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Charles Xavier , simply known in Marvel ’s superhero world as ' Professor X ' , has to be one of the most darling comic book reference of all metre so it ’s good that he ’s had not just one but two great actors to portray him on the big screen .
Both Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy have impress fans and critic likewise with their performances as Professor Xbut that does n’t mean that every motion-picture show that they ’ve appeared in has been a hit . Here are all of the live - action movies that the character has appeared in , ranked by their lashings on follow-up aggregate site Metacritic .
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (40)
Professor X only appear very briefly at the end of the first solo Wolverine movie but , like many things fromX - Men Origins : Wolverine , it support out for all the wrong reason .
Patrick Stewart ’s Xavier take in a slightly less than convincing de - aged shape but the more often than not bad essence are part of what makes the movie somewhat of a so - bad - it’s - just favorite .
Dark Phoenix (43)
The most recentX - Menmovie brought a somewhat unceremonious close to the second youthful era of the superteam as the movie property was set to be remold by Marvel Studios .
McAvoy , like many of the resort cast , was at his weak in the movie as a faltering Professor X and its unsatisfying payoff was reflected inthe film ’s horrendous box government agency performance .
X-Men: Apocalypse (52)
The third movie of the younger 10 - Men timeline was n’t invite a whole lot better thanApocalypseand , while still not as resounding a flop at the box office asDark Phoenixwas , it was not a bighearted collision for the franchise .
McAvoy returned as Professor X and at last makes his transformation into the baldheaded look that we all know and love but it became light for many fans and critics that the mainlineX - Menmovies had little to no fresh tricks left .
X-Men: The Last Stand (58)
Though it do better with critic than a number of picture show that followed it , the thirdX - Menmovie is often touted by fan as being the most hated in the franchise by quite a broad perimeter .
Part of this is due to how it handles the principal characters and Professor X is just one of many who receives an abrupt cut off from the account , lead to an more and more cringe and overburdened cast of main characters who ca n’t quite deliver enough impact on their own .
The Wolverine (63)
The second solo outing of Hugh Jackman ’s titular hero , The Wolverinetook the action mechanism to Japan for a post - Last Standstory filled with noir and Western genre component that would be utilized to much greater upshot in directorJames Mangold ’s follow - up , Logan .
Stewart ’s Professor X only appear briefly in a surprise post - credits scene to go under up the nextX - Menmovie but it was a welcome regaining for buff after the fictitious character ’s disappointingly minor part inThe Last Stand .
X-Men (64)
The firstX - Menmovie , though rarely give the credit for it , actually began the New craze of superhero movies , withSam Raimi ’s firstSpider - Manmovie following promptly and the residuum , as they say , being story .
Patrick Stewart forthwith support out as one of the best casting choices of not only the movie but of the genre so far and his tête - à - têtes withIan McKellen ’s Magneto proved that the two were a equal made in picture show heaven .
X-Men: First Class (65)
Just over a decade after the cristal - Isle of Man debuted on the big filmdom , a new team of role player reinvigorate interest in the dealership with new version of some of the main characters from the original movies .
Their first adventure , set during the stature of the Cold War in the former sixties , sawJames McAvoy ’s take on Professor X create the foundations of his superteam and critics showed a like level of ebullience to what was show for the original movie .
Deadpool 2 (66)
The second solo movie of the popular Marvel jokester , Deadpool , was a similarly big winner compared to the first movie and fortify the character ’s adhesion to the ten - Men universe .
McAvoy ’s Professor X only appear very in brief for a jest cameo along with most of the new cast of X - Men actors and it mostly behave as a small vexer for the then - upcomingDark Phoenix .
X2: X-Men United (68)
Though not the gamy - ratedX - Menmovie among critic , X2 : X - Men Unitedis often touted as the best of the franchise by sports fan thanks to its pacy storytelling and type development .
Stewart ’s Professor X gets separated from his students this time around and it forces the titular superteam to team up up with old enemies for a high - stake rescue mission .
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (75)
A paying back to the crowd - pleasing form seen inX - Men United , Days of Future Pastwas the 2d film sport the new cast of 10 - Men actors and used a classic fourth dimension traveling tale to combine both halves of the timeline , allowing both McAvoy and Stewart to share the screen as Professor X.
Though the mainline 10 - Men movies would never reach its level of success again , it keep the franchise alive for many more long time and enable successful spin - offs to emerge later .
