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Super Name
Mister Sinister
Real Name
Dr. Nathaniel Essex
Aliases
Mister Sinister
Dr. Nathaniel Essex
Nathan Milbury
Michael Milbury
Arnold Bocklin
Dr. Robert Windsor
Steven Shaffran
Edmond Atkinson
Nosferatu
Apocalypse
Pale Man
Robert Windsor
Administrator Pearson
Publisher
Marvel
Creators
Chris Claremont & Marc Silvestri
Gender
Male
Character Type
Mutant
First Appearance
The Uncanny X-Men #221 - Death by Drowning!
Appears in
1104 issues
Birthday
n/a
Died
X-Factor #27 - Messiah CompleX, Chapter Eleven Uncanny X-Men #17 - This Strange Unpleasant Land, Part 3
Characteristics
Gender: Male
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 285 lbs
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black
Skin: White
Unusual Features: Shining eyes with no visible pupils and a red diamond upon forehead.
Powers and Abilities
Mister Sinister is a genetically altered human with superhuman physical and mental abilities. The character is telepathic, able to manipulate the minds of others in various ways, and is capable of energy projection through telekinesis. Using genetic material from the mutant Courier, Mister Sinister gained complete control of his body at the cellular level, allowing him to shape-shift, regenerate and be virtually immune to injuries. The character has exhibited the ability to teleport, though Beast believes this is accomplished through his tesseract headquarters.
Mister Sinister is also a scientific genius, with expertise in the fields of biology, genetics, cloning, physics and engineering. The character is a master manipulator and planner, with decades of genetic research at his command. He goes to great lengths to preserve his powers and personality through elaborate technological means such as conditioning certain children to be his 'hosts' in the event of his future death. Although Sebastian Shaw noted that the later discovery of cloning technology would make such a plan relatively pointless.
Origin
Nathaniel Essex was born in Victorian England during the 19th Century. He was obsessed with Charles Darwin's theory on evolution. He truly began his work in 1859 when he learned that humanity was steadily becoming mutant, thanks to what he classified as Essex factors. His work intensified when his four-year-old son died of various birth defects. He formed the Marauders when he couldn’t get backing for his research. This team kidnapped people from the streets to act as test subjects on mutation. Essex even exhumed his son as a test subject.
The Marauders accidently stumble upon Apocalypse and awake him from his slumber. He sees potential in Essex and grants him mutations that give him longer life, advanced strength, and a healing factor. Essex took on the name Sinister, an adjective his dying wife used to describe the man he was becoming.
Creation
Writer Chris Claremont conceived Mister Sinister as a new villain for the X-Men, having felt "tired of just going back to Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and the same old same old" Claremont recalled:
"Dave Cockrum and I were over ideas and what we were coming towards was a mysterious young boy - apparently an 11-year-old - at the orphanage where Scott (Cyclops) was raised, who turned out to be the secret master of the place. In effect what we were setting up was a guy who was aging over a lifespan of roughly a thousand years. Even though he looked like an 11-year-old, he'd actually been alive since the mid-century at this point - he was actually about 50 [...] He had all the grown up urges. He's growing up in his mind but his body isn't capable of handling it, which makes him quite cranky. And, of course, looking like an 11-year-old, who'd take him seriously in the criminal community? [...] So he built himself an agent in a sense, which was Mister Sinister, that was, in effect, the rationale behind Sinister's rather - for want of a better word - childish or kid-like appearance. The costume ... the look ... the face ... it's what would scare a child. Even when he was designed, he wasn't what you'd expect in a guy like that."
Character Evolution
Mister Sinister made his debut a couple years past the Bronze Age and instantly made his impact in comics when he orchestrated the massacre of the underground mutants known as the Morlocks. Strictly seen as a villain who acts behind the scenes, it is later revealed that Mister Sinister shares an obsessive fixation with the X-man Scott Summers, also known as Cyclops.
Throughout the 90’s, Mister Sinister participated within several events that mostly involved Cyclops. Rarely seen in any confrontation, Mister Sinister is a powerful and formidable mutant when he is confronted or attacked.
