WARNING: There are unmarked spoilers on these sheets for all comics before Sins Of Sinister #1 (i.e. anything published before 2023) and some characters listed here are Walking Spoilers for older stories.
Sins of Sinister is a Bat Family Crossover that takes the setting of the X-Men franchise's Krakoan Age saga into a Bad Future via a series of three Time Skips. Ten years in the future Mister Sinister has corrupted Krakoa and Earth. A hundred years in the future the mutants of Earth have become a destructive, merciless interstellar empire. And a thousand years in the future... it may be even worse.
The crossover's future settings feature a mix of new characters and older versions of existing X-Men characters. Both are featured on this sheet. Where relevant, existing characters also have a link to their present-day counterpart's character page.
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The Quiet Council
In general
- The Unfettered: The Sinister taint doesn't enable Sinister to control the others, much to his eventual chagrin; instead, it heightens their most negative and positive traits through Sinister's own scheming, amoral and sociopathic filter until they eventually become the worst possible version of themselves:
- Xavier retains his genuine belief in unity between mutants and humans and his belief in embracing and showing mercy to his opponents, but his manipulative and arrogant tendencies are heightened until he becomes a narcissistic monster intent on forcing everyone to mentally assimilate into his worldview.
- Emma keeps her genuine devotion to her students, but when coupled with her sadistic tendencies this is warped into a kind of BDSM My Beloved Smother form.
- Hope's immaturity is heightened, resulting in her becoming a kind of spoiled Alpha Bitch brat, and her tendency to be abrasive and blunt towards others becomes a kind of constant snide contempt for everything and everyone. She also loses her reservations about being worshipped as some kind of mutant messiah and begins to narcissistically revel in the attention. Her tactical abilities become a kind of vicious bloodlust on an omnicidal scale.
- Exodus remains as fanatically devoted to his mutant religion as ever, but becomes a lot more ruthless and even more fundamentalist. He retains his faith in Hope the messiah — but this no longer extends to Hope the actual person...
Mister Sinister
Nathaniel Essex
For tropes regarding his present day counterpart, see Mister Sinister's entry on the X-Men: Sinister page.
- All for Nothing: Destiny tells him he's not going to get what he wants, but he refuses to listen. She's right. Sinister tries achieving Dominionhood, only to find another Sinister's beat him to the punch.
- The Atoner: At first, ten years into the Bad Future, Sinister just hated the fact that he couldn’t control the people he'd infected. Then a century later, he tells Rasputin IV how he'd realised that his actions destroyed the beautiful paradise that was Krakoa, and that they need the Moira clones so he can reset it back to its starting point. Nine hundred years after that, she discovers that he's not repentant at all, and was lying about his motives. She doesn’t take it well.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Narrowly averted. He almost accomplishes his goal of achieving Dominion and would have were it not for the fact that another Sinister had already achieved it before him.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He infected the world with himself in an effort to rule it, but his initial infectees had other ideas, such as creating an empire to expand across the stars. Within ten years he's Demoted to Dragon.
- Brits Love Tea: One of his minor annoyances is that even in a world he's created, he can't get a good cuppa for nothing.
- Dirty Coward: As ever, Sinister does not fight fair and when he finds himself outmatched, he more often than not resorts to bargaining for his life or outright begging.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Actually seems genuinely remorseful, in as much as he's capable of it, at seeing the last Doombot reduced to a Broken Record.
- Ignored Epiphany: Lampshaded; both Moira and Ironfire are struck by the fact that, despite everything that happens, Sinister goes through 1000+ years of hellish dystopia and fails to learn a single thing from it.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Invokes this in order to convince Moira and Ironfire to allow him to upload information for his past self to learn from. He may be bad, but if Xavier wins, they will be stuck in this timeline with no way to change it. It works both times.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- By the year 1000+, events have clearly taken their toll on Sinister; he remains as self-serving, venal and narcissistic as ever, but is clearly a lot more weary and beaten-down, is less theatrical and posturing, and is as close to being regretful and remorseful about what has happened as he is capable of getting (in that it's largely because of how it's affected him).
- When Sinister is finally sentenced to The Pit after the timeline is restored, it is noted by a couple of members of the Quiet Council that his desperate pleading and ranting seemed a lot more sincere and less theatrical than it otherwise should under the circumstances. This is because the one thing he has learned from the future is that another version of himself has already achieved Dominion and they're all in terrible, terrible danger, including himself. And it's heavily implied to be Mother Righteous, who has already begun worming her way into the confidence of the Quiet Council in the current timeline...
