(OK SO FOREWARNING THIS IS FROM MY CHARACTER’S PERSPECTIVE NOT MINE SO IT MIGHT GET A LIL ABLEIST AT TIMES)
Wade hates Professor X. Hates him. Not only does he absolutely not trust any mutant with as much amplified (cerebro is the #1 thing that wade wishes he could absoluetly destroy), unfiltered powers as X, he also believes that X’s philosophy on how the fight for mutant rights should be handled as being not only toxic and ridiculous, but that it comes from a completely privileged standpoint.
X was never in risk of being murdered as a child for being a mutant. X came from a place of deep privilege as a child- he never starved, he rarely feared for his safety, he never had to wonder where his next meal would come from, never had to wonder if he would find an eviction notice on the door. His mutation wasn’t a visible mutation- he never had to fear being cornered and assaulted for looking different, never had to fear being murdered for having a visible mutation, never had to fear accidentally killing someone as his powers manifested. Yes, he experienced some trauma, experienced some tragedy; but compared to most mutants, he had an extremely good life.
As an adult, he’s so completely OP that there is very little he can’t fucking do (just look at the Movie verse- this is a man who with the help of a few other mutants completely changed the course of history and the future.) But what does Professor X do with his powers? He finds mutants. Spirits them away from their families. Indoctrinates them to his way of thinking, has them all under his thumb. He uses his power to do one thing- amass more power, like an investment banker on wall street. This mutant is not under my control? Sell, sell, sell. This mutant is powerful and malleable? Buy, buy, buy. (Examples: Raven and Jean.)
Wade will be the first to tell anyone that he believes that more than half the loyalty and favor that X has was curried by his power and his money, nothing else. Who else but a rich man who comes from privilege could afford to open a private tuition free school in a fucking mansion with about 30 floors of super secret lab/training/hero shit underneath it? Who else but a rich man could afford the levels of tech and quality residence? X is a man who has always had great degrees of privilege and freedom; even as a disabled mutant, he wields more power and freedom than most.
Wade finds it absolutely terrifying that X was willing, as a previously abled man, to give up his legs for power. In order to walk again, X had to take a medication that would let him walk, but take his powers. The whole plot of the 3rd movie was that mutants from all over wanted something, anything that would take their powers, not even with the benefit of having their bodies returned to an abled state- something that a man like X had access to in the fucking 70′s; 30-40 years earlier. (Mun wants to know just how exclusive this medication was because if it existed in that universe why wasn’t it being used by everyone? Because it was only for rich people maybe? Hmm, food for thought #morexmenfridgehorror) X clearly has access to technology and medical advancement that is far beyond the reach of the average mutant or average human; either due to his green or the use of his mutation to jedi mind trick his way into everything. Whichever you choose, it’s still so telling of what kind of person X is on the inside in Wade’s opinion. This is a man who has rarely had to genuinely fight any battle that he did not consciously choose to fight; and Wade believes that this is the very reason that X is so comfortable preaching peaceful protests as mutants are brutalized and murdered- because even as a mutant, he never had to deal with that. He is the white gay guy living in a politically progressive state, telling the poc trans woman living in the deep rural south how to fight for their rights, paying no heed to the fact that by just existing they are in danger of being murdered.
All ofthat is why if Wade were ever to pick a side to stand on, he would pick Erik’s side. Erik is a man who has suffered- he is a man who was forced to fight just to exist from the moment he was born. Erik is a man who was persecuted from the moment he was born into this world, a man who had all of the odds stacked against him. Erik is a man who has seen the very worst of humanity, and who has a belief that his people don’t just have a right to exist, they have the right to thrive- and they don’t just have the right, they have the responsibility to get that right from their oppressors. Wade can respect that, can stand behind that; even if he’s well aware that Erik would probably want about 0% to do with him.