After the year 2000, Mister Sinister was involved in the events of M-Day where he attempted to capture the first mutant born after Decimation. This would be Mister Sinister's final moment, as he was soon killed by Mystique.
Later, another mysterious Mister Sinister appeared in the form of a woman, claiming that she was Mister Sinister’s daughter. Sharing the exact same powers as Mister Sinister, she referred herself as Miss Sinister as she also displayed the same manipulative and deceiving tactics that her father once displayed as well.
Major Story Arcs
Mr. Sinister’s first job from Apocalypse is to create a virus to destroy the weakest, allowing the strong to truly survive. Sinister rebels against his master and instead creates a plague that only affects Apocalypse. Sinister is freed from Apocalypse’s grasp when the virus takes hold and Apocalypse retreats to his reanimation chamber.
Early Work
In 1891, Sinister moves to the United States and becomes an obstetrician in New York. He is granted access to wide amounts of genetic material, including that of Daniel Summers and Amanda Mueller, the great-great grandparents of Cyclops, Vulcan, and Havok.
Around this time, Sinister runs into a time-travelling Gambit and Courier, both of whom are stuck in the past. Sinister uses Courier’s genetic make-up to grant himself shape-shifting powers. He also implants tissue in Gambit’s head to allow the men to travel back to the future.
Supposedly to get back at the Hellfire Club for refusing him grant money back in England, Sinister grants Jacob Shaw the ability to shape-shift in 1915. Jacob eventually kills his brother Esau and becomes the father to Sebastian Shaw.
Sometime in the 1920’s, Sinister meets Herbert Edgar Wyndham, a scientist intent on cracking the human DNA code. Sinister had already done so and the two work together on genetic manipulation.
Faye Livingstone
After a move to California, Sinister falls in love with Faye Livingstone, a feeling he keeps to himself. Despite his feelings, he is forced to abduct her when she discovers his laboratory in which he conducts his experiments on kidnapped individuals. He is happy to find that her genes contain the x-factor that should enable her children to be mutants. He conducts experiments on her and then suddenly releases her one night without explanation. Her love for Sinister is so deep that she never marries and never has kids. She lives in the Carlylse Nursing Home in her later years and receives an annual visit from Sinister, though he never admits his feelings for her. She dies in his arms after a dance on the Astral Plane.
Sinister Nazi
During World War II and under the alias of Nathan Essex, Sinister begins working with Nazi’s in concentration camps. He is nicknamed Nosferatu (“vampire” or “blood disease carrier”) because of his appearance and the fact that he takes blood from everyone. According to Magneto, Sinister would offer candy to children in exchange for blood samples.
While in Germany, Sinister attempts to clone the mutant Namor in his Experiment N2. N2 is defeated by Captain America and Sinister’s labs are raided at the end of WWII. His journals detailing all his experiments is found by Weapon Plus scientists.
Vietnam
In 1968, Sinister and Greycrow (whom Sinister had met in Germany) are in Vietnam. Rumor has it that they are the inspiration for tales of the White Devil, an entity that snatches soldiers that are in the forests or even villagers from their homes. Sabretooth is enlisted as a leader in Sinister's new group of Marauders.
Nebraska
Sinister soon locates the State Home for Foundlings in Omaha, Nebraska. He makes a laboratory in the basement and concocts several experiments on mutant kids from the orphanage upstairs. One of his victims was Scott Summers (Cyclops), a person Sinister would torment for many, many years. Another victim is Scott’s brother Alex (Havok). Sinister splices Alex’s mutant genes and bestows them upon Ahmet Abdol, later known as the Living Monolith.
Mutant Massacre
Sinister has Greycrow locate Gambit. In exchange for a surgery that allowed Gambit to control his powers in the past, Sinister has Gambit work for him. Gambit's final job is to assemble and lead the newest Marauders into the Morlock Tunnels and destroy every mutant living there. Sinister initiates the Morlock Massacre because he sees a perverted similarity between his studies and those exhibited by the Morlocks. (The Morlocks were actually experiments by Dark Beast, a visitor from the Age of Apocalypse who had worked under that reality’s Mr. Sinister.) The attack a success, Sinister contemplates attacking the Genoshan Mutates, as they also seem to be perversions of his studies. (They had, in fact, been the results of the Sugar Man’s machinations. The Sugar Man was another student of the Age of Apocalypse Mr. Sinister.) Sinister spares the mutates since they are sterile and unable to perpetuate the perceived taint.
