60 Facts About Mister Sinister

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Mister Sinister is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Villain who usually prefers to act through agents and manipulation, Mr Mister Sinister is born Nathaniel Essex in Victorian London.

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Mr Mister Sinister is often associated with the characters Apocalypse, Cable, and Madelyne Pryor, and is leader of the team of trackers and assassins known as the Marauders.

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In 1993, Mr Mister Sinister made his television debut on the animated series X-Men in the first two episodes of season 2, voiced by Christopher Britton, exposing the character to a wider audience.

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Mister Sinister appears in the 2009 animated series Wolverine and the X-Men, voiced by Clancy Brown.

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Mister Sinister sent Madelyne into Scott's life in the hopes that the combined DNA of Grey and Summers would result in the birth of a powerful mutant.

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Claremont intended Nate to actually be Mister Sinister, revealing this was his true form and the armored villain simply an illusion he used to threaten others.

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The surviving Mister Sinister mind kills her and creates a new clone body to inhabit.

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Appreciating Mister Sinister has shown strength through defiance, Apocalypse returns to his hibernation state, promising that when he returns he and Mister Sinister will reshape the world.

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Mister Sinister comes to understand more and more that mutants are human beings born with an "X-factor gene" or "X-gene", causing powers, traits, and abilities that often manifest during puberty or trauma.

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On several occasions when Amanda is pregnant, Mister Sinister pays her to feign miscarriage and then secretly bring him the child for study.

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In 1899, Apocalypse emerges from hibernation again and is pleased with Mister Sinister's work, including the development of a deadly techno-organic virus.

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Mister Sinister then injects the virus into Apocalypse, but it only weakens the villain.

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Mister Sinister decides to engineer a mutant who can kill Apocalypse.

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Mister Sinister's students include Moira MacTaggert and the mutant telepath Charles Xavier, who realizes he cannot sense Milbury's thoughts.

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Not wishing to be detected by Xavier, who at this point has already fought terrorists and superhuman menaces, Mister Sinister decides to keeps his distance after acquiring a DNA sample from Jean.

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Mr Mister Sinister allows Alex to be adopted by people he can easily monitor, then spends the next year conducting experiments on the comatose Scott.

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Mister Sinister continues to monitor Scott somewhat but keeps his distance so the telepathic Xavier and the other X-Men don't become aware of and interfere with his plans.

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Mr Mister Sinister concludes that offspring of Jean Grey and Scott Summers could represent the ultimate stage of mutant potential, possibly a mutant capable of destroying Apocalypse.

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Mister Sinister is later temporarily corrupted, causing the Phoenix Force itself to become a corrupt and deadly entity.

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Mister Sinister's studies reveal that several Morlocks bear signs of genetic manipulation based on his own research.

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Mister Sinister decides to seize the opportunity and at last kidnap Nathan Summers for experimentation.

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Mister Sinister then continues his mental influence, causing Scott to abandon his family and remain in New York City with Jean and the other original X-Men recruits.

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Unbeknownst to Mister Sinister, Maddie is taken to a hospital and survives, though she slips into a coma.

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Mister Sinister is then confronted by Master Mold, the robot whose primary task is to create mutant-hunting Sentinels.

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Mister Sinister later joins forces with the demons S'ym and N'Astirh who take advantage of her state of mind and corrupt her, turning her into the Goblyn Queen and leading into the Inferno storyline.

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Mister Sinister then confronts Madelyne and reveals her true origins.

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When Mister Sinister opens the container, he is angered to find it seemingly empty.

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Mister Sinister later realizes later he unknowingly unleashed a "pox on mutants" engineered by Stryfe, the Legacy Virus.

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Mister Sinister warns of the Legacy Virus and hints that there is a third Summers brother unknown to either Scott or Alex.

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Mister Sinister then reveals his true nature and takes over the High Evolutionary's satellite, intending to use it to alter the genetics of people at his discretion, making Earth a giant lab where he could create the ultimate race of superhumans.

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Mister Sinister's plan is then stopped by the X-Men, who restore mutant powers to all of those with the X-gene.

