Not a phobe but certainly a manipulator. Fronts like he's the nice, peaceful mutant MLKj while being perfectly happy to rewrite someone's personality if he thinks he won't get caught. Once erased a whole-ass brother from Cyclops's memory for the sake of the mission
oh damn, I think I remember hearing about this now, thank you kind stranger also, didn't he once wipe Sabretooth's mind as well?
Cyclops example was just the first I thought of, I think the list of Marvel characters Xavier hasn't nonconsentually altered the minds of is shorter than this list of those he has
There's also the time the Danger Room achieved sentience and he hid it from the Xmen for years, which is kinda phobey in its own way
Many times for “therapy” in the early 90s. It was weird. He also wiped Magneto’s mind too, which resulted in Onslaught. Then there was the time he actually explicitly SA’d his students while EVIL. He was The Entity, one of Xavier’s many evil halves. What the fuck, man.
What events exactly are you talking about?
Well the Cyclops one is Deadly Genesis, but in general writers like using "Professor X mind blasted this person years ago and kept it quiet" as a retcon
Yeah that's definitely a problem and I think there's a lot of trash writing in the 90s and 00s that really tanked his character's perception, but with Claremont's version + right after I don't read him as a manipulator much at all. So ig it's a question of treating everything as canon or not.
Deadly Genesis is a pretty abysmal story so I'm more then fine with not having that be canon lmao like it's so bad.
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