Warning! Spoilers ahead for X-Men #9!Charles Xavier is the X-Men franchise's strongest telepath, as not many heroes nor villains can escape his powerful mind, but Marvel just revealed a new powerful psychic with the capabilities to detain the illusive Professor X. As Rogue and Cyclops lead their teams on a rescue mission to Graymalkin prison, Phillip Scurvy unleashes his ultimate psychic power that takes down everyone, displaying a power that rivals even Charles Xavier.

X-Men #9 – written by Jed MacKay, with art by Federico Vincentini and Ryan Stegman – shows the Cyclops and Rogue’s X-Men teams turning on one another, but it’s revealed to be at the behest of Phillip Scurvy’s elite mutant powers. Scurvy claims to be a psychic who rivals Professor X, and he more than proves it when he uses a psychic blast called “white protocol,” subduing both X-Men teams.

On top of taking down the X-Men,...