Cloning Jean Grey
Wanting to rid himself of Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister devises a plan that includes Cyclops and Jean Grey. Sinister believes the offspring of the two could be strong enough to destroy Apocalypse. Unfortunately, Jean goes missing and is presumed dead. Sinister clones Jean and calls the clone Madelyne Pryor. Madelyne, however, doesn’t seem to posses the powers of Jean and Sinister thinks he’s failed. Jean returns but supposedly dies before she and Cyclops are married and able to have a kid. The Phoenix Force, however, sees Jean’s clone and inhabits Madelyne’s body, giving her powers. Sinister sees her worth and puts Jean’s memories in her mind while putting her in a position to meet Cyclops. Cyclops sees so much of Jean in Madelyne that he marries her. Sinister mentally suggests that the two move to Alaska, a way for him to monitor the two and take possession of any child the two have.
Cyclops and Madelyne do have a child: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Sinister watches and then takes the child but later loses him to the Goblyn Queen, the now spurned and ex-wife of Cyclops. He is able to take the child back only to lose him again to Cyclops. As retribution, Cyclops reduces Sinister to a mere skeleton. (Sinister’s hope in using Cyclops’s offspring to overthrow Apocalypse eventually works, though not in the ways Sinister had planned. See Cable.)
X-Factor
For a time, Sinister is heavily involved with X-Factor. His new group, the Nasty Boys, join with an evil version of Madrox in hopes of killing the original Madrox, allowing the evil clone to live. This does not work.
Later, Sinister learns that Senator Steven Shaffran wants to discredit the mutant team to enhance his political career. Sinister alerts X-Factor. Shaffran retaliates by shooting Sinister. The bullet, however, bounces off Sinister’s chest and kills Shaffran.
After Malice defects from his Marauders, Sinister sends the Nasty Boys to capture her. She gets captured while trying to inhabit both Havok and Polaris. Sinister supposedly kills her for going rogue.
Legacy Virus
Sinister, having briefly worked with Stryfe, makes a pact to exchange the lives of Cyclops and Jean Grey to Stryfe for the DNA code of the Summers family. Sinister acts like Apocalypse to get the Four Horsemen to capture Cyclops and Jean Grey. He then makes a swap for a container. Upon opening the container, however, Sinister learns that Stryfe actually gave him a virus that is to ravage mutantkind for years to come. Due to his respect for the Summers family, Sinister offers to help protect Cyclops and his brothers. (This comment led many to believe that another brother [other than Havok] existed. It was much later that Vulcan was determined to be another brother.)
To study the Legacy Virus, Sinister recruits Threnody to search out dying mutants. His studies are trumped by Moira MacTaggert who discovers a cure. The X-Man Colossus sacrifices himself so that the cure can be released. Sinister is so grateful that he offers to clone Colossus. They refuse the offer.
Restoring His Body
Sinister joins the revamped Weapon X program as Dr. Robert Windsor. His plan was to free mutants from the concentration camp of the program, only to keep the freed mutants as his own to conduct further experiments.
With his powers failing, Sinister goes to Russia to manipulate the Rasputin line. His hopes are that by killing each Rasputin family member that Grigori Rasputin will be reincarnated in the body of the last Rasputin in the line. He would then use Grigori to stabilize his own powers, since he now can’t shapeshift or teleport. Colossus and Mikhail are able to shake free of Sinister’s influence and Colossus injures Sinister. The injury lingers, a testament to Sinister’s deteriorating body.
New Marauders
When Gambit and Sunfire escape to Japan to start new lives after serving as Horsemen of Apocalypse they are drafted into Sinister’s latest group of Marauders. He is intent is to kill all the pre-cogs in the world and take for himself the Destiny Diaries, documents that chronicled the future. The Marauders team up with the Acolytes but still lose to the X-Men. Sinister tries to take out his anger on Cannonball by emptying his mind, but Iceman steps in and saves the day. In the fray, Gambit destroys the Diaries and Sinister experiences a major setback to his plans.
