Real Name: Professor Charles Francis Xavier Affiliation: Cadre K Previous Affiliations:X-Men, Starjammers Relatives: Dr. Brian Xavier (father, deceased), Sharon Xavier
Marko (mother, deceased), Kurt Marko (step-father, deceased), Cain
Marko (Juggernaut, step-brother), David
Haller (Legion, son) Powers: Professor X is a telepath, probably an omnipath, and certainly
the most powerful one in the world. He is responsible for the creation of the
X-Men and the ideals they stand for. As a postdoc, having
just been dumped by Moira MacTaggert, Xavier traveled to Egypt, where he met
a young Ororo (Storm), and defeated Amahl Farouk, the
man who would become the Shadow King in a telepathic
battle. He then went to Israel, where he met and befriended Magnus, the man who
would later become Magneto, both the X-Men's greatest
enemy and greatest ally. Xavier used his powers to draw Holocaust survivor Gabrielle
Haller out of her catatonic state, and together the three friends defeated Baron
Strucker's plot to launch his terrorist group Hydra
upon an unsuspecting world. Magnus then left with Strucker's gold, and Gaby and
Charles fell in love. Haller later gave birth to Xavier's son David (Legion)
After leaving Israel, Xavier encountered and fought a villain named Lucifer. He
emerged victorious, but at the cost of the use of his legs, which were crushed
beyond repair in the battle. During his convalescence in a hospital in India,
Xavier met Amelia Voght, a young nurse who fell in love
with him, and renewed his will to live. The two remained together until the night
that Scott Summers (Cyclops) came to study at the new
School for Gifted Youngsters. Voght left, fearing
an escalating "genetic arms race" between Xavier and Magnus, and wanting to be
left alone. Then, the X-Men were formed, and years passed. To save the first team
from the mutant island Krakoa, Xavier recruited the second generation X-Men, and
soon after, he began to experience psychic nightmares from an alien world. These
images were sent by Lilandra, the Shi'ar
royal, who was seeking assistance to defeat her mad brother D'Ken. The X-Men fought
for her, and during that time, Xavier and Lilandra fell in love, and have remained
long-distance lovers ever since. Charles and Lil had some time together on Earth
before her coronation, because Lil was technically a rebel, and the politics had
to be sorted out before she could ascend the throne. During this time the X-Men
fought Magneto in Antarctica. After the battle, most of the team made it to the
Savage Land, but Phoenix
and Beast returned to Westchester. They thought the rest
of the team had died, and told Xavier so. Heart-broken, and feeling that he had
nothing left on Earth, Charles accompanied Lilandra to the Shi'ar homeworld for
her coronation. When he found out that the rest of the X-Men were in fact alive,
he returned to Earth. Some time later, Deathbird
and the Brood staged a coup against Lilandra.
The X-Men and the Starjammers helped defeat them
and save Earth, but somewhere along the way Xavier was implanted with a Brood
queen. When he tried to probe the implant he was sent into a coma. Shortly after
he awoke, the X-Men were attacked by the Brood, implanted with Brood embryos and
taken into space. Fearing the X-Men dead, and under subconscious commands from
the larval Brood, Xavier collected the teens known as the New
Mutants. When the X-Men returned, the queen hatched, but although his body
was destroyed, with the X-Men's help, Xavier was able to retain mental control
of the Brood long enough for the Starjammers' physician Sikorsky
to clone him a new body. This body had no disablilty, but it was some time before
Xavier could walk again, due to psycho-somatic pain. Eventually he even began
to accompany the X-Men on their missions, taking his most active role ever in
their actions. After a brutal beating at the hands of some college kids, Xavier's
body deteriorated, and he was forced to leave Earth with the Starjammers to heal.
