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* ActuallyNotAVampire: In his early appearances as a creepy private-practice physician whose patients experience anemic symptoms, the still human-seeming Karl Lykos gives off ''all'' the classical warning signs for some kind of vampire or other. Actually, he's a ''much more bizarre'' mutant monster. As the intro paragraph specifies, he is also an ''inverted meta-example'', with the creators trying to make a villain who was as vampire-like as possible without [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar upsetting the editors]].
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: In his early appearances as a creepy private-practice physician whose patients experience anemic symptoms, the still human-seeming Karl Lykos gives off ''all'' the classical warning signs for some kind of vampire or other. Actually, he's a ''much more bizarre'' mutant monster. As the intro paragraph specifies, he is also an ''inverted meta-example'', with the creators trying to make a villain who was as vampire-like as possible without [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar upsetting the editors]].editors.
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!!!'''Species:''' Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
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!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the headHuman
-->''"Yes, there we are. Hiding in plain sight."''
The brother ofProject Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he Trask, Simon also felt mutantkind was ready a threat to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one,humanity, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though felt more strongly about it. He founded a version of him fake Mutant Liberation Front, which was later briefly actually humans pretending to be Mutants, which brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.Simon into a confrontation with... the Punisher.
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-->''"Yes, there we are. Hiding in plain sight."''
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* TheBadGuyWins: Simon succeeds in his goal in Fraction's run, raising anti-Mutant hysteria in San Fran to such heights the X-Men collectively say "screw it" and move offshore.
* TheBusCameBack: After a brief run in John Ostrander's ''Punisher'' in 1997, he disappeared for around a decade, turning up in Matt Fraction's run on ''Uncanny X-Men''. Then he got put right back on the bus.
* FalseFlagOperation: His specialty.
* FantasticRacism: Another Trask who hates Mutants. Whether he knows his nephew and niece were Mutants is unknown. On his reappearance in ''Uncanny'', he's leading the charge on getting a law passed that makes it illegal for Mutants to reproduce.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Introduced a full three decades after his brother's death.
* RouguesGalleryTransplant: Actually has spent more time tussling with the Punisher than with the X-Men, in terms of total issues spent.
* TheVirus: On his reappearance, he's gained the ability to infect people with nanosentinels.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: During the Utopia period, he was beaten up and arrested by Norman Osborn's X-Men. That's the last anyone's heard of him.
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[[folder:Steven Lang]]
!!'''Doctor Steven Lang'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Simon succeeds in his goal in Fraction's run, raising anti-Mutant hysteria in San Fran to such heights the X-Men collectively say "screw it" and move offshore.
* TheBusCameBack: After a brief run in John Ostrander's ''Punisher'' in 1997, he disappeared for around a decade, turning up in Matt Fraction's run on ''Uncanny X-Men''. Then he got put right back on the bus.
* FalseFlagOperation: His specialty.
* FantasticRacism: Another Trask who hates Mutants. Whether he knows his nephew and niece were Mutants is unknown. On his reappearance in ''Uncanny'', he's leading the charge on getting a law passed that makes it illegal for Mutants to reproduce.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Introduced a full three decades after his brother's death.
* RouguesGalleryTransplant: Actually has spent more time tussling with the Punisher than with the X-Men, in terms of total issues spent.
* TheVirus: On his reappearance, he's gained the ability to infect people with nanosentinels.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: During the Utopia period, he was beaten up and arrested by Norman Osborn's X-Men. That's the last anyone's heard of him.
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[[folder:Steven Lang]]
!!'''Doctor Steven Lang'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
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->"To a '''''mutant''''', Ororo--Sentinel's another name for '''''death!'''''"--Banshee
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Yes, believe it or not, Amahl Farouk was the son of a beloved merchant. As a boy in 16th Century Egypt, he would use his powers to protect the commoner citizens and idolized his father. But when his father fell to a plague he in turn fell prey to the Shadow King with promises he would NeverHurtAgain.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Yes, believe it or not, Amahl Farouk was the son of a beloved merchant. As a boy in 16th Century Egypt, he would use his powers to protect the commoner citizens and idolized his father. But when his father fell to a plague he in turn fell prey to the Shadow King with promises he would NeverHurtAgain.NeverBeHurtAgain.
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* EvilMentor: He's revealed to have taken No-Girl, Anole, Cosmar and Rain Boy under his wing and there is no way that is a good thing.
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!!'''Rita Wayword / Spiral'''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
!!!'''Debut:''' ''Longshot'' #1 (1985)
-> ''Hers is a name that men whisper as she kills them.''
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One of the most loyal warrior-slaves of Mojo, Spiral is his [[TheDragon Dragon]] and an essential part of his operations. In her first appearance, she was sent to retrieve ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. She later had a stint as a member of Freedom Force, the US government's version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In the ''Shattershot'' storyline, it turned out she was Rita Ricochet (Longshot's former friend and lover) all along, brainwashed into becoming Spiral by Mojo and her future self.
!!!'''Debut:''' ''Longshot'' #1 (1985)
-> ''Hers is a name that men whisper as she kills them.''
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Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
!!!'''Debut:'''''Longshot'' #1 (1985)
-> ''Hers is''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, aname that men whisper as she kills them.''
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Onesecret federal program to investigate the biology of the most loyal warrior-slaves of Mojo, Spiral is Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his [[TheDragon Dragon]] report, he took matters into his own hands and an essential began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of hisoperations. In her first appearance, she was sent to retrieve ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. She later had a stint as a member of Freedom Force, the US government's version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In the ''Shattershot'' storyline, it turned out she was Rita Ricochet (Longshot's former friend and lover) all along, brainwashed into becoming Spiral by Mojo and her future self.schemes.
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* AscendedExtra: Art Adams designed her as just another of Mojo's lackeys pursuing Longshot, but Ann Nocenti liked the look of her and decided to give her a more prominent role.
* AxCrazy: She hides it well behind her snark, but Spiral is ''completely'' off the deep end.
* TheBaroness: Tends to take this role in storyline where she strikes out on her own.
* BerserkButton: Has a ''major'' grudge against the Mojoworld scientist Arize, who invented the technology that empowered the Spineless Ones. She can also get this way at times regarding Longshot, but when it comes to Arize, [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/49601/4214217-spiral_1.jpg well]]...
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, surprisingly enough. Yes, she was roboticized by Mojo, and probably unwillingly too. But it was only a small part of how Mojo was able to turn her so completely insane.
* {{Cyborg}}: Three of her arms are at least partially robotic.
* DarkActionGirl: She was one of the first prominent female X-villains.
* DeadpanSnarker: She and Major Domo are the only Mojo minions who dare mouth off to their boss.
* TheDragon: Mojo may be strong, but he's also nearly immobile, counting on the acrobatics and swordplay of Spiral to keep his enemies at bay.
* DrivenToMadness: A ''major'' case of BreakTheCutie -- when Mojo captures Ricochet Rita, the first thing he does is tie her to the prow of the interdimensional airship he was using to get around at the time. Then he forces her eyes open so that she has to watch the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Wildways]]. Predictably, this causes her to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* DualWielding: Three times over!
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Spiral recently became the caretaker of a young mutant girl named Ginny. She seems to be one of the few people Spiral genuinely cares about at this point.
* EvilSorcerer: To the point where when Comicbook/DoctorStrange stepped down as Sorcerer Supreme of the entire Marvel Universe, she was mentioned as a contender for the job.
** MagicDance: She dances to cast her more complicated spells.
** MagicKnight: A sorceress and technological genius as well as an expert hand-to-hand (-to-hand-to-hand) combatant.
** {{Teleportation}}: This is her primary utility to Mojo -- [[InSeriesNickname the bloat]] can defend himself fairly well, but he is completely reliant on Spiral's spellcasting to traverse between dimensions.
* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: She uses the energy of the dimensional crossroads known as "the Wildways" to power her spells.
* FatalFlaw: Spiral has powers and combat ability on a level that allow her to give Phoenix Force hosts a challenge in battle, but her SmugSuper attitude often leads to her being beaten by heroes less powerful than herself, either because she toys with them too long or because she lets herself get distracted at a critical moment.
* GreenEyedMonster: The original ''Longshot'' mini showed her as being very jealous and resentful of ordinary humans, seeing herself as [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer a freak compared to them]]. Mojo states outright this is why he gave Spiral her extra arms.
* HazyFeelTurn: After being stranded by Mojo one too many times, she decided to settle down and stay out of superhero conflicts.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Frequently aids the heroes, especially after her WolverinePublicity became known to the writers. Amusingly enough, she's more than once lent her six hands to the {{Trope Namer|s}} himself.
* HollywoodCyborg: Aside from being one of these herself, she has a side hobby of turning other people into them via her Body Shoppe.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Or rather possession, as Rogue and Nocturne were both unable to wrest control of Spiral's body. In Rogue's case, she was the one possessed instead, much as Mr. Sinister did to her, while in Nocturne's case Spiral was actually able to fool her into thinking she had been possessed. It's unknown if a straight up mind control attempt would work.
* ItAmusedMe: Her motivation for joining the government team Freedom Force, led by Mystique and consisting mostly of [[BoxedCrook boxed crooks]], was never really clear- but it seems to have been mainly "bored and had nothing better to do".
* KickTheDog: Shortly after arriving in our reality she rips the shawl off an elderly woman and walks on the poor woman's head while making cracks about her 'pathetic face'.
* MadScientist: In the Mojoverse, she runs the Body Shoppe, where villains (including Lady Deathstrike) get cybernetic makeovers.
* MadeOfIron: Her profiles mention that the transformation Mojo put her through also gave her "hardened skin" which lets her absorb way more punishment than she should be able to take.
* MeaningfulName: After being brainwashed by Mojo, Ricochet Rita ''spiraled'' completely down the rabbit hole of madness.
* MoralityPet: Shatterstar serves as this to her from time to time.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: She has huge breasts.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: She has six arms, three of which are cybernetic replacements.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Not originally one, but became one after her transformation into Spiral.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Well, more like Swordswoman Sorceress Mutate Cyborg in her particular case.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Longshot. Not by choice, since Mojo messed with her mind.
* PsychoSupporter: She's Mojo's most effective minion and is totally nuts.
* PsychoticSmirk: Noticing [[AxCrazy a theme]] to these tropes yet?
* PunchClockVillain: She doesn't have any particular grudge against the X-Men, instead just going after them because it's her Mojo-mandated job.
* {{Retcon}}: Neither Ann Nocenti (who created her) nor Chris Claremont (who popularized her by making her an X-Men antagonist) intended Spiral to be an evil version of Ricochet Rita. This retconned origin story was done by Fabian Nicieza in 1992, seven years after Spiral's first appearance.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: She was once one of Longshot's friends, and his lover. Then Mojo drove her insane and turned her into his servant.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: Like everyone from Mojoworld, she has a lot of off sayings. She doesn't kill people, she cancels them.
* ServileSnarker: She's not afraid to snark off at Mojo.
* SixthRanger: For Freedom Force. In keeping with the trope's spirit, she is ''by far'' the team's most powerful member.
* TheSoulless: In ''ComicBook/MrAndMrsX'' it was revealed that Mojo removed Spiral's soul from her body as part of the procedure that reforged her into his minion. With the aid of the titular Mr. and Mrs. X (Gambit and Rogue), she was able to reclaim her soul from Mojo and break away from his control seemingly once and for all.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Through unknown (but likely mystical) means, she is always aware (or is alerted of it) whenever someone speaks her name. Predictably, Wolverine is dismissive when warned of this ability by Mystique -- her name is, after all, a common word, spoken hundreds if not thousands of times per day, so how would Spiral know? Cue her instantly appearing and telling him it's all about context and tone of voice to indicate to her whether someone is referring to her or not.
* StableTimeLoop: Ultimately, how she came into Mojo's service involved this, as one of the people who helped Rita become Spiral was Spiral herself.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's 5'10"/178cm tall and certainly attractive.
* TheStarscream: During her time in Freedom Force, Spiral considered harnessing the power of Rachel Summers to liberate herself from Mojo. This was dropped and forgotten when story writer Creator/ChrisClaremont left the X-books.
* StatusQuoIsGod: She hates her boss and frequently works to undermine him but always goes back to working for him again in the next Mojoworld story.
* TragicVillain: She never ''asked'' to get driven insane and re-purposed into a deadly enforcer for an evil cosmic entertainment mogul. But she ''is'' insane, and dangerous as hell.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: She does this from time to time to guests of the Body Shoppe and may have been a victim of it herself.
* VainSorceress: Subverted; she uses magic but isn't particularly vain and has no problems at all with getting her many hands dirty.
* VillainousFriendship: She has a pretty solid relationship with Mystique and her old Freedom Force teammates, though even they know how nuts she is.
* WeaponOfChoice: Swords. [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Six of them]], to be precise.
* WouldHurtAChild: In her very first appearance, where she's just one of several nameless Mojoworld {{Mooks}} who've kidnapped a woman's baby. Her distinctive appearance led to her returning two issues later as a proper villain.
* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind the Man]]: For anyone who gets a makeover in her Body Shoppe. 'Satisfied clients' include the Hellfire Club mercenaries Cole, Macon and Reese, Lady Deathstrike, and Psylocke (who admittedly wasn't [[UnwillingRoboticisation wasn't nearly as satisfied]] as the others).
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[[folder:Steven Lang]]
!!'''Doctor Steven Lang'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
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* AxCrazy: She hides it well behind her snark, but Spiral is ''completely'' off the deep end.
* TheBaroness: Tends to take this role in storyline where she strikes out on her own.
* BerserkButton: Has a ''major'' grudge against the Mojoworld scientist Arize, who invented the technology that empowered the Spineless Ones. She can also get this way at times regarding Longshot, but when it comes to Arize, [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/49601/4214217-spiral_1.jpg well]]...
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, surprisingly enough. Yes, she was roboticized by Mojo, and probably unwillingly too. But it was only a small part of how Mojo was able to turn her so completely insane.
* {{Cyborg}}: Three of her arms are at least partially robotic.
* DarkActionGirl: She was one of the first prominent female X-villains.
* DeadpanSnarker: She and Major Domo are the only Mojo minions who dare mouth off to their boss.
* TheDragon: Mojo may be strong, but he's also nearly immobile, counting on the acrobatics and swordplay of Spiral to keep his enemies at bay.
* DrivenToMadness: A ''major'' case of BreakTheCutie -- when Mojo captures Ricochet Rita, the first thing he does is tie her to the prow of the interdimensional airship he was using to get around at the time. Then he forces her eyes open so that she has to watch the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Wildways]]. Predictably, this causes her to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* DualWielding: Three times over!
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Spiral recently became the caretaker of a young mutant girl named Ginny. She seems to be one of the few people Spiral genuinely cares about at this point.
* EvilSorcerer: To the point where when Comicbook/DoctorStrange stepped down as Sorcerer Supreme of the entire Marvel Universe, she was mentioned as a contender for the job.
** MagicDance: She dances to cast her more complicated spells.
** MagicKnight: A sorceress and technological genius as well as an expert hand-to-hand (-to-hand-to-hand) combatant.
** {{Teleportation}}: This is her primary utility to Mojo -- [[InSeriesNickname the bloat]] can defend himself fairly well, but he is completely reliant on Spiral's spellcasting to traverse between dimensions.
* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: She uses the energy of the dimensional crossroads known as "the Wildways" to power her spells.
* FatalFlaw: Spiral has powers and combat ability on a level that allow her to give Phoenix Force hosts a challenge in battle, but her SmugSuper attitude often leads to her being beaten by heroes less powerful than herself, either because she toys with them too long or because she lets herself get distracted at a critical moment.
* GreenEyedMonster: The original ''Longshot'' mini showed her as being very jealous and resentful of ordinary humans, seeing herself as [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer a freak compared to them]]. Mojo states outright this is why he gave Spiral her extra arms.
* HazyFeelTurn: After being stranded by Mojo one too many times, she decided to settle down and stay out of superhero conflicts.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Frequently aids the heroes, especially after her WolverinePublicity became known to the writers. Amusingly enough, she's more than once lent her six hands to the {{Trope Namer|s}} himself.
* HollywoodCyborg: Aside from being one of these herself, she has a side hobby of turning other people into them via her Body Shoppe.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Or rather possession, as Rogue and Nocturne were both unable to wrest control of Spiral's body. In Rogue's case, she was the one possessed instead, much as Mr. Sinister did to her, while in Nocturne's case Spiral was actually able to fool her into thinking she had been possessed. It's unknown if a straight up mind control attempt would work.
