Charles Xavier

Dr. Kurt Marko (step-father, deceased)

Cain Marko (Juggernaut) (step-brother)

David Haller (Legion) (son)

Raven Darkholme (Adoptive Sister)

Curt Wagner (Adoptive Nephew)

Rogue (Adoptive Niece)

### Affiliation

X-Men (leader), Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (Headmaster); Formerly Department X, C.I.A.

## Biographical Information

### Education

Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, Psychology, Anthropology and Psychiatry at Oxford University and Columbia University. Undergraduate studies were conducted at Harvard University, where he graduated with honors at the age of 16.

### Employer

Self-Employed at Xavier’s Institute For Gifted

### Residence

Salem Center, North Salem, Westchester County, New York

## History

### Early Life (1960-1969)

Charles Xavier was the british born son of Doctor Brian Xavier and his wife Sharon. Growing up Charles had an older brother from a previous relationship of his mother’s named Cain Marko. Cain and Xavier never got along because Cain felt he was unloved by his mother while “Charlie” got all the attention. At the age of 9 Brian Xavier would die of Leukemia leaving Sharon to raise the boys on her own. Fearing she wouldn’t be good enough for the boys she quickly remarried Cain’s father Kurt to help with them.

Being a new man in the boy’s life, Kurt focused more on Charles driving his own son Cain green with envy. This led to a rivalry between the boys and would only worsen when Charles developed his powers around his 13th birthday, needing special treatment by his parents.

### Serving His Country & Raven (1974-1975)

In 1973, Charles and Cain’s mother Sharon departed for a trip to Germany where she would adopt Raven Darkholme, left with the two boys at home, Kurt Marko would perish when part of the Greymaklyn Estate was set on fire by his son Cain. Feeling immense sorrow for his actions, Cain ran away and joined the military participating in the Vietnam War.

During Cain’s time away Charles grew close with his new sister Raven, even discovering her mutant ability of shape shifting and trying to hide it from their mother. About a year later Cain was reported as AWOL having been lost in Vietnam. This prompted Charles to join the army despite the fact he had a scholarship to ESU waiting for him he could have used to dodge it. While in Vietnam Charles saw the evil men could do and hated every moment of it. When the war ended months after he began serving, Charles returned to America to see his mother had passed and his sister Raven had run away.

### Division X (1976-1980)

Left by himself, Charles went off to Empire State University and began studying genetics with fellow students and mutants Erik Lehnsherr and Moira MacTaggert. Charles and Erik would become close friends bonding over a theorized X-gene that gave powers. After college, the CIA would be made aware of the two’s theories and they were recruited to a task force of “mutants” sent to recruit others for the CIA. Aside from Charles & Erik, they were joined on the team by Sebastian Shaw an energy absorbing mutant, Jason Wyngarde an illusion creating mutant, & Charles’ sister Raven who had returned to the US in secret.

While the team traveled around the world solving mutant problems, Charles would unknowingly sire a child but well save that for later. The team would go smoothly for about a year before Erik discovered that Shaw was not only the man who killed his grandparents in the holocaust but also planned to spark WW3 and have mutants kill off the human race by sending missiles on both american and soviet soil. Charles and the rest of the team stopped him but in the process Charles was crippled and Erik decided to leave the CIA agreeing with Shaw’s idea of mutant supremacy.