For your consideration:
With a leading man in James McAvoy (Wanted, The Last King of Scotland) maybe it’s time to see some of the women in Professor X’s life in X-Men: Apocalypse or perhaps a spinoff starring Charles Xavier?
Dr. Moira Kinross MacTaggert is a great lost love and colleague but she’s was played briefly by Olivia Wilde in X-Men: The Last Stand. Moira was an America CIA operative played by Rose Byrne in X-Men: First Class. Perhaps Moira can have he telepathic blocked memories rekindled for a sequel that reunites her with Charles.
Who are the other women of Xavier’s life?
Gabrielle Haller – In comics Charles and Erik first meet at camp for Holocaust survivors in Israel where Charles uses his telepathic powers to bring Gabrielle out of a trauma induced coma. Charles and Gabrielle would fall in love but separate. Years later Charles learned they shared a trouble son named David. The young mutant with multiple personalities and mutant powers would become known as Legion. David’s actions would lead to the creation of the Age of Apocalypse.
Amelia Voght is an America nurse Charles meets in India but when they move to America, she learns she’s a mutant and disagrees with Charles’ plans for the mutant school and would later join Magneto’s side of the conflict.
Lilandra is by far the true love of his life. It was a love so strong Charles and Lilandra formed psychic bond across multiple galaxies and when they finally met it was love at first sight. Charles and the X-Men would fight with and against Lilandra and her Shi’ar Empire over the years. Charles left Earth for a time to become her royal consort when she became Empress.
Villains?
The Shadow King
I will never forget Uncanny X-Men #117. The Psi-War issue was a flashback revealing Charles Xavier’s first encounter with a truly evil enemy. Is the Shadow King a mutant, demon or just a psychic entity feeding off humanity’s hate and fear?
Xavier walks into a bar in Cairo and sees Amalh Farouk (the human host the Shadow King would often use.) The two rivals just sat there but Chris Claremont and John Byrne too us into the astral plane by creating a spectacular psychic duel. The imagery was astounding as the creators took us into a battle of minds that would be incredible on the big screen.
This is also a momentous issue because Xavier meets the young thief who would grow up to become Storm. The entire issue would make a perfect sequence and set up for an Xavier/Shadow King movie.
While rumors of a Gambit and X-Force movies are exciting because those are men and women of action, let’s consider the original X-Man. Charles Xavier, the man with the great mind can be an astonishing action hero on the astral plane with the right writer/director and McAvoy.
By Editor