How they Compare: Xavier (Xavier: Renegade Angel)

 

Xavier is the protagonist of the animated series "Xavier: Renegade Angel." Xavier was born to a surrealist world where strange and absurdist things happen as some kind of strange faun-like creature with a living snake for a hand and a beak for a nose. As a child, Xavier was outcasted for his differences and emotionally abused by his parents. Eventually the child Xavier burned down their home, killing his father and losing track of his mother, an event so traumatic to young Xavier he blocked it from his mind.

Without memory of what happened Xavier trained as a shaman with Chief Master Guru for 9 years so he could travel the world seeking to find his mother and avenge his father. As Xavier traveled the world he also sought to answer the great philisophical question "What doth life?". As he did so he caused death, madness, and chaos semi-inadvertely as he sought for the answerdue to his stupidity, philisophical detachment from reality, and mystical shaman powers.

Xavier's powers are somewhat physically inconsistent due to the nature of the absurdist world he lives in. Physically speaking even normal humans can survive inside the winds of a building sized tornado and Xavier himself was barely damaged by a lightning bolt hitting him. Both events's full energy would be building level, although surviving only a notable fraction of that would most likely be wall level. Xavier doesn't seem to be physically stronger than the norm for his verse. Normal humans in the series also have difficult to interpret cosmic level feats like creating a hot dog chain strong enough to link the Earth and Moon, keeping the Earth from orbiting the Sun, and potentially surviving the Earth turning inside out. The greatest potential strength/durability feat for Xavier's base state is that in one episode Xavier entered a door into a world with highly stylized animation where he fought the Sun God who controls the Sun, before being eaten by and fusing with the Sun. This might be star level, however the Sun in this world doesn't appear to be very big, though that may be due to the heavy stylization.

Speedwise, even in episode 1 Xavier was able to quickly run from a town to a specific US military base outside the town. This would likely be a supersonic, potentially hypersonic feat depending on assumptions. When driving a vehicle Xavier was able to outdrive a living explosion over a large amount of land. While this wasn't his own speed, it does suggest he has at least hypersonic reactions. In the prior mentioned ep Xavier also seems to move comparably to the Sun which travels around the center of the galaxy at about Mach 670. It also came to Earth seemingly quickly, requiring FTL speeds although again the Sun in this dimension may not be like the Sun in the main Earth. This may be consistent with Xavier seemingly moving at similar speeds to the sludge of the immortal hitman in episode 12 which was quickly transmuting the area, visually reaching the Sun in seconds which would also be FTL speeds. Regardless speed is somewhat irrelevant to Xavier.

Xavier's main power is his Subjective Reality, where how he feels, thinks, and subjectively "percieves" reality directly shapes reality. A clear example of this is when he found out he was actually the murderer of his father, the mental strain caused him to literally split into two, "the physical manifestion of some loser's inner demons" and "some total chode's inability to confront the reality of his past actions" respectively or when he time traveled by eating lots of bacon and smoking lots of cigarettes after hearing they take minutes off your life. Because of this Xavier manifests new abilities constantly and each one usually only comes up sporadically. Because of this power and Xavier's lack of awareness, Xavier is often completely unaffected by changes to the world around him. He is completely acausal and completely unaffected by changes to his past such as when he went back to speak to his child self and accidentally turned him into the insane thing he is today, was unaffected by the entire world being frozen around him, even freezing the tv screen watching him, and from the accelerated airquake which was destroying reality around him. He was also unaffected by the techno-virus digitizing the world around him condensing it into a little white orb as well as the spiritually transmitted disease that was plaguing a town. Even the cosmic reality-warping of the Shakashuri Blowdown was something which Xavier withstood though did at least allow him to change himself.

