History Characters / XMenSinister

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Called out as one by Professor X in ''Immortal X-Men''. Thanks to his various edits to his own personality, Sinister is a hollow husk of a being.]]

* AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit: His mission is exploring the cosmic powers of the universe. This path led him to hijacking the Progenitors, a type II civilization that converted their entire solar system into a laboratory and computer farm. In the Sins of Sinister timeline he eventually encased it within a Dyson sphere.

* AllYourPowersCombined: A variation, Enigma is an AI that collects all the knowledge and skill of Sinister, Stasis, Orbis and Mother Righteous. It uses all of this to ascend to Dominion.

** ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge has Sinister playing a LongGame to avert TheSingularity predicted and foretold by various characters, but his all-consuming narcissism and utter lack of morals have sidetracked him into various schemes to accumulate power because he sees himself as the only one fit to have control over everyone to accomplish said goal. Whereas Essex wanted to save humanity from the AIs, this version of Sinister just wants to save himself, becoming a GodhoodSeeker.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: In the end, none of them were going to successfully ascend, they were just meant to collect knowledge for the Enigma who is truly the Essex that ascends.]]

* EldritchAbomination: It's so far beyond normal that when the Defenders experience a vision of it, the most [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith comprehensible]] way they can see it is a massive crown spanning five different realities. It is revealed to have been a computer program with no true form before ascending adding to this trope.

* ThereIsAnother: A second reveal on top of the reveal that there are other Sinister clones with different methods. Retroactively connected to Loki in ''Defenders: Beyond'' when they note that the multiversal threat isn't any of four suits so they need to be on the lookout for "the fifth business".

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not a good person by any stretch, but she’s pretty revolted at Stasis cloning the original Rebecca and their dead son Adam in order to eat dinner with them and kill them when dinner is done. She threatens him into ending that daily routine.]]

* VoodooShark: Sinister's first full use as a villain, in which he was TheManBehindTheMan and explanation for the {{Retcon}} that Madelyne Pryor was a clone, was definitely this, and it has long been scorned in fandom for the twin crimes of derailing the Madelyne Pryor character and making Sinister himself, supposedly a genius geneticist of the highest caliber, look like a bit of an idiot. The story establishes he acquired Scott and Jean's DNA early and that his goal is to create their child (who he has calculated will be an extremely powerful mutant)... so why didn't he just use their DNA to create their child himself? [[CuttingTheKnot He actually does just this]] in the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse and the result, Characters/MarvelComicsXMan, is genetically identical or thereabouts to [[ComicBook/{{Cable}} the child born to Maddie and Scott]] (and even more powerful), which just makes the original plot even more preposterous. (While Mads was brain-dead when he grew her--he had a Jean-Grey-shaped vegetable until a piece of the Phoenix came along--and his ability to create fully-functional clones came later, theoretically he would have only needed her uterus to work, since presumably that wouldn't have the same problems as his cloning process.)

!!!'''Nationality:''' American

* 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.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Though he tries to avoid it, occasionally some 19th century attitudes flare up, such as his attitude towards women.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Deconstructed; Even though the original Essex excised his capacity for love on a genetic level, he still makes clones of his wife and son for company at meals. Even then, he also kills them on a whim when one thing or another about them disappoints him. Mother Righteous,[[spoiler: who is actually a clone of his wife]], calls this out as a particularly vile habit and threatens him into never doing it again. His genuine feelings towards [[spoiler: Mother Righteous]] are also warped by his arrogance, misogyny and own agenda.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: During his dinner with Mother Righteous, he acts like he has no idea about Orbis Stellaris. Actually, the two know one another and are currently working together.

* PhraseCatcher: So far the only condition for her assistance is that the recipient thanks her by name, "Thank you, Mother Righteous." When Ora Serrata refuses, she suffers [[ImHavingSoulPains aches in her soul]] until she complies.

!!!Species: Dominion (formerly Artificial Intelligence)

* TheBadGuyWins: They've already "won", achieving the goal the various Sinisters having been competing to accomplish, and they have absolutely no intention of sharing the throne. The moment of victory occurs at the end of issue #18 when it foils Mother Righteous' attempt at Dominionhood and feeds her data to its past self. This completes the set since it had already gathered data from the other three Sinisters, and the A.I. awakens as a Dominion.

** We see his cocky and confident demeanor shatter for the first time when Emma delivers news of Doctor Stasis’s and Orchis scientist who is a Sinister that he never knew about. Furthermore Stasis’ claims at being the original sends Sinister into such a panic that he runs away from the Quiet Council. ''Immortal X-Men'' implies that he's actually a Victorian era clone - and that there are at least two more...

* 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.]]

* BadBoss: She doesn't treat the Nightkin well to say the least. She takes advantage of their naivety after being freshly freed from Sinister's control to send them to obtain several divine treasures, risking their necks all the way.

* MotherNatureFatherScience: All of the other, male Essex clones chose various fields of scientific research to achieve their goals. Righteous turned out female and went down the path of mysticism.

* EldritchAbomination: It's so far beyond normal that when the Defenders experience a vision of it, the most [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith comprehensible]] way they can see it is a massive crown spanning five different realities.

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* TomatoInTheMirror: All of them, with the exception of [[WomenAreWiser Mother Righteous]], were under the impression that they were the original Nathaniel Essex. Those three men were wrong, as the original died in an insane asylum, possibly before they even existed.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: To an insane degree. He betrays everybody who works with him. He has literally betrayed trillions of people by the time of Sins of Sinister: Dominion.

* KickTheDog: Seperated the Summers brothers to make Scott more vulnerable and prevented Scott from being adopted.

** Another case of DependingOnTheWriter, and most prevalent during the 90s where most of what he did was intended to oppose Apocalypse. His actions during 2007's ''[[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]]'' storyline have shades of this, as he was working (in his usual StalkerWithATestTube way) to revive the mutant race after the ComicBook/ScarletWitch sterilized them en masse via reality warping.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: It's revealed through brief flashbacks that his post-human and general science work meant that he was at least marginally involved in Project Rebirth, the original Gamma Bomb project, and the development of the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker.
* 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.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Genetic engineering monsters to combat the X-Men is his whole gimmick. What else do you expect from Mister Sinister? [[spoiler:He also plans to become Dominion by using the Children of the Vault.]]

* TheReveal: He’s a human Sinister clone, complete with a card suit black club on his forehead in place of a red diamond.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Genetic engineering monsters to combat the X-Men is his whole gimmick. What else do you expect from Mister Sinister?

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: According to him, he's not really onboard with Orchis, just viewing them as a useful tool for his own goal.

[[folder:Miss Sinister]]
!!Claudine Renko/Miss Sinister
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate clone
!!!'''Appeared in''': ''X-men Legacy'' #214 (July, 2008)


Claudine Renko is the end result of one of Mr. Sinister's ''many'' CrazyPrepared attempts to escape death. He infected her with a virus that, in the event of his death, would allow him to return to life using her body. Upon his death at Mystique's hands during ''Messiah Complex'' the virus activated, [[CloneByConversion increasingly turning Claudine into]] his OppositeSexClone. Claudine, of course, wants no part of it and sees Laura and her HealingFactor as a means of preventing Sinister's return.