- Shoo Out the Clowns: A self-inflicted case. The modern Sinister made himself a pop culture-referencing machine but evidently tweaked that all out by year 1000+.Moira: You've changed.
Sinister: I have, a little. Did a few tweaks. Pop culture references don't really work when there hasn't been pop culture for nearly a millenium. - Villainous Breakdown: The last few minutes of his life are spent in total panic. Because he's learned that a Sinister has somehow achieved Dominionhood (i.e. basically godhood) before he could... and to make matters worse, the Sinister who accomplished it isn't him.
Xavier-In-Sin
Charles Xavier
For tropes regarding his present day counterpart, see his page.
- Assimilation Plot: Nine centuries further into the Sinister corrupted timeline, Xavier runs The Dream, where he assimilates every vulnerable mind into a hive mind under his control. All the other factions of the former Quiet Council have psi-shielding specifically to block him.
- Character Filibuster: By Year 1000, he is apparently incapable of not giving speeches about "The Dream".
- Dirty Business: Subverted. He acts heartbroken that he has to do such awful things in service of the Dream, but he's a full-blown villain simply doing villainous things to secure power.
- Heroism Motive Speech: He gets a focus issue in Immortal X-Men #10 as a prelude to Sins of Sinister where he has an internal monologue about his motivations. How he handpicked each roster of X-Men to fulfill specific purposes, how he'd be far more dangerous than Magneto if was immoral, and how thanks to him no one would ever think to start a nuclear war. All this before it's revealed he was corrupted by Sinister’s tampering.
- It's All About Me: He wishes Magneto was still alive but admits that it’s so his old friend could see that he was right. The Sinister infection has apparently erased any trace of humility or genuine selflessness Charles may have once possessed, leaving behind a full blown narcissist.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He truly believes he's being Necessarily Evil but no, he's just evil and self-righteous.
Emma Sinister
Emma Sinister
For tropes regarding her present day counterpart, see her page.
- And I Must Scream: Her conflict with a resurrected Storm ends with her Reduced to Dust that Beast implies is still alive.
- Body to Jewel: By the time of Immoral issue #3, she's managed to become the Red Diamond, living embodiment of the Gem of Cyttorak.
- Chekhov's Skill: She practices sleeping in her diamond form in her spotlight issue of Immortal X-Men, which comes in handy in Immoral X-Men when Sinister tries to stab her in her sleep.
- Combat Stilettos: Lampshaded when she demands her "highest heels" on declaring all-out-war.
- Evil Versus Evil: By the time of Immoral #3, she's at war with Xavier's faction, the Dream.
- Mama Bear: Still retains Emma's protectiveness of her students, twisted and warped and without even a shred of restraint.
- Sadist: A very proud one that loves prolonging physically and mentally dominating her victims.
Hope-In-Sin
Hope Summers
"Life's a bitch, and then she shoots you through the head."
Hope was the first mutant to be born after the Scarlet Witch's reality-warping 'Decimation', with various factions immediately racing to destroy her or claim her as a new messiah. Cable ended the feuding by taking Hope into the future and raising her there - she eventually returned to the present day as an adult. Hope's powers allow her to copy the mutant powers of others, or to help other mutants work together. — Hope, Immoral X-Men #2
On Krakoa, she became the key member of the Resurrective Immortality team - 'The Five' - and was later voted onto the ruling Quiet Council. It was eventually revealed that her powers also stopped Sinister from corrupting Krakoa's resurrection system... at least until he killed Hope herself. When she was resurrected by the Five she was infected by Sinister's tampering, and everyone resurrected after Hope resumed her role in the Five was no longer shielded by her power. As Hope-In-Sin, she's hot-blooded and gleefully murderous, taking needless risks and enjoying the genocidal wars she leads for the Quiet Council.
For tropes regarding her present day counterpart, see her entry on the Generation Hope page.
- Cyborg: A self made cyborg. Partially out of boredom and partially because she thought she might as well be the cyborg of the family now that Cable has merged with Xilo and become a pile of worms.
- Jerkass: Hope always tended to be rude and blunt towards pretty much everyone who wasn't Cable. Sinister's personality tampering has ramped this all the way up, with Hope now openly contemptuous to pretty much everyone.
