History ComicBook / SinsOfSinister

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Sinister wanted others to see things his way so he can experiment at will, so he infects countless people on Earth with his genetic code. Unfortunately for him, the other corrupted Krakoans do not necessarily see eye-to-eye with him, showing him that making the world in his own image just hurts him in the long run.]]

** Sinister's ultimate plan. [[spoiler:After letting the Mutant population reach a suitable size, he uses a built-in killswitch in his genetic tampering that uses them as fuel for his ascendancy.]]

* LesserOfTwoEvils: Sinister exploits this twice at the climax [[spoiler: when both Ironforge and Moira object to him sending information about the timeline back to himself when the Moira Engine is reset]]. He's bad -- but the other powers in the cosmos are ''worse'', and if they get their hands on the Moira Engine the universe will be locked in a neverending dystopia forever.

** In ''Immoral X-Men'' #1 the infected Professor X displays disgust at Emma's post infection sadism. He justifies his actions in terms of NecessarilyEvil (though Sinister's infection has pushed the limits of what he will condone much further than normal) but he doesn't particularly enjoy using his mental powers to make dissidents kill themselves, wishing they could be brought into the fold instead and making their ends quick when he kills them. Emma openly enjoys the chance to kill them and comments that she takes time to make her targets ''scream'', which repulses the corrupted Xavier. As of ''Immoral X-Men'' #3 and the +1000 era, [[spoiler:the schism between them has become a full EnemyCivilWar between their interstellar empires]] - and whatever standard Xavier may have once had are long gone.

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Discussed in regards to [[ResetButton the Moira Engine]]; some want to use it to avert the Sinister corrupted universe, while others want to preserve whatever life untainted by Sinister's machinations still exists. The state of the universe is horrible but is that justification enough to subject everyone to oblivion?

* {{Irony}}: The whole reason Mystique turned on Krakoa was because she wanted Destiny alive again. By the time of ''Storm and the Brotherhood'' #2, she left Destiny in part because she thought Irene was being too controlling.

** In ''Sins of Sinister: Dominion'', [[spoiler:Sinister stops trying to defend himself from Ironfire or even to survive when he realizes all of his goals, up to snd including becoming an artificial god, are for naught, openly telling Ironfire that "Nothing matters anymore," so he can kill as many Sinisters as he wants without it making a difference]].

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** When Sinister's greeting his corrupted clones in the Arbor Magna. Lucas Wernak's artwork intentionally duplicates Pepe Larraz's similar staging of Xavier doing the same thing back in ''ComicBook/HouseOfX'' #1.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: In ''Nightcrawlers'' #3, [[spoiler:Banshee drives one of Wagnerine's severed WolverineClaws through MagicalBarefooter Mother Righteous's foot. It takes her focus off the injured Wagnerine, as Mother turns on Banshee instead - just as he had intended]].

** Sinister [[spoiler:succeeds in attempting his apotheosis into a Dominion Intellect only to hit a literal wall and have his efforts usurped. He's horrified knowing he not only failed but also that now [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption he can never succeed]] in any timeline, as Dominion Intellects transcend them.]]

** [[spoiler: Red Diamond is completely shattered by Storm at the climax of ''Storm & The Brotherhood'' #3. Beast's comments immediately following this heavily implies that this didn't kill her, instead reducing her to a cloud of sentient diamond dust trapped in the vacuum of space forever. Luckily for her, the universe is reset shortly afterwards.]]
* AntagonistTitle: Sinister finds himself demoted to a BigBadWannabe, and isn't a presence in ''Nightcrawlers'' or ''Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants'', but he's unambiguously a villain and antagonist for ComicBook/DestinyOfX as a whole.

* AssimilationPlot: Sinister, to the surprise of no one, spiked the genetic samples used for the Resurrection Protocols with his own personality. However, Hope's presence in Krakoa's resurrection circuit ("the Five") unwittingly purged his tampering, so the plan failed - until Sinister murdered Hope and she was assimilated during her own resurrection. This allows him to covertly take over the Quiet Council, who graciously open resurrection to important human figures worldwide, allowing him to assimilate them, then later provide X-Gene implants to humans to assimilate civilians without resurrection. [[spoiler:A variation, to his chagrin, in that the converts are not connected to him through a HiveMind and thus not beholden to comply with his [[ForScience greater motivation.]]]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: But not the one you'd think. Of all the Sinisters, it's Mother Righteous who comes out of the story ahead of the game. Her future self dies, but she sends a thousand years of secrets back to her library in the past. Her past self swiftly becomes a VillainWithGoodPublicity, the saviour of Krakoa, and the extremely powerful chimera Rasputin IV is now back in the present day as her ally. The last issue of the crossover ends with Storm thanking Mother Righteous - and by saying those words she's given Mother's magic a way to control her. Even worse, Storm phrases it as gratitude from every mutant on Krakoa, implying almost the ''entirety of mutantkind'' is now in the sorceress' power]].

