The young Professor X Charlesand Magneto King Ericare a pair of good friendstheir ambitions. They discovered their superpowers first, and worked in the CIA with several other mutants. The Nazi warmonger Xiao, who triggered Eric's superpowershas been trying to provoke a nuclear war, but has tried every means to provoke the contradiction between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Eric and Charles have been fighting against Xiao's mutants, trying to stop Xiao's conspiracy. Xiao urged the Soviet Union to cause the Cuban Missile Crisis. After Charles and Eric learned the news, they fought against Xiao’s mutants in the Gulf. In the end, Xiao was wiped out by Charles and Eric. However, in the process, Eric was gradually influenced by Shaw's political views, creating a rift with Charles. Through this battle in the Gulf, Eric and Charles finally broke, one side became Professor X who supported the peaceful coexistence of humans and mutants; the other insisted on the idea that mutants would rise through the elimination of humans and claimed to be the Magneto King.
