# Did any marvel mutants have the ability to heal Professor Xavier's paralysis **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050 "2012-02-07T04:29:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/21 "2012-02-07T19:59:00Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I noticed this about Hercules. He was introduced as a comedic character and despite the several excellent mini-series starring him, writers seem to return to the comedic version for no reason. Due to the way comics are written, characters tend to ‘reset’ to their most popular version, no matter how much character or plot development this overrites. This is even true if the popular perception of that character isn’t very accurate. Henry Pym hit the Wasp ONCE during a mental breakdown, and was horrified once he realized he’d done so. Once fans who remembered that incident got old enough to be hired as avengers writers, he’s suddenly not just a habitual wife-beater, that’s become his only sigifigant trait. He might as well rename himself Beats-Up-My-Girlfriend Lad. No, that sounds too DC. The Batterer, maybe? Likewise, Cyclops was originally a dutiful team leader who was a bit distant and meloncholy due to chronic depression. That was too sublte for 12 year old fans to grasp, and now that those (no longer 12) fans are writing the series, he’s just an asshole. There’s no active Question, as the old one died and his replacement retired recently. I’d bet my Giant Sized Man-Thing against a buck that his next iteration is a wacky but cool conspiracy theorist, as he was in the JLA cartoon, despite the fact he’s never been one in the comic. – Not really. I don’t actually have a Giant Sized Man-Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/22 "2012-02-07T20:01:16Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > This is even true if the popular perception of that character isn’t very accurate. Henry Pym hit the Wasp ONCE during a mental breakdown, and was horrified once he realized he’d done so. Once fans who remembered that incident got old enough to be hired as avengers writers, he’s suddenly not just a habitual wife-beater, that’s become his only sigifigant trait. He might as well rename himself Beats-Up-My-Girlfriend Lad. > > No, that sounds too DC. The Batterer, maybe? Beware… The Bitchslapper! ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/23 "2012-02-07T20:17:24Z")
You would think someone could also cure his baldness. Of course male pattern baldness still can’t be cured in the 24th century Star Trek universe. What about Cyclops, can someone fix his eyes? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/24 "2012-02-07T20:32:30Z")
> [@Daddypants](#): > > You would think someone could also cure his baldness. Of course male pattern baldness still can’t be cured in the 24th century Star Trek universe. IIRC, when considering whether to take the role on TNG, even Patrick Stewart asked: _Wouldn’t people have cured baldness by then?_ The reply that won him over: _By then, people won’t care._ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/25 "2012-02-07T20:57:00Z")
> [@Daddypants](#): > > What about Cyclops, can someone fix his eyes? A character enchanted by Loki did, in the X-Men/Alpha flight crossover of 1985. Fixed Rogue, too. It didn’t last. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/26 "2012-02-07T21:05:50Z")
It was temporarily fixed during Joss Whedon’s run as the writer of Astonishing X-Men. It didn’t last either. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/27 "2012-02-07T21:07:36Z")
Maybe Professor X just uses a wheelchair for the respect. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/28 "2012-02-07T21:12:58Z")
Sometimes Jean grants Cyclops control over his powers for a short time. That never lasts either. As for Rogue, I always figured once someone like Leech showed up, she’d be all over him. “Leech, shugah, can you hang out in the next room for a while? Ah really need to get laid again.” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/29 "2012-02-07T21:16:10Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > Xavier’s lumbar vertebrae is the Optimus Prime of the series. They keep dying and coming back to life over and over again. I’d say they keep coming back to life and dying over and over again… ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/30 "2012-02-07T21:21:36Z")
Of course, the fact that Leech was six or seven years old presents a problem. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/31 "2012-02-07T21:23:08Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Sometimes Jean grants Cyclops control over his powers for a short time. That never lasts either. > > As for Rogue, I always figured once someone like Leech showed up, she’d be all over him. “Leech, shugah, can you hang out in the next room for a while? Ah really need to get laid again.” To which I always figured Leech — being a typically horny pubescent — would reply, “Me first!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/32 "2012-02-07T21:27:14Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > Of course, the fact that Leech was six or seven years old presents a problem. It’ll be like that Cialis ad where the mom gives the teenager an excellent set of noise-cancelling headphones. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/33 "2012-02-07T21:39:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It was temporarily fixed during Joss Whedon’s run as the writer of Astonishing X-Men. > It didn’t last either. In that case, though, it was explicitly labelled a temporary situation within that story arc, and the arc ended with Cyclops putting his visor back on. It wasn’t a case of one writer curing Cyclops, and another reverting him back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/34 "2012-02-07T21:43:53Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Maybe Professor X just uses a wheelchair for the respect. Plus he’d look stupid just holding pimped out wheel-spinners in his hands. ---
**Author:** ![drewcosten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@drewcosten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewcosten)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/35 "2012-02-07T22:51:57Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > It just wouldn’t do to have Professor X not in a wheelchair, though. Except that he hasn’t actually been in a wheelchair since M-Day, five and a half years ago. I do wonder how much longer that will last though. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/36 "2012-02-07T23:34:57Z")
Why would they want to? The X-Mansion already spent a fortune on wheelchair ramps and extra wide bathroom stalls. Not to mention all of the handicapped parking spaces they painted ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/37 "2012-02-07T23:45:40Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Maybe Professor X just uses a wheelchair for the respect. Guy Caballero likes this post. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/38 "2012-02-08T02:57:00Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > DC comics once lampshaded this point as to Oracle, with the Martian Manhunter suggesting to her that with all their science, there ought to be some way of healing her. She declined; something about having adjusted to the challenges of her life in the chair. That also brings up the uncomfortable question of why all the various supers don’t _make the cures possible by their super-science public_. Even just a few, watered-down applications—like a prosthetic arm you could control mentally and feel things with, but wasn’t strong enough to crush clams with; or a functioning artificial eye. Stuff like that’d fund a _lot_ of crimefighting, I’d think. (Of course, the reasons being that if comic characters behaved _reasonably_, either all the story conflict would be over, and/or their world would look [like this](http://quantumbranching.deviantart.com/art/A-DC-Verse-274162608) in about two years. 'Still a might irksome, though. :mad: ) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/39 "2012-02-08T18:02:30Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Maybe Professor X just uses a wheelchair for the respect. Plotwise, it forces him to remain in the position of being the team’s coach, rather than being one of the players. “It” being the idea of the wheelchair, rather than the wheelchair, itself. > [@drewcosten](#): > > Except that he hasn’t actually been in a wheelchair since M-Day, five and a half years ago. . . I don’t even pretend to keep up with it any more. It’s been way too long. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/40 "2012-02-09T01:03:10Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > DC comics once lampshaded this point as to Oracle, with the Martian Manhunter suggesting to her that with all their science, there ought to be some way of healing her. She declined; something about having adjusted to the challenges of her life in the chair. I think that was more of a lampshading of Batman having his back broken by Bane, then later healed by means I no longer recall, than a jab or reference to Prof. X, who I think had only been crippled twice by that point anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050.md?page=3)