3) Professor X’s Baldness Explained
Modern blockbuster cinema has a strange relationship with famously bald characters. Batman V Superman explained away Lex Luthor’s shiny pate by making him a shaven-headed convict, while Spectre gave Ernst Stavro Blofeld all his recognizable traits minus the chrome dome. And now, in X-Men: Apocalypse, Charles Xavier’s defining feature is put down to En Sabah Nur’s unsuccessful, hair-shedding attempt to transfer his mind into Charles’.
Broadly, it appears as though Hollywood has never heard of male pattern baldness, and what’s weird about this Apocalypse scene is the convoluted way in which Singer and his writing team try to explain Xavier’s hair loss, like it’s some crucial plot point. The side-effects of Apocalypse’s mind-transfer procedure are baffling: otherwise completely unaffected, the Professor’s only adverse reaction is that his head hair drops out (the eyebrows are fine, though).
