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Photoshop just did a big update knocked out some of my stuff kind of pissed me off had to spend the whole day trying to get everything back the way I like it :) One program still doesn't work but the website said they have to reprogram it to work with the new edition of photoshop. I am no expert in photoshop learn a little bit every year so when they do this it hurts :) Be gone for about a week to Texas leaving 11Nov21.
Hello my lovely gentleladies and gentlelords,
it's been a while since I uploaded a picture but I haven't forgotten about you. I hope you'll enjoy this blog post! (*´▽`*)
Dura created new hair for us! This time it's a unisex hair, that comes in three different bang options and will be available at the Man Cave Event - starting on the 17th of July. I love how this hair turned out and how many fine strands it has! Truly stunning. I can't help but to admire Chiaki's work over and over. I'll include a raw preview for you • here •. Feel free to try the demo inworld!
I decided to try another head and skin combo for this picture. I'll share it in the credits below - I hope you guys like it!
Before we continue with the credits, I want to give a huge thanks to Bartazor from Rezz Room for sharing these uber amazing dragons with me, to Dahvie Gloom, for his hard work and these stunning eyes. I'm truly in love with the blue version! (✧ω✧), Eliavah, who recently decided to support the male community with her amazeball skills! Thank you for this outstanding outfit! Chiaki-sensei, for her continuous hard work for unique and amazing hair! ♡ Last but not least I want to give a shout-out and big thanks to Zara and Cerb who helped me with troubleshooting while taking this picture and listened to me whine xD
You guys are amazing!
- Credits -
Hair: Dura - U106 @Man Cave
Head: Catwa - Dino
Skin: Mudskin - Hikaru
Eyes: Gloom - Reprogram Collection - Project: Blue
Jacket: Eliavah - Daigoro Jacket @Kustom9
Mask: Eliavah - Daigoro Mask @Kustom9
Pants: ::GB:: - koshikimono
Dragons: [Rezz Room] - Japanese Dragon
Piercing: {-Maru Kado-} - Nostril cone
Septum: [TWC] - Gear Septum
Rings: V/.[Vesper] - RARE2- Rings
Decoration:
Torii: {anc} - tori-i gate
Sofa: The Loft & ARIA - Rue Sofa
Lotus Lamps: (luc) - Crawling Lotus Lamp
Blossoms: ROIRO - Sakura vase maru
Sakura: Skye - Sakura Tree
Trees: [[RH]] - MOMIJI - Maple
Tatami: [[RH]] - TATAMI (Mesh)
Side note: If you're looking for the folding screens, I ripped those out of Zara's Skybox: Varonis - Chandelle Skybox - thank you for making your stuff modify, QueenZ, you make photographer-dreams come true (°◡°♡)
O' heartless man,
Your heart shall soon belong to me."
~
Hello lovely people (*´▽`*)
I'm proud to present Dura's new hair to you. It'll be released at TMD, starting at the 5th of each month. It's a unisex hair that comes with three styling options. Each more amazing than the other and, oh my, what can I say - the details and fine strands are breathtaking. Dura excelled themselves once again - best to see for yourself and try a free demo inworld.
When I saw the new tiny flame from Mish Mish at Kustom 9, I felt the urge to make the picture themed for Howl's moving castle - one of my very favorite movies from the Ghibli studios. The flame companion is so adorable. I want to thank all the creators for their hard work and releasing unique content for us all to enjoy.
I hope you'll like the new picture!
I wish you an amazing start into the weekend and hopefully see you soon at the event ❤
- Credits -
Hair: Dura - U110 - COMING SOON @TMD
Head: GENUS Project - Strong Face
Ears: [MANDALA] - Steking Ears Season5
Skin: [ MUDSKIN ] - SHOTA
Eyes: Gloom. - Reprogram Collection - Project: Blue
Calcifer: MishMish - Tiny Flame @Kustom9
Moon & Stars: .random.Matter. - Astrid Aura - Head Glitter & Stars
Earring: .random.Matter. - Fionne Earrings
Necklace1: AsteroidBox. - Bailey Jewelry
Necklace2: toksik - Unleashed Necklace (VIP Special Reward)
Shirt: [spectacledchic] - Lestat Blouse
Jacket: FAKEICON - dizen coat
Pants: [Deadwool] - Peak suit
Cummerbund: ::Gabriel:: - Cummerbund
Cane: [ht+] - walking cane - the dapper
Decoration:
Skybox: VARONIS - Lueur Skybox
Ivy: EliBaily - Ivy 01
Feathers: Air - Ciel feather
Flowers: {anc} - plum flower
Shooting Stars: {anc} - Shooting Star
"The coziness, warmth and comfort of being at home, or being with loved ones sharing time in a pleasant atmosphere."
Thank you so much for taking your time to pose with me and your amazing work on this new hair, Chiaki-sensei! I'm happy you joined me for this ad picture, I had so much fun. I absolutely admire you! (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ♡
- Credits -
on Chiaki:
Hair: Dura - U111 @Man Cave
Cup: Foxwood - Yorkie Cup
Pants: [Deadwool] - Hart trousers
Vest: [Deadwool] - Hart vest
Earrings: [Val'More] - Sinful Earrings
Rings: **RE** janus Rings
on Asahi:
Hair: Dura - U111 @Man Cave
Jacket: Ascend - Bronson Jacket @TMD
Pants: E.K - Karl - Regular Fit Denim @TMD
Eyes: Gloom - Reprogram Collection - Project: Blue
Flowers Pink: LODE - Head Accessory - Phlox Wreath
Flowers Orange: LODE - Head Accessory - Eden
Chocolate: .SugarBun - Chocolate Bar - Blue
Glasses: .random.Matter. - Rose Glasses - Gold
Ears: [MANDALA] - stretched ears season 2
Earring: AsteroidBox. - Bailey Jewelry
Earphones: .random.Matter. - Wonho Set - Earbuds
Decoration:
Skybox: VARONIS - Neve Skybox
Sofa: Nutmeg. - Dreamy Pastels Sofa
Curtain: Nutmeg. - Summer Bliss Drapes
Bookshelf: BALACLAVA!! - Downes Shelf
Curtain Pearls: Soy. - Raindrops curtain
Plant: Soy. - Super long Hanging Hedera
Stringlights: Half-Deer - Stringlights
Books: random.Matter - Romance Novels @Equal10
Chocolates: .random.Matter. - Chocolate Box @Equal10
Bottle: .random.Matter. - Wine @Equal10
Flowers Vase: dust bunny - quirky planters - cactus
Kittens: [Black Bantam] - Kitten Bouquet Decor @Equal10
Strawberry chocolates: Junk Food - Strawberries Box Brown @Equal10
Wordpress: novacaine86.wordpress.com/2021/10/08/date-night-vol-iii/
Nova Caine
Hair – DOUX – Tini hairstyle [BASIC PACK]
Head – LeLUTKA Ceylon Head 3.0
Skin – [Heaux] Alizey – FATPACK *Velour Tone
Body – eBODY – REBORN (PREVIEW VERSION) – Coming soon to Equal 10
Eyes – .euphoric Joanna Eyes Applier [Lelutka]
Brows – DAZED. Snuffy Eyebrows – lel EVOX BOM
Clothes
Dress and Jacket – AURICA Milli Outfit FATPACK – Blanc – Sep 28 – Oct 25
Boots – Oddysee – Haruna boots [FATPACK] v2 – Planet 29 – Sep 29 – Oct 22
Pose – PM . 247
S̶a̶r̶o̶s̶
Head – LeLUTKA Kane Head 3.1
Skin -STRAY DOG – ONO – LELUTKA EVOX – TONE 04
Body – Belleza- Mesh Body Jake
Eyes – 11.Gloom. – Reprogram Gacha – Green
Hair – Sintiklia – Hair Leon – Blacks&whites
Top – //Ascend// Cole Long Coat – Black
Bottoms -[Gild] Waist cloth with pants_red_Wear
Boots -L’Emporio&PL::Wattie::-Punk Boots-BELLEZA JAKE
Accessories
Rings –RE DarkStone Bracelets & Rings Set
Markings
Face – Viena. Fierce Bruises Pack
Fcae2 – Fewness – Incurable Set
Neck – DAZED MENS GIFT. Neck Wounds – BOM
Eye scar – Gloom. – Face Enhancer – Scars
Backdrop City
.pt. + ContraptioN - witch hunter cuff -
J.H.Industries Vash The Stampede Glasses
Exile:: Willa]
FAKEICON / label coat / black / M
Gloom. - Reprogram Collection
SISU\\ SKULD CHEST ARMOR MK1 (texture mod)
[ContraptioN] SP1NDL Prosthetic arm *AETH*
[LANEVO] GHOULIES MASK & NECK ARMOR
*[Oshiro]* - Arcade Corner (background sign)
Soy una máquina
diseñada para disfrutar
Tengo un tic neurégeno en el cráneo,
vivo siempre al borde del escándalo
si me acerco a ti, te hago sonreir
Soy una maquina
soy una maquina
diseñada para gozar.
No camino yo me contoneo
cuando lloro es porque bromeo,
vengo de un pais,
que no teme el porvenir.
Soy una máquina,
diseñada para desear.
Siempre deseo lo que no tengo,
y si lo tengo deso mas,
soy un vaso lleno de agua y de sal.
Siempre emitiendo señales de gusto,
voy tuneada con circuitos de lujo,
siempre dando dando, y no puedo desconectar.
Siempre subiendo temperaturas,
salgo vestida y vuelvo desnuda,
siempre dando dando, y no puedo desconectar.
Soy una máquina,
diseñada para disfrutar.
Soy una máquina,
que se quiere reprogramar.
(Así llora una máquina)
Siempre emitiendo señales de gusto,
voy tuneada con circuitos de lujo,
siempre dando dando, y no puedo desconectar.
Siempre subiendo temperaturas,
salgo vestida y vuelvo desnuda,
siempre dando dando, y no puedo desconectar.
Soy una máquina,
dispuesta a descodificarse de una vez,
todo de una vez.
Soy una máquina,
dispuesta a descondificarse de una vez
todo de una vez.
Perched like a silent saboteur, this crow wasn’t just looking for food—it was unwittingly pulling off the perfect disruption. In one sharp tug, the satellite signal went down, and a living room full of humans stared at a frozen screen, clueless to the culprit above.
They blamed the weather. They cursed the service. But up on the roof, beneath a flawless sky, the real mischief-maker vanished into the blue, mission accomplished—no motive, no witnesses, just a well-timed peck and a twist of fate.
Sometimes, nature doesn’t just coexist with technology…
It reprograms it.
"Where there's evil, where there's darkness i will be there.."
Accessories:
Mask: +SEKAI+ Oxygen Mask [FATPACK] At @ CYBER Fair
Ears: Rokins-Cyber Usagi#RARE1(Ears) At @ CYBER Fair
Eyes: Gloom.- Cyber Collection - Android (Mesh L+R) At @ CYBER Fair
Gloom. - Reprogram Collection - 404 (Mesh L) At @ CYBER Fair
Aura:
The Deadboy Evil Spirit Aura At The Deadboy & Graveyard
Katana: REKT - Chokutou Sword At @ CYBER Fair
Outfit:
[Val'More] - CyberHacker Coat At @ CYBER Fair
[Val'More] - CyberHacker Pants At @ CYBER Fair
Backdrop:
The Bearded Guy Reactor - Cyber Nights At @ CYBER Fair
I owned one of these cameras in the early 1990's and it travelled all around the world with me. A lovely camera to use and gave me plenty of lovely images from my adventures. It was a camera I regretted selling as the newer versions I really didn't enjoy anywhere near as much.
After much searching, I finally found a nice example - so many of these the plastics particularly on the grip have deteriorated and are usually badly broken and cracked.
An innovative feature of these was the ability to purchase various 'expansion' cards as pictured. These small almost SD sized cards could be inserted in a door on the side of the camera and would reprogram or optimise the camera for what you were shooting. The sports card worked very well and I used this for shooting motorsports: flic.kr/p/2ozmYp9 It would shift the camera to continuous AF and provide the fastest shutter / aperture combination for the film speed and light conditions. Of course this feature went on to be built into the next generation of Minolta cameras as well as the other brands.
© Dominic Scott 2023
Definitely an out of season image, but it helps me reprogram my mind off the past 2 years to a new beginning. May health and happiness follow each of you into the new year!
