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Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility."
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| “ | To me, my X-Men! | „ |
| ~ Charles Xavier's most famous catchphrase. |
Charles Xavier, better known as Professor X, is the overarching protagonist of the 1992-97 animated superhero series X-Men: The Animated Series and its 2024 sequel series X-Men '97, as well as a guest character in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
He is a highly intelligent and powerful telepath, the co-leader (alongside Cyclops) and founder of the X-Men, and the founder of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
He is voiced by Cedric Smith in the original series, and by Ross Marquand in X-Men '97.
History[]
X-Men: The Animated Series[]
Charles comes from a long line of Xaviers, coming all the way from England, which all share a strong family resemblance. His ancestor James Xavier knew Charles Darwin and Nathaniel Essex. James found that Essex was obsessed with human evolution and believed that humanity would continue to evolve. He began performing inhuman experiments and James led the charge to have him captured. He lost Essex after stopping Jack the Ripper. However, Essex survived to continue his tests.
Charles Xavier was born into a wealthy family in Westchester, New York. The family occupied the sprawling Xavier Mansion. At some point in his early life, Charles's father died and his mother remarried Kurt Marko. As a result of this marriage, Charles gained a stepbrother in Cain Marko, later to be known as Juggernaut. Unknown to Charles or his mother, his stepfather had only married his mother for her vast wealth not out of love. His stepfather favored Charles over Cain and sent Cain to military school to keep him out of the way. He was also abusive to Cain. This was something Charles felt with his fledgling powers and that he could not fully understand. This caused a rift between Charles and Cain that has never been healed. Indeed, later in life when he gained the powers of the Juggernaut he tried on numerous occasions to kill his stepbrother.
When he entered his college years, Charles would study the sciences and medicine, acquiring at least one doctoral degree if not more. Additionally, while in college he would have a glimpse of the adventures to come when he was visited by time traveling alternate versions of Storm and Wolverineas well as Bishop.
After he finished college, Charles either enlisted or was drafted into the U.S. Army and served a tour of duty in Europe. Details of his military service have never been made clear. However, it is known that during these adventures that he met and fell in love with Moira MacTaggert to whom he proposed marriage. In the end, she refused his proposal but the two would remain close friends and confidants in the years to come. As Dr. McTaggart herself, would describe her relationship with Charles "he has given everything for his work, for his students; his X-Men as for friends I am the only one he has". After his service in the military was completed, it is known that he traveled the world extensively as a solo adventurer for several years.
During his adventures, he met Magneto for the first time when they both worked in the treatment ward of a small hospital in the small Eastern European country where Magneto was from treating those that they could with their powers. The two men became friends and disclosed to each other the nature of their powers. These events would seem to suggest that Charles has extensive medical training and practical experience to safely diagnose and treat someone successfully; he may even be a fully trained medical doctor although this has never been disclosed. Matters came to a head for Charles and Magneto when small pockets of rebel soldiers tried to retake the country even after the war ended. They used their powers, to defend their patients. Beyond that, Magneto advocated the use of violence as a tool for mutants to gain acceptance whereas Charles wanted to work towards peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. Charles even stopped Magneto with his mental powers.
Strangely enough, the two men would remain friends and occasional allies over the years that followed even though their philosophies were radically different. The two men fought at each other's side during their adventures in the Savage Land. Even after Magneto was believed to have died on Asteroid M Charles was deeply affected by this and very relived to find out that he had not died. Charles also traveled to Egypt where he crossed paths with Shadow King after a young Storm picked his pocket Charles pursued her he met the Shadow King in human form. Shadow King was using the children of Cairo, Egypt to steal for him. It is known that Charles faced Shadow King on the astral plane and beat him back. After this, Charles lost the ability to walk. After this, Charles went to India to undergo rehabilitation for his paralysis. Here, he met and became romantically involved with his nurse Amelia Voght. After his rehabilitation was complete, he returned to America with Amelia and formed the X-Men. In the long term however, Charles's devotion to his work drove Amelia away from him. In the years that followed, Charles would train and work with a variety of students and the roster of the X-Men would change dramatically to include Rogueand Gambit, but would see the loss of Iceman and Lorna Dane.
When his X-Men brought home a girl named Jubilee after saving her, Xavier told them to not let her leave after she tried to escape. Xavier's ambition to help others drove him to recruit her on the team as well as mourn the loss of Morph, an X-Man previously dying shortly before Jubilee was inducted into the team.
