mutants. As Xavier established telepathic contact by her request, she revealed herself to be a mutant who had lived several lives, knowing Xavier in many of them. Completely crushed by the experience, Xavier was left thunderstruck by the revelation that despite his best efforts, mutantkind would always lose. In her tenth and tentatively last life cycle, Moira declared they must break all rules and unite mutantkind. In Moira, Xavier had found an academic peer with whom he could openly discuss his ideas and plans. Xavier was put into contact with her advisor, a revolutionary geneticist at Oxford, without knowing his true identity as Mister Sinister. Moreover, Moira was romantically involved with lance corporal Joe MacTaggert, though, after Xavier rescued Moira from the wrecks of a car accident caused by MacTaggert, the two geniuses fell in love. Around this period, Xavier was confronted on campus by two mutants named Logan and Victor Creed who, upon learning that the US government was actively imprisoning mutants, were seeking to band mutants together in a common group. Xavier flat out turned Logan and Creed down. At some point in his life, Xavier also worked alongside Karl Lykos, a fellow scholar who was interested in mutation. After experiencing the happiest period of his life following his engagement to Moira, Xavier was drafted and sent to Korea. In the Korean War, Xavier and his step-brother Cain Marko served in the same unit. Attempting to bring back the deserting Marko, Xavier witnessed Marko discovering a mystical ruby in the Temple of Cyttorak that transformed him into the unstoppable Juggernaut. Just then, enemy high explosive bombardment caused a cave-in and Marko was buried under several thousand tons of rock. Xavier also served alongside Carmen Pryde on search and rescue missions, where he earned the nickname "the Good Shepherd". Xavier survived and, while he recovered from his battlefield wounds, he received a letter from Moira announcing their engagement's end.
Meeting his shadows
After his failed engagement, Xavier traveled abroad, bumming around the Mediterranean, eventually settling in the island of Kirinos, where he found himself helping people, a therapeutic experience for him. From Kirinos, Xavier moved on to Cairo, Egypt, where in the city's main bazaar, he was pickpocketed by a young girl thief. While trying to establish contact with her, Xavier was smashed down by a powerful psychic attack, leading him to a nearby saloon. There, he met and battled Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King, the first malicious mutant he had ever met. After defeating his foe, Xavier realized how deadly mutant powers could be in the wrong hands. This spurred Xavier towards what would become his life's work as he decided to bring mankind and its mutant children together in peace and harmony, aiming to protect humanity from evil mutants and innocent mutants from human oppression, believing that both could peacefully coexist. Xavier next went to the seaport city of Haifa, Israel, to meet with an old friend of his, the head of a clinic for traumatized Holocaust victims, psychiatrist Daniel Shomron. One of Shomron's worst cases was the catatonic Gabrielle Haller, whom Xavier awoke by secretly using his telepathy and eventually fell in love with. Moira's journals would later reveal that she and Charles had hatched the idea for a group of mutants that could combine their powers to resurrect the dead. Lacking a mutant with the ability to warp reality, Moira used her experience as a geneticist to identify potential matches for her and Charles that might result in such a mutant. This match was Gabrielle Haller, suggesting Charles had purposefully sought her out in Israel. Helping at the clinic, Xavier also became friends with a man known as Magnus, a volunteer who was a survivor of Auschwitz. Over the weeks that followed, Xavier and Magnus debated hypothetical scenarios regarding what would happen if humanity was faced with a new super-powered race of humans, with Xavier unaware that Magnus himself was also a mutant. While Xavier was optimistic, Magnus' experiences in the Holocaust led him to believe that humanity would ultimately oppress the new race of humans, as they had done with other minorities. The two friends ultimately revealed their powers to each other when they fought Nazi Baron von Strucker, and his Hydra agents, who had kidnapped Gabrielle since she knew the location of their secret cache of gold. Magnus attempted to kill von Strucker, but Xavier stopped him. Realizing that his and Xavier's views on mutant-human relations were incompatible, Magnus left with the gold. Xavier stayed in Israel for some time before he and Haller separated on good terms.
