True, but Hope was there for other reasons and was probably one of the very few most trained for combat. As for the Bendis era, I disagree. The only allies he had were Emma, Magneto, and Magik. That's not enough for a team. When situations got worse, he tended to leave them behind. My main point was that the teens were never replacements for the X-men. He avoided their use whenever possible.
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He's done it plenty of times before but didnt you just imply that this was OOC for him and cited Kitty's introduction to support that? And again the MCP story showed that Xavier did more than erase memories of Hank's power. He erased Hank from their memories
The story is about Hank trying to reconnect with someone from his past who was affected by Xavier's mindwipe in the 60s. She had no recollection of Hank because of it
Acting like Schism was because of the children is a really weird debate.
The whole point of Schism is on that page where Scott just straight up reads through Logan and basically says "you're still mad at me because of Jean". It isn't even a freudian slip or anything. It's just Aaron confessing, through the characters, that he couldn't get over the fact that, ultimately, Jean loved Scott more and the Wolverine, the biggest X-Man, was being led by the guy who robbed him of his ultimate prize. All other takes on this are absolutely nonsensical, because nothing that happened in the past years truly justifies the story.
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Honestly I don’t even know why Schism happened. Scott was gonna kill Xavier in a year anyway which is more than enough to break the team up.
I dont think that was in the cards then. The Fraction era had been around for a few years at this point and had gotten stale. The X-line needed something to shake it up and I dont think we could have waited a year and a half for that to happen. On a creative standpoint, it did help give it the jolt it needed,
Xavier's death was definitely a change that happened way later. So much so, that Emma replaced Xavier kinda in the last minute as the telepath in Age of Ultron. And Hickman planned to use Xavier in New Avengers, but had to settle for Beast.
He erases random people's memories to conceal the X-Men's identities. There's nothing wrong with that, especially considering the most famous example would be the Jedi mind trick in Star Wars. There's a difference between that and completely erasing someone's identity or mentally compelling them to stay with him in the X-Men. The only example I can think of the latter that occurred was in the 90s with Amelia Voght when she was retconned into his backstory and she left him and for a split second he reached out to her with his powers. When she realized it, that fully prompted her to leave and he was ashamed of himself.
The issue with Kitty's parents was that they were upset their daughter was in danger. It's one thing to erase their memories of the X-Men but another thing altogether to take away their objections to Kitty joining the school, a line Xavier wouldn't have crossed. Hence why when her parents move her to the Massachusetts Academy, Xavier didn't exactly go visit them and brainwash them into letting Kitty stay. Same as with Jean and Metro College. I don't know why you keep pretending that him using his telepathy to mask the X-Men's identities as at all similar, especially since every telepath (Jean, Betsy, Rachel) is guilty of doing that.
Like I said, I've never seen that MCP story ever referenced again by any other writer and for good reason.
Im just establishing that he has a history of mindwiping people bc you downplay the stories in which he has bc you didnt like it or hadnt read it. As recently as 2018, he used Warren as an assassin in AXM and erased the memories of the O4 when they objected to what he had done. He does this stuff to his own students and the precedence has been there throughout his history which is why I dont find it OOC when he does end up doing it
Most of that history didn't materialize until the 2000s which is what established that he goes around casually brainwashing his students and erasing events out of existence. There wasn't really any precedent for that besides the Dark Xavier we briefly saw in Claremont's run, Fatal Attraction, and Onslaught, and most of those events dealt primarily with Magneto and Xavier's psychic breakdowns. The MCP story seems pretty irrelevant considering it seems completely forgotten and for good reason, it's a terrible retcon and one I would have expected to see in the likes of Deadly Genesis.
Keep in mind that Magneto also committed mass murders in Morrison's Run until editorial decided that it was way too extreme and OOC so they retconned that completely. Strange how this happened around the same time they were retconning Xavier's past with Danger and Deadly Genesis but the 2000s were all about seeming "dark."
I think that ended up being better since Beast was already an Avenger anyway.
And it makes Beast kind of hypocrite but get his karma, because he gave Scott so much shit in that era, and then played nice with Logan when he revealed he had his own X-Force.
Now it was Beast turn (as Illuminati) to realize when your at the top, you have to manipulate and pull secrets for the safety of others and for the greater good sometimes.