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__** Charles Xavier / "Professor X" **__



__**History **__

Charles Francis Xavier was born the son of nuclear researcher Brian Xavier and his wife, Sharon. Following her husband's accidental death, Sharon married Brian's colleague, Kurt Marko. Cain, Kurt's son by a previous marriage, came to live at the Xavier’s Westchester mansion shortly thereafter. A cruel and spiteful boy, he bullied his new stepbrother. As punishment, his father secretly beat him – and young Charles felt his sibling's pain firsthand thanks to the emergence of his mutant telepathic powers. Following their mother’s death, a fire in the family home took Kurt’s life, leaving the stepbrothers alone.

By the time he graduated high school, Charles was completely bald as a side effect of his mutant nature. He entered Bard College in New York at age 16 and earned his bachelor's degree in biology within two years. He was then accepted into the graduate-studies program at England's prestigious Oxford University, where he earned degrees in genetics and biophysics. There, Charles met and fell in love with a young Scotswoman named Moira Kinross. Their passionate discussions on the subject of genetic mutation gave way to romance, and they planned to marry. Their only obstacle was Moira's former boyfriend, Joe MacTaggert, a lance corporal in the Royal Marines and a bully, just like Cain. In Joe's eyes, Charles was a good-for-nothing intellectual, so Charles enlisted in the military after completing his studies at Oxford to validate himself in terms his rival would understand.

Charles quickly became something of a legend in the area of search and rescue thanks to his mutant abilities. Attached to the same unit as his stepbrother, Charles was present when Cain deserted under fire during a mission in Asia. Following him in the hope of convincing him to return to their unit, Charles witnessed Cain's discovery of the mystical Ruby of Cyttorak and his transformation into the superhuman Juggernaut. Charles escaped the subsequent cave-in, mistakenly believing his stepbrother was dead.

Later, Charles was devastated when Moira broke off their engagement without explanation. He left the army and began traveling the world. In Cairo, Egypt, he encountered Amahl Farouk, a mutant capable of summoning forth the darkness in the souls of others. This confrontation led to Charles' decision to devote his life to protecting humanity from evil mutants and saving innocent mutants from human oppression.

Charles next traveled to Israel, where he fell in love with Israeli diplomat Gabrielle Haller. He also befriended a fellow drifter named Erik Lehnsherr, a fellow mutant who would become his greatest enemy: Magneto, self-styled master of magnetism. Whilst Charles optimistically believed that humans and mutants could coexist, the Jewish Magnus foresaw mutants as the new minority to be persecuted and hunted because of their differences. Together, the pair prevented the nefarious Baron Von Strucker from launching his terrorist group Hydra on an unsuspecting world. Magnus departed with Strucker's gold, and upon departing Israel himself, Charles was unaware that Haller was pregnant with his son, David.

En route to the United States, Charles encountered the alien scout Lucifer in the Himalayas. To prevent any interference in his race’s planned invasion of Earth, Lucifer dropped a massive stone block on Charles, crippling his legs. In desperation, Charles called out with his mental powers and touched the mind of a young mutant named Tessa who was operating as a mercenary in the neighboring Hindu Kush mountains. Tessa came to his aid and Charles was airlifted to safety. During his convalescence in an Indian hospital, Charles met Amelia Voght, a young nurse who fell in love with him and renewed his will to live.

Charles resumed graduate work at Columbia University in New York, and after receiving a Ph.D. in anthropology he spent several years in London earning a M.D. in psychiatry. There, Charles renewed his friendship with Moira, who had married Joe MacTaggert and was now a renowned geneticist. The two began discussing the idea of founding a school for mutants.

Charles returned to America and resumed his studies of mutation. During this time, Professor John Grey, a friend of Charles' from Bard College, brought his young daughter Jean to Charles for help. Jean had been traumatized when she telepathically experienced the death of a friend. Charles aided in her recovery, and in the ensuing years trained her to use her mental powers. Over the following months, Charles used the mutant-locating computer Cerebro to assemble his original group of students: Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast, and Jean. He dubbed his students the "X-Men," because each possessed an "extra" ability that normal humans lacked.

Years later, when his original students were captured by the sentient island-being Krakoa, Charles recruited Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Sunfire, and Wolverine as a new team to rescue them. Afterwards, Cyclops was the only original member to remain and help Charles train the new recruits. Eventually, Charles began to take his most active role ever with the X-Men by accompanying them on missions. During this time, his former flame Gabrielle requested his help in treating her son David, the powerful psionic mutant known as Legion who suffered from multiple personality disorder. Charles learned that David was his child, and helped him emerge from his autistic condition.

