Welcome back, nerd squad.
Today we'll be looking at one of the most sinister villains in Marvel history, Mister
Sinister.
Obviously as it is October, I thought it best to dress the part, like I did last year for
my alternate Cyclops video.
So I will be Amanda McKnight but as Cyclops today as we countdown the top 10 scary Mister
Sinister Facts You Need to Know.
If you are a huge X-Men fan like myself you might already be super familiar or obsessed
with Mister Sinister already.
And if you are or if you aren't, I want to know how many of these facts were new to you
today.
So be sure to share with us in the comments below which of these scary facts you found
the most terrifying and the most surprising.
Mister Sinister made his first appearance in the Uncanny X-Men series in 1987, hence
his very 80s look.
And the geneticist and powerful telepathic, shapeshifting villain has been testing on
any X-Men he can get his hands on since then.
Alright, let's take a closer look at some of the scariest things about this overall
terrifying villain as we get counting.
10 His Wife Died
It wasn't just the fact that she died, it was the way in which she died.
Mister Sinister was once Nathaniel Essex in the 1800s living as an academic, a doctor
and a student of Darwinism, obsessed with the next step in human evolution.
Rebecca found out about his experiments on humans in this regard and was shocked.
This caused her to go into early labour as she was pregnant.
As a result the baby was stillborn.
She managed to free Doctor Essex's experiments but unfortunately died as a result of the
stress of the whole situation.
With her last dying breath she gave Nathaniel the name he would later take up.
You see he had been about to ally himself with Apocalypse at the time but Jean Grey
warned him of the destruction that would befall the planet if he did and instead he decided
to return to his wife and dedicate himself to his family.
All too late unfortunately.
His wife swore she could not forgive him before passing away, calling him "utterly and contemptibly
Sinister."
As a result he would join up with Apocalypse and be transformed, claiming the new name,
Doctor Sinister.
9 Stole a Celestial's Powers
At one point, Mister Sinister ran into Tiamut who sleeping and managed to syphon off the
Celestial's powers.
He used the powers to create an entire city filled with Sinister clones inspired by Victorian
London in appearance.
As frightening as one Mister Sinister is, you can imagine how terrifying an entire city
comprised of his clones would be.
Fortunately the city was destroyed by the Phoenix Five.
8 Manipulated Cyclops
Most people are familiar with Mister Sinister's involvement in the creation of Cable.
But for those who aren't, allow me to explain.
Mister Sinister has an unhealthy obsession with Cyclops, believing him to be the perfect
specimen.
Of course, Sinister has an unhealthy obsession with a lot of things but his involvement with
Scott as a result of his obsession, and the Summers line, is on a whole other level.
Sinister cloned Jean Grey, creating Madelyn Pryor.
Knowing that Scott would end with Madelyne and that the two would have children.
And he was right and Madelyne gave birth to a baby named, Nathan.
Nathan then grew up and ended up becoming Cable.
Beyond even just the manipulation of who Cyclops would mate with though, it has also been revealed
that Mister Sinister has been messing with Cyclops life since he was child.
Sinister experimented on Cyclops when he as just a kid for an entire year.
He is also the man responsible for the separation of Alex and Scott when their parents died
in a plane accident.
7 Created the Marauders
Well really, even more shockingly, Gambit created the Marauders.
But he did it all for Mister Sinister.
Remember when it was revealed that Gambit had a dark secret and everyone thought it
was going to be that he was the Witness and the person who ended up betraying the X-Men?
Well, it wasn't that.
The secret was that he had worked for Mister Sinister as a retroactive favour after Mr
Sinister helped him to gain control over his powers by removing a part of his brain.
Ick.
Also now Mister Sinister has that.
Mister Sinister had Gambit assemble the Marauders and used them to attack the Morlocks who he
believed were abominations when it came to his pursuit of genetic advancement and had
them hunt down and steal baby Nathan from Madelyne Pryor.
6 Influenced the High Evolutionary
In the 1920s, Nathanial Essex's research would live on to inspire another villain in the
making, obsessed with genetics, Herbert Wyndham.
Wyndam fascinated by Essex's research was inspired to do his own testing, though fortunately
not on humans but rats.
Still his work would later be considered controversial enough to see him expelled from Oxford.
Wyndham would later go one to become the High Evolutionary.