Xavier's subjective reality can alter his physical traits, or these are just weird physical abilities he has from his species or something. He was able to do acrobatic flips as a sports mascot that the other team just gave up, and claims to know how to track. He claims to have been trained for 22 years to fight with his feet. He has enough stamina to survive weeks without food or water and once wept for 9 months straight turning a desert into a sea. He at various times has shown levels of regeneration including having his skin burned to charcoal, being turned inside out, and once was chopped up into steaks but still had animate control of his body-steaks and poured a liquid on them which condensed back into his body. This would be equivalent to a High-Mid Regeneration. Seemingly related, Xavier can easily transform himself or other things. He turned himself into a buffalo, adjusted his own size and shape, and accidentally turned a rainbow into a fire trying to heal it. He accidentally turned people into grinder sandwichs by touching them and once seemingly turned a desert into a sea, unrelated to the other time. Xavier can use this power to heal if need be, as he healed a humble mosquito.  

Xavier can also physically interact with intangible things. His mentor was able to physically destroy a rainbow. Xavier himself ate the heart of an explosion, and destroyed a spiritually transmited disease with an improvised arrow. He was also able to tear off a piece of the fabric of reality, and scene transitioned by physically pulling at the background. 

Xavier's most commonly used power is mental powers. He described his only superpower as "the power to blow minds with weapons-grades philisophical insight." It is implied in the first episode even normal people in this verse can hear thoughts such as Xavier's internal monolauge. Xavier has a large amount of unclassified mental powers due to is training as a shaman. Xavier can see the future in flames. He can consume brain matter to absorb the memories within and can literally enter the emotions of people as he did to a cavewoman's anger. He has unnatural maddening effect able to unite even complete enemies together in hatred of him and was even able to drive a rorschach ink blot insane. He's described as an "8th level imaginanist" who can think up imaginary people that have real physical effects on the world and caused the ink blot to manifest physically. He was even able to tap into the consciousness of Mother Earth, the brain of the universe to gain information though poorly sorted through Xavier's insanity.His master also demonstrated the ability to create a mental plane fist to punch Xavier and it's likely Xavier could do the same.

His most used mental ability, and his most potent is his Flashback Manipulation, a form of metafictional memory manipulation. Xavier can see and talk to flashbacks and knows when flashbacks are talking to him. He's able to look into other peoples' flashbacks as well as see events he wasn't there for.  He can enter into meta-flashbacks, entering the flashbacks and memories of peoples he sees in his flashbacks. Much more potent is he can manipulate the flashbacks to retroactively change events, such as taking a spoiled rich kid and making him undergo the Shaman's training of Xavier as a boy for 6 months, taking things out of his flashbacks into reality even as tiny people, or retroactively choosing a different path by imagining if he taken it. He was even able to trap himself dozens of mental layers deep. Via his flashback's manipulation of the past and his acausality, he can hypothetically negate speed advantages.

Xavier also has more limited spiritual powers. He was able to speak to his father's spirit in the clouds, and can see and interact with auras.

Outside of Xavier himself, Xavier's arm is a living snake which is a seperate thinking entity. This snake can easily grow large enough to consume people. When it consumes something it seems to give Xavier some of the thing it ate, as when it ate babies Xavier claimed he had recieved youthful energy, though that may just be Xavier's delusions. When Snake Hand ate Xavier it created an entity called the "Everchild", symbol of eternal youth, which with its death became an egg from which Xavier hatched again. 

Xavier's strongest ability requires his Shakashuri, his ultimate weapon, a flute-like instrument. With it Xavier can use his magical song. Even an improvised quickly made Shakashuri was able to reverse the effects of the Digitization virus. When the two Xaviers split from Xavier's inner turmoil had the true Shakashuri they engaged in a Shakashuri Blowdown. The Blowdown was a mental-emotional battle between the two, warping all of reality into a series of bizarre esoteric imagery, colors, odd fracticals and more, including absorbing temporarily the whole of reality, recreating it through their battle. 

In terms of weaknesses, Xavier has three. By far the biggest and most obvious is Xavier's mental degradation. Xavier is massively stupid, delusional and insane. The plots of most episodes involve Xavier seeing a minor issue or a non-problem he interprets as one and pretentiously trying to fix it, creating far bigger problems as he does so, never even noticing. He regularly has absolutely massive lapses in common logic. He's a gullible pretentious sociopath and going on philisophical rants. On occasion this actually comes in handy for Xavier as while he can be relatively easy to manipulate, he sometimes is too deluded and lost in his thoughts to listen to others trying to manipulate him. 

