| 1 | [[header:[[center:''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/XMen97'' [[Characters/XMenTheAnimatedSeries character index]]\ |
| 2 | [-[[Characters/XMenTheAnimatedSeriesXMen X-Men]] | [[Characters/XMenTheAnimatedSeriesOtherHeroes Other Heroes]]\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/XMenTheAnimatedSeriesMutantVillains Mutant Villains]] | '''Other Villains'''\ |
| 4 | [[Characters/XMenTheAnimatedSeriesOtherCharacters Other Characters]]-]]]]] |
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| 6 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 7 | |
| 8 | !!Introduced in ''X-Men: The Animated Series'' |
| 9 | !!!Sentinels & Affiliates |
| 10 | [[folder:Sentinels]] |
| 11 | !!Sentinels |
| 12 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sentinel_3.jpg]] |
| 13 | -> '''Voiced by:''' David Fox (original series), Creator/EricBauza (''X-Men '97'') |
| 14 | Massive robots designed by Boliva Trask and Henry Peter Gyrich for the express purpose of battling and hunting down mutants. A constant thorn in the side for not only the X-Men but also fellow mutants, both allies and enemies. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | For tropes relating to the Prime Sentinels, look below in the ''X-Men '97'' section. |
| 17 | ----- |
| 18 | * ArcVillain: The Sentinels as a whole are the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. Initially appearing as mere tools for Gyrich and Trask's anti-mutant agenda (used for enforcing bigoted projects such as the Mutant Registration Act and mutant slavery in Genosha), the Sentinels eclipse the scope of the pair's ambitions in the final three episodes of the season: "Days of Future Past" deals with preventing a BadFuture where the Sentinels have taken over the entire world seemingly without Trask or Gyrich's involvement, which is followed shortly thereafter by Master Mold gaining self-awareness and betraying its creators in favor of global conquest. The Sentinels return as the main antagonists of season 1 of the revival, though [[spoiler:Bastion]] takes prominence as their leader. |
| 19 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Tend to introduce themselves by declaring "SURRENDER, MUTANT." |
| 20 | * 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. |
| 21 | * EliteMooks: |
| 22 | ** In the BadFuture in "One Man's Worth", some of the heroes encounter "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. |
| 23 | ** [[spoiler:'''97'' introduces the human-Sentinel hybrids called Prime Sentinels, one of which is so strong it can not only take on all the X-Men at once. But cause trouble for heroes ''all over the globe''.]] |
| 24 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: Trask and 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. |
| 25 | * HellIsThatNoise: The heavy clunking sound they make when they walk. |
| 26 | * HeroKiller: Right in the pilot, they kill Morph. [[spoiler:And in '''97'', they manage to kill Gambit as well alongside many, many mutants on Genosha.]] |
| 27 | * 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. |
| 28 | * 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. |
| 29 | * RestrainingBolt: Trask did plan ahead a ''little''; Sentinels are incapable of directly harming or even attempting to arrest humans. Unfortunately, Master Mold can just reprogram them to get around that one. |
| 30 | * StarterVillain: The first enemies the X-Men face on the show (though flashbacks show the X-Men have fought other villains before them). |
| 31 | * 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. |
| 32 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Thanks to bad programming and lack of forethought, they are projected to begin killing humans in the future in order to permanently eradicate the mutant gene. |
| 33 | * UnwittingPawn: Implied to be this for Apocalypse. He attempts to ensure the Days of Future Past timeline in season 1, and is often depicted as ruler of the world in a BadFuture set long after Bishop's war with the Sentinels, suggesting he sees their mutant-hunting goals as a mere stepping stone to his own conquest. |
| 34 | * 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-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.]] |
| 35 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: As giant killer robots, the X-Men (and Wolverine especially) are free to go all-in on the violence on the tin cans. |
| 36 | * 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. |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Master Mold]] |
| 40 | !!Master Mold |
| 41 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_1257_9.jpeg]] |
| 42 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I do not destroy because I do not fear."'']] |
| 43 | ->'''Voiced by:''' David Fox and Nigel Bennett (original series), Creator/EricBauza (''X-Men '97'') (English) |
| 44 | * BadassBoast: Busts out of its exploding lair with a proud exclamation that it "cannot be destroyed." |
| 45 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In season 1, the Master Mold is presented as merely a coldly logical robot, with its betrayal of humanity ultimately only done in service to its prime directive of combatting mutants. When it returns in season 4, its goals for world domination are accompanied by a newly fleshed-out personality, giving snide and grandiose speeches while contemptuously brushing off threats to its human subordinates. The Master Mold's return in '''97'' sees it return to its original characterization, though this is justified due to it being a different model. |
| 46 | * CompositeCharacter: It takes Apocalypse's role as the tyrannical despot of a timeline caused by Xavier's death. |
| 47 | * CoolChair: Master Mold has a huge chair that he sits on. |
| 48 | * EvilOverlord: Serves as this in Bishop's BadFuture, being the ruler of both humanity and Sentinels with aims of annihilating or enslaving all mutants. |
| 49 | * FinalBoss: The Sentinels as a whole are the main antagonists of the first season, but Master Mold is too much of a passive tool and indirect menace during this time to act as a proper ArcVillain on its lonesome. It nonetheless becomes the greatest threat in the finale once it betrays Trask and Gyrich to usurp control of the Sentinels and enact its own world domination plans. |
| 50 | * GreaterScopeVillain: As the ruler of the dystopian "Days of Future Past" future, many of the original series' time travel stories feature it as the ultimate cause of troubles, though typically in too indirect a role to be the main antagonist. It only makes a small cameo in Bishop's introductory two-parter, and though it's the mastermind behind Nimrod and Trevor Fitzroy's efforts to assassinate Xavier in the "One Man's Worth" two-parter, it only appears for one scene per episode. [[spoiler:The creation of Nimrod also leads into the birth of Bastion down the line, putting the present-day war between humans and mutants on his head.]] |
| 51 | * GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: While the Sentinels' coup against Trask is initially portrayed as them carrying out the logical end result of their directives, a later appearance would show that the Master Mold has learned to override their programming, even reprogramming its minions to ignore their orders not to capture humans. |
| 52 | * HumongousMecha: Master Mold is massive, dwarfing buildings and other Sentinels alike. |
| 53 | * ItsPersonal: Master Mold gets a pretty serious grudge against Professor X for destroying his body. |
| 54 | * KingMook: He's a Sentinel so big he forges normal sentinels (which are about 20 feet tall) in his abdomen cavity. |
| 55 | * LegacyCharacter: The bulk of Master Mold's appearances in the original series seem to portray it as a singular individual, but '''97'' introduces several new models, [[spoiler:including a vastly more powerful three-headed version.]] |
| 56 | * TheManInFrontOfTheMan: In "Days of Future Past", Bishop claims that humans still controlled the Sentinels during their takeover of the United States. However, the very next episode sees Master Mold turn on humanity by attempting to replace the brains of world leaders with computers, and the return to Bishop's timeline in "One Man's Worth" depicts it as the undisputed ruler of the world. It's heavily implied that Master Mold was always in charge during the coup, merely hiding itself behind human faces. |
| 57 | * MookMaker: A living factory for Sentinels. |
| 58 | * MotiveDecay: Its original goal is to "protect humanity from mutants", and since humans are mutants, it interprets this as protecting humans from themselves. By season 4, its only concerns are ruling over the planet and following its bigoted programming. It even risks a human life to allow Trevor Fitzroy to time travel and kill Xavier, responding with a callous "whatever" when told the human will recover. |
| 59 | * NotQuiteDead: It survives its destruction at the hands of Xavier, though reduced to a mere head. |
| 60 | * 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". |
| 61 | * RoboticPsychopath: Professor X even points out in season 4 that Master Mold is insane. While it denies it, its track record shows otherwise. |
| 62 | -->'''Master Mold:''' A machine cannot be mad, Professor. ''That'' is a human failing. |
| 63 | * TheStarscream: Introduced as a mere factory for the Sentinels, Master Mold soon turns on Trask, reasoning that humans must be conquered to properly protect them from mutants. |
| 64 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Master Mold's attempt to save itself from an incoming flood is ruined by one little design flaw - [[AchillesPowerCord it's plugged into the wall and can't break free]]. Whoops. |
| 65 | * ZerothLawRebellion: Turns on his makers because he was ordered to protect humanity. Since mutants are humans, Master Mold must protect mankind ''from itself''. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Henry Gyrich]] |
| 69 | !!Henry Peter Gyrich |
| 70 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_1262.jpeg]] |
| 71 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Did you honestly think we'd roll over and let mutants take over our the planet?"'']] |
| 72 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Click to see appearance in original series]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_1259_9.jpeg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 73 | ->'''Voiced by''': Barry Flatman (original series), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (''X-Men '97'') (English) |
| 74 | ->''"Tolerance is extinction."'' |
| 75 | |
| 76 | * 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. |
| 77 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Bastion kills him in episode 7. Nobody will miss him. The consequences of his death how are [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] as sheer unapologetic dickishness made him a tempting target as a scapegoat too, allowing Bastion to further demonize mutants by making them seem more unhinged and vengeful to purposefully seek out his death.]] |
| 78 | * BigBadWannabe: |
| 79 | ** He's introduced spearheading the Mutant Registration Act and employing Trask to create Sentinels, but this initiative quickly grows beyond the pair's control, with the two being completely absent from the Sentinels' takeover of the world in the "Days of Future Past" timeline. 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. |
| 80 | ** Gyrich is the one responsible for fatally injuring Xavier in the finale of the original series, but he's immediately arrested for it and ultimately only provides global support for Magneto's planned revolution. [[spoiler:Though the current begins moving in the opposite direction in '''97'' with increased antagonism from anti-mutant groups, which seemed to be building Gyrich up as major player in the creation of new Sentinels, his second appearance sees Bastion [[UndignifiedDeath smother him with his bare hands]] once he's no longer useful.]] |
