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* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:After revealing Mister Sinister's modified Sentinel designs to the X-Men, he tries to leap to his death out of guilt for his complicitly in the Genosha massacre, only to be caught by Rogue...who proceeds to let him go after he tells her he has no more information about Mister Sinister's plans.]]

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* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:After revealing Mister Sinister's modified Sentinel designs to the X-Men, he tries to leap to his death out of guilt for his complicitly in the Genosha massacre, only to be caught by Rogue...who proceeds to let him go fall after he tells her he has no more information about Mister Sinister's plans.]]

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* 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. [[spoiler:He makes a pretty good Hannibal Lecter impersonation in his first episode in '''97'', but in his second one Bastion [[UndignifiedDeath smothers him with a pillow in his cell, of all things]].]]

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* 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. [[spoiler:He makes a pretty good Hannibal Lecter impersonation in his first episode in '''97'', but in his second one Bastion [[UndignifiedDeath smothers him with a pillow his barehands in his cell, of all things]].]]


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* AssholeVictim: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Most of the X-Men are horrified that Rogue decided to go through with killing him in revenge for what his creations did in Genosha, but Wolverine admits all of them were thinking of doing it.]]


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* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:After revealing Mister Sinister's modified Sentinel designs to the X-Men, he tries to leap to his death out of guilt for his complicitly in the Genosha massacre, only to be caught by Rogue...who proceeds to let him go after he tells her he has no more information about Mister Sinister's plans.]]
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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 being behind the attack on Genosha after kidnapping Trask for his Sentinel knowledge to help him with his [[{{Pun}} sinister]] plans.]]

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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 being behind the attack on Genosha after kidnapping Trask for his Sentinel knowledge to help him with his [[{{Pun}} sinister]] plans.]]



* TheDragon: Sinister is Apocalypse's most prominent minion in season 4, and unlike Magneto and Mystique, is fully aware of his true plans of destroying time.

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* TheDragon: Sinister is Apocalypse's most prominent minion in season 4, and unlike Magneto and Mystique, is fully aware of his true plans of destroying time. [[spoiler:In the revival, he becomes Bastion's right-hand man in executing the Genoshan massacre.]]



* BigBad: The true villain of season 1 of ''X-Men '97''.

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* BigBad: The true villain of season 1 of ''X-Men '97''.'97'', being the true villain behind the Genoshan massacre and the fostering of a new war between humans and mutants.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Rather than dying in a HeroicSacrifice to stop his creations when they turn on humanity, Bolivar lives. [[spoiler:He just really wishes he hadn't.]]

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Rather than dying in a HeroicSacrifice to stop his creations when they turn on humanity, Bolivar lives. [[spoiler:He just really wishes he hadn't. Rogue eventually grants his wish.]]

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* BigBad: The true villain of season 1 of X-men 97.

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* BigBad: The true villain of season 1 of X-men 97.''X-Men '97''.


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* SoftSpokenSadist: Bastion talks in a very buttery smooth fashion when discussing things with both Mr. Sinister and Magneto, and yet it is very clear he enjoys tormenting the latter and has plans for what seems to be the extinction of mutantkind with his new generation of Sentinels.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: As is so often the case, Bolivar's not-unfounded reasons for creating Sentinels and the sympathetic backstory are completely omitted here.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: As is so often the case, Bolivar's not-unfounded reasons for creating Sentinels and the sympathetic backstory are completely omitted here. [[spoiler:'''97'' does a lot [[SubvertedTrope more to reintroduce his more benevolent intentions]] with TheReveal that he was ForcedIntoEvil this time around, and genuinely regrets what the Sentinel program has become when it was meant originally as a peacekeeping tool to protect them from dangerous mutants than a genocidal weapon of mass destruction.]]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Shortly after Rogue kills him in revenge for everything his creations caused in Genosha, Trask is forcibly mutated into the new breed of Sentinel created by Mr. Sinister to attack the X-Men.]]



* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:While it seemed like he was back to his old mutant-hunting ways in '''97'' in the first episode, it's revealed that he only restarted development on the Sentinels because Mister Sinister forced him to. He's actually so disgusted by the attack on Genosha he indirectly wrought that he begs to be killed.]]

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* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:While it seemed like he was back to his old mutant-hunting ways in '''97'' in the first episode, it's revealed that he only restarted development on the Sentinels because Mister Sinister forced him to. He's actually so disgusted by the attack on Genosha he indirectly wrought that he begs to be killed. Turns out, [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie not even death could have saved him from being made to kill people]].]]
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* 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.

