As any X-Men fan knows, Prof. Xavier is a telekenetic and, in addition to his many other mental powers, can move objects with his mind. Therefore I ask: why the hell doesn’t he just use his mental powers to move his legs? I’ve seen him get out of his wheelchair a couple times (once when in the Shi’ar Empire I think, and another time when he and the team confronted Magneto during the “Fatal Attractions” storyline when he had some cybernetic suit that helped him walk) and he’s mentioned how good and invigorating it feels to be able to walk again. So, shit, why doesn’t he just use his powers to walk again? Is it because he’d spend so much time walking or standing and using his mind to control that that he’d get exhausted all the time? I can’t buy that. The guy is the most powerful telepath on the planet. He can shut people’s minds off (e.g Magneto in the aforementioned “Fatal Attractions” books) and make anyone do whatever the hell he wants, but it would be too straining to move his own legs?
Dopers please weigh in on this life-or-death topic.
*Telekinesis (Formely): Professor X also possesses low-level telekinetic abilities, though these seem to no longer exist. They seem to be part of his genes however, as Cassandra Nova has telekinetic abilities and is basically a clone of Xavier. *
If this is an epic fail on my part, feel free to use this thread to mock me.
I must say, it seems very odd that that is the one mental power he wouldn’t have. If we’d expect anybody to be able to move things with his mind, it would be the guy who has every other mental power in the world.
Its a biological feedback loop. And a bad one at that. Mitochlorians has an amplification factor greater than one. The energy leaves his brain, goes to his feet (that he is trying to move), gets amplified as it travels back up the body, even MORE energy leaves the brain, hits the feet, gets amplied even more…repeat loop one too many times and…
You know how when somebody has the microphone set a bit too sensitive, they start to talk, and you get that horrible screaching sound out of the speakers?
Same thing here, but you get a cool wompa wompa wompa sound for a few seconds instead.
Didnt you guys learn any real science in high school?
Clockwork is correct – Prof. X’s only power is telepathy.
In the Silver Age, they were rather less concerned with tightly controlling this stuff, and the Prof did show instances of using other powers, as did everybody else – in I think the first issue of X-Men, Magneto used his mastery of magnetism, for instance, to have his astral form leave his body. (Huh?) But once things settled down, and certainly through the bulk of the Claremont run which really established the characters and the franchise, Xavier was one of the world’s finest telepaths, which allowed him to sometimes enter others’ mindscapes. But he wasn’t, and isn’t, telekinetic, pyrokinetic, precognitive, or clairvoyant (although he can sometimes get information at a distance by reading someone’s mind who is far away).
Well, shit…I could have sworn I saw him moving things with his mind once, either in the comics or in the old cartoon. Guess I was wrong!
Alright, in that case, another question: is Professor X out of the closet as a mutant? Are any of the X-Men known to be mutants to the general public? I suppose most people would suspect that Beast is (even though his fur was not, IIRC, a result of his mutation but of some experiment he did once), but Jean Grey, Storm, any of the “normal” looking ones could easily pass.
Granted, I haven’t read comics in years (the X-Men plotlines got waaaaay too convoluted and I gave up on them), so these questions may have already been touched on.
If you close your eyes reeeeeeal tight, put your fingers on your temples and concentrate, I’m betting you can move letters around to fix typos in old posts.
DC had an obscure character named Joanne Russell (a short-lived supporting character to the Creeper, himself not exactly an A-lister) who used telekinesis to overcome her paralysis.
I only mention this obscure storyline from 1976 to show off my taste for comic book trivia of utterly no significance whatsoever.
He was out for years. And now everybody’s out basically. Since Decimation (the Scarlet Witch magicking away 90% of the mutant population’s powers) there’s roughly 200-300 mutants left in the world.
More like tele-pathetic /comicbookguy
And yes, most the mutants are “out” now, though they don’t go around always flashing this so obviously but yes, they’ve been “out” for a while now.