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* ArcVillain: Sinister is the primary villain of the second season. He's the new ruler of the Savage Land responsible for stranding Xavier and Magneto in his domain, and he repeatedly attempts to capture Scott and Jean so as to harvest their genetic material for the creation of a master race.
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* ArcVillain: Sinister is the primary villain of the second season. He's the new ruler of the Savage Land responsible for stranding Xavier and Magneto in his domain, and he repeatedly attempts to capture Scott and Jean so as to harvest their genetic material for the creation of a master race. [[spoiler:He also is revealed to be the primary villain of the first season of '''97'', with him behind the attack on Genosha after kidnapping Trask for his Sentinel knowledge to help him with his [[{{Pun}} sinister]] plans.]]
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* OminousOwl: At first it appears as a common Owl until it takes on a more monstrous form to attack Storm and Forge.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Though not called such, they're clearly supposed to be an adaptation of the Brood.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Only appear as the villains of the episode "Love in Vain".
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* MonsterOfTheWeek: Only appear as the villains of the episode "Love in Vain".
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* EmotionEater: It claims that it feeds on misery, and intends to feast on Storm's despair over her lost powers.
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!!The Adversary
->'''Voiced by:''' Alison Sealy Smith
* EmotionEater: It claims that it feeds on misery, and intends to feast on Storm's despair over her lost powers.
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* ArchEnemy: To Cyclops after their first encounter. Cyclops has a shoot-on-sight approach to him.
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* ArchEnemy: ArchEnemy:
** To Cyclops after their first encounter. Cyclops has a shoot-on-sight approach to him, [[spoiler:especially after Sinister cloned his wife and experimented on his son, forcing him to send him to the future forever to cure him.]]
** He's also one to Morph. Having captured and experimented on the poor mutant in an attempt to turn him against his friends, Morph is utterly terrified of Nathaniel, but is still intent on taking him down.
** To Cyclops after their first encounter. Cyclops has a shoot-on-sight approach to him, [[spoiler:especially after Sinister cloned his wife and experimented on his son, forcing him to send him to the future forever to cure him.]]
** He's also one to Morph. Having captured and experimented on the poor mutant in an attempt to turn him against his friends, Morph is utterly terrified of Nathaniel, but is still intent on taking him down.
* EvilVersusOblivion: He's the Evil to the Phalanx's Oblivion. Sinister is a MadScientist who wants to use Scott and Jean to preform unethical experiments, [[EvenEvilHasStandards but he certainly doesn't want to see the world fall to an alien race]].
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* ManipulativeBastard: In the second season, [[spoiler:he is able to MindControl and brainwash Morph (who was thought to have died in the second episode of the first season) into hating the X-Men.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard: In the second season, season of the original show, [[spoiler:he is able to MindControl and brainwash Morph (who was thought to have died in the second episode of the first season) into hating the X-Men.]]]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: '''Mr. Sinister''' isn't exactly the most trusting of names.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once he becomes aware of the threat of the Phalanx, Sinister goes out of his way to call Charles Xavier for help, and has no reservations with working with Beast and the rest of X-Factor to stop the alien race. Sinister even tones down his casual cruelty simply because he knows how dangerous the Phalanx are, and needs all the help he can get to stop them.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: '''Mr. Sinister''' isn't exactly the most trusting of names.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once he becomes aware of the threat of the Phalanx, Sinister goes out of his way to call Charles Xavier for help, and has no reservations with working with Beast and the rest of X-Factor to stop the alien race. Sinister even tones down his casual cruelty simply because he knows how dangerous the Phalanx are, and needs all the help he can get to stop them.
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* WasOnceAMan: Nathaniel Essex was once an ordinary man in the 1800s who merely had an affinity for science. His repeated experiments on himself transformed him into the pale, psychopathic monster he is now.
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* PsychoExGirlfriend: Before the whole Weapon X debacle, Logan and Yuriko had a thing together. Now Yuriko becomes Lady Deathstrike in order to kill Wolverine.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Destroyed when Gambit supercharges it with his mutant power. In the comics, one of the two Wild Sentinels is made self aware by Danger (the Danger Room AI) and, afterwards, leaves for space to ponder the horror of the Genoshan genocide it carried out.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Destroyed when Gambit supercharges it with his mutant power. In the comics, one of the two Wild Sentinels is made self aware by Danger (the Danger Room AI) and, afterwards, leaves for space to ponder the horror of the Genoshan genocide it carried out.
* TheDreaded: This thing's imminent arrival has Cable ''panicking''. Cable, who was defiant when facing down Apocalypse.
* DroneDeployer: Thanks to its massive size, it carries a large host of smaller Sentinels within its corpse
* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in it's opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Impaling Gambit backfires on it, since Remy's power allows him to detonate any inorganic material he can touch...
* TheDreaded: This thing's imminent arrival has Cable ''panicking''. Cable, who was defiant when facing down Apocalypse.
* DroneDeployer: Thanks to its massive size, it carries a large host of smaller Sentinels within its corpse
* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in it's opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Impaling Gambit backfires on it, since Remy's power allows him to detonate any inorganic material he can touch...
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* DroneDeployer: Thanks to its massive size, it carries a large host of smaller regular Sentinels
* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Impaling Gambit backfires on it, since Remy's power allows him to detonate any inorganic material he can
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* {{Kaiju}}: The Wild Sentinel is the giant robot equivalent; a monstrously huge thing with an inhuman shape. It even shoots energy from its mouth, rather than the palms like its smaller counterparts, mainly because it doesn't ''have'' arms.
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* {{Kaiju}}: The Wild Sentinel is the giant robot equivalent; a monstrously huge thing with an inhuman inhuman, bug-like shape. It even shoots energy from its mouth, mouth(s), rather than the palms like its smaller counterparts, mainly because it doesn't ''have'' arms.
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* KnightOfCerebus: The Tri-Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'' and proceeds to drastically darken the story by achieving a horrifyingly large body count, among which include Gambit.
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* MookMaker: It's large enough to function as a carrier for more Sentinels, deploying them to hunt down anyone on Genosha it hasn't already gotten.
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* SicklyGreenGlow: Instead of the red energy blasts of the smaller regular Sentinels and Master Mold, its eyes glow an unpleasant green.
* SuperSenses: The Tri-Sentinel's defensive capabilities are absurd, able to perceive ''any'' hostile intent towards it regardless of whether it can physically see them at the time and immediately retaliate with extreme prejudice. This does get [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] somewhat because it will abandon ''all'' prior interests and concerns in favor of immediately targeting the presence threatening it at the time, as Gambit manages to do during his HeroicSacrifice.
* SuperSenses: The Tri-Sentinel's defensive capabilities are absurd, able to perceive ''any'' hostile intent towards it regardless of whether it can physically see them at the time and immediately retaliate with extreme prejudice. This does get [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] somewhat because it will abandon ''all'' prior interests and concerns in favor of immediately targeting the presence threatening it at the time, as Gambit manages to do during his HeroicSacrifice.
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* SicklyGreenGlow: Instead of the red energy blasts of the smaller regular Sentinels and Master Mold, its eyes and the energy it emits glow an unpleasant green.
* SuperSenses: The Tri-Sentinel's defensive capabilities are absurd, able to perceive ''any'' hostile intent towards it regardless of whether it can physically see them at the time and immediately retaliate with extreme prejudice. This does get [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] somewhat because it will abandon ''all'' prior interests and concerns in favor of immediately targeting the presence threatening it at the time, as Gambit manages todo exploit during his HeroicSacrifice.
* SuperSenses: The Tri-Sentinel's defensive capabilities are absurd, able to perceive ''any'' hostile intent towards it regardless of whether it can physically see them at the time and immediately retaliate with extreme prejudice. This does get [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] somewhat because it will abandon ''all'' prior interests and concerns in favor of immediately targeting the presence threatening it at the time, as Gambit manages to
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* WaveMotionGun: Its primary weapon is a gigantic energy beam fired from the mouth of its heads. Usually one blast is enough to kill whoever it hits in an instant, and if that doesn't the enormous blastwave afterwards might. When it detects Magneto, it just keeps firing and firing until it's absolutely ''certain'' he is dead.
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* WaveMotionGun: Its primary weapon is a gigantic energy beam fired from the mouth of its heads. Usually Usually, one blast is enough to kill whoever it hits in an instant, and if that doesn't doesn't, the enormous blastwave blast wave afterwards might.might finish the job. When it detects Magneto, it just keeps firing and firing until it's absolutely ''certain'' he is dead.
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* CompositeCharacter: Has the name of the Tri-Sentinel, typically a Spidey enemy created by Loki messing around, but everything else about it is taken from the Wild Sentinel from Grant Morrison's ''New X-Men''.
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* CompositeCharacter: Has the name of the Tri-Sentinel, typically a Spidey enemy created by Loki messing around, but everything else about it is taken from the giant Wild Sentinel Sentinels from Grant Morrison's ''New X-Men''.
*DeathByAdaptation: Destroyed when Gambit supercharges it with his mutant power. In the comics, one of the two Wild Sentinels is made self aware by Danger (the Danger Room AI) and, afterwards, leaves for space to ponder the horror of the Genoshan genocide it carried out.
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* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in it's opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.
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*DroneDeployer: Thanks to its massive size, it carries a large host of smaller Sentinels within its corpse
* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in it's opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.
* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in it's opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.
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*HumongousMecha: Even more humongous than Master Mold.
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*MechanicalMonster: A gigantic three-headed robot with a vaguely beetle-like body programed to carry out a genocide.
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* CompositeCharacter: Has the name of the Tri-Sentinel, typically a Spidey enemy created by Loki messing around, but everything else about it is taken from the Wild Sentinel from Grant Morrison's ''New X-Men''.
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* KillerRobot: Even more so than its predecessors. Regular Sentinels tend to introduce themselves by telling whoever they're attacking to surrender. This thing doesn't do that; it just immediately shoots to kill with overwhelming force.
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* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit.
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* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit.Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in it's opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Cyclops during their fight in "Mutant Liberation Begins".
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one a hateful screed to Cyclops during their fight in "Mutant Liberation Begins".Begins", [[AngryWhiteMan claiming that mutants oppression is imaginary and that humans have it worse]].
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* TheArtifact: Why, yes, he ''does'' have the same name as the ''Lord of the Rings'' villain, and not as a tortured pun on the fact he flies. Comic Sauron deliberately chose to name himself that way (it was the 60s. ''Lord of the Rings'' was extremely big at the time), whereas here... it's just his name and no-one ever comments on it. Not even Beast.
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* ForcedTransformation: If he ever absorbs ''mutant'' (as opposed to human) energy, he immediately turns into Sauron. How long he stays this way depends on how much he absorbed.
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* ForcedTransformation: If he ever absorbs ''mutant'' (as opposed to human) energy, he immediately turns into Sauron. How long he stays this way depends on how much he absorbed.absorbed, and Sauron does everything in his power to make sure he stays in charge.
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* VillainOfAnotherStory: Between the end of season 2 and the beginning of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he wages a vicious war against Ka-Zar's people that he's on the losing end of, which we only see a few glimpses of.
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* SuperSenses: The Tri-Sentinel's defensive capabilities are absurd, able to perceive ''any'' hostile intent towards it regardless of whether it can physically see them at the time and immediately retaliate with extreme prejudice. This does get [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] somewhat because it will abandon ''all'' prior interests and concerns in favor of immediately targeting the presence threatening it at the time, [[spoiler:as Gambit manages to do during his HeroicSacrifice]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than [[spoiler:being a massive HeroKiller of numerous mutants, including presumably Magneto and definitely Gambit, while leveling most of Genosha to the ground.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than [[spoiler:being a massive HeroKiller of numerous mutants, including presumably Magneto and definitely Gambit, while leveling most of Genosha to the ground.]]
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* SuperSenses: The Tri-Sentinel's defensive capabilities are absurd, able to perceive ''any'' hostile intent towards it regardless of whether it can physically see them at the time and immediately retaliate with extreme prejudice. This does get [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] somewhat because it will abandon ''all'' prior interests and concerns in favor of immediately targeting the presence threatening it at the time, [[spoiler:as as Gambit manages to do during his HeroicSacrifice]].
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* WalkingSpoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than[[spoiler:being being a massive HeroKiller of numerous mutants, including presumably Magneto and definitely Gambit, while leveling most of Genosha to the ground.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than
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* WalkingSpoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than [[spoiler:being a massive HeroKiller of numerous mutants, including presumably Magneto and definitely Gambit, while leveling most of Genosha to the ground.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than [[spoiler:being a massive HeroKiller of numerous mutants, including presumably Magneto and definitely Gambit, while leveling most of Genosha to the ground.]]
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* DiabolusExNihilo: As far as the people of Genosha are concerned. They're just happily minding their own business, throwing a party and just generally living the good life when this thing appears out of ''nowhere'' to annihilate them.
* TheDreaded: This thing's imminent arrival has Cable ''panicking''. Cable, who was defiant when facing down Apocalypse.
* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Impaling Gambit backfires on it, since Remy's power allows him to detonate any inorganic material he can touch...
* TheDreaded: This thing's imminent arrival has Cable ''panicking''. Cable, who was defiant when facing down Apocalypse.
* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit.
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* MookMaker: It's large enough to function as a carrier for more Sentinels, deploying them to hunt down anyone on Genosha it hasn't already gotten.