- Human Resources: While she can't be duplicated like others, cloned body parts are serviceable replacements for The Five, allowing the Resurrection Protocols to be expanded into a full-on industrial complex. After she dies, Exodus keeps her cloned body parts as reliquaries for his religion built around her.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Hope declared Sinister no longer useful after he created the first five-mutant Chimera and stated that no further combinations could be achieved. Not long after that, Exodus betrays her for the same reason, as he feels she's childish and petulant, and a messiah is more use dead than alive.
- Narcissist: Hope hated the way Exodus treated her like a messiah before. Sinisterized Hope, meanwhile, positively adores people worshipping her.
- Only One Me Allowed Right Now: A quirk of Hope's powers is that she finds only one autonomous copy of herself is capable of existing, much like Jean Grey, to her chagrin.
Exodus
Bennet du Paris
For tropes regarding his present day counterpart, see his page.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: When souped up by an entire planet's worth of belief, Exodus becomes gargantuan.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Bennet's power is fuelled by faith. Come the thousandth year of Krakoa, he has whole planets of people kept in pods, locked in endless loops of faith to empower him.
- Fantastic Nuke: His status by the thousandth year as a duplicated Person of Mass Destruction kept from causing mutually assured destruction between fanatical governments by treaties is directly comparable to nuclear proliferation and the Cold War.
- Other Me Annoys Me: By the thousandth year, there are multiple Exodus (Exodii?) around, and due to their fundamentalist outlook, they've all schismed from one another, kept at bay by treaties. But only just.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He tells Hope that she's no longer required, as he finds her childish and petulant, her church has built up his his power and a messiah is more use dead than alive.
Kate Pryde
One of the Quiet Council of Krakoa, during the second time skip Kate goes rogue from them, establishing herself as a pirate queen.
- The Exile: Eventually wound up exiled from Krakoa's territory. She just set herself up as a space pirate queen.
- Fallen Hero: Once, she was one of the more nicer and moral of the Quiet Council. Rasputin, who has only ever seen the long-fallen Kate's handiwork, finds this hard to believe.
- Make an Example of Them: Pryde's fleets like to kill anyone who enters their turf, leaving the bodies floating around as a warning and boast.
- Noodle Incident: Exactly what she did to get exiled is never said.
- Out of Focus: The Pryde, as a faction, are still active a thousand years into the future. Kate herself is unseen after the initial time skips, though, and no longer plays a major part in the story.
- Pirate Girl: One who styles herself as "Pirate Queen of the Void".
The Empire of the Red Diamond
Rasputin IV
Rasputin IV
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Brotherhood Of Mutants
In general
The last of the Arakkii mutants who fight against Sinister’s Empire
- La Résistance: The rebellion that fights to free the universe from Sinister and avenge Arakko.
Storm
Ororo Munroe
For tropes regarding her present day counterpart, see her page.
- Big Good: Leader of the resistance against the Sinisterized Empire.
- Chekhov's Skill: She's explored her longstanding mystical heritage in her old age and applied it at a crucial moment for the Brotherhood.
- Good Is Not Soft: Ororo can be damn ruthless when she needs to be. She may be the closest thing to a Big Good the setting has, but she will kill if need be. And indeed, has Destiny killed so she won't betray Storm's goal.
- Handicapped Badass: Ten years into the future, Ororo was literally stabbed in the back by Mystique. From what we see of her 90 years later, the injury left her chairbound with permanent disabilities. It doesn't make her any less powerful.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Unfortunately, casting such a big spell for her plan costs her her life.
- Stronger with Age: Due to tapping into her mystical potential and combining it with her mutant abilities, she is at her absolute peak power-wise when she's old.
Ironfire
Jon Ironfire
For tropes regarding his present day counterpart (introduced after Sins of Sinister ended), see his entry on the X-Men: Arakko page.
- Blood Iron: A very literal variant. Jon's mutant powers give him molten metal for blood, which he can then shape into weapons. By the +100 era he's also got a customised starfighter which uses his blood to interface with the controls.
- Extra-ore-dinary: Has molten metal blood which he can shape into weapons or armor.
- Grumpy Old Man: His Future Badass self is old, tired, angry, and still incredibly brave and resourceful despite his age and weariness. In the end, all he can muster after Sinister's well-deserved, hard-earned, and humiliating defeat is a subdued yet scornful final insult.
