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Zeus posted...

because when he loses his powers, he's somehow able to walk again

That's mostly in the movies, and is mostly stupid.

In the comics, he's only paralyzed because he tried to fight an alien back in the 50s and it crippled his legs. Then he got the ability to walk back when his body was cloned (for reasons) in the early 1980s. Until the writers broke his back in the early 1990s and put him back in the chair. Then he got better. And then they killed him. And then he came back again.

If anything, the thing that keeps paralyzing Professor X isn't his powers, it's status quo. People remember him as "bald wheelchair guy", so he will ALWAYS be "bald wheelchair guy". Even when one writer has him cured somehow, it's only a matter of time before a future writer comes along and just cripples him again. It's like the reverse of Batgirl.

It's the same reason why no major character will ever really die. No matter how ridiculous a death one writer gives a character, someone else will eventually be along who has nostalgia for that character who will either bring them back to live or reveal that they were never actually dead in the first place. Most comic writers now grew up as comic fans, and they're mostly just writing fanfiction about the characters they liked as kids (which is why most mainstream comics basically suck now).
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