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The Most Beloved Mutant Leader Is a Predator and a Stooge

Charles Xavier has two functions in the X-Men universe: he grooms vulnerable children and he manages mutants on behalf of a world that wants them contained. He's celebrated for both. Telepathy as a power set that is structurally non-consensual. Cerebro as a surveillance apparatus. The recruitment pa

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The X-Gene Diagnosis

Every X-Men character is a specific answer to the question: what do you do when your neurology makes you illegible to the world around you? Xavier says mask and assimilate. Magneto says never again. The rest of the roster is every possible position between those poles — and every position maps to a

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