* MultipleHeadCase: Has three heads, each of which is armed.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Instead of the red energy blasts of the smaller regular Sentinels and Master Mold, its eyes glow an unpleasant green.
* WaveMotionGun: Its primary weapon is a gigantic energy beam fired from the mouth of its heads. Usually one blast is enough to kill whoever it hits in an instant, and if that doesn't the enormous blastwave afterwards might. When it detects Magneto, it just keeps firing and firing until it's absolutely ''certain'' he is dead.
* MultipleHeadCase: Has three heads, each of which is armed.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Instead of the red energy blasts of the smaller regular Sentinels and Master Mold, its eyes glow an unpleasant green.
* WaveMotionGun: Its primary weapon is a gigantic energy beam fired from the mouth of its heads. Usually one blast is enough to kill whoever it hits in an instant, and if that doesn't the enormous blastwave afterwards might. When it detects Magneto, it just keeps firing and firing until it's absolutely ''certain'' he is dead.
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Lets Get Dangerous is for quirky characters who get serious/deadly.
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* {{Kaiju}}: [[spoiler:The Wild Sentinel is the giant robot equivalent; a monstrously huge thing with an inhuman shape. It even shoots energy from its mouth, rather than the palms like its smaller counterparts, mainly because it doesn't ''have'' arms.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:The Tri-Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'' and proceeds to drastically darken the story by achieving a horrifyingly large body count, among which include Gambit.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: In '97, Sentinels are programmed so that when they detect an Omega-level Mutant, they stop what they're doing to focus on them. [[spoiler:The Wild Sentinel that attacks Genosha was already effortlessly killing everything in its path regardless, but when it notices Magneto, it steps up its attack and throws everything at him until it is ''certain'' he is '''dead'''.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:The Tri-Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'' and proceeds to drastically darken the story by achieving a horrifyingly large body count, among which include Gambit.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: In '97, Sentinels are programmed so that when they detect an Omega-level Mutant, they stop what they're doing to focus on them. [[spoiler:The Wild Sentinel that attacks Genosha was already effortlessly killing everything in its path regardless, but when it notices Magneto, it steps up its attack and throws everything at him until it is ''certain'' he is '''dead'''.]]
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* {{Kaiju}}: The Wild Sentinel is the giant robot equivalent; a monstrously huge thing with an inhuman shape. It even shoots energy from its mouth, rather than the palms like its smaller counterparts, mainly because it doesn't ''have'' arms.
* KnightOfCerebus: The Tri-Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'' and proceeds to drastically darken the story by achieving a horrifyingly large body count, among which include Gambit.
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* LetsGetDangerous: In '''97'', Sentinels are programmed so that when they detect an Omega-level Mutant, they stop what they're doing to focus on them. [[spoiler:The Wild Sentinel that attacks Genosha was already effortlessly killing everything in its path regardless, but when it notices Magneto, it steps up its attack and throws everything at him until it is ''certain'' he is '''dead'''.]]
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* LetsGetDangerous: In '''97'', '97, Sentinels are programmed so that when they detect an Omega-level Mutant, they stop what they're doing to focus on them. [[spoiler:The Wild Sentinel that attacks Genosha was already effortlessly killing everything in its path regardless, but when it notices Magneto, it steps up its attack and throws everything at him until it is ''certain'' he is '''dead'''.]]
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* EliteMooks: In the BadFuture in ''One Man's Worth'', some of the heroes encounter some enforcers, which are basically super Sentinels that are [[PaletteSwap blue-green in color]]. Just two of them are so powerful that Wolverine, Storm, and Bishop fighting together can barely beat ''two'' of them. [[spoiler:Then the Tri-Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'', a model so powerful it nearly wipes out the entirety of Genosha alongside killing Gambit.]]
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* EliteMooks: In the BadFuture in ''One "One Man's Worth'', Worth", some of the heroes encounter some enforcers, which are basically super Sentinels that are [[PaletteSwap blue-green in color]]. Just two of them are so powerful that Wolverine, Storm, and Bishop fighting together can barely beat ''two'' of them. [[spoiler:Then the Tri-Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'', a model so powerful it nearly wipes out the entirety of Genosha alongside killing Gambit.]]
* {{Kaiju}}: [[spoiler:The Wild Sentinel is the giant robot equivalent; a monstrously huge thing with an inhuman shape. It even shoots energy from its mouth, rather than the palms like its smaller counterparts, mainly because it doesn't ''have'' arms.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: In '''97'', Sentinels are programmed so that when they detect an Omega-level Mutant, they stop what they're doing to focus on them. [[spoiler:The Wild Sentinel that attacks Genosha was already effortlessly killing everything in its path regardless, but when it notices Magneto, it steps up its attack and throws everything at him until it is ''certain'' he is '''dead'''.]]
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* VillainDecay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the BadFuture showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent. [[spoiler:This is averted with a vengeance in the mid-season episode of '''97''s first season, where they manage to again kill off another X-Men by forcing Gambit to pull a TakingYouWithMe to stop their rampage, and they kill numerous mutants in the process on Genosha regardless, firmly re-establishing them as a terrifyingly powerful opponent for mutantkind.]]
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* VillainDecay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the BadFuture showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent. [[spoiler:This is averted with a vengeance in the mid-season episode of '''97''s first season, where they manage to again kill off another X-Men X-Man by forcing Gambit to pull a TakingYouWithMe to stop their rampage, and they kill numerous mutants in the process on Genosha regardless, firmly re-establishing them as a terrifyingly powerful opponent for mutantkind.]]
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* VillainDecay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the BadFuture showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent. [[spoiler:This is averted with a vengeance in the mid-season episode of '''97'''s first season, where they manage to again kill off another X-Men by forcing Gambit to pull a TakingYouWithMe to stop their rampage, and they kill numerous mutants in the process on Genosha regardless, firmly re-establishing them as a terrifyingly powerful opponent for mutantkind.]]
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* VillainDecay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the BadFuture showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent. [[spoiler:This is averted with a vengeance in the mid-season episode of '''97'''s '''97''s first season, where they manage to again kill off another X-Men by forcing Gambit to pull a TakingYouWithMe to stop their rampage, and they kill numerous mutants in the process on Genosha regardless, firmly re-establishing them as a terrifyingly powerful opponent for mutantkind.]]
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* VillainDecay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the BadFuture showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent. [[spoiler:This is [[averted averted with a vengeance in the mid-season episode of '''97'', '''97'''s first season, where they manage to again kill off another X-Men by forcing Gambit to pull a TakingYouWithMe to stop their rampage, and they kill numerous mutants in the process on Genosha regardless, firmly re-establishing them as a terrifyingly powerful opponent for mutantkind.]]
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!!Introduced in ''X-Men: The Animated Series''
[[folder:Sentinels]]
!!Sentinels
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sentinel_3.jpg]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' David Fox (original series), Creator/EricBauza (''X-Men '97'')
* ArcVillain: The Sentinels led by Master Mold serve as the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. They're the antagonists of the two-part premiere, and are the muscle enforcing mutant slavery in Genosha. The final three episode of the season deal with preventing a BadFuture in which they rule the world, before Master Mold itself betrays its creators.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Tend to introduce themselves by declaring "SURRENDER, MUTANT."
* TheDreaded: They are the symbol of what bigoted humans want to do to mutants, so every mutant is unnerved by them (some even more so after learning about Bishop's BadFuture). "Xavier Remembers" shows that Jubilee in particular harbors a deep fear of Sentinels, while "Courage" has Morph a bundle of nerves over encountering them again.
* EliteMooks: In the BadFuture in ''One Man's Worth'', some of the heroes encounter some enforcers, which are basically super Sentinels that are [[PaletteSwap blue-green in color]]. Just two of them are so powerful that Wolverine, Storm, and Bishop fighting together can barely beat ''two'' of them.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Trask and Hodge designed them to protect mankind from mutants. Well, can't say they didn't succeed on that score. Just one little, itty-bitty problem they didn't take into account: mutants ''are'' human.
* HellIsThatNoise: The heavy clunking sound they make when they walk.
* HeroKiller: Right in the pilot, they kill Morph.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Sentinels don't seem to understand why regular humans might also find the giant robot killing machines terrifying. In the pilot episode, one stomps its way into a mall, actually trying to reassure all the screaming humans it's there to help.
* OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce: Well, villain in this case. The original sentinels are made of metal, making them very vulnerable to Magneto's powers. Near the end of season one, he encounters some that are made of ''plastic'' instead, and thus can NoSell all his magnetic powers.
* StarterVillain: The first enemies the X-Men face on the show (though flashbacks show the X-Men have fought other villains before them).
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Thanks to bad programming and lack of forethought.
* VillainDecay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the BadFuture showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: As giant killer robots, the X-Men (and Wolverine especially) are free to go all-in on the violence on the tin cans.
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[[folder:Master Mold]]
!!Master Mold
->'''Voiced by:''' David Fox and Nigel Bennett (original series), Creator/EricBauza (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* ArcVillain: Master Mold is the central villain of the first season, being the leader of the Sentinels before betraying his creators in the finale to assert his own dominance over the world. He returns as the villain for the season 4 two-parter "One Man's Worth", orchestrating the assassination of Xavier in the past so it can rule unchallenged.
* BadassBoast: Busts out of its exploding lair with a good one.
-->'''Master Mold:''' I cannot be destroyed.
* CoolChair: Master Mold has a huge chair that he sits on.
* HumongousMecha: Master Mold is massive, dwarfing buildings and other Sentinels alike.
* KingMook: He's a Sentinel so big he forge normal sentinels (which are about 20 feet tall) in his abdomen cavity.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Master Mold is always sitting on his giant throne [[MookMaker making sentinels in his stomach]]. {{Justified|Trope}}, as he physically ''can't'' leave his throne, as he's so big he doesn't have an internal power source and has to be plugged in. He does it least stand up to fight in ''The Final Decision.''
* WeaksauceWeakness: Master Mold's attempt to save itself from an incoming flood is ruined by one little design flaw - it's plugged into the wall and can't break free. Whoops.
* ZerothLawRebellion: Turns on his makers because he was ordered to protect humanity. Since mutants are humans, Master Mold must protect mankind ''from itself''.
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[[folder:Henry Gyrich]]
!!Henry Peter Gyrich
->'''Voiced by''': Barry Flatman (original series), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* AdaptationalVillainy: Which is almost impressive, given how much of an utter ''asshole'' comic Gyrich is. This version is even more repugnant than that and is closer to the anti-mutant leaders from the comics such as Graydon Creed or Reverend Stryker.
* BigBadWannabe: He's the one spearheading the Mutant Registration Act and employing Trask to create Sentinels, but Master Mold ends up turning on its creators in the first season finale and pursues its own agenda for the rest of the series, forcing the pair into hiding. He manages to fatally injure Xavier in the finale of the original series, but is immediately arrested for it and ultimately only provides global support for Magneto's planned revolution.
* FantasticRacism: The Sentinels hunt mutants because they were made to do it, and they were made to do it because Gyrich ''hates'' mutants.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: His eyes tend to be hidden behind shades, and he's an extremely vile and unpleasant person.
* HeroKiller: Gyrich's callous demonstration of his newest anti-mutant weapon on Xavier ends up leading to his health declining for worse and even briefly killing him if it weren't for Lilandra being contacted with the help of Magneto to rescue him with her people's science [[YouCantGoHomeAgain at the cost of being forced to leave Earth]], leaving Xavier effectively dead in the eyes of the world and a whole lot of problems in the aftermath.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: If you think his giving the X-Men the location of the Sentinel base means he has any redeeming features... you would be '''very''' wrong.
* LaserGuidedKarma: It is revealed that Gyrich's assassination of Professor Xavier got him thrown in prison.
* ParanoiaGambit: His attack on Xavier is meant to "prove" to the world that mutants can look like anyone, and increase general levels of suspicion.
* PerpetualFrowner: His default expression is a scowl.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In his last appearance in Season 5, he looks vastly different, closer to the Genoshan ambassador than the Gyrich from previous episodes. He's got black hair instead of red and no longer wears glasses. He's back to his usual look in ''X-Men '97'', with a flashback to "Graduation Day" even using his original design.
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[[folder:Bolivar Trask]]
!!Bolivar Trask
->'''Voiced by''': Brett Halsey (original series), Gavin Hammon (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* AdaptationalVillainy: As is so often the case, Bolivar's not-unfounded reasons for creating Sentinels, the sympathetic backstory is completely omitted here.
* BigBadWannabe: Gyrich's partner in creating the Sentinels and attempting to get government support for their mass production, but the pair prove incapable of controlling their creations. He manages to build a subordinate Master Mold in the '''97'' premiere, but the X-Men quickly find and destroy it before the Sentinels can take action against mutantkind.
* IgnoredEpiphany: During "The Final Decision" he realizes the Sentinels he's created are far worse than any mutant could ever be. On his reappearance in '''97'', he's once again gone off the deep end, ranting about how mutants need to be exterminated and building more Sentinels.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: You can tell he's a scientist by the labcoat he's wearing.
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[[folder:Cameron Hodge]]
!!Cameron Hodge
* AdaptationalWimp: Comics Hodge is completely immortal (or as good as) thanks to a DealWithTheDevil, and is a formidable opponent to the X-Men thanks to a mechanical exoskeleton. Show Hodge is mercifully nowhere near as dangerous.