Second is that Xavier has taken a vow of Pacifism. This vow is inconsistently enforced, but when Xavier is acting on it, he has been beaten numerous times by completely normal people without resisting even marginally. Finally to use his strongest power he needs his Shakashuri. He can improvise one from normal objects, but the effect seems to be lessened.

Name: Xavier, Freak, Chomsky Honk

Origin: Xavier: Renegade Angel

Powers and Abilities: Subjective Reality, Superhuman Physical Stats, Transformation, Regen (High-Mid), Healing, Acausality, Anti-Intangibility, Precognition and likely Mind-Reading, Can manifest mental plane people that can interact with the physical world, emotional manipulation, madness inducing, can tap into the brain of the universe, Flashback Manipulation, Mental Layers Creation/Sealing, Spiritual Interaction, Can resurrect himself by having his snake hand eat his body, Reality-Warping (with Shakashuri), Resistance to various forms of reality-warping

Weaknesses: Mentally deranged and stupid, inconsistent vow of pacifism, needs his Shakashuri to reality-warp

Destructive Capacity: At least wall level normally, possibly star level. Universal+ with Reality-Warping

Range: Potentially planetary (Flashback Manipulation can bring himself to anywhere in the world he wishes, can tap into the counciousness of the Earth), Universal with Reality-Warping

Speed: Likely Supersonic to Hypersonic, Possibly FTL

Durability: At least wall level normally, possibly star level. Universal+ during the Shakashuri Blowdown

Stamina: Superhuman (Can go weeks without drinking, cried for 9 months)

Standard Equipment: Shakashuri

Intelligence: Hypothetically has access to access to the knowledge of the brain of the universe. Functionally is insane, stupid, and gullible.

If Xavier's philosophical journey brought him to the realms of other universes, how would he do?

If Xavier was in the DC universe, his usual stats wouldn't be particullarly impressive only really being comparable to particularly strong normal humans in the DC Universe, which actually fits pretty well. Xavier's casual sociopathy means he would be quickly targeted as a villain especially given his mystical power source of potency strong enough to threaten the universe.

Despite this, a lot of character would severely struggle against to battle Xavier due to his broken Flashback Manipulation. Metafictional time and memory manipulation are pretty broken ability especially if his meta powerset means he'd be effecting hypertime. Against one of the usual magic heroes or villains, I could imagine a big universal-scale mystical battle similar to the Shakashuri Blowdown or the battle between Zatanna and Zor where most high tiers mage would win due to Xavier's own weaknesses. The Speedsters may be able to resist Xavier's time manipulation, or his memory manipulation might work regardless, and J'onn could potentially order Xavier's mind as he did to the Joker.

That said DC has one other character that would be the ideal character to stop Xavier: Superman. Superman has a resistance to reality-warping and having his history erased that is absolutely immense to the point that the DC metaverse formed around the story of Superman. Time Trapper, Mr. Mxyzptlk and Doctor Manhatten have all tried to change Superman's history and he simply resisted or adapted to it. Xavier's strongest forms of attacks are exactly the types of things Superman is best at withstanding.  Xavier can't enter Superman's rage because Superman is supernaturally calm and patient. Rebirth Superman is durable enough to withstand even attacks from Xavier absorbing the cosmos, and Superman is not only a massive supergenius that can manipulate Xavier but is also famously good at reforming the troubled. Superman would be able to quickly find out Xavier's tragic backstory, his status as an outcast freak and help reform him.

In the Marvel Universe, Xavier would be...far more bizarre than he would be in DC. Even the very low tiers would be signifigantly physically superior but Xavier's mystical powerset would be seen as signifigantly more bizarre, especially its more spiritual and metafictional components. This crossover kind of demands that Xavier come across Professor Xavier at some point and on some level I think Professor X is probably the more efficient counter for Xavier, who is himself kind of a mutant. Professor X should be able to mentally calm Xavier and keep him docile. Professor Xavier, similar to Superman above, is perhaps the best character in his universe at helping to reform the troubled and conflicted. 

