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Yet More X-Men Meta: Why is Charles Good?
Jun. 20th, 2011 11:35 pmIn previous X-Men meta, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lyonesse, goodbyemyfancy, and I shared some confusion over Charles's backstory in X-Men: FC. This led me to ponderings...
Why is Charles not utterly screwed up?
There's a Twilight Zone episode in which a little boy has the power to make people disappear at will. Understandably, everyone who knows him is terrified of him and, thus, caters to his every whim, lest he get testy and zap them. As a result, the boy is a petulant brat with a sense of entitlement the size of Texas. Why was Charles Xavier not this boy?
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lyonesse, goodbyemyfancy, and I shared some confusion over Charles's backstory in X-Men: FC. This led me to ponderings...Why is Charles not utterly screwed up?
There's a Twilight Zone episode in which a little boy has the power to make people disappear at will. Understandably, everyone who knows him is terrified of him and, thus, caters to his every whim, lest he get testy and zap them. As a result, the boy is a petulant brat with a sense of entitlement the size of Texas. Why was Charles Xavier not this boy?
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