Professor X in other media

Adaptations of Professor X in other media
Created by	Stan Lee Jack Kirby
Original source	Comics published by Marvel Comics
First appearance	X-Men #1 (September 1963)
Films and television
Film(s)	X-Men (2000) X2 (2003) X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) X-Men: First Class
Television show(s)	X-Men (1992) X-Men: Evolution (2000) Wolverine and The X-Men (2009)
Games
Video game(s)	The Uncanny X-Men (1989) X-Men (1992) X-Men Legends (2004)

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

Television

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.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

• Xavier makes frequent guest appearances on the animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (voiced by Stan Jones).

Pryde of the X-Men

• Xavier has appeared in four different X-Men cartoons. The first is the 1989 pilot X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, voiced by John Stephenson.

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.

X-Men: Evolution

• He appeared as a regular cast member in the Kids WB animated series X-Men: Evolution. Here, he is voiced by David Kaye, who doubles as the voice for Apocalypse.

Wolverine and the X-Men

• Professor X appears in 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 who found him on Genosha's shoreline sprawled upon the rocks. Professor X telepathically tells his X-Men about the future he has seen after waking up from his coma and tells them not to give up defending the mutant race, for in the future, much of the world is in devastation with Sentinels all over. He also tells Wolverine to lead the X-Men for him. During his time in the future, Professor X uses some technology to help him walk and has assembled a future X-Men. Outside of occasional contact with Wolverine in the past, Professor X was able to enter Cyclops' mind to identify the Phoenix Force and even show Magneto and Senator Kelly the Sentinel-dominated future. When it came to the final fight with Master Mold in the future, Professor X is rescued by the Wolverine of that time and 4 clones of X-23. After failing to get through to Wolverine in the past, he helps in the fight against Master Mold. When the Phoenix Force is stopped, Professor X contacts them again stating that a new future has taken place... one that is ruled by Apocalypse.

The Super Hero Squad Show

• Professor X appears in The Super Hero Squad Show "Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant Academy" voiced again by Jim Ward.

Astonishing X-Men

• Professor X appears in the Astonishing X-Men motion comic voiced by Dan Green.

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."

Films

Xavier has appeared in all four live-action X-Men feature films to date: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He is played by Patrick Stewart.

X-Men

Xavier is first introduced in X-Men, when he sends Storm and Cyclops to rescue Wolverine and Rogue from Sabretooth. Xavier believes that the attack was caused by Magneto and that Wolverine was the intended target. He gives Wolverine and Rogue a home in the institute and promises to help Wolverine remember his past if he is also allowed forty-eight hours to discover why Magneto wants Wolverine. Xavier uses Cerebro to locate Rogue when she runs away, but is poisoned when he uses it later (as Mystique had tampered with it). At the end of the movie, he recovers and advises Wolverine to search Alkali Lake for answers to his past.

X2: X-Men United

Upon learning that the mutant Nightcrawler attacked the President of the United States, Xavier sends Storm and Jean to bring the mutant for questioning. He and Scott leave to visit Magneto (as he is suspected behind the attack), leaving Wolverine in charge of the school. In Magneto's cell, Xavier learns that Magneto was brainwashed by William Stryker and forced to tell Stryker all about the institute and Cerebro. Before he can escape, Xavier is knocked out. He wakes up in Stryker's underground test facility, tied to a chair and fixed to a device that restricts his mental powers. He is left in the room with Jason Stryker, William's son and a powerful illusionist who Xavier previously taught. Now brainwashed by his father, Jason traps Xavier into various illusions, keeping him in one where Xavier is back in the institute (which is empty) and Jason is portrayed as a scared little girl. To comfort the "girl" and find his students, Xavier goes to use Cerebro. It is discovered that Xavier was captured to power a makeshift Cerebro Stryker created. Under Jason's illusion, Xavier is tricked into concentrating on all of the world's mutants, nearly killing them. He then switches to attacking all of the world's humans after Magneto interferes. Nightcrawler and Storm rescue Xavier from the illusion and he has them all fly to Washington, to warn the president against the possibility of a mutant/human war.

X-Men: The Last Stand

Xavier first appears in a flashback, when he and Magneto pick up a young Jean Grey as their first student. He is given a more youthful appearance with digital technology.

In the present, Xavier expresses worry over Scott's grief over Jean's death and tells Storm that should anything happen to him, she was to replace him as head of the school. When Jean is discovered alive, Xavier sedates her and tells Wolverine that he had kept her powers in check with mental barriers since she was a child, resulting in her developing a second personality known as "The Phoenix". When Jean awakens as The Phoenix and escapes, Xavier tracks her down to her old home and tries to convince her to return. Infuriated both by Xavier's meddling in her head and Magneto (who insinuates that Xavier wishes to restain her and "give her the cure"), she uses her mind to first lift her house into the air and then cause Xavier to explode into ash. His death causes a great impact on the residents of the institute and it is nearly closed until Storm decides to honor Xavier's wishes and act as its head. In an after-credits scene, Xavier speaks to Moira McTaggert through the body of a comatose man, implying that his consciousness survived.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Professor X appears briefly towards the end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After Wolverine frees a group of young mutants including a young Cyclops from William Stryker's lab, they try to escape from the facility but get lost. Cyclops suddenly hears a telepathic voice, which guides him out to safety along with the other mutants. Outside they are greeted by Professor X, who was communicating telepathically with Cyclops. The Professor then takes everyone into his helicopter, presumably to his mutant school. Like in the opening of The Last Stand, Patrick Stewart was digitally de-aged to appear younger.

X-Men: First Class

According to THR's Heat Vision James McAvoy is cast as the young Professor X in X-Men: First Class.

X-Men Origins: Magneto

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. Instead of McKellen and Stewart, though, actors in their 20s will be cast to portray the characters.

Other

There was a reference to Professor X in the 2010 film Cop Out where Jimmy is called Professor X because of his baldness.

Mutant profile

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 and considered to be one of the most powerful mutants on Earth.

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.

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.

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. Additionally, there is nothing in the film to suggest that the Juggernaut is related to Xavier, other than perhaps a shared British nationality.

Books

• In the X-Men/Star Trek crossover novel Planet X, Archangel and Beverly Crusher program a copy of Professor X into the holodeck of the Enterprise-E. Crusher remarks on how similar Professor X and Captain Picard look. Both were portrayed by Patrick Stewart; however, Planet X was written prior to Stewart being cast as Professor X for the first X-Men film.

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.

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.

• He appears in the X-Men: Mutant Academy game for the Sony PlayStation, helping the player in Academy Mode.

• He appears in the X-Men: Mutant Academy 2 game for the Sony PlayStation, as an unlockable playable character.

• He appears in the training modes for Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro voiced by Daran Norris.

• 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, Wolverine, and surprisingly Nightcrawler, are among the X-Men seen surrounding his grave). Professor X has special dialogue with Iceman, Wolverine, Storm, and Magneto.

• He is briefly mentioned by Lisa Simpson in The Simpsons Game concerning the families' powers.

• Professor X appears in the PlayStation 2 and version of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. He appears as an assist character who uses his telepathy upon the enemies.