# Did any marvel mutants have the ability to heal Professor Xavier's paralysis

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/41 "2012-02-09T01:57:25Z")

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> [@TBG](#):
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> 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.

Oh, sure. I just meant more broadly the idea of a major character unhealed from a serious injury in a world where serious injuries are healed all the time.

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**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/42 "2012-02-09T02:29:44Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> IIRC, when considering whether to take the role on TNG, even Patrick Stewart asked: _Wouldn’t people have cured baldness by then?_
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> The reply that won him over: _By then, people won’t care._

I think its more likely it will be fashionable, in the same way glasses are still popular nowadays. Thats why the skirts on TOS never bothered me, skirts were in style for women at that moment duh.😉

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-marvel-mutants-have-the-ability-to-heal-professor-xaviers-paralysis/612050/43 "2012-02-10T01:26:38Z")

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> [@grude](#):
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> I think its more likely it will be fashionable, in the same way glasses are still popular nowadays. Thats why the skirts on TOS never bothered me, skirts were in style for women at that moment duh.😉

That doesn’t explain the MEN in skirts on the pilot of TNG 😃

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