For the most part, the X-Men have always been faithful to Charles Xavier, and they've valiantly defended his dream for decades, even when he lost sight of it. However, Xavier hasn't really been acting like himself since he founded the mutant nation Krakoa. While the establishment of the nation in and of itself wasn't particularly out of character, Xavier's new hardline stance and his easy embrace of former mutant villains like Apocalypse raised some eyebrows.

While there are a few theories about how and why the X-Men are going along with Xavier's plans so easily, Xavier may have used his telepathic powers to make them more compliant one of Krakoa's foundational laws.

In Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz's House of X #6, Nightcrawler announces that one of the first laws of Krakoa is to "Make more mutants" to increase the world's mutant population as a response to the endless mutant massacres the Marvel Universe has endured.

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Make More Mutants

While the X-Men have never shied away from having relationships with one another, the majority of Marvel's mutants seem to be embracing each other and acting on their attractions more than they ever have before, which begs the question of whether Xavier has given them all a telepathic push to act on their mutual attractions and feelings.

The most prominent example of this concerns Cyclops, Jean Grey and Wolverine, whose love-standing love triangle has evolved into a polyamorous relationship. In Hickman, Leinil Yu and Gerry Alanguilan's X-Men #1, we see that the Summers family is living with Wolverine on a Krakoan habitat on the Moon. While it has enough room for all of the Summers family members in the X-Men, the most interesting inclusion in the base is a three-way set of connecting rooms the belong to Scott, Jean and Logan.  Although the X-Men titles have stopped just short of explicitly confirming their polyamorous status, the implication between this and their other interactions seems clear.

Although their current arrangement is a natural progression of their well-established feelings and desires, Xavier may have telepathically given these X-Men, and the rest of Krakoa's residents, the mental push to act on those feelings and evolve their relationship for the sake of potentially making more mutants.

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Wolverine, Jean Grey, and Cyclops standing together as Marvel's first throuple.

While Xavier has traditionally presented himself as a kind-hearted educator, he's manipulated the minds of some X-Men before, especially when the manipulation serves his larger goals.

The establishment of Krakoa is arguably the most ambitious project that Xavier has ever undertaken. It's not far fetched to assume the professor knew that for mutants to finally reach their potential as a nation they would need to start a birthing boom and feel more connected to each other than they ever have before. Since the X-Men's resurrection protocols were put in place, several major characters -- including Cyclops, Jean Grey and Wolverine -- have gone through them, and that could have provided Xavier with the perfect opportunity to tweak their minds to his liking.

Manipulation, meticulous planning, and ambitious goals are all key to the character of Charles Xavier. After spending years treating the X-Men as pawns and human shields in his goal of peace between mutants, the X-Men's Dawn of X era has seen the one-time professor outgrow his long standing goals, and it may have seen him evolve past any traditional sense of morality he may have had too. For all we know, Xavier may have very well implanted the idea to make "Make More Mutants" a Krakoan law in Nightcrawler's head to begin with.

Throughout the Krakoa era, Xavier has shown that he will stop at nothing to put mutants in their place at the top of the evolutionary chain. If he's working with genocidal maniacs and resurrecting the dead openly, there's no telling what he's been doing in secret. While it's still not clear if Xavier has crossed this particular moral event horizon, he may have already gone too far to build Krakoa.

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