10 X-Men Characters Writers Need To Stop Using
1. Professor X
The founder of the X-Men, Professor Charles Xavier takes the top spot. Anyone who has read the many, many terrible retcons of the X-Men over the years knows the weird and despicable things Xavier has done. Whether its lusting after students or telepathically deleting the existence of Cyclops’s brother from his memory, Xavier’s credibility has been shot.
Yes, he has found a new function on Krakoa, but that doesn’t change his guilt over his past misdeeds.
Xavier’s dream has always been more important than the character himself, and with the emergence of Krakoa that dream is constantly changing. Die a hero or live long enough to be the villain and all that nonsense. Xavier’s motives may be for the benefit of mutants, but in a book that is an allegory for so many marginalized groups in society today, it sends a rather convoluted message.