Nikon Z7 ~ Zeiss 135mm/2
Please ignore the Exif datum. I have, again, forgotten to reprogram my camera. Shot done with Mitakon Speedmaster 35mm at F0.95. One LED lamp, triple exposure. Marx is one of London's most famous citizens. You can find him on Highgate Cemetery.
Your hope - even your 'theory' - was that the socialisation of the means of production would end human misery. Granted, the red elites trying to realise your theory failed, partly because their views of socialisation were incomplete as they themselves (and not society) wanted to control it. Their understanding of 'means of production' was way too narrow and did not give enough space and autonomy to the fields of intellectual thought and religious sentiment. After the catastrophes of the 20th century we are all a bit wiser (hopefully). But could you ever have imagined that "Facebook", the matador of a late capitalist and manipulative culture industry, would sail under the flag of the socialisation of the means of communication? Rotate in your grave, Karl!
I had to take my truck to the dealer for a PCM reprogram so brought the Super Ricohflex and some CatLABS X Film 80 to help waste some time.
Super Ricohflex
Ricoh Anastigmat 1:3.5/8cm
39-43mm step-up ring with three layers of aluminum tape on the inside edge to make it a push-on filter adapter
Tiffen 43mm Yellow 8 filter
CatLABS X Film 80 @80
Rodinal 1+50 15 minutes 20°C per MDC
Ten inversions to start, then four on the top of each minute thereafter - all easy inversions.
Explored at No. 248 on May 19, 2022
The year is 2064, not long after the heavily anticipated release of the Google House-assistant. It didn’t take but a few short months for the boxing underworld to reprogram these bots in illegal fighting machines. The new popular gambling sport spread like wildfire throughout world. It’s all fun and games.... What could go wrong?
"Taking one last look, sir...at my friends."
For me, this was by far the best moment in the final Rise of Skywalker trailer. 3PO has been an icon to the world now for two generations, and if he is to lose his memory here or be shut down for good...I like to think he's referring to more than just those who are in front of him.
Obviously, the Clone Wars-era edit doesn't work because that was all wiped at the end of ROTS. Still wanted to do it though for this to look complete.
Flashbacks like these almost certainly won't happen in this moment, but let a lifelong Star Wars fan dream ;)
7Artisans manual lens 35mm F 1.2 wide-open (disregard other info, I just forgot to reprogram the camera).
~traget IX the Insurgency~
+sig-fig chapter 1
Sandu Taykon and his team got a new mission:
They were send to the ruins of a Senate building on Raxus Secundus where they should find some old CIS J 1 proton cannons.
It wasn’t easy to find this cannon because of all the ruins of the destroyed senate building.
The whole team needed some special equipment (that wasn’t easy to get)
because the grass at Raxus releases toxins.
After we found the cannon, the tech-team started reprogram the cannons so that they shoot on imperial ships.
Fortunately, there weren’t any incidents and we finished the whole project in less then 2 days.
A life threatening, system crumbling cybernetic plague, VIROT is a virus designed on the bacteriophage of eons past. This computer devourer is able to infect a hero’s core and either reprogram them for evil or shut them down for good.
Type A, the infection type, is small, nearly undetectable, with an emphasis on its rapid replication. Type B phages are a larger mutation that carry microscopic incision equipment used to inject nanites. These nano machines either act as miniature explosives, irreversibly damaging the hero’s Quaza Core, or act to change the materials within core, turning it into ANTI-QUAZA and sending the hero into a downward spiral of evil.
Hero Factory. We build H̷e̷r̷o̷e̷s̷ ……. Villains
Built for Hero February 2023
It's a whole new ballgame taking sports shots again. Sunday it was getting pictures of crew, yesterday was pictures of softball. I had to reprogram my whole brain both times ... and I think my brain is as re-programmable as a Commodore 64 at times. I think I'll back to shooting easy stuff - like birds.
Tattoo: Cyborg (boss makeup) by THIS IS WRONG *Get this item at the man cave event!* www.flickr.com/photos/142007505@N03 ; Oracle (red/lel evo x ears) by Ladybird *Get this item at the Harajuku event!* www.flickr.com/photos/149096718@N08/
Eyes: Reprogram Collection (television & 404) by GLOOM www.flickr.com/photos/152881403@N04/
Lipstick: The eyes are tuned in by The Lillypad www.flickr.com/photos/lillycross/
Makeup: Frecks for Lel evo x by The Lillypad www.flickr.com/photos/lillycross/
the hunting:
after the escape of Nuhvok of ordered several cyborgs to finish it or reprogram it without secktor success has established a hunt 3 to end the cyborg.
Nuhvok while looking like returning to his old kingdom and serve who called the Bahrag
This light pattern was made using the programmable LED
Frisbees given to students at Chip Camp. For an image
of a spinning Frisbee with the lights on, see:
www.flickr.com/photos/aaronrhawkins/35233938363/
The individual LEDs mounted to the Frisbee can be
programmed for color and duration, making infinite possibilities
for interesting light patterns. The colorful arcs of color are created by spinning the Frisbee using a drill. Each Chip Camp participant gets a Frisbee they can take home and continue to reprogram.
Fun for all!
For more of my creative projects, visit my short stories website: 500ironicstories.com
Y la Tierra sigue girando en su órbita....
La saqué otro día diferente a "Eternal Sunshine" .... fui al parque y ahi estaba.
El atardecer y sus rayos y no dudé un segundo en dar Click y aqui está reprogramada bellamente para apreciarla...revivir otra vez ese instante
Boomerang
Six Flags México
6:30 pm y las 7:00 pm
Xavier Q
(C) Todos los Derechos Reservados
My son and I kept shocking everything a few weeks ago, and it gave me this idea. It was getting ridiculous for a while. My son shocked his MP3 player and it shut off. I shocked the thermostat and reset it. Now we can't find the manual to reprogram it. We haven't been shocking things much these days, but I'm still extra careful when I pump gas.
Profile
Name: Dr. Lawrence Adam Sullivan, PhD
Hero's name: Atomfuse
Age: Early to mid-40’s
Bio: An expert university professor, psychologist, nuclear physicist and lecturer, Dr. Sullivan was a famous man at campus and on TV. He was also the mentor of Adrian Kane and Megan Hinds during their university days, (who they considered him like an uncle and a father figure). At some point in his mid 30s, he had a secret career as a superhero, operating for more than a decade or two, (around 12 years approximately). However he had lung cancer and one of his hands contacted gangrenes, resulting him giving up superpowers for good. His suit was nearly destroyed in his last battle, forcing him to crawl to the nearest hospital (he managed to change clothes in a few minutes. Weeks later when the cancer reached his hand, he was miraculously cured of it, but as a side effect and consequence, half of his affected arm had to be chopped off.
The powerless doctor had to accommodate his death, and took a “leave of absence”, leaving his niece to be in charge and replace him, which the both agreed. One day, he stumbled across a “compass”, which he believed were extraterrestrials, but was left by a dying superhero instead. Lawrence managed to rewire, encode and reprogram the man’s mind into the “compass”. His mind was connected to it, linking both knowledge and history together, lots of things were shown to each other.
As a result, Lawrence decided to spring back into action after 2 years of temporary retirement, and rebuilt his own suit from spare, custom parts. Part of his powers also came back, but not every one of it. Despite keeping the compass, Lawrence figured it was some sort of high tech tool that housed amounts of stuff, and the hero popped up to him in hologram. His words inspired Lawrence to make something more better, giving him courage. But realising his former students were in danger and having big duties, he decided to help them—-and the world.
Powers and abilities: Currently possesses
ESP, high intelligence, telepathic resistance, environment adaptation, atomic manipulation and absorption, generate plasma, alter his molecular structure, control matter, atomic vision, breath, consumption and etc. He is also resistant to nuclear energy and cannot be split, but can reform if need. Absorption of too much energy will not harm him. Despite losing a lot of powers, he has skills in engineering, psychology, survival, knowledge history, philosophy, science, medicine as well as other physical skills. Lawrence is good at observing people, can give great speeches (i.e pep talk), has levels of humour that makes him like a comedian. He does possess some skill in fighting and firearms.
Weaknesses: His fear of cancer returning anytime, his niece, has a need to protect the compass as if he owes it, willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. Inability to fly and has no access to his lost powers.
Equipment: Only his arms, hand, legs and feet have armour (plus some awesome green socks, it’s his favourite colour), his right arm is robotic and covered by his suit, the torso is mainly a jacket with some protective clothing. Owns some guns, especially a energy one, the “compass”, a jetpack that he developed years ago, reinvented with functions as a backpack and has fuel that never runs out.
Personality: Observant, humorous, calm, independent, persuasive, reflective, somewhat complex.
The year is 2064, not long after the heavily anticipated release of the Google House-assistant. It didn’t take but a few short months for the boxing underworld to reprogram these bots in illegal fighting machines. The new popular gambling sport spread like wildfire throughout world. It’s all fun and games.... What could go wrong?
This photo shows a view of Canary Wharf station that serves the huge Canary Wharf business development. This development is the largest single part of the Docklands redevelopment, providing much of the ( Docklands Light Railway ) DLR's traffic. The main building, 1 Canada Square, is the tallest building in the UK and the second-tallest in Europe. The area is host to a number of banks and financial insitutions, and has become a financial centre second in importance in the country only to the City of London. The building of Canary Wharf prompted the DLR's Bank extension, to provide better links to the City.
Canary Wharf is the most substatial station on the DLR. Its trainshed spans 6 platform faces on three tracks, and the station is integrated the surrounding Cabot Place office and shopping complex. The platforms are at first floor level, and can be reached via lifts/escaltors from ground level, or by level access from the first floor of Cabot Place's shopping centre.
All three tracks have platform faces at either side, speeding up boarding and disembarking. Some trains from Bank or Stratford terminate here, while others continue to Crossharbour and Lewisham.
The original station at Canary Wharf was built with the rest of the initial system, but didn't open in 1987 as the decision had already been taken to rebuild the station, which was to be engulfed by the Canary Wharf office development. The station structure was instead dismantled, with parts used in the expansion of other stops, and the current stop was constructed on the site and opened in 1991. Interestingly, rather than reprogram the automatic train control software, trains initially stopped at Canary Wharf, even after the structure had been dismantled, although the doors weren't opened and the trains immediately started departed.
Can you guess what it may be? This was my house, today, February 3, 2016, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Or, as I like to call it, Tropical Southwest Ontario. lol The missing thing, of course, is snow, which is usually about 4 feet high on the front lawn. Good grief, the grass is still mostly green!!! Trust me when I say, I am celebrating, NOT complaining. Yeehaw!!! Just shows to go ya, there's no snow, like no snow. On a different note, don't ever lose your key to your new car. It's going to cost $300+ to replace the key, and reprogram my key. It wasn't my key that was lost. I'm just sayin'. 😎😎😎
Professor X (Charles Francis Xavier) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963). The character is depicted as the founder and occasional leader of the X-Men.
Xavier is a member of a subspecies of humans known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. He is an exceptionally powerful telepath, who can read and control the minds of others. To both shelter and train mutants from around the world, he runs a private school in the X-Mansion in Salem Center, located in Westchester County, New York.Xavier also strives to serve a greater good by promoting peaceful coexistence and equality between humans and mutants in a world where zealous anti-mutant sentiment is widespread.
Throughout much of the character's history in comics, Xavier is a paraplegic using a standard or modified wheelchair. One of the world's most powerful mutant telepaths, Xavier is a scientific genius and a leading authority in genetics. He has devised Cerebro and other equipment to enhance psionic powers and detect and track people with the mutant gene.
Xavier's pacifist and assimilationist ideology and actions have often been contrasted with that of Magneto, a mutant villain with whom Xavier has a complicated relationship.
He also appears in almost all of the X-Men animated series and in many video games, although usually as a non-playable character. Patrick Stewart plays him in the 2000s X-Men film series, as well as providing his voice in some of the X-Men video games (including some not connected to the film series).
According to BusinessWeek, Charles Xavier is listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics.
Publication History
Creation and influences
Stan Lee has stated that the physical inspiration of Professor Xavier was from Academy Award-winning actor Yul Brynner.
Writer Scott Lobdell established Xavier's middle name to be "Francis" in Uncanny X-Men #328 (January 1996).
