Avengers vs. X-Men Death Revealed

The New York Daily News has the exclusive this morning, folks–and of course, everyone was right.We’ll give some room for spoilers here by explaining what we mean by that. Ever since Brian Michael Bendis told ComicBook.com in a June interview that Avengers vs. X-Men #11, out today, would feature a story that would force him off the Internet for a while to avoid the ire of fans, we wondered what it could be. As the issue neared, and solicitation text revealed a fatality, many fans and critics thought they had a pretty good idea of who it might be–a suspicion that’s been confirmed by one of Marvel’s favorite methods–taking it to the mainstream press the morning before fans get a chance to read the comic.Speaking about his then-upcoming issues of the massive crossover event, Bendis told us, “So eight and eleven are the next ones coming out and both are pretty gigantic chapters. Eleven in particular is one where I’m going to have to unplug the Internet for a while and not be part of the conversation…cause it’s gonna get loud! I don’t know if it’s going to be Hawkeye bad, but something happens where I would…yeah.”That’s probably enough spoiler space, right?And today it’s been revealed that it’s Charles Xavier who dies in Avengers vs. X-Men #11, at the hands of the Phoenix-possessed Cyclops. And Bendis has a take on that, too.”He was this thing that was just floating around the X-books, with not the same amount of gravitas that he once had,” Bendis told the Daily News. “I did point out that he would matter more in death.”