He left the school in the reformed Magneto's care, joining his lady love among
the stars, fighting for her empire. Years later, Xavier reappeared in the Shi'ar
Empire at Empress Lilandra's side. However, all was not as it seemed. The X-Men
were transported there by Lila Cheney, and soon found
out that Skrulls had captured and impersonated the Starjammers, and while capturing
the X-Men in the process, were attempting a coup of the Empire. After defeating
the Skrulls, the X-Men and their mentor were finally reunited and returned to
Earth, right in to the midst of the Shadow King's return. Xavier and the X-Men
journeyed to the Shadow King's base on Muir Island,
but although they defeated the evil telepath, Xavier's spine was broken during
the final astral battle, rendering him wheelchair-bound once again. The X-Men
reorganized, and Xavier's next major confrontation came with the second return
of Magneto. After Magnus initiated a lethal EM pulse inside Earth's atmosphere,
Xavier and the X-Men traveled to Avalon and
fought with their greatest enemy. Unfortunately, when Magneto pulled all of the
adamantium out of Wolverine's body, Xavier was forced
to shut Magnus' mind down. In that desperate act, some of the evil portions of
Magneto's personality made their way into Xavier's head. This evil aspect combined
with the darkest part of Xavier and eventually gained sentience as Onslaught.
Onslaught ran operations around the world under Xavier's nose (or mind) before
revealing himself and attempting to kill the X-Men. He failed, of course, but
then captured Franklin Richards and used his reality-warping
powers to create a citadel, and even a new sun. All of New York's heroes joined
the fight and when Xavier was removed from Onslaught, and the villain became pure
psionic energy, those who were not mutants were able to enter the energy that
was Onslaught and contain it, destroying him (and apparently, themselves, although
Franklin's last-second creation of an alternate universe ensured their return
a year later). Xavier then turned himself over to the U.S. Government, afraid
that he could cause so much damage again, even though Onslaught left him powerless.
However, Bastion and Operation: Zero Tolerance got
a hold of him, and Xavier was imprisoned until he mysteriously disappeared sometime
before OZT was shut down. When the X-Men finally caught up with Professor X, he
was leading a new Brotherhood of Mutants in an
attempt to defend against the madness of Cerebro. With
the aid of the Mannite Nina, Xavier got his powers back,
and defeated Cerebro by showing him the unique importance of each living individual.
Professor X returned to the X-Men and began rebuilding the Mansion and their lives.
However, after a trip to the past to watch the Skrull
homeworld get destroyed by Galactus, Professor X began to act very cold and harsh,
coming into constant conflict with the team and pushing them to their limits of
endurance and beyond. Finally, the point came where Xavier told the X-Men to just
leave. However, they all quickly returned a few days later upon hearing of Logan's
demise at the hands of the HorsemanDeath
III. The Professor appeared to blame Cyclops, and so enraged his student that
he lashed out with an optic blast, which seriously wounded Storm because Shadowcat
phased Xavier. The situation quickly devolved with the team splitting down the
middle and accusing each other of conspiring to betray the team, and attacking
each other until almost everyone was dead. Of course, the entire scenario was
revealed to be a telepathic illusion generated by Xavier and Phoenix, with assistance
from Cable and X-Man. Xavier
revealed that he had suspected the team had been infiltrated since they returned
from the Skrull homeworld and ran the team ragged in the hopes that physical exertion
would break down the impostor's mental barriers and allow Xavier to scan him or
her. When that didn't work, he kicked them out, having only been able to ascertain
the identities of Storm, and then Cyclops, Phoenix, Angel, X-Man and Cable, who
had formed the team (with Wolverine) that helped defend the Mannites from Death
III. Xavier then revealed that the dead Wolverine was in fact a Skrull. Matters
quickly escalated as Apocalypse made his power play
and the X-Men discovered the identites of The Twelve,
attacked the Skrulls, discovered that Death III was really Wolverine, and were
captured in Egypt by Apocalypse himself. After Cyclops sacrificed himself to stop
Apocalypse, and the X-Men defeated his reality-warping attempts to regain all
their powers, Professor X left Earth with a group of Skrull mutant children who
had defected to the X-Men's side during the battle with Apocalypse's minions to
search for a new homeworld for them. It should be noted that in the possible future
shown to the X-Men by Apocalypse during their battle with him, Xavier and these
Skrulls become an interpanetary X-Men force for good, eventually settling on a
planet they called X-World, where 100 years later thousands of mutants lived and
trained.
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Real Name: Professor Charles Francis Xavier