X-Men: Why is Professor Xavier so hated? Understanding the worst moments of a comic book hero

On the image: A classic X-Men comic in which Xavier explains to Cyclops and the rest of the team that he pretended to lose his powers because it was a school and they needed to pass his test.

Charles always liked to play “jokes” that helped build trust in the team. In the first issues of the X-Men, after the fight with Magneto, Xavier pretended to lose his powers???????? Obviously, the five young men were very worried about their mentor.

He did this so they could face their biggest challenge, which could result in the deaths of several civilians if things went wrong, without their leader. Everything was in the end The last team test! At least that’s what Xavier tells them, lighting a cigar and grinning…

On the image: Darwin, Vulcan, Petra and Reprise on the cover of Mortal Genesis #4. Xavier’s face appears in the background.

Yes, that’s exactly what you read. There was a time when the X-Men were not very popular in comics, so Marvel decided to restart the team, inviting heroes such as Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus and Storm save Original X-Men who were trapped on Krakoa.

However, they were not the first mutants to try to save the original five. in the saga mortal origin it turns out that before that, Xavier took a “team” of young mutants, whom Coach Moira MacTaggert and sent them to the island.

Everyone died except Darwin, Cyclops and Vulcan.???????? However, everyone (except Vulcan, who was in space) erased their brains and forgot that this team of mutants even existed????????

Xavier then went after other mutants across the countries, and the second generation of X-Men was formed.

On the image: Jean Gray discovers that Xavier has always had a crush on her after infiltrating his mentor’s mind. ????????“Don’t worry” Like I don’t have to worry about who I love. But I can’t tell her that, I don’t have the right… The one I love. The one I love. the one i loveProfessor X thinks.

Many find Xavier’s almost paternal relationship with his young mutants to be wonderful. However, this is not entirely true, since he always has very deep feelings per Jean Gray???????? It doesn’t help that he recruited and trained Jean when she was a child and apparently always had those feelings for her.

On several occasions, Xavier makes it clear that he is romantically attracted to Jean Grey. In one of the first issues of X-Men, he says that no one can know about this, and even in the Ultimate universe there is this story too.

However, the two biggest and most important times Xavier has made his feelings clear were during Jean and Scott’s wedding and in the massacre saga in which Jean discovers that her “father” has been completely in love with her for years. .

Learn more about this story and how it was abandoned in the comics here.

On the image: A flashback shows Wolverine and Xavier talking. Logan asks why Xavier let him shut down, Charles replies:i needed a gun“Currently, Wolverine says: “Surprise, Charlie… You’re a bastard too. welcome to the club????????

many might think “Professor Xavier is so cute! He adopted Wolverine, fierce, cruel and lost in life, who underwent several genetic experiments and rehabilitated him.???????? Except it’s not exactly what happened and Charles Xavier had other plans for wolverine.

AT Wolverine: Origins #29we discover that Xavier has not met Wolverine the first time he hired him to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa. Long ago, James Howlett, as Weapon X, was brainwashed and sent to kill xavier????????

With his powers, Xavier could also mentally manipulate Logan, but he didn’t do it just to save himself. In his own words, Professor X “need a gun”???????? So all the time Wolverine thought the X-Men were his chance to escape his violent past, he didn’t know much. The real reason Xavier recruited him.

On the image: Danger says “X-men. They have no idea who you really are, do they?“. Xavier, holding his head, replies: “I like to think that Jean [Grey] you knew????????

Us Amazing X-Men Joss Whedon finds that dangerous room it is actually a sentient being forced to try and kill the X-Men every day so they can “train”. After convincing a mutant who had lost his powers to commit suicide by controlling an old Guardian and assuming a humanoid form, the Danger Room traveled to Genosha to kill Xavier.

But why did she want to kill Professor X? Why Charles Xavier had known for a long time that the “machine” was conscious.but decided to leave it alone, as she trained children very well.

After all, what’s wrong with enslaving a conscious machine for decades. Doesn’t look like anyone gets hurt, does it?

On the image: Iron Man appears in the middle of Namor and Professor X. They are in attack position.

You may have heard about Illuminati in comics. Professor Xavier was once part of a group that, depending on your iteration, also includes Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Dr. White. Strange, by the way.

They consider themselves “the greatest minds on planet Earth, in the universe and in everything else” and decide to behave like a bunch of elites making questionable decisions “for the good of the universe” that often end up horribly wrong.

Among their exploits, we can note the fact that they caught a Skrull and analyzed all of his anatomy, which eventually led to a small saga called “Secret Invasion”???????? They too they sent the Hulk into space, managed to lose the Infinity Stones and later destroyed them as well. Always making these decisions secretly, as only they are smart enough to decide for all of humanity.

Learn more about the Illuminati here.

On the image: Professor Xavier sees the protocols being used against various mutants.

During the Onslaught saga, we discover something as unsettling as Xavier’s repressed romantic desires for Jean Grey: the existence “Xavier’s Protocols”????????

In the Marvel universe, we have several powerful mutants like Wolverine, Jean Grey, Storm, Iceman and so on. But what if one of these mutants becomes evil? Just go to Xavier’s protocols and do a little research on the professor’s contingency plans, which will show you exactly how to do it. kill each of your students????????

Yes, they don’t say how to capture or neutralize mutant forces, it’s just kill???????? “How to Kill Each of Your Students” That’s not a very pleasant topic to discuss over dinner at the X-mansion, is it?

On the image: Massacre in Path X????????

in the saga fatal sightsMagneto takes Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton, which makes Xavier very nervous – even though he didn’t care that Magneto killed hundreds of people shortly before – and decides to attack Magneto psychically, so hard and unprecedented that all the evil that existed in Magneto joined most parties dark and depressed Xaviertaking the form of a mega-villain massacre????????

massacre was a giant and evil villain who fought almost every Marvel hero in an event (which didn’t go well) in 90s and became one of the most feared and powerful beings in this universe.

Among Massacre’s various crimes, such as several heroes who died fighting against it, the main one was certainly the fact that it took almost an entire editorial year to come into existence. And for some reason, a few years ago, someone thought it would be interesting to bring it back.

The character is the embodiment of all the worst sides of Magneto and Xavier combined, but the Master of Magnetism never said that he was an angel-savior and peacemaker, wishing well to mutants and humanity…