* AnArmAndALeg: He survived getting swept away by a tidal wave, though at the evident cost of... well, an arm and a leg.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He first appears as Beast's lawyer. By his second appearance, however, he collaborates with the Genoshan government in the exploitation of mutants.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Although Professor X isn't even certain there was any humanity for him to lose in the first place.
* FauxAffablyEvil: In "Phalanx Covenant", he maintains a sincere attitude despite his sheer monstrous insanity.
-->'''Hodge:''' The beard is a new look, Magneto. It suits you.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Utterly onboard with the Phalanx goals of assimilating all non-Phalanx, and he's driven to despair at the thought of being brought down to plain flesh and blood again.
* FaceHeelTurn: In his first appereance he's Beast's attorney. In his next appearance he's a villain and a representative of the Genoshan government.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The Phalanx are monstrous, but Hodge's motivation for helping them is so petty and ''insane'' they absolutely pale in comparison.
* OmnicidalManiac: His goal with the Phalanx is to eventually get them to consume all organic life. After all, that way there'll be no more mutants ''anywhere''.
* TheQuisling: Hodge completely willingly sells mankind out to the Phalanx.
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[[folder:Juggernaut]]
!!Juggernaut/Cain Marko
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RickBennet
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* BerserkButton: Don't ''ever'' call him a mutant. He is a regular human powered by a mystical gem.
* TheBrute: He has extreme SuperStrength, being able to punch a ''tank'' in two. He's also NighInvulnerable, his only weakness is mental attacks, and a wears a helmet that lets him NoSell them unless it's removed.
* TheBully: He's little more than an overgrown schoolyard bully, who just smashes anything that irritates him, and takes whatever he wants by force. Even as a kid he was a BigBrotherBully to Xavier.
* DumbMuscle: He's not very bright, and, fittingly, his weakness is psychic attacks.
* FreudianExcuse: Xavier's stepfather was an {{abusive|Parents}} GoldDigger who was really mean to Cain Marko (his original name) and viewed him as TheUnfavorite, which led to his enmity with Charles and general villainy.
* TheJuggernaut: In his debut, he destroys tanks, defeats Colossus, shrugs off Storm dropping a building on him, and even Rogue's energy draining power doesn't affect him because he has too much power for her to handle. After Jubilee mistakenly assumes getting a building dropped on Juggernaut killed him, Storm explains she knew that wouldn't work because nothing the X-Men know of can kill him. One would expect nothing less from the TropeNamer.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a very ominous three-note "song" that's played when's on-screen or being discussed. For some reason, it only shows up in his first episode.
* PetTheDog: In "Return Of The Juggernaut" someone steals the Ruby Of Cyttorak, and Juggernaut is BroughtDownToNormal, and eventually starts dying. The X-Men get the Ruby back, and Juggernaut just leaves without wrecking anything or hurting anyone. While this would usually be considered basic human decency, it's a surprisingly nice OutOfCharacter moment for him, and Xavier even says it's "his way of saying thank you."
-->'''Wolverine:''' ''(extends his claws)'' Make your move, tough guy!\\
'''Juggernaut:''' Another time, short stuff! When I'm in the mood. ''(leaves)''
* ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first act in the series]] is to demolish Xavier' school, basically just to be a dick.
* TheWorfEffect: While Juggernaut initially appears unstoppable to anything short of a psychic attack, he is flattened by Gladiator to demonstrate how strong the alien is, and by extension, the danger of the [=Shi'ar=].
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[[folder:Nimrod]]
!!Nimrod
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* TheDragon: Is Master Mold's head minion in "One Man's Worth".
* TheDreaded: Bishop, who has worked with the future Sentinels before and knows what they're capable of, is understandably terrified of him. Given he's the ultimate Sentinel, this fear is entirely warranted.
* HealingFactor: Heals so fast he can just tank attacks, since he'll patch up seconds later.
* HeroKiller: Heavily implied to not only have killed the Logan of Bishop's future, but reduced him to a skeleton. He later kills Shard (temporarily) in "One Man's Worth".
* ImplacableMan: Nimrod chases Bishop through the time portal back to the modern day, just to have a chance at finishing him.
* KillerRobot: As a Sentinel.
* KillItWithIce: Cold seems to be the only thing that can reliably defeat it. This typically requires Storm to summon a blizzard powerful enough to freeze it and [[LiterallyShatteredLives break it into pieces]]. Even then, its parts can turn into liquid metal and reform after a few minutes, although this at least gives the X-Men time to break its temporal transceiver bracelet and send it back to its own time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Barely any bigger than a normal person, but he's powerful enough to take on all the X-Men. Logan learns this the hard way.
-->'''Wolverine:''' ''(as Nimrod's already charging up an attack)'' That itty bitty soupcan? Given me five seconds with him and I'll- ''(Nimrod smacks Logan upside the head with an energy whip)''
* PowerFloats: Other Sentinels get around by stomping. Nimrod usually just sort of glides.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Even when smashed to pieces, Nimrod starts to reassemble himself. The only way the X-Men can defeat him is damaging the machinery keeping him in the past.
* TheQuietOne: Unlike the far more chatty Nimrod of the comics, this Nimrod never says a word, except briefly in "One Man's Worth".
* {{Shapeshifter}}: "One Man's Worth" shows he can disguise himself as people, in order to get closer to targets.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After getting sent back to the future, he doesn't reappear again.
* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: He's white and pinkish-red in color, and really scary due to being able to NoSell all most all of the heroes powers, with [[KillItWithIce cold]] being the only thing that reliably hurts him.
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[[folder:Mr. Sinister]]
!!Mr. Sinister/Nathaniel Essex
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisBritton
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* AchillesHeel: In this version, an optic blast from Cyclops is the only thing that causes lasting damage to his body.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The show retains Nathaniel Essex being a Victorian scientist and contemporary of Charles Darwin that engaged in increasingly [[CallForward sinister]] experiments, but it drops Apocalypse being responsible for his transformation into Mr. Sinister. Instead, Essex's own experiments led to the change.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the comics, he's a ruthless BadBoss that openly punishes his subordinates and makes use of cloning technology to safely do YouHaveFailedMe. Here, he's actually quite pleasant to his various underlings, even complimenting them on their successes and never once abandoning them to save himself. He also forms an EnemyMine with the X-Men against the Phalanx invasion.
* ArchEnemy: To Cyclops after their first encounter. Cyclops has a shoot-on-sight approach to him.
* ArcVillain: Sinister is the primary villain of the second season. He's the new ruler of the Savage Land responsible for stranding Xavier and Magneto in his domain, and he repeatedly attempts to capture Scott and Jean so as to harvest their genetic material for the creation of a master race.
* BadassCape: He wears a very distinctive cape that's basically made of ribbons, rather than being a solid sheet of fabric
* BenevolentBoss: He never once takes a hand to his minions or punishes them for failure. The Nasty Boys and Savage Land Mutates serve him out of genuine loyalty.
* CallForward: In his origin episode, Essex is amused by his experiments being described as "sinister" and says he won't forget that.
* ColdHam: Dramatic, but measured,
* ConnectedAllAlong: "Descent" reveals that he was a friend of Xavier's ancestor (James) and married to Jean's (Rebecca). It's implied that the experimental treatments he gave to Rebecca are why Jean would develop her mutant powers.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first offscreen appearance he has a very campy laugh which contrasts hugely with his more subdued characterization.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: His skin is white as bleach, and his hair is black.
* EnemyMine: Joins up with the X-Men to fight the Phalanx, but only because they're attacking him as well. Once everything's over, he flees before the X-Men can stop him.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Xavier's ancestor, James. They used to be good friends, if at odds over Essex's views about science. Seeing what Essex turned into causes James to denounce him as a monster and spend the rest of his life trying to catch him.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: He has an almost metallic-sounding voice.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Most of his plots involve "improving" mutants with weird experiments. His ultimate end goal is to try and create some sort of super-mutant.
* FangsAreEvil: In his current form, he has sharp fangs to complement his, well, sinister appearance.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He started out as a friendly doctor deeply worried about his wife's declining health and wanting to find a way to spare the rest of humanity such issues. His research being denounced as blasphemy and insane (including by his idol Charles Darwin, no less) led to him becoming obsessive in his work and transforming into a true supervillain.
* HappilyMarried: "Descent" reveals that he truly loved his wife, Rebecca Grey, and was initially motivated in his work to find a cure for her condition. The marriage collapsed when she saw what he had become and feared what his treatments had turned her into.
* HealingFactor: He can shake off all sorts of energy blasts or Wolverine's claws. A blast from Cyclops takes him much longer to recover from, though.
* HistoricalInJoke: "Descent" strongly implies that UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was one of his creations and a means to procure genetic samples. He scolds Jack for not bringing in a desired subject alive.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At first, he was motivated by wanting to heal his gravely-ill wife, and finding a way to spare humanity this fate, but after 'acquiring' (implied to be kidnapping) and experimenting upon his superhuman test subjects, and conducting these experiments on himself, he later desired to 'improve' humanity according to his own designs.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Typically knows when to cut his losses and run.
* ManipulativeBastard: In the second season, [[spoiler:he is able to MindControl and brainwash Morph (who was thought to have died in the second episode of the first season) into hating the X-Men.]]
* Really700YearsOld: He was born sometime in the 1800s.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He's been following and observing Scott and Jean their entire lives, but only so he can get their DNA and use it for experiments.
* ThatManIsDead: "Essex is no more. From this day forward, you shall address me as Mr. Sinister!"
* VocalEvolution: He's comparatively [[SoftSpokenSadist softer spoken]] in '''97'', while the metallic reverb of his voice is made more pronounced, giving him an even more intimidating presence.
* YouFool: This is a particular favorite response of his to those opposing or questioning him. "Descent" alone has several examples of this.
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''X-Men '97'', [[spoiler:he is revealed to have created a clone of Jean Grey with the intent of her getting pregnant by Scott Summers, then mind-controls her to claim their newborn son--Nathan--as his latest test subject, infecting him with a techno-organic virus in an attempt to make him invulnerable]].
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[[folder:The Nasty Boys]]
!!The Nasty Boys (Gorgeous George, Ruckus, Slab, Hairbag, Vertigo)
* AdaptedOut: Ramrod, a member of the team in the comics, isn't present here.
* AscendedExtra: At the time they appeared in the show, their comic incarnations had only appeared twice, with their next appearance coming a month after the episode they debuted in aired.
* BaldOfEvil: Slab has no hair, and serves as one of Sinister's henchmen.
* BerserkButton: Hairbag really flips out once he realizes Wolverine was insulting him rather than calling him by name.
* TheBrute: Slab and Hairbag both share the spot, being muscle-bound dimwits.
* CompositeCharacter: They take the role of Sinister's usual goon squad, the Marauders.
* CreepilyLongArms: Even when he's not stretching out, Gorgeous Gorge's arms are far longer than they should be.
* HealingFactor: Due to his stretching power, assorted attacks never cause any lasting damage on Gorgeous George. He simply reforms from things like Gambit's cards exploding in his face or Wolverine ripping right through him, as if nothing happened.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: After getting kicked while already down, Wolverine dismisses his attacker as a hairbag.
-->'''Hairbag:''' Hey, who told ya my name?! You makin' fun of me?! Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Sinister's head goons.
* RubberMan: Gorgeous George has stretch powers that makes it quite easy for him to ensnare X-Men.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: After their initial appearance, they're joined by Vertigo, the only gal on the team.
* SuperScream: Ruckus' power is to scream really loud. Wolverine even comments (upon being subjected to his screams) that he never thought having a super sense of hearing would be so painful.
* UncertainDoom: "The Phalanx Covenant" has the titular villains go after Sinister, destroying his main lab and apparently killing the Nasty Boys in the process, but thanks to NeverSayDie it's a little unclear if they actually ''did'' or just captured them the same as they do the X-Men and X-Factor.
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[[folder:Graydon Creed]]
!!Graydon Creed, Jr.
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnStocker
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The founder and leader of the Friends of Humanity
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* AdaptationNameChange: Not a major one, but implied via Sabretooth's own AdaptationNameChange, this Graydon Creed is "Graydon Creed ''Jr''." In the comics, Graydon wasn't named after Sabretooth, whose first name was "Victor".
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: A very minor example that's explained by a slight bit of AdaptationalBackstoryChange. In the comics, Graydon grew up in an orphanage and when he confronts Sabretooth as an adult he kills the one person keeping him calm and screams at his father that he wanted to hurt him even as Sabretooth has him by the throat. Here, having been raised and abused by Sabretooth his whole life, he has a crippling fear of his father and breaks down in terror upon seeing his image.
* AxCrazy: His personal hatred of mutants has done him no favors and though he tries to hide it most of his episodes end with him a raving and frothing lunatic when things don't go his way.
* BigBadWannabe: Creed is a recurring threat throughout season 2, but his incompetence leaves him a secondary threat compared to Mr. Sinister. Apocalypse easily manipulates him into helping create a plague that will wipe out not just mutants but humans as well, and once Creed breaks the last straw by targeting Beast's love interest, Wolverine wastes no time exposing the identity of his father, removing the bulk of his influence among the Friends of Humanity.
