Sinister

[DarknessOfDeath]

I'd like to know more about this dude... Sinister is EVIL.. Evil than the Emperor??

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

Sinister isn't that evil,

Secretly he sponsors Rwandan children and has the world's most comprehensive Malibu Stacy collection.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

your joking right??


come on. seriously. Tell me.

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

No wait that's Smithers.

Yeah, Sinister, that deviant megalomaniac! Yeah he is way evil!

 

[Eros]

sinister has always been a joke IMO. anyone who actually calls themsleves "Mr.Sinister" has already lost cool points. He wants Jean and scotts DNA, blah blah blah.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

well I know that part... but not too well. So he's not like as evil as Magneto is he?

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

Yeah, like Apocalypse, Cable and dare I say it... Gambit!

He was a product of the early nineties, where style was valued more than substance.


That is not to say that these characters haven't developed more personality and depths as the years (and writers) role on, it's just that they're base nature is slightly flawed.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

...riiight...

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

Hmm...

Sinister is much less human than Magneto, in the way that he is uncompromising and has no real social philosophy (or family, or romantic interest, or any other interest apart from 'Mutants')

So, personally I would say he is MORE evil than Magneto.
Actually, I would say that Sinister is a monster.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

got any pics of what this monster looks like?

 

[.TheNerdess.]

but wasnt sinister just a pawn of apocolypse? like what evil was he ever really done on his own, other than being a little obsessed with mutants?

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

sure ill go find some for you

 

[newwaveboy87]

 

[Eros]

Sinister was Apocs ***** basically, but like his master his goal is far out thier and unlike his master sinisters goals never really makes any sense once you think about it.

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

No, Sinister is pretty independant, although he has 'worked for' Apocalypse in the past, however, his motivations were... well, sinister.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Sinister was in a few X-men Cartoon shows. right?? Cause he does seem really familiar. Its been a while since i've seen the x-men cartoon shows. -sighs- I don't watch much t.v - sadly. maybe these pics of sinister will bring some memories back.

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

Yeah he was in a few cartoons. In fact, I think he was the first villain the X-Men faced, excluding the Sentinels.

He captured Morph in the very first episode and turned him evil. Then when Magneto and Prof X went to visit the Savage Land, he captured them too and neutralized everyones powers.

Actually, now that I think about it, he was a pretty major bad guy throughout the first couple of seasons.

 

[.TheNerdess.]

he was definatly in the cartoons, but as a servant of apocolypse and enslaver of morph, which was always really sad.
there is a pic of him on like page two of this thread.

 

[MoiBijou]

Pic:

http://mutantvault.xmenlegends2.com/assets/Sinister1280.jpg

History:

Real Name: Dr. Nathaniel Essex
Aliases: Dr. Windsor, Mr. Sinister, Dr. Nathan Milbury, Mike Milbury, Lefty
Relatives: Rebecca (wife, deceased), Adam (son, deceased)
Alternate-X Versions: (Age of Apocalypse), (Mutant X), (Ultimate), (The End)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced sĭn'ĭ-stər [From Latin sinister "on the left, unlucky"]; Ominous, evil.
Powers & History: Sinister was a human doctor living in Victorian England who was augmented by Apocalypse. He does not age, and he appears to have total control over his body's molecules, allowing him to pass energy blasts through himself and change his appearance. It was recently revealed that this ability was derived from the cells of the mutant Courier in the late 19th Century, and not from any of Apocalypse's manipulations. Sinister may also have some telepathic abilities, like making people pass out.
A geneticist of unparalleled genius, Sinister foresaw the coming mutations that would befall mankind when he was still human. However, his unorthodox experiments caused him to be rejected by the Royal Society, and by his own wife in 1857, leading him to Apocalypse, who gave him a silvery skin and stripped him of his humanity. Interestingly, Cyclops and Phoenix were sent back in time by Sanctity of the Askani

Sinister has conducted numerous experiments in his time, plotting the course of certain genepools for over a century. He ran an obstetrics clinic in New York in the late 19th century and performed genetic research on society's deviants on the side. During WWII, he joined the Nazi scientists and managed to get a blood sample of the Sub-Mariner from which he created a clone, N2. N2 had the ability to absorb and project water, and defeated Namor and the original Human Torch quite easily, but fell to the unexpected skill of Captain America. Working first in the Nazi death camps as a "doctor," he counted Gabrielle Haller among his patients. In his guise as Dr. Essex, he influenced the research of Herbert Wyndham, the man who became the High Evolutionary. He also secured a position at Oxford as a biology professor, and taught Professor X and Moira MacTaggert, even becoming Moira's faculty advisor.

