Leader: Toad
Membership:
Toad, Blob, Sauron, Phantazia, Pyro
First appearance:
X-Factor Annual #6 [mentioned]
X-Force (1st series) #5 [recruiting final member]
Last appearance: X-Men Annual (2nd series) #2
Before
- The Toad was a member of the first Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I. After returning from Arkon’s planet in Avengers (1st series) #137-139, the Toad tried a few more times to gain the love of the Scarlet Witch. However, in their last meeting [Vision and the Scarlet Witch (2nd series) #6-7, 11] she was pregnant with twins. The Toad was disgusted by her big belly, which seems to have ended his fixation on her.
- Following their final mission as Freedom Force, Pyro and the Blob were stranded in a Middle East war zone. [The Killing Stroke storyline: New Mutants Annual #7, Uncanny X-Men Annual #15, X-Factor Annual #6] They were forced to become personal body guards to the enemy military in exchange for their lives. Toad would later barter for their freedom to get them to join his new Brotherhood. [revealed in X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2]
- Following the events of Marvel Fanfare (1st series) #1-4, Karl Lykos believed to be free of Sauron. He retired with his girlfriend Tanya Anderssen. [see Savage Land Mutates]
Chronology
| Kings of Pain New Mutants Annual #7, New Warriors Annual #1, Uncanny X-Men Annual #15, X-Factor Annual #6 |
Gideon and the Toad pooled their resources and matched wits in an effort to gain access to the mutant Proteus. Since he was killed years ago, they worked through their respective pawns AIM and Genetech to hire the Alliance of Evil, Harness and Piecemeal to soak up his residual energies across the globe, and reconstitute him in a humanoid energy matrix. Unfortunately for them, the New Warriors and various X-Teams intervened. Proteus was reborn, but ultimately decided to commit suicide and return to the nothingness after life where he had found peace. The Toad would have included Proteus in his new Brotherhood if the plan had worked. |
| X-Force (1st series) #5: | Toad and Blob track down Karl Lykos and his girlfriend Tanya. They force him to absorb all of Tanya's life force, killing her and kick-starting his malevolent transformation. As Sauron he joins the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. |
| X-Force (1st series) #6-11: | The whole new Brotherhood is seen for the first time (Toad, Blob, Pyro, Sauron and Phantazia). They form an alliance with Masque's Morlocks. They agree that taking down the aggressive X-Force team has first priority. The Brotherhood along with Thornn and Masque attack X-Force. During the fight X-Force wins the upper hand. Masque is apparently killed, Thornn captured and Sauron shot. The remaining Brotherhood members escape. X-Force brings the chained Thornn, along with the bodies of Masque and Sauron into the Morlock tunnels to warn the Morlocks not to strike again. |
| X-Factor (1st series) #82: | After the flooding of the Morlock tunnels, Sauron washes up at New York Harbour. He was not dead but went into a "regenerative state". After draining the life-force of a drunken derelict, he overhears the military talking about a ship of Genoshan refugees. He contacts the Brotherhood who try to coax the mutates into their ranks. X-Factor arrives and drives off the Brotherhood. During the battle old issues between Toad and Quicksilver are brought up, since they both were members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I. |
| Darkhawk #19-20, Sleepwalker #17: | The Brotherhood fight Darkhawk, Spider-Man and Sleepwalker to get a mutant named Portal. After they finally succeed and capture him, Sauron hypnotizes the young man to insure his loyalty. Growing overconfident, the Brotherhood is beaten when Darkhawk and Sleepwalker surprise-attack them the next day. They order Portal to teleport them to a safe place, but before Portal himself steps through the gate, he is held back by Darkhawk. |
In between
- For reasons unknown Sauron left the Brotherhood and re-settled in the Savage Land where he took over the Savage Land Mutates again [Wolverine (2nd series) #69-71]. Later he fought the X-Men once more, but lost his humanity as he overdosed on energy and evolved into a near-mindless pteranodon consciousness. [X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #6]
- Thornn would ultimately prove to be an ally to X-Force, when she helped them capture their former member, her murderous sister Feral. [X-Force (1st series) #40-41]
- Portal continued to be a reoccuring character in Darkhawk, but has not reappeared since the series ended in 1995.
Chronology continued
| X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #2: | In Magneto's name Exodus offers safe haven and refuge on his Avalon space station, but only for Phantazia. Toad and Blob are really angered to hear that they are not deemed worthy, lacking potential and vision. Pyro would have been considered worthy, but is "tainted" , a reference to his Legacy Virus infection. |
| X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2: | The Brotherhood travels to the island clinic of Jonathan Chambers / Empyrean. It is a refuge for Legacy victims, as Pyro just discovered that he had contracted the virus. Avalanche (along with Commando) pays a visit since they were close during their time in Freedom Force. They are still working as governmental agents though and are assigned to check out the whole place undercover. |
Afterwards
- Off panel the team disbands.
- The Blob next battled Strong Guy at an airport on Mystique’s behalf and lost. [X-Factor (1st series) #107]
- Pyro stayed in the island clinic for some time, till he was seen again in Daredevil (1st series) #355. In Uncanny X-Men #338, he was trying to make amends before he died, actually talking to a priest. Since then he has appeared briefly in Uncanny X-Men and X-Factor. During Dream's End, he prevented an assassination attempt on Senator Kelly and finally succumbed to the virus. [Cable (1st series) #87]
- The Toad was seen in Generation X #18-19 in a safe place owned by Emma Frost. There it was revealed that he once tried to join the Hellfire Club but was laughed off. Emma took pity and allowed him to stay in her house among other mutants. One of them, by he name Surgeon, had the ability to transform living beings into something more. (That might serve as an explanation how the Toad aquired and lost his new slime secretion ability) After his plans with the Brotherhood did not turn out the Toad must have come back to Emma's house. He seemed a little nuts. Following the incident with Generation X, he was brought to a mental health clinic for treatment. [X-Men Forever #1]
- Phantazia kept a low profile over the next years, and was only heard of again after the M-Day. She was taken into SHIELD custody following the House of M, and her delirious ramblings about that altered reality are what first alerted Director Maria Hill to the incident [New Avengers #16]
- Empyrean hasn’t made an appearance since 1993. Probably with the Legacy Virus cured on a global scale, his clinic no longer exists.