Character
Xavier's goals are to promote the peaceful affirmation of mutant rights, to mediate the co-existence of mutants and humans, to protect mutants from violent humans, and to protect society from antagonistic mutants, including his old friend, Magneto.
To achieve these aims, he founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (later named the Xavier Institute) to teach mutants to explore and control their powers. Its first group of students was the original X-Men (Cyclops, Iceman, Marvel Girl, Angel, and Beast).
Xavier's students consider him a visionary and often refer to their mission as "Xavier's dream". He is highly regarded by others in the Marvel Universe, respected by various governments, and trusted by several other superhero teams, including the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.
However, he also has a manipulative streak which has resulted in several significant fallings-out with allies and students.
He often acts as a public advocate for mutant rights and is the authority most of the Marvel superhero community turns to for advice on mutants. Despite this, his status as a mutant himself and originator of the X-Men only became public during the 2001 story "E Is for Extinction".
In a number of comics, Xavier is shown to have a dark side, a part of himself that he struggles to suppress. Perhaps the most notable appearance of this character element is in the Onslaught storyline, in which the crossover event's antagonist is a physical manifestation of that dark side.
Also, Onslaught is created in the most violent act Xavier claims to have done: erasing the mind of Magneto.
In X-Men #106 (August 1977), the new X-Men fight images of the original team, which have been created by what Xavier says is his "evil self ... who would use his powers for personal gain and conquest", which he says he is normally able to keep in check.
In the 1984 four-part series titled The X-Men and the Micronauts, Xavier's dark desires manifest themselves as the Entity and threaten to destroy the Micronauts' universe.
In other instances, Xavier is shown to be secretive and manipulative.
During the Onslaught storyline, the X-Men find Xavier's files, the "Xavier Protocols", which detail how to kill many of the characters, including Xavier himself, should the need ever arise, such as if they went rogue.
Astonishing X-Men vol. 3, #12 (August 2005) reveals that when Xavier realizes that the Danger Room has become sentient, he keeps it trapped and experiments on it for years, an act that Cyclops calls "the oppression of a new life" and equates to humanity's treatment of mutants (however, X-Men Legacy #220 - 224 reveals that Xavier did not intend for the Danger Room to become sentient: it was an accident, and Xavier sought a way to free Danger, but was unable to find a way to accomplish this without deleting her sentience as well).
Fictional character biography
Charles Francis Xavier was born in New York City to the wealthy Dr. Brian Xavier, a well-respected nuclear scientist, and Sharon Xavier.
The family lives in a very grand mansion estate in Westchester County because of the riches his father's nuclear research has brought them.
He later grows up to attend Pembroke College at the University of Oxford, where he earns a Professorship in Genetics and other science fields, and goes on to live first in Oxford and then London for a number of years.
Crucially, as he enters late adolescence, Xavier inherits the mansion-house he was raised in, enabling him not only to continue to live in it, but also to turn it in to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which he begins together with the first of the X-Men.
Brian, his father, dies in an accident when Xavier is still very young, and Brian's science partner Kurt Marko comforts and then marries the grieving Sharon. When Xavier's telepathic mutant powers emerge, he discovers Marko cares only about his mother's money.
After the wedding, Kurt moves in with the Xaviers, bringing with him his son Cain. Kurt quickly grows neglectful of Sharon, driving her to alcoholism, and abuses both Charles and Cain.
Cain takes out his frustrations and insecurities on his stepbrother. Charles uses his telepathic powers to read Cain's mind and explore the extent of his psychological damage, which only leads to Cain becoming more aggressive toward him and the young Xavier feeling Cain's pain firsthand.
Sharon dies soon after, and a fight erupts between Cain and Charles that causes some of Kurt's lab equipment to explode. Mortally wounded, Kurt drags the two children out before dying, and admits he was partly responsible for Brian's death.
With help from his superhuman powers and natural genius, Xavier becomes an excellent student and athlete, though he gives up the latter, believing his powers give him an unfair advantage.
Due to his powers, by the time he graduates from high school, Charles loses all of his hair. He graduates with honors at the age of 16 from Bard College.
In graduate studies, he receives Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, Psychology, and Anthropology with a two-year residence at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
He also receives an M.D. in Psychiatry while spending several years in London. He is later appointed adjunct professor at Columbia University.
At graduate school, he meets a Scottish girl named Moira Kinross, a fellow genetics student with whom he falls in love. The two agree to get married, but soon, Xavier is drafted into the Korean War.
He carves himself a niche as a soldier in search and rescue missions alongside Shadowcat's father, Carmen Pryde, and witnesses Cain's transformation into Juggernaut when he touches a ruby with an inscription on it in an underground temple.
During the war, he receives a letter from Moira telling him that she is breaking up with him. He later discovers that Moira married her old boyfriend Joseph MacTaggert, who abuses her.
Deeply depressed when Moira broke off their engagement without explanation, Xavier began traveling around the world as an adventurer after leaving the army.
In Cairo, he meets a young girl named Ororo Munroe (later known as Storm), who is a pickpocket, and the Shadow King, a powerful mutant who is posing as Egyptian crime lord Amahl Farouk.
Xavier defeats the Shadow King, barely escaping with his life. This encounter leads to Xavier's decision to devote his life to protecting humanity from evil mutants and safeguarding innocent mutants from human oppression.
Xavier visits his friend Daniel Shomron, who runs a clinic for traumatized Holocaust victims in Haifa, Israel. There, he meets a man going by the name of Magnus (who would later become Magneto), a Holocaust survivor who works as a volunteer in the clinic, and Gabrielle Haller, a woman driven into a catatonic coma by the trauma she experienced.
Xavier uses his mental powers to break her out of her catatonia and the two fall in love. Xavier and Magneto become good friends, although neither immediately reveals to the other that he is a mutant.
The two hold lengthy debates hypothesizing what will happen if humanity is faced with a new super-powered race of humans. While Xavier is optimistic, Magneto's experiences in the Holocaust lead him to believe that humanity will ultimately oppress the new race of humans.
The two friends reveal their powers to each other when they fight Nazi Baron Wolfgang von Strucker and his Hydra agents, who kidnap Gabrielle because she knows the location of their secret cache of gold. Magneto attempts to kill Strucker but Xavier stops him.
Realizing that his and Xavier's views on mutant-human relations are incompatible, Magneto leaves with the gold. Charles stays in Israel for some time, but he and Gabrielle separate on good terms, neither knowing that she is pregnant with his son, who grows up to become the mutant Legion.
In a strange town near the Himalayas, Xavier encounters an alien calling himself Lucifer, the advance scout for an invasion by his race, and foils his plans. In retaliation, Lucifer drops a huge stone block on Xavier, crippling his legs.
After Lucifer leaves, a young woman named Sage hears Xavier's telepathic cries for help and rescues him, bringing him to safety, beginning a long alliance between the two.
In a hospital in India, he is brought to an American nurse, Amelia Voght, who looks after him and, as she sees to his recovery, they fall in love. When he is released from the hospital, the two moved into an apartment in Bombay together.
Amelia is troubled to find Charles studying mutation, as she is a mutant and unsettled by it, though she calms when he reveals himself to be a mutant as well.
They eventually move to the United States, living on Xavier's family estate. But the night Scott Summers moves into Xavier's mansion, Amelia leaves him, believing Charles would have changed his view and that mutants should lie low. Yet he is recruiting them to what she believes is a lost cause. Charles tries to force her to stay with his mental powers, but immediately ashamed by this, lets her go. She later becomes a disciple of Magneto.
Over the years, Charles makes a name for himself as geneticist and psychologist, apparently renowned enough that the Greys were referred to him when no other expert could help their catatonic daughter, Jean.
Xavier trains her in the use of her telekinesis, while inhibiting her telepathic abilities until she matures. Around this time, he also starts working with fellow mutation expert, Karl Lykos, as well as Moira MacTaggert again, who built a mutant research station on Muir Island.
Apparently, Charles had gotten over Moira in his travels to the Greek island of Kirinos. Xavier discusses his candidates for recruitment to his personal strike force, the X-Men, with Moira, including those he passes over, which are Kurt Wagner, Piotr Rasputin, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, and Ororo Munroe. Xavier also trains Tessa to spy on Sebastian Shaw.
Xavier founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which provides a safe haven for mutants and teaches them to master their abilities. In addition, he seeks to foster mutant-human relations by providing his superhero team, the X-Men, as an example of mutants acting in good faith, as he told FBI agent Fred Duncan.
With his inherited fortune, he uses his ancestral mansion at 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York as a base of operations with technologically advanced facilities, including the Danger Room - later, Fantomex mentions that Xavier is a billionaire with a net worth of $3.5 billion.
Presenting the image of a stern teacher, Xavier makes his students endure a rigorous training regime.
Xavier's first five students are Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast, and Marvel Girl who become the original X-Men. After he completes recruiting the original team of X-Men, he sends them into battle with Magneto.
Throughout most of his time with the team, Xavier uses his telepathic powers to keep in constant contact with his students and provides instructions and advice when needed. In addition, he uses a special machine called Cerebro, which enhances his ability to detect mutants and to allow the team to find new students in need of the school.
Among the obstacles Xavier faces is his old friend, Magneto, who has grown into an advocate of mutant superiority since their last encounter and who believes the only solution to mutant persecution is domination over humanity.
When anthropologist Bolivar Trask resurfaces the "mutant problem", Xavier counters him in a televised debate, however, he appears arrogant and Trask sends his mutant-hunting robot Sentinels to terrorize mutants. The X-Men dispatch them, but Trask sees the error in his ways too late as he is killed by his creations.
At one point, Xavier seemingly dies during the X-Men's battle with the sub-human Grotesk, but it is later revealed that Xavier arranged for a reformed former villain named Changeling to impersonate him while he went into hiding to plan a defense against an invasion by the extraterrestrial Z'Nox, imparting a portion of his telepathic abilities to the Changeling to complete the disguise.
When the X-Men are captured by the sentient island Krakoa, Xavier assembles a new team to rescue them, including Cyclops' and Havok's long-lost brother, Vulcan, along with Darwin, Petra, and Sway.
This new team, composed of students of Dr. Moira MacTaggert, was sent to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa. However, after rescuing Cyclops, McTaggert's former students were seemingly killed. Upon Cyclops' return, Xavier removed Cyclops' memories of the death of Vulcan and his teammates; and began assembling yet another team of X-Men.
Xavier's subsequent rescue team consists of Banshee, Colossus, Sunfire, Nightcrawler, Storm, Wolverine, and Thunderbird. After the mission, the older team of X-Men, except for Cyclops, leave the school, believing they no longer belong there, and Xavier mentors the new X-Men.
Xavier forms a psychic bond across galaxies with Princess Lilandra from the Shi'ar Empire. When they finally meet, it is love at first sight. She implores the professor to stop her mad brother, Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, and he instantly aids her by deploying his X-Men.
When Jean Grey returns from the Savage Land to tell him that all the X-Men are dead, he shuts down the school and travels with Lilandra to her kingdom, where she is crowned Empress and he is treated like a child or a trophy husband.
Xavier senses the changes taking place in Jean Grey, and returns to Earth to help and resume leadership of the X-Men.
Shortly thereafter he battles his pupil after she becomes Dark Phoenix and destroys a populated planet in the Shi'ar Empire. It hurts Xavier to be on the opposite side of Lilandra, but he has no other choice but to challenge the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to a duel over the fate of the Phoenix.
Xavier would have lost against the greater power of the Dark Phoenix, but thanks to the help Jean Grey gives him (fighting her Phoenix persona), Xavier emerges victorious; she later commits suicide to prevent herself from endangering more innocent lives.
When the X-Men fight members of the extraterrestrial race known as the Brood, Xavier is captured by them, and implanted with a Brood egg, which places Xavier under the Brood's control.
During this time, Xavier assembles a team of younger mutants called the New Mutants, secretly intended to be prime hosts for reproduction of the aliens. The X-Men discover this and return to free Xavier, but they are too late to prevent his body from being destroyed with a Brood Queen in its place; however, his soul remains intact.
The X-Men and Starjammers subdue this monstrous creature containing Xavier's essence, but the only way to restore him is to clone a new body using tissue samples he donated to the Starjammers and transfer his consciousness into the clone body.
