MISTER SINISTER
Nathaniel Essex
Nathan Milbury,
Michael Milbury,
Lefty,
Robert Windsor,
Kate Kildare,
Pale Man,
Nosferatu,
White Devil
6’ 5”
285 lbs.
Red
Black
Uncanny X-Men
(1st series) #221
Rebecca (wife, deceased),
Adam Stanislaus Essex
(son, deceased),
unnamed child (deceased)
Geneticist, former scientist,
medical doctor,
orphanage proprietor
Quiet Council of Krakoa, New Intelligencia, Weapon X Program, Project: Black Womb, Ravencroft, founder of the Marauders, Nasty Boys, Monster Masters, Hellions VI, and Sinister's Six
• Chimera body possessing genetically-engineered traits from different sources, including superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, and resistance to physical injury, artificially-honed intelligence and predictive reasoning, concussive plasma bolts, telepathic and telekinetic abilities, and control of his body on a cellular level, providing him with healing properties, extended lifespan, polymorphic and metamorphic shape-changing abilities, and further overall adaptability for his genetic structure
Introduction
"Mr. Sinister's dealin' a game that don't allow for wild cards like the Morlocks... Or you X-Chumps either." These are the enigmatic words spoken by Sabretooth that gave the X-Men, and the reading public, their first glimpse at a master villain who would transform the X-Men's world. The setting of this revelation was in the Morlock Alley, an abandoned underground bomb shelter beneath Manhattan, where a colony of mutants, until recently, had lived. Wolverine and Sabretooth spoke among the hundreds of corpses that were the remains of the horrific Mutant Massacre. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #212]
While we learn from Sabretooth that this massacre was at the behest of someone named Mister Sinister and carried through by his minions, the Marauders, it would be months before we actually saw the villain and years before we would learn who he was, and even longer before we would learn why this massacre would have been ordered. Even though he came much later than the X-Men's most classic foes, Magneto, Juggernaut, the Sentinels, the Hellfire Club, Sinister quickly rose in rank to be one of their most deadly. From very early on, Mister Sinister seemed interested not in any acquisition of power or in being an adversary to the X-Men, but in the lineage of a specific family, that of the Summers line. To understand the motives of Sinister, or to fathom the interest he has over the Summers family, we must first know how such a being came to be.