
Originally Posted by
zinderel
He’s taken it off a few times. Most notably early in the DoX era, in X-Men 3, I believe. The Davos issue. Charles, Erik and En Sabah Nur attend a lovely dinner at the G8, meeting with ambassadors and dignitaries. At that dinner, America - at the very least, though likely not alone - attempts to assassinate them under the guise of peace (and succeeds in planting tracking bugs in them, despite the failed assassination). They fail, handily, and Magneto and Apocalypse go on at length about mankind and how mutantkind will be acting going forward.
And Xavier calmly removes his helmet (this was quite early in the run, so it felt deliberately placed to head off and crush theories that he was actually the Maker or whatever) and addresses the gathered humans. He tells them that even though they tried to kill him once already -less than a month prior to this meeting, in fact. And the attempt succeeded, though humanity doesn’t know about the resurrection protocols), and again at this meeting, he still loves them. But he won’t let that love blind him anymore.
Whatever else may be going on, Xavier is still Xavier. He still dreams...but he also ACTS, now. When the dream doesn’t match reality, he acts within the context of what reality demands. Even if that appears to run counter to his dream.