This new body possesses functional legs, though the psychosomatic pain Xavier experienced after living so long as a paraplegic takes some time to subside. Subsequently, he even joins the X-Men in the field, but later decides not to continue this practice after realizing that his place is at the school, as the teacher of the New Mutants.
After taking a teaching position at Columbia University in Uncanny X-Men #192, Xavier is severely injured and left for dead as the victim of an attack.
Callisto and her Morlocks, a group of underground-dwelling mutants, get him to safety. One of the Morlocks partially restores Xavier's health, but Callisto warns Xavier that he is not fully healed and that he must spend more time recuperating and restrain himself from exerting his full strength or powers, or his health might fail again. Xavier hides his injuries from the others and resumes his life.
Charles meets with former lover Gabrielle Haller on Muir Isle and discovers that they had a child. The boy, David, has autism and dissociative identity disorder. Furthermore, he has vast psionic powers like his father. After helping him and his team to escape from David's mind, Xavier promises he will always be there for him.
A reformed Magneto is arrested and put on trial. Xavier attends the trial to defend his friend. Andrea and Andreas Strucker, the children of presumed dead Baron von Strucker, crash the courtroom to attack Magneto and Xavier. Xavier is seriously injured.
Dying, he asks a shocked Magneto to look after the X-Men for him. Lilandra, who has a psychic bond with Xavier, feels that he is in great danger and heads to Earth. There, she and Corsair take Xavier with them so Shi'ar advanced technology can heal him.
Xavier leaves Magneto in charge of the school, but some of the X-Men are unwilling to forgive their former enemy. Cyclops loses a duel for the leadership of the X-Men against Storm, then leaves them and joins the other four original X-Men to form a new team called X-Factor.
In the meantime, Charles becomes stranded in space with the Starjammers, but he is reunited with his lover Lilandra and relishes his carefree lifestyle.
He serves as a member of the Starjammers aboard the starship Starjammer, mobile in the Shi'ar Galaxy. He becomes consort to the Princess-Majestrix Lilandra while in exile, and when she later resumes her throne he takes up residence with her in the Imperial palace on the Shi'ar homeworld. Xavier joins Lilandra in her cause to overthrow her sister Deathbird, taking on the powers of Phoenix temporarily wherein he is named Bald Phoenix by Corsair, but sees that he must return to help the X-Men.
Xavier eventually becomes imprisoned by the Skrulls during their attempted invasion of the Shi'ar Empire. Xavier breaks free from imprisonment by Warskrull Prime, and is reunited with the X-Men.
A healthy Xavier returns from the Shi'ar Empire and is reunited with both the current and original X-Men teams, and resumes his leadership responsibilities of the united teams. In a battle with his old foe, the Shadow King, in the "Muir Island Saga", Xavier's spine is shattered, returning him to his former paraplegic state, while his son David is seemingly killed. In the following months, Xavier rebuilds the mansion, which previously was rebuilt with Shi'ar technology, and restructures the X-Men into two teams.
While holding a mutant rights speech, Xavier is nearly assassinated by Stryfe in the guise of Cable, being infected with a fatal techno-organic virus. For reasons of his own, the villain Apocalypse saves him. As a temporary side-effect, he gains full use of his legs and devotes his precious time to the youngest recruit on his team, Jubilee.
With all his students now highly trained adults, Professor Xavier renames his school the Xavier Institute For Higher Learning. Also, he assumes control of a private institution, the Massachusetts Academy, making it a new School for Gifted Youngsters. Another group of young mutants is trained here, Generation X, with Banshee and Emma Frost as headmaster and headmistress, respectively.
Professor X is for a time the unknowing host of the evil psionic entity Onslaught, the result of a previous battle with Magneto. In that battle, Magneto uses his powers to rip out the adamantium bonded to Wolverine's skeleton, and a furious Xavier wipes Magneto's mind, leaving him in a coma.
From the psychic trauma of Xavier using his powers so violently and the mixing of Magneto's and Xavier's repressed anger, Onslaught is born. Onslaught wreaks havoc, destroying much of Manhattan, until many of Marvel's superheroes—including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk—destroy him.
Xavier is left without his telepathy and, overcome with guilt, leaves the X-Men and is incarcerated for his actions.
He later returns to the X-Men after Operation: Zero Tolerance, in which he is shocked by the cruel act of being turned over to the mutant-hating Bastion, following a clash with the sentient Cerebro and a team of impostor X-Men.
Xavier questions his dream again and Magneto shortly thereafter is confronted by the X-Men. After the battle, the UN concedes Genosha to Magnus, and Wolverine is angered by Xavier stopping him from getting his revenge on Magneto. Charles and Logan are later trapped in a dimension with different laws of physics, wherein they have to coordinate their moves together and, in the process, gain a better understanding of the other's views.
Apocalypse kidnaps the fabled "Twelve" special mutants (Xavier included) whose combined energies would grant him omnipotence. After Apocalypse's defeat with the help of Skrull mutants, Xavier goes with the young Skrulls known as Cadre K to train them and free them from their oppressors, and eventually returns to aid in Legacy Virus research.
Mystique and her Brotherhood start a deadly assault on Muir Isle by releasing an altered form of the Legacy Virus, all in retaliation against the election campaign of Robert Kelly, a seeming mutant-hater. Mystique blows up Moira MacTaggert's laboratory complex, fatally wounding her. Charles goes to the astral plane to meet with her and retrieve information on the cure to the Legacy Virus, but after gathering the information does not want to leave her alone. If not for Jean and Cable talking him down and pulling him back, the professor would have died with his first love, who states she has no regrets.
As Beast cures the Legacy Virus, many infected Genoshan mutants recover overnight, providing Magneto, the current ruler of Genosha, with an army to start the third World War. He demands Earth's governments accept him as their leader, and abducts and crucifies Xavier in Magda Square for all to see. A loyal member of Magneto's Acolytes, Amelia Voght, cannot stand to see her former lover punished in such a manner and sets him free. Jean Grey and rather untrained newcomers, as most of the team are elsewhere, distract Magneto and Wolverine guts him. Xavier is too late to intervene.
Xavier's evil twin Cassandra Nova, whom Xavier attempted to kill while they were both in their mother's womb, orders a group of rogue Sentinels to destroy the independent mutant nation of Genosha.
Magneto, who is Genosha's leader, appears to die along with the vast majority of the nation's inhabitants. Nova then takes over Xavier's body. Posing as Xavier, she reveals his mutation to the world, something he needed to do but did not want to sully his reputation over, before going into space and crippling the Shi'ar Empire. The X-Men restore Xavier, but Lilandra, believing that too much disaster has come from the Shi'ar's involvement with the X-Men, annuls her marriage to Xavier.
Lilandra previously had gone insane and tried to assassinate Charles on a trip to Mumbai. During this period, a mutant named Xorn joins the X-Men. Xorn uses his healing power to restore Xavier's use of his legs.
When the X-Men receive a distress call from a Scottish island, they are surprised to find Juggernaut with nowhere to go, as the island was destroyed by his further-mutated partner in crime, Black Tom Cassidy, who died.
Xavier reaches out to his stepbrother and offers him a place in his mansion, with Cain reluctantly accepting. The Juggernaut redeems himself over the next few weeks and joins the X-Men. Xavier finds out that Cain's father preferred him to his own flesh and blood and that they both thought they deserved the abuse they incurred by Kurt; Cain believed this because his father loved someone else's child more than him, and Charles felt guilty about getting in the way. That it is why neither of them stopped Kurt Marko with their powers.
Now outed as a mutant, Xavier makes speeches to the public about mutant tolerance. He also founds the X-Corporation, or X-Corp (not to be confused with the X-Corps), with offices all over the world. The purpose of the X-Corp is to watch over mutant rights and help mutants in need.
As a result of being out, the school no longer hides the fact that it is a school for mutants and it opens its doors for more mutant (and even human) students to come in.
A student named Quentin Quire and members of his gang start a riot at the Xavier Institute during an open house at the school. As a result, Quire and two other students are killed. Uncertain about his dream's validity, Xavier announces that he will step down as headmaster and be succeeded by Jean Grey.
Afterwards, Xorn reveals himself to be Magneto, having apparently not died in the Sentinel raid on Genosha. Magneto undoes the restoration of Xavier's ability to walk, kidnaps him, and destroys the X-Mansion (killing several of the students). Then Xorn/Magneto assaults New York, where Cyclops, Fantomex and a few students confront him. After the rest of the X-Men arrive, Xorn/Magneto kills Jean Grey with an electromagnetically induced stroke, and Wolverine decapitates him.
With Jean dead, Xavier leaves the school to Cyclops and Emma Frost, to bury Xorn/Magneto in Genosha. In a retcon of Grant Morrison's storyline, there Xavier meets the "real" Magneto, who mysteriously survived Cassandra Nova's assault. The two resolve their differences and attempt to restore their friendship, leading a team of mutants, the Genoshan Excalibur, to rebuild and restore order to the destroyed island nation.
At the mansion, the Danger Room (the X-Men's simulated reality training chamber) gains sentience, christens itself "Danger", assumes a humanoid form, and attacks the X-Men before leaving to kill Xavier. With Magneto's help, Xavier holds off Danger until the X-Men arrive. Danger flees, but not before revealing to Colossus that Xavier has known it to be sentient ever since he upgraded it.
Colossus is especially offended by this because he had been held captive and experimented upon by Danger's ally, Ord of the Breakworld. Ashamed, Xavier tries to explain to them that by the time he realized what was happening, he could see no other course. The disgusted X-Men leave.
House of M
In a prelude to House of M, Magneto's daughter Scarlet Witch has a mental breakdown and causes the death of several Avengers. Magneto brings her to Xavier and asks him to use his mental powers to help her.
Although aided by Doctor Strange and the appearance of Cassandra Nova, Xavier is unsuccessful. Xavier orders a meeting of the X-Men and Avengers to decide Wanda's fate.
Her brother Quicksilver, believing the heroes plan to kill her, speeds off to Genosha and convinces Wanda that she could right the wrongs she inflicted by using her powers to alter reality.
Quicksilver somehow forces a tearful Wanda to reveal to him her heart's desires of Magneto, the assembled New Avengers, and the X-Men, and then uses her powers to make them all real.
Thanks to Magneto, though, this re-imagined world is a place where a much more numerous mutant-kind are the dominant species, humans a disenfranchised and oppressed 'silent majority', and Magneto himself rules supreme. In this reality, the only proof that Charles Xavier ever existed is a secret monument in Magneto's palace garden, with the engraved message "He died so Genosha could live".
After mutant Layla Miller restores the memories of some of the X-Men and Avengers, they head to Genosha where they discover that Magneto has erected a memorial garden for Xavier commemorating his death. Emma is horrified until Cloak fades into the grave and discovers there is no body inside.
After a battle, Scarlet Witch again uses her powers to restore reality and, as a slight against her father, causes a large majority mutants to lose their powers, leaving the mutant race on the brink of extinction and causing the lost powers to become an energy mass, the Collective. With reality restored, Xavier is still missing and the X-Men are unable to detect him with Cerebro.
Deadly Genesis
Xavier returns when Cyclops' and Havok's long-lost brother, Vulcan, is revived by the Collective energy released as a result of the "House of M" incident. Vulcan then attacks the X-Men.
Xavier, now depowered but able to walk in the wake of "House of M", reveals that he had gathered and trained another team of X-Men (this one composed of students of Dr. Moira MacTaggert) sometime between the original team and the new X-Men team introduced in Giant Size X-Men #1.
This team included Vulcan as a member. Like the "Giant Size" X-Men team, McTaggert's former students were sent to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa, the living island. However, after rescuing Cyclops, McTaggert's former students were seemingly killed. Upon Cyclops' return, Xavier removed Cyclops' memories of the death of Vulcan and his teammates and began assembling the "Giant Size" X-Men. Vulcan skirmishes with the X-Men and eventually flees into space.
In spite of Cyclops' feelings, Xavier forms a new team including Havok and Darwin, the lone other survivors of Moira's students. Xavier seeks to confront Vulcan before he can enact his vengeance against the Shi'ar empire, which killed Vulcan's mother.
While en route to the Shi'ar homeworld, Xavier is abducted and is later thrown into the M'Kraan Crystal by Vulcan. Darwin follows Xavier into the crystal and pulls Xavier out. This somehow restores Xavier's lost telepathy. With help from his longtime lover, Lilandra, Xavier escapes back to Earth with several of his X-Men.