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* 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. [[spoiler:He makes a pretty good Hannibal Lecter impersonation in his first episode in '''97'', but in his second one Bastion [[UndignifiedDeath smothers him with a pillow in his cell, of all things]].]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefuless: Kills Gyrich after he becomes a loose end.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefuless: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kills Gyrich after he becomes a loose end.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Bastion kills him in episode 7. Nobody will miss him.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefuless: Kills Gyrich after he becomes a loose end.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Act really chummy around a captured Magneto.]]

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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Act He acts really chummy around a captured Magneto.]]

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[[folder: Bastion]]Bastion '''(Massive spoilers)''']]



* FreezeFrameBonus: He can actually be seen in episode 4 on Forge's picturewall.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Act really chummy around a captured Magneto.]]
* FreezeFrameBonus: He can actually be seen in episode 4 on [[https://imgur.com/Hd73p0Q Forge's picturewall.picturewall]].
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* BishonenLine: The mastermind behind the Genoshan Master Mold looks like a normal human.
* FreezeFrameBonus: He can actually be seen in episode 4 on Forge's picturewall.
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* BigBad: The true villain of season 1 of X-men 97.
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* PragmaticVillainy: In episode 2, Trask is annoyed with Gyrich for unleashing the Sentinels too early as he wanted to wait until they'd built a hundred of them so they'd have superior numbers on their side. Gyrich overrules him as he felt they needed the Sentinels as soon as possible.

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* PragmaticVillainy: PragmaticVillainy:
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In episode 2, Trask is annoyed with Gyrich for unleashing the Sentinels too early as he wanted to wait until they'd built a hundred of them so they'd have superior numbers on their side. Gyrich overrules him as he felt they needed the Sentinels as soon as possible.possible.
** During "Slave Island", he nearly has Storm executed for trying to escape the Genoshan labor camp. Gambit convinces him to let her live because her powers can be useful to the construction of the Dam.

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* 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.

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* GoneHorriblyWrong: Trask and Hodge Gyrich 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.



* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: ''Officially'', they're robotic policemen. Your average twenty foot tall robot police officer armed with deadly laser beams. Of course, Gyrich intended them for the task of killing Mutants, not arresting.



* ZergRush: A single Sentinel is generally as durable as it needs to be. Bolivar Trask had originally planned on holding off unveiling them until they had a hundred built, and as the glimpses of Bishop's future show, if the Sentinels were built in large enough numbers, they would overwhelm any opposition.



* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: You can tell he's a scientist by the labcoat he's wearing.

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* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: You can tell he's a scientist by the labcoat he's wearing. Even when on the run in the middle of the Sahara, man's got his labcoat.



* SparedByTheAdaptation: Rather than dying in a HeroicSacrifice to stop his creations when they turn on humanity, Bolivar lives. [[spoiler:He just really wishes he hadn't.]]






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* 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.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The General clearly took Logan leaving Department H personally, because it reflected badly on him
* 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.

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* GeneralRipper: He seems to think Canada is in some sort of Cold War KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The original show ends with America, since he views Logan leaving to join the X-Men as him "defecting", and orders him recovered Genosha still an oppressive state, but by force so '''97'' that Department H can study him government has been toppled and replaced with a Mutant run one.
* LighterAndSofter: Not quite as monstrously "South African Apartheid with the dial turned up
to make more superweapons. eleven" horrific as the comic version. Mutants are enslaved, but here they at least get to kill their minds and free will, rather than being turned into [[EmptyShell Mutates]]. They also don't go out of their way to hunt down Mutants to take back to Genosha.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny:
It's pretty clear he doesn't give a damn about Logan as an individual or a living being.
the ''Free Republic'' of Genosha. Free for humans, that is. Mutants? Not remotely.
* ItsAllAboutMe: SchmuckBait: Mutants are welcome on Genosha! The General clearly took Logan leaving Department H personally, because it reflected badly on him
* KarmaHoudini: He's still alive by the end of "Repo Man", having not gotten what he wanted
minute they get there, they're captured, enslaved, and Alpha Flight having learned how scuzzy he is, but there's no clue as put to whether anything more will happen to him.work.



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* CrazyPrepared: While they were surprised by things going wrong, they also had preparations for if and when it would happen, and if Team X ever returned to the facilities.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Bonding that adamantium to Wolverine worked alright. Didn't even take him a minute to use it to break out of the lab.
* KillerRobot: Talos, their robot designed to "recapture" Team X, is also programmed to kill them if they resist.
* TakingYouWithMe: On the off chance Team X might've been able to destroy Talos, it's programmed to mash their [[TraumaButton Trauma Bottons]] while a second activates and finishes the job.
* TooDumbToLive: After their success with Wolverine, they were prepared to repeat the process on ''Sabretooth'', which was never going to end well for anyone.

