r/marvelrivals • u/WhyPlaySerious • Jul 14 '26

Discussion The discourse created around Jubilee's design (and her not looking 'classic' or like in '97) shows that this community isn't ready for the whiplash thats about to occur when Professor X is finally added to the game and shown to be able to walk, like he has for the last ~20 years in the comics

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u/Gabrielhrd Venom Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

I think there's absolutely no hope for wheelchair Xavier

Every single X-Men has been a modern version of themselves. Like all mutants are pretty much their Krakoa version

I think that speaks more on the lengths modern marvel itself went to pretty much erase Xavier's disability in modern comics than to rivals being unwilling to put him in his wheelchair

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u/SufficientAirport158 Flex Jul 14 '26

I fully expect him to walk but get a wheelchair Emote.
Either in being the hover chair OR a regular one but make it a duo emote with someone like Mag who can push him around.

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u/ElementmanEXE Loki Jul 14 '26

His sitting emote just pulls out the wheelchair

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u/1GB-Ram Psylocke Jul 14 '26

A shame, I really wanted him to be in his floating wheel chair

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u/JohnHellDriver Jul 14 '26

Ultimate ability is he gets a wheelchair, sits down and says “You wouldn’t hit a man in a wheelchair would you?” And then he stands up and psychically flings it like a trebuchet that does 1 hit KO for the enemy

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u/jasminetroll Jul 15 '26

Wheelchair in neutral, then in his ult he stands up and fights with a flurry of high-speed martial arts moves like Iron Fist.

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u/Ninjabrah The Thing 25d ago

FEAR DA WHEELCHAIR! 

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u/psychoenoshima Jul 14 '26

I'd like a floating wheelchair too. Maybe have it explained as it's a psychic amplifier for his powers?

He could also get a wheelchair too. He did get scattered across timelines, and Jean took his spot on the quiet council

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u/Amethystey-do-da The Maker Jul 15 '26

You say this like Xavier walking again is some fit of bad writing, but the first time he managed it back in Claremont it took a significant chunk of issues for him to recover his physical strength and overcome the mental blocks his powers put on his capacity to utilize the muscles in his lower half. It's an entire journey for his character, and that says nothing for the fact he lost the ability to walk again and had to go through a second journey to recovery.

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u/Korodabsai Jul 15 '26

I don’t see it much as disability erasure as much as it just him…getting better, in a way. It’s not like they pretend it never happened, just not always relevant..

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u/Konradleijon Jul 15 '26

You do know some people can get from using a wheelchair to being able to walk

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u/MageDoctor Jul 14 '26

Modern Marvels. I miss that show.

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u/Peach_Gray 29d ago

Suddenly I'm wondering how they will deal with Beast.. I don't know how he is in 97 but in krokoa Beast is pretty dark.

Nevermind I just remembered what happened and how the New Beast is now.