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Later on, an encounter with Colossus and the hero's brother Mikhail Rasputin reveals that Mister Sinister's powers are weakening and he is becoming desperate to find a way to restore them.

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Later, Mister Sinister tells Xraven he plans to create a new generation of mutants through cloning.

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Thanks to using the Cronus Device decades earlier to implant his own genetic information into the Marko, Ryking, Shaw, and Xavier family lines, Mister Sinister's consciousness is able to inhabit Charles Xavier's body following his death at Mystique's hands.

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Miss Mister Sinister is next seen in the company of the reality displaced X-Men of a now-dead universe.

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Mister Sinister turns San Francisco's residents into doppelgangers of himself and attempts to create a society resembling 19th century England, which he claims to now see as a perfect culture.

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The Phoenix Five track down Mister Sinister, learning he has built his own city within Subterranea that is inhabited by clones of himself, several of his agents, and some acquaintances.

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Mister Sinister's efforts are ultimately foiled by the students and Spider-Man, who was asked by Wolverine to help locate the school's mole.

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Mister Sinister directs them to the Kerguelen Islands where Mister Sinister has collected the genetic make-up of every person on Earth.

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The lead Mister Sinister clone is not interested in the deal but is suddenly killed by another Sinister clone who has a functional X-gene, making him a mutant too.

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Sometime later, along with other mutants, the X-gene Mister Sinister is welcomed to the new mutant community existing on the island Krakoa.

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In Marvel's 2019 relaunch of its X-Men franchise, Dawn of X, Mister Sinister finds himself already bored with his new status on Krakoa, and decides to resume his schemes by utilizing a loophole in the Quiet Council rules.

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Unbeknownst to his fellow Council members, Mister Sinister created another top-secret lab where he's still meddling with cloning technology.

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Mister Sinister says he has done this 25 times, so we are on the 26th life of clone Moira.

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Mister Sinister gained limited telepathy and a limited form telekinesis, allowing him to project energy attacks.

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Mister Sinister is resistant to telepathic probes from others unless he allows such connection to take place.

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On rare occasions, Mister Sinister has exhibited the ability to teleport, but it was indicated that this was not an inherent power and was accomplished through the technology of his tesseract headquarters.

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Original Mister Sinister is a genetically altered human who was given superhuman abilities by an outside force, and so is not a mutant.

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However, by the late twentieth century, Mister Sinister's mind had been copied into the bodies of others, as well as clones of his own creation.

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Mister Sinister is a scientific genius, with expertise in the fields of biology, genetics, cloning, physics, and engineering.

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Mister Sinister's upbringing as a Victorian during the 19th century, his obsessive nature, his fear of permanent death, and his enjoyment of manipulation all make him reliant on complicated plans and familiar ways of operating rather than finding the simplest solution, taking direct action, or quickly adapting.

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Unknown to Cyclops, his "father" Mister Sinister is disillusioned with Apocalypse's empire, convinced the mutant conqueror's actions will simply cause the destruction of Earth eventually, leaving no possibility for a master race to live.

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Mister Sinister accelerates Nathan's aging and the boy quickly becomes a teenager, his mutant X-gene granting him incredible telekinetic and telepathic power.

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Mister Sinister explains Nate's origin and purpose to be the destroyer of Apocalypse.

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Mister Sinister joins forces with a villainous Xavier and clashes with this reality's version of Apocalypse, who becomes allies with Jean Grey and Magneto.

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Mister Sinister is featured in the first mini-series, and then in the second mini-series he blackmails Gambit into bringing him the children of Scott Summers and Emma Frost as well as his own children that he conceived with Rogue.

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Mister Sinister reveals Gambit is not a natural-born mutant but actually a clone of himself with some of Cyclops's DNA imprinted into his code.

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Mister Sinister is a former OsCorp scientist who experiments on himself after failing to perfect his formula on stealth and mind-altering drugs to create a super-soldier who could evade any form of detection and hypnotically persuade others.

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Mister Sinister seemingly suffers from hallucinations of a being called "Lord Apocalypse" who orders him to kill a number of mutants to complete his transformation.

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