Charles Francis Xavier, known as Professor X, is one of the world's most powerful omega-class telepaths, born into wealth but deeply marked by a childhood of psychological abuse from his stepfather. After traveling the world and witnessing the rising tide of anti-mutant prejudice, a fateful encounter with the alien Lucifer in the Himalayas left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Refusing to succumb to despair, he used his massive family fortune and genius intellect to convert his Westchester mansion into a school, inventing the mutant-locating supercomputer Cerebro to gather, train, and protect young mutants as the iconic founding leader of the X-Men.
