Charles Xavier’s disastrous go to to see his son Legion within the Altar proves that he’ll hold his “Marvel’s Worst Father” award in 2023.
Warning: Contains spoilers for Legion of X #9The X-Men’s founder Charles Xavier is many things, however an awesome father doesn’t depend amongst them, and a current interplay between the professor and his son Legion in Legion of X #9 proves that Charles will proceed to win the “Marvel’s Worst Father” in 2023. Charles Xavier is a posh, nuanced chief who began out as a revered and beloved instructor and mutant mentor. However, beginning with the large retcon in Deadly Genesis that exposed Xavier had sacrificed a secret younger workforce of mutants early in his profession, the father-figure to lots of X-Men’s greats has been on a gradual decline. Since he turned a founder and co-leader of Krakoa again in 2019, Xavier’s massively inflated ego has continued to extend, resulting in the daddy taking his son David without any consideration greater than he ever has earlier than.
Legion of X #8 sees David’s longtime love curiosity, the precognitive mutant Ruth also called Blindfold, accosting Charles in his house, calling him out for his traditionally horrible remedy of his son David, and telling him that David will forgive his fathers many sins if he would simply go speak to him and take accountability. Finally, in Legion of X #9 – written by Si Spurrier with artwork by Netho Diaz and Sean Parsons – Xavier ends up visiting his son Legion within the Altar, and to utterly nobody’s shock, virtually instantly betrays him, at a time when all of Krakoa is being threatened by exterior forces.
Xavier Can’t Help But Betray His Only Son
To be honest to Charles, Legion is an extremely complicated particular person himself, and has acted as a significant enemy of the X-Men on many events, usually as a result of unstable psychological well being he experiences as a result of his Omega-level actuality warping skills. However, Legion has been on a path to redemption since his arc in 2017’s X-Men Legacy: Legion, and within the Krakoan Age the younger, highly effective mutant has stepped up even farther, creating an amazing astral space called the Altar for mutants to heal and discover neighborhood.
Recently the anti-mutant group Orchis has orchestrated a multi-pronged assault in opposition to Krakoa, utilizing Nightcrawler’s sorceress mom Margali Szardos and an assault by the Technarchy to distract the Legionaires whereas Nimrod secretly hacks into Krakoa and takes management of the island. When Charles visits Legion within the Altar he asks David why a father cannot go to his son with out an ulterior motive. At the identical time he instantly locations a psychic set off in David, betraying his son earlier than he even makes an attempt to have a peaceable dialog with him. As Legion brings Xavier around the Altar, exhibiting him all of the superb locations of therapeutic and development he has created for the mutants of Krakoa, Charles shortly realizes how unsuitable he’s, and that David actually has grown and healed. Xavier lastly tells his son, “I’m proud of you,” earlier than apologizing for what he has completed. Before Legion can reply his thoughts is attacked by Xavier’s psychic assault. Xavier admits that he assumed Ruth coming to him and alluring him to the Altar was a lure, and that Legion deliberate on attacking him, proving simply how little Xavier is aware of about his son, or the person he has develop into. As quickly as Xavier’s psychic assault on David – which seemingly drains him of energy and energy – takes impact, the astral Technarchy attacks Krakoa. It is Xavier’s incapacitation of his son that forestalls a key protection of Krakoa from preventing again in opposition to Nimrod and Orchis.
Charles Xavier‘s continued disrespect and denial of his son Legion’s humanity, development, and inherent goodness not solely proves that he stays Marvel’s worst father, however his preemptive and pointless psychic assault on his son additionally results in a severe assault on Krakoa and the X-Men that’s but to be resolved.
Legion of X #9 from Marvel Comics is obtainable now in shops.