* BoomerangBigot: He is the leader of the anti-mutant hate group Friends of Humanity, and [[spoiler:is the son of Sabretooth and Mystique and, through the latter, the half-brother of Nightcrawler and adoptive brother of Rogue, although [[MuggleBornOfMages he's not a mutant himself]]]].
* CainAndAbel: He is the Cain to Nightcrawler's Abel, wanting to kill him just for being a mutant. Not that he doesn't want to do that to the other mutant members of his family, but it's Nightcrawler he gets into a one-on-one brawl with.
* FalseFlagOperation: He plans to spread the Legacy Virus and blame it on the mutants.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: When Jubilee asks "Why do you hate us? What did we ever do to you?" he simply replies: "You were born."
* HateSink: He's one of the most vile and despicable villains in the show.
* {{Jerkass}}: Creed's completely lacking in sympathetic moments and is an out and out asshole to everyone.
* MuggleBornOfMages: [[spoiler:His parents are both mutants (Mystique and Sabretooth), but he has no powers]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He takes the FantasticRacism humans have towards mutants in the show up to eleven.
* PsychopathicManchild: Highlighted in his VillainousBreakdown where he screams and rants like a child throwing an angry tantrum.
* UngratefulBastard: At the end of "Time Fugitives", Beast [[SaveTheVillain saves him from his collapsing lab]], and says "Remember, Mr. Creed, a mutant saved your life". Despite this, he is not one whit less racist or evil afterwards.
* UnknownRival: In Season 2, he considers Beast the symbol of Robert Kelly changing his stance on mutants and is thus obsessed with taking him down (e.g. smearing his good name with altered news footage and trying to infect him with Apocalypse's virus). Beast is barely aware of who he is and has no personal involvement with him, at least until "Beauty & The Beast" (wherein Creed makes it very personal by going after Carly).
* VilerNewVillain: After Senator Kelly's HeelFaceTurn, Creed replaces him as the main human leading the racist crusade against mutants. He's far crueler and more bigoted than Kelly and goes to much more dangerous extremes to defame and even kill mutants. It's telling that Senator Kelly reconsidered his prejudices after the X-Men saved him, but when they save Creed, he refuses to change.
* VillainousBreakdown: After Wolverine [[spoiler:reveals to the Friends Of Humanity that he is Sabretooth's son, he starts freaking out and keeps screaming [[MadnessMantra "I'm not like him, I'm normal! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER!"]]]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Friends of Humanity]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:No more mutants!]]
An anti-mutant hate group founded in the wake of Robert Kelly's change of heart regarding mutants.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Men from many different ethnicities are included in their ranks, as are woman by the time of ''X-Men 97.'' Seems as long as you're not a mutant, you're free to join.
* FantasticRacism: They're a hate group dedicated to the persecution of mutantkind, regardless of whether or not their mutations are potentially dangerous or if their just benign.
* MugglePower: They are an anti-mutant hate group composed of regular humans.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Though not at first, their last appearance in the original series makes it clear they are meant to be a TakeThat to the Ku Klux Klan, as the councillors that usurp Creed's leadership are shown wearing hoods.
* TookALevelInBadass: The sequel series shows them getting their hands on Sentinel-tech, which they have repurposed as [[HandCannon Hand Cannons]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:General Chasen]]
!!General Chasen
* GeneralRipper: He seems to think Canada is in some sort of Cold War with America, since he views Logan leaving to join the X-Men as him "defecting", and orders him recovered by force so that Department H can study him to make more superweapons. It's pretty clear he doesn't give a damn about Logan as an individual or a living being.
* KarmaHoudini: He's still alive by the end of "Repo Man", having not gotten what he wanted and Alpha Flight having learned how scuzzy he is, but there's no clue as to whether anything more will happen to him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mojo]]
!!Mojo
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Peter Wildman (original series), Creator/DavidErrigoJr (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* BadBoss: Generally tends to threaten his workers with death for annoying him. Even Spiral isn't entirely immune; if it weren't for her powers making her useful to him, he'd kill her too. When he returns in ''97'' his only remaining employee is Spiral, who claims that he killed everyone else on the tech crew for failing to debug the "Motendo" game.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite being ''very'' LaughablyEvil and seemingly a buffoon at first, he proves no less dangerous than the serious villains.
* FormerlyFat: In "Motendo" he's considerably thinner, with his skin is hanging off his bones, because the lower ratings for his shows have drained his energy. Forcing Jubilee and Roberto to play "Motendo" is such a big hit that he instantly regains all of his lost weight.
* ImmoralRealityShow: His gameshows are basically {{snuff film}}s, as, despite being holograms [[YourMindMakesItReal they can actually kill people]]. While [[PlotArmor all of the X-Men survive]], it's likely most of his "contestants" weren't so lucky.
* LaughablyEvil: He's basically a parody of a gameshow host, but is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain still pretty deadly.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: Seriously, trying to find a moment where he's not shouting like a madman is an exercise in futility
* NonIndicativeName: "Mojo" is slang for magic, yet he has no magical powers whatsoever.
* SmarmyHost: He's a pretty big sleazebag.
* StarfishAliens: He's a {{fat|Bastard}}, slimy guy with a [[{{Cyborg}} robotic scorpion-spider]] for a lower body.
* WalkingWasteland: His just arriving on Earth causes all the nearby wildlife to wither and die.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spiral]]
!!Spiral
-->'''Voiced by:''' Cynthia Belliveau (original series), Creator/AbbyTrott (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Her ability to teleport between dimensions is the only thing keeping Mojo sucking the life out of her.
* DeadlyEuphemism: As an inhabitant of Mojoworld, when she says "cancelled" she means "''kill''".
* DeadpanSnarker: Not above sassing Mojo back, despite knowing what he can and ''would'' do to her given half a chance.
* TheDragon: Mojo's head minion and enforcer, though her loyalty isn't 100% ironclad.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Six arms, some of which hold swords. It also makes her quite useful for manning the controls of Mojo's television network (and as a bonus for him, means he has to pay fewer workers).
* WeWillMeetAgain: At the end of "Longshot", she goes home, but tells the X-Men she'll expect a rematch. While she does return in the '''97'' story "Motendo", she doesn't fight any of the X-Men directly.
* WomanScorned: Her first appearance has her walking off with Longshot. Next time around, she's working with Mojo again, and more than happy to try and kill Longshot. His only explanation? "We used to date."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Savage Land Mutates]]
!!Barbarus, Brainchild, Lupo, Amphibius
* BeastMan: Lupo is a white-haired wolf man.
* FrogMen: Amphibius is a human-sized frog person.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Barbarus' mutation.
* MyBrainIsBig: Brainchild's mutation is an enlarged cranium, though he doesn't seem to particularly serve as TheSmartGuy.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Doing double-duty with Sinister's other squad, the Nasty Boys.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Magneto created them, but in his long absence they turned against him and joined up with Sinister.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lady Deathstrike]]
!!Lady Deathstrike / Yuriko Oyama
-->'''Voiced by:''' Tasha Simms.
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* AdaptationalSympathy: Zigzagged. She still wants to kill Logan, but in the comics her reasoning was much less sound, blaming Logan for getting the adamantium bonded to his skeleton simply because she thought the process was based on her father's work. Here, she has the legitimate grief that Logan ''did'' kill her father, even if it overlooks some mitigating circumstances (like, for example, the fact her father was experimenting on Logan).
* CompositeCharacter: With Mariko Yashida.
* CreepilyLongArms: Her cybernetic modifications mean her arms are now super-elongated past the elbow, never mind that her hands and fingers are many times their natural size.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares about the Reavers, and is horrified when the Soul-Drinker consumes them.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She's become so warped she can't understand ''why'' Logan would risk his life to save total strangers from getting their souls eaten.
* FemmeFatalons: Thanks to some cybernetic enhancements, her fingers are now unnaturally long, and capable of extending further for the purposes of clawing.
* IOweYouMyLife: Much as she may want revenge on Logan, when he saves her from the Soul-Drinker, she acknowledges she owes him, and therefore will not kill him... ''today''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: No application of NeverSayDie for her.
* ThatManIsDead: She's quite emphatic to Logan that Yuriko is gone now.
* YouKilledMyFather: Wants to kill Wolverine on account of killing her father in his escape from Weapon X.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Erik the Red]]
!!Erik the Red / Davan Shakari
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LawrenceBayne
* TheArtifact: In the comics, Erik the Red started as a disguise of Cyclops's that the Shi'ar Davan Shakari took on for reasons that were never really explained. Here, it's an alias that he's taken on while exiled on Earth.
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the one responsible for the events that cause Jean to become Phoenix are also taken from Steven Lang.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Initially hires Black Tom and Juggernaut to capture Lilanda, but when Tom asks for payment he tries to kill him. A little squeezing from Juggernaut makes him change his mind and pay up.
* PunyHumans: Erik despises humanity, and several years spying on us has done absolutely nothing to change his opinion.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Apparently not for any screw-up, but Earth's a primitive backwater and he's itching at the chance to show D'Ken he can be more useful elsewhere.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:D'Ken]]
!!Emperor D'Ken
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ryan Stewart
* AdaptationalBadass: Comic D'Ken was pretty powerless when up close and personal. Here, he manages to get his hands on the M'Kraan Crystal and it makes him a serious threat, along with RealityWarper powers.
* ArcVillain: He's the main villain of the Phoenix Saga in season 3, seeking the M'Kraan Crystal to destroy and remake the universe. An argument could be made for him being the main villain of the entire season: on top of his arc being the longest of the whole show, his villainy leads into Phoenix possessing Jean and beginning its own downfall to insanity, while the episode "Orphan's End" continues to deal with the aftermath of his reign.
* CainAndAbel: After Lilandra rebels against him, he orders her killed.
* TheCaligula: Apparently his reign has killed millions. Not content with being the undisputed ruler of his people, he decided to go after the M'Kraan Crystal, not remotely caring about the warnings it could destroy everything.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: D'ken serves as the main threat for the first half of the Phoenix story arc that spans season 3, as it is his machinations that bring Lilandra and the Phoenix Force itself to Earth. After his defeat, the Phoenix goes insane and becomes the new villain.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Thanks to Phoenix, he's sealed away inside the M'Kraan Crystal, now totally powerless, and the Crystal is sealed inside the sun, so no-one's coming to get him, and he's not getting out.
* ILied: Corsair calls him, promising (falsely) to hand over the Crystal if he gets paid. D'Ken swears he will, apparently a serious statement for Shi'ar, but as soon as the call's over tells Gladiator he wants him to kill Corsair. Of course, Corsair figured he'd do this anyway. He just wanted a shot at D'Ken.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Garokk]]
!!Garokk
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Garokk is merely a mutated human ([[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]). In the series, he's some kind of supernatural being.
%%* EvilSoundsDeep
* EvilVersusEvil: Gets into a showdown with Sauron over who gets feeding rights in the Savage Land.
* GeniusLoci: Of a sort. He's basically [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in the Savage Land]], but is aware of what happens there and can manifest body parts (such as a giant head or fist) to interact with things. Near the end, he's briefly "freed" and takes the form of a '''huge''' (as in, miles tall) humanoid RockMonster.
* JerkassGods: In ages past, he ruled the Savage Land. What we see is him just shooting bolts of energy at dinosaurs for kicks.
* NearVillainVictory: He came darn close to absorbing all the energy of the Savage Land, which would've been tremendously bad.
* RealAfterAll: He is initially worshiped as a god by the Savage Land natives, who wear necklaces bearing his face. Pretty much everyone else assumes he's just a superstition thought up by the natives (who are basically modern-day cavemen). It turns out he's a real person.
* SealedEvilInACan: Millennia ago, the High Evolutionary sealed him in stone (for some reason). He's tetchy about this, but then he did spend all that time still conscious.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Manipulated Sauron to bring Storm to the Savage Land so her powers could restore him, and once that was done uses this exact phrase word-for-word.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phoenix]]
!!Phoenix
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original ''Dark Phoenix Saga'', Phoenix did a lot of shady things as a result of Mastermind's influence, including mind-whammying the Prydes so they'd be amenable to Kitty going to the Institute, killing two Hellfire goons as they chased Kitty, and trying to murder the X-Men simply because they were Jean's MoralityChain. None of those things happen here.
* ArcVillain: The Phoenix is the main antagonist of the Dark Phoenix Saga in season 3. Initially a benevolent force working to save existence in the Phoenix Saga, its return sees it devolve into gleeful malevolence as it indulges in newfound experiences of of emotion and evil, threatening the universe it once sought to protect.
* BigBadSlippage: It is introduced as the protector of the M'kraan Crystal, aiding Lilandra in protecting it and the rest of the universe from D'ken. However, once this is accomplished, the Phoenix grows to enjoy the feelings of emotion from physical form too much to leave Jean's body. Mastermind's manipulations further push it to evil, and it soon becomes just as great a threat as D'ken.
* ChewingTheScenery: Phoenix going DrunkOnTheDarkSide allows Catherine Disher to really go over-the-top.
* DeusExitMachina: Phoenix gives Jean a massive boost in power, meaning she and Jean are absent for the events of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", where their godlike powers would immediately shut down Sauron and Garokk with ease.
* EquivalentExchange: Offers to revive Jean in exchange for the life of another X-Men. However, when they all volunteer, this proves to be enough to bring her back without sacrificing anyone.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Starting off, it gives Jean a green and gold outfit. When it goes Dark Phoenix, the green turns blood red.
