Wolverine's fierce resistance to working alongside a former enemy seemingly disproves a popular fan theory that X-Men founder Professor Charles Xavier has brainwashed the world's mutant population into getting along. As a vital founder of Krakoa's society, Xavier remains one of the most important and powerful mutants existing within the Marvel Universe. Since leaving his duties as leader of the X-Men, Professor X has undergone significant developments to his character as well as a slight shift in ideology that has proved jarring for some longtime fans. However, what has not seemed to change is Xavier's willingness to use his mental abilities in order to appease his own personal ego or needs.
Since writer Jonathan Hickman's era of the X-Men began in the summer of 2019, there have been rampant discussions within fan circles that the one responsible for keeping all of Krakoa's citizens unified is Professor X himself, who has developed more of an ominous nature. An underlying theory is that Professor X has been using his telepathic abilities to keep the other mutant citizens of Krakoa in a state of agreement. After all, it's a large jump to go from having to run a school of mutant adolescents to aiding in the oversight of a nation composed of thousands of mutants from around the world. While his own morals have not prevented Professor X from brainwashing a large assortment of people in the past, the X-Men founder seems to have turned over a new leaf.
The mutant nation of Krakoa has not only provided a home to past and present X-Men team members, but to former villains introduced throughout the history of Uncanny X-Men comic books. These villains include the titular team's own nemesis Magneto, leader of the Hellfire Club Sebastian Shaw, and the first mutant himself Apocalypse. Another villainous newcomer to Krakoa who is not quite on the level of Magneto or Apocalypse but has formerly tangled with the X-Men in the past is Arkady Rossovich aka Omega Red. A former super soldier of Soviet Russia, Omega Red is a bloodthirsty mutant with personal ties to the X-Men's Wolverine and his tenure as a soldier for the covert ops mutant squad known as Team X.
Wolverine Will Never Trust Omega Red
X-Force #15 by writer Benjamin Percy and artist Joshua Cassara finds Omega Red coming into conflict with the island nation of Krakoa and X-Force's lead mutant Beast. In order to prolong his lifespan for a duration, Omega Red allies himself with the vampire leader Dracula and his expansive Vampire Nation. What indebts Omega Red to Dracula is a carbonadium synthesizer, which the mutant needs to survive. Due to Wolverines' past history with Omega Red, Logan instantly objects to Beast's attempt to recruit the villain. Rather than leave Omega Red dead, Beast plans to have the villainous mutant function as a double agent for their retribution against Dracula. In a comprehensive mission report, the full details are revealed as Beast receives blow back from Krakoa's agents of resurrection, the Five, who initially object to Beast's ambition to resurrect Omega Red once again. It's Xavier who manages to soften things with the Five and allow clearance to recruit Omega Red as an agent of Krakoa, much to the dismay of Wolverine and other mutants.
If Professor X were truly keeping all of Krakoa on a mind trip, it's doubtful that Omega Red's recruitment would have received criticism from the Five of Krakoa or from Wolverine. Bringing both heroic and villainous mutants together on the same island is an inspired decision, but one that is difficult to pull off. It makes sense that fans would think Xavier is hypnotizing the nation's residents into cohabitating peacefully. Psychically forcing Wolverine and the rest of the X-Men to accept villains like Omega Red would be the simplest solution, but the fact that Professor Xavier uses his political power rather than his mutant power to influence the Five seemingly debunks the idea that he has the world's mutants under his thrall.