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History: Charles Xavier is the son of
nuclear researcher Brian Xavier and his wife Sharon. After Brian Xavier's death,
Sharon married his colleague Dr. Kurt Marko, whose son by a previous marriage,
Cain, bullied the young Charles. Charles' telepathic powers began emerging when
he was still a boy, and as he grew older he learned to control them. A brilliant
student, he entered graduate studies at England's Oxford University, where he
met and fell in love with a young Scotswoman named Moira MacTaggert. They
planned to be married, but after finishing his work at Oxford, Xavier was
drafted and sent to Asia. There Xavier and Cain Marko served in the same unit.
Xavier witnessed how Marko found the mystical ruby in the temple of Cyttorak
that transformed him into the superhuman Juggernaut. Deeply depressed when Moira
broke off their engagement without explanation, Xavier began traveling abroad
after leaving the army. While in Cairo, Egypt he battled Amahl Farouk, the
Shadow King, the first evil mutant he had ever met. This meeting led to Xavier's
decision to devote his life to protecting humanity from evil mutants and
safeguarding innocent mutants from human oppression. Xavier next went to Israel,
where he fell in love with Gabrielle Haller and became friends with a man
calling himself Erik Magnus Lehnsherr. Lehnsherr would years later become his
greatest enemy and rival, Magneto. Xavier was unaware when he left Israel that
Haller was pregnant with his son. Against an alien calling himself Lucifer, the
advance scout for an invasion by his race. In retaliation, Lucifer dropped a
huge stone block on Xavier, crippling his legs. During his recuperation in
India, he befriended nurse and fellow mutant, Amelia Voight. They began a
romantic entanglement that ended abruptly when Xavier cemented his plans to
found a school for mutants. He renewed his friendship with Moira MacTaggert, who
was now a renowned geneticist, and they began discussing the idea of founding
the Institute. .
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