History Characters / XMenHellfireClub

* CastFromHitPoints: Some of power powers come at the expense of her life energy, which is just as well, because she has the power to drain it from others.

!Later members

[[folder:Adrienne Frost]]
!!Adrienne Frost / White Queen II
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Generation X'' #48 (December, 1998)

-> ''Emma dear, family is for people who can't make friends on their own.''
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The older sister of Emma Frost. A ruthless corporate raider willingly molded in her father's image, she joined the Hellfire Club as its White Queen after falling out with her sister and the kids of ComicBook/GenerationX. Treacherous and conniving, she backstabbed everyone who crossed her path, including the Hellfire Club themselves. Eventually her double-dealing caught up with her, however, and after causing the death of one of Emma's students the old White Queen shot the new one dead.

-> See Characters/EmmaFrost

[[folder:Holocaust]]
!!William Rolfson / Nemesis / Holocaust
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men: Alpha'' #1 (1995)

-> ''I see that you are the sort of commander who understands that wars are not won in a single battle, Shaw. I'll... respect that. For now.''
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The time-displaced son of ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse. An associate of the Club rather than an actual member, Holocaust was tracked down by Sebastian Shaw after falling to Earth in a fearsome battle with Exodus of [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Magneto's Acolytes]]. Shaw built Holocaust a new containment suit in exchange for his service, but that service didn't last for long, as ComicBook/{{Onslaught}} soon arrived to make Holocaust a better offer.

-> See Characters/AgeOfApocalypse and Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToI
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[[folder:Madelyne Pryor]]
!!Madelyne Jennifer Pryor / Anodyne / Goblyn Queen / Black Rook / Red Queen
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant clone
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #168 (1983, original), ''X-Man'' #22 (1996, joined Hellfire)

-> ''I see no fire, Tessa, no flame... Except for the ComicBook/Inferno1988 itself.'' -- Sebastian Shaw
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The first wife of ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} and a woman who was seemingly the spitting image of ComicBook/JeanGrey... because as it [[RetCon turned out]] she was actually Jean's clone. After being used as the BigBad for the ''Inferno'' event and being KilledOffForReal for several years, Madelyne was resurrected in the pages of the ''X-Man'' title, where she was brought into the Hellfire Club as Black Rook by Selene. Never a woman to let herself be used, Pryor turned the invitation to her own advantage, forging an alliance with Sebastian Shaw and leaving her former patron in the dust before departing the Club itself because it turns out that EveryoneHasStandards, even clones.

-> See [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]]

[[folder:Courtney Ross]]
!!Courtney Ross / Opul Lun Sat-Yr-9 / White Queen III
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!!!'''Nationality:''' English
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #449 (2004)

A CanonForeigner who is originally the problem of Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}, the woman known as Courtney Ross is actually an alternate reality counterpart from Earth-794 who killed the real Courtney Ross and usurped her identity. Sat-Yr-9 was a ruthless dictator in her own reality but she got deposed and has come to Earth-616 through a PortalDoor in the multiverse to evade execution and start anew with a different position of power somewhere no one knows who she is.

Even though she still goes by "Courtney Ross", ComicBook/CaptainBritain (Psylocke's brother) and his team are completely aware of the fact that Sat-Yr-9 is an impostor and have already battled her but she managed to escape and is now the new White Queen, and has appointed Madame Hydra as her personal aide and bodyguard as the "White Princess".

She keeps her arrogant and ruthless behavior and still ranks high on Captain Britain's hitlist for having killed his girlfriend, even though he hasn't gotten track of her yet.

-> See Characters/CaptainBritainEnemies

[[folder:Reeva Payge / Black Queen]]
!!Reeva Payge
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men Annual'' #3 (August, 1994)
Shinobi's Black Queen when he took over the New York chapter of the Hellfire Club from his father.

* BrownNote: Her mutant power was to use her voice to emit a high pitch frequency that would disrupt the targets brain's chemistry and distort their perception of reality.

[[folder:Benedict Kine / White King]]
!!Benedict Kine
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men Annual'' #3 (August, 1994)
Shinobi's White King when he took over the New York chapter of the Hellfire Club from his father.

* TheCoup: Disatisfied with Shinobi's leadership, he attempted one, unsuccseful.
* MindRape: Benedict could use his powers to control the nervous system of his targets, increasing the pain or pleasure sensation.
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[[folder:Benazir Kaur / White Queen]]
!!Benazir Kaur
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men Annual'' #3 (August, 1994)
Shinobi's White Queen when he took over the New York chapter of the Hellfire Club from his father.

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* {{Plaguemaster}}: Her mutant power allows her to accelerate the metabolism of her targets. She could use it to accelerate disease progress, like causing Gambit to suffer an advanced stage lung cancer. This can be reversed if she is knocked unconscious.
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[[folder:Briar Raleigh / Black Bishop]]
!!Briar Raleigh

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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant

* PragmaticVillainy: Though largely an idiot, Shinobi is notable for being one of the few comic book villains who ''isn't'' interested in dragging things into fisticuffs. He'd much rather just [[ManipulativeBastard talk]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buy]] his way out of trouble, and when it's inevitable, tends to rely on {{Mooks}} [[NonActionBigBad rather than fight himself]].