Prepping for Death
With his powers sorely diminished, Sinister tries to acquire Hope, the new mutant baby born after M-Day. He fails.
He seals his own death warrant when he tells Mystique, his second in command, that he cannot save Rogue. Enraged, Mystique shoves Sinisters face onto Rogue’s. Sinister dies. This death triggers Sinister’s Cronus Machine, which activates his genetic code, which he had implanted in five people decades prior: Cain Marko, Amanda Mueller, Sebastian Shaw, Carter Ryking, and Charles Xavier. Sinister is able to be reborn until Gambit destroys the Cronus Machine.
Two days later after his defeat and subsequent death, a shadowy figure is shown meeting with Shaw and is revealed to be a woman calling herself Miss Sinister.
Regenesis
Mister Sinister returns in a new perfectly cloned body and, using his knowledge gained from Apocalypse, he taps into the Dreaming Celestial. In doing so, he takes control of the head and creates an army of "perfect" clones of himself resembling 19th century England, where he believes society was perfect. His plan is to disturb the Celetials so that they would come to Earth and eradicate all life, leaving only his perfection to rebuild the planet.
Summers Obsession
Scott Summers and Jean Grey were sent back in time once so that they would make sure Mr. Sinister defied Apocalypse. This was a success, yet it was only the beginning of Sinister's obsession with the Summers bloodline. He saw it as being the perfect bloodline, being the most "racially-supreme" as it has been bred naturally rather than forced (as Apocalypse would have it done). Sinister once used the identity of Mike Milbury when living in Alaska where he was a neighbor to Phillip & Deborah Summers (the grandparents of the Summers brothers). It was many years later that he came to realize that a child of Jean Grey and Scott Summer's genes would be a mutant with unimaginable power, capable of destroying Apocalypse, so that Sinister could finally be free. He even became an important figure at the orphanage where Scott Summers was raised, giving them a history. But it was the base of his experiments as beneath the orphanage was his laboratory.
--Karen
Super Name
Mister Sinister
Real Name
Dr. Nathaniel Essex
Aliases
Mister Sinister
Dr. Nathaniel Essex
Nathan Milbury
Michael Milbury
Arnold Bocklin
Dr. Robert Windsor
Steven Shaffran
Edmond Atkinson
Nosferatu
Apocalypse
Pale Man
Robert Windsor
Administrator Pearson
Publisher
Marvel
Creators
Chris Claremont & Marc Silvestri
Gender
Male
Character Type
Mutant
First Appearance
The Uncanny X-Men #221 - Death by Drowning!
Appears in
1104 issues
Birthday
n/a
Died
X-Factor #27 - Messiah CompleX, Chapter Eleven Uncanny X-Men #17 - This Strange Unpleasant Land, Part 3
Characteristics
Gender: Male
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 285 lbs
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black
Skin: White
Unusual Features: Shining eyes with no visible pupils and a red diamond upon forehead.
Powers and Abilities
Mister Sinister is a genetically altered human with superhuman physical and mental abilities. The character is telepathic, able to manipulate the minds of others in various ways, and is capable of energy projection through telekinesis. Using genetic material from the mutant Courier, Mister Sinister gained complete control of his body at the cellular level, allowing him to shape-shift, regenerate and be virtually immune to injuries. The character has exhibited the ability to teleport, though Beast believes this is accomplished through his tesseract headquarters.
Mister Sinister is also a scientific genius, with expertise in the fields of biology, genetics, cloning, physics and engineering. The character is a master manipulator and planner, with decades of genetic research at his command. He goes to great lengths to preserve his powers and personality through elaborate technological means such as conditioning certain children to be his 'hosts' in the event of his future death. Although Sebastian Shaw noted that the later discovery of cloning technology would make such a plan relatively pointless.
Origin
Nathaniel Essex was born in Victorian England during the 19th Century. He was obsessed with Charles Darwin's theory on evolution. He truly began his work in 1859 when he learned that humanity was steadily becoming mutant, thanks to what he classified as Essex factors. His work intensified when his four-year-old son died of various birth defects. He formed the Marauders when he couldn’t get backing for his research. This team kidnapped people from the streets to act as test subjects on mutation. Essex even exhumed his son as a test subject.
