Credit where credit is due. The way Sinister takes over Krakoa is brilliant. With a hit on the Quiet Council, he kills Hope, allowing him to tamper with resurrected mutants (and humans, when the notion is passed). In a year, he controls significant chunks of the population, and in a decade, he has destroyed Arakko, eliminated most of the other hero groups on Earth, and, for all intents and purposes, controls the world.
The corrupted Emma Frost absolutely demolishing Sinister in Immoral X-Men #1. Watching him become increasingly alarmed as it sinks in how truly screwed he is, and him reduced to begging for his life, is a thing of beauty.
Sinister tries to subvert Emma via teleporting into her bedroom and injecting her in while asleep? Emma has been sleeping in her diamond form for years and has a drugged/broken into submission Mastermind chained up in her bedroom each night, constantly projecting a psychic illusion good enough to fool an Omega Mutant that Emma sleeps in her defenceless human form. Cue the needle breaking on her diamond skin and Sinister running for his life as Emma sets the Quiet Council to hunting him down.
Sinister retreats to his fortress laboratory and hopes Refuge in Audacity means the Council will look for him elsewhere? Emma got past his already-established formidable mental defences in the seconds before he fled, knows exactly where he went, and proceeds to drop in to deal with him personally.
Sinister has a gun using Banshee + Cypher genetics to read Emma's crystalline structure and blow her arm off? Emma uses Sinister's own technology to give herself a Wolverine-grade Healing Factor, regrows the arm on the spot, and delivers a mocking "Reason You Suck" Speech to Sinister. She points out that the only thing he contributes are his creations, and once he gives them to others, they aren't really his anymore.
Sinister unleashes his handpicked Cyclops hybrids on Emma? Emma spent years inside the original Cyclops's mind on the most profound level imaginable. She effortlessly takes control of the hybrids and sets them against each other, then proceeds to choke the life out of a stunned Sinister with a handy chain.
Literally the only thing that saves Sinister from being killed on the spot is him pointing out the Krakoan Mutants need his genetics skills to create Mutant Chimera capable of holding up to five powersets at once - a Super soldier asset that is vital if they are to live through the interstellar war barring down on them. Emma admits to the logic, but goes the extra mile of choking Sinister to make him beg for mercy.
While it ultimately fails Wagnerine trying to take out Mother Righteous via unleashing the original Nightcrawler is impressive. Kurt mutated into a monster, struggling to speak and having spent a hundred years locked up still manages to actually hurt Mother Righteous while bellowing a denouncement of her corruption/weaponization of the belief system he started.
Mother Righteous manages to kill the mutated Nightcrawler and uses her mystical influence over them to shut down Wangerine and Vox Ignis hard but as Wagnerine points out this is a Pyrrhic Victory at best for the Lady Essex, the Legion of the Night saw Mother Righteous kill their genetic and spiritual sire while dropping her Faux Affably Evil persona and so are set to turn against her plus Wagnerine escaped and upon realizing Mother Righteous has her child in her power is all set to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
In Immoral X-Men 2, after spending the issue seeing Hope In Sin gleefully wipe out multiple planets and exploring her mindset of mixed Smug Super and Immortal Immaturity, readers get to watch Exodus strand her without powers in the middle of a Chitauri horde, his ice cold denouncement of her as she fights to the death: that the Church does not need a living Messiah to function and that Hope In Sin's petulance is a hinderance is sublime.
Back in Immortal X-Men Sinister explicitly commented that he was and still is scared stiff of Exodus in contrast to his dismissive views of the rest of the Council. This issue shows us why Sinister feels that way.
Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #2:
After #1 where the Brotherhood ended up pawns of Destiny and Orbis Stellaris, they in this issue turn the tables and then some. Destiny thinks she's using the Brotherhood as her chess pieces once again only to be manipulated into acting as a asset and then killed via some clever rules lawyering of the limits of her power. Stellaris is confident his weaponized Dyson sphere and backlog of resources will be way beyond the Brotherhood's abilities to overcome only for them slip in through the door he ordered open and then rip the heart out of his push towards Dominion status by dragging his World Farm and Progenitor race through a Wormhole. Cue Stellaris having a meltdown as it sinks in his life's work was just destroyed.
How the Brotherhood takes the World Farm is epic. Storm, already an Omega Level Mutant with well over a hundred years of experience, powers herself up even further thanks to Khora's abilities then goes a extra step beyond that by using her mystic heritage to invoke divine aide, offering her own life as sacrifice to conjure a cosmic storm that breaks reality tearing open a worm hole that swallows the solar system sized World Farm carrying it and the Brotherhood to safety at the edges of the Universe.
