X-Men: Professor Charles Xavier
By rovian
@rovian (1924)
United States
October 31, 2010 1:16pm CST
For those familiar with X-Men, have you ever questioned Professor Xavier's ability to help other mutants when it came to their special abilities? Scott aka Cyclops has an ability he cannot control on his own. He has been with the professor since he was a child, and in maybe 7 or 10 years, the best Xavier did was giving him a special pair of glasses. Then there is Rouge, another mutant who cannot control her powers, and she has to avoid skin contact by wearing long sleeves and gloves. The cartoon series made after the first X-Men movie, had a mutant called Spyke who's ability was to launch wood spikes from his body. He later chose to leave the Professor's school to live with a group of mutants who helped him much more than Xavier did. In his next appearance, he was now able to create body armor, and could also make his spikes explode.
What do you think?
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@joey_matthews (8354)
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1 Nov 10
Charles wants his students to realize they have the ability to be normal and fit in as much as they possibly can. Some of this was explained in the original comic book and if you compare him to Magneto you notice that one likes to allow their side to understand their powers (yet remained limited) being powerful as they learn and the other wants them to become stronger and stronger so they can cause trouble. He didn't help Wolverine because in my opinion he was in a very unstable situation and charlies might not of wanted someone to be out of control.
He takes "good" students in. (mutants) he tends to try and help some who have done wrong in the past but always sets out a limit because they can be very dangerous.
This is my thoughts.
@joey_matthews (8354)
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2 Nov 10
They're not really dependent on him. He doesn't "personally" limit them he just doesn't guide them to being as powerful, he teaches how to understand their ability and how to use them correctly. He doesn't teach how to make the most of them as it's their learning curve in my opinion.
I don't really think that makes them dependent on him, as the X-Men very rarely rely on his abilities to safe the day.
Though, I agree that they do depend on him somewhat for guidance and he does give them that. The beast and Wolverine try to aid the Mutants on how to grow strong, they're the power behind the X-Men being so strong. Wolverine within the comic/cartoon and movies tries his best to fill in the gaps that Charles leaves. I think that's why they consider it a school for mutants.
@AllenWiggs (404)
• United States
31 Oct 10
This is brought up in the comics all the time actually. A lot of it has to do with the fact that comics and television doesn't like developing and altering characters too much in fear of running off the audience or worse changing things and having to end the series. It's a huge problem with super hero books that are company owned, things must be the same so they can print the same comic in 10 years. Xavier must not help too much because otherwise there would be substantial change and alteration.
@rovian (1924)
• United States
1 Nov 10
If they give Cyclops full control of his powers, it changes him, and Marvel would be taking a risk in losing fans when they create something new which includes Cyclops? That seems to make sense. If they feared losing fans due to altering characters, why did they create Super Hero Squad instead of giving the new generation the same thing the previous generations grew up with?
@vjenkins86 (1478)
• United States
31 Oct 10
You raise some valid points about Professor Xavier's ability to help his students. In fact, there are several times we see in the cartoons, the comics and even in the movies that he cannot help all of his students.
I think most people still believe in the professor because his desire to help mutants, even when he cannot help them all.
