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Professor X (Prof. 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).
Mind control, or brainwashing, has proven a popular subject in fiction, featuring in books and films such as The Manchurian Candidate (1959; film adaptations 1962 and 2004) and The IPCRESS File (1962; film 1965), both stories advancing the premise that controllers could hypnotize a person into murdering on command while retaining no memory of the killing.
This story leads directly into the Avengers/X-Men crossover "Bloodties". In wiping out Magneto's mind, Professor X unleashes an evil psychic entity, Onslaught, that festers in his own mind, leading to the Onslaught Saga of 1996. The mind-wiped Magneto did not return until 1997 in Uncanny X-Men #350.
His control over Muir Island was only uncovered when Professor X probed Colossus' mind after the latter tried to kill him. [15] The X-Men sent a task force which included Storm, Forge, Gambit, Banshee, Wolverine, and Jubilee to remove his influence. The Shadow King sent his slaves to defend the island, and they defeated the invaders.
With the Age of X incident underscoring the potentially apocalyptic scope of David's power, Professor X proposed a new approach to help Legion retain control of himself. Instead of isolating David from the other alters in his mind, Professor X suggested that he learn to co-exist with them.
Twisted Fiction (2023), a horror anthology film whose first story (entitled "Mind F*ck") is about a stage hypnotist who gives a woman a hypnosis induced orgasm during one of his shows, enraging her husband. He uses several different hypnosis techniques on both of them throughout the episode, including post hypnotic triggers and shock induction.
When Juggernaut comes to the mansion with information about Onslaught's true identity but has a mental block preventing him from divulging it, Jean enters his mind and helps him to remember who Onslaught really is and to her horror she discovers that Onslaught is really Professor X, having gone insane ever since wiping Magneto's mind. [60] [64 ...
In the aftermath, Professor X fails to repair the mental damage to Legion's mind, leaving Legion brain-dead, but is comforted by X-Factor's decision to rejoin the X-Men. Val Cooper, returned from Shadow King's control, recruits Polaris, Guido Carosella and Jamie Madrox into a new government-sponsored team to replace Freedom Force .