Originally Posted by
WallStreeter
Which is also why he never referred to himself as Professor Xavier or Charles. He was X. The X-Men KNEW this wasn't the Xavier they knew, whoever he was. Also it seems very unlike Xavier to trap a person in the astral plane to still their body, and this is the Shadow King's method of operation. Perhaps the Xavier we saw the Shadow King talking to, the one who battled him was merely a projection/aspect of the Shadow King. The Shadow King is a trickster, after all. He's calling himself the spider, and the spider is a great trickster in certain African cultures.