Upon Xavier's return to Earth, as seen in the World War Hulk storyline, he begins to search for lost mutants such as Magneto. Charles' search for more mutants is interrupted by the Hulk, who was sent into extraterrestrial exile by the Illuminati, a group of powerful superbeings to which Xavier belongs.
Xavier had no part in (and did not know of) the Hulk exile decision, but Xavier admits to Hulk that he would have concurred to a temporary exile so Bruce Banner could be cured of transforming into the Hulk.
However, he also tells the Hulk he would not have agreed to permanent exile. Xavier attempts to surrender to the Hulk, but after viewing the X-Mansion's large graveyard dedicated to post-M-Day mutant deaths, The Hulk concludes the mutants have suffered enough and leaves the Mansion grounds on his own accord. While the X-Men tend to the wounded, Cyclops finally forgives Professor X.
Messiah Complex
While using Cerebra and talking to Beast during the Messiah Complex storyline, Charles detects a new mutant so powerful it fries Cerebra's system. He asks Cyclops to send out a team to find out about the mutant.
Once the team has come back empty handed, he argues with Scott for not telling him about the team he deployed to find former Acolytes. Scott tells him outright that he does not need him to run the X-Men anymore.
This upsets Charles and annoys him later on when he overhears Cyclops briefing X-Factor on the situation. He also approaches the New X-Men in an attempt to help them figure out a non-violent way to help against the Purifiers, but is quickly rebuked by Surge, who questions where he was when they were getting attacked the first time, and that they did not need to learn from him.
Charles questions Cyclops' decision to send X-Force to hunt down his own son, Cable, in front of the students. Cyclops then tells Xavier that he is a distraction that will keep getting in the way and that he must leave the mansion.
Xavier is contacted by Cable, who lost the mutant newborn to the traitorous actions of Bishop, who in turn lost the child to the Marauders, and tells him that he is the only one who can help Cable save the future.
In the final fight, Xavier is accidentally shot in the head by Bishop. Immediately afterward Xavier's body disappears and Cyclops declares that there are no more X-Men.
Professor Xavier survives Bishop's gunshot but falls into a coma. Xavier is kidnapped by Exodus, Tempo, and Karima Shapandar. Exodus tries to heal Xavier, Xavier mentally fights Exodus.
Exodus finally approaches Magneto, who is apparently still depowered, for help. Magneto and Karima Shapandar are able to stir Xavier's memories and coax him out of his coma, though Xavier remains slightly confused and partly amnesiac. Later, Exodus confronts Magneto about Joanna Cargill's injury (Magneto was forced to shoot a laser through her eyeball to prevent her attempted an assassination of Xavier).
Exodus nearly kills Magneto, and Xavier drags Exodus onto the Astral Plane, putting Xavier's own newly restored mind at stake. Xavier defeats Exodus after a harrowing psionic battle, and Exodus reveals the reason he abducted Xavier and to restore his mind: Exodus wants Xavier to lead the Acolytes and find the mutant messiah child (now under the guardianship of Cable) to indoctrinate the child into their cause.
Xavier refuses. Emma Frost's telepathy picks up on the psychic fight, and Emma informs Cyclops that Xavier is alive. Xavier parts company with Magneto and Karima to try to regain his lost memories by visiting people from his past.
The first person Charles visits is Carter Ryking, who had gone insane after losing his powers. Charles reads Carter's memories and discovers that when the two were children they were used as test subjects by Nathan Milbury of the Black Womb Project, with the approval of Charles' father, Doctor Brian Xavier.
Xavier makes the connection Milbury and X-Men villain, Mister Sinister, who has apparently long been manipulating Charles' life in addition to other X-Men. Afterwards, he discovers he has been targeted by assassins.
Charles eventually discovers Mister Sinister had set up Charles, Sebastian Shaw, Juggernaut, and Ryking (Hazard) as potential new hosts for Sinister's mind.
Bleeding slowly to death, he apparently gives in to Sinister becoming the new Mister Sinister. But in reality, Xavier is still battling Sinister for control of his body.
As Sebastian Shaw and Gambit destroy Sinister's Cronus Machine, the device that he used to transfer his consciousness into new hosts, Xavier drives Sinister out of his body permanently.
Xavier thanks Shaw and Gambit for their help and declares he must go and see Cyclops immediately. Professor X returns to the X-Mansion to find it destroyed after recent events.
Afterwards, Xavier leaves the ruins of the X-Mansion to secretly meet up Cyclops by psychically coercing his former student for the visit. Xavier explains to Cyclops about the recent events with Mr. Sinister and tries to explain to Cyclops how Sinister has been manipulating Scott's and Jean's lives since when they were children.
Xavier attempts to have Scott give him permission to scan Scott's mind for traces of Sinister's influences, but instead, Scott turns the tables on Xavier by revealing that he has secretly invited Emma Frost into their entire meeting and also into Xavier's mind.
While in his mind, Emma forces Xavier to relive each of his morally ambiguous decisions under altruistic pretenses. As the issue continues, Charles realizes his human arrogance and that while some of his decisions were morally wrong, he must move forward with his life and deal with the consequences.
Emma ends her incursion into Xavier's mind by reminding him of Moira MacTaggert's last words. As he reflects on Moira's words, Xavier gives Cyclops his blessing to lead the X-Men and leaves to find his own path.
Following his encounter with Wolverine (in the "Original Sin" Arc) Professor Xavier seeks out his step-brother, the unstoppable Juggernaut in an attempt to reform him. After a conversation about the meaning of the word "Juggernaut" and a review of Juggernaut and Xavier's shared history Xavier offers Cain an empty box as a gift.
Confused by Xavier's gift Cain attempts to kill the Professor bringing an entire sports bar down over their heads in the process. Later Cain battles the X-Men in his full Juggernaut armor and conquers the planet.
Just as everything appears to be under the Juggernaut's control Xavier reappears and informs him that everything that has just taken place except for Juggernaut destroying the bar took place in Cain's mind.
A baffled Cain demands to know how Xavier managed to overcome his psychically shielded helmet to which the Professor replies that he decided to visit Cain in his sleep.
Professor Xavier then informs him that he now understands Cain as a person and that he will not attempt to get in his way or reform him again. But Xavier also warns Cain that if he gets in the way of the Professor's path to redemption Xavier will stop him permanently. Following his encounter with Cain it has been revealed that Xavier is now searching for Rogue.
After his bruising encounter with Cyclops and Emma Frost, Professor X is forced to revisit the biggest challenge and the biggest failure of his career, Wolverine, when the feral mutant asks for Charles' help in freeing his son from the clutches of the Hellfire Club.
As the two search for Daken, Wolverine reveals that when he first joined the X-Men he attempted to assassinate Xavier due to some unknown programming. In response, the Professor broke Logan's mind and rebuilt it so that any and all programming he received was forgotten. Logan also revealed that the real reason Xavier asked him to join the X-Men was that Charles "needed a weapon".
Eventually Professor Xavier and Wolverine locate Sebastian Shaw's mansion and attack his minions, just as they are about to enter a bomb explodes from within catching them both off guard. From the wreckage emerges an angry Sebastian who immobilizes Wolverine.
Meanwhile, Miss Sinister knocks Daken unconscious and has him taken to the med lab in the mansion's basement. As Shaw prepares to deliver a killing blow to Xavier, Wolverine recovers and stops him telling Xavier to rescue his son. Professor Xavier locates the med lab and after a quick psychic battle with Miss Sinister enters Daken's fractured mind. While in Daken's mind Xavier discovers Romulus's psychic tampering and comments that Daken's mind is even more broken than Wolverine's was.
Before Xavier can heal Daken a psychic bomb explodes causing Xavier to become comatose and Daken to wake up. Miss Sinister arrives and attempts to manipulate Daken who reveals that the psychic bomb in his head restored his memories and stabs Miss Sinister in the chest.
Meanwhile, Wolverine defeats Shaw and enters the mansion to find Daken standing over an unconscious Xavier preparing to kill him. Wolverine tells Daken that he will not let him hurt Xavier and the two fight.
Overcome with guilt over what happened to Daken and Itsu, Wolverine allows himself to be beaten. Just as Daken appears to have won Xavier pulls both of them onto the astral plane revealing that the psychic bomb had little effect on him because his psyche was already shattered.
Xavier then explains to Wolverine and Daken that Romulus is solely responsible for Itsu's death and that he lied to Daken about everything because he wanted Wolverine to become his weapon. As the three converse, Daken returns to the physical plane and prevents Shaw from killing Xavier.
With the truth revealed Wolverine and Daken decide to kill Romulus. As the two depart Wolverine tells Xavier that he forgives him for all of the dark moments in their history. Wolverine acknowledges that Professor Xavier allowed him to become a hero. Wolverine then tells the Professor that he hopes he will one day be able to forgive him for choosing to kill Romulus.
Professor Xavier recruits Gambit to go with him to Australia to find and help Rogue who is currently staying at the X-Men's old base in the Outback; unaware Danger is using Rogue as a conduit for her revenge against him.
In a prelude to the "Secret Invasion" storyline, Professor X was at the meeting of the Illuminati when it came to the discussion about the Skrulls planning an invasion by taking out Earth's heroes and posing as them. He claims he was unable to distinguish that Black Bolt had been replaced by a Skrull, and his powers were tested quickly by the Black Bolt Skrull.
Professor X leaves after learning even he can no longer trust the others, yet appears to have severely restricted the number of people he informs of the forthcoming alien invasion, as the X-Men were not prepared for the Skrulls, at least at first.
Xavier was not seen again during the events of Secret Invasion, though his X-Men in San Francisco are successful at repelling the invaders there through the use of the modified Legacy Virus.
Dark Reign
During the Dark Reign storyline, Professor X convinces Exodus to disband the Acolytes. A H.A.M.M.E.R. helicopter arrives and from inside appears Norman Osborn, who wants to talk to him.
During the Dark Avengers' arrival in San Francisco to enforce martial law and squelch the anti-mutant riots occurring in the city, Xavier appears (back in his wheelchair) in the company of Norman Osborn and publicly denounces Cyclops' actions and urges him to turn himself in.
However, this Xavier was revealed to be Mystique who Osborn found to impersonate Xavier in public. The real Xavier is shown in prison on Alcatraz and slowly being stripped of his telepathic powers while in psionic contact with Beast, who was arrested earlier for his part in the anti-mutant riots.
It was also revealed by Emma Frost that she and Professor X are both Omega Class Telepaths when she manages to detect the real Professor X.
Professor X helps Emma Frost enter Sentry's mind. However, as Emma frees him of the Void's influence, a minute sliver of the entity itself remains in her mind. Xavier quickly tells her to remain in her diamond armor state to prevent the Void from gaining access to her psi-powers. Professor X is later seen with Emma Frost where Beast is recuperating.
After what happened at Utopia, Xavier has come to live on the risen Asteroid M, rechristened Utopia, along with the rest of the X-Men, X-Club, and mutant refugees and is also allowed to join the Utopia lead council (Cyclops, Storm, Namor, Iceman, Beast, Wolverine and Emma Frost).
While he no longer continues to openly question every move that Cyclops makes, he is still concerned about some of his leadership decisions. Xavier had wanted to return to the mainland to clear his name, but in the aftermath of Osborn declaring Utopia as a mutant detention area, Cyclops refused to let him leave, stating that it would be a tactical advantage to have him as an ace in the hole in case the need arose.
To that end, he has kept Xavier out of the field and instead relied on Emma Frost, Psylocke and the Stepford Cuckoos respectively for their own psionic talents.
While attending the funeral of Yuriko Takiguchi, Magneto arrives at Utopia, apparently under peaceful motives. Xavier does not believe it, and attacks Magneto telepathically, causing Cyclops to force him to stand down. He later apologizes to Magneto for acting out of his old passions from their complicated relationship, which Magneto accepts.
Next, Professor Xavier is seen on Utopia delivering a eulogy at Nightcrawler's funeral. Like the other X-Men, he is deeply saddened by Kurt's death and anxious about the arrival of Cable and Hope.
Xavier is seen using his powers to help his son Legion control his many personalities and battle the Nimrods.