* PlayingBothSides: The biggest and worst example is that he is a mutant, yet he funded and helped to construct the mutant-hunting Sentinels. Especially bad (though poetically ironic) considering they were created out of fear that mutants could be people like '''him.'''

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Though his cybernetics and his evil seem to be independent of each other...

* HollywoodCyborg: Has kept pace with the X-Men over the years by constantly upgrading his cyborg body, mixing and matching parts and bodies so often you'd think he was made of legos.
--> '''Pierce:''' The beauty of being a cyborg is that, unlike you mutants, I can always ''upgrade''.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Reavers, a gang of cyborg mercenaries he took leadership of in the eighties. Initially played deadly straight, their camp nature led them to inevitable VillainDecay and most of them haven't been seen since the nineties.

* DressedLikeADominatrix: For [[AuthorAppeal whatever reason]], their female members seem to have some rather BSDM fetishistic outfits, from Emma Frost to Selene and both Jean Grey and Madeline Pryor adopting similarly fetihistic outfits in their time in the group.

* CombatPragmatist: Selene isn't above fighting dirty. After getting knocked on her butt from being double-teamed by Falcon and Captain America, she came out swinging against Steve Rogers. Poor Steve ate the following combo: first she raked him hard in the face with her fingernails, then she got on his back and bit deep in his neck, and finally she [=KO'ed=] him with a kick to the head. That would have been the 2nd Steve Rogers she killed if his friends didn't intervene.

* {{Flanderization}}: Their connection to the Phoenix tends to be exaggerated in adaptations. Their counterparts in ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' are focused solely on obtaining the Phoenix's power, while in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' they are an outright cult that worships the Phoenix as some kind of pagan deity.

Besides the comics, Sebastian has appeared in two [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries animated]] [[WesternAnimation/WolverineAndtheXMen2009 adaptions]] of the X-Men and also appears as a boss in the first ''X-Men'' game for the [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Sega Game Gear]].

* Plaguemaster: Her mutant power allows her to accelerate the metabolism of her targets. She could use it to accelerate disease progress, like causing Gambit to suffer an advanced stage lung cancer. This can be reversed if she is knocked unconscious.

[[folder:Briar Raleigh / Black Bishop]]
!!Briar Raleigh

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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Magneto'' #5 (June, 2014)
A human ally of Magneto’s who joined the Hellfire Club during the threat of M-Pox.
* {{Cyborg}}: She has Shi’ar technology implanted in her body.
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[[folder: Siobhan]]
!!Siobhan
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* OffWithHisHead: Frequently dispatched this way. 90s villain Trevor Fitzroy beheaded him and tossed his head into fellow Upstart Shinobi Shaw's bed to prove it (imagine ''Film/BladeRunner'' meets ''Film/TheGodfather'') and a decade later Sebastian Shaw ''punched'' his head off. [[DeathIsCheap This never kills him for good]], of course.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: While mostly an enemy of the X-Men and their related teams, she faced Captain America and the Daughters of Liberty when she decided to go out of Krakoa and cause mayhem. She was also the main villain in a 1999 story arc of the Fantastic Four. In an anthology story from 1991, Selene had the bright idea to challenge the Hulk because she was bored. She felt rejected because he wanted to be left alone, and her mind games did not work on him.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: While mostly an enemy of the X-Men and their related teams, she faced Captain America and the Daughters of Liberty when she decided to go out of Krakoa and cause mayhem.

* EvilVersusEvil: Once got into a fight with the Red Skull's crew shortly after ''Acts of Vengeance''. They were looking for Skull and figured the Hellfire Club knew. Selene didn't know what they were after, and didn't care. They were simply on her turf. Fight ended on a no-score draw.

* BigBad: She was one of the major villains in the original new mutants run and it took a long, ''long'' time, but Selene finally got her due as a BigBad again in the ''Necrosha'' story arc.

* CoDragons: In the 80s, she and White Queen Emma Frost were [[TheDragon the dragons]] to Sebastian Shaw.

* {{Mutant|s}}: If not the first, then certainly the longest-lived and first ''known''.

* MindOverMatter: She has telekinetic abilities; it's not clear whether these are part of her mutation or the result of some of her FunctionalMagic.

* AbusiveParents: Sebastain was apparently quite the dick to him in his youth, leading him to become a firm example of AntagonisticOffspring.

->"'No one important has cared about the Hellfire Club since TheEighties!'"
-->-- '''Lance Hunter'''

* LukeIMightBeYourFather: When he attempted to assassinate his father, Shinobi taunted Sebastian with the possibility that he was actually Leland's son, since their powers were much more alike than his and Sebastian's. Marauders #26 confirms that Leland is Shinobi's biological father.