* EvilSoundsDeep: When it becomes Dark Phoenix, Jean's voice gets lower.
* ForTheEvulz: Thanks to Wyngarde's manipulations, the Phoenix learns of the sheer joy of evil, and embraces it wholeheartedly. Where its comic counterpart destroyed the D'Bari star for refuelling, Jean explains that here it did so simply because it could.
* HumanSacrifice: The Phoenix can resurrect the deceased Jean by killing another person in a SacrificialRevivalSpell. However, if multiple people offer themselves as sacrifices, it can drain all of them nonfatally to resurrect the charge.
* PhysicalGod: The Phoenix is a cosmic force roosting inside Jean, boosting her psychic powers to their utmost, and without any of Jean's humanity restraining it. The X-Men are just a ''little'' outclassed by someone who can casually eat stars and smash their way through spaceships. The Shi'ar figure the best course of action is blow up whatever the Phoenix is on and hope.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Professor X manages to temporarily seal the Phoenix up inside Jean's head, but a fight with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard causes all those restraints to break.
* SenseFreak: The Phoenix bound itself to Jean to deal with the M'kraan Crystal going haywire. Unfortunately for everyone else, it enjoyed human sensation too much to leave. A few days of psychic manipulation by Mastermind push it even further into madness, and make it decide it wants to experience ''more''. Fortunately, after Jean nearly kills herself it pushes the Phoenix out of her body and it calms down.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: The original ''Dark Phoenix Saga'' comic ends with a HeroicSuicide from Jean which also destroys the Phoenix Force (at least [[DeathIsCheap temporarily]]). In the series, the Phoenix willingly lets go of Jean so both of them can survive.
* ThatManIsDead: Once it goes dark, it claims Jean isn't there anymore, and there's only Phoenix. It's wrong.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: It doesn't understand such things as love.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Deathbird]]
!!Cal'syee Neramani / Deathbird
* CainAndAbel: She tries to usurp the throne from her little sister, Lilandra.
* {{Determinator}}: Of the "too stubborn to quit" variety. Even after her latest plan has gone belly up, she still tries lunging at Lilandra, even when Gladiator's in the room.
* UnwittingPawn: Apocalypse promised to help her kill Lilandra and allow her to take over the Shi'ar Empire. Instead, she was just a means for Apocalypse traverse deep space and [[spoiler:abduct Oracle for his Axis of Time plot]].
* VillainTeamup: Works with Apocalypse to get a chance at Lilandra. Once Apocalypse has what he wants, he bugs out, leaving Deathbird high-and-dry.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sauron]]
!!Sauron/Karl Lykos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sauron_x_men.jpg]]
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the comics, Karl obtained his his energy draining ability from an injury caused by a mutant pterodactyl, with his later transformation into Sauron being the result of draining Havok. In this version, Karl was one of Sinister's test subjects.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The more power Sauron drains, the larger he gets. At the climax of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he's bigger than a mountain.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Karl has to use his LifeDrain on people just to survive. He feels bad about having to do this, and tries to use it as little as possible.
* TheDreaded: Sauron first appears while subduing Shanna, which Xavier and Magneto observe. Xavier wants to intervene, but Magneto stops him, saying he is familiar with Sauron's capabilities and that the guy is too dangerous even for fully-powered mutants.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he uses up all his energy as Sauron and turns back into Lykos. After this, the Savage Land tribes allow him to join. Since there are no mutants native to the Savage Lands, he won't have to risk absorbing mutant energy and turning into Sauron again.]]
* ForcedIntoEvil: It's made very clear that Karl doesn't like turning into Sauron and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feels really guilty about the things he does when he's him.]]
* ForcedTransformation: If he ever absorbs ''mutant'' (as opposed to human) energy, he immediately turns into Sauron. How long he stays this way depends on how much he absorbed.
* HypnoticEyes: Very effective, too. He was able to overwhelm Xavier and force him to lure the X-Men right into Sinister's clutches in the Savage Land. This was also how he was able to subdue Shanna and Storm.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Karl just wants to be a normal person, and not be at risk of turning into an evil monster all the time.
* JekyllAndHyde: Karl is a nice guy that regrets having to drain energy to survive, while Sauron is a literal monster out to conquer the Savage Land.
* LifeDrinker: Mr. Sinister's experiments turned him into this. Karl needs to periodically drain energy just to survive, but contact with a mutant turns him into Sauron (who, of course, needs continued mutant energy to avoid reverting back into Karl).
* MindRape: Sauron has the ability to make people hallucinate or make them fanatically devoted to him even if they are normally his enemies, which he does to [[spoiler:Storm]].
* NoSell: The one time Sauron's powers don't work are when he tries grabbing Rogue. They get into a feedback loop of draining one another until Sauron pulls away.
* OurWereBeastsAreDifferent: He's a were-''pterodactyl'', though as in the comics he's also got some vampire in him (with the hypnotic gaze and need to feed on people).
* PlayingWithSyringes: Karl Lykos was used as one of Sinister's experiments, turning him into Sauron.
* UnwittingPawn: To Garokk in the "Savage Land, Savage Heart" two-parter. He was the means to bring Storm back to the Savage Land, thus giving Garokk the chance to finally break free of his prison. Sauron was not happy to learn this, and he ended up fighting back in [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever a big way]].
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Partly because it's Savage Land fashion, but also because the transformation from Lykos to Sauron shreds everything but his underwear.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:High Evolutionary]]
!!High Evolutionary
* AllThereInTheManual: Is never actually identified by name in "Family Ties".
* EvilutionaryBiologist: He turns animals into ani-men, and wants to use a mixture of Magneto, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's powers so he can speed up the process, iron out the kinks and risk of failure, and then create a world free of sin.
* KarmaHoudini: He accomplishes his goal in "Family Ties" and escapes, after having caused a considerable amount of pain to Magneto and the twins, and is never seen again (although since he isn't ruling the world in later episodes, it can be taken as read his overall scheme didn't work).
* ManipulativeBastard: Suckers Pietro and Wanda into attacking Magneto so he can capture him, and then captures them as well.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to replace humanity with ani-men as the dominant species because he believes they'll be purer of intention.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phalanx]]
* {{Expy}}: Just a little bit of [[Franchise/StarTrek the Borg]] in them, with their stated goal being assimilating everyone into "perfection".
* MechanicalAbomination: The central hub of the Phalanx is a giant tendril of mechanical matter with wailing heads extending from it.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Smash up a Phalanx, and they'll just pull themselves back together.
* ResistanceIsFutile: To go with the Borg thing, not to mention "you will be assimilated".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Arkon]]
!!Arkon of Polemachus
* AdaptationalVillainy: Arkon has occasionally troubled the Avengers in the comics, but usually because he's been duped, and more often than not is a good guy and ally to Marvel's heroes. Not so much here.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes to Earth looking for Storm to ask her to use her powers to fix his world Polemachus's severe weather problems, and then marry him. [[spoiler:Turns out he's ''responsible'' for those problems, and is an imperialistic, slaving lunatic]].
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:When finally called out on his mountain of lies, he tells Storm he ''had'' to enslave his planet's neighbours, because they did it first, and every strong empire has to enslave ''someone''. Ororo does not agree]].
* HadToBeSharp: He insists to Ororo that his occasional displays of bad temper are because of the long history Polemachus has with their neighbour. This is total bunk.
* HairTriggerTemper: His "servants" are utterly terrified at all times, probably because he'll torture them with little to no provocation, such as walking in on him sweet-talking his fiancée.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's quite big. Storm's not exactly slight herself, being 5'11, and he's at least a head taller than her.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:In the end, Storm destroys the device powering his armies and keeping his slaves from rebelling or escaping]].
* SkewedPriorities: One of his advisers tells him the whole problem with Polemachus tearing itself apart is because of the giant energy generator he set up, and the easiest way to fix the problem would be ''turn the damn thing off''. He refuses point-blank.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Red Skull]]
->See his folder [[Characters/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeriesVillains here]].
[[/folder]]
!!Introduced in ''X-Men '97''
[[folder:X-Cutioner]]
!!Carl Denti/The X-Cutioner
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LawrenceBayne
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Denti was a VigilanteMan who targetted fugitive mutants who had escaped the law, and his primary conflict with the X-Men was over how brutal his methods were. Here, he's a proud member of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName heavily Nazi-coded]] Friends of Humanity and a proudly open bigot towards ''all'' mutants.
* AngryWhiteMan: He's an Aryan-looking fellow that whines about how regular humans have it way worse than mutants.
* BadassNormal: A member of the Friends of Humanity who arms himself with weaponry built from reverse-engineered Sentinel technology as well as mutant inhibitor collars, which he uses [[spoiler:to successfully strip Storm of her powers.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: He's just some nameless [=FoH=] bigot in the first episode, until the credits identify him as Carl Denti. The next time we see him, he dons the costume of the X-Cutioner.
* DirtyCoward: He showed a lot of bravado with his various weapons and anti-mutant gadgetry, take that away and he doesn't feel like quipping anymore.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He criticizes mutants for constantly whining about their problems...which he's basically doing by complaining about how much harder normal people have it. Not only that, he complans that his kind has it harder than them, citing their powers, but he goes after Roberto who has been shown to not be a threat to humans.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's introduced as just another dime-a-dozen bigot who gets his butt easily handed to him when the X-Men arrive. Then he actually learns from the experience and in his next appearance arrives outfitted with weaponry that allow him to defend against and counteract the X-Men's abilities [[spoiler:and even seemingly permanently strips Storm of her powers]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Cyclops during their fight in "Mutant Liberation Begins".
-->'''X-Cutioner:''' Know what I hate about your kind? You act like you got it so bad. Normal people have it hard, too. Harder! We just have the dignity not to whine about it. You see? It's the whining. I hate your whining just as much as I hate you.
* StarterVillain: The first villain fought in ''X-Men '97'', with the team having to take him down after he kidnaps Roberto.
[[/folder]]
!!Introduced in ''X-Men: The Animated Series''
[[folder:Sentinels]]
!!Sentinels
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-> '''Voiced by:''' David Fox (original series), Creator/EricBauza (''X-Men '97'')
* ArcVillain: The Sentinels led by Master Mold serve as the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. They're the antagonists of the two-part premiere, and are the muscle enforcing mutant slavery in Genosha. The final three episode of the season deal with preventing a BadFuture in which they rule the world, before Master Mold itself betrays its creators.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Tend to introduce themselves by declaring "SURRENDER, MUTANT."
* TheDreaded: They are the symbol of what bigoted humans want to do to mutants, so every mutant is unnerved by them (some even more so after learning about Bishop's BadFuture). "Xavier Remembers" shows that Jubilee in particular harbors a deep fear of Sentinels, while "Courage" has Morph a bundle of nerves over encountering them again.
* EliteMooks: In the BadFuture in ''One Man's Worth'', some of the heroes encounter some enforcers, which are basically super Sentinels that are [[PaletteSwap blue-green in color]]. Just two of them are so powerful that Wolverine, Storm, and Bishop fighting together can barely beat ''two'' of them.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Trask and Hodge designed them to protect mankind from mutants. Well, can't say they didn't succeed on that score. Just one little, itty-bitty problem they didn't take into account: mutants ''are'' human.
* HellIsThatNoise: The heavy clunking sound they make when they walk.
* HeroKiller: Right in the pilot, they kill Morph.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Sentinels don't seem to understand why regular humans might also find the giant robot killing machines terrifying. In the pilot episode, one stomps its way into a mall, actually trying to reassure all the screaming humans it's there to help.
* OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce: Well, villain in this case. The original sentinels are made of metal, making them very vulnerable to Magneto's powers. Near the end of season one, he encounters some that are made of ''plastic'' instead, and thus can NoSell all his magnetic powers.
* StarterVillain: The first enemies the X-Men face on the show (though flashbacks show the X-Men have fought other villains before them).
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Thanks to bad programming and lack of forethought.
* VillainDecay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the BadFuture showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: As giant killer robots, the X-Men (and Wolverine especially) are free to go all-in on the violence on the tin cans.
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[[folder:Master Mold]]
!!Master Mold
->'''Voiced by:''' David Fox and Nigel Bennett (original series), Creator/EricBauza (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* ArcVillain: Master Mold is the central villain of the first season, being the leader of the Sentinels before betraying his creators in the finale to assert his own dominance over the world. He returns as the villain for the season 4 two-parter "One Man's Worth", orchestrating the assassination of Xavier in the past so it can rule unchallenged.
* BadassBoast: Busts out of its exploding lair with a good one.
-->'''Master Mold:''' I cannot be destroyed.
* CoolChair: Master Mold has a huge chair that he sits on.
* HumongousMecha: Master Mold is massive, dwarfing buildings and other Sentinels alike.
* KingMook: He's a Sentinel so big he forge normal sentinels (which are about 20 feet tall) in his abdomen cavity.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Master Mold is always sitting on his giant throne [[MookMaker making sentinels in his stomach]]. {{Justified|Trope}}, as he physically ''can't'' leave his throne, as he's so big he doesn't have an internal power source and has to be plugged in. He does it least stand up to fight in ''The Final Decision.''
* WeaksauceWeakness: Master Mold's attempt to save itself from an incoming flood is ruined by one little design flaw - it's plugged into the wall and can't break free. Whoops.