* ItAmusedMe: Her motivation for joining the government team Freedom Force, led by Mystique and consisting mostly of [[BoxedCrook boxed crooks]], was never really clear- but it seems to have been mainly "bored and had nothing better to do".
* KickTheDog: Shortly after arriving in our reality she rips the shawl off an elderly woman and walks on the poor woman's head while making cracks about her 'pathetic face'.
* MadScientist: In the Mojoverse, she runs the Body Shoppe, where villains (including Lady Deathstrike) get cybernetic makeovers.
* MadeOfIron: Her profiles mention that the transformation Mojo put her through also gave her "hardened skin" which lets her absorb way more punishment than she should be able to take.
* MeaningfulName: After being brainwashed by Mojo, Ricochet Rita ''spiraled'' completely down the rabbit hole of madness.
* MoralityPet: Shatterstar serves as this to her from time to time.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: She has huge breasts.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: She has six arms, three of which are cybernetic replacements.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Not originally one, but became one after her transformation into Spiral.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Well, more like Swordswoman Sorceress Mutate Cyborg in her particular case.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Longshot. Not by choice, since Mojo messed with her mind.
* PsychoSupporter: She's Mojo's most effective minion and is totally nuts.
* PsychoticSmirk: Noticing [[AxCrazy a theme]] to these tropes yet?
* PunchClockVillain: She doesn't have any particular grudge against the X-Men, instead just going after them because it's her Mojo-mandated job.
* {{Retcon}}: Neither Ann Nocenti (who created her) nor Chris Claremont (who popularized her by making her an X-Men antagonist) intended Spiral to be an evil version of Ricochet Rita. This retconned origin story was done by Fabian Nicieza in 1992, seven years after Spiral's first appearance.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: She was once one of Longshot's friends, and his lover. Then Mojo drove her insane and turned her into his servant.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: Like everyone from Mojoworld, she has a lot of off sayings. She doesn't kill people, she cancels them.
* ServileSnarker: She's not afraid to snark off at Mojo.
* SixthRanger: For Freedom Force. In keeping with the trope's spirit, she is ''by far'' the team's most powerful member.
* TheSoulless: In ''ComicBook/MrAndMrsX'' it was revealed that Mojo removed Spiral's soul from her body as part of the procedure that reforged her into his minion. With the aid of the titular Mr. and Mrs. X (Gambit and Rogue), she was able to reclaim her soul from Mojo and break away from his control seemingly once and for all.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Through unknown (but likely mystical) means, she is always aware (or is alerted of it) whenever someone speaks her name. Predictably, Wolverine is dismissive when warned of this ability by Mystique -- her name is, after all, a common word, spoken hundreds if not thousands of times per day, so how would Spiral know? Cue her instantly appearing and telling him it's all about context and tone of voice to indicate to her whether someone is referring to her or not.
* StableTimeLoop: Ultimately, how she came into Mojo's service involved this, as one of the people who helped Rita become Spiral was Spiral herself.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's 5'10"/178cm tall and certainly attractive.
* TheStarscream: During her time in Freedom Force, Spiral considered harnessing the power of Rachel Summers to liberate herself from Mojo. This was dropped and forgotten when story writer Creator/ChrisClaremont left the X-books.
* StatusQuoIsGod: She hates her boss and frequently works to undermine him but always goes back to working for him again in the next Mojoworld story.
* TragicVillain: She never ''asked'' to get driven insane and re-purposed into a deadly enforcer for an evil cosmic entertainment mogul. But she ''is'' insane, and dangerous as hell.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: She does this from time to time to guests of the Body Shoppe and may have been a victim of it herself.
* VainSorceress: Subverted; she uses magic but isn't particularly vain and has no problems at all with getting her many hands dirty.
* VillainousFriendship: She has a pretty solid relationship with Mystique and her old Freedom Force teammates, though even they know how nuts she is.
* WeaponOfChoice: Swords. [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Six of them]], to be precise.
* WouldHurtAChild: In her very first appearance, where she's just one of several nameless Mojoworld {{Mooks}} who've kidnapped a woman's baby. Her distinctive appearance led to her returning two issues later as a proper villain.
* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind the Man]]: For anyone who gets a makeover in her Body Shoppe. 'Satisfied clients' include the Hellfire Club mercenaries Cole, Macon and Reese, Lady Deathstrike, and Psylocke (who admittedly wasn't [[UnwillingRoboticisation wasn't nearly as satisfied]] as the others).
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!!'''Doctor Steven Lang'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/887834_steven_02.jpg]]
!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
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* HotChickWithASword: Six times over!
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* GreenAndMean: His skin is green and he's a dangerous pterodactyl man.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Perhaps fitting for a SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron just ''can't shut up'' about how evil he is. In fact, upong first transforming, he '''immideately''' names himself Sauron after, in his own words, "[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] ultimate evil!"
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* CardCarryingVillain: Perhaps fitting for a SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron just ''can't shut up'' about how evil he is. In fact, upong first transforming, he '''immideately''' '''immediately''' names himself Sauron after, in his own words, "[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] ultimate evil!"
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Klyntar
!!!'''Species:''' Symbiote
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men: Kingbreaker'' #2
-> '''Oracle:''' ... Some kind of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote]], we had never encountered anything like it. D'Ken wanted it studied, but after he died, it just remained locked away. My Lord... it is a monstrosity. It feeds on people. It consumes their brains...
-> '''Emperor Vulcan:''' Then if it wants a fresh meal, it will do as I tell it. What else?
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* BlankWhiteEyes: Like its [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} distant relations]] it has large white eyes.
* BoxedCrook: One of the Shi'ar's most fearsome prisoners, until Emperor Vulcan decides to give it a job.
* BrainFood: Like Venom, it has a taste for brains.
* CombatTentacles: It can project pseudopodia and tendrils to attack and restrain opponents.
* TheDreaded: It is one of the five most dangerous entities captured by the Shi'ar Empire.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: It possesses a wide mouth full of sharp fangs.
* PuppeteerParasite: It took over the body of Raza Longknife during a fight with the Starjammers.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The symbiotes are much more common foes of Franchise/SpiderMan than the X-Men. Appropriately he's finally restrained and captured by Nova who had a lot of rogues gallery overlap with Spider-Man in the past.
* TheSymbiote: It is a member of the same species as ComicBook/{{Venom}}. Nova managed to capture and separate it from its host due to his experience with fighting Venom.
* TradingBarsForStripes: It was imprisoned by Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, who intended to study it, but Gabriel Summers killed him and recruited Zzxz into his army.
* {{Yandere}}: Zzxz ''really'' wanted Lilandra as its next host, but took over Raza of the Starjammers instead.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: It is a black symbiote with large white eyes, making it largely identical to its distant relative Venom.
* AVillainNamedZrg: Its name is composed completely out of consonants from the end of the alphabet.
!!!'''Species:''' Symbiote
!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men: Kingbreaker'' #2
-> '''Oracle:''' ... Some kind of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote]], we had never encountered anything like it. D'Ken wanted it studied, but after he died, it just remained locked away. My Lord... it is a monstrosity. It feeds on people. It consumes their brains...
-> '''Emperor Vulcan:''' Then if it wants a fresh meal, it will do as I tell it. What else?
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* BlankWhiteEyes: Like its [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} distant relations]] it has large white eyes.
* BoxedCrook: One of the Shi'ar's most fearsome prisoners, until Emperor Vulcan decides to give it a job.
* BrainFood: Like Venom, it has a taste for brains.
* CombatTentacles: It can project pseudopodia and tendrils to attack and restrain opponents.
* TheDreaded: It is one of the five most dangerous entities captured by the Shi'ar Empire.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: It possesses a wide mouth full of sharp fangs.
* PuppeteerParasite: It took over the body of Raza Longknife during a fight with the Starjammers.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The symbiotes are much more common foes of Franchise/SpiderMan than the X-Men. Appropriately he's finally restrained and captured by Nova who had a lot of rogues gallery overlap with Spider-Man in the past.
* TheSymbiote: It is a member of the same species as ComicBook/{{Venom}}. Nova managed to capture and separate it from its host due to his experience with fighting Venom.
* TradingBarsForStripes: It was imprisoned by Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, who intended to study it, but Gabriel Summers killed him and recruited Zzxz into his army.
* {{Yandere}}: Zzxz ''really'' wanted Lilandra as its next host, but took over Raza of the Starjammers instead.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: It is a black symbiote with large white eyes, making it largely identical to its distant relative Venom.
* AVillainNamedZrg: Its name is composed completely out of consonants from the end of the alphabet.
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!!!'''Debut:''' ''X-Men: Kingbreaker'' #2
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* BlankWhiteEyes: Like its [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} distant relations]] it has large white eyes.
* BoxedCrook: One of the Shi'ar's most fearsome prisoners, until Emperor Vulcan decides to give it a job.
* BrainFood: Like Venom, it has a taste for brains.
* CombatTentacles: It can project pseudopodia and tendrils to attack and restrain opponents.
* TheDreaded: It is one of the five most dangerous entities captured by the Shi'ar Empire.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: It possesses a wide mouth full of sharp fangs.
* PuppeteerParasite: It took over the body of Raza Longknife during a fight with the Starjammers.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The symbiotes are much more common foes of Franchise/SpiderMan than the X-Men. Appropriately he's finally restrained and captured by Nova who had a lot of rogues gallery overlap with Spider-Man in the past.
* TheSymbiote: It is a member of the same species as ComicBook/{{Venom}}. Nova managed to capture and separate it from its host due to his experience with fighting Venom.
* TradingBarsForStripes: It was imprisoned by Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, who intended to study it, but Gabriel Summers killed him and recruited Zzxz into his army.
* {{Yandere}}: Zzxz ''really'' wanted Lilandra as its next host, but took over Raza of the Starjammers instead.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: It is a black symbiote with large white eyes, making it largely identical to its distant relative Venom.
* AVillainNamedZrg: Its name is composed completely out of consonants from the end of the alphabet.
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--> ''Dead, mutant? I am evil incarnate -- I cannot die! Behold, fools, the rebirth of Sauron!''
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!!'''Karl Lykos / Sauron'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Argentinian
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
-> '''Debut:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #60 (1969)
--> ''Dead, mutant? I am evil incarnate -- I cannot die! Behold, fools, the rebirth of Sauron!''
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A mutate that was originally supposed to be a vampire, that was a no-go with the comics code at the time, so instead he was reworked into an energy-sucking pterodactyl man. Really. Lykos was on an expedition to Antarctica with his father when they stumbled upon some caves leading to the Savage Land, full of Pteranodons. Lykos was injured by a Pterodon scratch and gained the ability to drain energy from other humans, and later when he did so to a mutant, the ability to turn into a giant were-Pterodactyl with hypnotic powers. Going mad with evil, he names himself after the villain from his favorite books and decides to try to suck the life out of everyone. Joined Toad's Brotherhood in UsefulNotes/TheNineties, despite not being a mutant.
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: In his early appearances as a creepy private-practice physician whose patients experience anemic symptoms, the still human-seeming Karl Lykos gives off ''all'' the classical warning signs for some kind of vampire or other. Actually, he's a ''much more bizarre'' mutant monster. As the intro paragraph specifies, he is also an ''inverted meta-example'', with the creators trying to make a villain who was as vampire-like as possible without [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar upsetting the editors]].
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Pteranodons.
* {{Animorphism}}: A sort of {{Involuntary Shapeshift|er}}ing, where Lykos transforms into Sauron whenever he absorbs mutant energy.
* ArchEnemy: Forgotten in recent years, but back in the day he was one of these to Havok. As Karl Lykos, he even served a stint as Havok's psychiatrist. More frequent X-Men sparring partners include Angel and Iceman, occasionally Cyclops when he wants some of that sweet sweet Summers energy, and most frequently the X-Men ally Ka-Zar.
* BadFuture: In the miniseries ''Weapon X: Days of Future Past'' Sauron is a high-ranking collaborator with the Sentinels, having grown [[VillainousGlutton so fat off mutant energies he can no longer fly]].
* CardCarryingVillain: Perhaps fitting for a SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron just ''can't shut up'' about how evil he is. In fact, upong first transforming, he '''immideately''' names himself Sauron after, in his own words, "[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] ultimate evil!"
* ComboPlatterPowers: Practically the poster child of this trope. He's a guy that can [[OurVampiresAreDifferent drain the life force of others]], [[ShapeShifting turns into a flying pterodactyl man when he drains the life force of a mutant]], said pterodactyl man form also has SuperStrength, the power to [[HypnoticEyes hypnotize people]] and can [[BreathWeapon breathe fire?]] Franchise/SpiderMan even noted how ridiculous him being a vampiric pterodactyl man was without even making note of all his other powers.
* TheConqueror: Numerous times Sauron has attempted to raise an army from the disaffected residents of the Savage Land in order to seize control of it. These efforts are usually thwarted by Ka-Zar.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: See [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sauronx.jpg here]]. Spider-Man notes that he could be using his advanced tech to cure cancer, but being a SuperpoweredEvilSide Sauron has no interest in such MundaneUtility.
* DespairEventHorizon: After his love interest Tanya was murdered by Toad during the 90's, Karl lost all reason to try and live an ordinary life. He's since given into his evil side more or less completely.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Later appearances saw him acquire the ability to [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]].
* TheDragon: Often serves this role to whatever BigBad of the day is currently trying to take control of the Savage Land. Zaladane and Garrok have both employed his services; unfortunately for them, his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder leads him to invariably stick the knife in at inconvenient moments.
* EnemyMine: During the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' Sauron allied with his longtime Savage Land enemies Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil against the Skrull invaders.
* EnemyWithin: Sauron is this to the fairly mild-mannered Lykos.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Averted]]. No matter how silly this guy sounds, he's always a pain in the neck to deal with.
* FromBadToWorse: As if being tempted to drain the life-energy of your patients all the time isn't bad enough, you then discover that draining another mutant turns you into a dangerous monster beyond your control.
* EvilOverlord: He's usually trying to be this in the Savage Land.
* EvilTeacher: ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' saw him find employment as a science teacher for the Hellfire Academy. ''Definitely'' a showcasing moment of the character's NarmCharm.
--> '''Sauron:''' (wearing glasses and a lab coat) I am Sauron, supreme ruler of this classroom, master of all second period!
* {{Flanderization}}: In a ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' tie-in Sauron was reduced to a Shadow King-tier IHaveYouNowMyPretty creeper who spent most of his on-panel slavering over various disgusted women. This wasn't ''completely'' out of nowhere, as a famous panel from one of Sauron's early appearances has him menacing a knocked-out Storm, but aside from this miniseries it's not really a big part of his character. Hell, he even went [[HoYay/XMen the other way completely]] once during the 90's.
* FrontierDoctor: As Lykos, he attempted to become one of these in the Savage Land. His efforts earned him the friendship of Ka-Zar, but eventually StatusQuoIsGod kicked in and Sauron returned.
* GiantFlyer: Not terribly gigantic, outside of that one time he fought Garrok, but still counts.
* GuiltByAssociationGag: When Stryker started rounding up mutants for his Church of Human Potential, he went after Sauron. When Sauron pointed out that he was not a mutant, Stryker just shrugged and said that Sauron hung out with them so much that he was basically an honorary one.
* HappyEndingOverride: His ''Marvel Fanfare'' quadrilogy ended with Professor X sitting him down and finally managing to cure him of being Sauron. It worked completely too, as he and Tanya went to New York and lived in peace for the rest of the 80's. But come the 90's Toad decided he wanted a heavy-hitter for his Brotherhood, so he abducted Karl and Tanya and hooked them up into machines that drained Tanya's life force into Karl, forcing him to become Sauron again.
* HeroKiller: Early in the first ''ComicBook/XForce'' run he killed Sam Guthrie aka Cannonball. It... [[ContinuitySnarl probably didn't take]]?
* IJustWantToBeFree: A noteworthy character trait of his. He might [[VillainTeamUp work with other villains]] when it serves his purposes, and surprisingly is even usually a good team player during those periods. But at his soul Sauron is an independent villain who doesn't want to be used by anyone and is always trying to be the top dog of wherever he is. During one storyline in ''X-Men: The Hidden Years'', Magneto tried recruiting him to the Brotherhood, promising him untold riches and a place at his right-hand. But after realizing that would mean accepting subservience to Magneto, Sauron refused, telling the other villain he'd found a peace in the Savage Land and he would never give that up in exchanging for being someone else's lackey.
