YMMV / X-Treme X-Men (2001)

• Complete Monster: "Schism", "Intifada", & "Prisoner of Fire" arcs: Elias Bogan is a reclusive psychic billionaire and consummate mind-rapist who takes a particular interest in breaking the X-Men. Elias Bogan is the original inspiration for the Hellfire Club and its very first Lord Imperial, which already makes him responsible for all the blood they've shed before he even appears on-page. Bogan has a special proclivity for turning people into his shattered "pets", and he repeatedly attempts to subject the X-Men to mental torture and brainwashing, attempting to make them kill their own allies under his control and promising he'll rewire their minds to have them love and beg for the abuse he puts them through. The sickest incident comes when Bogan convinces a young mutant named Jeffrey Garrett and his desperate family to sign on an experiment with the promise of money. Instead, Bogan tortured Jeffrey's entire family until the point Jeffrey had to euthanize them, a fact Bogan cruelly mocks Jeffrey over later. Bogan only takes pleasure in the pain and destruction of others, and has filled an entire library with the archives and knowledge of sheer cruelty he's gathered over the centuries he's been alive.