Guards and Staff
Listed here are only those employees that had very special functions or became prominent otherwise after leaving the Club.
Wade Cole
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #133
All Hellfire Club appearances: X-Men (1st series) #133, Uncanny X-Men #152, Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Powers: bionically augmented strength, speed, and reflexes, infrared scanners, machine guns, explosive shells, plasma cannons, electrified nets, rocket pack
Angelo Macon
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #133
All Hellfire Club appearances: X-Men (1st series) #133, Uncanny X-Men #152, Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Powers: bionically augmented strength, speed, and reflexes, infrared scanners, machine guns, explosive shells, plasma cannons, electrified nets, rocket pack
Murray Reese
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #133
All Hellfire Club appearances: X-Men (1st series) #133, Uncanny X-Men #152, Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Powers: bionically augmented strength, speed, and reflexes, infrared scanners, machine guns, explosive shells, plasma cannons, electrified nets, rocket pack
Reese, Cole and Macon were all badly wounded by Wolverine in Uncanny X-Men #133. They appeared again as cyborgs in Uncanny X-Men #152 and Marvel Graphic Novel #4, and later left the Club entirely to ally up with Lady Deathstrike against Wolverine. They all joined the Reavers.
Randall Chase
First appearance: Firestar #1
Last appearance: Firestar #4
All Hellfire Club appearances: Firestar #1-4
Powers: none, human
Randall Chase worked as a guard at the Massachusetts Academy. He was the personal bodyguard of Firestar while she received training from the White Queen. Once he discovered that Firestar was manipulated into becoming a killer, he opposed Emma’s plans and warned Firestar. Randall then was killed for disobeying direct orders.
Richard Salmons
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #210
Last appearance: Uncanny X-Men #210
All Hellfire Club appearances: Uncanny X-Men #210
Powers: none, human
Richard Salmons was a usual Hellfire Club guard who befriended a Morlock girl named Tommy. While they were in San Francisco, Tommy was hunted by the Marauders and Richard was killed trying to defend her.
Chet Andrews
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #33
Last appearance: X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #33
All Hellfire Club appearances: X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #33
Powers: none, human
Chet was another guard whose good looks caused him to get noticed by both Emma Frost and Selene. They made a bet to try and make him admit his love to one of them. As both used their powers of telepathy and sorcery to make Chet do their biddings, his head exploded when he was torn between the two women.
(The image is from a black-and-white story. Chet’s skin is not gray or metallic, but of usual color)
Sharon Kelly
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #246
Last appearance: Uncanny X-Men #247
All Hellfire Club appearances: Uncanny X-Men #246-247
Powers: none, human
Sharon was a waitress of the Hellfire Club in New York. Sebastian Shaw arranged that she and Senator Robert Kelly met and soon afterwards they fell in love and got married. Sharon got in the way when Rogue was attacked by Master Mold. Her death fueled her husband’s hatred for mutants even more.
Rutledge
First appearance: Excalibur (1st series) #97
All Hellfire Club appearances: Excalibur (1st series) #97
Powers: photographic memory
Rutledge is the manservant of the Hellfire Club in London. His family has a genetic disposition towards photographic memory and they have served the Club for generations.