Quote Originally Posted by Paulbot View Post
Take your pick:

a) The brain-dead patient was Professor X's twin brother.
b) The brain-dead patient was a shapechanger
c) After awaking the Professor went and visited the Morlock known as Masque who made the new body look like his old one.
d) Professor X mentally projects an image of his old body so people recognise him
e) The film makers decided to not bother explaining it
I think the 'official' story is A, it is Xavier's brain dead twin who is brain-dead because Xavier was so powerful he stole all his brainwaves whilst sharing the womb. Though accepting why someone would bother to rear a brain dead child to adulthood and the fact that this twin body is also coincidentally wheelchair-bound requires a stretch of believeability.