#charles xavier

InX-Men, the ways that Patrick Stewart’s Xavier and Ian McKellen’s Magneto play chess mirrors their overall strategies. Magneto (clear pieces) is willing to sacrifice his pawns for the sake of victory, while Xavier (frosted pieces) uses and protects them as much as possible.

InX-Men The Last Stand, Magneto even says to Pyro “in chess the pawns go first” as he directs the less powerful mutants in the first wave of attack against the humans and X-Men

My favorite scene from X-men first class

Avengers #110 (Englehart/Heck, Mar 1973). I’ve been trying to read in six-issue chunks, but it’s getting tricky ‘cause everything’s so intertextual now! Quicksilver’s whereabouts were revealed last month in Fantastic Four, so now I’m ahead of that book. Hawkeye wanders into an issue of Daredevil. And Magneto emerges from the Savage Land to overwhelm the bookless X-Men. Phew! This world’s just not gonna stop expanding now, and I have to accept there’s no correct and fully coherent way to track it.

Amazing Adventures #17 (Drake/Roth, Mar 1973). A repackaging of the Beast’s backup origin story from the final issues of X-Men. I don’t mind — I skipped these first time around. But it’s surprising to see another X-book fizzle out.

ellenchain:

✏ Digging through some sketches⁠

I love this with my whole heart

scripps:

not sure I will ever be over Raven and Erik being like: no one should EVER have to suppress their mutation !!! no assimilation - only being true to yourself !!! ….. except fuck you, Charles, specifically because your way of experiencing the world and relating to the people you love makes me uncomfy :/

Charles Xavier appreciation post!

SPOILERS FOR MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS!!

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some folks are so pressed about Wanda bodying the illuminati and it’s just making me laugh bc some of y’all really need to understand context????

like the illuminati didn’t get shredded bc they weren’t powerful enough, they got shredded bc they were arrogant as fuck and underestimated her

“but Reed is so smart he wouldn’t just give away a solution to the enemy” — yeah Reed is fucking smart, but he’s also just fucking arrogant enough to show off to someone he didn’t think was a threat — he thought he could just scare her away

if the illuminati had gotten their heads out of their asses and listened to Strange or taken his comments about Wanda seriously, they would actually be alive, they could have properly strategized on how to take Wanda down, hell, Black Bolt probably would have been able to take her out with his voice if he had the element of surprise — but they didn’t, they were convinced that Strange was the threat and they were arrogant and smug enough to believe that if they think something is right then it must be right

now to be fair their Wanda probably wasn’t a threat and likely never exhibited our Wanda’s level of abilities so in their experience, they just didn’t deem her to be an issue for them

but that’s how you get killed, arrogance and overconfidence and not listening to the concerns of others about the threats you’re facing because you think you already know the answers

and let’s be honest here, arrogance and that know-it-all attitude literally IS a central core of the very concept of the illuminati so this isn’t even any of these characters acting out of character, that’s just how the illuminati acts, I mean look at the scenes, they sat up there in their high and mighty chairs, their attitudes were generally dismissive and smug and seemingly think they were above it all

they could have been ready for Wanda, but their arrogance blinded them and got them killed

this isn’t Marvel “doing dirty” on these versions of the characters, this is just what happens when you’re overconfident and don’t properly prepare

Patrick Stewart and Anson Mount are sure having a hell of a week LOL

Picard’s season 2 finale and Strange New Worlds’ season 1 premiere aired on the same day (both of them being Trek captains, Enterprise captains specifically), and then both popping into the Doctor Strange movie as members of the Illuminati literally the next day!

I am so happy to see them thriving! They deserve it!