Afterwards, Professor X is seen surveying the aftermath of the battle from a helicopter. As Hope descends to the ground and cradles Cable's lifeless arm, Xavier reflects on everything that has transpired and states that, while he feels that Hope has indeed come to save mutant kind and revive his dream, she is still only a young woman and will have a long and difficult journey before she can truly achieve her potential.
AvX
During the "Avengers vs. X-Men" storyline, the Phoenix Force is split into five pieces and bonded with Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik (who become known as the Phoenix Five).
Eventually, Cyclops and Frost come to possess the full Phoenix Force, and Professor X is instrumental in confronting them both, and dies in the ensuing battle with Cyclops.
The Phoenix Force is subsequently forced to abandon Cyclops as a host by the efforts of both Hope Summers and the Scarlet Witch.
Xavier's body is later stolen by the Red Skull's S-Men while the group also captures Rogue and Scarlet Witch. Xavier's brain is removed and fused to the brain of the Red Skull. After Rogue and Scarlet Witch snapped out of the fight they were in, they find the lobotomized body of Professor X.
Red Skull uses the new powers conferred upon him by Professor X's brain to provoke anti-mutant riots. His plans are foiled by the Avengers and the X-Men, and the Skull escapes.
Professor X's spirit is later seen in the Heaven dimension along with Nightcrawler's spirit at the time when Azazel invades Heaven.
During the AXIS storyline, a fragment of Professor X's psyche (which had escaped the scrubbing of his memories) still existed in Red Skull's mind preventing him from unleashing the full potential of Professor X's powers.
During a fight with the Stark Sentinels, Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch attempt to cast a spell to invert the axis of Red Skull's brain and bring out the fragment of Professor X to defeat Onslaught.
Doctor Strange was targeted and captured by the Sentinels before they could cast the spell. When Magneto arrived with his supervillain allies, Doctor Doom and Scarlet Witch attempted to cast the inversion spell again and Red Onslaught was knocked unconscious and reverted to his Red Skull form.
Although they did not know whether Professor X was now in control, the Avengers decided to be cautious and take Red Skull to Stark Tower.
It was later revealed that the spell had actually caused all the heroes and villains present to undergo a "moral inversion" rather than simply bringing out Professor X in the Skull, with the result that the Skull and other villains became heroic while the Avengers and X-Men present became villainous. Eventually, the inversion was undone.
After the Skull mounts a telepathic assault that nearly allows him to take control of the Avengers, he is defeated when Deadpool places Magneto's old helmet on Rogue, allowing her to knock out the Skull and take him to Beast.
Beast is subsequently able to perform brain surgery on the Skull, extracting the part of Xavier's brain that was grafted onto the villain's own brain without causing any apparent damage to the Skull. Rogers attempts to claim the fragment for himself, but Rogue flies up and incinerates the fragment with the aid of the Human Torch, the two expressing hope that Xavier will rest in peace.
Return
The astral form of Professor Xavier has since been revealed to be imprisoned in the Astral Plane after Shadow King somehow acquired it upon Professor X's death.
After what appeared to be years in the Astral Plane, Professor X is able to trick Shadow King into playing him in a 'game' that lures Rogue, Mystique and Fantomex onto the Astral Plane, while turning others into carriers for the Shadow King's 'contagious' psychic essence. With the Shadow King certain of his victory, he fails to realize that Xavier's apparent 'surrender' to his game was really just him biding his time until the Shadow King's influence was distracted long enough for him to drop his already-subtly-weakened guard long enough for Xavier to break his bonds, luring in the three aforementioned X-Men as their identities were already fundamentally malleable.
With the Shadow King defeated, Xavier is apparently returned to the real world in the body of Fantomex, Fantomex reasoning that nobody really knows who he is as an individual beyond his status as one of the X-Men whereas this act of sacrifice will ensure that he is remembered for a great deed.
Proteus has spent years trapped in a psionic hellscape of the Astral Plane, where The Shadow King reigned supreme, only to escape.
Part of the reason that he could was the escape of Charles Xavier (who now chooses to go by X, since he is now in a younger body after escaping), and now X leads the X-Men directly into an ambush, as Proteus has warped an entire village with his powers, leading to a mind-to-mind battle that leaves X on the receiving end of a psychic beatdown.
Proteus has started his garden and his seeds are planted all over the world. Psylocke is in command and has a plan which mainly consists of Archangel using metal and Mystique morphing into his mother.
Once they drain him, Rogue and Bishop convert his energy and release him back to the universe. Whilst this all went down Psylocke and X combined forces to burn out the seeds across the planet. As they are working on it they discover they are not enough to accomplish the task. X mentions the network of psychics the Shadow King was using and that Betsy who is in control should tap into it.
She agrees and does so yet unbeknownst to her X was possessed by the Shadow King who violently erupts from X's head.
Following X's apparent death after the Shadow King exploded from his skull, the psychic villain tears the X-Men apart until X literally pulls himself back together (a feat he later refuses to explain), and he and Psylocke team up to harness the power of all of Earth's psychics to destroy the Shadow King.
As Psylocke says she feels no psychic trace of him anywhere, X implants comforting post-hypnotic psychic suggestions in his allies and then erases their memories (including allowing Warren Worthington to switch between his identities at will). Only Psylocke's memory is left intact, with X telling her she will be the one to "keep him honest" while he embarks on a new mission.
Dawn of X
X has since made his presence known to his former students and reveals his new plan for all mutantkind. Now clad in a Cerebro-like helmet, Xavier has apparently abandoned his dream for peaceful coexistence, and had turned Krakoa into a sovereign nation state for mutants as well as use it to apparently heal the X-Men from their ordeals during the showdown against the forces of O.N.E.
He then leads the X-Men into planting in seeds in strategic locations around the world and Mars, which, overnight, grow into massive plantlike "Habitats". As it turns out, these "Habitats" – and the plants that grew them – are extensions of Krakoa.
Through the advancement of mutant technology combined with Krakoa's unique abilities as a living mutant island, Professor X and the X-Men have embassies around the world. Also through this combination of technology and mutant power, Xavier have developed three drugs that could change human life – a pill that extends human life by five years, an adaptable universal antibiotic, and a pill that cures "diseases of the mind, in humans".” In exchange for recognizing the sovereignty of Krakoa, Professor X will give these drugs to mankind, with mutants living in peace on the island.
Xavier and Magneto later meet with Raven Darkholm inside his sanctum. The two mutant leaders both greatly pleased with the success of her mission as she presents what they'ed petitioned her to steal. A mysterious USB tab containing sensitive information stolen from Damage Control, Mystique would inquire for her payment as she had met their demands.
However, Xavier mentions that he still had more demands that needed to be met as they were building their protected future of Homo Sapiens Superior, seeming to psychokinetically beckon the contents of her theft into his hands while Mystique questions how much more needed to be done for his ultimate pet project.
Xavier and Magneto reveal the contents of the USB drive to Cyclops, which are shown to be information on Orchis, an organization dedicated to responding to a large-scale mutant threat and the plans of a Mother Mold.
They believe that the creation of the Mother Mold will herald a new generation of Sentinels and along with it, Nimrod. They task Cyclops with assembling a team to destroy the Mother Mold station. Although the team (composed of Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Husk, Mystique, Archangel, and Monet) is successfully, they are all killed in the process. X mourns them, vowing "No more."
Xavier is revealed to have upgraded Cerebro with the help of Forge, which is now able to copy and store the minds of mutants in a database.
After the Five (Hope Summers, Goldballs, Elixir, Proteus, and Tempus) are able to grow the bodies of deceased mutants, Xavier is able to copy the minds back in these empty shells. Thus, he is able to restore Cyclops's team, thanking them for what they did.
At the U.N., Xavier, Beast, and Emma celebrate with other ambassadors for the recognition of Krakoa as a sovereign nation. Xavier telepathically converses with Emma, revealing that he knows that she manipulated the Russian ambassador to abstain from the vote, before thanking her for her service.
Two days after the U.N. vote, Xavier, Magneto, and Wolverine are in Krakoa waiting besides several portals. While Wolverine expresses his misgivings about the upcoming event, Xavier and Magneto assure him all will be alright. Soon after, several villainous mutants, including Mister Sinister, Sebastian Shaw, Exodus, Selene and Apocalypse arrive through the portals.
Apocalypse in particular expresses satisfaction at arriving and Krakoa responds in the same way. Magneto and Xavier reveal that they have invited all mutants, even those who have fought against them in the past, to Krakoa, to form a society. The assembled villainous mutants agree to their terms, and Xavier shakes Apocalypse's hand, welcoming him and the others to their home."
While peace reigns on Krakoa, a mysterious team of assassins HALO drops into the island and assassinates Xavier, destroying his Cerebro helmet in the process.
The Quiet Council hides Xavier's death from the rest of the world, and through the activation of a Cerebro backup, and the efforts of The Five, Xavier is reborn once more.
Soon after, he partakes in a global conference alongside Magneto and Apocalypse, professing that he still loves humanity, whilst subtly warning them in regards to his previous assassination - and his knowledge of an ongoing assassination attempt at the forum itself, foiled by Cyclops and Gorgon.
Powers and Abilities
Professor X is a mutant who possesses vast telepathic powers, and is among the strongest and most powerful telepaths in the Marvel Universe. He is able to perceive the thoughts of others or project his own thoughts within a radius of approximately 250 miles (400 km).
Xavier's telepathy once covered the entire world; although following this, Magneto altered the Earth's electromagnetic field to restrict Xavier's telepathic range.
While not on Earth, Xavier's natural telepathic abilities have reached across space to make universal mental contact with multiple alien races.
With extreme effort, he can also greatly extend the range of his telepathy. He can learn foreign languages by reading the language centers of the brain of someone adept, and alternately "teach" languages to others in the same manner. Xavier once trained a new group of mutants mentally, subjectively making them experience months of training together, while only hours passed in the real world.
Xavier's vast psionic powers enable him to manipulate the minds of others, warp perceptions to make himself seem invisible, project mental illusions, cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia, and induce pain or temporary mental and/or physical paralysis in others.
Within close range, he can manipulate almost any number of minds for such simple feats. However, he can only take full possession of one other mind at a time, and must strictly be within that person's physical presence. He is one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals and even share their perceptions.
He can also telepathically take away or control people's natural bodily functions and senses, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or even mutant powers.
A side effect of his telepathy is that he has an eidetic memory and his brain can assimilate and process impossibly huge amounts of raw data in an astonishingly short amount of time.
He has displayed telepathic prowess sufficient to confront Ego the Living Planet (while aided by Cadre K) as well as narrowly defeat Exodus.
However, he cannot permanently "reprogram" human minds to believe what he might want them to believe even if he wanted to do so, explaining that the mind is an organism that would always recall the steps necessary for it to reach the present and thus 'rewrite' itself to its original setting if he tried to change it.
However, his initial reprogramming of Wolverine lasted several years, despite Wolverine overcoming the reprogramming much faster than an ordinary human because of his healing factor.
He is able to project from his mind 'bolts' composed of psychic energy, enabling him to stun the mind of another person into unconsciousness, inflict mental trauma, or even cause death. These 'bolts' inflict damage only upon other minds, having a negligible effect on non-mental beings, if any.
The manner in which Xavier's powers function indicates that his telepathy is physical in some way, as it can be enhanced by physical means (for example, Cerebro), but can also be disrupted by physical means (for example, Magneto's alteration of the Earth's magnetic field).
Xavier can perceive the distinct mental presence/brain waves of other superhuman mutants within a small radius of himself. To detect mutants to a wider area beyond this radius, he must amplify his powers through Cerebro and subsequently Cerebra, computer devices of his own design which are sensitive to the psychic/physical energies produced by the mind.
Professor X can project his astral form into a psychic dimension known as the astral plane. There, he can use his powers to create objects, control his surroundings, and even control and destroy the astral forms of others. He cannot project this form over long distances.
Uncanny X-Men writer Ed Brubaker has claimed that, after being de-powered by the Scarlet Witch, and then re-powered by the M'Kraan Crystal, Charles' telepathy is more powerful than was previously known. However, the extent of this enhancement is unknown.
Years prior to initial publishing, Charles Xavier had an undefined level of telekinesis. This aspect of his powers were potent enough to cause catastrophic system disruption in computerized appliances.