* JekyllAndHyde: Lykos is an essentially decent and well-meaning person. His dark side, Sauron, is a vicious monster and a [[KillAllHumans genocidal maniac]].
* LargeHam: As deadly as he can be, Sauron is by his nature not one of the X-Men's more serious villains, and frequently spends as much of his time chewing the panels as he does pecking at the heroes.
* LaughablyEvil: Sauron is a CardCarryingVillain who spends as much time ChewingTheScenery and engaging in bizarre plots as he does genuinely evil things. This line of dialogue probably sums him up best:
-->'''Spider-Man:''' [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood You could have used your scientific knowledge to cure cancer!]]
-->'''Sauron:''' But I don't want to cure cancer. [[ARareSentence I want to turn people into dinosaurs.]]
* LifeDrinker: Due to the whole can't-be-a-vampire thing, Lykos ended up as one of these. He can drain the life force of anything he touches, but only mutant energy will [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter turn him into Sauron]]. As his SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron's constantly nettling him when he's human to go drain the nearest handy mutant in his vicinity.
* LineOfSightName: He named himself after ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' villain. He even [[ShoutOut says so himself]] on-panel during his origin story. The fact that he calls Sauron "Tolkien's ultimate villain" reveals that he (and possibly the writers) only has passing knowledge of the legendarium, however.
--> '''Sauron:''' I choose... evil! An evil so great... so monumental that only one name in all the annals of literature will contain it! The name of Tokien's ultimate villain... that dark lord who personified evil, who was truly evil incarnate! The name of -- SAURON!
* LogicalWeakness: Being a cold-blooded creature, Sauron is vulnerable to ice and cold, and superheroes with those powers. You can guess which X-Man gives him the most trouble.
* MeaningfulName: Lykos is Greek for 'wolf', an appropriate name for a character who so often plays the wolf in the fold.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: For many years an irrelevant bit of plot trivia, this has actually helped him get legitimate work in recent years, first as an unlikely member of Weapon X and then, in an even more unlikely twist, as a ''teacher'' working for the Hellfire Academy.
* MoralityPet: Tanya Anderssen, his longtime love interest. She was murdered by Toad in the 90s as part of his scheme to reawaken and recruit Sauron for the Brotherhood.
* MouthOfSauron: Has never had a character serve as this for himself, but amusingly was Garrok's Mouth for a time.
* NobleDemon: Lykos is this, as despite falling prey to the wiles of Sauron more often than not he's essentially a decent and well-meaning person. The whole reason he's in the Savage Land in the first place is because he exiled himself there, thinking there would be no mutants for Sauron to prey on.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: You don't get much more NinjaPirateZombieRobot than a vampiric were-pterodactyl mutate.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: At least as Karl Lykos, he's smart enough to not fell prey to the usual villain pitfall for UnderestimatingBadassery. When the Savage Land Mutates have the Avengers captured in ''New Avengers'', he urges them to kill their heroic prisoners right away rather than experiment on them as Brainchild wants to do, telling him that he's just giving ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} an excuse to attack them. And lo and behold, a few panels later, that's exactly what they do.
* OnlyMostlyDead: When near-death Sauron can enter a state of "regenerative stasis". He fell into this after being shot up by X-Force, and recovered completely after a few weeks.
* PteroSoarer: Scaly skin instead of hair-like pycnofibers? Check (occasional hairstyle aside). Bat-like wing structure? Check. Bipedalism? Check. Identified as a dinosaur? Check.
* PickyPeopleEater: Apparently people have their own distinct taste to Sauron, as he remarked upon the specific taste of Kid Omega's lifeforce during his stint with the Hellfire Academy.
* TheQuisling: Collaborates with the Sentinels in at least one BadFuture.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Stan Lee must have figured an energy-sucking dinosaur man was the next-most abhorrent thing to an actual vampire.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: In recent years he’s become more of a ComicBook/SpiderMan villain.
* SanitySlippage: During the 90s, after Toad killed Tanya Anderssen, Sauron starting hallucinating his alter ego Lykos. These hallucinations eventually got to be so frequent that even the Savage Land mutates (who are hardwired to seek out a leader and obey them ''[[SlaveMooks without question]]'') started questioning his sanity.
* SixthRanger: Randomly recruited to Toad's Brotherhood during the 90s, despite not being a mutant himself.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Sauron is very much this.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: After years and years of fighting Sauron's influence, Karl Lykos gave into it completely as of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers''. In his human and form and apparently completely free of Sauron's influence, he still urged the Savage Land mutates to kill their Avenger prisoners ASAP, all while wearing a SmugSnake smirk. Of course, Karl was entirely in the right, as the Avengers broke free very shortly after.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Played with in the third ''Weapon X'' volume, when he's recruited to Weapon X-Force -- on any other team, Sauron would be this, but this is a team led by '''Sabretooth''' and filled out mostly by other Wolverine villains. On this team, Sauron isn't the token evil teammate -- the whole team is evil!
* TokenHuman: Lykos is a normal man who was turned into a mutate after being attacked by the Savage Land's breed of pterodactyls and has never had any investment in mutants beyond their use in feeding his SuperpoweredEvilSide, yet he randomly joined up with the Brotherhood in the 90s.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the X-Men novel "Law of the Jungle", he becomes a much more calculating and dangerous enemy via the Savage Land mutate Brainchild cooking up a way to stabilize his Sauron personality.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Being one of the longest-running X-villains, he's had his share of these. There was the time Cable shot him dead, for instance. Another time Lykos made a psychic HeroicSacrifice supposedly destroying his and Sauron's personalities forever. Both times he recovered and returned without explanation.
* VillainsOutShopping: When Sabretooth threw a party to celebrate taking over the Japanese underworld Sauron [[https://dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.net/i/4791/23441/2f79d1154a4e3ae1b3aff747b7148632.jpg?h=a9f06ec750a6a17b010b94dd242570dd made a cameo appearance]] as one of the guests in attendance.
* WeaponOfChoice: One appearance had him carrying an actual prehistoric club. ''[[NarmCharm Of course]]'', it was included with his action figure.
* WerewolfThemeNaming: Notable for being a werebeast [[NonIndicativeName but definitely not]] a were''wolf'', his last name Lykos is Greek for wolf.
* YoYoPlotPoint: He gets cured at the end of most encounters only to get un-cured again at the beginning of the next. As ever, StatusQuoIsGod.
** TrappedInVillainy: Lykos wants nothing more than to be rid of Sauron forever, but eventually his powers always wind up getting the better of him. TragicMonster indeed.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Spider-Man points out he could have used his advanced tech to cure cancer.
--> ''[[CardCarryingVillain I don’t want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.]]''
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!!'''The Sentinels'''
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One of the most recognizable non-mutant characters in the X-men's corner of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Sentinels are the result of a government initiative to combat the growing mutant threat. These huge robots are equipped with gene-level scanning devices enabling them to identify any mutants, and the armor and weaponry to (theoretically) detain or kill them once found. Recurrently decommissioned as mutant rights advance or the Sentinels go wrong, only to be recommissioned as new and improved versions are built or more mutant-related hate builds up. Sentinels are frequently depicted as being bound to a "super Sentinel" called Master Mold, which is often instrumental in the temporary discrediting of the Sentinel Program.
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* AdaptiveAbility: The Mark-II Sentinels could adapt to their enemies and their powers.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Most Sentinels don't really have the AI to actually go wrong and loyally follow orders. The problem is, they tend to be portrayed taking their commands from Master Mold, who ''does'' have the AI to go rogue -- for example, planning to capture a senator and replace his brain with a computer before then enslaving all humanity.
* ArtificialStupidity: In stories and adaptations where they lean more on the StarterVillain end of the scale.
* TheAssimilator: The Prime Sentinels, ordinary humans merged with Sentinel tech.
** CyberneticsEatYourSoul: It is possible to restore a Prime Sentinel's free will, but even for Magneto and Professor X, it's very difficult.
* BadFuture: ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast, anyone? Any time the Sentinels appear in an adaptation, this story is bound to occur in some form.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Sentinels or Master Mold go wrong, often they do so with the statement that it is illogical to protect humans from mutants because "humans are mutants" -- all humans have unique genetic codes.
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: In some alternate timelines, the Sentinels decide that they need to take over humankind to effectively neutralize mutants.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: Steven Lang's ([[ComicBook/AntMan no relation to Scott Lang]]) X-Sentinels, which looked like the original '60s era X-Men and even had their powers. It took Wolverine's senses to suss them out.
* HeroKiller: Numerous Sentinels in numerous futures, but a special shout-out goes to the {{Elite Mook|s}} Sentinel seen in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' #48: it is identified as the Sentinel that killed ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and has even been [[http://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/13_48.png painted to resemble him]].
* HiveQueen: Master Mold is this; it has the intelligence and capabilities to control all Sentinels, and is actually a walking Sentinel-production factory, creating them from internal production machinery.
* HumongousMecha:
** Autonomous version, usually, but at least one miniseries focused on Sentinel Squad O*N*E, an attempt to redeem the Sentinel Project by stripping out the independent AI and turning them into piloted mecha. It worked, for a while.
** In terms of size, Master Mold takes this UpToEleven: it's roughly as big compared to a Sentinel as a Sentinel is to a human.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Apparently this can be used against them as [[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwen Poole]] notices that their attack patterns mirror those from their video game appearances. Anyone familiar with the games can abuse the same openings their attack patterns leave them in real life.
* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl:
** A 2003 miniseries, aptly entitled ''Sentinel'', focused on Midwestern American teen Juston Seyfert and his adventures after finding and repairing a damaged Sentinel.
** Any member of the Trask family automatically counts as this too, since Bolivar programmed a directive into them to obey and preserve all members of his bloodline. Unless, of course, they're a Mutant, as Larry Trask finds out.
* {{Killer Robot}}s: Particularly towards mutants, but depending on the story they can be a threat to humans too.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The Project: Armageddon Sentinels were pathetically easy to destroy. The only reason they managed to keep the X-Men they'd caught captive at all was because they were operating from a space station.
* MechaMooks: This may be why the Sentinels have appeared in every animated depiction of the X-men-verse; they're intimidating enough to make good enemies, but they can be slaughtered on-screen without any editor hassles.
* MookMaker: Their usual leader Master Mold, a "super Sentinel" that is an autonomous Sentinel factory.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Somewhat justified by multiple generations (at least ten) of the Sentinel line, but these are still MechaMooks that switch from grinding the whole world under their metal heels in more than one BadFuture to generic cannon fodder {{Mooks}} that even inexperienced X-Men can carve through like butter. In general, Sentinels tend to be ''exactly as strong or as weak'' as the storyline they're in requires them to be.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The very first Sentinels had purple shells, and that's held true for most of them since, though there have been some variations over the years like the Mark V Sentinels, which were blue instead.
* RoboSpeak: Usually, but the Project: Armageddon ones were remarkably chatty.
* RobotBuddy: The Sentinel rebuilt and befriended by the aforementioned Juston Seyfert.
* RobotGirl: The Omega Prime Sentinel Karima Shapandar, who joins the X-Men for a time after being released from her programming.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Sentinel Squad O*N*E and the X-Men didn't get along. Probably because the X-Men were about as happy as you'd expect to have their movement monitored and controlled by giant sized versions of things that had previously tried to ''kill'' them.
* TerminatorImpersonator: Prime Sentinels are a model of Sentinel which are humans that underwent an UnwillingRoboticization and were then released to [[ManchurianAgent live ordinary lives until they come into contact]] with a [[WitchSpecies Mutant]]. After activation, the cyborgs will attempt to terminate the mutant with extreme force, often undergoing more and more of a RoboticReveal until their entire bodies have transformed into a human-sized Sentinel in order to annihilate their target. Often, their target is a mutant that is either closeted or [[TomatoSurprise unaware that they're a mutant]] and thus an X-Man is sent [[TerminatorTwosome to protect them]] and get them to safety.
* TheyLookLikeUsNow: The 90s Zero Tolerance crossover introduced the "Omega Prime" model Sentinel which initially appeared to be a line of DeceptivelyHumanRobots but were soon revealed to be a type of {{Cyborg}} instead. They were designed to be sleeper agents capable of blending into heavily-populated cities to hunt for mutants.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In a number of alternate futures they turn against humans en masse, and certain Sentinels like Master Mold do this even in the normal timeline.
* TheVirus: The TurnOfTheMillennium introduced the "Nano-Sentinels" which as you might have guessed from the name are a line of {{Nanomachines}} that function as this.
* UnwillingRoboticisation:
** As the X-Men learned to their horror after their encounter with the Omega Prime Sentinel Karima Shapandar. While a few units from that line were fanatics who had volunteered willingly, most were ordinary humans who had been kidnapped and transformed against their will.
** Happened to the pilots of Sentinel Squad O*N*E, thanks to Bishop and a techno-organic virus. In seconds, the pilots were killed and turned into mini-Sentinels.
* YouCantFightFate: Not the giant robots themselves, but [[spoiler:Moira's attempts to permanently stop them by eliminating all Sentinel creators, such as Trasks and Langs, from existence is this. She discovered even after killing known Sentinel creators from previous timelines, someone is destined to create some version of Sentinels]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The original Sentinels turned on Trask pretty quickly, and demanded he manufacture more Sentinels, making it clear they'd kill him the minute he stopped complying.
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[[folder:Shadow King]]
!!The Shadow King
!!!Amahl Farouk ([[MultipleChoicePast maybe]])
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!!!'''Species:''' Abstract Entity
-> '''Debut:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #117 (1979)
--> ''Ah, such heroic sentiments. I like that -- but this is my game, my parlor, my rules. Here the house always wins!''
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A vastly powerful psychic entity that likes to possess people and bring out their darker emotions. ComicBook/ProfessorX met him as Egyptian crimelord Amahl Farouk, and killed his human body in a psychic-showdown. Farouk was the first evil mutant Xavier encountered, prompting him to form the X-Men. However, it has been since revealed that the Shadow King might have existed long before possessing Farouk.
An adaptational counterpart of the Shadow King appears as the BigBad of the 2017 television series ''Series/Legion2017''. Tropes and ideas from his character were also borrowed from for the adaptational counterpart of ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} from the 2016 film ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
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* AbortedArc: The original plan for the Shadow King under Creator/ChrisClaremont not only had him as the FinalBoss for the X-Men as a whole, but actually ''[[KilledOffForReal killing]]'' Professor X in their final battle, which would have resulted in Magneto becoming the permanent new leader of the X-Men. This plot was shelved when Claremont left the X-books, and to this day the Shadow King has never reached for any goal so grandiose, instead remaining firmly in C-list villain territory.
* AdaptationalBadass: Both of the adaptations of the Shadow King mentioned above are this compared to the original.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: During ''X-Men: Worlds Apart'' Storm lured him into a trap set by herself and Bast the [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Panther God]], who promptly devours him.
* ArchEnemy: To Storm. He employed her as a thief when she was a child, but was never able to completely bend her to his will. Her strength of character makes her his favorite target.
** He considers Professor X to be ''his'' archenemy, owing to Chuck dealing him a pretty decisive defeat in their first encounter.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Shadow King fits this trope to the letter, especially following the retcon that he might be an ancient demonic being, and not the psychic remains of an evil mutant.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Frequently does this with telepaths.
* BigBadWannabe: The Shadow King considers himself the FinalBoss to Charles Xavier and the X-Men as a whole, but falls a little short of that goal. He does ''[[LonersAreFreaks not]]'' play well with others, doing [[VillainTeamUp villain team-ups]] only when forced into them, and power-wise he's never quite been able to equal his hated rival.
* BondVillainStupidity: Being one of the older X-villains, he snuggles in this trope like a security blanket. Excepting Professor X, for whom ItsPersonal between him and Farouk, the Shadow King ''never'' tries to outright kill his targets, preferring instead to [[DespairEventHorizon break them]] or [[EvilGloating gloat at them]]. Unsurprisingly, the heroes turn the tide on him every time, only for him to come back the next time none the wiser.
* CardCarryingVillain: Would you really except any less from someone who calls themselves the ''Shadow King''?