The Marauders accidently stumble upon Apocalypse and awake him from his slumber. He sees potential in Essex and grants him mutations that give him longer life, advanced strength, and a healing factor. Essex took on the name Sinister, an adjective his dying wife used to describe the man he was becoming.
Creation
Writer Chris Claremont conceived Mister Sinister as a new villain for the X-Men, having felt "tired of just going back to Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and the same old same old" Claremont recalled:
"Dave Cockrum and I were over ideas and what we were coming towards was a mysterious young boy - apparently an 11-year-old - at the orphanage where Scott (Cyclops) was raised, who turned out to be the secret master of the place. In effect what we were setting up was a guy who was aging over a lifespan of roughly a thousand years. Even though he looked like an 11-year-old, he'd actually been alive since the mid-century at this point - he was actually about 50 [...] He had all the grown up urges. He's growing up in his mind but his body isn't capable of handling it, which makes him quite cranky. And, of course, looking like an 11-year-old, who'd take him seriously in the criminal community? [...] So he built himself an agent in a sense, which was Mister Sinister, that was, in effect, the rationale behind Sinister's rather - for want of a better word - childish or kid-like appearance. The costume ... the look ... the face ... it's what would scare a child. Even when he was designed, he wasn't what you'd expect in a guy like that."
Character Evolution
Mister Sinister made his debut a couple years past the Bronze Age and instantly made his impact in comics when he orchestrated the massacre of the underground mutants known as the Morlocks. Strictly seen as a villain who acts behind the scenes, it is later revealed that Mister Sinister shares an obsessive fixation with the X-man Scott Summers, also known as Cyclops.
Throughout the 90’s, Mister Sinister participated within several events that mostly involved Cyclops. Rarely seen in any confrontation, Mister Sinister is a powerful and formidable mutant when he is confronted or attacked.
After the year 2000, Mister Sinister was involved in the events of M-Day where he attempted to capture the first mutant born after Decimation. This would be Mister Sinister's final moment, as he was soon killed by Mystique.
Later, another mysterious Mister Sinister appeared in the form of a woman, claiming that she was Mister Sinister’s daughter. Sharing the exact same powers as Mister Sinister, she referred herself as Miss Sinister as she also displayed the same manipulative and deceiving tactics that her father once displayed as well.
Major Story Arcs
Mr. Sinister’s first job from Apocalypse is to create a virus to destroy the weakest, allowing the strong to truly survive. Sinister rebels against his master and instead creates a plague that only affects Apocalypse. Sinister is freed from Apocalypse’s grasp when the virus takes hold and Apocalypse retreats to his reanimation chamber.
Early Work
In 1891, Sinister moves to the United States and becomes an obstetrician in New York. He is granted access to wide amounts of genetic material, including that of Daniel Summers and Amanda Mueller, the great-great grandparents of Cyclops, Vulcan, and Havok.
Around this time, Sinister runs into a time-travelling Gambit and Courier, both of whom are stuck in the past. Sinister uses Courier’s genetic make-up to grant himself shape-shifting powers. He also implants tissue in Gambit’s head to allow the men to travel back to the future.
Supposedly to get back at the Hellfire Club for refusing him grant money back in England, Sinister grants Jacob Shaw the ability to shape-shift in 1915. Jacob eventually kills his brother Esau and becomes the father to Sebastian Shaw.
Sometime in the 1920’s, Sinister meets Herbert Edgar Wyndham, a scientist intent on cracking the human DNA code. Sinister had already done so and the two work together on genetic manipulation.
Faye Livingstone
After a move to California, Sinister falls in love with Faye Livingstone, a feeling he keeps to himself. Despite his feelings, he is forced to abduct her when she discovers his laboratory in which he conducts his experiments on kidnapped individuals. He is happy to find that her genes contain the x-factor that should enable her children to be mutants. He conducts experiments on her and then suddenly releases her one night without explanation. Her love for Sinister is so deep that she never marries and never has kids. She lives in the Carlylse Nursing Home in her later years and receives an annual visit from Sinister, though he never admits his feelings for her. She dies in his arms after a dance on the Astral Plane.