- In time, both the Blob and the Toad make it to the Brotherhood of Mutants II and later Brotherhood of Mutants III, no longer calling themselves Evil.
Members
Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #4
First Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearance: New Mutants Annual #7
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: New Mutants Annual #7, New Warriors Annual #1, Uncanny X-Men Annual #15, X-Factor Annual #6, X-Force (1st series) #5-7, X-Factor (1st series) #82, Darkhawk #19-20, Sleepwalker #17, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #2, X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2
Powers: Great leg strength gives him enhanced agility and the ability to leap incredible distances. He also secretes an adhesive slimes through the pores on his hands which acts as a powerful glue and can slow the metabolism of others upon contact.
Equipment: The Toad has stolen technology from The Stranger (inclucing a spacecraft, synthezoid versions of the original Brotherhood, an armored battlesuit and a device capable of turning Karl Lykos back into Sauron.)
Blob (Fred J. Dukes)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #3
First Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearance: X-Force (1st series) #5
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: X-Force (1st series) #5-7, 9, X-Factor (1st series) #82, Darkhawk #19-20, Sleepwalker #17, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #2, X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2
Powers: Enhanced mass and multiple layers of elastic, fatty tissue grant him superhuman strength, can absorb all forms of impact and damage, and are flexible enough to hold objects within the folds of his flesh and pop them out when he flexes his muscles. He can also generate gravity fields that hold him firmly in place to make him an immovable object.
Sauron (Karl Lykos)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #60
First Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearance: X-Force (1st series) #5
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: X-Force (1st series) #5-9, X-Factor (1st series) #82, Darkhawk #19-20, Sleepwalker #17
Powers: Non-mutant variant able to drain portions of another person’s life energy to increase his physical vitality. With a large source of life-force such as mutant energy he undergoes a metamorphic transformation into a pterodactyl humanoid, with increased strength, speed, aerial agility and endurance, highly-durable dinosaur scales, leather wings beneath his arms that allow him to fly, a razor sharp beak and finger talons, and a hypnotic gaze that enables him to plant mental suggestions or hallucinations in the minds of others.
Lykos is a split-personality: Karl tries to do good and isolate himself from society (for the most part), but Sauron wants to rule and tends to enjoy eliminating mammalian life-forms.
Phantazia (Eileen Harsaw)
First appearance: X-Force (1st series) #6
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: X-Force (1st series) #6-7, 9, X-Factor (1st series) #82, Darkhawk #19-20, Sleepwalker #17, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #2, X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2
Powers: Sense electromagnetic harmonics and convert herself partially into an energy state, enabling her to detect electronic and energy-wave signatures, levitate herself, produce a disruption effect that scrambles human senses and electronic devices, and generate bio-electrical charges that fry neural synapses, paralyze others, and disable special abilities.
Pyro (St. John Allerdyce)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #141
First Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearance: X-Force (1st series) #6
Last appearance: Cable (1st series) #87 [died of the legacy virus]
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: X-Force (1st series) #6-7, X-Factor (1st series) #82, Darkhawk #19-20, Sleepwalker #17, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #2, X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2
Powers: Assume psionic command of any source of flame, enabling him to douse or feed the fire, shape it to assume any form he wishes, give enough substance to the flames so that they can touch and move solid objects, and immunize himself to the intense heat generated by his flames.
Equipment: Uses a flame-thrower to produce his flames.
Facts: Pyro was a writer, before being recruited by Mystique for the third Brotherhood.
Allies
Masque
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #169
First Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearance: X-Force (1st series) #6
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: X-Force (1st series) #6-7, 9
Powers: psionically sculpt flesh with a touch, rearranging the features of living beings to alter their hair, skin or eye color, add on additions such as tentacles and extra eyes or mouths, seal off body orifices and transform others into grotesque creatures. Since his unexplained resurrection, he can apparently use his power to alter his own features.
Thornn (Lucia Callasantos)
First appearance: X-Force (1st series) #6
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: X-Force (1st series) #6-7, 9, 11
Powers: Animal mutation gives her heightened strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reflexes, hyper-keen feline senses, thick brown striped fur, a prehensile tail and razor sharp fangs and claws on her fingers and toes.
Portal (Charles Little Sky)
First appearance: Avengers (1st series) #304
First Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearance: Darkhawk #20
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: Darkhawk #20, Sleepwalker #17
Powers: Creates portals in space that he can use to travel between dimensional barriers or move in the same dimension over short distances.
Equipment: Wears a protective suit of battle armor and carries multiple scavenged weapons including an energy harpoon gun, adhesive pellet launcher, and a multi-targeting segmenting throwing disk.
Em
pyrean (Jonathan Bartholomew Chambers)
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2
All Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV appearances: X-Men (2nd series) Annual #2
Powers: Siphons bio-energy signatures from mutants to temporarily suppress their special abilities, a talent he used on Legacy infectees to prevent unwanted flare-ups of their power. The energy he absorbs charges him with power, which he can use as explosive discharges or cause the energy signature itself to feedback upon its owner to overload their mutagenic auras, causing them tremendous pain.