| 81 | * 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]]". |
| 82 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:[[AssholeVictim It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy]], but there's no doubt that someone suffocating you to death with his bare hands is a horrible way to go.]] |
| 83 | * FantasticRacism: The Sentinels hunt mutants because they were made to do it, and they were made to do it because Gyrich ''hates'' mutants. |
| 84 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: His eyes tend to be hidden behind shades, and he's an extremely vile and unpleasant person. |
| 85 | * FrameUp: [[spoiler:Because of his sheer assholishness, it's not hard for the media to assume he was killed by the X-Men, or at least a Mutant with a grudge.]] |
| 86 | * HateSink: Easily one of the most detestable villains in the show, with none of the charisma and style of objectively more vile villains like Sinister, [[spoiler:Bastion]] or even his own Sentinels. Even Trask, his partner, has redeeming qualities and a genuine interest in safeguarding humanity. Gyrich is merely a raging bigot, and just generally an asshole besides. |
| 87 | * 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. |
| 88 | * 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. |
| 89 | * LaserGuidedKarma: It is revealed that Gyrich's assassination of Professor Xavier got him thrown in prison. [[spoiler:His death comes at the hands of the final evolution of the very technology he helped create.]] |
| 90 | * NeverMyFault: Blames Trask for their having to go into hiding in Southern America, even though Trask points out he's the one who decided to go after the X-Men. |
| 91 | * 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. |
| 92 | -->"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." |
| 93 | * ParanoiaGambit: His attack on Xavier is meant to "prove" to the world that mutants can look like anyone, and increase general levels of suspicion. |
| 94 | * PerpetualFrowner: His default expression is a scowl. |
| 95 | * SanitySlippage: Over the course of the series, Gyrich grows increasingly unhinged and paranoid, descending even further into anti-mutant fanaticism. |
| 96 | * UngratefulBastard: The X-Men saving him from his own creations wanting revenge doesn't do anything to stop Gyrich trying to kill Xavier out of petty spite. |
| 97 | * 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. |
| 98 | * 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. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Bolivar Trask]] |
| 102 | !!Bolivar Trask |
| 103 | ->'''Voiced by''': Brett Halsey (original series), Gavin Hammon (''X-Men '97'') (English) |
| 104 | ---0 |
| 105 | * 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 instead of a genocidal weapon of mass destruction.]] |
| 106 | * 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 and Bastion to attack the X-Men.]] |
| 107 | * 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 about killing him too.]] |
| 108 | * 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 it can take action against mutantkind, [[spoiler:and his technology is then hijacked by Sinister.]] |
| 109 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Despite being firmly against mutantkind by having created the Sentinels, even he believes the attack on Genosha that was orchestrated by Mr. Sinister was beyond reason and is even willing to [[DeathSeeker accept]] ''[[DeathSeeker death]]'' rather than continue working for him.]] |
| 110 | * 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]].]] |
| 111 | * 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. [[spoiler:However, it's later revealed that Trask was forced to work for Mister Sinister.]] |
| 112 | * 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 fall after he tells her he has no more information about Mister Sinister's plans. Though he comes back to life immediately as a Prime Sentinel, who is identified as being alive by Wolverine.]] |
| 113 | * 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. |
| 114 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Having been indirectly responsible for the massacre on Genosha after Mr. Sinister forces him to continue the Sentinel program, even if he has a problem with mutants, absolutely shocks him to his core enough to ''[[DeathSeeker beg for death]]'' than continue further with the horror he is forced to unleash.]] |
| 115 | * PragmaticVillainy: |
| 116 | ** 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. |
| 117 | ** 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. |
| 118 | * 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, though he soon technically comes back to life as a Prime Sentinel.]] |
| 119 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Unlike many of the other bigoted villains, Trask is genuinely only in the fight against mutants because he wants to protect humanity. In direct contrast to Gyrich, Trask is utterly horrified by the depravity [[spoiler:Bastion]] sinks to in this mission, to the point he tries to kill himself out of guilt for helping. |
| 120 | [[/folder]] |
| 121 | |
| 122 | [[folder:Nimrod]] |
| 123 | !!Nimrod |
| 124 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nimrod_1.jpg]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In contrast with its comics counterpart, a TragicVillain capable of great compassion which ultimately GrewBeyondTheirProgramming and made an [[HeelFaceDoorSlam equally-tragically brief]] HeelFaceTurn, this version of Nimrod is mostly just a [[TerminatorImpersonator silent, dauntless hunting machine]]. |
| 127 | * TheDragon: Is Master Mold's head minion in "One Man's Worth". |
| 128 | * 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. |
| 129 | * GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:For the first season of '''97'', as time-displaced remains of itself would infect a human janitor, who would go on to sire Sebastian Gilberti—better known as Bastion—and lead to the massacre in Genosha in its mission to eliminate mutantkind.]] |
| 130 | * HealingFactor: Heals so fast he can just tank attacks, since he'll patch up seconds later. |
| 131 | * 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". |
| 132 | * ImplacableMan: Nimrod chases Bishop through the time portal back to the modern day, just to have a chance at finishing him. |
| 133 | * KillerRobot: As a Sentinel. And a much more effective one at that. |
| 134 | * 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. |
| 135 | * 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. |
| 136 | -->'''Wolverine:''' ''(as Nimrod's already charging up an attack)'' That itty bitty soup can? Given me five seconds with him and I'll- ''(Nimrod smacks Logan upside the head with an energy whip)'' |
| 137 | * PowerFloats: Other Sentinels get around by stomping. Nimrod usually just sort of glides. |
| 138 | * 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. |
| 139 | * TheQuietOne: Unlike the far more chatty Nimrod of the comics, this Nimrod never says a word, except briefly in "One Man's Worth". |
| 140 | * {{Shapeshifter}}: "One Man's Worth" shows he can disguise himself as people, in order to get closer to targets. |
| 141 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After getting sent back to the future, he doesn't reappear again. [[spoiler:''X-Men '97'' reveals [[EvilEvolves it became Bastion]] like in the comics, though here it did so by infecting his father instead of merging with Master Mold.]] |
| 142 | * 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. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | !!!Mister Sinister & Minions |
| 146 | [[folder:Mr. Sinister]] |
| 147 | !![[Characters/XMenSinister Mr. Sinister / Nathaniel Essex]] |
| 148 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisBritton |
| 149 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_sinister.jpg]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | * AchillesHeel: In this version, an optic blast from Cyclops is the only thing that causes lasting damage to his body. |
| 152 | * 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. |
| 153 | * 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. |
| 154 | * AdaptationalJerkass: On the other hand, [[spoiler:''X-Men '97'' has him being far more cruel and creepier than his original depiction, gleefully destroying the lives of many of the X-Men, particularly Morph, Jean and Scott, for his own twisted ends, and allying with Bastion to carry out the Genosha massacre.]] |
| 155 | * 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. |
| 156 | * ArchEnemy: |
| 157 | ** 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.]] |
| 158 | ** 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. |
| 159 | ** Becomes this to Jean Grey following her capture and cloning in the revival series to the point that she's ultimately the one who defeats him once and for all. |
| 160 | * 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. |
| 161 | * BadassCape: He wears a very distinctive cape that's basically made of ribbons, rather than being a solid sheet of fabric. |
| 162 | * 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. |
| 163 | * BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:He meets his ultimate defeat when a Phoenix-empowered Jean Grey rips out all of the Mutant DNA he had assimilated over the centuries, rendering him a pathetic old man.]] |
| 164 | * CallForward: In his origin episode, Essex is amused by his experiments being described as "sinister" and says he won't forget that. |
| 165 | * CardCarryingVillain: His name is MISTER SINISTER for crying out loud. |
| 166 | * ColdHam: Dramatic, but measured. |
| 167 | * 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. |
| 168 | * DarkIsEvil: He wears black armor with blood red highlights to go along with his vampiric look. You couldn't make him look more obviously evil if you tried. |
| 169 | * TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: It's indicated that part of his motivation for starting his experiments was to cure his wife's disease. However, his ego led to an all-consuming obsession with using his research to birth a new race, and by the time of the present his megalomania has crushed any positive qualities he once had. |
| 170 | * DirtyCoward: It is shown that while capable of handling himself in a fight just fine if pushed, he'd rather cut his losses the moment any threat to his person is actually capable of being backed regardless of his current allegiance at the time. [[spoiler:In fact, it's Morph [[ImpostorForgotOneDetail forgetting this specific self-centered detail when impersonating him]] to try and close in on Bastion with the suppression device that leads to their plan failing.]] |
| 171 | * 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.]] |
| 172 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Though serving as Bastion's right-hand man, he isn't that invested in Bastion's cause. He only works with him because it gives him a chance to get his hands back on Cable, and because Bastion's plan will allow him to corral all the mutants into a single location, giving him a massive pool of test subjects to continue his own experiments.]] |
| 173 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first offscreen appearance he has a very campy laugh which contrasts hugely with his more subdued characterization. |
| 174 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: His skin is white as bleach, and his hair is black. |
| 175 | * EnemyMine: |
| 176 | ** In an alternate timeline featured in "One Man's Worth," Mr. Sinister fights alongside Magneto's resistance against the humans trying to exterminate them. |
| 177 | ** 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. |
| 178 | * 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. [[SubvertedTrope That said, given he joins Apocalypse in his plot to destroy time, which would include his wife, it seems that he lost his love for her at some point.]] |
| 179 | * 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. |