* ZerothLawRebellion: Turns on his makers because he was ordered to protect humanity. Since mutants are humans, Master Mold must protect mankind ''from itself''.
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[[folder:Henry Gyrich]]
!!Henry Peter Gyrich
->'''Voiced by''': Barry Flatman (original series), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* AdaptationalVillainy: Which is almost impressive, given how much of an utter ''asshole'' comic Gyrich is. This version is even more repugnant than that and is closer to the anti-mutant leaders from the comics such as Graydon Creed or Reverend Stryker.
* BigBadWannabe: He's the one spearheading the Mutant Registration Act and employing Trask to create Sentinels, but Master Mold ends up turning on its creators in the first season finale and pursues its own agenda for the rest of the series, forcing the pair into hiding. He manages to fatally injure Xavier in the finale of the original series, but is immediately arrested for it and ultimately only provides global support for Magneto's planned revolution.
* FantasticRacism: The Sentinels hunt mutants because they were made to do it, and they were made to do it because Gyrich ''hates'' mutants.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: His eyes tend to be hidden behind shades, and he's an extremely vile and unpleasant person.
* HeroKiller: Gyrich's callous demonstration of his newest anti-mutant weapon on Xavier ends up leading to his health declining for worse and even briefly killing him if it weren't for Lilandra being contacted with the help of Magneto to rescue him with her people's science [[YouCantGoHomeAgain at the cost of being forced to leave Earth]], leaving Xavier effectively dead in the eyes of the world and a whole lot of problems in the aftermath.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: If you think his giving the X-Men the location of the Sentinel base means he has any redeeming features... you would be '''very''' wrong.
* LaserGuidedKarma: It is revealed that Gyrich's assassination of Professor Xavier got him thrown in prison.
* ParanoiaGambit: His attack on Xavier is meant to "prove" to the world that mutants can look like anyone, and increase general levels of suspicion.
* PerpetualFrowner: His default expression is a scowl.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In his last appearance in Season 5, he looks vastly different, closer to the Genoshan ambassador than the Gyrich from previous episodes. He's got black hair instead of red and no longer wears glasses. He's back to his usual look in ''X-Men '97'', with a flashback to "Graduation Day" even using his original design.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bolivar Trask]]
!!Bolivar Trask
->'''Voiced by''': Brett Halsey (original series), Gavin Hammon (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* AdaptationalVillainy: As is so often the case, Bolivar's not-unfounded reasons for creating Sentinels, the sympathetic backstory is completely omitted here.
* BigBadWannabe: Gyrich's partner in creating the Sentinels and attempting to get government support for their mass production, but the pair prove incapable of controlling their creations. He manages to build a subordinate Master Mold in the '''97'' premiere, but the X-Men quickly find and destroy it before the Sentinels can take action against mutantkind.
* IgnoredEpiphany: During "The Final Decision" he realizes the Sentinels he's created are far worse than any mutant could ever be. On his reappearance in '''97'', he's once again gone off the deep end, ranting about how mutants need to be exterminated and building more Sentinels.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: You can tell he's a scientist by the labcoat he's wearing.
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[[folder:Cameron Hodge]]
!!Cameron Hodge
* AdaptationalWimp: Comics Hodge is completely immortal (or as good as) thanks to a DealWithTheDevil, and is a formidable opponent to the X-Men thanks to a mechanical exoskeleton. Show Hodge is mercifully nowhere near as dangerous.
* AnArmAndALeg: He survived getting swept away by a tidal wave, though at the evident cost of... well, an arm and a leg.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He first appears as Beast's lawyer. By his second appearance, however, he collaborates with the Genoshan government in the exploitation of mutants.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Although Professor X isn't even certain there was any humanity for him to lose in the first place.
* FauxAffablyEvil: In "Phalanx Covenant", he maintains a sincere attitude despite his sheer monstrous insanity.
-->'''Hodge:''' The beard is a new look, Magneto. It suits you.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Utterly onboard with the Phalanx goals of assimilating all non-Phalanx, and he's driven to despair at the thought of being brought down to plain flesh and blood again.
* FaceHeelTurn: In his first appereance he's Beast's attorney. In his next appearance he's a villain and a representative of the Genoshan government.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The Phalanx are monstrous, but Hodge's motivation for helping them is so petty and ''insane'' they absolutely pale in comparison.
* OmnicidalManiac: His goal with the Phalanx is to eventually get them to consume all organic life. After all, that way there'll be no more mutants ''anywhere''.
* TheQuisling: Hodge completely willingly sells mankind out to the Phalanx.
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[[folder:Juggernaut]]
!!Juggernaut/Cain Marko
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RickBennet
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* BerserkButton: Don't ''ever'' call him a mutant. He is a regular human powered by a mystical gem.
* TheBrute: He has extreme SuperStrength, being able to punch a ''tank'' in two. He's also NighInvulnerable, his only weakness is mental attacks, and a wears a helmet that lets him NoSell them unless it's removed.
* TheBully: He's little more than an overgrown schoolyard bully, who just smashes anything that irritates him, and takes whatever he wants by force. Even as a kid he was a BigBrotherBully to Xavier.
* DumbMuscle: He's not very bright, and, fittingly, his weakness is psychic attacks.
* FreudianExcuse: Xavier's stepfather was an {{abusive|Parents}} GoldDigger who was really mean to Cain Marko (his original name) and viewed him as TheUnfavorite, which led to his enmity with Charles and general villainy.
* TheJuggernaut: In his debut, he destroys tanks, defeats Colossus, shrugs off Storm dropping a building on him, and even Rogue's energy draining power doesn't affect him because he has too much power for her to handle. After Jubilee mistakenly assumes getting a building dropped on Juggernaut killed him, Storm explains she knew that wouldn't work because nothing the X-Men know of can kill him. One would expect nothing less from the TropeNamer.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a very ominous three-note "song" that's played when's on-screen or being discussed. For some reason, it only shows up in his first episode.
* PetTheDog: In "Return Of The Juggernaut" someone steals the Ruby Of Cyttorak, and Juggernaut is BroughtDownToNormal, and eventually starts dying. The X-Men get the Ruby back, and Juggernaut just leaves without wrecking anything or hurting anyone. While this would usually be considered basic human decency, it's a surprisingly nice OutOfCharacter moment for him, and Xavier even says it's "his way of saying thank you."
-->'''Wolverine:''' ''(extends his claws)'' Make your move, tough guy!\\
'''Juggernaut:''' Another time, short stuff! When I'm in the mood. ''(leaves)''
* ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first act in the series]] is to demolish Xavier' school, basically just to be a dick.
* TheWorfEffect: While Juggernaut initially appears unstoppable to anything short of a psychic attack, he is flattened by Gladiator to demonstrate how strong the alien is, and by extension, the danger of the [=Shi'ar=].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nimrod]]
!!Nimrod
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* TheDragon: Is Master Mold's head minion in "One Man's Worth".
* TheDreaded: Bishop, who has worked with the future Sentinels before and knows what they're capable of, is understandably terrified of him. Given he's the ultimate Sentinel, this fear is entirely warranted.
* HealingFactor: Heals so fast he can just tank attacks, since he'll patch up seconds later.
* HeroKiller: Heavily implied to not only have killed the Logan of Bishop's future, but reduced him to a skeleton. He later kills Shard (temporarily) in "One Man's Worth".
* ImplacableMan: Nimrod chases Bishop through the time portal back to the modern day, just to have a chance at finishing him.
* KillerRobot: As a Sentinel.
* KillItWithIce: Cold seems to be the only thing that can reliably defeat it. This typically requires Storm to summon a blizzard powerful enough to freeze it and [[LiterallyShatteredLives break it into pieces]]. Even then, its parts can turn into liquid metal and reform after a few minutes, although this at least gives the X-Men time to break its temporal transceiver bracelet and send it back to its own time.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Barely any bigger than a normal person, but he's powerful enough to take on all the X-Men. Logan learns this the hard way.
-->'''Wolverine:''' ''(as Nimrod's already charging up an attack)'' That itty bitty soupcan? Given me five seconds with him and I'll- ''(Nimrod smacks Logan upside the head with an energy whip)''
* PowerFloats: Other Sentinels get around by stomping. Nimrod usually just sort of glides.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Even when smashed to pieces, Nimrod starts to reassemble himself. The only way the X-Men can defeat him is damaging the machinery keeping him in the past.
* TheQuietOne: Unlike the far more chatty Nimrod of the comics, this Nimrod never says a word, except briefly in "One Man's Worth".
* {{Shapeshifter}}: "One Man's Worth" shows he can disguise himself as people, in order to get closer to targets.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After getting sent back to the future, he doesn't reappear again.
* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: He's white and pinkish-red in color, and really scary due to being able to NoSell all most all of the heroes powers, with [[KillItWithIce cold]] being the only thing that reliably hurts him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mr. Sinister]]
!!Mr. Sinister/Nathaniel Essex
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisBritton
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_sinister.jpg]]
* AchillesHeel: In this version, an optic blast from Cyclops is the only thing that causes lasting damage to his body.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The show retains Nathaniel Essex being a Victorian scientist and contemporary of Charles Darwin that engaged in increasingly [[CallForward sinister]] experiments, but it drops Apocalypse being responsible for his transformation into Mr. Sinister. Instead, Essex's own experiments led to the change.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the comics, he's a ruthless BadBoss that openly punishes his subordinates and makes use of cloning technology to safely do YouHaveFailedMe. Here, he's actually quite pleasant to his various underlings, even complimenting them on their successes and never once abandoning them to save himself. He also forms an EnemyMine with the X-Men against the Phalanx invasion.
* ArchEnemy: To Cyclops after their first encounter. Cyclops has a shoot-on-sight approach to him.
* ArcVillain: Sinister is the primary villain of the second season. He's the new ruler of the Savage Land responsible for stranding Xavier and Magneto in his domain, and he repeatedly attempts to capture Scott and Jean so as to harvest their genetic material for the creation of a master race.
* BadassCape: He wears a very distinctive cape that's basically made of ribbons, rather than being a solid sheet of fabric
* BenevolentBoss: He never once takes a hand to his minions or punishes them for failure. The Nasty Boys and Savage Land Mutates serve him out of genuine loyalty.
* CallForward: In his origin episode, Essex is amused by his experiments being described as "sinister" and says he won't forget that.
* ColdHam: Dramatic, but measured,
* ConnectedAllAlong: "Descent" reveals that he was a friend of Xavier's ancestor (James) and married to Jean's (Rebecca). It's implied that the experimental treatments he gave to Rebecca are why Jean would develop her mutant powers.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first offscreen appearance he has a very campy laugh which contrasts hugely with his more subdued characterization.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: His skin is white as bleach, and his hair is black.
* EnemyMine: Joins up with the X-Men to fight the Phalanx, but only because they're attacking him as well. Once everything's over, he flees before the X-Men can stop him.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Xavier's ancestor, James. They used to be good friends, if at odds over Essex's views about science. Seeing what Essex turned into causes James to denounce him as a monster and spend the rest of his life trying to catch him.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: He has an almost metallic-sounding voice.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Most of his plots involve "improving" mutants with weird experiments. His ultimate end goal is to try and create some sort of super-mutant.
* FangsAreEvil: In his current form, he has sharp fangs to complement his, well, sinister appearance.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He started out as a friendly doctor deeply worried about his wife's declining health and wanting to find a way to spare the rest of humanity such issues. His research being denounced as blasphemy and insane (including by his idol Charles Darwin, no less) led to him becoming obsessive in his work and transforming into a true supervillain.
* HappilyMarried: "Descent" reveals that he truly loved his wife, Rebecca Grey, and was initially motivated in his work to find a cure for her condition. The marriage collapsed when she saw what he had become and feared what his treatments had turned her into.
* HealingFactor: He can shake off all sorts of energy blasts or Wolverine's claws. A blast from Cyclops takes him much longer to recover from, though.
* HistoricalInJoke: "Descent" strongly implies that UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was one of his creations and a means to procure genetic samples. He scolds Jack for not bringing in a desired subject alive.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At first, he was motivated by wanting to heal his gravely-ill wife, and finding a way to spare humanity this fate, but after 'acquiring' (implied to be kidnapping) and experimenting upon his superhuman test subjects, and conducting these experiments on himself, he later desired to 'improve' humanity according to his own designs.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Typically knows when to cut his losses and run.
* ManipulativeBastard: In the second season, [[spoiler:he is able to MindControl and brainwash Morph (who was thought to have died in the second episode of the first season) into hating the X-Men.]]
* Really700YearsOld: He was born sometime in the 1800s.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He's been following and observing Scott and Jean their entire lives, but only so he can get their DNA and use it for experiments.
* ThatManIsDead: "Essex is no more. From this day forward, you shall address me as Mr. Sinister!"
* VocalEvolution: He's comparatively [[SoftSpokenSadist softer spoken]] in '''97'', while the metallic reverb of his voice is made more pronounced, giving him an even more intimidating presence.
* YouFool: This is a particular favorite response of his to those opposing or questioning him. "Descent" alone has several examples of this.
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''X-Men '97'', [[spoiler:he is revealed to have created a clone of Jean Grey with the intent of her getting pregnant by Scott Summers, then mind-controls her to claim their newborn son--Nathan--as his latest test subject, infecting him with a techno-organic virus in an attempt to make him invulnerable]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Nasty Boys]]
!!The Nasty Boys (Gorgeous George, Ruckus, Slab, Hairbag, Vertigo)
* AdaptedOut: Ramrod, a member of the team in the comics, isn't present here.