Over time he found that the combination of Scott Summers' and Jean Grey's genes would generate a mutant of incredible power. The young Scott was brought to Sinister's orphanage in Nebraska, and Sinister collected a blood sample from Jean Grey to confirm his findings. When Phoenix died, Sinister used that sample to create the clone who was known as Madelyne Pryor. Madelyne was set up to meet Scott, and naturally, the two fell in love and married. Madelyne gave birth to Nathan Christopher, a child with telekinetic powers, but before Sinister could get a hold of him, Madelyne allied herself with N'astrih and became the Goblin Queen. After that, Nathan was cared for by his father and the "resurrected" Jean Grey. Before Sinster could make another attempt to get Nathan, Apocalypse, sensing that this child could be a weapon for Sinister to use against him, infected Nathan with a techno-organic virus, which forced Cyclops to send him into the future, where he grew up to be the man we know as Cable.

In his pursuit of genetic perfection Sinister had Gambit assemble a group of assassins known as the Marauders. The Marauders entered the Morlock tunnels under Manhattan and commenced a slaughter, because Sinister considered the Morlocks genetically useless. However, Sinister sometimes aids the X-Men, for reasons all his own. He helped Gambit save Sabretooth's life after his adamantium was removed, he took in Threnody and helped her control her power before she escaped, and in the 19th Century, he helped Gambit stop the current Thieves' Guild from revealing Apocalypse's secrets to Candra, as well as returning Courier to a more human state. In each case, though, Sinister exacts a price, and it is usually very costly, not to the pocket, but to the soul.

When Herbert Wyndham (the High Evolutionary) activated a satellite that reverted all mutant DNA to human DNA, stripping all Earth's mutants of their mutations, Dr. Essex, who had come to support his student's work, then revealed himself as Sinister. He locked down Wyndham's armor and modified the satellite's beam to mutate every human being on Earth, providing Sinister with an entire planet of lab subjects. Fortunately he was stopped by the X-Men. Soon after, nearly 20 of Sinister's facilities were attacked by Domina, and she appeared to have killed him at each one. Exactly what happened to Sinister is unclear.

What is known is that Sinister survived, and after Colossus sacrificed himself to cure the Legacy Virus, he offered Nightcrawler the opportunity to resurrect Piotr as a clone. He was flatly refused.

Later, Sinister insinuated himself into the reborn Weapon X Program as "Dr. Windsor." He appeared to be saving mutants from the Neverland concentration camp, but in reality was bringing them to his secret lab and experimenting on them. As Windsor, Sinister was privy to the secrets of the Program's members, such as the fact that Mesmero had lost his powers and Sabretooth was again free of mind control, but he seems not to have acted on this knowledge, except to ensure that his identity was not uncovered.

 

[Aptman]

but wasnt sinister just a pawn of apocolypse? like what evil was he ever really done on his own, other than being a little obsessed with mutants?

Well, there is the whole cloning Jean and creating what would become the Goblin Queen. Then there's just years of messing with the Summers brothers...like owning the orphanage that Scott grew up in and totally messing with his head. He's one of those "behind the scenes" guys most of the time... and he has proven very difficult to kill.

 

[GreatWhiteWhale]

 

[Eros]

MR.SINISTER!

 

[Neto Magnus]

Okay, it's not official that Mr. Sinister is in X3, but there have been a number of rumors about his appearance--SO just in case he makes a cameo somewhere in the movie I thought I'd start a thread...

How do you think he will be portrayed (if at all)? Will we see him in human Dr. Essex form and/or as Mr. Sinister? Who would be a good choice to play him? (I vote for Ralph Fiennes, esp. since he worked with Brett Ratner in "Red Dragon" and is British.) What will his relationship with Apocalypse be? What does it all mean for X4, as well as for Cyclops, Phoenix, Cable, etc.

Good call on Ralph Fiennes, but I always saw him as a younger Xavier.

I would say Jeremy Irons. I know it might be a little type casting but he's a vetern villain.

 

[Exploding Boy]

sinister has always been a joke IMO. anyone who actually calls themsleves "Mr.Sinister" has already lost cool points. He wants Jean and scotts DNA, blah blah blah.

He did create one of the most powerfull mutants ever...Xman.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

creepy...

okay so nathan is Cable right?