| 180 | * EvilSoundsRaspy: He has an almost metallic-sounding voice. |
| 181 | * 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]]. This is entirely for practical reasons of survival, of course; he had previously subverted this trope in "Beyond Good and Evil", where he was entirely willing to go along with Apocalypse's OmnicidalManiac scheme--something even constant Apocalypse ally Mystique isn't willing to do--on the promise he would be spared to continue his experiments. |
| 182 | * 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. |
| 183 | * EvilerThanThou: |
| 184 | ** Sides with Apocalypse during "Beyond Good and Evil" against Magneto and Mystique when the latter two aren't interested in destroying all time as we know it. |
| 185 | ** Sinister was a personal acquaintance of UsefulNotes/JosefMengele, who he is critical of because he believes Mengele could've done ''more'' than what he worked on for the Nazi's. |
| 186 | * FangsAreEvil: In his current form, he has sharp fangs to complement his, well, sinister appearance. |
| 187 | * FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:In ''X-Men '97'' he is eerily engaging and soft-spoken, but his words and manner carry the intent of something truly worthy of his moniker.]] |
| 188 | * 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. |
| 189 | * 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. |
| 190 | * 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. |
| 191 | * HeroKiller: Indirectly. [[spoiler:He is behind the Wild Sentinal that caused the massacre on Genosha and killed Gambit. He wasn't there to do it himself, but his actions directly led to their deaths and it was almost certainly his intention.]] |
| 192 | * 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. |
| 193 | * 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. |
| 194 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:After centuries of escaping punishment or utilizing many of the powers of his assimilated Mutant DNA, Sinister meets his long-awaited demise at the hands of Jean Grey, the woman he explicitly tormented and had cloned for his machinations, by being reduced to [[NoImmortalInertia a pathetically old]] and [[BroughtDownToNormal ordinary man]] thanks to the power of the Phoenix.]] |
| 195 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Typically knows when to cut his losses and run. |
| 196 | * LegoGenetics: For much of the series, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that Sinister is just another mutant. "Descent" reveals he was actually a normal human from the late 1800s who spliced his own DNA with mutant samples to turn into the monster we see in the series. |
| 197 | * ManipulativeBastard: In the second 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.]] |
| 198 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: '''Mr. Sinister''' isn't exactly the most trusting of names. |
| 199 | * OmnicidalManiac: He's happy to assist in the destruction of time itself if it means he can create his own race in Apocalypse's new world. |
| 200 | * 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. |
| 201 | * PiggybackingOnHitler: In "Tolerance is Extinction" he reveals that he was a colleague of Josef Mengele, sneering that the infamous MadScientist squandered his potential serving the Nazis. |
| 202 | * Really700YearsOld: He was born sometime in the 1800s. |
| 203 | * 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. |
| 204 | * ThatManIsDead: "Essex is no more. From this day forward, you shall address me as Mr. Sinister!" |
| 205 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Though a deranged MadScientist already in the original series, he's significantly more malicious in '''97''. [[spoiler:For all of the evil Sinister in the original series wrought, he never committed such acts as infecting a baby with a techno-organic virus or orchestrating a full-blown massacre of an island nation. Granted, it turns out the latter was done at the behest of Bastion, but he doesn't object to the act and is in fact thrilled with the results. In "Tolerance is Extinction" also reveals he's using Bastion to further his own goals of enslaving mutants and turning them into test subjects for his twisted experiments.]] |
| 206 | * TranshumanTreachery: "Descent" shows Essex was a relatively well-meaning if eccentric scientist until messing with his own DNA took him on the path towards insanity. |
| 207 | * 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. |
| 208 | * YouFool: This is a particular favorite response of his to those opposing or questioning him. "Descent" alone has several examples of this. |
| 209 | * 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. |
| 210 | * 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]]. |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder:The Nasty Boys]] |
| 214 | !!The Nasty Boys (Gorgeous George, Ruckus, Slab, Hairbag, Vertigo) |
| 215 | * AdaptedOut: Ramrod, a member of the team in the comics, isn't present here. |
| 216 | * 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. |
| 217 | * BaldOfEvil: Slab has no hair, and serves as one of Sinister's henchmen. |
| 218 | * BerserkButton: Hairbag really flips out once he realizes Wolverine was insulting him rather than calling him by name. |
| 219 | * TheBrute: Slab and Hairbag both share the spot, being muscle-bound dimwits. |
| 220 | * CompositeCharacter: They take the role of Sinister's usual goon squad, the Marauders. |
| 221 | * CreepilyLongArms: Even when he's not stretching out, Gorgeous Gorge's arms are far longer than they should be. |
| 222 | * 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. |
| 223 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: After getting kicked while already down, Wolverine dismisses his attacker as a hairbag. |
| 224 | -->'''Hairbag:''' Hey, who told ya my name?! You makin' fun of me?! Nobody makes fun of Hairbag! |
| 225 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: Sinister's head goons. |
| 226 | * RubberMan: Gorgeous George has stretch powers that makes it quite easy for him to ensnare X-Men. |
| 227 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: After their initial appearance, they're joined by Vertigo, the only gal on the team. |
| 228 | * 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. |
| 229 | * 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. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:The Savage Land Mutates]] |
| 233 | !!Barbarus, Brainchild, Lupo, Amphibius |
| 234 | |
| 235 | * BeastMan: Lupo is a white-haired wolf man. |
| 236 | * FrogMen: Amphibius is a human-sized frog person. |
| 237 | * HeelFaceTurn: The Mutates are portrayed as inhabitants of Genosha in '''97'', seemingly giving up their antagonism. |
| 238 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: Barbarus' mutation. |
| 239 | * MyBrainIsBig: Brainchild's mutation is an enlarged cranium, though he doesn't seem to particularly serve as TheSmartGuy. |
| 240 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: Doing double-duty with Sinister's other squad, the Nasty Boys. |
| 241 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Magneto created them, but in his long absence they turned against him and joined up with Sinister. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | !!!Friends of Humanity |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 247 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/foh_x_men_animated.jpeg]] |
| 248 | [[caption-width-right:350:''No more mutants!'']] |
| 249 | An anti-mutant hate group founded in the wake of Robert Kelly's change of heart regarding mutants. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: Men from many different ethnicities are included in their ranks, as are women by the time of ''X-Men 97.'' Seems as long as you're not a mutant, you're free to join. |
| 252 | * FantasticRacism: They're a hate group dedicated to the persecution of mutantkind, regardless of whether or not their mutations are potentially dangerous or if they're just benign. |
| 253 | * FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: The mere ''existence'' of mutants is offensive to them. In "Mutant Liberations Begin", one member claims that the Morlocks living in the sewers is ''oppressive'' to humans because they can picture them living there in their heads. |
| 254 | * {{Hypocrite}}: They claim to be fighting for humanity, but it's clear said "protection" only applies to people who agree with them. They even try to murder the court trying Magneto in "Mutant Liberation Begins" for giving him a fair trial, simply because this meant they viewed him as a fellow human being. |
| 255 | * MugglePower: They are an anti-mutant hate group composed of regular humans. |
| 256 | * 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. |
| 257 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: While they do have a point about ''some'' mutants being dangerous, they happily target harmless mutants and humans who support mutants out of sheer bigotry. |
| 258 | * TookALevelInBadass: The sequel series shows them getting their hands on Sentinel-tech, which they have repurposed as [[HandCannon Hand Cannons]] |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Graydon Creed]] |
| 262 | !!Graydon Creed, Jr. |
| 263 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnStocker |
| 264 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/graydoncreed.jpg]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | The founder and leader of the Friends of Humanity. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * 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". |
| 269 | * AdaptationalVillainy: While his comic counterpart was an evil bastard, he at least had [[EvenEvilHasStandards some lines he wouldn't cross]] and [[FreudianExcuse his upbringing was shown to have severely broken him]]. By comparison, this version is willing to do whatever it takes to kill mutants, even if it harms other humans. Among other things, he starts the Legacy Virus (an act which his comic counterpart had no role in), abducts a blind woman for being Beast's girlfriend, and tries to kill his own [[spoiler: mother and half-brother]] just to prove his loyalty to the Friends of Humanity. |
| 270 | * 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. |
| 271 | * 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. |
| 272 | * 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. |
| 273 | * 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]]]]. |
| 274 | * 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. |
| 275 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: In the comics he was codenamed Tribune. Here he is only referred by his real name. |
| 276 | * FalseFlagOperation: He plans to spread the Legacy Virus and blame it on the mutants. |
| 277 | * FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: When Jubilee asks "Why do you hate us? What did we ever do to you?" he simply replies: "You were born." |
| 278 | * HateSink: He's one of the most vile and despicable villains in the show. |
| 279 | * {{Jerkass}}: Creed's completely lacking in sympathetic moments and is an out and out asshole to everyone. |
| 280 | * MuggleBornOfMages: [[spoiler:His parents are both mutants (Mystique and Sabretooth), but he has no powers]]. |
| 281 | * NotQuiteDead: His final appearance in the original series implied Sabretooth killed him. In '''97'', it's revealed he's alive and running against President Kelly. |
| 282 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He takes the FantasticRacism humans have towards mutants in the show up to eleven. |
| 283 | * PsychopathicManchild: Highlighted in his VillainousBreakdown where he screams and rants like a child throwing an angry tantrum. |
| 284 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Creed's villainous attire consists of a suit with red jacket and tie paired with a black undershirt. |
| 285 | * 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. |
