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Real Name: Professor Charles Francis Xavier
Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: X-Men, Cadre K, Starjammers
Relatives: Dr. Brian Xavier (father, deceased), Sharon Xavier Marko (mother, deceased), Cassandra Nova Xavier (sister), Kurt Marko (step-father, deceased), Cain Marko (Juggernaut, step-brother), David Haller (Legion, son), Xavier Family Tree
Alternate-X Versions: Carlos Javier (1602), Charles Xavier (AOA), Charles Xavier (Ages of Apocalypse), "Shadow" Xavier, (Crusader X World), (Exiles: Zero Tolerance World), (Mutant X), (Movieverse), (Evolution), (TAS)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced prə-fĕs'ər ĕks [From Latin professor "to profess"] [From Greek X "chi," used as a symbol of the unknown or a variable]; A college instructor.
Powers & History: 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. Originally, Professor X was also a telekinetic, with moderate power and range, but that ability seems to have been lost over the years.

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.

When Xavier began to hear of reports of mutants (in this case Scott Summers), he realized that he could not seclude himself, and sought out the FBI agents in charge of mutant incidents and convinced them to work with him to save the kids who needed to learn to control their powers. Xavier's first recruit was Cyclops, who then helped him locate Iceman, Angel and Beast. Joined by Jean Grey, a telekinetic with whom Xavier had worked privately, the X-Men were formed, and Xavier trained them physically, mentally and in the use of their powers to forge them into a team capable of saving the world from the likes of Magneto, the Brotherhood, the Stranger, Factor Three, and Grotesk, the Sub-Human. It was in the battle with Grotesk that Xavier appeared to sacrifice his life, but the X-Men later discovered that it was the Changeling who had taken Xavier's place some time before. Xavier had entered a secret telepathy-proofed chamber under the mansion to prepare himself to confront the invading Z'nox armada. Reunited with his students, he directed them to form a power and psychic circuit while he linked every mind on Earth for a few seconds and blasted that humanity to the Z'nox, who fled.

Later, to save the first team from the mutant island Krakoa, Xavier recruited and telepathically trained four youths who had been working with Moira and sent them to rescue his students. Unfortunately, while they got Cyclops to the X-Jet, the would-be rescuers were apparently killed and Xavier wiped Cyclops's mind before recruiting the second-generation X-Men, who were successful in their task. The new students remained, the old (except Cyclops) left and soon after, Xavier 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 Horseman Death 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 interplanetary X-Men force for good, eventually settling on a planet they called X-World, where 100 years later thousands of mutants lived and trained.

During the Maximum Security event, in which Earth was quarantined and turned into a prison planet for the galaxy's undesirables, Xavier lobbied hard with Lilandra to cancel the operation. Together with Cadre K, the found Bishop and devised a plan that helped free Earth. Following this adventure, Professor X returned home and took up the job of Headmaster once again. He suffered through the deaths of Senator Kelly and Moira MacTaggert, and the secret departure of half the school, following the trail of The Destiny Prophecies. He was then captured by Magneto, who hoped to use Xavier's unconscious form as a rallying point for his attacks against the human world. Professor X was saved by his students and some new recruits.

Starting again from almost scratch, Professor X re-opened the school to a much larger body of students, but then had to watch in horror as the Genoshan mutants were exterminated. The perpetrator was revealed to be his genetic twin Casssandra, who invaded the school but was seemingly defeated. Charles soon went on television and revealed that he was a mutant, causing a firestorm of controversy and frequent rioting and attacks outside the school. Amazingly, he then left for a vacation with Lilandra in her empire.

Only later did the X-Men discover that Cassandra had switched bodies with Charles and was wreaking havoc in the Shi'ar Empire. Charles was stuck in Cassandra's diseased body, slowly losing his mind to a combination of Creutzfeld-Jakob, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other terminal illnesses. Upon Cassandra's return to Earth, Jean coaxed Charles's mind out of the dying body, hoping she could contain all his memories and allow the body to die, depriving Cassandra of a host to inhabit. As Cassandra got closer, Jean used Cerebra to transfer pieces of Charles to the mind every mutant in the world. Cassandra (in Xavier's body) was then attacked by Xorn who attempted to heal her, which had the effect, when Xavier's mind was re-integrated by Cassandra herself (hoping to take control of all mutants), of allowing Xavier to walk again, his spinal cord completely healed.