* TheCorrupter: Prides himself on being this, though he's less about tempting his victims to evil and more about twisting their minds through brute telepathic force until they're corrupt enough for his taste.
* CripplingOverspecialization: The reason behind his long string of defeats. Despite being theoretically a telepath in the same league as Professor X, the Shadow King is much more interested in [[{{Sadist}} tormenting]] his targets than simply defeating them, and while he's not ''[[WeakButSkilled weak]]'', he definitely leans more towards [[ForceAndFinesse finesse than force]]. Lesser telepaths like ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} have still managed to take him down because they go for the jugular while he plays around, and he's never dared to challenge the stronger villain telepaths like Exodus or Madelyne Pryor, likely knowing they'd crush him like a roach.
* DarkIsEvil: His astral form is frequently depicted as a sinister shadowy being and Farouk is evil as the day is long.
* EmbodimentOfVice: To the point of warping and distorting any physical body he inhabits; see VillainousGlutton below.
* EvilCounterpart: To Professor X.
* EvilerThanThou: Subjected to this by ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}.
* FatBastard: Farouk has no physical body, but his VillainousGlutton tendencies end up in any body he inhabits inevitably degrading to this state.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being possessed by him. As revealed by Karma, victims are [[AndIMustScream completely aware]] the whole time, unable to stop Farouk from his systematic degradation of their bodies and, indeed, are suffering from ceaseless psychological torture in their own heads as Farouk works to make them [[EmptyShell empty shells]]. The harder a victim fights back, the more Farouk enjoys it and the longer he draws out their suffering.
* GenderBender: Happily possessed Karma for months in ''New Mutants'' and has frequent designs on doing this to Storm too.
* GodGuise: At one point he posed as Anansi, one of the Orisha of African folklore.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Clearly this is kind of Farouk's shtick.
** ''Really'' likes to torment Storm. One miniseries, ''Worlds Apart'', revolved around him trying to break her to his will.
** He also tried turning Psylocke and Rogue into his "Shadow Queens" at separate times.
** Also Karma in ''New Mutants''.
** And Val Cooper in the lead-in to the ''Muir Island Saga''.
* LivingShadow: If the Shadow King ever had an original body, he lost that long ago.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He stunted Destiny's ability to see the future, manipulated Legion into murdering her decades later, and was heavily implied to be the force behind Magneto's abrupt FaceHeelTurn in the early 90s.
* MoreThanMindControl: His preferred method of turning people against each other is by awakening the real doubts and insecurities in their minds, making them that much harder to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight get through to.]]
* MultipleChoicePast: Some stories have portrayed the Shadow King as a centuries-old mutant who survived the years by jumping from body to body and eventually possessed Amahl Farouk. In others, he was merely born Amahl Farouk and fabricated a grander backstory for himself.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: You don't get much more ObviouslyEvil than the ''Shadow King''.
* NephariousPharaoh: Has some elements of this, as his original form [[MultipleChoicePast and/or host body]] of Amahl Farouk was Egyptian and was modeled after a certain Egyptian king.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He physically resembles and shares the same name as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_of_Egypt King Farouk of Egypt]]
* PiggybackingOnHitler: During the 1930s he worked for two of Hitler's most trusted agents, one of them being the future [[Characters/CaptainAmerica Baron Strucker]].
* PsychicPowers: Strong enough to rival, though not defeat, Professor X.
** AstralProjection: As a being that exists purely on the astral plane, this is his default method of combat.
** DemonicPossession: Doubles with GrandTheftMe; Farouk can only act in the physical world by taking control of a human host.
** EmotionControl: Put it this way, Farouk has sometimes been known to spread a HatePlague just by ''being around.''
** MindManipulation: He can do it in several ways.
** PeoplePuppets: Tends to reduce everyone in his immediate vicinity to this.
** SlaveMooks: He often brainwashes whatever local populace is in his immediate vicinity, resulting in the heroes having to fight a horde of innocent bystanders.
** {{Telepathy}}: Has telepathic powers on par with those of Professor X.
* {{Sadist}}: As mentioned above, he's the very definition of a psychic sadist. He won't torture your ''body'', but he'll MindRape you with glee until you're an EmptyShell.
* SealedEvilInACan: He's often sealed away into various things. In the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse Apoc literally contained his essence inside of a small can with a sealed tube on top.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: For awhile he was trapped inside Psylocke's mind. This prevented her from using her telepathic powers.
* StayingAlive: He has near-CompleteImmortality, boasting at one point that he can revive himself off one dark thought in one man's heart. See AsLongAsThereIsEvil above.
* StarterVillain: He was literally this for Charles Xavier, being the first evil mutant Chuck ever met. The encounter was what convinced him of the necessity of a team like the X-Men.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: During the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' storyline the Shadow King was not included as part of the Scarlet Witch's ideal world, but instead shunted off to another dimension. After the reality warp was undone he made his way back to the current one.
* UniquenessValue: Like Mojo above, it's been asserted that there's only one Shadow King within the Marvel Multiverse; the ones we've seen in realities besides Earth-616 are supposedly all the same entity manifesting in different ways or extensions of it in some kind of HiveMind scenario.
* VillainousGlutton: When he claims a human host for an extended period of time, he becomes addicted to eating, and his host becomes morbidly obese as a result.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: Fighting him was what gave Professor X the idea to form the X-Men in the first place. Ironically, if this very loathsome villain didn't exist, neither would the X-Men.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Gives Professor X this speech upon their first meeting; presumably it wasn't so cliche back then.
* YourWorstNightmare: Clearly wants to be this for everyone and everything in his way.
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[[folder:Spiral]]
!!'''Rita Wayward / Spiral'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
-> '''Debut:''' ''Longshot'' #1 (1985)
--> ''Hers is a name that men whisper as she kills them.''
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One of the most loyal warrior-slaves of Mojo, Spiral is his [[TheDragon Dragon]] and an essential part of his operations. In her first appearance, she was sent to retrieve ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. She later had a stint as a member of Freedom Force, the US government's version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In the ''Shattershot'' storyline, it turned out she was Rita Ricochet (Longshot's former friend and lover) all along, brainwashed into becoming Spiral by Mojo and her future self.
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* AscendedExtra: Art Adams designed her as just another of Mojo's lackeys pursuing Longshot, but Ann Nocenti liked the look of her and decided to give her a more prominent role.
* AxCrazy: She hides it well behind her snark, but Spiral is ''completely'' off the deep end.
* TheBaroness: Tends to take this role in storyline where she strikes out on her own.
* BerserkButton: Has a ''major'' grudge against the Mojoworld scientist Arize, who invented the technology that empowered the Spineless Ones. She can also get this way at times regarding Longshot, but when it comes to Arize, [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/49601/4214217-spiral_1.jpg well]]...
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, surprisingly enough. Yes, she was roboticized by Mojo, and probably unwillingly too. But it was only a small part of how Mojo was able to turn her so completely insane.
* {{Cyborg}}: Three of her arms are at least partially robotic.
* DarkActionGirl: She was one of the first prominent female X-villains.
* DeadpanSnarker: She and Major Domo are the only Mojo minions who dare mouth off to their boss.
* TheDragon: Mojo may be strong, but he's also nearly immobile, counting on the acrobatics and swordplay of Spiral to keep his enemies at bay.
* DrivenToMadness: A ''major'' case of BreakTheCutie -- when Mojo captures Ricochet Rita, the first thing he does is tie her to the prow of the interdimensional airship he was using to get around at the time. Then he forces her eyes open so that she has to watch the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Wildways]]. Predictably, this causes her to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* DualWielding: Three times over!
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Spiral recently became the caretaker of a young mutant girl named Ginny. She seems to be one of the few people Spiral genuinely cares about at this point.
* EvilSorcerer: To the point where when Comicbook/DoctorStrange stepped down as Sorcerer Supreme of the entire Marvel Universe, she was mentioned as a contender for the job.
** MagicDance: She dances to cast her more complicated spells.
** MagicKnight: A sorceress and technological genius as well as an expert hand-to-hand (-to-hand-to-hand) combatant.
** {{Teleportation}}: This is her primary utility to Mojo -- [[InSeriesNickname the bloat]] can defend himself fairly well, but he is completely reliant on Spiral's spellcasting to traverse between dimensions.
* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: She uses the energy of the dimensional crossroads known as "the Wildways" to power her spells.
* FatalFlaw: Spiral has powers and combat ability on a level that allow her to give Phoenix Force hosts a challenge in battle, but her SmugSuper attitude often leads to her being beaten by heroes less powerful than herself, either because she toys with them too long or because she lets herself get distracted at a critical moment.
* GreenEyedMonster: The original ''Longshot'' mini showed her as being very jealous and resentful of ordinary humans, seeing herself as [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer a freak compared to them]]. Mojo states outright this is why he gave Spiral her extra arms.
* HazyFeelTurn: After being stranded by Mojo one too many times, she decided to settle down and stay out of superhero conflicts.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Frequently aids the heroes, especially after her WolverinePublicity became known to the writers. Amusingly enough, she's more than once lent her six hands to the {{Trope Namer|s}} himself.
* HollywoodCyborg: Aside from being one of these herself, she has a side hobby of turning other people into them via her Body Shoppe.
* HotChickWithASword: Six times over!
* ImmuneToMindControl: Or rather possession, as Rogue and Nocturne were both unable to wrest control of Spiral's body. In Rogue's case, she was the one possessed instead, much as Mr. Sinister did to her, while in Nocturne's case Spiral was actually able to fool her into thinking she had been possessed. It's unknown if a straight up mind control attempt would work.
* ItAmusedMe: Her motivation for joining the government team Freedom Force, led by Mystique and consisting mostly of [[BoxedCrook boxed crooks]], was never really clear- but it seems to have been mainly "bored and had nothing better to do".
* KickTheDog: Shortly after arriving in our reality she rips the shawl off an elderly woman and walks on the poor woman's head while making cracks about her 'pathetic face'.
* MadScientist: In the Mojoverse, she runs the Body Shoppe, where villains (including Lady Deathstrike) get cybernetic makeovers.
* MadeOfIron: Her profiles mention that the transformation Mojo put her through also gave her "hardened skin" which lets her absorb way more punishment than she should be able to take.
* MeaningfulName: After being brainwashed by Mojo, Ricochet Rita ''spiraled'' completely down the rabbit hole of madness.
* MoralityPet: Shatterstar serves as this to her from time to time.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: She has huge breasts.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: She has six arms, three of which are cybernetic replacements.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Well, more like Swordswoman Sorceress Mutate Cyborg in her particular case.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Longshot. Not by choice, since Mojo messed with her mind.
* PsychoSupporter: She's Mojo's most effective minion and is totally nuts.
* PsychoticSmirk: Noticing [[AxCrazy a theme]] to these tropes yet?
* PunchClockVillain: She doesn't have any particular grudge against the X-Men, instead just going after them because it's her Mojo-mandated job.
* {{Retcon}}: Neither Ann Nocenti (who created her) nor Chris Claremont (who popularized her by making her an X-Men antagonist) intended Spiral to be an evil version of Ricochet Rita. This retconned origin story was done by Fabian Nicieza in 1992, seven years after Spiral's first appearance.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: She was once one of Longshot's friends, and his lover. Then Mojo drove her insane and turned her into his servant.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: Like everyone from Mojoworld, she has a lot of off sayings. She doesn't kill people, she cancels them.
* ServileSnarker: She's not afraid to snark off at Mojo.
* SixthRanger: For Freedom Force. In keeping with the trope's spirit, she is ''by far'' the team's most powerful member.
* TheSoulless: In ''ComicBook/MrAndMrsX'' it was revealed that Mojo removed Spiral's soul from her body as part of the procedure that reforged her into his minion. With the aid of the titular Mr. and Mrs. X (Gambit and Rogue), she was able to reclaim her soul from Mojo and break away from his control seemingly once and for all.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Through unknown (but likely mystical) means, she is always aware (or is alerted of it) whenever someone speaks her name. Predictably, Wolverine is dismissive when warned of this ability by Mystique -- her name is, after all, a common word, spoken hundreds if not thousands of times per day, so how would Spiral know? Cue her instantly appearing and telling him it's all about context and tone of voice to indicate to her whether someone is referring to her or not.
* StableTimeLoop: Ultimately, how she came into Mojo's service involved this, as one of the people who helped Rita become Spiral was Spiral herself.
* TheStarscream: During her time in Freedom Force, Spiral considered harnessing the power of Rachel Summers to liberate herself from Mojo. This was dropped and forgotten when story writer Creator/ChrisClaremont left the X-books.
* StatusQuoIsGod: She hates her boss and frequently works to undermine him but always goes back to working for him again in the next Mojoworld story.
* TragicVillain: She never ''asked'' to get driven insane and re-purposed into a deadly enforcer for an evil cosmic entertainment mogul. But she ''is'' insane, and dangerous as hell.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: She does this from time to time to guests of the Body Shoppe and may have been a victim of it herself.
* VainSorceress: Subverted; she uses magic but isn't particularly vain and has no problems at all with getting her many hands dirty.
* VillainousFriendship: She has a pretty solid relationship with Mystique and her old Freedom Force teammates, though even they know how nuts she is.
* WeaponOfChoice: Swords. [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Six of them]], to be precise.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Not originally one, but became one after her transformation into Spiral.
* WouldHurtAChild: In her very first appearance, where she's just one of several nameless Mojoworld {{Mooks}} who've kidnapped a woman's baby. Her distinctive appearance led to her returning two issues later as a proper villain.
* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind the Man]]: For anyone who gets a makeover in her Body Shoppe. 'Satisfied clients' include the Hellfire Club mercenaries Cole, Macon and Reese, Lady Deathstrike, and Psylocke (who admittedly wasn't [[UnwillingRoboticisation wasn't nearly as satisfied]] as the others).
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[[folder:Steven Lang]]
!!'''Doctor Steven Lang'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Pleads with Jean Grey to save him from his crashing hovercar, after having just tried to murder her and Scott (and we should note, Jean's the one who ''made'' it crash).
* AvengingTheVillain: Downplayed. While Lang's main motives are Darwinian, he also considers prior anti-mutant villain Bolivar Trask a heroic martyr he wishes to avenge.
-->'''Dr. Lang:''' Bolivar Trask knew. He understood the danger. He pointed the way. He tried to ''stop'' the mutants, Michael, and they ''killed'' him for it, him and his ''son''.
* BackFromTheDead: Via Bastion and the transmode virus.
* BadassBookworm: He's a quite better fighter than his background (a nondescript government scientist) would suggest.
* BerserkButton: When Jean Grey calls him a "sad, pathetic, screwed-up little man", he loses it and slapped her. Bear in mind, her implicitly calling him a Nazi before that just got brushed off.
* DependingOnTheArtist: In his original appearances, he looked quite different from the portrait given here, with wavy blond hair, icy blue eyes and harder facial features.
* DrivenToVillainy: Originally, Doctor Lang was simply a mild-mannered civil servant who tried to warn the government of the increasing danger of villainous mutants (such as, for example, ComicBook/{{Magneto}}). When no one would listen to him, and the threat appeared to be growing constantly with every passing year, he gradually became [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope more extreme]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: His death at the end of ''Second Coming'' isn't even acknowledged by the characters, and can easily be missed if the reader isn't paying attention, as he and Graydon Creed are torn to shreds by the X-Men.
* EvilGenius: Built [[EvilKnockoff robot versions]] of the original X-Men that basically authentically replicated their powers. Also, somehow himself scraped together [[{{Fiction500}} the billions of dollars]] needed to fund his [[NGOSuperpower huge anti-mutant organization]] after the government shut him down.
* EvilGloating: Being an older villain, he naturally indulged in this the first chance he got.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Lang is a biologist, and bases his opposition to the mutants on anthropologist Bolivar Trask's work and socio-Darwinian view of the conflict between humans and mutants. That said, he doesn't perform any inhumane biological experiments, or the like.
* TheExtremistWasRight: In a FridgeLogic sort of way. Some story arcs after his untimely demise, Jean Grey, one of the mutants he was mortally afraid of, [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga did just what he feared, killed some billions and almost destroyed the world]]. (A later RetCon, which might have realized the UnfortunateImplications but was done primarily for other reasons, changed that version of Jean into a sort of EvilTwin.)