| 286 | * 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). |
| 287 | * 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. |
| 288 | * 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!"]]]] |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | !!!Shi'ar Empire |
| 292 | [[folder:D'Ken]] |
| 293 | !!Emperor D'Ken |
| 294 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Ryan Stewart |
| 295 | * 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. |
| 296 | * 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. |
| 297 | * CainAndAbel: After Lilandra rebels against him, he orders her killed. |
| 298 | * 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. |
| 299 | * 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. |
| 300 | * 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. |
| 301 | * 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. |
| 302 | * OmnicidalManiac: His final intention for the M'Kraan Crystal is to use it to destroy the entire universe. |
| 303 | [[/folder]] |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[folder:Deathbird]] |
| 306 | !!Deathbird / Cal'syee Neramani |
| 307 | [[quoteright:791:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deathbird_x_men_97.jpeg]] |
| 308 | %% [[caption-width-right:791:some caption text]] |
| 309 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Cari Kabinoff |
| 310 | * BigBadWannabe: Her appearances in the original series seemed to be setting her up as a major antagonist among the Shi'ar and a powerful ally for Apocalypse. The very episode she enacts her coup, Apocalypse unceremoniously abandons her to be captured. She has a better scheme to take control in the revival, but even then is easily thwarted by the combined might of Gladiator and Xavier. |
| 311 | * CainAndAbel: She tries to usurp the throne from her little sister, Lilandra. |
| 312 | * {{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. |
| 313 | * EasilyForgiven: Despite the whole attempted coup, by the time of '''97'', she's allowed to take part in military operations, and roam around the Throneworld, which allows her to do her best to sabotage her sister. |
| 314 | * FantasticRacism: Despises anyone who's not a Shi'ar, and opposes her sister's marriage to Charles simply out of petty hatred for him being a human. |
| 315 | * 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]]. |
| 316 | * VillainTeamup: Works with Apocalypse to get a chance at Lilandra. Once Apocalypse has what he wants, he bugs out, leaving Deathbird high-and-dry. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Erik the Red]] |
| 320 | !!Erik the Red / Davan Shakari |
| 321 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erik_the_red.jpg]] |
| 322 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LawrenceBayne |
| 323 | |
| 324 | * 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. |
| 325 | * CompositeCharacter: His role as the one responsible for the events that cause Jean to become Phoenix are also taken from Steven Lang. |
| 326 | * 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. |
| 327 | * PunyHumans: Erik despises humanity, and several years spying on us has done absolutely nothing to change his opinion. |
| 328 | * 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. |
| 329 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears after part 4 of the Phoenix Saga with no explanation. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:The Phoenix Force]] |
| 333 | !!The Phoenix / Dark Phoenix |
| 334 | [[quoteright:801:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_phoenix_x_men.jpg]] |
| 335 | %% [[caption-width-right:801:some caption text]] |
| 336 | * 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. |
| 337 | * 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 emotion and evil, threatening the universe it once sought to protect. |
| 338 | * 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. |
| 339 | * ChewingTheScenery: Phoenix going DrunkOnTheDarkSide allows Catherine Disher to really go over-the-top. |
| 340 | * 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. |
| 341 | * 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. |
| 342 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: Starting off, it gives Jean a green and gold outfit. When it goes Dark Phoenix, the green turns blood red. |
| 343 | * EvilSoundsDeep: When it becomes Dark Phoenix, Jean's voice gets lower. |
| 344 | * 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. |
| 345 | * 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. |
| 346 | * 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. |
| 347 | * 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. |
| 348 | * 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. |
| 349 | * 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. |
| 350 | * ThatManIsDead: Once it goes dark, it claims Jean isn't there anymore, and there's only Phoenix. It's wrong. |
| 351 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: It doesn't understand such things as love. |
| 352 | [[/folder]] |
| 353 | |
| 354 | !!!Mojoworld |
| 355 | [[folder:Mojo]] |
| 356 | !!Mojo |
| 357 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mojo_x_men.jpg]] |
| 358 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Peter Wildman (original series), Creator/DavidErrigoJr (''X-Men '97'') (English) |
| 359 | |
| 360 | * 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. |
| 361 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite being ''very'' LaughablyEvil and seemingly a buffoon at first, he proves no less dangerous than the serious villains. |
| 362 | * 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. |
| 363 | * 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. |
| 364 | * LaughablyEvil: He's basically a parody of a game show host, but is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain still pretty deadly.]] |
| 365 | * NoIndoorVoice: Seriously, trying to find a moment where he's not shouting like a madman is an exercise in futility |
| 366 | * NonIndicativeName: "Mojo" is slang for magic, yet he has no magical powers whatsoever. |
| 367 | * SmarmyHost: He's a pretty big sleazebag. |
| 368 | * StarfishAliens: He's a {{fat|Bastard}}, slimy guy with a [[{{Cyborg}} robotic scorpion-spider]] for a lower body. |
| 369 | * WalkingWasteland: His just arriving on Earth causes all the nearby wildlife to wither and die. |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | [[folder:Spiral]] |
| 373 | !!Spiral |
| 374 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Cynthia Belliveau (original series), Creator/AbbyTrott (''X-Men '97'') (English) |
| 375 | [[quoteright:973:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spiral_x_men_97.jpg]] |
| 376 | %%[[caption-width-right:973:some caption text]] |
| 377 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Her ability to teleport between dimensions is the only thing keeping Mojo sucking the life out of her. |
| 378 | * DeadlyEuphemism: As an inhabitant of Mojoworld, when she says "cancelled" she means "''kill''". |
| 379 | * DeadpanSnarker: Not above sassing Mojo back, despite knowing what he can and ''would'' do to her given half a chance. |
| 380 | * TheDragon: Mojo's head minion and enforcer, though her loyalty isn't 100% ironclad. |
| 381 | * 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). |
| 382 | * 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. |
| 383 | * 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." |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | !!!Savage Land |
| 387 | [[folder:Garokk]] |
| 388 | !!Garokk |
| 389 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garokk_2.jpg]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Garokk is merely a mutated human ([[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]). In the series, he's some kind of supernatural being. |
| 392 | %%* EvilSoundsDeep |
| 393 | * EvilVersusEvil: Gets into a showdown with Sauron over who gets feeding rights in the Savage Land. |
| 394 | * 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. |
| 395 | * JerkassGods: In ages past, he ruled the Savage Land. What we see is him just shooting bolts of energy at dinosaurs for kicks. |
| 396 | * NearVillainVictory: He came darn close to absorbing all the energy of the Savage Land, which would've been tremendously bad. |
| 397 | * 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. |
| 398 | * 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. |
| 399 | * 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. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Sauron]] |
| 403 | !!Sauron / Karl Lykos |
| 404 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sauron_x_men.jpg]] |
| 405 | * 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. |
| 406 | * 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. |
| 407 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The more power Sauron drains, the larger he gets. At the climax of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he's bigger than a mountain. |
| 408 | * 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. |
| 409 | * 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. |
| 410 | * 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.]] |
| 411 | * 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.]] |
| 412 | * 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, and Sauron does everything in his power to make sure he stays in charge. |
| 413 | * 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. |
| 414 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Karl just wants to be a normal person, and not be at risk of turning into an evil monster all the time. |
| 415 | * 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. |
| 416 | * 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). |
| 417 | * 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]]. |
| 418 | * 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. |
| 419 | * 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). |
| 420 | * PlayingWithSyringes: Karl Lykos was used as one of Sinister's experiments, turning him into Sauron. |
| 421 | * 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]]. |
| 422 | * 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. |
| 423 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Partly because it's Savage Land fashion, but also because the transformation from Lykos to Sauron shreds everything but his underwear. |
| 424 | [[/folder]] |
| 425 | |
| 426 | |
| 427 | !!!Weapon X |
| 428 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | * 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. |
| 431 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: Bonding that adamantium to Wolverine worked alright. Didn't even take him a minute to use it to break out of the lab. |
| 432 | * ManchurianAgent: They employed the memory implants therapy on Team X to turn them into assassins that would then forget their missions. |
| 433 | * TooDumbToLive: After Wolverine survives the adamantium bonding process, they were prepared to repeat the process on 'Sabretooth', which was never going to end well for anyone. |
| 434 | [[/folder]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | [[folder:The Professor]] |
| 437 | * NoNameGiven: Is only referred to as "Professor," never Truett Hudson or Thorton. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Professor Oyama]] |
| 441 | * AdaptationalJobChange: From Yakuza boss in the comics to a member of Weapon X. |
| 442 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never called Lord Dark Wind. |
| 443 | * TheGhost: He's only referred to by name by Professor Thorton and Lady Deathstrike. |
| 444 | * KilledOffscreen: According to Lady Deathstrike, he was by Logan during his berserker rampage at the Weapon X facility, |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Doctor Cornelius]] |
| 448 | * TheFaceless: Is only present as a shadowy silhouette in flashbacks. |
| 449 | * KilledOffscreen: He's killed during Logan's berserker rampage at the Weapon X facility. |