** By year 10 most mutants, and a growing number of humans, are tainted by Sinister's genetic tampering, with their minds infected by Sinister's personality. Pollutants from Sinister's lab complexes are poisoning North America. Most superheroes have been corrupted, exiled or killed. Arakko is shattered into asteroids, and Krakoa's Quiet Council is a corrupt tyranny.
** By year 100, Earth's mutants have become an genocidal interstellar power, the Empire of the Red Diamond, that routinely [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroys entire planets]]. Earth itself is polluted and abandoned to the genetic monsters left on its surface. The Shi'ar empire has fallen, Asgard and Otherworld have been laid to waste by Chimera attacks, Xandar's sun has [[StarKilling been detonated]] and the remaining power blocs have unified into a desperate coalition that is directly threatened by the mutants.

** Doctor Stasis clearly thinks that he’s Sinister’s archenemy and superior, imagining that he can ally with Orbis Stellaris and triumph. But in this timeline his power base in Orchis has crumbled, humanity has been wholly subverted by the Mutants and [[spoiler:Stellaris is manipulating Stasis into a situation where the fourth Sinister clone, Mother Righteous, can murder him]].
** Sinister himself rapidly loses control of the situation. By ''Immoral X-Men'' #2, the [[spoiler:corrupted mutants have decided that he's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived His Usefulness]] and he's forced to flee]]. By ''Sins of Sinister: Dominion'' [[spoiler:he's briefly restored to power, making his bid for Dominion status and killing almost every mutant in the universe - only to fail again at the last moment]].

** The closest person who can claim this role in the nightmare future of Sinister's making is Ororo/Storm, who continues to fight alongside the few remaining Arakki and her other allies for the hope of freedom, no matter how slim that hope gets. [[spoiler: She even refuses to activate the Moira lab to restart the timeline, on the grounds that it would erase the current one - as that would violate her belief that all life, no matter how corrupted by Sinister's evil, deserves to exist.]]
* BigNo: In ''Immoral X-Men'' #1, Sinister [[spoiler:creates another copy of himself - 'Ducky' - to use as a sounding board. At the end of their conversation he states that it's too dangerous to leave the clone alive, and triggers some sort of genetic kill switch. 'Ducky' is left screaming "No! No! No!" (presented in a ''much'' larger font size than normal dialogue) as his body [[ImMelting melts into gory goo]]]].

* BodyguardBetrayal: In ''Immoral X-Men'' #2, 100 years in the future, [[spoiler:Exodus has tired of Hope's petulant, childish behavior. He abandons her in the middle of a battle against the Chitauri, leaving her to die when he's no longer close enough for her to copy his powers. It's implied he has the Quiet Council's backing for this but, on a personal level, he's simply decided that she's a disappointing messiah - her church would do better without her]].
* BoomHeadshot: In ''Dominion'', [[spoiler:Juggernaut, previously shot out into space by Krakoa a thousand years before, shows up at the right time to go through an undead Galactus's head.]]

** Rasputin, last seen in ''ComicBook/PowersOfX'', returns in the event. This version of Rasputin IV is Sinister's finest creation, created 100 years into the future - the first Chimera to combine five different mutants.

* CloningBlues:
** Played with when Mother Righteous suggests that Doctor Stasis is clinging to a narcissistic belief that he's the original Nathan Essex. Righteous knows and accepts that she isn't the original, and seems entirely comfortable with that. Stellaris's own views are less clear, but he and Righteous begin to refer to each other as 'brother' and ‘sister'.
** Subverted with Sinister himself, who already knows he's the latest in a series of Sinister clones. When he encounters Mother Righteous and she explains the four sets of clones of Essex he points out that his personality and focus on mutant powers are closest to the original Essex - and that Nathaniel Essex gained a Diamond-Sinister form from Apocalypse ''before'' the four clones were released. So, as Sinister sees it, all this changes is that he now has more competitors towards the same goal.

