Charles Xavier — X-Men: Days of Future Past Character Profile

About Charles Xavier

Powerful telepath and founder of the X-Men

Charles Xavier — Character Profile

Affiliations

• Earth-10005
• Earth-17315
• Revised X-Men film series timeline

Quick Facts about Charles Xavier

Full Name

Charles Francis Xavier

Education

University of Oxford

Occupation

scientist, professor, superhero

Nationality

[[British people

Charles Xavier's Known Relations

• Jean Grey — Student
• Ororo Munroe — Student
• Magneto — Enemy

Charles Xavier appears in 12 titles

• X-Men (2000) — character page
• X2 (2003) — character page
• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) — character page
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) — character page
• X-Men: First Class (2011) — character page
• The Wolverine (2013) — character page
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
• X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) — character page
• Logan (2017) — character page
• Deadpool 2 (2018) — character page
• Dark Phoenix (2019) — character page
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

James McAvoy

Appears in

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (6)

• Charles Xavier — Alliance Mission Partner — Logan / Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)

  Logan becomes Xavier's essential partner in preventing the Sentinel future.

  Charles Xavier explains the plan to change 1973, and Logan volunteers to travel through time because his healing ability can survive the process.

• Charles Xavier — Conflict Moral Opponent — Raven / Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence)

  Xavier opposes Raven's assassination plan while trying to save her from its consequences.

  Charles Xavier tries to stop Raven from assassinating Trask and later uses telepathy to convince her to spare him.

• Charles Xavier — Social Former Teammate — Magneto (Ian McKellen)

  Their cooperation is rooted in a damaged former alliance and conflicting methods.

  Charles Xavier helps Logan recruit Magneto from the Pentagon, but Magneto later acts independently and activates the Sentinel prototypes.

• Charles Xavier — Alliance Close Ally — Hank / Beast (Nicholas Hoult)

  Hank supports Xavier personally and joins the mission to prevent the assassination.

  Hank tells Logan about the closed school and Xavier's condition, then travels with Xavier and Logan to stop Raven in Washington.

• Charles Xavier — Professional Recruit — Peter / Quicksilver (Evan Peters)

  Peter temporarily joins Xavier's operation as a specialist ally.

  Charles Xavier and Logan recruit Peter because his superhuman speed can assist their mission.

• Charles Xavier — Alliance Teammate — Storm (Halle Berry)

  Storm is part of the future X-Men group resisting the Sentinels.

  Storm joins the survivors at the remote Chinese temple alongside Xavier, Logan, and Magneto.

Explore the full interactive character relationship map of X-Men: Days of Future Past

More characters from X-Men: Days of Future Past

• Logan / Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)
• Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender)
• Professor X (Patrick Stewart)
• Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage)
• Magneto (Ian McKellen)
• Raven / Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence)
• Hank / Beast (Nicholas Hoult)
• Storm (Halle Berry)
• Blink (Fan Bingbing)
• Peter / Quicksilver (Evan Peters)
• Bobby / Iceman (Shawn Ashmore)
• Jean Grey (Famke Janssen)