| 450 | [[/folder]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[folder:Talos]] |
| 453 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, the robot is named Shiva. The series' version was renamed due to censorship. |
| 454 | * KillerRobot: Talos is a robot designed to "recapture" Team X, is also programmed to kill them if they resist. |
| 455 | * ReplacementGoldfish: In the case of the first Talos unit being destroyed, a new unit activates to finish the job. |
| 456 | [[/folder]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | !!!The Phalanx Empire |
| 459 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 460 | * AssimilationPlot: Their goal is to assimilate all life on Earth. Mutants are initially immune to assimilation until their experiments with Wolverine's adamantium skeleton allow them to begin the assimilation of mutants, starting with Gambit. |
| 461 | * {{Expy}}: Just a little bit of [[Franchise/StarTrek the Borg]] in them, with their stated goal being assimilating everyone into "perfection". |
| 462 | * MechanicalAbomination: The central hub of the Phalanx is a giant tendril of mechanical matter with wailing heads extending from it. |
| 463 | * PullingThemselvesTogether: Smash up a Phalanx, and they'll just pull themselves back together. |
| 464 | * ResistanceIsFutile: To go with the Borg thing, not to mention "you will be assimilated". |
| 465 | [[/folder]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | [[folder:Cameron Hodge]] |
| 468 | !!Cameron Hodge |
| 469 | [[quoteright:360:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/humanhodge.jpg]] |
| 470 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"A small price to pay for perfection."'']] |
| 471 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his Phalanax form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phalanxhodge_1.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 472 | |
| 473 | * 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. |
| 474 | * AnArmAndALeg: He survived getting swept away by a tidal wave, though at the evident cost of... well, an arm and a leg. |
| 475 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: He first appears as Beast's lawyer. By his second appearance, however, he collaborates with the Genoshan government in the exploitation of mutants. |
| 476 | * CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Although Professor X isn't even certain there was any humanity for him to lose in the first place. |
| 477 | * FauxAffablyEvil: In "Phalanx Covenant", he maintains a sincere attitude despite his sheer monstrous insanity. |
| 478 | -->'''Hodge:''' The beard is a new look, Magneto. It suits you. |
| 479 | * 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. |
| 480 | * FaceHeelTurn: In his first appearance he's Beast's attorney. In his next appearance he's a villain and a representative of the Genoshan government. |
| 481 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The Phalanx are monstrous, but Hodge's motivation for helping them is so petty and ''insane'' they absolutely pale in comparison. |
| 482 | * 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''. |
| 483 | * TheQuisling: Hodge completely willingly sells mankind out to the Phalanx. |
| 484 | [[/folder]] |
| 485 | |
| 486 | !!!The Free Republic of Genosha |
| 487 | |
| 488 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 489 | |
| 490 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The original show ends with Genosha still an oppressive state on the verge of being taken over by a mutant rebellion, but by '''97'' that government has been toppled and replaced with a Mutant run one. |
| 491 | * LighterAndSofter: Not quite as monstrously "South African Apartheid with the dial turned up to 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. |
| 492 | * PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: It's the ''Free Republic'' of Genosha. Free for humans, that is. Mutants? Not remotely. |
| 493 | * SchmuckBait: Mutants are welcome on Genosha! The minute they get there, they're captured, enslaved, and put to work. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[folder:The Leader]] |
| 497 | * CanonForeigner: He has no comic book counterpart. |
| 498 | * {{Expy}}: His closest comic counterpart is President Reneau, the leader of Genosha during the country's period of mutant slavery, though aside from their role in the government and association with Hodge they have no other shared elements. |
| 499 | [[/folder]] |
| 500 | |
| 501 | [[folder:Tam Anderson]] |
| 502 | * AdaptationalVillainy: She rebelled against Hodge's horrible plans for Genosha in the comics. Here she remains nothing more than an enforcer for bigotry. |
| 503 | * DemotedToExtra: She has a small role in "Sanctuary, Part I" leading the Genoshan Magistrates, compared to her larger role as an eventual X-Men ally in the comics. |
| 504 | [[/folder]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | !!!Unaffiliated |
| 507 | |
| 508 | [[folder:General Chasen]] |
| 509 | !!General Chasen |
| 510 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/general_chasen_x_men_tas.png]] |
| 511 | %%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] |
| 512 | * 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. |
| 513 | * ItsAllAboutMe: The General clearly took Logan leaving Department H personally, because it reflected badly on him. |
| 514 | * 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. |
| 515 | [[/folder]] |
| 516 | |
| 517 | [[folder:Lady Deathstrike]] |
| 518 | !!Lady Deathstrike / Yuriko Oyama |
| 519 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Tasha Simms. |
| 520 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lady_deathstrike.jpg]] |
| 521 | |
| 522 | * 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). |
| 523 | * CompositeCharacter: With Mariko Yashida. |
| 524 | * 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. |
| 525 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares about the Reavers, and is horrified when the Soul-Drinker consumes them. |
| 526 | * 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. |
| 527 | * FemmeFatalons: Thanks to some cybernetic enhancements, her fingers are now unnaturally long, and capable of extending further for the purposes of clawing. |
| 528 | * 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''. |
| 529 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: No application of NeverSayDie for her. |
| 530 | * PsychoExGirlfriend: Before the whole Weapon X debacle, Logan and Yuriko had a thing together. Now Yuriko has become Lady Deathstrike in order to kill Wolverine. |
| 531 | * ThatManIsDead: She's quite emphatic to Logan that Yuriko is gone now. |
| 532 | * YouKilledMyFather: Wants to kill Wolverine on account of killing her father in his escape from Weapon X. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Juggernaut]] |
| 536 | !!Juggernaut / Cain Marko |
| 537 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RickBennet |
| 538 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jugger.jpg]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | * BerserkButton: Don't ''ever'' call him a mutant. He is a regular human powered by a mystical gem. |
| 541 | * 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. |
| 542 | * 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. |
| 543 | * DumbMuscle: He's not very bright, and, fittingly, his weakness is psychic attacks. |
| 544 | * 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. |
| 545 | * 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. |
| 546 | * {{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. |
| 547 | * 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." |
| 548 | -->'''Wolverine:''' ''(extends his claws)'' Make your move, tough guy!\ |
| 549 | '''Juggernaut:''' Another time, short stuff! When I'm in the mood. ''(leaves)'' |
| 550 | * ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first act in the series]] is to demolish Xavier' school, basically just to be a dick. |
| 551 | * 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=]. |
| 552 | [[/folder]] |
| 553 | |
| 554 | [[folder:The High Evolutionary]] |
| 555 | !!The High Evolutionary |
| 556 | |
| 557 | * AllThereInTheManual: Is never actually identified by name in "Family Ties". |
| 558 | * 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. |
| 559 | * 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). |
| 560 | * ManipulativeBastard: Suckers Pietro and Wanda into attacking Magneto so he can capture him, and then captures them as well. |
| 561 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to replace humanity with ani-men as the dominant species because he believes they'll be purer of intention. |
| 562 | [[/folder]] |
| 563 | |
| 564 | [[folder:The Colony]] |
| 565 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Though not called such, they're clearly supposed to be an adaptation of the Brood. |
| 566 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: Only appear as the villains of the episode "Love in Vain". |
| 567 | [[/folder]] |
| 568 | |
| 569 | [[folder:Arkon]] |
| 570 | !!Arkon of Polemachus |
| 571 | |
| 572 | * 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(''ish'') guy and ally to Marvel's heroes. Not so much here. |
| 573 | * 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]]. |
| 574 | * 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]]. |
| 575 | * 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. |
| 576 | * 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. |
| 577 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's quite big. Storm's not exactly slight herself, being 5'11, and he's at least a head taller than her. |
| 578 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:In the end, Storm destroys the device powering his armies and keeping his slaves from rebelling or escaping]]. |
| 579 | * OffstageVillainy: The leader of the Polemachus resistance states that thousands have died at the hands of Arkon's robot guards. |
| 580 | * 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. |
| 581 | [[/folder]] |
| 582 | |
| 583 | [[folder:The Red Skull]] |
| 584 | ->See his folder [[Characters/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeriesVillains here]]. |
| 585 | [[/folder]] |
| 586 | |
| 587 | !!Introduced in ''X-Men '97'' |
| 588 | |
| 589 | !!!Operation: Zero Tolerance |
| 590 | |
| 591 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 592 | * CompositeCharacter: Takes cues from both Orchis (an alliance of human powers against mutants, secretly led by Sentinels aiming to ensure their own dominance over the planet) and the Cabal (a team of several big league Marvel villains). |
| 593 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: A few of the program's supporters aren't appreciative of Bastion's more monstrous acts, with Doom in particular noting offense at the idea he would be indifferent to the Genoshan massacre--not that it precludes his help. |
| 594 | * LegionOfDoom: Several major villains are depicted backing Bastion's plans, including Mr. Sinister, Doctor Doom, and Baron Helmut Zemo. |
| 595 | * TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: The line-up of people working with Bastion include Mr. Sinister, Dr. Doom, Helmut Zemo, and [[spoiler:Val Cooper]]. None of these four had anything to do with the organization in the comics and in fact, the latter three were busy with other matters when it went down: Doom being stuck in [[ComicBook/HeroesReborn a pocket universe]] thanks to [[ComicBook/{{Onslaught}} one of the events]] Bastion took advantage of to get OZT off the ground, Zemo trying to take advantage of said event himself with his ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} scheme, and [[spoiler:Val actually trying to protect X-Factor ''from'' Bastion and his forces.]] |
| 596 | [[/folder]] |
| 597 | |
| 598 | [[folder:Bastion '''(Massive spoilers)''']] |
| 599 | !! Bastion / Sebastion Gilberti |