** At the climax of that same issue, Storm does a mild invocation of the Phoenix's spiel as she [[spoiler:uses magic to move the World Farm, stealing it from within the Death Sphere.]]

* ADarkerMe: [[spoiler:While Sinister's corrupted versions of everyone are in on the scheming to conquer the world, they retain enough of their own preexisting motivations to disobey Sinister himself, rejecting his attempt to focus on scientific advancement, in lieu of pursuing what they wanted beforehand but more amorally]].

* DemotedToDragon: At the end of ''Immoral X-Men'' #1 and the 10+ Era in general this [[spoiler: is Sinister's fate. The corrupted Mutants are no longer even pretending to be under his thumb, his attempt to retake control results in a CurbStompBattle being dealt to him by the infected Emma Frost and he only barely manages to avoid execution by bribing the Quiet Council with his ability to create Chimera {{Super Soldier}}s which the mutants will desperately need to live through the interstellar war on the horizon.]].

** In ''Sins of Sinister: Dominion'', [[spoiler:Sinister stops trying to defend himself from Ironfire or even to survive when he realizes all of his goals, up to snd including becoming an artificial god, are for naught, openly telling Ironfire that "Nothing matters anymore," so he can kill as many Sinisters as he wants without it making a difference.]]

* DoNotGoGentle: In ''Immoral X-Men'' #2, [[spoiler:Hope In Sin is betrayed by Exodus and stranded without powers in the middle of a Chitauri horde. She grits her teeth and fights on - there's no way out, but she's not going to make it easy for them]].

* DyingAsYourself: In ''Nightcrawlers'' #1 [[spoiler:Wallcrawler volunteers for a likely suicide mission, scouting the World Farm, as he can feel Sinister's presence growing at the back of his mind, eating away at his free will. The stolen lab complex on the World Farm has [[TeleportInterdiction teleport shielding]], so he dies instantly when he reappears there. This then becomes a tradition for Nightkin who feel their identity slipping away]].

* FirstEpisodeTwist: [[spoiler:Sinister's tainted everyone resurrected by the Five since Hope's death - but they retain much of their original personalities and he discovers, the hard way, that they ''aren't'' under his control. Even worse, someone has discovered and stolen his lab - so he has no access to the Moira Engine and can't reset the timeline]].

* FutureShadowing:

** Wallcrawler is a Chimera created from Nightcrawler and Spider-Man, and debuts several years into the BadFuture. After ''Sins of Sinister'' ends, ''ComicBook/UncannySpiderMan'' stars Nightcrawler, who's temporarily adopted the Spider-Man costume and identity.
* GodhoodSeeker: It's revealed that Sinister's long-term aim is to ascend to Dominion status - becoming more than a god - before the existing Dominion intelligences consume humanity.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Sinister basically infected most of the X-Men with, well, himself, and is now realizing he can't control them ''and'' discovers someone stole his entire lab with all of his Moira clones, meaning he can't reset the timeline]].

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: In ''Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants'' #1, [[spoiler:Jon Ironfire's superhuman senses mean that he can recognise the shapeshifter Mystique regardless of her form. But Mystique, in turn, knows Ironfire can spot things others can't - and she's been ''faking'' some of those 'tells' so that she can fool him at least once, if she needs to]].
* ImMelting: In ''Immoral X-Men'' #1, [[spoiler:Sinister talks through his problems with a new Sinister clone, who he briefly dubs 'Ducky'. At the end of their conversation 'Ducky' asks what happens to him next - and Sinister melts him into messy goo via a genetic kill switch. Sinister knows himself too well to trust a clone]].
* ImmuneToMindControl: in ''Nightcrawlers'' #1 it's seen that Chimeras with Nightcrawler's DNA are able to resist the Sinister conditioning to a unique degree. There are limits, though - [[spoiler:Wallcrawler, who's created from Nightcrawler and the non-mutant Spider-Man, opts for a suicide mission after feeling his Sinister personality reasserting itself]]. Ninety years later, in the time of ''Nightcrawlers'' #2, righteous suicide has become a tradition for anyone (e.g. [[spoiler:Wagnerine's lover Summernight]]) who feels their conditioning is taking control again.