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!!General Chasen
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* 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.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The General clearly took Logan leaving Department H personally, because it reflected badly on him.
* 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.
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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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* PsychoExGirlfriend: Before the whole Weapon X debacle, Logan and Yuriko had a thing together. Now Yuriko becomes has become Lady Deathstrike in order to kill Wolverine.
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-> ->''"Behold, mutant, for I am death! I am Master Mold!"''

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* CommutingOnABus: After Master Mold goes rogue, he only makes two more appearances in the series, though he plays a major role in "[[SeriesFauxnale Graduation Day]]".
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The three heads thing was actually a feature of the wild sentinels.


* 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 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 Wild Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'', a model so powerful it nearly wipes out the entirety of Genosha alongside killing Gambit.]]



* HeroKiller: Indirectly. [[spoiler:He is behind the Tri-Sentinal that caused the massacre on Genosha, who killed Magneto, Gambit and Madelyn Pryor. He wasn't there to do it himself, but his actions directly led to their deaths and it was almost certainly his intention.]]

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* HeroKiller: Indirectly. [[spoiler:He is behind the Tri-Sentinal Wild Sentinal that caused the massacre on Genosha, who killed Magneto, Gambit and Madelyn Pryor. He wasn't there to do it himself, but his actions directly led to their deaths and it was almost certainly his intention.]]



* CompositeCharacter: Has the name of Master Mold, but almost everything else about it is taken from the giant Wild Sentinels from Grant Morrison's ''New X-Men'', although physically it resembles the Tri-Sentinel which was a Spider-Man villain created through magic by Loki.

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* CompositeCharacter: Has the name of Master Mold, but almost everything else about it is taken from the giant Wild Sentinels from Grant Morrison's ''New X-Men'', although physically it resembles the Tri-Sentinel which was a Spider-Man villain created through magic by Loki.X-Men''.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His ParanoiaGambit attack on Xavier was meant to open humanity's eyes to Mutants living amongst them and increase support for Gyrich's bigoted ideologies. Instead his attack on such a peaceful man on national television increased Mutant sympathy.
-->"We take a look back on another life cut short, Professor Charles Xavier. The Mutant leader's assassination last year by former NSA Agent Henry Gyrich has spurred increased sympathy towards Mutants despite their strange powers."
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Before he was Mr Sinister he was Nathaniel Essex, and part of his turn to villainy was finding a cure for his wife's illness. His actions lead to him performing inhumane experiments on various mutants and on himself but ultimately he is able to heal her. When she finds out the extent of what he'd done she rejects him and though he's heartbroken he never raises a hand to her and instead flees into the night.

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A Card Carrying Villain isn't identified by the nature of their crime as they are by how they identify themselves.


* AppropriatedAppellation: Back when he was Nathaniel Essex, his peer, James, mentioned others in the scientific community deeming his secret experiments on mutants "sinister", a word that more fascinated than angered him. He would go on to take that word as his name.



* CardCarryingVillain: His name is MISTER SINISTER for crying out loud. [[spoiler: That and the fact he is the mastermind of the genocide of Genosha doesn't say heroism and love.]]

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* CardCarryingVillain: His name is MISTER SINISTER for crying out loud. [[spoiler: That and the fact he is the mastermind of the genocide of Genosha doesn't say heroism and love.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: In episode 2, Trask is annoyed with Gyrich for unleashing the Sentinels too early as he wanted to wait until they'd built a hundred of them so they'd have superior numbers on their side. Gyrich overrules him as he felt they needed the Sentinels as soon as possible.
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* CompositeCharacter: Has the name of Master Mold, but everything else about it is taken from the giant Wild Sentinels from Grant Morrison's ''New X-Men''.

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* CompositeCharacter: Has the name of Master Mold, but almost everything else about it is taken from the giant Wild Sentinels from Grant Morrison's ''New X-Men''.X-Men'', although physically it resembles the Tri-Sentinel which was a Spider-Man villain created through magic by Loki.
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* VillainousBreakdown: He's gone from composed to an unhinged, screaming demagogue in "Graduation Day" ranting against mutant rights, culminating in him trying to assassinate Xavier publicly. He's much calmer when he returns in ''97'', but has become such an extremist he implies he'll only be satisfied with a genocide of mutants.
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* SanitySlippage: Over the course of the series, Gyrich grows increasingly unhinged and paranoid, descending even further into anti-mutant fanaticism.

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->''"Tolerance is extinction."''

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