* FantasticRacism: Aside from the usual mutant-hating stuff, there's a scene where some of his scientists are examining Wolverine. They're briefly confused by his strange metabolism, and ask just what he is. Lang just states "whatever he is, he sure isn't human." [[note]]This is actually a nod to Wolvie's originally-intended origin as a [[UpliftedAnimal mutated]] [[LittleBitBeastly human-like wolverine]] with steel claws.[[/note]]
* ForScience: Averted; while Lang ''is'' a scientist, his motives are largely political.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Or from obscure government scientist to [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]]-scale supervillain, in this case.
* GeneralRipper: A borderline case, as Lang himself is a civilian, but he's running a rogue military operation and generally behaves like one of these.
* GodwinsLaw: Jean Grey calls him a Nazi when he explains his motives to her. Then again, in the Marvelverse the Nazis ''[[FantasticRacism are]]'' opposed to mutants ...
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted, in spite of his being a Social Darwinist, and even a ''[[EvilutionaryBiologist biologist]]'', of all things. While he doesn't wear his religion on his sleeve, he is shown to be a believer.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: As he explains, somewhat sheepishly, to Jean Grey when she asks why he's attacking the X-Men. It's a [[TheNeedsOfTheMany matter of humanity's survival]] that [[BewareTheSuperman the mutants have got to go]], so he's just doing his duty making sure they do. The way he [[BerserkButton explodes]] when she proceeds to ridicule his views possibly suggests that deep down he's really [[DirtyBusiness at least a little uncomfortable]] with the whole thing, himself.
* JustFollowingOrders: Assumed to be doing this by Jean. Actually averted: He is acting quite illegally and contrary to his orders, and willingly takes on that moral burden in order to do what he believes necessary to save the human race.
* KilledOffForReal: Courtesy of a well-passed angry [[BewareTheNiceOnes Jean Grey]] and Cyclops making him crash his flying machine. Well, more or less. His brain got stolen and used to make a Master Mold Sentinel. Bastion brought him back a few decades later, but the X-Men kill Lang all over again at the end of ''Second Coming''.
* KnightTemplar: Lang is quite convinced of his own rectitude, to the point where he can tell a pretty young co-ed (and crypto-mutant) to her face that she and her race have to die. It's NothingPersonal, just {{necessar|ilyEvil}}y in order for humanity to live.
* LargeHam: When he feels he needs to announce his plans.
* MadScientist: Initially he's not really mad, just somewhat grandiose and affective. The later versions play it straight, however.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A humble government scientist who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope dived headfirst]] into the pool of radical supervillainy.
* MotiveRant: Delivers a pretty lengthy one at the beginning of one issue.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Not Lang himself, but the operation he's running. Its codename? '''Project Armageddon'''!
* NatureIsNotNice: In an in-universe example, Lang points to humanity's own evolutionary history, and the extinction of the non-''sapiens'' (sub)species, to forecast what will happen if the threat of the mutants is not contained.
* NecessarilyEvil: A product of his Darwinian worldview. In a war of [[FantasticRacism species supremacy]], obviously neither side will come off looking very good, but at least the victor will ''survive''.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Played with. Lang is able to relaunch the Sentinels program precisely ''because'' the Trasks ''did'' keep detailed notes on their construction, to which the Federal Government granted him privileged access--But some of the documentation was lost when the X-Men trashed Trask's base, so he and his team had to fill in the resulting blanks with their own kludges, making the new Sentinels somewhat less formidable war machines.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Like Bolivar Trask, he's not stated as such but by simple virtue of what he does has to have mastered at least three different fields of science. See RenaissanceMan below
* RenaissanceMan: Scientific expert in at least three widely separate fields (biology/genetics as well as mechatronics engineering and AI programming). Additionally, a fair pilot and fighter.
* ReplacementGoldfish: To Bolivar Trask, from a narrative standpoint. They're both [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist omnidisciplinary scientists]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] who veer FromNobodyToNightmare in record time. This is probably the reason why Lang didn't stick around for very long, and was instead replaced by a series of more distinctive anti-mutant villains.
* RogueAgent: Originally, Lang was commissioned by the federal government to study the potential of superhuman mutants as a strategic danger to the United States. When his study found that the danger was imminent and the government basically ignored his report, he took matters into his own hands.
* ScienceHero: The villain in his story, obviously, but otherwise he fits the classic stereotype perfectly.
* TheSocialDarwinist: The racist type, but subverted. Lang believes that the mutants ''are'' a superior species to humanity, at least in the purely biological sense, and that this is precisely why the conspiring mutant supervillains are so dangerous--But he still takes humanity's side in what he considers an evolutionary struggle, standing by the "weaker" race.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name is officially spelled Steven Lang, but it is often misspelled both InUniverse and out as ''Stephen'' Lang.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Downplayed. While Lang never demonstrates any ''overt'' remorse for his persecution of the mutants and insists on his own moral rectitude throughout, his angry self-justificatory outbursts when questioned by Colonel Rossi and Jean suggest that he still has some doubts.
* VillainousValour: In his initial appearances, he was just a more-or-less ordinary government scientist (albeit fairly Badass by those standards), and wisely did ''not'' try to go toe-to-toe with any superheroes when he had a choice. But when the X-Men trashed his Sentinels and military security detachment, he did try to fight them himself as a last resort. [[LastVillainStand It ended badly for him]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A fairly typical X-Men example. The world-shaking antics and mutant-supremacist ideology of various superpowered evil mutants convinced him that humanity must defend itself forcefully against the mutants in order to survive.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Chillingly, Lang very rarely does anything actually "evil," at least by his own standards -- As long as one remembers that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance non-human mutants are not part of his moral in-group]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Loses it and slaps Jean Grey when she tells him he's full of it -- Possibly because her insults hit [[CloseToHome Too Close To Home]].
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[[folder:Sugar Man]]
!!Sugar Man
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
-> '''Debut:''' ''Generation Next'' #2 (1995)
--> ''Must you scream, Nathan? I'm trying to work here.''
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A depraved mutant from the parallel universe known as the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', Sugar Man was one of the many camp bosses, running a gruesome concentration camp where he tormented thousands of slaves, human and mutant alike. His specialty was the study and creation of biological weaponry, and he earned his place in Apocalypse's regime by inventing horrific plagues and epidemics. In a [[KarmaHoudini cruel twist of fate]], he is one of the few souls to survive the death of that twisted reality and escape to the mainstream universe.
He appears as a {{Boss}} in ''X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse''.
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* ArchNemesis: To [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey,]] who he's quite sensibly afraid of (because Nate is a PhysicalGod and has frequently tried to kill him), taking a certain glee in having the upper-hand in ''Unfinished Business.''
* AxCrazy: A literal example, as he is often depicted in merchandise with AnAxeToGrind.
* BadBoss: In the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' he ran the work camps which housed thousands of humans and regularly tormented his slaves.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He looks, and often acts, quite ridiculous, but he's deceptively dangerous in a physical brawl, he's much smarter than he seems, and he's extremely hard to kill.
* TheBrute: Despite having fairly advanced scientific knowledge, his very physical mutation makes him favor shaking it up with the heroes as one of these.
* CanonImmigrant: Sugar Man comes from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse and has no 616 counterpart.
* CharacterDeath:
** He was [[DeathIsCheap temporarily]] killed by Magneto just prior to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with his own lab equipment.]] He was revealed in ''Apocalypse Wars'' to have survived [[StayingAlive this too]].
** As of 2018 he's dead again, courtesy of [[spoiler:ComicBook/XMan ripping him in two shortly before the ComicBook/AgeOfXMan]], though given his track record of StayingAlive mutants might want to hold off on the confetti and streamers for a few years... or a nice solid decade, just to be on the safe side.
** Sure enough, two years later Sugar Man turned up alive and well in the pages of ComicBook/NickSpencersSpiderMan, having a VillainsOutShopping day for himself at the Foreigner's casino.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Sugarman appears as a rotund torso dominated by a huge, ugly face, with four arms and a single pair of legs.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Has SuperStrength; a [[MultipurposeTongue multipurpose]], [[TongueTrauma needle-tipped]] [[OverlyLongTongue tongue of intestinal length]]; MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, SuperSenses that allow him to [[IKnowWhatYouFear smell fear]] and [[SizeShifter size-shifting]].
* DirtyCoward: He's more than willing to run for the hills the moment the tide looks to be turned against him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Depraved as he is, even he was surprised by the ''things'' the Dark Beast created to serve him when the two villains reunited in the 616 universe.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Let's be honest; "Sugar Man" doesn't make you think "sadistic plague-engineering cannibal mutant", now does it?
* ForTheEvulz: As is generally the case for a willing servant of Apocalypse.
* ForWantOfANail: When discussing Sugar Man with the [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix7/sugarmanaoa.htm Marvel Appendix]], creator Scott Lobdell said that the reason the Sugar Man has never had a 616 counterpart is to make readers wonder what changed between the Age of Apocalypse and the regular timeline, if the mainstream Sugar Man died or never manifested or if he's in fact just an ordinary guy someone in the world with the potential to become a nightmarish, concentration camp-running mutant monster.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: While literally ''every other'' inhabitant of the Age of Apocalypse has (eventually) been linked to a counterpart in the regular 616 reality, the Sugar Man has not and no mutant has ever been seen that even ''remotely'' resembles him.
* HeroKiller: Killed several members of Generation Next, the Age of Apocalypse analogue to ComicBook/GenerationX.
* HornsOfVillainy: Two over his eyebrows, usually small but DependingOnTheArtist sometimes they can vary wildly in size.
* HypercompetentSidekick: A ''very'' unusual example, but the Sugar Man has proved himself to be this over the years, particularly where Genosha is concerned. He allied himself with Cameron Hodge and the Genegineer in secret, and ultimately succeeded where they failed by engineering a stable Genoshan regime (well, as stable as things ever get on Genosha) that supplied him with a regular feed of mutant slaves. Later, when he joined up with Holocaust and the Dark Beast and the Shi'ar came for all of them, he was the only one of the three with the sense to play ball with the Sh'ar, resulting in a cocky (and free) Sugar Man glibly taunting his betters while they lay helpless in Shi'ar custody.
* ImAHumanitarian: Sugar Man is in fact an ExtremeOmnivore who can digest virtually anything as sustenance... but as he's fond of reminding his victims, he has his ''preferences'' in food.
* MadScientist: Though not the foremost example of this trope, as he admits to Magneto when the latter comes to him for a better dose of MGH.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Retconned into being the mastermind behind Genosha's various anti-mutant tech, as he arrived twenty years in 616's past.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has four arms, plus his prehensile tongue.
* MultiMeleeMaster: ''Master'' is definitely pushing it, but as a four-armed mutant the Sugar Man is known to carry multiple types of weapons in battle, including:
** AnAxeToGrind: As mentioned above, his brand of AxCrazy is very often literal.
** DropTheHammer: Carries one with SUGAR on it. He's a weird guy, okay?
** GoodGunsBadGuns: When edged weapons aren't enough, he's also known to carry TMPs and other machineguns.
* MultipurposeTongue: Sugar Man uses his long razor-sharp tongue as his weapon.
* OutGambitted: Magneto tricked him into providing him a 'quick and dirty' boost to his failing mutant powers, using Briar Raleigh as a go-between to make Sugar Man think he had given up his mission of being a mutant VigilanteMan. Unfortunately for Sugar Man, Magneto had done no such thing, and the moment Sugar Man had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness given him what he wanted]] Magneto pulped him.
* OutsideContextProblem: According to his creator Scott Lobdell, Sugar Man was created specifically to be this, providing a villain for the Age of Apocalypse who ''wasn't'' just a new take on an old character. And to this very day, well over 20 years later, no 616 counterpart of him has ever appeared.
* PlagueMaster: His primary contributions to Apocalypse's regime were the nightmarish biological weapons he invented.
* PsychoForHire: Degenerated into a MadScientist variant of this after he was run out of Genosha. When Magneto went to him for an extra strength dose of MGH to power him up, he even bluntly pointed this out, noting that Magneto could have gone to any one of a number of geneticists higher up on the scale than him (the answer was that Magneto wanted quick and dirty).
* PsychopathicManChild: The Man-Child part is indicated by his drawings, which look like childish scribbles. The psycho part goes without saying.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Implied to have sexually abused a number of his prisoners, including, chillingly, a young Illyana Rasputin.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Occasionally drawn with them.
* TheRenfield: An odd example in that he is perfectly capable of operating on his own, but the minute a stronger leader emerges he starts kissing up, particularly if that leader is Apocalypse or someone connected to him somehow.
* {{Retcon}}: Despite being the writer who decided to bring Sugar Man over to the mainstream Marvel Universe, Sugar Man's creator Scott Lobdell never intended to make him TheManBehindTheMan to the mutant-enslaving regime on Genosha. That was done by Warren Ellis and Jeph Loeb in the pages of ComicBook/{{Cable}}'s title.
* SizeShifter: He is also able to control his own mass. If he loses mass, the lost mass is shunted off to some unknown location, presumably an extra-dimensional space and he shrinks in size. It's unknown how long it takes him to regain his normal size.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Often, though not always, depicted with spiked shoulderpads.
* StayingAlive: The most complex yet useful perk of his mutation: whenever Sugar Man is killed, a smaller Sugar Man (a fourth the size of the original's body) emerges from the corpse. He survived a pipe through the head courtesy of Callisto and Omega Sentinel this way.
* VerbalTic: In early appearances he had a habit of running words together likethis. It was either quietly dropped or quietly forgotten.
* VillainTeamUp: Fairly fond of teaming up with his fellow Age of Apocalypse expatriates Holocaust and the Dark Beast. He inevitably betrays them just like he betrays everyone else, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
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[[folder:Vargas]]
!!Vargas
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Spanish
!!!'''Species:''' Homo sapians superior
->'''Debut:''' ''X-Treme X-Men'' #1
A mysterious man searching for Irene Adler's diaries who ends up clashing with the X-Men because he believes he is fated to die at the hands of one of them.
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* ArcVillain: He is the primary villain in 2001's ''X-treme X-Men'' initial story arc.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Vargas is not a mutant, but he is also not fully human either. He claims to be the natural response of human evolution against mutantkind.
* BadassNormal: His strength, speed and durability are at peak for human potential, and he manages to curbstomp ComicBook/{{Rogue}} and ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} in a fight.
* {{BFS}}: His weapon of choice is a large broadsword.
* CListFodder: While he might have [[HeroKiller killed]] a [[ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} big league X-Man]] and was a pain in the ass to the X-Treme X-Men, when it comes to the large picture, he doesn't hold a candle to [[EvilOverlord Apocalypse]], [[DiabolicalMastermind Mr. Sinister]], [[SinisterMinister William Stryker]], [[HumanoidAbomination Cassandra Nova]] and many other enemies that the heroes faced, who threatened the world on regular basis. And as such [[spoiler:he is killed off without ceremony just before ''Messiah Complex'' by the Marauders on Mr. Sinister's orders]].
* DashingHispanic: A very evil example, being a ruthless warrior of Hispanic background who not only holds his own against superpowered foes, but manages to overwhelm them. He has a tendency to drop GratuitousSpanish.
* GratuitousSpanish: He tends to drop Spanish words a lot and in one infamous instance he uses Betsy's blood to write "pronto" (Spanish for "Done") in the wall above her corpse.
* MasterSwordsman: A pretty dangerous one. His duel with Psylocke was pretty one-sided.
* HeroKiller: The thing he is most famous for is killing ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} in a duel. He also very nearly killed Rogue, Gambit and Beast in other encounters.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The reason why Sinister had Vargas executed was his possession of Destiny's diaries, as he wanted to silence everyone who had knowledge of the future. So the very object he used to avoid his own death was indirectly responsible for it, in a way he couldn't have predicted]].
* KilledOffscreen: Whether Rogue [[spoiler:or the Marauders]] killed him, either way we never see his body.
* ScrewDestiny: The reason why he is a thorn on the X-Men's side: Irene's diaries state he is fated to die at the hands of one, believed to be Rogue. And he wants to avoid that by any means necessary.
* {{Transhuman}}: He claims to be a level of human evolution even higher than mutants, but we never find out if he's telling the truth.
* UltimateLifeForm: He made the audacious claim that he is the next step in human evolution.