* AscendedExtra: At the time they appeared in the show, their comic incarnations had only appeared twice, with their next appearance coming a month after the episode they debuted in aired.
* BaldOfEvil: Slab has no hair, and serves as one of Sinister's henchmen.
* BerserkButton: Hairbag really flips out once he realizes Wolverine was insulting him rather than calling him by name.
* TheBrute: Slab and Hairbag both share the spot, being muscle-bound dimwits.
* CompositeCharacter: They take the role of Sinister's usual goon squad, the Marauders.
* CreepilyLongArms: Even when he's not stretching out, Gorgeous Gorge's arms are far longer than they should be.
* HealingFactor: Due to his stretching power, assorted attacks never cause any lasting damage on Gorgeous George. He simply reforms from things like Gambit's cards exploding in his face or Wolverine ripping right through him, as if nothing happened.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: After getting kicked while already down, Wolverine dismisses his attacker as a hairbag.
-->'''Hairbag:''' Hey, who told ya my name?! You makin' fun of me?! Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Sinister's head goons.
* RubberMan: Gorgeous George has stretch powers that makes it quite easy for him to ensnare X-Men.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: After their initial appearance, they're joined by Vertigo, the only gal on the team.
* SuperScream: Ruckus' power is to scream really loud. Wolverine even comments (upon being subjected to his screams) that he never thought having a super sense of hearing would be so painful.
* UncertainDoom: "The Phalanx Covenant" has the titular villains go after Sinister, destroying his main lab and apparently killing the Nasty Boys in the process, but thanks to NeverSayDie it's a little unclear if they actually ''did'' or just captured them the same as they do the X-Men and X-Factor.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Graydon Creed]]
!!Graydon Creed, Jr.
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnStocker
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The founder and leader of the Friends of Humanity
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* AdaptationNameChange: Not a major one, but implied via Sabretooth's own AdaptationNameChange, this Graydon Creed is "Graydon Creed ''Jr''." In the comics, Graydon wasn't named after Sabretooth, whose first name was "Victor".
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: A very minor example that's explained by a slight bit of AdaptationalBackstoryChange. In the comics, Graydon grew up in an orphanage and when he confronts Sabretooth as an adult he kills the one person keeping him calm and screams at his father that he wanted to hurt him even as Sabretooth has him by the throat. Here, having been raised and abused by Sabretooth his whole life, he has a crippling fear of his father and breaks down in terror upon seeing his image.
* AxCrazy: His personal hatred of mutants has done him no favors and though he tries to hide it most of his episodes end with him a raving and frothing lunatic when things don't go his way.
* BigBadWannabe: Creed is a recurring threat throughout season 2, but his incompetence leaves him a secondary threat compared to Mr. Sinister. Apocalypse easily manipulates him into helping create a plague that will wipe out not just mutants but humans as well, and once Creed breaks the last straw by targeting Beast's love interest, Wolverine wastes no time exposing the identity of his father, removing the bulk of his influence among the Friends of Humanity.
* BoomerangBigot: He is the leader of the anti-mutant hate group Friends of Humanity, and [[spoiler:is the son of Sabretooth and Mystique and, through the latter, the half-brother of Nightcrawler and adoptive brother of Rogue, although [[MuggleBornOfMages he's not a mutant himself]]]].
* CainAndAbel: He is the Cain to Nightcrawler's Abel, wanting to kill him just for being a mutant. Not that he doesn't want to do that to the other mutant members of his family, but it's Nightcrawler he gets into a one-on-one brawl with.
* FalseFlagOperation: He plans to spread the Legacy Virus and blame it on the mutants.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: When Jubilee asks "Why do you hate us? What did we ever do to you?" he simply replies: "You were born."
* HateSink: He's one of the most vile and despicable villains in the show.
* {{Jerkass}}: Creed's completely lacking in sympathetic moments and is an out and out asshole to everyone.
* MuggleBornOfMages: [[spoiler:His parents are both mutants (Mystique and Sabretooth), but he has no powers]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He takes the FantasticRacism humans have towards mutants in the show up to eleven.
* PsychopathicManchild: Highlighted in his VillainousBreakdown where he screams and rants like a child throwing an angry tantrum.
* UngratefulBastard: At the end of "Time Fugitives", Beast [[SaveTheVillain saves him from his collapsing lab]], and says "Remember, Mr. Creed, a mutant saved your life". Despite this, he is not one whit less racist or evil afterwards.
* UnknownRival: In Season 2, he considers Beast the symbol of Robert Kelly changing his stance on mutants and is thus obsessed with taking him down (e.g. smearing his good name with altered news footage and trying to infect him with Apocalypse's virus). Beast is barely aware of who he is and has no personal involvement with him, at least until "Beauty & The Beast" (wherein Creed makes it very personal by going after Carly).
* VilerNewVillain: After Senator Kelly's HeelFaceTurn, Creed replaces him as the main human leading the racist crusade against mutants. He's far crueler and more bigoted than Kelly and goes to much more dangerous extremes to defame and even kill mutants. It's telling that Senator Kelly reconsidered his prejudices after the X-Men saved him, but when they save Creed, he refuses to change.
* VillainousBreakdown: After Wolverine [[spoiler:reveals to the Friends Of Humanity that he is Sabretooth's son, he starts freaking out and keeps screaming [[MadnessMantra "I'm not like him, I'm normal! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER!"]]]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Friends of Humanity]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:No more mutants!]]
An anti-mutant hate group founded in the wake of Robert Kelly's change of heart regarding mutants.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Men from many different ethnicities are included in their ranks, as are woman by the time of ''X-Men 97.'' Seems as long as you're not a mutant, you're free to join.
* FantasticRacism: They're a hate group dedicated to the persecution of mutantkind, regardless of whether or not their mutations are potentially dangerous or if their just benign.
* MugglePower: They are an anti-mutant hate group composed of regular humans.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Though not at first, their last appearance in the original series makes it clear they are meant to be a TakeThat to the Ku Klux Klan, as the councillors that usurp Creed's leadership are shown wearing hoods.
* TookALevelInBadass: The sequel series shows them getting their hands on Sentinel-tech, which they have repurposed as [[HandCannon Hand Cannons]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:General Chasen]]
!!General Chasen
* GeneralRipper: He seems to think Canada is in some sort of Cold War with America, since he views Logan leaving to join the X-Men as him "defecting", and orders him recovered by force so that Department H can study him to make more superweapons. It's pretty clear he doesn't give a damn about Logan as an individual or a living being.
* KarmaHoudini: He's still alive by the end of "Repo Man", having not gotten what he wanted and Alpha Flight having learned how scuzzy he is, but there's no clue as to whether anything more will happen to him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mojo]]
!!Mojo
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Peter Wildman (original series), Creator/DavidErrigoJr (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* BadBoss: Generally tends to threaten his workers with death for annoying him. Even Spiral isn't entirely immune; if it weren't for her powers making her useful to him, he'd kill her too. When he returns in ''97'' his only remaining employee is Spiral, who claims that he killed everyone else on the tech crew for failing to debug the "Motendo" game.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite being ''very'' LaughablyEvil and seemingly a buffoon at first, he proves no less dangerous than the serious villains.
* FormerlyFat: In "Motendo" he's considerably thinner, with his skin is hanging off his bones, because the lower ratings for his shows have drained his energy. Forcing Jubilee and Roberto to play "Motendo" is such a big hit that he instantly regains all of his lost weight.
* ImmoralRealityShow: His gameshows are basically {{snuff film}}s, as, despite being holograms [[YourMindMakesItReal they can actually kill people]]. While [[PlotArmor all of the X-Men survive]], it's likely most of his "contestants" weren't so lucky.
* LaughablyEvil: He's basically a parody of a gameshow host, but is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain still pretty deadly.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: Seriously, trying to find a moment where he's not shouting like a madman is an exercise in futility
* NonIndicativeName: "Mojo" is slang for magic, yet he has no magical powers whatsoever.
* SmarmyHost: He's a pretty big sleazebag.
* StarfishAliens: He's a {{fat|Bastard}}, slimy guy with a [[{{Cyborg}} robotic scorpion-spider]] for a lower body.
* WalkingWasteland: His just arriving on Earth causes all the nearby wildlife to wither and die.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Spiral]]
!!Spiral
-->'''Voiced by:''' Cynthia Belliveau (original series), Creator/AbbyTrott (''X-Men '97'') (English)
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Her ability to teleport between dimensions is the only thing keeping Mojo sucking the life out of her.
* DeadlyEuphemism: As an inhabitant of Mojoworld, when she says "cancelled" she means "''kill''".
* DeadpanSnarker: Not above sassing Mojo back, despite knowing what he can and ''would'' do to her given half a chance.
* TheDragon: Mojo's head minion and enforcer, though her loyalty isn't 100% ironclad.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Six arms, some of which hold swords. It also makes her quite useful for manning the controls of Mojo's television network (and as a bonus for him, means he has to pay fewer workers).
* WeWillMeetAgain: At the end of "Longshot", she goes home, but tells the X-Men she'll expect a rematch. While she does return in the '''97'' story "Motendo", she doesn't fight any of the X-Men directly.
* WomanScorned: Her first appearance has her walking off with Longshot. Next time around, she's working with Mojo again, and more than happy to try and kill Longshot. His only explanation? "We used to date."
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[[folder:The Savage Land Mutates]]
!!Barbarus, Brainchild, Lupo, Amphibius
* BeastMan: Lupo is a white-haired wolf man.
* FrogMen: Amphibius is a human-sized frog person.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Barbarus' mutation.
* MyBrainIsBig: Brainchild's mutation is an enlarged cranium, though he doesn't seem to particularly serve as TheSmartGuy.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Doing double-duty with Sinister's other squad, the Nasty Boys.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Magneto created them, but in his long absence they turned against him and joined up with Sinister.
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[[folder:Lady Deathstrike]]
!!Lady Deathstrike / Yuriko Oyama
-->'''Voiced by:''' Tasha Simms.
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* AdaptationalSympathy: Zigzagged. She still wants to kill Logan, but in the comics her reasoning was much less sound, blaming Logan for getting the adamantium bonded to his skeleton simply because she thought the process was based on her father's work. Here, she has the legitimate grief that Logan ''did'' kill her father, even if it overlooks some mitigating circumstances (like, for example, the fact her father was experimenting on Logan).
* CompositeCharacter: With Mariko Yashida.
* CreepilyLongArms: Her cybernetic modifications mean her arms are now super-elongated past the elbow, never mind that her hands and fingers are many times their natural size.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares about the Reavers, and is horrified when the Soul-Drinker consumes them.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She's become so warped she can't understand ''why'' Logan would risk his life to save total strangers from getting their souls eaten.
* FemmeFatalons: Thanks to some cybernetic enhancements, her fingers are now unnaturally long, and capable of extending further for the purposes of clawing.
* IOweYouMyLife: Much as she may want revenge on Logan, when he saves her from the Soul-Drinker, she acknowledges she owes him, and therefore will not kill him... ''today''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: No application of NeverSayDie for her.
* ThatManIsDead: She's quite emphatic to Logan that Yuriko is gone now.
* YouKilledMyFather: Wants to kill Wolverine on account of killing her father in his escape from Weapon X.
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[[folder:Erik the Red]]
!!Erik the Red / Davan Shakari
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LawrenceBayne
* TheArtifact: In the comics, Erik the Red started as a disguise of Cyclops's that the Shi'ar Davan Shakari took on for reasons that were never really explained. Here, it's an alias that he's taken on while exiled on Earth.
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the one responsible for the events that cause Jean to become Phoenix are also taken from Steven Lang.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Initially hires Black Tom and Juggernaut to capture Lilanda, but when Tom asks for payment he tries to kill him. A little squeezing from Juggernaut makes him change his mind and pay up.
* PunyHumans: Erik despises humanity, and several years spying on us has done absolutely nothing to change his opinion.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Apparently not for any screw-up, but Earth's a primitive backwater and he's itching at the chance to show D'Ken he can be more useful elsewhere.
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[[folder:D'Ken]]
!!Emperor D'Ken
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ryan Stewart
* AdaptationalBadass: Comic D'Ken was pretty powerless when up close and personal. Here, he manages to get his hands on the M'Kraan Crystal and it makes him a serious threat, along with RealityWarper powers.
* ArcVillain: He's the main villain of the Phoenix Saga in season 3, seeking the M'Kraan Crystal to destroy and remake the universe. An argument could be made for him being the main villain of the entire season: on top of his arc being the longest of the whole show, his villainy leads into Phoenix possessing Jean and beginning its own downfall to insanity, while the episode "Orphan's End" continues to deal with the aftermath of his reign.
* CainAndAbel: After Lilandra rebels against him, he orders her killed.
* TheCaligula: Apparently his reign has killed millions. Not content with being the undisputed ruler of his people, he decided to go after the M'Kraan Crystal, not remotely caring about the warnings it could destroy everything.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: D'ken serves as the main threat for the first half of the Phoenix story arc that spans season 3, as it is his machinations that bring Lilandra and the Phoenix Force itself to Earth. After his defeat, the Phoenix goes insane and becomes the new villain.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Thanks to Phoenix, he's sealed away inside the M'Kraan Crystal, now totally powerless, and the Crystal is sealed inside the sun, so no-one's coming to get him, and he's not getting out.