** In ''Nightcrawlers'' #3, [[spoiler:A dying Banshee distracts Mother Righteous long enough for Wagnerine to impale her with a [[BewareMyStingerTail tail blade]], which stabs deep into her back and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice protrudes from her chest]]]].

* LoveMakesYouEvil: In ''Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants'' #1,[[spoiler:Destiny tells Orbis Stellaris that she stole the Moira Engine and stopped Sinister avoiding the BadFuture because this is the ''only'' future she can see where her wife Mystique lives]].

** Back in ''ComicBook/PowersOfX'', Moira's private journals revealed that recruiting Sinister for the Krakoan initiative was ''not'' part of the plan. In fact, Xavier and Magneto had done so without her knowledge and against her advice (given that Sinister had betrayed her and Krakoa in her previous Life and brought it all crashing down). Moira chided such foolishness and arrogance and her concerns about Charles and Erik letting Sinister back onto the island in the new timeline are all finally realized here.

* OhCrap: In ''Sins of Sinister'' #1, Sinister gets a shock ten years into the BadFuture. [[spoiler: After losing a Quiet Council vote he suddenly realises the corrupted mutants have more agency than expected, and aren't under his control. That's annoying, but not a huge problem - it's his first attempt to map this timeline, and he'd planned to hit the ResetButton via his Moira Engine anyway. But ''then'' he discovers [[FirstEpisodeTwist the Moira Engine has been stolen]], and he's actually trapped in this broken future. And his expression at that moment is pure horror]].

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: A variant, in ''Nightcrawlers'' #2. [[spoiler:Wagnerine and Summernight's daughter vanishes in a flash of light, teleporting as soon as she's born. Her parents don't know where she went - into space, perhaps - but assume that she's dead. Either way, she's gone and it sends her father over the DespairEventHorizon. But TheReveal at the end is that she's alive - Mother Righteous stole her away]].

-->'''Mother Righteous (internal monologue):''' [[spoiler:'Course, she'll ''burn to astral dust'' in a ''haze of screaming agony'', but -- eh. Better ''her'' than ''me'']].

** In ''Sins of Sinister'' #1, Ben Urich insists on genetically testing Jonah before he'll talk about the things he's discovered, just in case Jonah's been tainted by Sinister. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the test was a fake intended to flush out holdouts like Ben]].
** In ''Sins of Sinister'' #1,[[spoiler:Storm and Lactuca have arranged a TriggerPhrase for psychic shielding in case the Quiet Council are compromised]].

** Thor, and all of Asgard's other residents, are lost when Magik wields "a certain sword" (implied to be Surtur's Twilight Sword), devastates Asgard and severs all of its connections to Midgard. [[spoiler:In ''Nightcrawlers'' #2 the Krakoans decide not to take chances and revisit Asgard almost a century later, killing those who'd survived]].
* ResetButton: Sinister's 'Moira Engine', first introduced in ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', is a key part of the story. Moira [=MacTaggart=]'s a mutant whose powers reset the timeline when she dies, creating a GroundhogDayLoop where only Moira remembers the previous version. Sinister has multiple clones of Moira in his lab, using them to map out the future and avoid branches that end badly for him. This also means he's ''entirely'' comfortable wrecking the world, as ''Sins of Sinister'' #1 shows - he'll gain lots of useful information from the BadFuture, upload it to a Moira clone, then kill her. At which point another version of Sinister, ten years ago, will be able to do better. [[spoiler:At least that's the plan. As it turns out, [[FirstEpisodeTwist his lab's been stolen]] - and he's now trapped in this broken world, just like everyone else]].
* ResistanceAsPlanned: More or less. As part of his plan, Sinister sets up 'dissenters' on the Quiet Council and 'Anti-Mutant' figures outside Krakoa (ex. Doctor Doom) to maintain the illusion that all is normal and without giving the takeover game away too early.

** ''Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants'' #1 reveals that [[spoiler:Destiny is working with Orbis Stellaris and actively stopped Sinister fixing the timeline via his Moira Engine - because however horrible the BadFuture may be for others, it's the only future she can see [[LoveMakesYouEvil where her wife Mystique survives]]]].

* SayMyName: Hope In Sin preludes every assault on another planet by having the entire population of their empire shout her name over comms, copying [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Exodus']] powers doing so to boost herself into a OneWomanArmy.

* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: The prelude issues of ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'' establish that Sinister's attack on the Quiet Council was the spree killing variant - Hope was the one '10/10' essential victim and the other deaths helped to obscure his plan (although killing the council's telepaths also helped the next stage of the plan). It's not until ''Sins of Sinister'' that his reasoning and Hope's nature as the SpannerInTheWorks are fully explained, though - her presence as one of the Five was undoing Sinister's [[AssimilationPlot genetic tampering]] with the mutants they resurrected.

** ''Immoral X-Men'' #2 is just filled with references to ''Franchise/StarTrek''. The ''Marauder'' is armed with Proteus torpedoes (as opposed to ''Star Trek'''s photon torpedoes), it travels at warp factor X and it's supposedly on a five year mission. Hope even mentions that it's intended to find "new worlds, strange civilisations..." - although, unlike the ''Enterprise'', once it finds them, it's supposed to facilitate their annihilation. The Quiet Council does not come in peace.

** The +1000 era is influenced by the grim dark future of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. The title of ''Immoral X-Men'' #3 uses part of the game's tagline, "There is only war" - but with war crossed out and replaced by "me".

* SplashPanel: ''Sins of Sinister'' #1 presents its two {{Time Skip}} montages with ten splash pages, five for each sequence. Each shows one of the significant events, such as the devastation of Asgard, the murder of the Scarlet Witch or the death of the Fantastic Four.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: The BadFuture of ''Sins of Sinister'' kills many characters, at least until a ResetButton is pressed. But the death of [[spoiler:Doctor Stasis, the Sinister variant aligned with Orchis, is more unexpected than most. In an event centred around the Sinisters, he's the one who doesn't have a key role - his counterparts Orbis Stellaris and Mother Righteous have Wagnerine stab him to death at the first opportunity]].

* TeleportInterdiction: [[spoiler:Orbis Stellaris protects Sinister's stolen lab (and the Moira Engine it contains) with teleport shielding. It proves fatal for Wallcrawler when he tries to teleport in]].

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: In ''Immoral X-Men'' #3, [[spoiler:900 years into their mission, Rasputin IV discovers that her mentor Sinister has been lying to her all along. She's his finest creation, with a wide range of mutant powers - but she can't fly. So, as he can't beat her in a fight, Sinister simply opens the ships airlock and dumps her into space, then leaves in their ship. Rasputin's internal monologue notes that she may take days or weeks to die]].

** The initial ''Sins Of Sinister'' one-shot begins in the present, skips to one year in the future (when Sinister is released from the Pit and Krakoa itself is subverted), then to five years in the future (and the confrontation with Arakko) before ending ten years ahead, at the point when Sinister's plans start to go awry.
** As with ''ComicBook/PowersOfX'', the series which helped to launch the [[ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge Krakoan Age]], the bulk of ''Sins of Sinister'' is set at three different points in time - 10 years, 100 years and 1000 years in the future. Unlike ''Powers of X'' (which used AnachronicOrder and several different futures) it's handling this as a time skip, with each miniseries advancing to a new time period for every issue.

* TriggerPhrase: [[spoiler:Lactuca and Storm set up "You make sure" as a trigger phrase when Storm visits the corrupted Quiet Council. It briefly connects Storm's mind to Lactuca's - which is linked to the universe itself - boosting her telepathic resistance and overwhelming any psychics trying to meddle with her mind]].
* TheUndead: ''Nightcrawlers'' #3 reveals that a thousand years into the future [[spoiler:Auntie Fortune is the last of the original Nightkin. She's mentioned to be undead and appears translucent at times, suggesting she might be a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]], but it's never directly stated]].

-->'''Mister Sinister:''' [[spoiler:Don't do this. Please. It would be a huge mistake. […] No, you don't understand. I'm not a threat. I'm not the one you need to be afraid of. It's the ''other'' Sinisters, not me. I'm ''nothing''. I failed! One of ''them'' succeeds! There is a Sinister Dominion outside of time and space! A stain on existence! It is already there! They've already won! Oh god, it's too late! Irene! You have to stop them, Irene! It's down to you now! But it's already happened, so it's too late, and-- You have to find a way! Please, Irene! On the same side, remember? I know you understand! Only ''you'' understand! Don't do this! I'm not even a crumb between the teeth of god! I am nothing! Nothing! Noth--]]

* XanatosGambit: ''Immoral X-Men'' #3 reveals that [[spoiler:despite Storm's careful plan to murder Destiny without her precognitive powers detecting it, Destiny had a back-up plan anyway - 900 years later, Sinister is guided to a [[DeadManWriting hidden message Destiny had previously recorded]], which will help him find the World Farm and the [[ResetButton Moira Engine]]. And the stolen World Farm just happens to be in the right position for Juggernaut, who's been hurtling through space for an thousand years, to strike it and shatter its forcefield]].

