Professor X in other media

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This is a list of all non-comics media appearances of Professor X.

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[edit] Television

[edit] Marvel Superheroes

  • Xavier made his first ever animated appearance on the 1966 Marvel Super Heroes episode of The Sub-Mariner with the original X-Men line-up (Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, and Jean Grey). Interestingly enough, the X-Men are never referred to as the X-Men. They are instead, referred to as Allies for Peace. The characters keep their original looks and individual names from the comics though.

[edit] Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

[edit] Pryde of the X-Men

[edit] X-Men (1992)

  • Xavier next appears in the X-Men animated series, which ran on Fox Kids from 1992–1997. Voiced by Cedric Smith, he appears in 20 episodes as a core member of the regular character lineup. In this series he uses a hovering wheelchair similar to that provided by Lilandra in the comics.
  • Cedric Smith also voiced the role in two episodes of Spider-Man featuring the X-Men. Spider-Man tries to get help from Professor X to find out what he is mutating into only to learn that Professor X doesn't have the ability to know.

[edit] X-Men: Evolution

[edit] Wolverine and the X-Men

  • Professor will appear in the upcoming Wolverine and the X-Men voiced by Jim Ward. An unexpected attack upon the X-Men causes Professor X and Jean Grey to disappear. Emma Frost finds him in a coma on Genosha under the care of Magneto. Professor X telepathically tells his X-Men about the future he has seen and tells them not to give up defending the mutant race. He also tells Wolverine to lead the X-Men for him.

[edit] Non-Traditional Appearances

  • Professor X appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Sausage Fest" voiced by Seth Green. After the featured X-Men were killed in battle with a Sentinel (with him asking if he can delete Real World/Road Rules Challenge off the TiVo after that), he recruits the cast of the Police Academy to his team. During that segment, Larvell Jones was making sounds that caused Professor X to think that his wheelchair is squeaking until Professor X found out and telepathically erased Larvell's brain. After that, his wheelchair still squeaked. Carey Mahoney sneaked a prostitute underneath his podium during graduation. When his new team is kicked far by a Sentinel, Professor X asks it "Same Time Next Week."

[edit] Films

Xavier appears in the three live-action feature film adaptations X-Men, X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand. He is played by Patrick Stewart.

Stewart, who gained fame among science fiction fans for his portrayal of Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation (and who like Xavier is bald), was a long-time fan favorite choice to play Xavier, before the movie was even announced.[citation needed]

In December 2004, Twentieth Century Fox hired screenwriter Sheldon Turner to draft a script for Magneto, a spin-off that focuses on the mutant supervillain. The script includes Professor X, a soldier in the Allied Forces who helps liberate Nazi concentration camps. He meets Magneto after the war, finding a bond with their mutant powers, but their moral differences drive them apart.[1] Instead of McKellen and Stewart, though, actors in their 20s will be cast to portray the characters.[2]

Xavier's favourite book is known from the X-Tinction storyline to be T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Magneto (who apparently shares Xavier's passion for the novel) can be seen reading it at the beginning of X2 while in prison, and also paraphrases White's famous lines about territory and war, saying, "When will these people learn to fly?" Also, at the close of the film, Xavier asks his students if they are familiar with the work, as he is about to teach with it.

Throughout the films, Professor Xavier teaches physics and mutant ethics, as well.

[edit] Mutant profile

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A natural genius, Charles Francis Xavier completed high school at 16. He attended Oxford University, earning Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, and Psychology. An unknown incident left Xavier paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. He is the founder for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and runs Xavier's from his family's Westchester mansion, which has been converted into a base of operations at which he trains mutants for his personal strike force known as "The X-Men." The base includes subterranean medical labs, a training facility called "The Danger Room," an aircraft hangar, and Xavier's mutant detection device code named "Cerebro." Xavier is regarded as an authority on genetic mutation, as well as an advocate of peaceful relations between human and mutant kind. He has uncharted telepathic powers. At present counting, Xavier is the most powerful telepath on the planet.

Charles Xavier has the ability to read, alter and manipulate minds at will. Xavier can leave his body in astral form and appear as an image in the mind of others. (X-MEN: THE LAST STAND DVD)

In the first two films, it is implied that Xavier is one of the most powerful mutants in the world. In the first X-Men film he is able to control both Sabretooth and Toad at the same time and speak through them, in an attempt to talk Magneto out of his plans against humans. In X2, he can "freeze" crowds of people casually without the aid of Cerebro. When his powers are magnified by Cerebro, he can locate any mutant in the world. If he concentrates hard enough, he can kill all mutants or humans and possibly everyone in the world.