* TheUnreveal: During the final battle, Rogue had him pinned to the ground and ready to stab him with his own sword, but she hesitated because she didn't want to fulfill the prophecy and [[ScrewDestiny wanted to prove him wrong]]. It's unknown whether she spared or finished him off since the comic cuts way before that happens and the next panel showed her declaring that "it's over". [[spoiler:She evidently spared him, as years later, Mr. Sinister sends his death squads to finish the job.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Considered Psylocke to have been this moments before killing her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vulcan]]
!!'''Gabriel Summers / Vulcan'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
-> '''AKA:''' Kid Vulcan, Emperor Vulcan, Majestor
-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men: Deadly Genesis'' #1 (2006)
--> ''I claim D'Ken's throne as my own! By right of blood and combat! By right of succession! I name myself Emperor Vulcan, ruler of the Shi'ar Imperium!''
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A prisoner of Shi'ar experiments concealed on Earth, the experience awakened him to a [[PowerLevels Omega level]] mutant, but also drove him mad and filled him with an urge to devastate the Shi'ar, an urge he happily set about fulfilling once he realised how powerful he was. Ironically, he ended up becoming their ruler, even falling in love with the exiled Shi'ar princess, Deathbird, herself an outcast for being a mutant.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: His status as leader of the Shi'ar is this at first, since they see him as TheUsurper.
** VillainWithGoodPublicity: ... but after leading the Imperium to numerous victories and conquests, he achieves a dramatic shift in popular approval.
* AChildShallLeadThem: Becomes TheEmperor of the Shi'ar through a KlingonPromotion.
* AntagonisticOffspring: To Corsair.
* AxCrazy: Completely and utterly insane and wildly, violently unstable. [[spoiler:As of ''House of X'' he seems to have stabilized, though the hows and whys are currently unknown.]]
* BadBoss: As Emperor of the Shi'ar. Though it's a safe bet he never read Machiavelli, he personified the Machiavellian style of leadership.
** Actually ''{{averted|Trope}}'' more often than not, surprisingly enough. Yes, Vulcan had absolutely no mercy for his people's enemies, leaned towards a [[AttackAttackAttack overly-aggressive]] sense of diplomacy and was prone to [[TheCaligula screaming fits of rage]] when things didn't go his way. But he never actually ''[[YouHaveFailedMe killed]]'' any of his underlings even when they screwed up, was [[PsychopathicManchild almost childishly exuberant]] when things ''did'' go his way, and his mixture of political savvy and raw power kept even the [[BoxedCrook highly dangerous boxed crooks]] in his employ from stepping out of line.
* BeingEvilSucks: [[spoiler:After his resurrection, he declares he doesn't want to go back to being the psychopath he was before.]]
* BigBad: In most of the stories he's in.
* BigDamnVillains: Without him the Starjammers, and by extension the rest of the universe, would have been utterly ''screwed'' by the [[ConflictKiller Scy'ar Tal]].
* BigScrewedUpFamily: And how!
* CainAndAbel: Mainly between him and Havok.
* TheCaligula: In ''War of Kings'', and very deliberately so.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: In ''War of Kings'' this is his objective.
* {{Determinator}}: Definitely something that's [[InTheBlood in the Summers blood]]. Wannabe TheManBehindTheMan Talon even [[DeconstructedTrope points this out]] in-story, remarking to a confederate that Vulcan's determination to win the ComicBook/WarOfKings will ruin the Shi'ar Empire, and the sooner they can get rid of him and install a proper PuppetKing, the better.
* TheDragon: ''Very'' briefly to D'Ken. See IndyPloy below.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: He accepts D'Ken's offer to marry into the Shi'ar royal family, with the ultimately successful goal of becoming a...
** DragonAscendant: After he nukes D'Ken.
* ErmineCapeEffect: He was introduced wearing an X-Men uniform as he was one of Xavier's lost students, but quickly switched it out for a more regal, cape-adorned uniform after being promoted to TheEvilPrince by D'Ken.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vulcan is ''devastated'' when Deathbird winds up crippled just before the War of Kings.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even ''he'' thought that Black Bolt's plan to force the entire galaxy into becoming Inhumans was way out of line. Though seconds later, he admits his plan after killing Black Bolt is to take the T-Bomb and throw it at the Kree.
* EvilIsPetty: When Vulcan captures Havok at the conclusion of ''Emperor Vulcan'', he spends inordinate amounts of time tormenting the captive Starjammer from his cell, to the point of neglecting his duties as the Shi'ar majestor. Interestingly, he never actually tortures Havok ''physically'', instead just going for a series of wannabe [[HannibalLecture Hannibal Lectures]] that [[ShutUpHannibal completely fail to break Alex]].
* TheEvilPrince: Not born one, but becomes one after marrying into the Shi'ar royal family.
** Graduates through KlingonPromotion to TheEmperor
* EvilVersusEvil: Unwittingly, during his fight with [[spoiler:the Magus, who had already taken over Adam Warlock and was planning to summon the Many-Angled Ones]].
* {{Expy}}: He has a ''lot'' in common with DC's [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ Superboy Prime]]. Also fellow X-villain [[KnightTemplar Exodus]], both of whom are antagonists with sympathetic backgrounds who clearly won the SuperpowerLottery but suffer from SanitySlippage for it and spend lots of time [[LongBusTrip on buses]] due to writers having little idea of what to do with them.
* EyeScream: Loses an eye to a pissed-off Gladiator. It's the only injury he ever sustains that sticks. [[spoiler:And then it gets fixed by his ressurection.]]
* FreudianExcuse: His mother was murdered and he was forced to spend his childhood as a slave.
* GalacticConqueror: He swallowed up a large swath of space into the Shi'ar Empire during his reign, including several territories held by other empires.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Like many mutant baddies, he has these when using his power.
* GoingNative: He initially went to space with the goal of wiping the Shi'ar Empire off the map, but falling in love with Deathbird made him pull a complete 180 and become their ruler instead. You'd ''think'' this would translate to him becoming a BadBoss EvilOverlord, but he ends up genuinely wanting their approval and to be seen as one of them.
--> '''Deathbird''': You ''are'' Shi'ar. [[LadyMacbeth I can see it inside you]], and the the time will come when you will show the Imperium that you were born to rule them.
* GooGooGodlike: Vulcan, Cyclops's long-foreshadowed second brother was found as a baby and raised to adolescence by aliens, and has the power to absorb literally any form of matter or energy and fire it back, survive in the vacuum of space, and shut off superpowers. He was described as "beyond Omega-level", but since Omega-level already means a mutant of unlimited potential, the part about being beyond a mutant of unlimited potential is most likely a regretful mistake. Still, he's very powerful.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The chancellors and conspirators still loyal to D'Ken conspired to let Vulcan go free so that he could release Deathbird and dethrone Lilandra. The plan went a little too well.
* HairTriggerTemper: Developed one after becoming the Shi'ar majestor. He could go from calm and calculating to screaming madman in the blink of an eye.
* HappilyMarried: From all indications, his feelings for Deathbird were genuine.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He's returned in 2019's ''House of X'' and is listed in that story as being an omega level mutant affiliated with the X-Men]].
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He killed Banshee, Corsair, and a lot of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard]]. He also killed pretty much the ''entire cast'' in a what-if tale where he gained the power of the Phoenix.
* IndyPloy: His plan to take the Shi'ar throne, which was a strange mixture of this and BatmanGambit. He came to the Shi'ar on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, fully intending to destroy their entire empire, but shifted his focus when he [[InterspeciesRomance fell in love with Deathbird]]. Deathbird talked him into reviving the comatose D'Ken, the very Shi'ar who had killed his mother and been the architect of his misery. Vulcan ''considered'' just killing the comatose D'Ken, but decided there would be no point in revenge on a vegetable. So instead he revived D'Ken, let himself be talked into becoming D'Ken's [[TheDragon Dragon]], and patiently waited until his marriage to Deathbird to kill him, since by Shi'ar law he would then have the right to claim the throne.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Deathbird (Shi'ar mutant).
* InTheHood: Early in his reign he is shown as using this to go KingIncognito and learn what his new subjects think of him.
* JekyllAndHyde: [[spoiler:After his resurrection, his original, volatile personality is buried beneath an artificial one created by his resurrectors.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: A rare justified example. Due to being a ''literal'' PsychopathicManchild artificially grown into adolescence before his time, Vulcan's sense of empathy is sorely stunted. The only person he shows any affection for care to is Deathbird.
* LargeHam: Actually pretty restrained most of the time. Not so much when written by Jonathan Hickman, who has him going on in practically ultra-violet speeches all the time. Even [[MundaneMadeAwesome when cooking steak]].
* LightIsNotGood: His powers often manifest as light and flames, but he is most definitely not the protagonist.
* LineOfSightName: He chose the name 'Vulcan' because as a slave the only solace he had was a book about Roman mythology.
* LongLostSibling: He's the third Summers brother.
* LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe: Being the very definition of a SmugSuper, he's ''always'' going on about his being an Omega-level mutant.
* LongBusTrip: After his battle with Black Bolt at the end of ''War of Kings''. Black Bolt quickly returned to life, but Vulcan spent nearly a decade on the bus before [[spoiler:returning in 2019's ''House of X'']].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His hyper-aggressive leadership pushes the Inhumans to rise up against him.
* {{Omniglot}}: He can speak cotati at the very least.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: On a level comparable to the Inhuman king Black Bolt.
* PsychopathicManchild: He appears to be in his late teens but due to his severely messed up history he has the maturity level of a ten-year old child and the temperament of a perpetually angry kid.
* PuppetKing: Talon of the Fraternity of Raptors ''attempts'' to make him one, only to find out very quickly that Vulcan can't be controlled. By anyone.
* RandomPowerRanking: Since M-Day Vulcan is a classified omega level mutant. He's not particularly shy about letting people know, either.
* ResurrectedForAJob: [[spoiler:He was saved from the Fault by interdimensional aliens, who'd been looking for Black Bolt, who fixed some of his insanity and sent him back to Earth-616 as a ManchurianAgent.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: On the Shi'ar. It eventually winds up with him in charge.
* SealedEvilInACan: In his backstory, and the main reason why he hates Professor X so fiercely. [[spoiler:After failing to stop Krakoa, Gabriel and his dying teammates were all entombed within the island while it was launched into space. He didn't get out until M-Day.]]
--> '''Vulcan:''' ''(to Professor X)'' Now I trap ''you'' in a rock!
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[ComicBookDeath For a time]].
* SlouchOfVillainy: After becoming majestor of the Shi'ar he becomes prone to this.
* SmugSuper: Probably the best example of this trope in the ''X-Men'' universe. As one of the most powerful mutants alive, there's almost nobody in the universe who can stand up against him. As such, the very idea of someone actually being stronger than he is absolutely inconceivable for him to imagine and at the same time, it's what deep down, he fears the most. The look on his face when Polaris briefly overpowers him is ''priceless''.
* TheSociopath: Professor X labels him as one in an alternate canon story.
* StartOfDarkness: In the 'Kid Vulcan' short during ''Deadly Genesis'' it was shown that he grew to adolescence as a slave of the Shi'ar, which accounts for his sunny disposition.
* StrongerSibling: To Cyclops and Havok, though Havok was able to beat him once when Vulcan foolishly overcharged him by ''throwing him into a sun''.
* SuperpowerLottery: Oh, boy. Where to begin?
** EnergyAbsorption: Vulcan's an 'Omega-level energy manipulator', which effectively makes him a god. There's not a lot he ''can't'' do. His demonstrated uses of this ability include:
*** AttackReflector: Can do this as long as he's being attacked with an energy-based attack, like the optic blasts of Cyclops.
*** {{Flight}}: Capable of this on an interstellar level, being able to fly under his own power through the vacuum of space.
*** HandBlast: His standard method of attack.
*** HealingFactor: Black Bolt unleashes the full power of his voice, managing to flay Vulcan's skin off. And he still gets up a few minutes later.
*** ImmuneToMindControl: He's not completely immune to them, but is highly resistant to both telepathic and psionic attacks.
*** NighInvulnerability: Tough enough to tank attacks from Polaris and Havok at once, as well as being able to withstand blows from Gladiator.
*** PowerCopying: A very strange case, and possibly an ability he was only able to tap into with the psyches of his teammates, as he never used it after ''Deadly Genesis''. It wasn't actually ''copying'' as much as it was manipulating the powers of others, presumably through his own energy-manipulating abilities.
*** PowerNullifier: Like the above Power Copying, this was an ability he was only shown using during ''Deadly Genesis'', and he may have lost it after [[spoiler:Darwin's psyche separated from him]].
*** PowerParasite: He can rob the energy reserves of other energy manipulators, even non-traditional ones such as ComicBook/AdamWarlock.
*** PsychicSurgery: Not a psychic, but he awakened the comatose D'Ken from a decades-long coma by using his energy powers to re-ignite the dead neurons in D'Ken's brain.
** ElementalPowers: A case of AllThereInTheManual. Vulcan's creator, Ed Brubaker, explained an interview that he has the unrealized potential to generate and control the seven elements (fire, earth, electricity, wind, water, darkness, and light). He's only actually exhibited control over a handful of those elements, though.
*** DishingOutDirt: Only used this during ''Deadly Genesis''.
*** LightEmUp: Via his HandBlasts.
*** PlayingWithFire: By far his most favorite elemental ability, as well as the one most befitting his personality.
*** ShockAndAwe: Another one he only used during ''Deadly Genesis''.
** ComboPlatterPowers: As if all of the above [[SuperpowerLottery wasn't enough]], ''Deadly Genesis'' revealed that he'd psionically absorbed the powers (and psyches) of his teammates Petra, Sway, and Darwin when they died, leading to:
*** DishingOutDirt: From Petra.
*** TimeMaster: From Sway.
*** AdaptiveAbility: From Darwin. [[spoiler:Later lost when Darwin's psyche was separated from him.]]
** So, in short, Vulcan's a PhysicalGod.
* TangledFamilyTree: He's a late addition to the ever-tangled Summers family line.
* TeensAreMonsters: A shining example of what happens when you give a teenager with a shitty childhood way too much power and then let them run wild.
* TooPowerfulToLive: The trick was finding something powerful enough to kill him.
* TradingBarsForStripes: When the original Imperial Guard fails to wipe out the Starjammers, he puts together a new one made up of the Shi'ar Empire's most fearsome prisoners, rationalizing that hardened criminals will have more of a killer instinct than lifelong soldiers.
* UnskilledButStrong: He's had only a week of training as an X-Man, compared to the decades Cyclops and Havok got, but he's probably stronger than 95% of the X-Men's rogues gallery (and even more seeing as he was capable of trading blows with some of the Marvel U's super-heavyweights like Adam Warlock and Black Bolt). This was how Polaris got the upper hand; he was definitely the more powerful of the two, but she was powerful enough to be able to hold her own and much, much more experienced with fighting people on her level or stronger, whereas he was so used to annihilating anyone who challenged him that he genuinely had no idea where to go when he ''didn't'' manage to atomize someone in one shot.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: When Moira [=MacTaggert=] first found him, he was an earnest young man who was enthusiastic about being an X-Man as well as desiring to control his powers to avoid unintentionally hurting others.
* VillainDecay: Possibly overlapping with SanitySlippage, as Vulcan's actions became increasingly less rational as time went on. Most vividly seen when the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy sent Adam Warlock to negotiate with him; true, Warlock slipping aboard his ship without invitation ''probably'' wasn't the wisest thing to do, but Vulcan's response? ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Immediately]]'' attempt to incinerate Warlock, and when that didn't work, pick a knock-down-drag-out fight with him right there in the middle of his own flagship.
* VillainHasAPoint: As monstrous as Vulcan is, he's fully justified in hating and blaming Xavier for manipulating him and his comrades to be sent on a suicide mission and then mentally wiping the memories of others to cover up the incident. If Xavier had been more upstanding and honest, Vulcan wouldn't have turned out the way he did.
* WarriorPrince: Once he marries into the Shi'ar royal family.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Explicitly stated. He wasn't originally so powerful; the energies Scarlet Witch released on M-Day were somehow all absorbed by him in his [[SealedBadassInACan comatose state]], leading him to experience an exponential power increase all at once. Gaining so much power so quickly definitely took its toll.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Hinted at in the main books, and explicitly stated in an alternate story where he gained the power of the Phoenix Force.