Sinister Nazi
During World War II and under the alias of Nathan Essex, Sinister begins working with Nazi’s in concentration camps. He is nicknamed Nosferatu (“vampire” or “blood disease carrier”) because of his appearance and the fact that he takes blood from everyone. According to Magneto, Sinister would offer candy to children in exchange for blood samples.
While in Germany, Sinister attempts to clone the mutant Namor in his Experiment N2. N2 is defeated by Captain America and Sinister’s labs are raided at the end of WWII. His journals detailing all his experiments is found by Weapon Plus scientists.
Vietnam
In 1968, Sinister and Greycrow (whom Sinister had met in Germany) are in Vietnam. Rumor has it that they are the inspiration for tales of the White Devil, an entity that snatches soldiers that are in the forests or even villagers from their homes. Sabretooth is enlisted as a leader in Sinister's new group of Marauders.
Nebraska
Sinister soon locates the State Home for Foundlings in Omaha, Nebraska. He makes a laboratory in the basement and concocts several experiments on mutant kids from the orphanage upstairs. One of his victims was Scott Summers (Cyclops), a person Sinister would torment for many, many years. Another victim is Scott’s brother Alex (Havok). Sinister splices Alex’s mutant genes and bestows them upon Ahmet Abdol, later known as the Living Monolith.
Mutant Massacre
Sinister has Greycrow locate Gambit. In exchange for a surgery that allowed Gambit to control his powers in the past, Sinister has Gambit work for him. Gambit's final job is to assemble and lead the newest Marauders into the Morlock Tunnels and destroy every mutant living there. Sinister initiates the Morlock Massacre because he sees a perverted similarity between his studies and those exhibited by the Morlocks. (The Morlocks were actually experiments by Dark Beast, a visitor from the Age of Apocalypse who had worked under that reality’s Mr. Sinister.) The attack a success, Sinister contemplates attacking the Genoshan Mutates, as they also seem to be perversions of his studies. (They had, in fact, been the results of the Sugar Man’s machinations. The Sugar Man was another student of the Age of Apocalypse Mr. Sinister.) Sinister spares the mutates since they are sterile and unable to perpetuate the perceived taint.
Cloning Jean Grey
Wanting to rid himself of Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister devises a plan that includes Cyclops and Jean Grey. Sinister believes the offspring of the two could be strong enough to destroy Apocalypse. Unfortunately, Jean goes missing and is presumed dead. Sinister clones Jean and calls the clone Madelyne Pryor. Madelyne, however, doesn’t seem to posses the powers of Jean and Sinister thinks he’s failed. Jean returns but supposedly dies before she and Cyclops are married and able to have a kid. The Phoenix Force, however, sees Jean’s clone and inhabits Madelyne’s body, giving her powers. Sinister sees her worth and puts Jean’s memories in her mind while putting her in a position to meet Cyclops. Cyclops sees so much of Jean in Madelyne that he marries her. Sinister mentally suggests that the two move to Alaska, a way for him to monitor the two and take possession of any child the two have.
Cyclops and Madelyne do have a child: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Sinister watches and then takes the child but later loses him to the Goblyn Queen, the now spurned and ex-wife of Cyclops. He is able to take the child back only to lose him again to Cyclops. As retribution, Cyclops reduces Sinister to a mere skeleton. (Sinister’s hope in using Cyclops’s offspring to overthrow Apocalypse eventually works, though not in the ways Sinister had planned. See Cable.)
X-Factor
For a time, Sinister is heavily involved with X-Factor. His new group, the Nasty Boys, join with an evil version of Madrox in hopes of killing the original Madrox, allowing the evil clone to live. This does not work.
Later, Sinister learns that Senator Steven Shaffran wants to discredit the mutant team to enhance his political career. Sinister alerts X-Factor. Shaffran retaliates by shooting Sinister. The bullet, however, bounces off Sinister’s chest and kills Shaffran.
