History Characters / XMenSinister

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: After being the GreaterScopeVillain of a major ComicBook/{{Avengers}} storyline and a ComicBook/TheDefenders miniseries, he ends up debuting in a major ComicBook/XMen storyline and [[CanonCharacterAllAlong being a]] [[HijackedByGanon major X-Men villain]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: His desire to become a Dominion during the Krakoa Age isn't entirely outside of what he'd normally do, but a mad geneticist suddenly wanting to become a machine god appears to be an odd stretch, so it's not much of a surprise when it's revealed that [[spoiler:it wasn't really his idea]].

* AtrociousAlias: "Mister Sinister and his Nasty Boys" is one of the most notorious examples in comic books. Originally it was meant to be foreshadowing that he was the creation of a child supervillain, but as that plot point never manifested, it just comes off as exremely silly. There's been various attempts to justify the name since his introduction, but most fans just take it as TheArtefact.

* SanitySlippage: The dead of his son broke something in him, causing him to experiment on random strangers and then the corpse of his own son.

* MyOwnGrandpa: Due to existing outside of space and time, the full Dominion Enigma is able to steal the data from the Sinister clones' Dominionhood attempts in each timeline and feed it back to its original non Dominion AI past self, which in turn leads it to ascend into Dominionhood. Dominion Enigma is thus responsible for its own past self becoming a Dominion.

* AmbitiousButLazy: She wants to become a Dominion, something AboveTheGods that exists beyond time and space, feared enough by those who know of them to mobilize the Beyonders to destroy the multiverse just to thwart it.Yet she freely admits she's too lazy to put in the hard work and chose magic because it seemed easiest path. Even then her skill in magic is the bare minimum to be effective against people that have no idea what they're dealing with.

* WickedCultured: Insane and selfish AI god-monster it may be, but Enigma still has a fondness for classical music.

* AmbitiousButLazy: She wants to become a Dominion, something AboveTheGods that exists beyond time and space fears enough to mobilize the Beyonders destroy the multiverse just to thwart it, but freely admits she's too lazy to put in hard work and chose magic because it seemed easiest. Even then her skill in magic is the bare minimum to be effective against people that have no idea what they're dealing with.

* TheArchmage: She's the Essex clone that took an interest in magic and she's certainly no slouch in that department.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She's an archmage, and as she reveals during ''Fall of X'', a Mutant (and judging by Hope's comment, one on par with Legion himself. Though there might be a ''reason'' for that one...)
* NoSavingThrow: So far there appears to be no way to escape her when she cashes in her deal and absorbs someone body and soul into one of her orbs. Not even David, with the power to obliterate elder gods, can break free.

* SmugSnake: Confident is literally what the word con is short for, but when she thinks she's gotten what she wanted out of some poor mark she does not hesitate to start gloating to their face. This blows up in her face twice, once when Legion manages to slip from her grasp, another when it's revealed her play at Dominion was hijacked by another Essex clone. Destiny kicks her in the face for good measure in the latter situation.

* BigBadWannabe: For all his pretensions of grandeur, he's just one of many pathetic anti-mutant bigots, albeit a moderately dangerous one. But it's telling that the only response Cyclops has to Stasis's attempt at a HannibalLecture is that he's heard that same speech a dozen times before from scarier people. In ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'', he's the first of the Sinisters to go down, and he goes down quickly. [[spoiler: ''Rise of the Powers of X'' subverts this. He only appears for half the issue, but his impact on history turns out to be greater than what we knew, and it turns out he's been playing Orchis like a fiddle.]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Unlike the pale white of Sinister and Stasis, her skin is bright red.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Of [[ComicBook/SecretWars1984 both]] [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]], ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman, ComicBook/DefendersBeyond and the ComicBook/FantasticFour villain Molecule Man. All of them came about because of an elaborate plan by the Beyonders to nullify his threat.

* HijackedByGanon: It accrued its knowledge and power by swooping in at the moment of the other Sinisters' ascension and seizing all the benefits for itself. It's likely the capacity for this to happen was hardwired into each of them.

* GenreSavvy: It knows that Dominions aren't invincible, aware that at least one of the ways to achieve the rank is by lobotomizing and highjacking an existing one, but it's aware of how narrow the list of ways to hurt them are and is fixated on guarding against such.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Nathaniel Essex distilled, ascended, and pitiless, willing to use and abuse everyone whether they be human, mutant, or machine to attain and keep its existence.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Nathaniel Essex distilled, ascended, and pitiless.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Telepathically killed by Emma and then roasted by Firestae to make sure he's really dead.]]

* DependingOnTheWriter: Kieron Gillen writes him as being less repugnant and "bwa-ha-ha, evil!" in his actions than his creator Gerry Duggan, claiming his attitude to Mutants in NothingPersonal and trying to be less like a 19th century man.

* SlaveBrand: Canonically, the red diamond on his head is "[[http://i.imgur.com/K55yJSm.jpg the mark of Apocalypse]]", branding Sinister as ''his'' forevermore. And yes, you did read that right. One of the most distinctive features of one of the most distinctive villains in the X-Men's rogues gallery is nothing more than a glorified tramp stamp. Reimagined in the Krakoan Age, where it's revealed that the original Nathaniel Essex established four systems of clones based on card suits, recontextualizing the diamond.[[spoiler: Then come full circle with the reveal that all four systems were [[UnwittingPawn unconsciously in service to a fifth system, making even the new ones a slave brand]].

* SlaveBrand: Canonically, the red diamond on his head is "[[http://i.imgur.com/K55yJSm.jpg the mark of Apocalypse]]", branding Sinister as ''his'' forevermore. And yes, you did read that right. One of the most distinctive features of one of the most distinctive villains in the X-Men's rogues gallery is nothing more than a glorified tramp stamp. No longer the case as of the Krakoan Age, where his red diamond is one of the symbols for the Sinister Systems themselves.

[[folder: Sinisters in General]]

Appears in the cartoons: ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''. Also appears in the games: ''VideoGame/X2WolverinesRevenge'', ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'', ''X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalpyse'', ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'', ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' and the BigBad of the ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'' video game.

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* SlaveBrand: [[spoiler:Canonically, the red diamond on his head is "[[http://i.imgur.com/K55yJSm.jpg the mark of Apocalypse]]", branding Sinister as ''his'' forevermore. And yes, you did read that right. One of the most distinctive features of one of the most distinctive villains in the X-Men's rogues gallery is nothing more than a glorified tramp stamp]].