* ILied: Corsair calls him, promising (falsely) to hand over the Crystal if he gets paid. D'Ken swears he will, apparently a serious statement for Shi'ar, but as soon as the call's over tells Gladiator he wants him to kill Corsair. Of course, Corsair figured he'd do this anyway. He just wanted a shot at D'Ken.
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[[folder:Garokk]]
!!Garokk
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Garokk is merely a mutated human ([[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]). In the series, he's some kind of supernatural being.
%%* EvilSoundsDeep
* EvilVersusEvil: Gets into a showdown with Sauron over who gets feeding rights in the Savage Land.
* GeniusLoci: Of a sort. He's basically [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in the Savage Land]], but is aware of what happens there and can manifest body parts (such as a giant head or fist) to interact with things. Near the end, he's briefly "freed" and takes the form of a '''huge''' (as in, miles tall) humanoid RockMonster.
* JerkassGods: In ages past, he ruled the Savage Land. What we see is him just shooting bolts of energy at dinosaurs for kicks.
* NearVillainVictory: He came darn close to absorbing all the energy of the Savage Land, which would've been tremendously bad.
* RealAfterAll: He is initially worshiped as a god by the Savage Land natives, who wear necklaces bearing his face. Pretty much everyone else assumes he's just a superstition thought up by the natives (who are basically modern-day cavemen). It turns out he's a real person.
* SealedEvilInACan: Millennia ago, the High Evolutionary sealed him in stone (for some reason). He's tetchy about this, but then he did spend all that time still conscious.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Manipulated Sauron to bring Storm to the Savage Land so her powers could restore him, and once that was done uses this exact phrase word-for-word.
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[[folder:Phoenix]]
!!Phoenix
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original ''Dark Phoenix Saga'', Phoenix did a lot of shady things as a result of Mastermind's influence, including mind-whammying the Prydes so they'd be amenable to Kitty going to the Institute, killing two Hellfire goons as they chased Kitty, and trying to murder the X-Men simply because they were Jean's MoralityChain. None of those things happen here.
* ArcVillain: The Phoenix is the main antagonist of the Dark Phoenix Saga in season 3. Initially a benevolent force working to save existence in the Phoenix Saga, its return sees it devolve into gleeful malevolence as it indulges in newfound experiences of of emotion and evil, threatening the universe it once sought to protect.
* BigBadSlippage: It is introduced as the protector of the M'kraan Crystal, aiding Lilandra in protecting it and the rest of the universe from D'ken. However, once this is accomplished, the Phoenix grows to enjoy the feelings of emotion from physical form too much to leave Jean's body. Mastermind's manipulations further push it to evil, and it soon becomes just as great a threat as D'ken.
* ChewingTheScenery: Phoenix going DrunkOnTheDarkSide allows Catherine Disher to really go over-the-top.
* DeusExitMachina: Phoenix gives Jean a massive boost in power, meaning she and Jean are absent for the events of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", where their godlike powers would immediately shut down Sauron and Garokk with ease.
* EquivalentExchange: Offers to revive Jean in exchange for the life of another X-Men. However, when they all volunteer, this proves to be enough to bring her back without sacrificing anyone.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Starting off, it gives Jean a green and gold outfit. When it goes Dark Phoenix, the green turns blood red.
* EvilSoundsDeep: When it becomes Dark Phoenix, Jean's voice gets lower.
* ForTheEvulz: Thanks to Wyngarde's manipulations, the Phoenix learns of the sheer joy of evil, and embraces it wholeheartedly. Where its comic counterpart destroyed the D'Bari star for refuelling, Jean explains that here it did so simply because it could.
* HumanSacrifice: The Phoenix can resurrect the deceased Jean by killing another person in a SacrificialRevivalSpell. However, if multiple people offer themselves as sacrifices, it can drain all of them nonfatally to resurrect the charge.
* PhysicalGod: The Phoenix is a cosmic force roosting inside Jean, boosting her psychic powers to their utmost, and without any of Jean's humanity restraining it. The X-Men are just a ''little'' outclassed by someone who can casually eat stars and smash their way through spaceships. The Shi'ar figure the best course of action is blow up whatever the Phoenix is on and hope.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Professor X manages to temporarily seal the Phoenix up inside Jean's head, but a fight with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard causes all those restraints to break.
* SenseFreak: The Phoenix bound itself to Jean to deal with the M'kraan Crystal going haywire. Unfortunately for everyone else, it enjoyed human sensation too much to leave. A few days of psychic manipulation by Mastermind push it even further into madness, and make it decide it wants to experience ''more''. Fortunately, after Jean nearly kills herself it pushes the Phoenix out of her body and it calms down.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: The original ''Dark Phoenix Saga'' comic ends with a HeroicSuicide from Jean which also destroys the Phoenix Force (at least [[DeathIsCheap temporarily]]). In the series, the Phoenix willingly lets go of Jean so both of them can survive.
* ThatManIsDead: Once it goes dark, it claims Jean isn't there anymore, and there's only Phoenix. It's wrong.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: It doesn't understand such things as love.
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[[folder:Deathbird]]
!!Cal'syee Neramani / Deathbird
* CainAndAbel: She tries to usurp the throne from her little sister, Lilandra.
* {{Determinator}}: Of the "too stubborn to quit" variety. Even after her latest plan has gone belly up, she still tries lunging at Lilandra, even when Gladiator's in the room.
* UnwittingPawn: Apocalypse promised to help her kill Lilandra and allow her to take over the Shi'ar Empire. Instead, she was just a means for Apocalypse traverse deep space and [[spoiler:abduct Oracle for his Axis of Time plot]].
* VillainTeamup: Works with Apocalypse to get a chance at Lilandra. Once Apocalypse has what he wants, he bugs out, leaving Deathbird high-and-dry.
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[[folder:Sauron]]
!!Sauron/Karl Lykos
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* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the comics, Karl obtained his his energy draining ability from an injury caused by a mutant pterodactyl, with his later transformation into Sauron being the result of draining Havok. In this version, Karl was one of Sinister's test subjects.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The more power Sauron drains, the larger he gets. At the climax of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he's bigger than a mountain.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Karl has to use his LifeDrain on people just to survive. He feels bad about having to do this, and tries to use it as little as possible.
* TheDreaded: Sauron first appears while subduing Shanna, which Xavier and Magneto observe. Xavier wants to intervene, but Magneto stops him, saying he is familiar with Sauron's capabilities and that the guy is too dangerous even for fully-powered mutants.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he uses up all his energy as Sauron and turns back into Lykos. After this, the Savage Land tribes allow him to join. Since there are no mutants native to the Savage Lands, he won't have to risk absorbing mutant energy and turning into Sauron again.]]
* ForcedIntoEvil: It's made very clear that Karl doesn't like turning into Sauron and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feels really guilty about the things he does when he's him.]]
* ForcedTransformation: If he ever absorbs ''mutant'' (as opposed to human) energy, he immediately turns into Sauron. How long he stays this way depends on how much he absorbed.
* HypnoticEyes: Very effective, too. He was able to overwhelm Xavier and force him to lure the X-Men right into Sinister's clutches in the Savage Land. This was also how he was able to subdue Shanna and Storm.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Karl just wants to be a normal person, and not be at risk of turning into an evil monster all the time.
* JekyllAndHyde: Karl is a nice guy that regrets having to drain energy to survive, while Sauron is a literal monster out to conquer the Savage Land.
* LifeDrinker: Mr. Sinister's experiments turned him into this. Karl needs to periodically drain energy just to survive, but contact with a mutant turns him into Sauron (who, of course, needs continued mutant energy to avoid reverting back into Karl).
* MindRape: Sauron has the ability to make people hallucinate or make them fanatically devoted to him even if they are normally his enemies, which he does to [[spoiler:Storm]].
* NoSell: The one time Sauron's powers don't work are when he tries grabbing Rogue. They get into a feedback loop of draining one another until Sauron pulls away.
* OurWereBeastsAreDifferent: He's a were-''pterodactyl'', though as in the comics he's also got some vampire in him (with the hypnotic gaze and need to feed on people).
* PlayingWithSyringes: Karl Lykos was used as one of Sinister's experiments, turning him into Sauron.
* UnwittingPawn: To Garokk in the "Savage Land, Savage Heart" two-parter. He was the means to bring Storm back to the Savage Land, thus giving Garokk the chance to finally break free of his prison. Sauron was not happy to learn this, and he ended up fighting back in [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever a big way]].
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Partly because it's Savage Land fashion, but also because the transformation from Lykos to Sauron shreds everything but his underwear.
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[[folder:High Evolutionary]]
!!High Evolutionary
* AllThereInTheManual: Is never actually identified by name in "Family Ties".
* EvilutionaryBiologist: He turns animals into ani-men, and wants to use a mixture of Magneto, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's powers so he can speed up the process, iron out the kinks and risk of failure, and then create a world free of sin.
* KarmaHoudini: He accomplishes his goal in "Family Ties" and escapes, after having caused a considerable amount of pain to Magneto and the twins, and is never seen again (although since he isn't ruling the world in later episodes, it can be taken as read his overall scheme didn't work).
* ManipulativeBastard: Suckers Pietro and Wanda into attacking Magneto so he can capture him, and then captures them as well.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to replace humanity with ani-men as the dominant species because he believes they'll be purer of intention.
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[[folder:Phalanx]]
* {{Expy}}: Just a little bit of [[Franchise/StarTrek the Borg]] in them, with their stated goal being assimilating everyone into "perfection".
* MechanicalAbomination: The central hub of the Phalanx is a giant tendril of mechanical matter with wailing heads extending from it.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Smash up a Phalanx, and they'll just pull themselves back together.
* ResistanceIsFutile: To go with the Borg thing, not to mention "you will be assimilated".
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[[folder:Arkon]]
!!Arkon of Polemachus
* AdaptationalVillainy: Arkon has occasionally troubled the Avengers in the comics, but usually because he's been duped, and more often than not is a good guy and ally to Marvel's heroes. Not so much here.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes to Earth looking for Storm to ask her to use her powers to fix his world Polemachus's severe weather problems, and then marry him. [[spoiler:Turns out he's ''responsible'' for those problems, and is an imperialistic, slaving lunatic]].
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:When finally called out on his mountain of lies, he tells Storm he ''had'' to enslave his planet's neighbours, because they did it first, and every strong empire has to enslave ''someone''. Ororo does not agree]].
* HadToBeSharp: He insists to Ororo that his occasional displays of bad temper are because of the long history Polemachus has with their neighbour. This is total bunk.
* HairTriggerTemper: His "servants" are utterly terrified at all times, probably because he'll torture them with little to no provocation, such as walking in on him sweet-talking his fiancée.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's quite big. Storm's not exactly slight herself, being 5'11, and he's at least a head taller than her.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:In the end, Storm destroys the device powering his armies and keeping his slaves from rebelling or escaping]].
* SkewedPriorities: One of his advisers tells him the whole problem with Polemachus tearing itself apart is because of the giant energy generator he set up, and the easiest way to fix the problem would be ''turn the damn thing off''. He refuses point-blank.
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[[folder:The Red Skull]]
->See his folder [[Characters/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeriesVillains here]].
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!!Introduced in ''X-Men '97''
[[folder:X-Cutioner]]
!!Carl Denti/The X-Cutioner
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LawrenceBayne
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Denti was a VigilanteMan who targetted fugitive mutants who had escaped the law, and his primary conflict with the X-Men was over how brutal his methods were. Here, he's a proud member of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName heavily Nazi-coded]] Friends of Humanity and a proudly open bigot towards ''all'' mutants.
* AngryWhiteMan: He's an Aryan-looking fellow that whines about how regular humans have it way worse than mutants.
* BadassNormal: A member of the Friends of Humanity who arms himself with weaponry built from reverse-engineered Sentinel technology as well as mutant inhibitor collars, which he uses [[spoiler:to successfully strip Storm of her powers.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: He's just some nameless [=FoH=] bigot in the first episode, until the credits identify him as Carl Denti. The next time we see him, he dons the costume of the X-Cutioner.
* DirtyCoward: He showed a lot of bravado with his various weapons and anti-mutant gadgetry, take that away and he doesn't feel like quipping anymore.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He criticizes mutants for constantly whining about their problems...which he's basically doing by complaining about how much harder normal people have it. Not only that, he complans that his kind has it harder than them, citing their powers, but he goes after Roberto who has been shown to not be a threat to humans.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's introduced as just another dime-a-dozen bigot who gets his butt easily handed to him when the X-Men arrive. Then he actually learns from the experience and in his next appearance arrives outfitted with weaponry that allow him to defend against and counteract the X-Men's abilities [[spoiler:and even seemingly permanently strips Storm of her powers]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Cyclops during their fight in "Mutant Liberation Begins".
-->'''X-Cutioner:''' Know what I hate about your kind? You act like you got it so bad. Normal people have it hard, too. Harder! We just have the dignity not to whine about it. You see? It's the whining. I hate your whining just as much as I hate you.
* StarterVillain: The first villain fought in ''X-Men '97'', with the team having to take him down after he kidnaps Roberto.
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