Every Time Professor X Died In The Movies (And How He Returned)
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. Between reboots, time travel, and alternate universes, options were never lacking as to how to retcon a major X-Men death.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' Illuminati lineup brought together alternate versions of characters the MCU already knew and heroes still unseen in the franchise, including Professor Xavier. This marked the third time Patrick Stewart's Xavier returned after dying in his previous appearance, and it ended with Professor X's list of deaths getting even longer after his battle against Scarlet Witch. Here is a breakdown of every time has Professor X died in the movies and how Patrick Stewart was able to return.
Sixteen years before Doctor Strange 2, Charles Xavier already
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