Mutant of the Week: Professor X

Name: Charles Frances Xavier
Powers and Abilities: Telepathy.  He is quite possibly the worlds strongest telepath.  He can read minds and project thoughts into other peoples minds.
First Appearance: X-Men #1 (1963)

Most everyone who has seen the X-Men films or even seen even a page of the comics knows who Professor X is.  Therefore, I do not feel the need to explain his whole story.  Instead, this week I am just giving quick bullet points and important notes.  As always, you can read his full story at the Marvel page here.

-Born to a nuclear physicist Brian Xavier and his wife Sharon.  His father passed away and Sharon remarried his partner Kurt Marko.  Charles was then bullied by his step-brother Cain.   Kurt knew and beat Cain as punishment.  Charles could feel this pain due to his emerging abilities.
-His mother and stepfather died in a house fire.
-Went to Oxford University
-Fell in love with Moira Kinross.  Entered the army to win her affection.  He was put into the same unit as his stepbrother and witnessed what he thought was his death.
-Spine shattered during battle with his old enemy Farouk.

Professor X is portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart.

 

Mutant of the Week: Onyxx

This week I have a much lesser known mutant again.  Actually, I had never heard of him until I hit random page on the X-Men info page.  I wasn't sure who to feature this week and decided to let destiny decide.  Hence; Onyxx.

Name: Sidney Green
First Appearance: X-Men Vol. 2 #171
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman strength and resistance to physical energy due to his craggy granite body.
Other Attributes: his granite body.  He also has a second set of eyes.

Onyxx was born Sidney Green and was orphaned at a young age and grew up in an orphanage and foster homes.  He was often bullied as a child.  When his mutation manifested he went to Xaviers school and was put on Gambits team.
He was critically injured by William Stryker.  Sadly there is not much more info on Onyxx since he was killed by Wither during an attack.

To find out all of the information you can check out the full page on Onyxx here. 

Mutant of the Week: Destiny

Last week I featured Rogue whom was taken in by Irene Adler (Destiny).  Personally, I had not heard of this character and was intrigued.  Especially, since she shares the name of Sherlock Holmes love interest.  Therefore this week I am featuring Destiny.

Name: Irene Adler

            Destiny

First Appearance: X-men #141 (1981)

Powers and Abilities: Can see into the future.  Can mentally scan alternate futures and perceive probable events.  

Quick Bio:  Irene was born into a wealthy family in Austria in the 19th century.  She was originally overwhelmed with her ability and spent nearly a year writing her visions into books.  Destiny met Mystique when trying to understand her powers more.  The two became lifetime companions and eventually lovers.  They took in Rogue.  Destiny helped Mystique create the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.   Later she was killed by Legion-an event which she had foreseen (1989 issue)

Looking at it now, I realize why I had never heard of Destiny.  She didn't seem to last in the Marvel Universe to long.  First appearance was in 81 and she died in 89.  Check out the full story of Destiny here. 

Mutant of the Week: Rogue

Name: Anne Marie
            Rogue
First Appeearance: Avengers Annual #10 (1981)
Powers and Abilities: Can absorb the powers, memories, personality of others through skin to skin contact.  This can be dangerous in the fact that too much contact can kill the other human/mutant

Quick Bio: Rogue was born Anne Marie (last name unknown) and was raised by her Aunt Carrie after tragedy struck her parents.  Young Rogue ran away from home at a young age and was taken in by Mystique and Irene Adler (Destiny).  She discovered her powers while kissing her then boyfriend and she gained his memories. This made her realize she could not be around "normal" people and she joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.  During her first mission with the Brotherhood she permanantly absorbed the powers of Ms. Marvel.  This upset Rogue because she couldn't control her abilities and she turned to the X-Men and Charles Xavier for help.

Other Interesting Note: Fell in love with Gambit even though they could not touch.  They later sought telepathic therapy with Emma Frost to help with this.

Rogue was portrayed by Anna Paquin in the first three X-Men films as well as Days of Future Past