* TheWorfEffect: As mentioned above, Vulcan fought Adam Warlock at one point. He also ''completely dominated'' Warlock, using his energy-absorption powers to drain all of Warlock's magical reserves and rendering him nearly helpless. Keep in mind that Adam Warlock is a cosmic-tier hero who has thrown down with the likes of ComicBook/{{Thanos}} and even ''ComicBook/{{Galactus}}''. [[spoiler:More impressive given this was Adam turning into the Magus, who's even stronger and more dangerous than his good self.]]
* WreathedInFlames: Uses them for his BattleAura.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Between the Shi'ar forcibly speeding up his aging, and that long period spent being not quite dead, despite looking to be in his mid-to-late teens, he's mentally a lot younger than he should be (at one point during "Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire", he hallucinates a child version of himself who tries to work out the math).
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[[folder:X-Cutioner]]
!!'''Carl Denti / X-Cutioner'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human
-> '''Debut:''' ''Uncanny X-Men Annual'' #17 (1993)
--> ''"Villain", "hero", it's all a matter of perspective, wouldn't you say?''
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A LawmanGoneBad who takes it upon himself to act as judge, jury and executioner for fugitive mutants. Not the BigBad of the ''X-Cutioner's Song'' crossover, or even affiliated with it, despite what his handle might lead you to believe.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Invokes this in his debut appearance, as seen with his profile quote above.
* [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought to You By The Letter "X"]]: His name was inspired by the ''X-Cutioner's Song'', a 1992 X-books BatFamilyCrossover that featured X-Force villain Stryfe as the titular X-Cutioner (though he was never called that on-panel). Evidently creator Scott Lobdell thought it was too cool a name to waste, as he gave it to this new character a year later.
* CowboyCop: When the FBI couldn't apprehend a mutant (or he thought a jail cell wasn't enough) Denti would gear up and go after them as the X-Cutioner.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In later appearances Denti became a Gambit villain, targeting the Ragin' Cajun for termination solely because Remy was able to defeat and humiliate him.
* FantasticRacism: Played with, as Denti himself does not hate mutants in general but recognizes how dangerous some of them are and is all too willing to work outside the law to deal with them. This naturally motivates him into becoming a VigilanteMan.
** The second version hates all mutants, after his wife and son are killed in the crossfire of mutants fighting each other.
* FollowTheLeader: Denti is basically retread of ComicBook/ThePunisher that targets mutants specifically, and was created when the Punisher's popularity was at an all-time high. This turns out to be true ''in-universe'' as well as out, with Denti meeting Frank and admitting to him that the Punisher was his inspiration for becoming the X-Cutioner. Ironically, Denti himself ended up serving as the inspiration for an even more deranged fellow, who has become the new X-Cutioner.
* HeelFaceTurn: Denti eventually abandoned the X-Cutioner persona and returned to work as an FBI agent.
* InTheHood: One of the more sensible examples in comics. Being a still-active FBI agent, Denti uses this to maintain his SecretIdentity.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite (accidentally) murdering two kids he'd tricked into working for him, Denti is able to return to his old job without facing any charges.
* KickTheDog: Aside from his first kill, the mutant rapist Tower, Denti seems to go after mutants too weak or vulnerable to fight back. His next target after Tower is Mastermind, who was already in his literal deathbed thanks to the Legacy Virus, and after that was a wash he targeted Emma Frost, who was in a coma at the time. The main exception to this is Rogue, who had the powers she'd stolen from ComicBook/CarolDanvers, and he didn't initially back down when faced with both her and ComicBook/XMan, who he actually gives a decent fight (it's worth noting that X-Man was exhausted from a long flight, a misunderstanding fight with Rogue, and was inexperienced with his malfunctioning powers), only teleporting out when both got their second wind.
* LawmanGoneBad: An FBI agent following in the footsteps of the Punisher.
* LegacyCharacter: A second version of the X-Cutioner appeared in ''ComicBook/XMenGold''. This version is much more indiscriminate of who he kills, falling into the WouldHurtAChild category when he attacks the Jean Grey School.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: The second X-Cutioner took advantage of a crisis involving the Darkhold to infiltrate the X-Mansion, plant explosives, and murder two students.
* MilitaryBrat: His family has a distinguished tradition of military service.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: True to his name, the X-Cutioner did not try to arrest mutants, instead just opting for summary executions.
* NoNameGiven: The second X-Cutioner was never named, even though he was eventually arrested (and presumably identified) by the NYPD.
* NeverMyFault: One of Denti's main character flaws. He's always blaming the X-Men for getting in his way, reasoning that they deserve death by not stepping aside to let him commit murder.
* NinetiesAntiHero: You don't get much more nineties than ''The X-Cutioner'' (unless your name is [[UpToEleven Adam X the X-Treme]]).
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The main reason why he failed as a villain and was retired. Despite his whole identity being based around the concept of killing fugitive mutants, Denti's only kill over his entire villainous career was the aforementioned Tower. Every time he tried and failed to kill a target (most of whom were invalids unable to even defend themselves!) it took a little more wind out of his sails. By the time Gambit was mopping him up in his solo series, Denti was firmly in has-been territory.
* PutOnABus: Owing to the character's now-goofy handle, he's been pretty much banished back to the nineties that spawned him.
* SanitySlippage: Denti's father was revealed to have died from it, going nuts on a battlefield and having to be put down by his own men, and Denti himself suffers from it in later appearances, blurring his already vague sense of morality in the name of getting another kill under his belt.
* SerialKiller: Unlike Denti, the second X-Cutioner never had any affiliation with the law, and was just a nutjob who decided that all mutants needed to die after his wife and son were (accidentally) killed in a mutant conflict.
* UngratefulBastard: Archangel saves him from a nasty fall the first time they meet. Denti's way of saying 'thank you' is a taser to the face.
* VigilanteMan: Rest assured, his mission of mutant execution did ''not'' come with an FBI mandate.
* VilerNewVillain: As mentioned above, the second X-Cutioner of ''X-Men Gold'' was a much more villainous character than Denti ended up being. He ended up killing 7 mutants in total, while the original X-Cutioner's body count stands at just a single mutant, and that kill was a mutant rapist who is missed by no one.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: To the point of being a non-powered case of PowerCopying -- Denti uses his FBI connections to piece together a small arsenal of confiscated weaponry from the various extraterrestrials the X-Men have battled over the years. Archangel aptly describes him as a "walking medley of the X-Men's greatest villains".
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[[folder:Xarus]]
!!'''Xarus / Shadow Colonel'''
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!!!'''Species:''' Vampire
--> '''Debut''': ''Death of Dracula'' (2010)
The youngest son of [[ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula Dracula]], unhappy that humanity kept pushing vampires further and further into the darkness, he devised a coup against his own father and sets his eyes on world domination, starting by converting all mutants located in San Francisco to his cause.
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* AssassinOutclassin: Shortly after staking his father, Alyssa tried to have Xarus killed by sending [[HoneyTrap three Siren vampires to seduce him]]. He managed to overpower them just in time when things started to get intimate.
* AntagonisticOffspring: To his father.
* BigBad: In ''ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants''.
* TheCasanova: Xarus is introduced with his girlfriend Alyssa around his arms, has no problem getting hooking up with three Siren ladies at the same time. Like father, like son.
* CainAndAbel: He tried to get his eldest brother Janus killed for refusing to side with him in his coup.
* DaywalkingVampire: Xarus manages to get the support of the vampires by having invented a light-bending device that allows them to walk under the sunlight.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Artists never seen to agree whether he should have blonde or brown hair.
* TheEvilPrince: Fits this trope like a glove since he wants to replace his father as the new vampire king, and get rid of any potential threats such as his brother Janus.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He is beheaded by his resurrected father, whom he had previously staked and beheaded]].
* NewEraSpeech:
-->''For centuries -- centuries -- we've been told we are damned! That we must live our lives in the dark, the world's dirty secret. That we are the corrupt shadows of humanity, undeserving of our own place in the light. And you -- like my father over there -- have accepted that. I say, by our own might, by the force of our will, we are redeemed! Together, united, we will reintroduce vampirekind to the world. And the world will tremble.''
* UnholyMatrimony: Originally used to be romantically involved with Alyssa, but she betrayed him too many times. He then decided to take {{ComicBook/Jubilee}} as his consort.
* VampireMonarch: What he inspired to become.
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[[folder:Zaladane]]
!!'''Zala Dane / Zaladane'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
-> '''Debut:''' ''Astonishing Tales'' #3 (1970)
--> ''I think you'll find a full measure of respect, and not a little fear... for the woman responsible for the ultimate destruction of Magneto.''
An ambitious Savage Land priestess who attempted several times to take over the region. Notable for her alliance with Sauron and for having stripped Polaris from her magnetic powers not long after the ''ComicBook/{{Inferno}}'' arc, to the point of being on par with Magneto in terms of mastery over magnetism. She was eventually killed by Magneto himself for claiming his own title.
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* AbortedArc: Under Creator/ChrisClaremont's original plan Zaladane was going to come BackFromTheDead and join new villain group the Wild Boys (yes, named after the Music/DuranDuran song). This group was retooled into the Upstarts after Claremont left and Zaladane remained dead, her place in the new group taken by new villain Siena Blaze instead.
* AmbiguouslyLesbian: Her interactions with [[ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil Shanna]] in the X-Men's late 80s "Savage Land" story arc were ambiguous, to say the least. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #250, especially, which had her all but going IHaveYouNowMyPretty on the captured jungle heroine. (The story was written, naturally, by Creator/ChrisClaremont.)
* AntagonisticOffspring: Towards [[spoiler:Magneto]], assuming she was in fact his daughter.
* ArchEnemy: To Ka-Zar and later Polaris.
* BigBad: Only used for this in a single issue, ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #275, but in that issue she successfully supplanted ''Magneto himself'' in threat level.
* [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought To You By The Letter "Z"]]: As the High Evolutionary's assistant Zaladane wore an outfit featuring a prominent stylized Z, predating [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Lord Zedd]] by a handy decade or so.
* CainAndAbel: She's the Cain, Polaris is the Abel.
* ConflictKiller: She was a big enough threat in UXM #275 to necessitate an alliance between S.H.I.E.L.D, the Russian government, the X-Men (via Rogue) and Magneto.
* ContinuitySnarl: ''Is'' she [[spoiler:Magneto's]] daughter? Is she Polaris's sister? We know Lorna definitely is Erik's kid, but nothing definite's been given about Zaladane.
* TheDragon: To Garrok and later the High Evolutionary before striking out on her own.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Her last costume incorporated these, presumably as a riff on her first (which featured a headdress that looked ''remarkably'' like a rooster comb).
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Introduced as the queen of the Sun People, one of the Savage Land's multiple indigenous tribes.
* HighPriest: For Garrok's cult.
* KickTheDog: She once kidnapped an innocent man and subjected him to a ritual that overwrote his mind and body with that of Garrok, essentially condemning the poor sucker to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* KillItWithFire: Alongside Garrok, she attempted to have Colossus executed via burning at a stake.
* KilledOffForReal: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #275, courtesy of Magneto.
* LadyMacbeth: Played this role to both Garrok and the High Evolutionary, actively egging on and encouraging their villainy (not that Garrok needed much encouraging).
* LongLostSibling: Revealed/retconned into being one for Polaris.
* ManipulativeBitch: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} during her time as the High Evolutionary's assistant, when she all but broke her back trying to manipulate the latter only for him to reveal to the heroes that he knew her true goals all along, but didn't care enough about politics to go to the trouble of stopping her. As long as Zaladane helped him preserve and restore the Savage Land's environment, the High Evolutionary didn't care at all what she did in her off time.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: In her sole ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' appearance Zaladane was able to successfully consolidate her rule over the Savage Land, only for it to become moot when a fleet of Sentinels slaughtered her and nearly every other mutant on Earth.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: She is heavily implied in her last appearance to have grown stronger than Magneto, so much so that Mags declares her TooPowerfulToLive and kills her. Few heroes or villains can said to have made ''Magneto'' feel fear, but Zaladane is one of them.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: She’s quite busty.
* MouthOfSauron: Served this role to Garrok in her first few appearances.
* {{Mutant|s}}: Averted, at least if we accept her word for it. Zaladane claims at one point to be a mutate, an ordinary human empowered with mutant-level abilities via technology, and while she never proves this it should be noted that the Savage Land features a ''heavy'' mutate population. [[spoiler:Though if she is truly Polaris's sister then she was either lying and actually a mutant or she had latent mutant potential that was activated by mutate technology.]]
* NearVillainVictory: In part due to a Russian colonel's grudge against Magneto, but Zaladane came ''this'' close to having the Savage Land under her leadership declared a sovereign state by the United Nations, in exchange for her agreement to leave the rest of the world in peace. Zaladane was smart enough to realize the U.N. would probably not leave things at that, but her fledgling statecraft went no further as the good guys kicked in her door not too long after.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: At the height of her power Zaladane was powerful enough to threaten every nation on Earth with devastating earthquakes.
* PowerParasite: Not naturally, but she used the High Evolutionary's technology to siphon Polaris's powers into herself. As a Creator/ChrisClaremont plot, this event stuck for some time, with Zaladane retaining Polaris's powers right up to her death and Polaris manifesting a secondary FlyingBrick mutation that lasted until the inevitable StatusQuoIsGod reset button.
* StrongerSibling: To Polaris, if she is in fact her sister.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: A debatable case with her debatable lineage, but it does bear noting that she uses magical powers very similar in nature to those of [[spoiler:her possible half-sister the Scarlet Witch]].
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Literally the words used by Magneto himself as he killed her: "There can be only one Master of Magnetism."
* TookALevelInBadass: Took several levels in her final appearance, to the point where Magneto himself decided she was TooPowerfulToLive.
* UngratefulBitch: In their first fight Ka-Zar saved Zaladane's life by cushioning her fall when they both fell off a pterodactyl. Zaladane's way of saying thanks was to lure Ka-Zar into a cavern guarded by a demonic beast. Amusingly, this led to some LaserGuidedKarma when an out-of-control Garrok chased her right back into said cavern.
* VainSorceress: Mildly vain. Zaladane's not above a good gloat, but fighting for power in the Savage Land also taught her the necessities of being a CombatPragmatist.
* WouldHurtAChild: In one issue she used her sorcery to control Colossus and ordered him to kill Ka-Zar's infant son out of spite.
* {{Zeerust}}: Presumably the reason she has not been revived; like the Marauders, Zaladane's design was heavily influenced by the era she was created in and consequently she comes off as rather dated today.
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[[folder:Zzxz]]
!!'''Zzxz'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Klyntar
!!!'''Species:''' Symboite
-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men: Kingbreaker'' #2
--> '''Oracle:''' ... Some kind of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote]], we had never encountered anything like it. D'Ken wanted it studied, but after he died, it just remained locked away. My Lord... it is a monstrosity. It feeds on people. It consumes their brains...
--> '''Emperor Vulcan:''' Then if it wants a fresh meal, it will do as I tell it. What else?
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* BlankWhiteEyes: Like its [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} distant relations]] it has large white eyes.
* BoxedCrook: One of the Shi'ar's most fearsome prisoners, until Emperor Vulcan decides to give it a job.
* BrainFood: Like Venom, it has a taste for brains.
* CombatTentacles: It can project pseudopodia and tendrils to attack and restrain opponents.
* TheDreaded: It is one of the five most dangerous entities captured by the Shi'ar Empire.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: It possesses a wide mouth full of sharp fangs.
* PuppeteerParasite: It took over the body of Raza Longknife during a fight with the Starjammers.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The symbiotes are much more common foes of Franchise/SpiderMan than the X-Men. Appropriately he's finally restrained and captured by Nova who had a lot of rogues gallery overlap with Spider-Man in the past.
* TheSymbiote: It is a member of the same species as ComicBook/{{Venom}}. Nova managed to capture and separate it from its host due to his experience with fighting Venom.
* TradingBarsForStripes: It was imprisoned by Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, who intended to study it, but Gabriel Summers killed him and recruited Zzxz into his army.
* {{Yandere}}: Zzxz ''really'' wanted Lilandra as its next host, but took over Raza of the Starjammers instead.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: It is a black symbiote with large white eyes, making it largely identical to its distant relative Venom.
* AVillainNamedZrg: Its name is composed completely out of consonants from the end of the alphabet.
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[[folder:Sauron]]
!!'''Karl Lykos / Sauron'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Argentinian
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
-> '''Debut:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #60 (1969)
--> ''Dead, mutant? I am evil incarnate -- I cannot die! Behold, fools, the rebirth of Sauron!''