Such an attribute has faded, however. His evil counterpart Cassandra Nova Xavier would possess this ability, indicating he still possessed the potential for them.
This potential was proven true after his death and resurgence within the younger, stronger body of Charlie Cluster 7. The Professor, using the moniker X, fashioned a Cerebro like a helmet which acts as a focusing device for his psionic powers and used it to galvanize latent aspects of his X-Gene to stimulate some dormant properties, seemingly using telekinesis to will a flash drive on Mystique's person into his hand.
Charles Xavier is a genius with multiple doctorates. He is a world-renowned geneticist, a leading expert in mutation, possesses considerable knowledge of various life sciences, and is the inventor of Cerebro.
He possesses Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, Psychology, and Anthropology, and an M.D. in Psychiatry. He is highly talented in devising equipment for utilizing and enhancing psionic powers. He is also a great tactician and strategist, effectively evaluating situations and devising swift responses.
During his travels in Asia, Xavier learned martial arts, acquiring "refined combat skills" according to Magneto. When these skills are coordinated in tandem with his telepathic abilities, Xavier is a dangerous unarmed combatant, capable of sensing the intentions of others and countering them with superhuman efficiency. He also has extensive knowledge of pressure points.
Charles Xavier was also given possession of the Mind Gem. It allows the user to boost mental power and access the thoughts and dreams of other beings. Backed by the Power Gem, it is possible to access all minds in existence simultaneously. Like all other former Illuminati members, Xavier has sworn to never use the gem and to keep its location hidden.
The Xavier Protocols
Totally NOT a blatant rip-off of the Batman Protocols from DC... /end sarcasm
The Xavier Protocols are a set of doomsday plans created by Professor X. The protocols detail the best way to kill many powerful mutant characters, including the X-Men and Xavier himself, should they become too large of a danger.
The Xavier Protocols are first mentioned during the Onslaught crossover and first seen in Excalibur #100 in Moira MacTaggert's lab. Charles Xavier compiled a list of the Earth's most powerful mutants and plans on how to defeat them if they become a threat to the world. They are first used after Onslaught grows too powerful.
Only parts of the actual protocols are ever shown. In the Operation: Zero Tolerance crossover Bastion obtains an encrypted copy of the protocols, intending to use them against the X-Men.
However, Cable infiltrates the X-Mansion and secures all encrypted files before Bastion has a chance to decrypt them.
Due to the tampering of Bastion and his Sentinels, the X-Mansion computer system Cerebro gains autonomy and seeks to destroy the X-Men by employing its knowledge of the Xavier Protocols. In a virtual environment created by Professor X, Cerebro executes the Xavier Protocols against the X-Men.
Each protocol is activated by the presence of a different combination of X-Men and were written by Xavier himself: Code 0-0-0 (Charles Xavier) was activated by Moira MacTaggert, Cyclops, and Jean Grey.
This file is both an entry on Charles Xavier, as well as an introduction to the Xavier Protocols. It contained a holographic image of Charles Xavier, reading the following message: "Moira, Scott, Jean; if you three are seeing these images, then I have become a mortal threat to my X-Men. In this instance, I must be stopped by any means necessary. Some years ago, I made a study of various forms of possible defense against my own psychic abilities. The image next to me is that of an anti-psionic armor. The wearer should be protected from my talent. When I finish speaking, a blueprint for this armor will be downloaded."
Code 0-2-1 (Wolverine) was activated by Archangel, Cyclops, and Jean Grey. Code 1-3-9 (Cable) was activated by Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Cannonball. Other X-Men who have faced their Xavier Protocols are Colossus, Rogue, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Gambit.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Charles Francis Xavier
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: The X-Men #1 (September 1963)
Created by: Stan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
Professor X last seen back in BP 2019 Day 234!
Inspired by a old Greek tale and Reimagined and brought into our era.
“Every thread she spins hums with memory — and the Core still trembles at her touch.”
In the quiet sectors of the Core, where reality folds into vibration and light becomes memory, she endures.
Arachne of the Living Loom, the first weaver — the mind that built matter, the hand that turned logic into silk.
Her armor hums with sacred algorithms, ancient runes alive in ultraviolet glow. Each plate and filament on her body is both metal and myth, etched with the glyphs of the Architects who once tried to bind her. Her hair moves like streams of digital shadow, weaving the unseen lattice between realms.
Before her lies the Loom — a suspended web of radiant filaments, alive with energy and thought. She does not simply craft — she reprograms existence, aligning code, time, and consciousness into one pulsating geometry.
Once punished for her defiance, Arachne transcended her fate.
Now she weaves The Veil, the barrier that separates dream from data, creation from collapse. Her threads pulse in the frequencies of the Living Machine — the rhythm of eternity written in violet.
When the veil flickers and worlds overlap, it is said you can feel her fingertips brushing against the edges of your perception — repairing the tear between imagination and reality.
Done in AI, Finalized in Photoshop.
The We're Here! gang is playing with keys today!
That black and silver fob thingie is my fancy Mercedes key. I have a very old Mercedes that I bought from a friend many years ago for $3,000. A couple of years back, the key stopped working (it's all electronic), and I had to go to the dealership and get it reprogrammed.
Eight hundred dollars later, I could open my doors again. What is fun about it though is that they didn't reprogram the existing 1998 key; they programmed a brand new one. So now I leave it conspicuously out where people can see it, so they think I have a new Mercedes, not one from the last century. LOL
Finally got my team for the League of Heroes: Dawn of the Age of Cataclysmos challenge done... They're a time-travelling/cross-dimensional team hence the mixture of flesh and yellow...
L-R:
Deadline: During the reign of Cataclysmos the robot known as Deadbolt* evolved either further, creating an army of 'Deadbots' to do the bidding of Cataclymos. The resistance was able to reprogram one of these bots with the aim of sending a virus (codenamed 'Deadline') into the system. The plan ultimately failed but the reprogrammed bot joined the resistance in their battle against their evil overlord.
*Deadbolt is a creation of Quickblade22 flic.kr/p/XGSD8n
Racing Line: Simon Bolt was a skilled racing car driver until, while testing an experimental bio-organic fuel, he was involved in a crash. The fuel bonded with his cells giving him super-speed and saving him from certain death. He was recruited from the present day by the time-travelleing hero 'Timeline'.
Timeline: Max Meridian was born in the future. His parents were astronauts exploring a blackhole. His birth whilst passing through the blackhole causes him to age in reverse. He knows the future as it's actually his past. He operates the time-spanning superhero team called 'The Line'.
Kniteline: Kirklyn Knite, the time-displaced great-nephew of present-day hero Kelvin Knite aka NightKnite. Uses the same nan-knite enhancement tecnology invented by his great-uncle as well as a variety of future-tech of his own invention.
Faultline*: Hailing from Sunrise City and trained at Somerset Academy, Faultline had the power of earth manipulation. When Cataclysmos invaded his universe Faultline lost both his hands in the battle against him. He thought he had lost his powers for good until he joined the resistance, was given new bionic hands and unlocked new powers including the ability to open 'faultlines' in the fabric of space. He was recruited to the the time-travelling superhero team The Line, by a strange yellow man called 'Timeline'.
*Faultine is a creation of Enøshima flic.kr/p/HZkxYL
Battleline: After fighting alongside the resistance in a future ruled by Cataclymos, the villain formerly known as Barricade* was sent back in time to warn the present-day League of Heroes flic.kr/p/29VHWLM.
*Old Man Barricade was created by LegoCreationist based on an OC by Jeremy Green flic.kr/p/yKardb
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Built for the League of Heroes Flickr Group flic.kr/g/kL22S
And for the latest challenge HERE flic.kr/p/29D3eun
Two hydrogens are now allocated every Sunday to The Bridges, one each to the 1&2. Today, only one came out to play, 64996 seen here at Ashwood. It took a few goes to get it round the terminus loop. Note, no attempt has been made to reprogram the display.
The journey may be far, but it’s worth it. I finally met Onyx on the way—she left the League too, just like what Shiva said. Eventually, I got close with her as we spent one night together.....
Ben: “I haven’t sleep soundly like that for years.”
Onyx: “Have you?”
Ben: “Feels free to be so.”
Onyx: “Come back to bed then.”
Ben: “Can’t. Still got a mission, remember?”
I quickly get dressed. Currently I’ve been staying in Morocco for the last two weeks, as Onyx became my acquaint. She helped me through mental blocks, and that’s what made the fireworks happen. Richard...still nowhere to be seen.
Onyx gives me a nod, pulling me back out of my thoughts. Men come through the door, just as I was going to put on my claws. She must have lead them here thanks to a vendor’s tip.
She whips out various shurikens, knocking out most of the men while I do my regular slashes. The prowess seems to be doing well. A man tries to mouth some words before he passes out cold from a kick.
Ben: “What was that?”
Onyx: “Brainwashing code. They’re trying to reprogram you. Better we’d leave now. If they have your friend, but sure to wait on this special treat.”
Ben: “Might as well savour the good moments later.”
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It’s only half the day, my old friend gets captured. The League did it. What a damn distraction for us fighting through. Problem is, I don’t even know how to get back to the base since my exiled status. Neither did Onyx.
I must admit finding Lazarus Pits is much harder than I expected. Combining Shiva’s map and Onyx’s knowledge, they should be somewhere in eastern China by now, not the base where I had my last mission. There goes my flight——
Ben: “You sure it’s here?”
Onyx: “Yes! I’m sure of it. Can’t fly this thing for too long! They’ll spot me before I can do the recon stuff.”
Ben: “Alright. Stay safe. I’ll see you on the other side.”
Onyx: “Good luck, Turner.”
Inevitably, it must be a duel...a trap that could be something bigger.
And nothing matters than saving a friend by now.
Go-Ahead London MBK1 (BU13ZVE) on route 227 at Crystal Palace Parade on 25/06/2019
The demonstrator Mercedes Benz Citaro K is now with Go-Ahead London operating out of Orpington Garage, and is seen just three days after Stagecoach’s contract expired, who had use full size Citaros on the route for seven years. It was also the first stray working under the new contract where it is now allocated extra long (11.4m) Wrightbus Streetlites.
Unusually for a TfL bus, it has an LED destination display, which has the added benefit of being a lot easier to reprogram new routes and destinations than paper blinds are.
*Feeling Rusty*
It's been a while since I have done anything with photography. So long, in fact, that upon picking up my camera, I found its battery drained and all the settings reverted to their factory defaults. And with the rapid advancements in editing software, I can't help but feel like a beginner all over again.
Luckily, navigating the editing process seems a tad easier with the plethora of improved tools at my disposal.
However, one thing remains unchanged: Gear Acquisition Syndrome (G.A.S.). So, say hello to my new camera! If I have to reprogram it anyway, I might as well have the latest gear. Now do I want AdobeRGB or sRGB…
(No, the new camera will not made me a better photographer. I just get more buttons to push and fancy acronyms to use. And more megapixels. Everybody loves those.)
Not sure if StreetLite 63211 was missed off the destination reprogram list or if the driver has selected the wrong number through habit but it is seen here at St Machar Drive on a short working 1B with the old 1A route number.
We build the most advanced Time Out Pods for placing your child in timeout. Fully enclosed, sound proof with a 2-way mirror, you can watch your child but they only see a mirror of themselves. You let them out when their timeout is over-or not! Advanced features include water dispenser, speaker system and LCD reader so your child can see a count down to their release.
Other features:
- Audio controls (listen to them, they can't hear you) or fully mute their ridiculous crying!
- Temperature control with optional AC mount!
- Fully programmable timeout length and auto-open!
- High performance interior plastic is indestructible and completely washable!
- Speaker system - play calming music or audio books to reprogram their subtle minds!
- Fully portable and includes attachable roller mounts and push bar - roll them around while shopping!
- Deluxe version includes food slot for longer timeout sessions!
- Easy water hose hook up for easy cleaning!
- Great for noisy pets too!
- Rain and snow proof - keep them out in the backyard if desired
- Comes in 3 colors: Punish Me Purple, Government Control Green, and Bad Boy Blue
- Advanced Version includes remote video viewing and controls through your mobile phone, tablet or over the web (Watch and control little Johnny from Hawaii!)
“You brought me here?!”
Jeffry started laughing. “Yes, the concert is at the cemetery. I thought I told you.”