The High Evolutionary played a role in the Maximoff's troubles past, helped to transform
Jessica Drew into Spider-Woman and would work alongside Mister Sinister later one, helping
him to depower all of mutantkind.
5 Released the Legacy Virus
Okay, so he didn't do it on purpose but still Mister Sinister was the one responsible for
releasing the Legacy Virus.
Stryfe had created the virus and passed on a canister containing it to Mister Sinister,
claiming that the canister actually contained thousands of years worth of genetic material
in regards to the Summers bloodline.
Foolishly Mister Sinister had the canister open only to find it was empty and accidentally
release the Legacy Virus into the world, so named because it was Stryfe's legacy gift
to the world after his death.
Mister Sinister then frantically worked to cure it, so it wouldn't kill all of mutant
kind.
However he was beaten to the discovery of a cure by Moira Mactaggert who actually was
dying as she figured it out, passing the information along to Professor X through his telepathy.
-accidentally
4 Miss Sinister
One of the creepiest things about Mr Sinister is he is nearly immortal due to his obsession
with genetics and cloning.
He even built a fail safe in regards to his preservation in the event of his demise.
He injected one of his test subjects, Claudine Renko with a virus that upon his death would
activate.
This ended up transforming her into the perfect female genetic clone of Mister Sinister.
As such she also became obsessed with manipulating the X-Men and causing harm to innocent life
through experimentation.
After being stabbed by Daken for messing with him, she seeks out and traps X-23 in an attempt
to transfer her consciousness into her body and escape the overwhelming consciousness
of Mister Sinister which plagued her mind.
Her plot ended up being foiled by Mister Sinister himself who invaded X-23's mind and forced
her to attack Miss Sinister.
X-23 escaped along with Gambit who was accompanying her and a girl named Alice, a clone who had
led them there.
However it was Miss Sinister managed to just barely survive this encounter and that Mister
Sinister had taken possession of the fifth clone of Alice.
So now we had a creepy young girl version of Mister Sinister.
3 Essex House
An interesting and disturbing easter egg can be found in Deadpool 2 that is a reference
to Mister Sinister.
Did you manage to spot it?
The orphanage that Russell and Domino were raised in was called the Essex House of Mutant
Rehabilitation.
While I don't think Nathaniel Essex would think of abusing mutants for religious reasons,
like the headmaster did, Mister Sinister would definitely have tortured the children there
in regards to experimentation and testing.
The orphanage is stated as being owned by the Essex Corporation, which has also been
referred to in other X-Men films.
A corporation that was obsessed with collecting genetic mutant material.
How interesting.
Mister Sinister was even rumoured to have been the big bad in the film Logan however
he never appeared there.
Guess we'll have to wait and see if he appears in the MCU's version of X-Men.
2 Experimented on His Son
Nathaniel's son died of a natural malady that he was born with.
He was malformed and apparently was too weak to live.
We later find out that after his son's death, he dug him back up and utilized his recently
deceased son's corpse in a series of experiments.
The goal of his work was noble to help prevent the condition his son died from in others,
but he still managed to shock his wife to death.
Beyond that it's implied that Nathaniel may have experimented on his son while he was
alive trying to cure or fix him of his natural ailment.
1 Worked as a Scientist at
Mister Sinister was actually allied with the during World War 2, unsurprisingly.
Shockingly he worked as a scientist at where he was given the right to take from the anyone
he so chose.
He could even save people who were just about to enter the . I use the term save, of course,
lightly.
What he was really doing was taking people to experiment on, in particular searching
for mutants among those trapped in the camp.
He was given the nickname Nosferatu and it was rumoured he would give you sweets in exchange
for a blood sample.
Even german soldiers were afraid of him.
Thank you so much for watching!
I hope you found this list somewhat spooky.
I personally think almost everything about Mister Sinister is scary.
Well except for the fact that the visual design of his character was inspired by the idea
of what a child would create if they thought of a villain.
And his over-the-top look definitely gives that feel.
But he was transformed by Apocalypse so you probably shouldn't laugh at his appearance,
lest Mister Sinister or En Sabah Nur pop up behind you.
Who are your favourite X-Men villains?
How do you feel about Mister Sinister possibly making an appearance in a future X-Men or
MCU film?
What are some of your favourite Mister Sinister moments or facts?
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