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: ''Nightcrawlers'' #3 reveals that [[spoiler:Mother Righteous's magic virus, the "Ace of Hearts", will use a radiant soul untouched by Sinister's madness to guide it back through history. Wagnerine's infant daughter will be sacrificed to the task]].

** In ''Immoral X-Men'' #1 the infected Professor X displays disgust at Emma's post infection sadism. He justifies his actions in terms of NecessarilyEvil (though Sinister's infection has pushed the limits of what he will condone much further than normal) but he doesn't particularly enjoy using his mental powers to make dissidents kill themselves, wishing they could be brought into the fold instead and making their ends quick when he kills them. Emma openly enjoys the chance to kill them and comments that she takes time to make her targets ''scream'', which repulses the corrupted Xavier. As of ''Immoral X-Men'' #3 and the +1000 era, [[spoiler:the schism between them has become a full EnemyCivilWar between their interstellar empires]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''Nightcrawlers'' #3, [[spoiler:Mother Righteous talks about using Wagnerine's child's soul as [[PoweredByAForsakenChild fuel for her spell]]. A grim description of how she'll burn away ends with "better her than me"]]. In ''Sins of Sinister: Dominion'', [[spoiler:Moira uses the soul of a dying Mother Righteous to fuel the spell after all]].

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Red Diamond is completely shattered by Storm at the climax of ''Storm & The Brotherhood'' #3. Beast's comments immediately following this heavily implies that this didn't kill her, instead reducing her to a cloud of sentient diamond dust trapped in the vacuum of space forever. Luckily for her, the universe is reset shortly afterwards.]]

** By year 1000, the galaxy has become an impossibly gothic hellscape. The Quiet Council has shattered into multiple conflicting factions, most notable an EnemyCivilWar between Emma Frost and Xavier. Horrors such as Magik wounding space-time or a Kenji Uedo clone eating most of the solar system are implied to be the norm. Mutants are undsiputably the rulers of the galaxy, with any resistance to their rule lone since eradicated. Yet, somehow, hate and fear remain.

* {{Pun}}: Sinister calls his Chimera combining the children of Krakoa's founders Legion, Proteus and Polaris the Heirburst Bomb.

* DownerEnding: ''Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants'' ends with [[spoiler:the last of the Arakkii falling to the Red Diamond's onslaught, with Sinister turning the battle to his advantage. The newly resurrected Storm dies destroying Emma Frost's [[HumongousMecha Mistress Mold]]. Khora and the new Five are killed in the battle and Jon Ironfire is then betrayed and [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] by Sinister]].

** In ''Nightcrawlers'' #3, [[spoiler:a distraction allows Wagnerine to stab Mother Righteous InTheBack with her tail blade, which goes deep enough to protrude from Mother's chest. She's KilledMidSentence, still wearing a shocked expression]].

* ImmuneToMindControl: in ''Nightcrawlers'' #1 it's seen that Chimeras with Nightcrawler's DNA are able to resist the Sinister conditioning to a unique degree. There are limits, though - [[spoiler:Wallcrawler, who's created from Nightcrawler and the non-mutant Spider-Man, opts for a suicide mission after feeling his Sinister personality reasserting itself]]. Ninety years later, in the time of ''Nightcrawlers'' #2, righteous suicide has become a tradition for anyone (e.g. [[spoiler:Wagnerine's lover Summernight]]) who feels their conditioning is taking control again.

** In ''Nightcrawlers'' #3, [[spoiler:A dying Banshee distracts Mother Righteous long enough for Wagnerine to impale her with a tail blade, which stabs deep into her back and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice protrudes from her chest]]]].

* OutGambited: [[spoiler:The finale becomes a pile-up of schemes between Sinister, Moira and Mother Righteous. Sinister loses quite decisively, with Moira destroying his Moira Engine, and Mother Righteous managing to send the knowledge of the future back to herself.]]