Powers
Charles Xavier is an Alpha-Level Mutant,[177][178] said to possess the most powerful brain in existence,[179] and to be the world's greatest telepath[180][181][182][183] possessing vast psionic powers: Telepathy: Xavier is able to read minds and project his own thoughts into the minds of others within a radius of 250 miles (on Earth). With extreme effort he can greatly extend that radius. When synced with Cerebro or Cerebra, he can connect to every mind on a planet. After he was thrown into the M'kraan Crystal, it not only restored his mutation, but made his telepathy more powerful than it had been previously, thereby making him the world's most powerful telepath once again. •Telepathic Illusions: Charles has the ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring. •Telepathic Cloak: He can mask his presence from being detected by others. His abilities could at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well. •Mind Link: He has the ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual. •Telepathic Camouflage: Charles is capable of masking his and/or other people's presence from those around him. He can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around him quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising). •Mind Blast: He has the ability to place large amounts of information in another's mind. •Mind Control: Xavier possesses the power to control the minds of others upon mere concentration. This power could allow him to completely shut down several people's minds, making it appear as if time has stopped. •Mind Possession: Xavier can possess the mind of another and use that being's body as his own. •Mind Alteration: He has the ability to alter the minds of others by force of will. •Mental Amnesia: Charles can cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia in another person or a group of people, including his own.[184] •Psychic Wave Manipulation: Xavier's mental talents are such that he can give his psionic power enough physical substance to affect the material world through his telepathy. Having used this faculty of his mutant power to K.O a Sentinel, knocking it a great distance away from himself with the power of his thoughts made real alone.[185] •Mental Shield: He has the ability to erect a psychic barrier for protection of himself and of other minds, so that he could prevent the free access to the conscious and subconscious mind of anyone. •Psionic Blasts: Xavier can project psionic force bolts which had no physical effects but can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and could even kill an adversary. •Mental Detection: He can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being. •Mind Transferal: Xavier possesses the ability to transfer both his mind and powers into other host bodies if his own physical body was somehow killed. •Absorb Information: He has the ability to quickly process and store information, by mental transference. •Telepathic Learning: He is also able to telepathically teach information to other individuals. For example, when Illyana Rasputin first came to live at the X-Mansion, he telepathically taught the all of the active X-Men Russian, so that they could communicate with her.[186] He later taught the team Japanese prior to their leaving for Tokyo to attend Logan and Mariko's wedding.[187] Xavier was also able to impart months of training into the minds of four young mutants, over the span of a few hours, to insure they were better able to use their powers and work together as a team.[188] •Omnilingual: As a result of his telepathic abilities, Xavier is able to communicate with any individual, regardless of languages barriers. •Astral Projection: Charles can use astral travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the astral realm, he could use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects. He could not engage in long range astral projection on the earthly plane.
Abilities
Genius Intelligence: A natural genius, Xavier is a leading authority on genetics, mutation, and psionics. He possesses considerable expertise in other life sciences. He is highly talented in devising equipment for utilizing and enhancing psionic powers. Xavier is also quite the masterful tactician and strategist, effectively evaluating situations and devising swift responses; he has, on numerous occasions, even fashioned long-term operations as complex as those of adversaries such as Sinister, Magneto, and Apocalypse.[190] Military Training: Charles served in the United States Military, secretly employing his abilities to specialize in search and rescue missions. Expert Fighter: In his travels in the East, he became a proficient hand-to-hand combatant and gained knowledge of pressure points.