After Malice defects from his Marauders, Sinister sends the Nasty Boys to capture her. She gets captured while trying to inhabit both Havok and Polaris. Sinister supposedly kills her for going rogue.
Legacy Virus
Sinister, having briefly worked with Stryfe, makes a pact to exchange the lives of Cyclops and Jean Grey to Stryfe for the DNA code of the Summers family. Sinister acts like Apocalypse to get the Four Horsemen to capture Cyclops and Jean Grey. He then makes a swap for a container. Upon opening the container, however, Sinister learns that Stryfe actually gave him a virus that is to ravage mutantkind for years to come. Due to his respect for the Summers family, Sinister offers to help protect Cyclops and his brothers. (This comment led many to believe that another brother [other than Havok] existed. It was much later that Vulcan was determined to be another brother.)
To study the Legacy Virus, Sinister recruits Threnody to search out dying mutants. His studies are trumped by Moira MacTaggert who discovers a cure. The X-Man Colossus sacrifices himself so that the cure can be released. Sinister is so grateful that he offers to clone Colossus. They refuse the offer.
Restoring His Body
Sinister joins the revamped Weapon X program as Dr. Robert Windsor. His plan was to free mutants from the concentration camp of the program, only to keep the freed mutants as his own to conduct further experiments.
With his powers failing, Sinister goes to Russia to manipulate the Rasputin line. His hopes are that by killing each Rasputin family member that Grigori Rasputin will be reincarnated in the body of the last Rasputin in the line. He would then use Grigori to stabilize his own powers, since he now can’t shapeshift or teleport. Colossus and Mikhail are able to shake free of Sinister’s influence and Colossus injures Sinister. The injury lingers, a testament to Sinister’s deteriorating body.
New Marauders
When Gambit and Sunfire escape to Japan to start new lives after serving as Horsemen of Apocalypse they are drafted into Sinister’s latest group of Marauders. He is intent is to kill all the pre-cogs in the world and take for himself the Destiny Diaries, documents that chronicled the future. The Marauders team up with the Acolytes but still lose to the X-Men. Sinister tries to take out his anger on Cannonball by emptying his mind, but Iceman steps in and saves the day. In the fray, Gambit destroys the Diaries and Sinister experiences a major setback to his plans.
Prepping for Death
With his powers sorely diminished, Sinister tries to acquire Hope, the new mutant baby born after M-Day. He fails.
He seals his own death warrant when he tells Mystique, his second in command, that he cannot save Rogue. Enraged, Mystique shoves Sinisters face onto Rogue’s. Sinister dies. This death triggers Sinister’s Cronus Machine, which activates his genetic code, which he had implanted in five people decades prior: Cain Marko, Amanda Mueller, Sebastian Shaw, Carter Ryking, and Charles Xavier. Sinister is able to be reborn until Gambit destroys the Cronus Machine.
Two days later after his defeat and subsequent death, a shadowy figure is shown meeting with Shaw and is revealed to be a woman calling herself Miss Sinister.
Regenesis
Mister Sinister returns in a new perfectly cloned body and, using his knowledge gained from Apocalypse, he taps into the Dreaming Celestial. In doing so, he takes control of the head and creates an army of "perfect" clones of himself resembling 19th century England, where he believes society was perfect. His plan is to disturb the Celetials so that they would come to Earth and eradicate all life, leaving only his perfection to rebuild the planet.
Summers Obsession
Scott Summers and Jean Grey were sent back in time once so that they would make sure Mr. Sinister defied Apocalypse. This was a success, yet it was only the beginning of Sinister's obsession with the Summers bloodline. He saw it as being the perfect bloodline, being the most "racially-supreme" as it has been bred naturally rather than forced (as Apocalypse would have it done). Sinister once used the identity of Mike Milbury when living in Alaska where he was a neighbor to Phillip & Deborah Summers (the grandparents of the Summers brothers). It was many years later that he came to realize that a child of Jean Grey and Scott Summer's genes would be a mutant with unimaginable power, capable of destroying Apocalypse, so that Sinister could finally be free. He even became an important figure at the orphanage where Scott Summers was raised, giving them a history. But it was the base of his experiments as beneath the orphanage was his laboratory.
--Karen