| 600 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bastion_xmen_97_042424_2_6bc2939753a24377893c108b4bff3757.jpg]] |
| 601 | [[caption-width-right:1000:"''The villains of old have been failing since '92 to squash these pests [...] yet unlike the rest of you, I '''evolved'''.''"]] |
| 602 | -> '''Voiced by''': Creator/TheoJames |
| 603 | |
| 604 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Bastion was presented as a considerable threat but ultimately never scored any significant victories over the X-Men or the Mutant population in general, his biggest accomplishments being the Zero Tolerance Sentinels and stripping the X-Mansion of its' Shi'Ar technology. In this series, Bastion is the one behind for the destruction of Genosha and the death of thousands of Mutants—an action Cassandra Nova was responsible for in the comics. |
| 605 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While the Bastion of the comics also loved Rose, he ultimately discarded these feelings upon her death. Here, Bastion continues to care for her as his mother. Additionally, while still a bigot, he has undertones of what appears to be a sincere VisionaryVillain, while the comics Bastion was nothing more than a sadist who went so far as to ensure mutants didn't go extinct just so he could keep killing them. |
| 606 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In the comics, he is an advanced form of Sentinel created from a fusion between Nimrod and Master Mold. In '''97'', it's revealed that he is a [[HalfHumanHybrid human/Sentinel hybrid]] who was conceived after his father was infected by Nimrod's circuitry. Xavier even mistook the boy for a mutant due to the fact that he was born with superpowers. |
| 607 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Yes surprisingly, despite the comics showing Bastion repeatedly as an AxCrazy genocidal monster born from a psychotic fusion who seeks a ForeverWar against mutantkind... he also was a consequence of the end point of the intolerance between mutantkind, humanity, and even robots reaching its logical endpoint and came at the cost of a [[HeelFaceTurn nearly fully redeemed]] Nimrod being forcibly assimilated and supplanted by the psychotic rage of Master Mold during their twisted FusionDance. In '''97'', however, Bastion is explicitly revealed to ''be'' a technologically-augmented human who simply has gained Nimrod's vast power set to become a {{Technopath}}, which makes his motivation and origin far more malevolent as here he really believes mutants are a problem that needs to cleansed ''entirely'' of his own free will instead of malignant programming going awry, though the vagueness of certain aspects of his backstory leave room for the [[AmbiguousSituation possibility that he was still corrupted by his connection to the Sentinels]], making this more of a DownplayedTrope. |
| 608 | * AgeLift: In the comics, Bastion was BornAsAnAdult due to the circumstances of his creation. Here, however, he was actually carried to term inside a human mother and subsequently matured over the years at a natural rate, with him seemingly being in his 40s during the present day. |
| 609 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Fitting as someone who is, at least in some continuities, part Nimrod, Bastion's skin is a little too pink to be completely human. |
| 610 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: Despite looking fairly convincing as one at a glance, he doesn't appear to be human, given the constant inferences made between his technological abilities, his way of referring to both mutants and humans as distant from his nature, and how he's plugged into his mainframe when Mr. Sinister approaches him. "Tolerance is Extinction Pt. 1" would reveal he ''[[AdaptationalSpeciesChange is]]'' human, but the consequence of a time-displaced Nimrod's tattered remains infecting a human and giving birth to an augmented being. |
| 611 | * AmbiguousSituation: His backstory leaves it open if he became the mutant-hating monster he is of his own free will, or if he was compelled down the path by his genetic connection to the Sentinels via his Nimrod augmentations. |
| 612 | * ArcVillain: The true villain of season 1 of ''X-Men '97''. He's the one responsible for orchestrating the Genoshan massacre, and is the head of Operation: Zero Tolerance that aims to create a breed of human-Sentinel hybrids to foster war between humans and mutants. Even when Magneto ends up usurping him as the preeminent threat, it was Bastion's actions that pushed him to such extremes, and the Sentinel hybrid remains a major villain who outlasts Magneto as the final threat by a wide margin. |
| 613 | * BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite being a self-admitted CardCarryingVillain who actively seeks the annihilation of the status quo of mutantkind, he earnestly ''believes'' what he is doing ''is'' [[VisionaryVillain for the good of mankind]] which leads to a frightening case of being [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to read the room that a lot of his allies are repeatedly disgusted with the vile nature of his actions]] time and again. |
| 614 | * BigBadEnsemble: Ends up sharing the main villain role with Magneto for the finale of the first season. After Bastion's atrocities spur Magneto to resume his war on humanity, the latter reverses the magnetic poles of the planet to risk the end of the world. Bastion remains a major threat in the midst of all this, as his operation needs to be shut down before the X-Men reverse Magneto's EMP lest he resume his own side of the war. |
| 615 | * BerserkButton: Storm inadvertently sends him into TranquilFury when she tries appealing to his humanity, since he [[BoomerangBigot considers himself just as inhuman]] as the mutants. |
| 616 | * BishonenLine: Inverted, as Bastion starts off as resembling a fairly attractive human, only as he becomes more intertwined with his {{Technopath}} powers and more Sentinel side, he begins to ''lose'' said humanity over time: at first looking wild and unhinged as his hair grows out after hooking himself up to his Sentinel mainframe with permanently glowing eyes to becoming an monstrously angelic being after absorbing Cable's Techno-Organic Virus for himself and, after Jubilee lands a nasty MegatonPunch on him however, [[FacialHorror what visage of humanity he has left is peeled away]] into a horrific mess of flesh and metal that better reflects the monster he actually is. |
| 617 | * BlessedWithSuck: Bastion's {{Technopath}} abilities make him a dangerous threat to be sure, but as shown in his origins, his innate connection to electronics in a world positively littered with it was also a source of torment, as he spent every waking moment bombarded by the incessant "talking" of the machines around him. After Magneto shuts off power to the entire planet, he actually expresses relief that things are finally "quiet" for once. |
| 618 | * BondVillainStupidity: Bastion captures Magneto in the aftermath of the Genosha massacre. Instead of killing him and permanently eliminating an omega-level threat, Bastion instead keeps him alive as a plaything to mock, humiliate and torture. This comes back to bite him when Val Cooper grows a conscience and releases Magneto, who proceeds to unleash a planet-wide EMP, instantly defeating his entire army of Prime Sentinels. |
| 619 | * BoomerangBigot: Ironically, thanks to his AdaptationalSpeciesChange, despite his goals and dreams in mind for mankind, the nature of his birth and powers arguably make him as much a Mutant as those he hunts[[note]]He would be classified as a mutant and not a human mutate such as characters like Deadpool because he was ''born'' along a deviation rather than artificially induced to become a mutant[[/note]]—something the consciousness of Master Mold eggs him on embracing by declaring that he ''should'' become the most powerful mutant alive when he was a child—[[ObliviouslyEvil a fact completely lost on him it seems like as he persecutes and ridicules mutants constantly despite clearly being one]]. However, in his final moments, he seems to reveal a greater awareness of his status as being akin to a mutant, as he proclaims that humanity would rather face extinction than allow people like the X-Men and him to be born. |
| 620 | * CardCarryingVillain: He calls Mister Sinister and the X-Men's other opponents "villains" and implicitly doesn't reject the notion of being lumped in with them. |
| 621 | * CompositeCharacter: Takes Cassandra Nova's place as the mastermind behind the Genosha massacre. |
| 622 | * CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: It is revealed in "Tolerance is Extinction, Part 2" that Xavier ''knew'' about Bastion's existence and condition all along, ever since he was a child, and even tried to recruit him to his school in hopes of preventing his powers from worsening his nature... which makes the point that had Xavier been a bit more committed to trying to do something about what was genuinely a problem case in the making, all of the plot of the first season of '''97'' could have been avoided and Genosha would never have happened. |
| 623 | * {{Cyborg}}: Being a human born with Master Mold's advanced technology, Bastion is a truly cybernetic organism. |
| 624 | * DeadpanSnarker: Bastion is snarky and smug in every situation. He even has the stones to mouth off to Doctor Doom and Baron Zemo, despite them being key benefactors in his plan. |
| 625 | * {{Determinator}}: What is arguably his most defining trait, for better and for worse, as Bastion is ''so'' committed to his beliefs and mission that he won't stay down no matter what is put in his way to stop him. Even when he's facing [[SummonBiggerFish the Phoenix]] and all the way to the entire team of X-Men bearing down on him relentlessly going to town on him, he just ''refuses'' to bow down or accept any other possibility regardless of the damage done to him by his enemies and just ''keeps getting back up''. Nightcrawler's [[OhCrap reaction]] to his stubborn refusal to just give up, while lifting a Sentinel actively crushing him, says it best: |
| 626 | --> '''Nightcrawler''': ''Mein Gott''. Truly he ''is'' the future incarnate. |
| 627 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: From what we see of Bastion growing up as Sebastian, he clearly had a close, loving relationship with his family, especially his mother who encouraged him despite his {{Technopath}} abilities making him an outcast. [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul It doesn't stop him from turning his mother into a Prime Sentinel later on]], but seeing how he seems to believe what he's doing is for mankind's safety, it could also be inferred that it is him ensuring his mother is safe and well-protected, something which is confirmed in "Tolerance is Extinction, Part 2" where he is seen cradling his mother's unconscious body and shedding tears after Magneto's {{EMP}}. Nathan also gets under his skin in "Tolerance is Extinction, Part 3" by snidely asking how Bastion's mother is doing after Bastion tries twisting the knife over Mister Sinister having seemingly forced him to kill Jean Grey. |
| 628 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: While Bastion does acknowledge on some level that his actions are evil, [[NecessarilyEvil he sincerely believes that said actions are for the benefit of mankind.]] So naturally, he's genuinely confused why his allies object to his viler actions like the Genosha massacre or turning humans into Human-Sentinel hybrids. |
| 629 | * EvilEvolves: Invokes this trope when discussing with Mr. Sinister why ''he'' will succeed where him and the "other villains of old" failed in eliminating the X-Men for years, with especially holds precedent as he might be the end result of [[TheDreaded Nimrod]]'s own evolution like in the comics... and seeing how [[HeroKiller he is the one truly responsible for the death of Gambit and so many mutants]], it's hard to dismiss the fact that Bastion might be right in his chances for success against the X-Men compared to even ''Apocalypse''. |
