History Characters / XMenFilmSeriesHellfireClub

!!!'''Film Appearances''': ''Film/XMenFirstClass''

* {{Predecessor Villain}}s: To Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. They share similar goals of Mutant supremacy over normal humans, and the first members to join Erik in the Brotherhood aside from some of the first X-Men happen to be members of the defunct Hellfire Club after Shaw's death.

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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Director, Simon Kinberg says Azazel is Mystique's father in the movie universe when they weren't related and conceived Nightcrawler together in the comics.

* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: The films never establish any direct connection between Azazel and Nightcrawler. They are seemingly just two unrelated mutants who coincidentally share vaguely similar physical appearances and the same powerset. In the comics, Azazel is actually Nightcrawler's biological father.

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* BareYourMidriff: A large portion of her belly shows in her outfit.

!! Hellfire Club

* WouldHurtAChild: Then afterwards, he physically tortured and experimented on him.

* AdaptationalVillainy: This Emma never pulls a HeelFaceTurn and joins the X-Men. [[spoiler: Instead, she joins Magneto's new Brotherhood.]]

* ComboPlatterPowers: Unlike most mutants, she enjoys two completely different and thematically unrelated sets of superpowers. In a case of AdaptationInducedPlotHole, it is explained in the comic books by the concept of "secondary mutations", but as this is never brought up in the films, it is left to assume as just a mutant oddity.

* PrehensileTail: It's strong enough to lift a person and sharp enough to stab them.

* TheBrute: Though not as physical as Azazel, he acts as Shaw's primary muscle and intimidation tactic. Considering he can make tornadoes, he's like a ''Storm Lite''.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While her comic counterpart was part of Xorneto's Brotherhood in the penultimate arc of ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', she had a HeelRealization about how insane Xorneto was and [[HeelFaceTurn turned against him]]. In ''First Class'', she unashamedly helps Shaw and never regrets her actions.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sort of. When she defected and witnessed Shaw's brutal murder of Darwin, she was briefly shown to be shocked and somewhat disturbed at what he did.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Read the LackOfEmpathy section up above.

* LogicalWeakness: As potent as his energy absorption ability is, it is not an automatic power and requires conscious thought. This allows Erik to blindside Shaw and quickly snatch off his helmet, allowing Charles to take over his mind. Without the mental capacity to use his ability, he is unable to stop even a coin moved slowly through his head.

* ManipulativeBastard: In addition to being an extremely powerful, he is very adept at seducing other mutants to his cause with promises of liberation and the opportunity to tap into powers beyond their wildest dreams. However, he's not quite as good at it with normal humans; while he manipulates U.S. and Soviet military officers into helping him, simple persuasion on his part fails miserably, so Shaw falls back on old fashioned threats and intimidation.

* WorfEffect: Despite Erik tremendously improving his powers throughout the film, he stands no chance against Shaw, whose powers are a perfect counter against Erik's.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Given that in the comics his power is depicted by having Shaw growing and the film's producers though it was too [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Hulk-like]], the VFX artists instead did it in a rather unique way: when Shaw absorbs energy, his bodyparts starts bifurcating into multiple swirling copies, before merging back together when Shaw finishes absorbing the energy. For instance, when Shaw absorbs a grenade explosion with his two arms, his arms apparently explode into six arms (looking something like a static version of RapidFireFisticuffs) holding a single fireball, before the arms merge back into two and the fireball disappears.

** While the outline of his powers fits loosely Sebastian Shaw's, its expanded variety of effects, techniques and manifestations are more reminiscent of ComicBook/{{Bishop}}, another known mutant with EnergyAbsorption powers. In the comics, Shaw could absorb only kinetic energy and use it to physically hulk out, but Bishop could absorb much more kinds of energy (kinetic was originally an exception, but he later mastered it a bit too) and do more things with it, like gaining SuperStrength, sustaining his body and throwing energy blasts, just like the film version of Shaw. Also, Bishop manifested it as glowing energy going through his body, not as enlarged muscles, which makes film!Shaw resemble Bishop more than his own comic counterpart.

%%* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Riptide.

%%* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Azazel.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Magneto doesn't mention his death alongside the other deceased Brotherhood members in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', although Mystique does find a autopsy file on him in Trask's office, indicating that he was killed in-between films as well.

!!!'''Played By''': Alex Gonzalez

* OlderThanTheyLook: He looks to be in his late forties or early fifties when Erik first meets him in 1944. He looks more or less the same, or perhaps slightly younger, when they meet again in 1962, a fact that he credits to his EnergyAbsorption powers. He could be even older, as we never learn his true age.

* OlderThanTheyLook: He looks to be in his late forties or early fifties when Erik first meets him in 1944. He looks more or less the same, or perhaps slightly younger, when they meet again in 1962, a fact that he credits to his EnergyAbsorption powers.

* FlatCharacter: He and Azazel have less prominent roles than the other villains; but while the latter is given a lot of personality, as shown when he sadistically murders countless people with a devilish grin on his face, Riptide's entire character can be summed up as "bad guy who stands in place shooting mini-tornadoes out of his hand".