Against most metahumans up to the skyfather level, Xavier would be a massive threat due to his powers brokenness, assuming his own weaknesses don't get in the way. While Xavier considers himself a heroic savior, the biggest threat that could come of Xavier being in Earth 616 is if one of the villainous schemers manipulates him as a pawn, or given his power level, more like a rook.

In the Charlie the Unicorn-verse, Xavier would be insanely broken. His usual stats make him fairly relative to the verse if much slower (maybe hypersonic wall level vs MHS wall level), but his hax are insane for the verse. 

The big threat of the Charlie the Unicorn-verse are the Chaos Spirits, but while comparably versatile to Xavier, Xavier's arsenal of abilities are far more broken and Xavier can easily interact with the chaos spirits as he was able to shoot the spiritually transmitted disease infecting a town. The one trick to this is the Chaos Spirits are far more cunning and could likely manipulate the gullible renegade angel if he allows them.

However the big problem comes from the fact that the Chaos Spirits don't have a trap with which they can permenantly kill Xavier given he has a comparable regen to them and can acausally protect himself. Their only real strategy would be to continually try and trick him and possess him which is unlikely to work as Xavier escaped dozens of mental layers inside his own mind. In a way this would be a suitable sense of karma, Xavier tormenting the Chaos Spirits as they have done to mortals.

If the main character of the absurdist adult cartoon entered the absurdist children's cartoon...Xavier would actually fit relatively well in FOP. The highballed estimate of his power fits well with the general tier of characters scaling from Dimmsdale citizens' surving the energy of the Earth being sent into the Sun with relativistic speed and he has similar skill/intelligence tiering to the civilians of the verse, if wildly more sociopathic. 

Xavier's Shakashuri would be essentially like his fairy wand giving him similar universal warping power. Xavier's metafictional abilities would be a bit of an outside problem for the verse, though they are far more versatile and higher tiered fairies like Jorgen are definitely smarter and more skilled than Xavier. 

A really interesting battle I think would be Xavier with his Shakashuri vs Timmy when he gave himself fairy magic using his wand. The two would both be acausal entities fighting across time, both being supernaturaly skilled. While Xavier would have the advantages in resistances to reality-warping by default and metafictional powers, Timmy would have far more versatility, and being generally smarter. Overall I think Xavier would make for a decent mid-tier for the verse, with his Shakashuri putting him on the level of a weaker fairy.

From what I understand Xavier: Renegade Angel and Rick and Morty have a mild fandom rivalry due to some similarities in themes, both being animated adult swim series and due to a total yin-yang dichotomy between their main characters. In the Rick and Morty-verse Xavier's physical strength and durability would be relatively normal as most humans and aliens scale off Rick himself, being thrown through several floors and fighting aliens that can tear through walls as teenagers. Xavier would be oddly fast for the verse. Rick and Morty speedwise mostly scale speedwise off Rick avoiding close range pistol shots from another Rick when reality was divided into two timelines. Xavier's unclear supersonic to hypersonic would thus be signifigantly faster but not to the point that they couldn't fight.

If Xavier's philisophical travels took him into the R&M-verse, he'd be a massive and overpowering threat to anyone there he decided to actually fight. Even without his Shakashuri Xavier's powers like on-touch transmutation, putting people into his flashbacks, and attacking with mental plane forces would be totally outside context problems. Even against relative strong characters like Mr. Needful or Scary Terry, Xavier is prone to doing very well through things like using stronger causality manipulation across time or trapping him in numerous mental layers of memories respectively. Most likely he would eventually be apprehended by the space-time police, though ironically Xavier may be able to win a similar way Rick did using metafictional background manipulation that the multidimensional beings would be forced to percieve at once.

This brings to the fight itself: Xavier vs Rick himself. The two would definitely dislike each other if they met representing opposite ends of the extremes of existentalism and nihilism, even if the two are ironically similar in some regards. Assuming Rick has prep he should be able to win pretty clearly but a no-prep fight really does seem like it could go either way depending on how well Rick is able to, or even tries to, manipulate Xavier's weaknesses. Both have powers the others really don't understand based on spiritiuality and science respectively. Both have universal warping abilities reliant on the objects they have on them. This would honestly be a pretty good fight.