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Professor
X
 Real
name: Charles Xavier
Occupation: Grand Vizier
Group affiliation: None
Base of operations: Castle Doom
First appearance: X-Men (Vol. 1) #1 (1963)
Height: 6'
Weight: 190 lbs.
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Bald (blond as a child)
Powers: None
Weapons: Professor X designed and constructed the Cerebro system -- a room-sized
super-computer capable of detecting mutants over vast areas. Cerebro's
range is broader when operated in conjunction with the telepathic ability
of Xavier or another mutant.
History: Charles Xavier's crippled body serves as a constant reminder of
his troubled past -- fraught with pain, loss and the bitter sting of
oppression. The son of nuclear researcher Brian Xavier and his wife,
Sharon, Charles experienced the emergence of his telepathic powers while
still a boy. Following her husband's accidental death, Sharon married
Brian's colleague, Dr. Kurt Marko. Cain, Kurt's son by a previous marriage,
came to live at the Xaviers' Westchester mansion shortly thereafter. A
cruel and spiteful boy, he bullied his new stepbrother. As punishment, his
father secretly beat him -- and the untrained Charles felt his sibling's
pain firsthand, because he could not yet control his fledgling abilities
or terminate his contact with Cain's mind. As he grew older, Charles
learned to control his burgeoning powers.
A brilliant student, he enrolled in the graduate-studies program at
England's prestigious Oxford University, where he met and fell in love
with a young Scotswoman named Moira Kinross. Of all their classmates,
Charles and Moira were the only ones who understood the ultimate
implications of genetic mutation. Their passionate discussions on the
subject gave way to an equally passionate romantic relationship, and the
two planned to be married. Standing in their way was Moira's former
boyfriend, Joe MacTaggert, a lance corporal in the Royal Marines -- and a
bully and thug, just like Cain. In Joe's eyes, Charles was an effete, good-for-nothing
intellectual. To prove him wrong, to validate himself in terms his rival
would understand, Charles enlisted in the military after completing his
studies at Oxford.
His first day in combat, he thought he would go mad. Nothing could have
prepared him for the mental
horrors he would experienceas his fellow soldiers were maimed and killed
around him. Somehow, he found a way to cope -- becoming something of a
legend in the area of search and rescue. Attached to the same unit as his
stepbrother, Charles was present when Cain discovered the ages-old ruby
that transformed him into the mystically empowered Juggernaut. Crushed
when Moira broke off their engagement without explanation, Charles
traveled abroad after leaving the Army. While in Cairo, Egypt, he clashed
with Amahl Farouk -- a.k.a. the Shadow King, 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 bent on world domination and safeguarding innocent mutants from
human oppression.
Charles next traveled to Israel, where he fell in love with Gabrielle
Haller, an Israeli diplomat. Also, he befriended fellow drifter Erik
Magnus Lehnsherr, the mutant who would become his greatest enemy and
rival: the genetic terrorist known as Magneto, Master of Magnetism.
Charles espoused his optimistic belief that Homo sapiens and Homo superior
could coexist, but Magnus foresaw mutants as the new minority to be
persecuted and hunted because of their differences. Charles was unaware
when he left Israel that Haller was pregnant with his son. Only years
later did he learn of his connection to the psionically powered mutant
known as Legion. Arriving in London, Charles renewed his friendship with
Moira, who had married Joe MacTaggert and was now a renowned geneticist.
The two began to discuss the idea of founding a school for mutants. En
route to the United States, Charles encountered an alien calling himself
Lucifer, the advance scout for an invasion by his race. Lucifer dropped a
massive stone block on Charles, crippling his legs. During his
convalescence at a hospital in India, Charles met and fell in love with
Amelia Voght. The young nurse who renewed his will to live.
Professor X's first student was 11-year-old Jean Grey, traumatized when
she telepathically experienced the emotions of a dying friend. Charles
helped Jean recover and taught her to use her telekinetic powers.
Following his success with Jean, he embarked on his long-held plan to
locate young mutants and enroll them in his School for Gifted Youngsters.
Professor X even converted his ancestral mansion into a base where he
could train them to use their powers for humanity's benefit. Voght
remained with Charles until the arrival of Scott Summers -- a modern-day
Cyclops, cursed with uncontrollable optic blasts. Voght fled, fearing an
escalating "genetic arms race" between Professor X and Magneto.
During the months that followed, Charles assembled the balance of his
original students: Warren Worthington III, the high-flying, heroic Angel;
Robert Drake, the irrepressible Iceman; Henry McCoy, the big-brained, able-bodied
Beast; and an older, more powerful Jean Grey, the telekinetic Marvel Girl.
He dubbed his students the "X-Men," because each possessed an "extra"
ability normal humans lacked. Years later, when the mutant island Krakoa
captured most of his original proteges, Professor X recruited a new team
of X-Men to rescue them. Encouraged by Moira, he took on another class of
students after the second wave of X-Men appeared to die in battle: the New
Mutants. Later, he assumed control of a private institution, the
Massachusetts Academy, and transformed it a new School for Gifted
Youngsters. There, yet another new crop of young mutants, Generation X,
learned to use of their amazing abilities.
As a young mutant, Charles Xavier dedicated his life to the attainment of
peaceful coexistence between Homo sapiens and Homo superior. He has seen
this dream nearly snuffed out on countless occasions, but his X-Men
continue their fight to make his vision a reality -- raging against hate,
prejudice and the oppression of mutantkind.
In order to atone for the Crimes that Onslaught commited, Charles Xavier
now resides in Castle Doom as the Grand Vizier, close advisor to Emperor
Doom. He remains in this place so Onslaught can't take control of his body
again.
Faithfully he remains by Ororo's side now
that Doom is gone. Xavier is trying to reform his team of X-Men, and
hopefully finally accomplish his dream of peaceful coexistence. Ororo has
asked him to lead Excalibur into space. Their mission is quite simple.
Head to the Shi'ar Imperium and ask for Lilandra's help. With the Shi'ar
Chronal Institute they hope to find out a way to bring back those that
have dissapeared.
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