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Pedro J. Caro
One constant with the history of the X-Men is the lack of Xavier. The teacher-mentor figure has repeatedly disappeared, presumed dead, been depowered, incarcerated, and any number of things the creative team could come up with in order to make the students have to deal with life by themselves. Now, I understand the need to challenge the character into growth and self-reliance, but on the other side I feel Xavier may be too powerful in order to keep stories interesting, and thus one of the first order of business for any new writer (or editor) of the franchise is to bench him for a while so that he can’t « magically » (read: telepathically) solve any given situation (« The humans shall forget the happenings of this night, my X-Men. Now return to the mansion »). I also think that not many writers (apart from Claremont) have been able to do anything interesting with him apart from coming up with some nasty thing that he did and made his students lose their trust in him, but that’s another matter entirely and related to my personal preferences.
Now, given what we have read of Fall of X so far, and seeing what has been announced of your stint so far, it seems that the new era is going to start Xavier lacking. So I’d like to read your thoughts on the character, and whether you think he’s more of a device or something interesting can be told of him. And whether you plan to use him in the future.
That’s a whole lot of question there, Pedro , but it really seems like it boils down into two issues. so let’s try to take each bit in turn. As far as Professor Xavier goes, I think he has the same problem in the modern age that such characters have been facing going back to the 1970s at least: he’s an authority figure, and as a culture, we have a deep distrust of authority figures. Consequently, on multiple occasions, Xavier has been shown to be not just flawed but actually abhorrent in his actions, betraying the morality that he’s meant to represent. Speaking for myself, I feel as though Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s Danger story tainted the character in a permanent way, and then the reveal of the Deadly Genesis X-Men team that he’d sent to their deaths and wiped everybody’s memory of completed that process. There’s flawed, and then there’s being a monster, and especially in a world in which Magneto is more and more often presented as being on the right side of their philosophical argument, that means it’s difficult for Professor X to fulfill the role that he was designed for. And that’s a genuine problem given that the entire series is predicated on “Xavier’s dream”. For all that people can say, “Love the dream, hate the dreamer”, I don’t think it’s anywhere near that simple in practice. So that makes it tough to do anything with Xavier that isn’t more of the same, more instances wherein he’s shown to be a compromised individual whose moral compass is highly situational.
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