20 Greatest Performances In Superhero Movies

6. Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier (X-Men Franchise)

Patrick Stewart X Men
20th Century Fox

James McAvoy may be terrific as the younger Charles Xavier, but to most the definitive Professor X will always be Patrick Stewart's aged iteration.

With his calming paternal presence and demeanour, Stewart's Xavier has probably the most honour and integrity of any X-Men movie character... even despite the best efforts of Brett Ratner to screw it all up by creepily de-aging him in a CGI flashback and then killing him off (and then basically undoing it in a post-credits scene).

While his time with the franchise is certainly winding down now, Stewart's had a hell of a run as one of the series' most iconic and downright likeable characters.

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