Editing Professor X (section)

===Avengers vs. X-Men===
During the "[[Avengers vs. X-Men]]" storyline, the Phoenix Force is split into five pieces and bonded with Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik (who become known as the Phoenix Five).<ref>''Avengers vs. X-Men'' #5. Marvel Comics.</ref> Eventually, Cyclops and Frost come to possess the full Phoenix Force, and Professor X is instrumental in confronting them both, and dies in the ensuing battle with Cyclops.<ref>''Avengers vs. X-Men'' #11. Marvel Comics.</ref> The Phoenix Force is subsequently forced to abandon Cyclops as a host by the efforts of both Hope Summers and the Scarlet Witch.<ref>''Avengers vs. X-Men'' #12. Marvel Comics.</ref>

Xavier's body is later stolen by the [[Red Skull]]'s [[S-Men]] while the group also captures Rogue and Scarlet Witch.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref> Xavier's brain is removed and fused to the brain of the Red Skull. After Rogue and Scarlet Witch snapped out of the fight they were in, they find the lobotomized body of Professor X.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' #2</ref> Red Skull uses the new powers conferred upon him by Professor X's brain to provoke anti-mutant riots. His plans are foiled by the Avengers and the X-Men,<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' #3. Marvel Comics.</ref> and the Skull escapes.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' #4. Marvel Comics.</ref>

Professor X's spirit is later seen in the Heaven dimension along with Nightcrawler's spirit at the time when Azazel invades Heaven.<ref>''Amazing X-Men'' vol. 2 #5</ref>

During the ''[[AXIS (comics)|AXIS]]'' storyline, a fragment of Professor X's psyche (which had escaped the scrubbing of his memories) still existed in Red Skull's mind preventing him from unleashing the full potential of Professor X's powers.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' #24</ref> During a fight with the Stark Sentinels, Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch attempt to cast a spell to invert the axis of Red Skull's brain and bring out the fragment of Professor X to defeat Onslaught. Doctor Strange was targeted and captured by the Sentinels before they could cast the spell.<ref name="Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #2">''Avengers & X-Men: AXIS'' #2</ref> When Magneto arrived with his supervillain allies, Doctor Doom and Scarlet Witch attempted to cast the inversion spell again and Red Onslaught was knocked unconscious and reverted to his Red Skull form. Although they did not know whether Professor X was now in control, the Avengers decided to be cautious and take Red Skull to Stark Tower.<ref name="Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #2"/> It was later revealed that the spell had actually caused all the heroes and villains present to undergo a "moral inversion" rather than simply bringing out Professor X in the Skull, with the result that the Skull and other villains became heroic while the Avengers and X-Men present became villainous.<ref>''Avengers & X-Men: AXIS'' #3</ref> Eventually, the inversion was undone.<ref>''Avengers & X-Men: AXIS'' #9</ref>

After the Skull mounts a telepathic assault that nearly allows him to take control of the Avengers, he is defeated when Deadpool places Magneto's old helmet on Rogue, allowing her to knock out the Skull and take him to Beast.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' vol.2 #21</ref> Beast is subsequently able to perform brain surgery on the Skull, extracting the part of Xavier's brain that was grafted onto the villain's own brain without causing any apparent damage to the Skull. Rogers attempts to claim the fragment for himself, but Rogue flies up and incinerates the fragment with the aid of the [[Human Torch]], the two expressing hope that Xavier will rest in peace.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' vol. 2 #22</ref>