Since the X-Men were all now highly trained adults, Charles renamed his school as the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. He also assumed control of a private institution, the Massachusetts Academy, and transformed it into a new School for Gifted Youngsters. There, yet another new crop of young mutants, Generation X, learned to use their budding superhuman abilities, with Banshee and Emma Frost as headmasters. The X-Men had many adventures. One mission was to foil the plans of the eternal mutant Apocalypse, who sought to rule the world by using the power of the Twelve -- a fabled team of mutants, including Charles and Magneto, who were destined to usher in a new golden age for their kind. After Apocalypse was defeated, Charles departed Earth with Cadre K, a team of adolescent mutant Skrulls, to help them find a new home.

Charles returned to the X-Men to lead them once more, but was captured by Magneto who had been amassing an army on the island nation of Genosha in preparation for an all-out war against humanity. The X-Men rescued their founder, and Magneto was himself crippled by Wolverine. Soon after, Genosha’s population was obliterated by giant mutant-hunting robotic Sentinels sent by Charles’ malevolent genetic twin sister, Cassandra Nova. Charles found himself powerless against his sister after she switched bodies with him, trapping his mind in her own dying form. In Charles’ body, Nova publicly outed him as a mutant.

Free of having to hide behind a veil of secrecy, Charles took to his now public role as a mutant rights activist with vigor. He opened his school to mutants everywhere, and the X-Men became the new faculty. It was not long, however, before Charles’ world came crashing down around him after it was revealed that Xorn was seemingly Magneto in disguise. His old nemesis had survived the Genoshan holocaust and infiltrated the X-Men, gathering together a class of students to use as his new soldiers for the war against mankind. Xorn crippled Charles once more and took control of New York City, rechristening it New Genosha. Using a neurotoxic drug known as Kick to boost his powers, Xorn planned to reverse the magnetic poles of the Earth, destroying humanity and ushering in a new age for mutantkind. However, his students rebelled, and the timely arrival of the X-Men saw a permanent end to his plans after Wolverine decapitated him.

Xavier traveled to Genosha to help rebuild the island nation. In his absence, the X-Men's Danger Room became sentient, attacking the X-Men and seeking to kill Charles. Calling itself "Danger", "she" revealed that Xavier knew she had been self-aware, since the Shi'ar technology was installed in the Danger Room years ago, but chose to ignore her, effectively, inhumanely using her only to train his teams of X-Men. After her defeat on the island of Genosha, the X-Men abandoned Xavier on the island in disgust, and Cyclops stated that he no longer needed Xavier's input at the school or with the team.


 * Welcome to Paradise / Hotel California **

At Academy X’s Halloween party, Cassandra Nova frees herself from the mind of Hisako (“Armor”). Cassandra, in the possession of a new body, takes possession of a deactivated Sentinel at the school and flies off to kill Xavier (who is still in Genosha). The eXalts use Dagan’s knowledge to find Magneto (who was on an island near Genosha). Magneto agrees to help Xavier and destroys the Sentinel and Nova’s new body. Xavier traps Cassandra within his own mind. Following this encounter, both Xavier and Magneto leave Genosha.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Powers and Abilities **__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Telepathy//: Xavier has the ability to read minds and project his own thoughts into the minds of others. When synched with Cerebro, he can connect to every mind on a planet. He has various other telepathic abilities, as well:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Telepathic Illusion//: ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Telepathic Cloak//: can mask his presence from being detected by others. His abilities can 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.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Psi Link//: ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Telepathic Camouflage//: ability to mask himself, and other peoples' presence from those around him. Can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around him quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mind Control//: ability to control the minds of others upon mere concentration. This power can allow him to completely shut down several people's minds, making it appear as if time has stopped.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mind Possession//: ability to possess the mind of another, and use that being's body as his own.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mental Amnesia//: ability to cause loss of particular memories and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Psionic Shield//: ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of himself and of other minds.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Psionic Blasts//: can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Astral Projection//: ability to Astral Travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mental Detection//: can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mind Transferral//: able to transfer both his mind and powers into other host bodies if his own physical body could be somehow killed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Absorb Information//: ability to quickly process and store information, by mental transference.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Genius-level Intellect//: 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.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Military Training//: Charles served in the United States Military, secretly employing his abilities to specialize in search and rescue missions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Expert Fighter//: In his travels in the East, he became a proficient hand-to-hand combatant and gained knowledge of pressure points.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Knowledge of the Body//: As an extension of his studies of pressure points, Xavier's knowledge of the body and its energies/chakras has gained him the unofficial degree of a seasoned Zen master, allowing him the ability to keep in the prime of his physique.