Professor X’s powers unleashed

The disappearance of the X-Men was one of the central points in Old Man Logan, and it was the reason he refused to unsheathe his claws. The story line revealed that Wolverine took the blame. Tricked by Mysterio, Logan attacked his fellow mutants and killed all of them.

So James Mangold adapted this comic book core event, but with a twist. Naturally, Marvel and Disney own Mysterio, so he couldn’t touch it. Fortunately, someone other than Wolverine could have done the deed, someone with even more power than Mysterio.

In X2, a precedent was set when Stryker (this time portrayed by Bryan Cox) manipulated Professor X into killing all of the mutants, a plan that was ultimately brought to a halt. However, it demonstrated that Professor X could kill everybody on Earth with a simple thought.

The trick was there to be used. So Professor X’s seizures came to be. It isn’t explicitly revealed in Logan, but we know he caused the extinction of the X-Men. Later on, we know that he knows it, despite his mental illness. And this makes it even more heartbreaking. We can’t figure out  why some moviegoers hated Patrick Stewart’s Xavier arc from this movie.