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The Most Beloved Mutant Leader Is a Predator and a Stooge

Charles Xavier is celebrated for two things: his compassion and his dream. The compassion manifests as taking in damaged children and giving them a home. The dream is human-mutant coexistence, a future where difference is tolerated instead of exterminated. Both of these things are real. They are also cover for

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The X-Gene Diagnosis

Every X-Men character is a specific answer to one question: what do you do when your neurology makes you illegible to the world around you? Xavier’s answer is mask and assimilate. Build a school, train the mutation into something controlled and presentable, prove you deserve a seat at the

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