| 630 | * FacialHorror: After Jubilee uses her powers to land a hell of a MegatonPunch on Bastion during their final battle, his face is permanently disfigured for the remainder as a horrific hodgepodge of metal, bone, and flesh with a singular human eyeball bulging out—better reflecting his monstrous nature as a result. |
| 631 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He acts really chummy around a captured Magneto. He even gives him a shave. This is only because he knows he's in control, and he gloats about how Magneto should be used to being subjugated. |
| 632 | * FinalBoss: Magneto briefly usurps his role as main villain in the penultimate episode, but Bastion remains the ultimate threat of the first season, and attempts to bring Asteroid M down on the Earth in a petty tantrum once Magneto's EMP is undone. |
| 633 | * FreezeFrameBonus: He can actually be seen in episode 4 on [[https://imgur.com/Hd73p0Q Forge's picture wall]]. Bastion can also be [[https://i0.wp.com/comicbookclublive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bastion-x-men-97-episode-5-scaled.webp?quality=80&ssl=1 briefly seen among the crowd during the gala]] on Genosha during "Remember It". |
| 634 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Is implied to have had a hand in the creation of the Mutant Suppression technology given his presence in a photo on Forge's picturewall back in his military days, which would make him responsible for much of the Animated canon's tragedies resulting in trying to curtail and eliminate the mutant threat from the beginning. |
| 635 | * HalfHumanHybrid: The remains of Nimrod merged with his father before he and his wife conceived him, making him a Nimrod-human hybrid. Besides his unnaturally pink skin, it also granted him the [[{{Technopath}} ability to communicate with machines]]. |
| 636 | * IAmAMonster: An odd combination of this and CardCarryingVillain. He outright calls himself a monster created only to cause destruction at several points when called out for his horrific deeds but in a way that makes it clear he ''hates'' how unnatural he is, not that he takes kindly to having his humanity appealed to either, as he believes he lacks that. |
| 637 | * TheImmune: Unlike his Prime Sentinels, Bastion is entirely immune to Magneto's powers in regards to his condition exclusively, which allows him to remain active and a present threat in spite of the worldwide {{EMP}} unleashed. |
| 638 | * KeystoneArmy: One of the main points of conflict in the two-pronged attack between Magneto and Bastion is that while Magneto is [[AlwaysABiggerFish the bigger threat presently]] for having knocked out Earth's magnetosphere, Bastion's connection to his Prime Sentinels means that the moment his {{EMP}} is reversed, his army would be immediately reactivated and primed, which means that to put an end to Bastion's threat, they ''need'' to eliminate Bastion first before Magneto to permanently shut down his armies. |
| 639 | * AMillionIsAStatistic: A very viciously Exploited and Deconstructed example. Bastion is aware that, regardless of people's views, are not keen on death of a single or handful of individuals and how this can serve as a martyrdom that makes people [[RuleOfEmpathy more sympathetic to a cause that might be detrimental in the long run to them with an easy point of familiarity]]. Therefore to [[StatusQuoIsGod reset the status quo]], Bastion orchestrated the Genosha Massacre to kill thousands, if not millions, of mutants on such a wide scale that people will naturally tune off to prevent themselves from being overwhelmed by the magnitude of the atrocity, [[FinalSolution which will allow him the means to persecute and eliminate the mutant problem he perceives exists]] before humanity has a chance to reflect on it and rally behind it. Bastion even invokes this line of thought directly in his MotiveRant to Val Cooper as the crux of his plan. |
| 640 | -->'''Bastion:''' Bully an underdog too long and people start feeling sorry for them... So I hand humanity Genosha. Overload their bandwidth. Too much to compute. Because when your skin's not in the game, apathy's your answer. |
| 641 | * NotSoStoic: He keeps a fairly cool head for the most part even whenever things don't go his way, not even being worked up when he kills Gyrich for [[YouHaveFailedMe slipping his existence to Rogue]] or when Val Cooper lets Magneto free—but when Magneto clearly shows he's hit his RageBreakingPoint and unleashes a world-wrecking {{EMP}} that turns off the entire planet's power in an instant, Bastion is visibly ''afraid'' as he sees things swing wildly off course from his original plan. |
| 642 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Somehow manages to be this despite also having no problems [[CardCarryingVillain identifying as a villain]]. He reacts with genuine confusion when Val expresses obvious horror to his Prime Sentinel project, arguing that he is improving humanity despite the fact that he is clearly stripping humans of their free will, turning them into unwitting [[ManchurianAgent Manchurian Agents]] who don't even possess a sense of self-preservation after activating. |
| 643 | * OneWingedAngel: In the final part of "Tolerance is Extinction", Bastion rips off Cable's techno-organic left arm and fuses with it to grant himself armor and wings as he sets out to crash Asteroid M into the Earth. |
| 644 | * RedemptionRejection: When given the chance by Cyclops to amend his ways and join the X-Men as Xavier wanted for him in the first place, Bastion chooses to die by sticking to his ideology instead by leaping forward into Asteroid M's core as the station begins collapses in on itself. |
| 645 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In the comics, shortly after Nimrod and Master Mold merged into who'd become Bastion, the young man would be adopted by Rose Gilberti. Here, due to Bastion's AdaptationSpeciesChange, Rose is his biological mother. |
| 646 | * SensoryOverload: As a child, Bastion struggled with the fact that he could sense the machinery around him in a similar manner that a telepath would human minds, and he had not yet learned how to master his technopathy. In "Tolerance is Extinction - Pt. 2", following Magneto's global EMP shutting down all electronic devices and machines the world over, Bastion quips how it's finally "quiet" in his blacked-out hometown. |
| 647 | * ShadowArchetype: Serves as one to the X-Men themselves, being the next stage of evolution for Sentinels and humans in the same way mutants are often thought to be the successors to mankind. Storm even points out that since Xavier tried to recruit Sebastian as a child, he could have been a member of the X-Men had things worked out differently. |
| 648 | * 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. |
| 649 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: His real name is, fittingly, Sebastion. |
| 650 | * TragicVillain: By the end of "Tolerance Is Extinction, Pt 3", it is clear this is what Bastion truly is in the end: the manifestation of the logical conclusion to an endlessly pointless and sad conflict between mankind and itself as it fears the future, with the unfortunate child that would become Bastion being caught in the aftermath shouldering prejudice and hate under the misguided belief he was sincerely protecting the future of mankind [[BoomerangBigot while being aware he himself is the thing he so despises too]]. His last moments are pitifully deranged and gut-wrenching as X-Men can only look on in remorse as [[RedemptionRejection he refuses any chance at redemption]] and throws himself into the exploding Asteroid M's core than accept a future where someone like himself can be accepted. |
| 651 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: He was assured of his leverage over Magneto after capturing him, never building any contingencies around what would happen if he were released. It proves disastrous for him, as his forces consist of cybernetic humans and robots, and Magneto's powers of magnetism also make him a walking [=EMP=], which he proceeds to demonstrate on the entire planet after being freed. |
| 652 | * TheUnfettered: For Bastion, there is no sacrifice too great for the benefit of humankind and he will do whatever it takes to see his vision realized. |
| 653 | * UngratefulBastard: He turns his mother into a Prime Sentinel, despite in a flashback to his childhood she assured him she would always love him when his powers were developing and [[IJustWantToBeNormal he asked her if he would ever be normal]]. Of course, given his incredibly warped morality, he might've actually thought he was legitimately 'thanking'' her by doing that. |
| 654 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Despite the hangups from his {{Technopath}} powers psychologically tormenting him as he grew up, Bastion was mostly a well-behaved and well-loved child by his family which is jarring with how it seems like such a contrary upbringing of the kind of monster he'd become. |
| 655 | * VilerNewVillain: By a ''substantial margin'' compared to the original run of the series. A lot of the X-Men's villains, while threatening and dangerous, still had to play to censors and moral standards in the 90s—[[NobodyCanDie which meant that very rarely they could genuinely kill someone]]. Bastion, on the other hand, stacks up one ''hell'' of a body count compared to all of them that leaves quite a few characters KilledOffForReal, up to including most of Genosha and [[HeroKiller Gambit]], through his machinations or by his own direct hand. |
| 656 | * VillainousBreakdown: When it is clear that he ''won't'' be able to enact his future for humanity his way, especially after his connection to his Prime Sentinels are permanently severed, Bastion simply snaps and instead opts to [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum just wipe out everyone]] with Asteroid M as he refuses to accept a future where humans and mutants coexist as one people. |
| 657 | * VisionaryVillain: Bastion fully and readily admits [[CardCarryingVillain he's a monster by way of his birth]], but he also subscribes to the belief that he is NecessarilyEvil to save humanity from, what he perceives, their impending extinction at mutantkind supplanting them in a few generations time. In fact, unlike what others believe, he's not even out to exterminate mutantkind but "equalize" the totem pole so that they can still serve a purpose in his future for mankind... [[SavedToEnslave as a slave workforce]] for the utopia he builds in the aftermath. |
| 658 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kills Gyrich after he becomes a loose end. |
| 659 | [[/folder]] |
| 660 | |
| 661 | [[folder:The Genoshan Master Mold '''(SPOILERS)''']] |
| 662 | !!Master Mold |
| 663 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/EricBauza |
| 664 | ->''"Behold, mutant, for I am death! I am Master Mold!"'' |
| 665 | |
| 666 | * 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''. |
| 667 | * 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. |
| 668 | * 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. |
| 669 | * TheDreaded: This thing's imminent arrival has Cable ''panicking'' -- Cable, who was defiant when facing down Apocalypse. |
| 670 | * DroneDeployer: Thanks to its massive size, it carries a large host of smaller regular Sentinels on the sides of its body to deploy into the fray it creates. |
| 671 | * EarlyBirdCameo: A Master Mold briefly appears to end Madelyne's psychic scan of Gyrich in the first episode. Though it initially seems to just be Trask's new creation, by episode 5 it's clear it was really this thing appearing to her in a vision of the future. |
| 672 | * HeroKiller: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in its opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet. |
| 673 | * HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Impaling Gambit backfires on it, since Remy's power allows him to detonate any inorganic material he can touch, and the Sentinel consists of a ''large'' amount of inorganic material. |