Unfortunately, this was all a ruse, as Xorn was soon revealed to be Magneto, and the "healing" was really nano-Sentinels assisting Charles's spine, which he turned off, leaving Xavier paralyzed again. Xavier was held in a tank by Magneto, who rampaged across New York, high on the Kick drug. Eventually, Charles was freed by Cyclops and other X-Men, and helped defeat Magneto, who was beheaded by Wolverine after killing Jean Grey.

Xavier returned to Genosha to bury the body, but Wolverine took exception to even this gesture of respect for a terrorist. Xavier persisted, and stood his ground over Polaris's threatening him, and opted to remain on Genosha. After everyone left, he met up with the real Magneto, who had survived the Sentinels' attack on the island, and revealed that the Xorn-Magneto was an impostor. Together, Charles and Magneto set about trying to rebuild Genosha in secret. At some point, the Danger Room came to life and attacked the X-Men, commandeering the Blackbird and flying it Genosha to kill Xavier. Charles managed to destroy most of the AI's body, and with the X-Men defeated it. However, the Danger Room revealed that Xavier had known for years that it was alive, yet ignored it, effectively keeping it an imprisoned slave. The X-Men were appalled at Charles's actions and left him by himself.

Charles remained on Genosha to help rebuild it, cultivating a sort of team made up of Genoshan survivors and pilgrims. However, when the Scarlet Witch lost her mind and killed some of the Avengers (causing that team's dissolution), Magneto somehow sensed it and opened a wormhole to New York, where he collected her unconscious form from the Avengers and returned to the island. Magneto then begged Charles help her, but Xavier was unable to repair her fragmented mind. Charles even called Dr. Strange for help, but although they searched through Xavier's life experiences for answers, they could not stop Wanda's insanity. Fearing for the safety of reality, Xavier called an emergency session of the new Avengers and the X-Men in New York to determine what to do about this new threat. They decided to confront Wanda in Genosha, but before they reached her, the world went white...

Charles Xavier worked together with Magneto to bring about the House of M. Unfortunately, something happened and he died, apparently in order to allow Genosha to exist (politically?). A memorial was made in his honor in Magneto's palace, but Emma Frost and Cloak later discovered that it was not a tomb or mausoleum.

Following M-Day, Professor Xavier regained the use of his legs (due to the reality warp), but he lost his telepathy, possibly Wanda's way of truly crippling him. He was sought by the X-Men for weeks, until he appeared on Muir Island to confront Vulcan, one of the lost rescue team members from the Krakoa incident, who had somehow survived the long years in space. Vulcan made Marvel Girl III reveal what actually happened on Krakoa, showing the X-Men that the powers of his dead teammates had combined to save his life, and that Xavier had wiped Scott's mind of the incident and manipulated the new X-Men into believing that the island was sentient when it was not. Following this shattering revelation, Xavier returned to the Mansion to monitor Darwin, Vulcan's teammate whose adaptive evolutionary abilities had allowed him to survive Krakoa as well. However, after the funeral for Sway, Petra and Banshee (who was killed by Vulcan's first attack), Scott told Professor X to leave the Mansion, as he was no longer a mutant, and didn't belong there.

Xavier stayed for a bit, however, assisting Beast in his analysis of Darwin, though the tension between him and Cyclops was palpable. He started to try contacting the Shi'ar Empire, to see if Vulcan had arrived, but got only dead air. To help him deal with the results of his years-old misjudgment, he asked a number of his students and X-Men to join him on a quest to the Shi'ar Galaxy to stop Vulcan. During the journey, the X-Men rescued a crew of Shi'ar spacers, most of whom turned out to be Warskrulls, but two were the Skrulls' hostages. After the X-Men defeated the Skrulls, the Shi'ar crew stole a ship and kidnapped Xavier, whom they had recognized as a wanted felon in the Empire (due to the actions of Cassandra Nova in his body). Darwin, loyal to Professor X, traveled through space to free him, but was himself captured by Vulcan. Xavier was held in prison until Deathbird's marriage to Vulcan on the M'Kraan world, at which time Vulcan threw Xavier into the Crystal. Darwin plunged in to save him, and eventually managed to get Xavier out, and Charles found the Crystal had restored his powers. He was soon teleported aboard the X-Men's spaceship, where Lilandra locked the controls on a course to Earth and sent him and most of his team home, opting to fight for her Empire on her own.