MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS costume designer on Professor X’s comic accurate look.

Josh Wilding over at ComicBookMovie.com recently had a chat with DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS costume designer Graham Churchyard about Patrick Stewart’s return as Professor Charles Xavier. Discussing the character’s iconic yellow/gold hover chair, Churchyard reveals where the visual idea came from.

“That was straight from Kevin [Feige],” he said. “In his youth, he watched the 90s animation and said, ‘We want to do, instead of the wheelchair, the yellow [one].’ That’s in the animation, as you know, and so is the green suit. I sent Kevin pictures of Sir Patrick’s fitting and he was just over the moon that we’d done the green suit and the striped tie exactly like the comic.”

Fans were delighted to see a callback to the Jim Lee inspired-look that also featured in the animated series. While the film gave a nice nod to the show, it’s unknown if 838 Xavier is literally connected to Marvel Studios’ upcoming X-MEN ’97 revival.