The X-Men would have numerous adventures from matters involving Sentinels to the mission involving the Shi'ar and the M'Kraan Crystal. It was on this mission that he met and fell in love with Lilandra the Empress of the Shi'ar.
When Jean Grey became possessed by the Phoenix Force, Xavier's subconscious turned on the X-Men and began tormenting them. Xavier's conscious regain controlled and stopped.
X-Men '97[]
Believed dead by the world at large, his sacrifice led to easing tensions between mankind and mutants, with the X-Men becoming sanctioned by the United Nations. Before his death, Xavier amended his will to bequeath all he owned, including leadership of his X-Men, to his old friend Magneto, in the hopes that Magneto would be inspired to walk the path of coexistence and that Cyclops and Jean would be freed to live their own lives.
Nursed back to health by Shi'ar medicine, Xavier and Lilandra were able to pursue their relationship in earnest. Xavier was soon introduced to the Shi'ar people as her consort, but a faction within the court led by Lilandra's sister Deathbird distrusted Xavier. She demanded that Xavier submit to having his life on Earth wiped to ensure his loyalty to the Shi'ar before he and Lilandra were allowed to wed.
Xavier first agreed, but backed out of the ceremony at the last minute, instead attempting to convince the council of the error of their ways. While engaging them in a telepathic classroom within the Astral Plane, Xavier was suddenly overwhelmed by psychic feedback caused by the massacre of the mutant nation of Genosha and the death of one of his X-Men, Gambit. Realizing that his X-Men needed him, he left the Shi'ar behind to return to Earth.
Charles found his relationship to his X-Men, particularly Cyclops, strained by his decision to give leadership of the team to Magneto, as Magneto had responded to Genosha's destruction by unleashing a global EMP which now threatened to tear the Earth's magnetic fields apart. Deciding that he would abandon Earth to its destruction and restore Asteroid M as a sanctuary for mutants, Magneto appeared before the X-Men to offer them a place alongside him, despite Xavier's pleas for Magneto to reconsider. Rogue and Sunspot chose to join him.
Forced to fight a two-front war against Magneto and Bastion, the architect of the Genosha massacre, the X-Men split into two teams with Xavier, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, and Wolverine invading Asteroid M with the goal of disabling Magneto long enough for Xavier to be able to seize control of him and force him to undo the damage to the Earth's magnetic field. While the X-Men gained the upper hand, disabling Magneto's EMP would restore the Prime Sentinels and imperil the X-Men fighting Bastion. Cyclops saved Magneto after receiving a telepathic distress call from Jean and realizing that her team had not yet defeated Bastion.
Recovering, Magneto disabled his opponents and captured Xavier, using his helmet to disable Xavier's powers. As Magneto prepared to execute him for his perceived treachery to their race, Wolverine managed to recover in time to stab Magneto in the back. Wounded but not down, Magneto punished Wolverine by tearing the Adamantium from his bones.
In the aftermath, Xavier managed to push his way into Magneto's mind and forced him to undo the damage to the Earth. With Magneto's psyche shattered by this, Xavier resolved to help rebuild his mind, even if it risked costing him his own, while his X-Men continued the fight against Bastion. Magneto first rejected Xavier, struggling with the hatreds and fears flooding his psyche. However, Xavier persisted, refusing to give up on his old friend. Just as Asteroid M was falling towards Earth, with the X-Men helpless to stop it, Xavier broke through to Magneto, who used his powers to halt the Asteroid, before it and them were suddenly flung into the timestream.
Xavier, Magneto, Beast, Rogue and Nightcrawler found themselves in Ancient Egypt, where they saved a young warrior by the name of En Sabah Nur.
Powers & Abilities[]
Xavier has strong telepathic abilities which allow him to read minds, project thoughts, show memories, enter the astral plane, project mental bolts, create mental shields, etc. Physically, he is just a human in a wheelchair/hoverchair, however he is an excellent tactician and strategist.
Personality[]
Xavier has a dream of a peaceful coexistence between mutantkind and humanity that has long been the driving force for the X-Men. As such, he doesn't believe in giving up on others no matter their actions. Although Xavier generally tries to believe the best in most people, forever holding hope he can redeem the psychopathic Sabretooth, the exception is that he declares that the Master Mold is the embodiment of everything evil and must be destroyed.
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