Weaknesses
•Dark Side: Xavier was shown to have a dark side, a part of himself that he struggles to suppress. Perhaps the most notable appearance of this was the entity Onslaught, which was a physical manifestation of that dark side. Also, Onslaught was created in the most violent act Xavier claimed to have done: erasing the mind of Magneto. Once the X-Men fought images of the original team, which had been created by what Xavier said was his "evil self ... who would use his powers for personal gain and conquest," which he said he was normally able to keep in check.[191][126][182] •Telepathy: Xavier is vulnerable to disturbing images when using telepathy, even incapacitating or killing him. In other instances, Xavier was shown to be secretive and manipulative. During the battle against Onslaught, the X-Men found Xavier's files, the "Xavier Protocols", which detailed how to kill many of the characters should the need ever arise, such as if they went rogue.[192] Also it was revealed that when Xavier realized that the Danger Room had become sentient, he kept it trapped and experimented on it for years, an act that Cyclops called "the oppression of a new life" and equated to humanity's treatment of mutants.[193] Later still, a de-powered Xavier was forced to admit that he had sent a group of hastily trained young mutants and carelessly sent them to Krakoa to save the original X-Men, resulting in their deaths. Because one of the mutants was 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.[142] •Magneto's Helmet: His old friend turned adversary Magneto created a helmet that protects its wearer from telepathic attacks this includes Charles.[194][195][196][197] Sadly the blueprints of the Helmet can be found online and have been used to create copies.[198]
Equipment
Mobile Cerebro Unit Former Equipment •Hoverchair •Mind Gem
Transportation
X-Men Blackbird; formerly X-Men Stratojet, Professor Xavier's Rolls Royce, Sentinel Air Transport.
•Although "Xavier's Dream" is based on the belief of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants, he also wished at some time that "all mutants could come together on common ground, united under one flag and for one cause",[199] which is closer to the Utopia Nation than to his own dream.
•Xavier has been in several relationships with women from very different backgrounds:
•He was once engaged to Moira, a woman he shared a bond with across her previous lives. Unfortunately, Moira broke up with Xavier and married Joe MacTaggert.[200] Though they never retried their romantic relationship, Xavier and Moira have been close allies for the rest of their lives.
•Brokenhearted, Xavier bummed around the world, and met Gabrielle Haller, a catatonic patient in a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Haifa. After a brief romance, Xavier and Haller eventually broke up. From their relationship, omega-level mutant Legion was born.[201]
•Some time later, after having his legs crushed during a confrontation with Lucifer in the Himalayas, Xavier was treated by nurse Amelia Voght. In a few weeks time, they started a romance, and Xavier learned that Voght was a mutant like him. When Xavier founded the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Amelia chose to leave him, since she radically opposed to Xavier's plan for the X-Men. Xavier tried to telepathically force her to see his point of view, something that turned out hostile. Years later, Xavier would meet Amelia again, as she joined Magneto's Acolytes.[202]
•As the leader of the X-Men, Xavier met Teri Martin when her mutant daughter, Ashley, registered in Cerebro.[203] Xavier spent some weeks in Martin's house to help Ashley with the process of coping with her new found powers.[204] He confessed his feelings towards Teri and acknowledged she felt the same about him, but, even so, he decided to leave in order to protect her from being harmed by his dangerous lifestyle as the leader of the X-Men.[205]
•Xavier's favorite book is known from the X-Tinction Agenda 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 paraphrased White's famous lines about territory and war, saying, "When will these people learn to fly?" Also, at the close of the film, Xavier asked his students if they were familiar with the work. In X-Men: Apocalypse Charles reads this book to his students.
•Xavier was a billionaire with a net worth of 3.5 billion dollars, according to Fantomex.[211]
•Xavier enjoyed Japanese green tea, according to Storm.[212]
•Xavier seemingly disliked being called "Charlie" by Wolverine.
•Before the X-Men's first encounter with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Professor X received a premonition about Magneto's plans. But precognition is not usually among his powers.
•Xavier says the first thought he "heard" was of his stepbrother Juggernaut crying in his room next door when he was beaten by his father.[213]
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Charles Francis Xavier is the mutant son of a wealthy nuclear researcher, Dr. Brian Xavier, and his wife, Sharon. The Nuclear Research Facility where Dr. Xavier worked in Alamogordo, New Mexico was actually a cover for the study of genetic mutations, secretly run by Dr. Nathan Milbury (one of...
Professor X (born Charles Francis Xavier) is a mutant, the leader and founder of the X-Men and the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. He is one of the most powerful telepaths in the world (rivaled only by Jean Grey).
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