[edit] Plot summaries

In X-Men, released July 14, 2000, Xavier helps Wolverine try to put together his past and prevent Magneto from mutating the leaders at the World Summit. In X2: X-Men United, released May 2, 2003, he is kidnapped by William Stryker, brainwashed, and forced to use dark Cerebro to kill all the mutants in the world and then the humans before being stopped by the X-Men and saved.

In X-Men: The Last Stand, released May 26, 2006, Xavier tries to help Jean Grey regain control of her seemingly unlimited powers, but Phoenix completely takes over Jean and escapes the mansion. When Xavier follows her, Magneto has also located her. Rather than starting a fight outside her house, Xavier lets Magneto come with him. Xavier tries to calmly talk Jean into returning to the mansion, but Magneto turns the unstable Jean against the Professor. This causes Xavier to panic and speak to Jean in a less calm manner, now flatly telling her that she's a danger to everyone, including herself. He uses the fact that Jean killed Scott Summers to try to bring her back to herself, but it has the exact opposite effect he was hoping for, further angering the Phoenix instead of stunning her into realizing her evil potential.

After much argument, the Phoenix manifests its great powers as she tries to keep Xavier from re-establishing the psychic blocks to imprison it again. She pins Magneto on the ground, levitates the entire Grey home (along with Wolverine, Storm, the Juggernaut, and Callisto), and holds Xavier afloat above his wheelchair as she and Xavier struggle (telepathically) for control of Jean's mind. It should be noted that although she disintegrates the Professor, after the credits, it is revealed that he has transferred his mind into another body. Moira MacTaggert, who is apparently close to Xavier, shockingly addresses the patient as Charles when he greets her in Stewart's distinctive British accent. On the DVD Commentary, it is revealed that the body on Muir Island was a "P. Xavier". One of the writers noted that this is an original twin brother, written for the scene, who was born braindead (due to Prof X's amount of power). This brother can apparently walk. This is an example of a comic book death; this scene was not in the script but was secretly added during filming.[3] Additionally, there is nothing in the film to suggest that the Juggernaut is related to Xavier, other than perhaps a shared British nationality.

[edit] Internet parody

In the My Way parody The Juggernaut Bitch based on the X-Men Animated Series, Professor X, referred to simply as 'Charles', is a prominent character in the parody and its two sequels. He is voiced by Xavier Nazario.

[edit] Video games

Professor X appears in most of the X-Men video games.

  • He is almost always an NPC and advises the X-Men on various missions in the role playing games.
  • In the case of the fighting games, he appears in some of the characters' endings.
  • Xavier is also a playable character in the game X-Men Legends, and its sequel X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (in the first game, he is playable in one level and when all danger room discs are completed; in the second, he is playable once all the Danger Room missions are completed. He also appears as a major NPC in both games). Patrick Stewart voices Xavier in both Legends games. When playable, he is seen without his wheelchair.
  • Professor X appears as an NPC in the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance voiced by Tom Kane. He helps the heroes by using Cerebro to locate Nightcrawler and Jean Grey. He is amongst the heroes who are defeated by Doctor Doom and seen on the ground next to Magneto with his wheelchair demolished. Also in the game, if the player chooses to save Jean Grey from being dropped into the Infinity Vortex, Mystique will avenge Nightcrawler by infiltrating the X-Mansion at night to vent her frustration upon Professor X where he will die in a coma months later and his death will cause the X-Men to disband forever (Cyclops and Nightcrawler are among the X-Men seen surrounding his grave). Professor X has special dialogue with Iceman, Magneto, Wolverine, and Storm.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Michael Fleming; Claude Brodesser. "Fox pages Turner to pen Magneto spinoff pic", Variety, 2004-12-12. Retrieved on 2007-04-07. 
  2. ^ Michael Fleming. "Fox, Marvel move on 'Magneto'", Variety, 2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-04-26. 
  3. ^ Douglas, Edward (2006-05-29). That X-Men secret ending!. SuperHeroHype.com. Retrieved on 2006-10-14.