When Professor X was ruined as a key part of the X-Men, according to a top Marvel editor
Although in story the 'X' in X-Men stands for the X-Gene that differentiates mutants from human, for many the X comes from the name of its founder, Charles 'Professor X' Xavier. But if you've been a fan of the X-Men for any good length of time, you'll come to see that he's been written to be far from the perfect leader - and for Marvel Comics' new top X-Men Tom Brevoort, it's seriously hampered the character."As far as Professor Xavier goes, I think he has the same problem in the modern age that such characters have been facing going back to the '70s at least: he’s an authority figure, and as a culture, we have a deep distrust of authority figures," Brevoort writes on Substack. "Consequently, on multiple occasions, Xavier has been shown to be not just flawed but actually abhorrent in his actions, betraying the morality that he’s meant to represent."Brevoorts points to two recent stories that he says "tainted the character in a permenant way." The first is the 2004 - 2008 Astonishing X-Men run by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday - specifically for storythread in which the Danger Room, the X-Men's longtime practice area, was revealed to be a sentient being that Xavier had purposely chained away to serve as a tool rather than allowed to be a free being. Read more