Nov 24 2008
Ultimate vs. Marvel Round 21: Professor X
Charles Francis Xavier – the most powerful telepath on the planet, except that there are now a ton of other telepaths that seem just as if not more powerful – is the founder and sometimes leader of the X-Men. He was once close friends with Magneto, but their fundamental disagreement lead to Xavier being confined to a wheelchair. In the MMU, his creepy, inappropriate feelings for a teenaged Jean Grey caused him to turn into Onslaught and led to the temporary ‘deaths’ of many of the world’s superheroes. In the Ultimate universe, his creepy, inappropriate feelings for a teenaged Jean Grey just led to Scott Summers getting a little mad.
MMU Professor X’s legs got better, then he suffered another accident that put him back in a wheelchair. Then he regained the use of his legs but lost his telepathy, but then he got his telepathy back.
Ultimate Xavier was first shown to be more devious than his MMU counterpart, but with all the retcons of MMU Professor X over the years, that doesn’t really hold up anymore. Both are pretty willing to use their powers to mess with other people’s minds. Ultimate Prof X just doesn’t protest otherwise as much as the MMU version.
Winner – Ultimate Professor X
Tomorrow – Bishop!
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