10 Most Powerful X-Men Of All Time

4. Professor X

In fact one of the few who can boast of more powerful than Magneto is his oldest friend, arch enemy, and chess partner, Professor Charles Francis Xavier (Chuck for short). The de facto leader of the X-Men is also amongst their most powerful members, with a control over his telepathic and telekinetic abilities that has him ranked amongst the most influential and important members of the Marvel Universe as a whole.

Hence his more clandestine activities with the Illuminati, a group of the greatest minds in comics - along with Mr Fantastic and Tony Stark - who try to keep things chugging along nicely in their favour. When he hasn't got his diplomat hat on, Xavier can be seen boosting his mental abilities even further with the help of Cerebro, a bucket he sticks on his bonce which lets him track down and psychically speak to mutants anywhere in the world, and possibly the cosmos. Not that he's a weakling without his magic helmet, since he can read thoughts or project his own up to 250 miles all by himself.

He can pick up languages within seconds of tapping into a foreign person's cerebral cortex, control your perception of time, wipe people's memories, and even suppress other mutant's powers entirely. Like Magneto, his natural mutant abilities are boosted with a genius-level intellect, having earned his doctorates in Genetics, Biophysics, Psychology, and Anthropology, and Psychiatry. If you ever crossed Professor X - say, as Magneto did when he showed off his Wolverine skeleton stripping trick - you're in for a world of pain.

As in, he can make you feel pain like you can't imagine just by prodding bits of your brain, rewrite or wipe your entire personality, and leave you a burned out husk. And he could do that without even having to leave the house. Scary. And decidedly Omega.