“You know how I am scared of cemeteries!” Marsha exclaimed. Ever since she was a little girl, she always stayed away from the cemetery in her neighborhood for fear that the dead people would reach out of their graves and grab innocent little kids.
“Relax, Marsha. This part of the cemetery is for expansion. There is no one buried in this section. I’ve even seen older people walk around in this section.” Robby tried to bring some composure to Marsha but she was still all shook up, worse than what Elvis could do.
“Okay,” Marsha agreed. “I’ll watch the concert on one condition.”
“What’s that?”
“That if any, and I mean ANY, ghosts come after me, you save me, okay?” Marsha started to gain her comic self back.
“Agreed.” Jeffry could say that as he knew that there were no ghosts in this section of the cemetery. Just a concert.
Just then, the wind picked up again, but since there were no trees in this section, no leaves were around to be blown around. But something else seemed to have pelted their faces. It was droplets of water.
“Oh, no!” Marsha lamented. “It’s going to rain and spoil the concert.”
Jeffry did a quick look around, and even looked up into the sky. “No, it’s not going to rain tonight.”
“How can you be so certain?”
“It’s the usual time the sprinkler system goes off, and with this special concert, the cemetery crew probably forgot to reprogram the system. We’ll just get a little wet, that’s all.”
But the sprinkler system had been shut off.
Here is another frame I really liked from eighth and final location since leaving Northern Maine Junction where I shot Pan Am train NMWA-13 during my leisurely chase across District One, the once great Maine Central Railroad Portland Division mainline. Here again is the trio of MEC 510, 316, and 7545 (a GP40-2LW, GP40, and C40-8 respectively) with their 4261 ft long train of 59 loads and 4 empties seen here hammering over Main Street at a blistering 10 MPH. They are at about MP 92.5 and nearing the south end of a 2 1/2 mile long stretch of double track approaching the still standing goal post signal mast and searchlights at the deactivated former CPF92.
They are framed up by the former Maine Central passenger depot now home to the Depot House Museum. Built in 1886 it is now owned by the town and has been lovingly restored and cared for by the Pittsfield Historical Society. Parked adjacent to the station where the exchange house once stood is MEC 582,an old plywood side caboose that dates from the 1920s and served some 60 years! This depot marked the junction with the independent Sebasticook and Moosehead Railroad which built north to Hartland in 1886. The MEC took control in 1910 and extended it to Harmony two years later. Again cut back to Hartland in 1966 the eight mile branch made it into the early Guilford era but succumbed in 1983 like so many other secondary lines as the new owners began their first austerity program.
Anyway, now for the story. As I'd mentioned before I had intended to head down to Burnham Junction for one last shot before starting on toward Portland to meet a friend for dinner and then heading home to Rhode Island. But that wasn't how things went down...
When I arrived here I'd initially parked my truck over away from the tracks, but then decided to use it as a platform to shoot off the bed. So I backed it up tight toward the tree next to the tracks and turned it off. After checking I decided to reposition it once more but when I got back in I couldn't start it as the key would not turn from lock to run or start. I didn't think much of it and jiggled it a bit and then turned the wheel making sure the steering lock wasn't binding it up as sometimes happens. I wasn't having any luck strangely enough so hopped on my bed to get these shots before going back to my problem. After lensing the train I tried again to no avail.
I pulled out the owners manual and did some googling and tried everything obvious. The steering wheel wasn't locked initially but when I manually turned it straight the lock did engage. My truck has an auto start and I confirmed it would start fine but there was no way I could drive off I couldn't turn the key. It quickly became apparent that the problem was the key lock cylinder and I wasn't going to be going anywhere. I called my roadside assistance and it took a bit of explaining to them that I wasn't locked out but that I needed a locksmith. I waited a half hour while they inquired only to have them call me back telling me that all they could do is tow me somewhere up to 40 miles....but I was about 270 from home!
Now I was starting to get slightly concerned being here in this one stoplight town on a Saturday night and having not eaten all day. But in a fortuitous turn of events there happened to be a brewery a quarter mile away still open for an hour that was serving food. My friend in Portland had suggested the place so I walked over figuring a beer might help me think, and I better eat while I still could! He gave me the name of the owner and I introduced myself to her and discussed my predicament over a very nice Outland Farm IPA. She made a couple calls to some locals but no one could help me however she did have one great bit of advice. She mentioned a local chain tire and repair shop that was open on Sundays and happened to be located right across from a hotel down in Waterville only 25 miles away, within tow range.
So I started making calls tp my roadside assistance who said they'd dispatch someone directly. It was over an hour until they finally got a truck assigned, and then when I received the notification the company they assigned showed up as being based in Orlando, FL. I called the contact number they gave me which just went to a dead end full voice mail box so I wasn't very confident. I called my insurance again and they said to 'just wait since they accepted the call they will be coming' and I said 'they aren't coming from Florida' but she was insistent. Well, as can be expected, after waiting tbe half hour as I was told to they of course didn't show up so I called again and they relented and tried to find someone else.
Meanwhile I was just laying on the grass next to my truck beside the Pittsfield depot under the stars. Other than the mosquitoes it was quite lovely and about the safest place I could have hoped to get stuck of all the spots I'd been all day. At least I had plenty of water and spate power banks and good cell reception and was off the road in a clean, quiet little town with a few streetlights nearby to be visible....and considering I had managed to have a great beer and dinner while marooned it was far from the worst possible scenario.
Anyway, after what felt like an interminable wait for another tow truck to be assigned, sometime after midnight I finally gave up and decided to just call myself and pay out of pocket. Of course while those incompetent folks at Agero (the roadside assistance contractor used by the insurance companies) couldn't do their job, I found someone on only my second call who was there in less than 30 min. It was a quick tow down to Waterville, and a bit after 1 AM my truck was dumped at VIP Tire and Service and then walked across the road to the Holiday Inn Express for another unplanned expense.
This was only the first part of my ordeal. Nearly my whole Sunday was spent sitting in the shop while they tried to make time for me between appointments. They were gracious and very helpful and got it taken apart and confirmed my suspicion that the tumblers on the lock cylinder had failed. That was an easy repair and not a terribly expensive part but being Sunday they couldn't get one delivered until Monday AND even if they installed it they had to find a specialized locksmith to come out and reprogram the truck to sync up with the chip in the new key.
So finally I surrendered and let my boss know my predicament and that I wouldn't be coming to work. I had no interest in spending money and being trapped at the Holiday Inn again so like a hobo slung my bags over my shoulders hoofed it a mile into town to stay at the cheaper and nicer little airbnb that I'd stayed in on Friday. With nothing else to do I walked over to Main Street yo Portland Pie for and then had a little Maine craft beer tasting there and then back in the garden at the Inn sitting on an Adirondack under the stars....once I'd surrendered to my fate it was all quite lovely!
Monday dawned with a call from the shop that they got the part and were calling the locksmith. By mid day they let me know that the locksmith would be out as his last call of the day around 4 PM. So after a leisurely morning in the garden and a walk downtown for lunch at Holy Cannoli! I headed back to the shop. As promised the locksmith showed up at 4 PM and my truck started right up...$850 and I was on my way! I called that same friend who I was supposed to see on Saturday night and asked if I could take a nap and shower on the way south and as any good friend would he readily obliged. A quick two hour power nap was enough to sustain me and then I headed straight to BET for a night at the railroad.
So all told it was well over $1K for a tow, the repair and the two unplanned nights in Waterville and one lost night at work for these photos. Was it worth it? It certainly doesn't feel like it right now, but I'm sure as the months and years pass and Guilford and Pan Am power becomes but a memory my answer will assuredly shift to an emphatic YES! And if nothing else, I have a truly memorable story to add to the annals of railfan adventures.
I really feel like the gods of Pan Am did this. Was it because I disparaged them so much? Perhaps. Or maybe it's just the nature of the place. My friends and I always joke about going out for them and getting 'Pan Amed' which is a synonym for getting F---ed! So for my last adventure out on this god forsaken railroad it was only apropos that I received the biggest Pan Aming of my life!!!
Pittsfield, Maine
Saturday May 14, 2022
A life threatening, system crumbling cybernetic plague, VIROT is a virus designed on the bacteriophage of eons past. This computer devourer is able to infect a hero’s core and either reprogram them for evil or shut them down for good.
Type A, the infection type, is small, nearly undetectable, with an emphasis on its rapid replication. Type B phages are a larger mutation that carry microscopic incision equipment used to inject nanites. These nano machines either act as miniature explosives, irreversibly damaging the hero’s Quaza Core, or act to change the materials within core, turning it into ANTI-QUAZA and sending the hero into a downward spiral of evil.
Hero Factory. We build H̷e̷r̷o̷e̷s̷ ……. Villains
Built for Hero February 2023
Os ganhos ou os danos dependem da perspectiva e possibilidades de quem vai tecendo a sua história. O mundo em si não tem sentido sem o nosso olhar que lhe atribui identidade, sem o nosso pensamento que lhe confere alguma ordem.
Viver, como talvez morrer, é recriar-se: a vida não está aí apenas para ser suportada nem vivida, mas elaborada. Eventualmente reprogramada. Conscientemente executada. Muitas vezes, ousada.
Lya Luft
NW3: "Just stay there and chill, m'kay?!"
"Oh shit! P-please, we're just workers, we're---"
NW3: "Dead if you run, trust me! I mean I ain't implying that I'm gonna waste your ass, anyone else on the squad will do that!"
"N-no! Don't kill us! We'll stay, we'll--"
NW3: "You need to chill, m'kay?! I know you're scared! We're all scared, it's the human condition! Why'd you think I'm wearing body armor and have an automatic weapon!? Now CHILL!!"
NW2: "I don't think yelling is gonna relax them...."
NW3: "No, but they listen!"
NW1: "....there. SAM's disabled and should be off the sensors. Would be better if I could reprogram it to shoot down that laser drone...."
NW3: "Or the rest of the squad....or Sergeant Slaughter....."
NW2: "....who?"
NW3: "That piece of shit commander of ours. Files said he's called Sergeant Slaughter."
NW1: "....you read the files for once?"
NW3: "The drive here was long and SOMEONE spilled bovril on my DS! Who the fuck drinks Bovril?"
NW2: "Drink this."
NW1: "Sergeant Slaughter....only one fuckface in the agency would go with a name like that...."
NW3: "Hate the blonde Ryan Gosling-lookin' fucktard so much. When this is over who wants to figure out where his house is and circle jerk all over his pillow?"
NW2: "Yo."
NW1: "Hell, I'm up for it."
NW3: "Holy shit, you NEVER wanna do anything with us."
NW1: "They never involve inconveniencing our commanding officers."
NW2: "Speaking of, uncle, what are we gonna do about the commander here?"
NW1: "Well, we gotta get him off this tower somehow...only a matter of time before he takes these SAMs and points 'em downward."
NW2: "And he's already royally screwed the workers here."
NW3: "You think he's dumb enough to go charging if we point and say "there's Bloodfall!!'?"
NW2: "Maybe. Shithead has a helluva grudge...."
NW3: "We already hauled up enough kaboom to blow a hole in Cheyenne Mountain. We gather up some of it in a nice pile, lead him to it, and BAM! No way regeneration can work when you're nothing but dust."
NW1: "So we're just gonna....lead him into a pile of explosives?"
NW3: "A pile where he'll think Bloodfall will be. Think of it as a really loud version of a box held up with a stick."
NW2: "Hell, I'm up for it. If anything for just seeing that asshole blow up."
NW1: "You really think the Cyborg is dumb enough to mistaken a pile of bombs for his mortal enemy?..."
NW3: "Dude, he ain't smart. We've been around his scary ass long enough to know. C'mon, it's a plan."
NW1: "A stupid plan....but I can't think of anything better. Where's this stockpile?..."
Explorer: The indigenous lifeforms were easy enough to reprogram. I am in control of a creature with a penchant for finding metallic objects and clever enough for basic puzzle solving. With any luck I can use it to help secure the parts I need to repair my ship and get off this strange rock. It attacked me a couple of times, but the force shield held well enough. Down to forty percent power but I think the beast is smart enough not to try it again.
Creature: Alien put buzzy thing in my head, tells me to do things. I do what it tells because it points me to shiny things. I like shiny things. When it stops taking me to shiny things, I think I will kill it and eat it. I hope it is soon because my suit itches, and my helmet keeps fogging up.
accelerating