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Proteus is great. Chris Claremont at the height of his powers: We learn that Moira got pregnant and had a son and in main continuity it's ambiguous about whether Charles is the father and in Ultimate continuity it's clear that Charles is the father, but either way he stashes her on Muir Island off the coast of Scotland and tries to forget she ever existed, because Charles is a huge asshole like that. But her son is a psychotic, incredibly dangerous mutant (the reason why, even in main continuity where ostensibly Moira married someone else after Charles ditches her, one suspects Charles was the father) and eventually the X-Men get involved in trying to stop Proteus from killing people... and Charles still doesn't explain anything to them, and they're all like "Professor X, wtf is your ex-wife/ex-fiance doing trying to deal with her son on her own while you sit off in your own corner being an asshole?" And he's like "Waaaah Secret Mainpain!" And Wolverine's like "Damn, even I'm not as much of a dick as Professor X."

It's just like... all of the problems with Charles as a character that you can ignore most of the time come out really glaringly and the reader gets to see just how much of the pain people around Charles feel is directly attributable to Charles being an incredibly insensitive human being.

But it eventually leads to Moira not being isolated on Muir Island and being awesome and the X-Men realizing that she can do so many things to help them that Professor X can't.