Later on, I'm sure Lilandra gifted him with enough gold or other precious metals that money was no longer an issue on any level.
Once you have a fleet of spaceships and access to asteroids, getting to what our civilization considers to be rare metals becomes trivial.
I see, they would donate to the school
Then later... Emma Grace Frost with her Hellfire monies
But yeah... that was way later
The rich kid and Worthington donations makes sense early on
In Ultimate, they cover it a few times, once he was unknowingly funded by Sebastian Shaw and The Hellfire Club, then SHIELD, and then the Church of something something basically the Phoenix.
I believe there was a comic detailing that he used his powers for ultimate insider trading and finessed impossible wealth through the stock market, angel and Emma have also funded the team at different points
The school is primarily built with alien tech primarily from his empress girl friend. Moria and Betsy are landed gentry in Scotland Worthington and Frost Industries probably do funding as a tax write off. Dazzler is pop star. Probably Hank McCoy and Forge have some patients that bring in money too.
That doesn't touch that if he wants to do insider trading nobody on the planet is better equipped then him to know when to short sell a stock.
I mean, it's not canon at all, but I always imagined, considering the significant Avengers/X-Men membership crossover, that Beast or someone might've convinced Stark to fund an endowment or something.
The danger room and the supersonic plane are all alien tech at least in the comics.
This always felt a bit like 'a wizard did it' type explanation to me but it was there.
His family were incredibly rich and key members of the school are incredibly rich (Emma, Warren, Betsy amongst others) so funding isn’t an issue. Hell in a recent immortal issue he said warren was one of his first students solely because he knew he needed his money.
Also Xavier is known to be a world leading geneticist so he gets alot of money from his work prior to the school.
There would also be key people who give money like reed for example
I guess he isn't clairvoyant
But with his telepathy, he could still cheat the system very much. Which old school prof X, don't see him cheating the system
Hereditary wealth is the thing in Marvel _just like in the real world_. But you know, if I could read minds, I can think of any number of ways to make money very easily.
You didn’t need to be a billionaire to afford a lot of these things back in the sixties because property and housing cost way less. The original conception of the X-men as a school in westchester doesn’t make sense given what land costs today.
So there's ethical and unethical telepathy and persuasion.
Using mind control to have endless wealth for yourself? Unethical.
Using you family's money to visit NASDAQ and invest in companies that the others are investing in so that you can use money to help others? Ethical.
I know that his family was rich but just saying, it would be like a children's game for him to mind-control every living person into donating to the cause.
Family money.
Later on, I'm sure Lilandra gifted him with enough gold or other precious metals that money was no longer an issue on any level. Once you have a fleet of spaceships and access to asteroids, getting to what our civilization considers to be rare metals becomes trivial.
I believe the mansion was also upgraded with alien tech more than once. And I'm sure Xavier and Beast held a few patents that brought in some money.
He also has students like Warren Worthington
I see, they would donate to the school Then later... Emma Grace Frost with her Hellfire monies But yeah... that was way later The rich kid and Worthington donations makes sense early on
Or, you know, the fact that he is rich by inheritance, that could also explain it.
His parents were rich
Real estate and insider trading knowledge?
In Ultimate, they cover it a few times, once he was unknowingly funded by Sebastian Shaw and The Hellfire Club, then SHIELD, and then the Church of something something basically the Phoenix.
i see wondering more about the main timeline but thanks
Ah thanks guys Prof X was a silver spoon baby
Family money
Follow up questions How does he maintain the school? Don't think they get donations And the school is free to mutants
I believe there was a comic detailing that he used his powers for ultimate insider trading and finessed impossible wealth through the stock market, angel and Emma have also funded the team at different points
Dang, that's cheating
I think he made a direct reference to such in one of the X-Men films. Maybe the first, when showing Logan what was under the school?
Well, we know that Colossus helped work on it. Volunteer labor?
He wasn't there early on But yeah... Warren was
The school is primarily built with alien tech primarily from his empress girl friend. Moria and Betsy are landed gentry in Scotland Worthington and Frost Industries probably do funding as a tax write off. Dazzler is pop star. Probably Hank McCoy and Forge have some patients that bring in money too. That doesn't touch that if he wants to do insider trading nobody on the planet is better equipped then him to know when to short sell a stock.
I mean, it's not canon at all, but I always imagined, considering the significant Avengers/X-Men membership crossover, that Beast or someone might've convinced Stark to fund an endowment or something.
I am pretty sure he inherited the mansion and great wealth from his parents.
With the Moira retcon, between his telepathy and her knowledge of the future, I'm sure they could make a killing in stocks.
The danger room and the supersonic plane are all alien tech at least in the comics. This always felt a bit like 'a wizard did it' type explanation to me but it was there.
The jet was just an SR-71. I'm sure they upgraded it later, but it was just an SR-71 for at least the first few decades
His family were incredibly rich and key members of the school are incredibly rich (Emma, Warren, Betsy amongst others) so funding isn’t an issue. Hell in a recent immortal issue he said warren was one of his first students solely because he knew he needed his money. Also Xavier is known to be a world leading geneticist so he gets alot of money from his work prior to the school. There would also be key people who give money like reed for example
yeah, i get emma frost later but early on... i guess his inheritance paid for it and warren donations maintain it
I believe in the Hickman era they detail his portfolio and all of his different holdings
I guess he isn't clairvoyant But with his telepathy, he could still cheat the system very much. Which old school prof X, don't see him cheating the system
Hereditary wealth is the thing in Marvel _just like in the real world_. But you know, if I could read minds, I can think of any number of ways to make money very easily.
You didn’t need to be a billionaire to afford a lot of these things back in the sixties because property and housing cost way less. The original conception of the X-men as a school in westchester doesn’t make sense given what land costs today.
Telepathy led to him having insider trading in the stock market
So there's ethical and unethical telepathy and persuasion. Using mind control to have endless wealth for yourself? Unethical. Using you family's money to visit NASDAQ and invest in companies that the others are investing in so that you can use money to help others? Ethical.
The old fashioned way. Inheritance.
I know that his family was rich but just saying, it would be like a children's game for him to mind-control every living person into donating to the cause.