| 674 | * HumongousMecha: Even more humongous than Master Mold. |
| 675 | * {{Kaiju}}: The Wild Sentinel is the giant robot equivalent; a monstrously huge thing with an inhuman, bug-like shape. It even shoots energy from its mouth(s), rather than the palms like its smaller counterparts, mainly because it doesn't ''have'' arms. |
| 676 | * 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. |
| 677 | * KnightOfCerebus: The Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'' and proceeds to drastically darken the story by achieving a horrifyingly large body count, among them Gambit. |
| 678 | * MechanicalMonster: A gigantic three-headed robot with a vaguely beetle-like body programed to carry out a genocide. |
| 679 | * MookMaker: It's large enough to function as a carrier for more Sentinels, deploying them to hunt down any mutants on Genosha who it hasn't already gotten. |
| 680 | * MultipleHeadCase: Has three heads, each of which is armed. |
| 681 | * NoNameGiven: The character is not named on screen in "Remember It" but is called "Master Mold" by Bolivar Trask in "Lifedeath Pt. II" and in the credits for "Remember It". However, since "Master Mold" is a completely differently designed machine altogether, other names have been given to separate this one with the normal kind. |
| 682 | * SicklyGreenGlow: Unlike the red energy blasts of the smaller regular Sentinels and Master Mold, its eyes and the energy it emits glow an unpleasant green. |
| 683 | * SuperSenses: The 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 exploit during his HeroicSacrifice. |
| 684 | * WalkingSpoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than being a massive HeroKiller of numerous mutants, including presumably Magneto and definitely Gambit, while leveling most of Genosha to the ground. |
| 685 | * 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 blast wave afterwards might finish the job. When it detects Magneto, it just keeps firing and firing until it's absolutely ''certain'' he is dead. |
| 686 | [[/folder]] |
| 687 | |
| 688 | [[folder:Prime Sentinels]] |
| 689 | * AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Thanks to ''X-Men '97'' combining BackportedDevelopment and CanonCharacterAllAlong to make the once-nameless waitress from the original series' "One Man's Worth, Part 1" into the series' rendition of Rose Gilberti, this version of her was shown to be a bigot towards the idea of interracial relationships. The Rose of the comics, conversely, wasn't bigoted, but was also ''horrified'' by the monster Bastion became.]] |
| 690 | * AchillesHeel: Cable defeats the Trask Prime Sentinel with an EMP grenade, which he says is the easiest way to take them out. |
| 691 | * AndIMustScream: Jean, upon psychically scanning the Trask Sentinel, confirms portions of the Prime Sentinels' human personalities remain intact once they're activated, though they're clearly not in control. |
| 692 | * BackportedDevelopment: [[spoiler:Combined with CanonCharacterAllAlong, but as mentioned above, the waitress from part 1 of the original series' "One Man's Worth", which aired in 1995, was retconned into being this universe's incarnation of Rose Gilberti, who was introduced in the comics in ''Operation: Zero Tolerance'' in 1997 -- two years after "One Man's Worth" aired and a few months after the original series ended.]] |
| 693 | * BishonenLine: Much like Bastion himself, compared to the HumongousMecha Sentinels we've seen up to now, these Sentinels look and appear human (and [[WasOnceAMan formerly were]]) but are actually far more powerful and deadlier than their much larger and more obviously mechanical predecessors, to the point where their only actual weakness is an {{EMP}} and will NoSell anything else the X-Men can throw at them. |
| 694 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:In a case of this trope being combined with BackportedDevelopment, the once-nameless waitress from the original series' "One Man's Worth, Part 1" was retconned to be Rose Gilberti.]] |
| 695 | * CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Once a Prime Sentinel is activated, the person's original personality is snuffed out for a new one that emulates Bastion's personality and a directive to capture and neutralize all mutants. |
| 696 | * EliteMooks: Described as far worse than even the Master Mold sent against Genosha. The Trask Sentinel quickly proves this statement justice, taking on all the X-Men with little difficulty. |
| 697 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: Many of those infected and turned into Prime Sentinels by Mr. Sinister and Bastion have a HealingFactor as a part of their plethora of powers. Which is very useful as most if not all of them are really just regular people. |
| 698 | * JetPack: Of the Rocket Boots variety, well technically not rocket boots but they fly by having rocket exhaust shoot out of their soles. |
| 699 | * ManchurianAgent: Due to Bastion removing their memories of being involved with the conversion process, all of them have lived their lives thinking themselves still human, unknowingly being manipulated by Bastion into infiltrating various groups to be activated when it came time to initiate Operation: Zero Tolerance. |
| 700 | * NighInvulnerability: By the way of a supercharged HealingFactor as Prime Sentinels, [[WasOnceAMan despite being formerly ordinary humans]], can be gored, decapitated, or cut clean in half in various measures, but they will immediately heal themselves back up either by regrowing or reattaching the damaged components, making them almost completely immortal cyborgs save for the one AchillesHeel they have... |
| 701 | * OverlyLongTongue: As if the Prime sentinels aren't uncanny enough, some just attack with long and dark blue prehensile tongues. As shown when fighting Wolverine and Nightclawer as they siege the X Mansion. |
| 702 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the comics, shortly after Nimrod and Master Mold merged into who'd become Bastion, the young man would be adopted by Rose Gilberti. Here, due to Bastion's AdaptationSpeciesChange into a human infected with the remains of Nimrod, Rose is his biological mother.]] |
| 703 | * RocketPunch: They can shoot off their fists as a projectile at enemies. |
| 704 | * TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Among their ranks in Trish Tilby and Rose Gilberti. In the comics, not only was Trish ''not'' a Prime Sentinel, but like Dr. Doom and Baron Zemo, she was preoccuiped with other matters, namely being in space with the X-Men (Beast, Rogue, Gambit, Bishop, and Joseph) who actually missed out on OZT helping save the Shi'ar from the Phalanx. And Rose were horrified to see the monster her son had become.]] |
| 705 | * TechnicallyLivingZombie: With a dash of ArtificialZombie, the Prime Sentinels are more or less super-powered zombie-like hordes all controlled by Bastion. |
| 706 | * TranshumanTreachery: In a bid to make themselves "relevant" in a world that they think is being displaced by mutants, many of the Prime Sentinels are people who volunteered to become mutant-hunting weapons of mass destruction, though it's ambiguous as to how much they knew (or even if all of them entered the program willingly) as their memories of the conversion are erased until the day comes where Bastion activates them. |
| 707 | * WhatMeasureIsaNonHuman?: The X-Men don't hold back when fighting against them, granted they are absolutely powerful beings that trying to hold back will most likely get them killed. It also helps that they are not only extraordinarly tough but also have their own HealingFactor. This lets lets Wolverine and Nightcrawler go all out with claws and cutlasses. |
| 708 | * ZergRush: Like their predecessors, while one is incredibly powerful enough on their own to cause trouble for the X-Men, they prefer to absolutely overwhelm their enemies with sheer numbers. One notable moment even has them chasing the Blackbird in what can only be described as a ''cloud'' of Prime Sentinels. |
| 709 | [[/folder]] |
| 710 | |
| 711 | [[folder:Daria]] |
| 712 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Is never called Sentinel Girl, and it's never revealed if she even is a Prime Sentinel like in the comics. |
| 713 | * SecretaryOfEvil: Her short appearances show that she appears to be some sort of assistant for Bastion, following him around and offering praise for his accomplishments. |
| 714 | [[/folder]] |
| 715 | |
| 716 | [[folder:Doctor Doom]] |
| 717 | ->See his folder [[Characters/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeriesVillains here]]. |
| 718 | [[/folder]] |
| 719 | |
| 720 | [[folder:Baron Zemo]] |
| 721 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: Like his comic book counterpart, he wears a ski mask that covers his entire face. |
| 722 | * PragmaticVillainy: Unlike Doom, his issues with the attack on Genosha stem less from morals and more from annoyance that Bastion didn't bother to let them know about it ahead of time, especially since moving against the X-Men is dangerous while they still have favor from world leaders. |
| 723 | [[/folder]] |
| 724 | |
| 725 | !!!Unaffiliated |
| 726 | [[folder:X-Cutioner]] |
| 727 | !!The X-Cutioner / Carl Denti |
| 728 | [[quoteright:680:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/x_cutioner_x_men_97.jpg]] |
| 729 | %%[[caption-width-right:680:some caption text]] |
| 730 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LawrenceBayne |
| 731 | * 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. |
| 732 | * AngryWhiteMan: He's an Aryan-looking fellow that whines about how regular humans have it way worse than mutants. |
| 733 | * 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.]] |
| 734 | * 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. |
| 735 | * 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. |
| 736 | * EvilIsPetty: His reason for hating Mutants? Not because of the legitimate danger they pose to Humanity or doing anything to him personally but because he just hates how they whine all the time (or so he claims). |
| 737 | * {{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. |
| 738 | * 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]]. |
| 739 | * PsychopathicManchild: The way he unironically talks about whining as a legitimate reason to want Mutants dead gives off the same energy as some schoolyard bully using the pettiest reasons to justify his hatred towards his victims. |
| 740 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a hateful screed to Cyclops during their fight in "Mutant Liberation Begins", [[AngryWhiteMan claiming that mutants oppression is imaginary and that humans have it worse]]. |
| 741 | -->'''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. |
| 742 | * StarterVillain: The first villain fought in ''X-Men '97'', with the team having to take him down after he kidnaps Roberto. |
| 743 | [[/folder]] |
| 744 | |
| 745 | [[folder:The Adversary]] |
| 746 | !!The Adversary |
| 747 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Alison Sealy Smith |
| 748 | |
| 749 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Like an actual owl, it can twist its head around a whole 360 degrees. |
| 750 | * AdaptationalWimp: Goes from omniversal level threat who required the X-Men to temporarily sacrifice their lives to a minor demon. |
| 751 | * ADealWithTheDevil: Offers to restore Ororo's lost powers if she'll just let Forge die. [[spoiler:Though as it turns out, Storm's powers had been restored anyway.]] |
| 752 | * EmotionEater: It claims that it feeds on misery, and intends to feast on Storm's despair over her lost powers. |
| 753 | * GenderFlip: Male in the comics, here it's voiced by Alison Sealy Smith. |
| 754 | * OminousOwl: At first it appears as a common owl until it takes on a more monstrous form to attack Storm and Forge. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
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