WARNING: This contains SPOILERS forDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness sees the return of Patrick Stewart as Professor X, and it continues a long tradition of the character dying in one film and somehow returning in another.
With his brief Professor X cameo in Doctor Strange 2, Patrick Stewart regained his record as the longest-running actor to play a Marvel character on-screen, beating even Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe, who returned in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
In this journey that has spanned more than 20 years, Stewart's Professor X honored all of the character's defining traits, including his recurring deaths.
Characters dying and coming back is nothing new to comic books, but the X-Men have an even longer history with this trope. Along with Jean Grey, Charles Xavier is one of the mutants in the Marvel universe who has died the most, and yet both of them always find a way to come back.
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