- An Ice Person: At the last minute, Sinister gives him a temporary version of Iceman's powers, to give Jon a massive boost in power to fight Xavier.
- Long-Lived: When Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants revisits Jon a century into the future, he's barely aged. A thousand years later, and he has, but he's still kicking.
- My Greatest Failure: At some point during the "Genesis War", he didn't listen to Storm and someone died because of it. His loyalty towards her is his penance.
- Mysterious Past: Storm & the Brotherhood only hints at his background, mentioning that he made a name for himself in the five years before Ororo realized the entire Quiet Council was compromised. His past isn't revealed until after the event, when his present-day counterpart is introduced in X-Men Red (2022).
- Number Two: For the first hundred years, Jon seems to be Storm’s right hand man. For the next 900, after her death, he's her successor as leader. In the final +1,000 era, he jumps at the chance to resurrect her and resume his old role, even if it means a shaky alliance with Sinister.
- Sole Survivor: One of the last survivors of the destruction of Arakko / Mars. He's also the last of the Brotherhood left standing by the time everything ends, and thanks to Sinister one of the last Mutants left anywhere.
Cable
Nathan Summers
For tropes regarding Cable's present day counterpart, see his page. For tropes regarding Xilo's present day counterpart, see his entry on the X-Men: Arakko page.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Mentioned in Storm and the Brotherhood #3 as having died at some point in the last thousand years during a fight with the Orphan-Madrox.
- Fusion Dance: Merged with Xilo the first defender, replacing his cyborg elements with something more organic.
Storm II
A last ditch effort by the Brotherhood working in concert with Sinister to revive Ororo, in the hopes she will save them from the advance of Emma. However, without the Krakoan memory backups, the process only works so well.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Invoked by her. She may not know the limits of her powers, but this also means she doesn't know where those limits are. Or as she puts it, she hasn't learnt how to lose.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: She, a freshly resurrected young woman with barely any memories, goes up against Emma Frost, who has now become the physical avatar of Cyttorak, and wins. However, her lack of experience prevents her from thinking of shielding herself from cosmic radiation, which kills her.
- Came Back Wrong: Yes and no. She's Ororo, resurrected into the prime of her life and with no Sinister corruption, but without the memories and experiences of the original Ororo.
- Shock and Awe: Manages to use her powers to generate a space storm big enough to fry Emma's giant Sentinel, and reduce Emma herself to tiny fragments.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only lasts a single issue.
The Nightkin
In General
- All Your Powers Combined: Each of them combines Nightcrawler's teleportation (and appearance) with the powers of another mutant.
- Meet the New Boss: Mother Righteous has Vox Ignis free them from Sinister's control solely to bring them into service of her mysterious agenda, likely to become a Dominion Intellect first. Instead of genetic brainwashing she uses mundane cult methods.
- Slave Race: Engineered en masses by Sinister as a highly mobile squad of enforcers, disposable by their nature as clones.
- Two-Donor Clone: Each of the Nightkin is a mutant Chimera, created from Nightcrawler's DNA plus another mutant or superhuman donor.
Wagnerine
Wagnerine
- All for Nothing: She spends nearly 1000 years fighting against Mother Righteous, corrupted Mutantkind and Sinister trying to get her child back. And she does for all of 10 minutes after with the timeline is erased.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Has a concealed claw at the end of her tail.
- The Leader: She’s the leader of the Legion of the Night.
- Mama Bear: The last straw in turning her against Mother Righteous is her newborn child's disappearance being used to write new dogma for Mother's cult of personality. After learning they're still alive and being held captive by Mother Righteous, she'll stop at nothing to take Mother down.
- Two-Donor Clone: Like all of the Nightkin, she was created from Nightcrawler’s DNA plus another donor - in Wagnerine's case, it was mixed with Laura Kinney's.
Wallcrawler
Wallcrawler
- Dying as Yourself: After feeling Sinister's programming reasserting itself, he makes a Heroic Sacrifice, volunteering for a suicidal recon mission.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Of course the DNA of two of the nicest guys in Marvel would create someone who'd do this. Unfortunately it’s for a pointless cause that only benefitted Mother Righteous.
- Two-Donor Clone: Like all of the Nightkin, he was created from Kurt Wagner’s DNA plus another donor. In Wallcrawler's case, the second donor was the non-mutant Peter Parker. Unfortunately, that gives him less resistance to Sinister's corruption than his comrades with two mutant donors.
