X-Men Film Series
Films
- In The Internship, the interns try to sidetrack Billy and Nick by having them look for Professor Charles Xavier.
- In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Sonic's slow-motion sequence in the bar is accompanied by pop music, homaging Peter Maximoff.
- Hugh Jackman appears in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and attempts to threaten the film's antagonist by striking a Wolverine pose and snarling, complete with the X-Men leitmotif briefly blaring in the background.
- There are a lot of similarities between Will Graham from Hannibal and the younger Professor X in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Will's "pure empathy" is not unlike Charles' mind-reading power (and since Will's brain contains an abnormally high number of mirror neurons, this would make him a genetic mutant), their Blessed with Suck "gift" can cause them a tremendous amount of agony, and they're both tormented by a love-hate, emotionally intimate, homoerotic friendship with a violent man of equal intelligence who has physically harmed them (Lecter for Graham, Magneto for Xavier). Both characters are dedicated to saving the lives of others, but occasionally their actions are morally questionable. In terms of their altruism, Will takes care of numerous stray dogs, while Professor X provides shelter and education to runaway mutants. As a bonus, Hugh Dancy looks somewhat like James McAvoy (both actors are brown-and-wavy-haired, blue-eyed and possess Pretty Boy-like features), so after Hannibal's debut, Dancy became a very popular fan casting choice for Brian Xavier should the film series ever decide to show Charles' father in a flashback.
- MacGyver (2016): In the episode "Bear Trap + Mob Boss", Jack Dalton tells MacGyver, "You're practically Professor X as it is." Lucas Till, who stars as the titular character, had portrayed Havok in the X-Men films; like MacGyver, Xavier uses his smarts to solve problems, plus he was a Pretty Boy when he was younger.
- Visually, Supergirl (2015)'s incarnation of Indigo takes inspiration from Mystique's appearance in the movie franchise.
- The film versions of Professor X, Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Nightcrawler and Iceman appear in the second-half of this HISHE parody
for Frozen (2013).
- The Simpsons:
- The episode "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again," two kids stage a play, with one portraying Professor X (complete with bald cap, wheelchair and suit) and the other is dressed in a makeshift Magneto costume; they speak their lines with faux British accents.Kid playing Professor X: Erik, we must work with the humans!
Kid playing Magneto: You're so naïve, Charles! We must rule them as conquerors! - John Ottman's X-Men theme can be heard during the couch gag of the episode "Caper Chase." Although the other Simpsons members are wearing the comic book outfits, the nude and scaly Marge is based on Mystique from the X-Men movies.
- The episode "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again," two kids stage a play, with one portraying Professor X (complete with bald cap, wheelchair and suit) and the other is dressed in a makeshift Magneto costume; they speak their lines with faux British accents.
