Where the X-Men hang out and doubles as a school for mutants in the X-Men Franchise.
Overview[]
Better known as Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, it is former personal home of the Xavier family and was inherited by Professor Charles Xavier.
He subsequently had it modified and adapted to serve as a training center and base of operations for the X-Men. Publicly it serves as an exclusive private school that is open solely to invitation only. What few realize is that its student body consist entirely of mutants and it is actually to give mutants a clandestine place to learn how to hone and master their gifts as well as live and educate themselves.
However beneath even this facade lies various advanced equipment and facilities that allow it to serve as the headquarters for the Uncanny X-Men; a team of mutants who fights for a world that hates and fears them against those anti-mutant organizations run by human racists and also against those mutants who would utilize their powers against innocent humans. In doing so, they hope to foster peace and tolerance between these two worlds; serving as a bridge between them.
Background[]
A pivotal fictional location in the Marvel-verse comic books; it was first introduced in X-Men #1, published in September of 1963 and was the creation of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The X-Mansion is the secret home and headquarters of the Uncanny X-Men and has served in this role for its various iterations and subteams such as the New Mutants, X-Force, and Generation X for extended interludes. Although the address is purely fictional, the X-Mansion is actually located in a real world locale of upstate New York in the United States, specifically Salem Center in Westchester County.
The X-Mansion in the X-Men Comics
The Xavier Mansion or the X-Mansion is a private boarding school located on the exclusive estate of the Xavier family. It was their family home for many generations until it was inherited by Charles Xavier, a powerful telepathic mutant who rebuilt it as the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. It was the primary setting for the young X-Men and the school has undergone various name changes over the decades including Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning, the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, X-Haven, and most recently; the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach. Not to mention the X-Mansion has been destroyed and rebuilt as well over the decades and while the X-Men have relocated their bases of operations to Australia and even San Francisco on occasion; they have frequently and usually returned to the estate.
Aside from having considerable living quarters and amenities such as dining rooms, kitchens, gymnasiums, a swimming pool, garden mazes, and garages; the X-Mansion has several classrooms for various subjects which is all the public and above ground facade.
Below the mansion itself are several secret subbasements which contain various infrastructure facilities for the X-Men such as briefing rooms; dedicated computers and laboratories; and a worldwide "War Room" that monitors and taps various military and television channels for potential crisis situations that may require their intervention. It also includes Cerebro and the Danger Room which are also fixtures of the X-Men; the former being a device that magnifies telepathic powers and allowed Xavier to locate emerging mutants as potential candidates for his school and the later being a sophisticated combat simulation room that uses holograms, robotics, and devices to create highly complex and realistic simulations for the X-Men to train against rampaging Sentinels to combating evil mutants.
The X-Mansion has been adapted on numerous occasions in various Marvel-based cartoons, animated films, and live-action movies usually centering on the X-Men Franchise although it has made cameo appearances in other series as well.
History[]
Appearances[]
Films[]
- Pryde of the X-Men
- Generation X
- X-Men
- X-Men 2
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- X-Men: First Class
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- Deadpool
- Deadpool 2
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix
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