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| love with Amelia Voght. The young nurse who renewed his will to live. Eventually, Professor X established his School for Gifted Youngsters to help a select class of troubled teenagers hone their strange abilities -- and protect society from those who would use such gifts to rule mankind. His first student was 11-year-old Jean Grey, traumatized when she telepathically experienced the emotions of a dying friend. Charles helped Jean recover and taught her to use her telekinetic powers. Following his success with Jean, he embarked on his long-held plan to locate young mutants and enroll them in his School for Gifted Youngsters. Professor X even converted his ancestral mansion into a base where he could train them to use their powers for humanity's benefit. Voght remained with Charles until the arrival of Scott Summers -- a modern-day Cyclops, cursed with uncontrollable optic blasts. Voght fled, fearing an escalating "genetic arms race" between Professor X and Magneto. During the months that followed, Charles assembled the balance of an unique team he dubbed the "X-Men," because each possessed an "extra" ability normal humans lacked. And thus began the active pursuit of his dream for peaceful coexistence between Homo sapiens and Homo superior. He has seen this dream nearly snuffed out on countless occasions, but his X-Men continue their fight to make his vision a reality -- raging against hate, prejudice and the oppression of mutantkind. |
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| Charles next traveled to Israel, where he fell in love with Gabrielle Haller, an Israeli diplomat. Also, he befriended fellow drifter Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, the mutant who would become his greatest enemy and rival: the genetic terrorist known as Magneto, the Master of Magnetism. Charles espoused his optimistic belief that homo sapiens and homo superior could coexist, but Magnus foresaw mutants as the new minority to be persecuted and hunted because of their differences. Charles was unaware when he left Israel that Haller was pregnant with his son. Only years later will he learn of his connection to the psionically powered mutant known as Legion. Arriving in London, Charles renewed his friendship with Moira (now Moira MacTaggert), who had married Joe MacTaggert and was now a renowned geneticist. The two began to discuss the idea of founding a school for mutants. En route to the United States, Charles encountered an alien calling himself Lucifer, the advance scout for an invasion by his race. Lucifer dropped a massive stone block on Charles, crippling his legs. During his convalescence at a hospital in India, Charles met and fell in |
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