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A mutate that was originally supposed to be a vampire, that was a no-go with the comics code at the time, so instead he was reworked into an energy-sucking pterodactyl man. Really. Lykos was on an expedition to Antarctica with his father when they stumbled upon some caves leading to the Savage Land, full of Pteranodons. Lykos was injured by a Pterodon scratch and gained the ability to drain energy from other humans, and later when he did so to a mutant, the ability to turn into a giant were-Pterodactyl with hypnotic powers. Going mad with evil, he names himself after the villain from his favorite books and decides to try to suck the life out of everyone. Joined Toad's Brotherhood in UsefulNotes/TheNineties, despite not being a mutant.
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And, yes, you heard right, he is indeed named after the Tolkien character. Both InUniverse and out, in fact, despite the fact that the Dark Lord of Mordor likely wasn't meant to be a vampire pterodactyl-man.
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: In his early appearances as a creepy private-practice physician whose patients experience anemic symptoms, the still human-seeming Karl Lykos gives off ''all'' the classical warning signs for some kind of vampire or other. Actually, he's a ''much more bizarre'' mutant monster. As the intro paragraph specifies, he is also an ''inverted meta-example'', with the creators trying to make a villain who was as vampire-like as possible without [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar upsetting the editors]].
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Pteranodons.
* {{Animorphism}}: A sort of {{Involuntary Shapeshift|er}}ing, where Lykos transforms into Sauron whenever he absorbs mutant energy.
* ArchEnemy: Forgotten in recent years, but back in the day he was one of these to Havok. As Karl Lykos, he even served a stint as Havok's psychiatrist. More frequent X-Men sparring partners include Angel and Iceman, occasionally Cyclops when he wants some of that sweet sweet Summers energy, and most frequently the X-Men ally Ka-Zar.
* BadFuture: In the miniseries ''Weapon X: Days of Future Past'' Sauron is a high-ranking collaborator with the Sentinels, having grown [[VillainousGlutton so fat off mutant energies he can no longer fly]].
* CardCarryingVillain: Perhaps fitting for a SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron just ''can't shut up'' about how evil he is. In fact, upong first transforming, he '''immideately''' names himself Sauron after, in his own words, "[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] ultimate evil!"
* ComboPlatterPowers: Practically the poster child of this trope. He's a guy that can [[OurVampiresAreDifferent drain the life force of others]], [[ShapeShifting turns into a flying pterodactyl man when he drains the life force of a mutant]], said pterodactyl man form also has SuperStrength, the power to [[HypnoticEyes hypnotize people]] and can [[BreathWeapon breathe fire?]] Franchise/SpiderMan even noted how ridiculous him being a vampiric pterodactyl man was without even making note of all his other powers.
* TheConqueror: Numerous times Sauron has attempted to raise an army from the disaffected residents of the Savage Land in order to seize control of it. These efforts are usually thwarted by Ka-Zar.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: See [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sauronx.jpg here]]. Spider-Man notes that he could be using his advanced tech to cure cancer, but being a SuperpoweredEvilSide Sauron has no interest in such MundaneUtility.
* DespairEventHorizon: After his love interest Tanya was murdered by Toad during the 90's, Karl lost all reason to try and live an ordinary life. He's since given into his evil side more or less completely.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Later appearances saw him acquire the ability to [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]].
* TheDragon: Often serves this role to whatever BigBad of the day is currently trying to take control of the Savage Land. Zaladane and Garrok have both employed his services; unfortunately for them, his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder leads him to invariably stick the knife in at inconvenient moments.
* EnemyMine: During the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' Sauron allied with his longtime Savage Land enemies Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil against the Skrull invaders.
* EnemyWithin: Sauron is this to the fairly mild-mannered Lykos.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Averted]]. No matter how silly this guy sounds, he's always a pain in the neck to deal with.
* FromBadToWorse: As if being tempted to drain the life-energy of your patients all the time isn't bad enough, you then discover that draining another mutant turns you into a dangerous monster beyond your control.
* EvilOverlord: He's usually trying to be this in the Savage Land.
* EvilTeacher: ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' saw him find employment as a science teacher for the Hellfire Academy. ''Definitely'' a showcasing moment of the character's NarmCharm.
--> '''Sauron:''' (wearing glasses and a lab coat) I am Sauron, supreme ruler of this classroom, master of all second period!
* {{Flanderization}}: In a ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' tie-in Sauron was reduced to a Shadow King-tier IHaveYouNowMyPretty creeper who spent most of his on-panel slavering over various disgusted women. This wasn't ''completely'' out of nowhere, as a famous panel from one of Sauron's early appearances has him menacing a knocked-out Storm, but aside from this miniseries it's not really a big part of his character. Hell, he even went [[HoYay/XMen the other way completely]] once during the 90's.
* FrontierDoctor: As Lykos, he attempted to become one of these in the Savage Land. His efforts earned him the friendship of Ka-Zar, but eventually StatusQuoIsGod kicked in and Sauron returned.
* GiantFlyer: Not terribly gigantic, outside of that one time he fought Garrok, but still counts.
* GuiltByAssociationGag: When Stryker started rounding up mutants for his Church of Human Potential, he went after Sauron. When Sauron pointed out that he was not a mutant, Stryker just shrugged and said that Sauron hung out with them so much that he was basically an honorary one.
* HappyEndingOverride: His ''Marvel Fanfare'' quadrilogy ended with Professor X sitting him down and finally managing to cure him of being Sauron. It worked completely too, as he and Tanya went to New York and lived in peace for the rest of the 80's. But come the 90's Toad decided he wanted a heavy-hitter for his Brotherhood, so he abducted Karl and Tanya and hooked them up into machines that drained Tanya's life force into Karl, forcing him to become Sauron again.
* HeroKiller: Early in the first ''ComicBook/XForce'' run he killed Sam Guthrie aka Cannonball. It... [[ContinuitySnarl probably didn't take]]?
* IJustWantToBeFree: A noteworthy character trait of his. He might [[VillainTeamUp work with other villains]] when it serves his purposes, and surprisingly is even usually a good team player during those periods. But at his soul Sauron is an independent villain who doesn't want to be used by anyone and is always trying to be the top dog of wherever he is. During one storyline in ''X-Men: The Hidden Years'', Magneto tried recruiting him to the Brotherhood, promising him untold riches and a place at his right-hand. But after realizing that would mean accepting subservience to Magneto, Sauron refused, telling the other villain he'd found a peace in the Savage Land and he would never give that up in exchanging for being someone else's lackey.
* JekyllAndHyde: Lykos is an essentially decent and well-meaning person. His dark side, Sauron, is a vicious monster and a [[KillAllHumans genocidal maniac]].
* LargeHam: As deadly as he can be, Sauron is by his nature not one of the X-Men's more serious villains, and frequently spends as much of his time chewing the panels as he does pecking at the heroes.
* LaughablyEvil: Sauron is a CardCarryingVillain who spends as much time ChewingTheScenery and engaging in bizarre plots as he does genuinely evil things. This line of dialogue probably sums him up best:
-->'''Spider-Man:''' [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood You could have used your scientific knowledge to cure cancer!]]
-->'''Sauron:''' But I don't want to cure cancer. [[ARareSentence I want to turn people into dinosaurs.]]
* LifeDrinker: Due to the whole can't-be-a-vampire thing, Lykos ended up as one of these. He can drain the life force of anything he touches, but only mutant energy will [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter turn him into Sauron]]. As his SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron's constantly nettling him when he's human to go drain the nearest handy mutant in his vicinity.
* LineOfSightName: He named himself after ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' villain. He even [[ShoutOut says so himself]] on-panel during his origin story. The fact that he calls Sauron "Tolkien's ultimate villain" reveals that he (and possibly the writers) only has passing knowledge of the legendarium, however.
--> '''Sauron:''' I choose... evil! An evil so great... so monumental that only one name in all the annals of literature will contain it! The name of Tokien's ultimate villain... that dark lord who personified evil, who was truly evil incarnate! The name of -- SAURON!
* LogicalWeakness: Being a cold-blooded creature, Sauron is vulnerable to ice and cold, and superheroes with those powers. You can guess which X-Man gives him the most trouble.
* MeaningfulName: Lykos is Greek for 'wolf', an appropriate name for a character who so often plays the wolf in the fold.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: For many years an irrelevant bit of plot trivia, this has actually helped him get legitimate work in recent years, first as an unlikely member of Weapon X and then, in an even more unlikely twist, as a ''teacher'' working for the Hellfire Academy.
* MoralityPet: Tanya Anderssen, his longtime love interest. She was murdered by Toad in the 90s as part of his scheme to reawaken and recruit Sauron for the Brotherhood.
* MouthOfSauron: Has never had a character serve as this for himself, but amusingly was Garrok's Mouth for a time.
* NobleDemon: Lykos is this, as despite falling prey to the wiles of Sauron more often than not he's essentially a decent and well-meaning person. The whole reason he's in the Savage Land in the first place is because he exiled himself there, thinking there would be no mutants for Sauron to prey on.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: You don't get much more NinjaPirateZombieRobot than a vampiric were-pterodactyl mutate.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: At least as Karl Lykos, he's smart enough to not fell prey to the usual villain pitfall for UnderestimatingBadassery. When the Savage Land Mutates have the Avengers captured in ''New Avengers'', he urges them to kill their heroic prisoners right away rather than experiment on them as Brainchild wants to do, telling him that he's just giving ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} an excuse to attack them. And lo and behold, a few panels later, that's exactly what they do.
* OnlyMostlyDead: When near-death Sauron can enter a state of "regenerative stasis". He fell into this after being shot up by X-Force, and recovered completely after a few weeks.
* PteroSoarer: Scaly skin instead of hair-like pycnofibers? Check (occasional hairstyle aside). Bat-like wing structure? Check. Bipedalism? Check. Identified as a dinosaur? Check.
* PickyPeopleEater: Apparently people have their own distinct taste to Sauron, as he remarked upon the specific taste of Kid Omega's lifeforce during his stint with the Hellfire Academy.
* TheQuisling: Collaborates with the Sentinels in at least one BadFuture.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Stan Lee must have figured an energy-sucking dinosaur man was the next-most abhorrent thing to an actual vampire.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: In recent years he’s become more of a ComicBook/SpiderMan villain.
* SanitySlippage: During the 90s, after Toad killed Tanya Anderssen, Sauron starting hallucinating his alter ego Lykos. These hallucinations eventually got to be so frequent that even the Savage Land mutates (who are hardwired to seek out a leader and obey them ''[[SlaveMooks without question]]'') started questioning his sanity.
* SixthRanger: Randomly recruited to Toad's Brotherhood during the 90s, despite not being a mutant himself.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Sauron is very much this.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: After years and years of fighting Sauron's influence, Karl Lykos gave into it completely as of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers''. In his human and form and apparently completely free of Sauron's influence, he still urged the Savage Land mutates to kill their Avenger prisoners ASAP, all while wearing a SmugSnake smirk. Of course, Karl was entirely in the right, as the Avengers broke free very shortly after.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Played with in the third ''Weapon X'' volume, when he's recruited to Weapon X-Force -- on any other team, Sauron would be this, but this is a team led by '''Sabretooth''' and filled out mostly by other Wolverine villains. On this team, Sauron isn't the token evil teammate -- the whole team is evil!
* TokenHuman: Lykos is a normal man who was turned into a mutate after being attacked by the Savage Land's breed of pterodactyls and has never had any investment in mutants beyond their use in feeding his SuperpoweredEvilSide, yet he randomly joined up with the Brotherhood in the 90s.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the X-Men novel "Law of the Jungle", he becomes a much more calculating and dangerous enemy via the Savage Land mutate Brainchild cooking up a way to stabilize his Sauron personality.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Being one of the longest-running X-villains, he's had his share of these. There was the time Cable shot him dead, for instance. Another time Lykos made a psychic HeroicSacrifice supposedly destroying his and Sauron's personalities forever. Both times he recovered and returned without explanation.
* VillainsOutShopping: When Sabretooth threw a party to celebrate taking over the Japanese underworld Sauron [[https://dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.net/i/4791/23441/2f79d1154a4e3ae1b3aff747b7148632.jpg?h=a9f06ec750a6a17b010b94dd242570dd made a cameo appearance]] as one of the guests in attendance.
* WeaponOfChoice: One appearance had him carrying an actual prehistoric club. ''[[NarmCharm Of course]]'', it was included with his action figure.
* WerewolfThemeNaming: Notable for being a werebeast [[NonIndicativeName but definitely not]] a were''wolf'', his last name Lykos is Greek for wolf.
* YoYoPlotPoint: He gets cured at the end of most encounters only to get un-cured again at the beginning of the next. As ever, StatusQuoIsGod.
** TrappedInVillainy: Lykos wants nothing more than to be rid of Sauron forever, but eventually his powers always wind up getting the better of him. TragicMonster indeed.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Spider-Man points out he could have used his advanced tech to cure cancer.
--> ''[[CardCarryingVillain I don’t want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.]]''
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[[folder:Sentinels]]
!!'''The Sentinels'''
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One of the most recognizable non-mutant characters in the X-men's corner of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Sentinels are the result of a government initiative to combat the growing mutant threat. These huge robots are equipped with gene-level scanning devices enabling them to identify any mutants, and the armor and weaponry to (theoretically) detain or kill them once found. Recurrently decommissioned as mutant rights advance or the Sentinels go wrong, only to be recommissioned as new and improved versions are built or more mutant-related hate builds up. Sentinels are frequently depicted as being bound to a "super Sentinel" called Master Mold, which is often instrumental in the temporary discrediting of the Sentinel Program.
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* AdaptiveAbility: The Mark-II Sentinels could adapt to their enemies and their powers.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Most Sentinels don't really have the AI to actually go wrong and loyally follow orders. The problem is, they tend to be portrayed taking their commands from Master Mold, who ''does'' have the AI to go rogue -- for example, planning to capture a senator and replace his brain with a computer before then enslaving all humanity.
* ArtificialStupidity: In stories and adaptations where they lean more on the StarterVillain end of the scale.
* TheAssimilator: The Prime Sentinels, ordinary humans merged with Sentinel tech.
** CyberneticsEatYourSoul: It is possible to restore a Prime Sentinel's free will, but even for Magneto and Professor X, it's very difficult.
* BadFuture: ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast, anyone? Any time the Sentinels appear in an adaptation, this story is bound to occur in some form.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Sentinels or Master Mold go wrong, often they do so with the statement that it is illogical to protect humans from mutants because "humans are mutants" -- all humans have unique genetic codes.
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: In some alternate timelines, the Sentinels decide that they need to take over humankind to effectively neutralize mutants.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: Steven Lang's ([[ComicBook/AntMan no relation to Scott Lang]]) X-Sentinels, which looked like the original '60s era X-Men and even had their powers. It took Wolverine's senses to suss them out.
* HeroKiller: Numerous Sentinels in numerous futures, but a special shout-out goes to the {{Elite Mook|s}} Sentinel seen in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' #48: it is identified as the Sentinel that killed ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and has even been [[http://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/13_48.png painted to resemble him]].
* HiveQueen: Master Mold is this; it has the intelligence and capabilities to control all Sentinels, and is actually a walking Sentinel-production factory, creating them from internal production machinery.
* HumongousMecha:
** Autonomous version, usually, but at least one miniseries focused on Sentinel Squad O*N*E, an attempt to redeem the Sentinel Project by stripping out the independent AI and turning them into piloted mecha. It worked, for a while.
** In terms of size, Master Mold takes this UpToEleven: it's roughly as big compared to a Sentinel as a Sentinel is to a human.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Apparently this can be used against them as [[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwen Poole]] notices that their attack patterns mirror those from their video game appearances. Anyone familiar with the games can abuse the same openings their attack patterns leave them in real life.
* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl:
** A 2003 miniseries, aptly entitled ''Sentinel'', focused on Midwestern American teen Juston Seyfert and his adventures after finding and repairing a damaged Sentinel.
** Any member of the Trask family automatically counts as this too, since Bolivar programmed a directive into them to obey and preserve all members of his bloodline. Unless, of course, they're a Mutant, as Larry Trask finds out.
* {{Killer Robot}}s: Particularly towards mutants, but depending on the story they can be a threat to humans too.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The Project: Armageddon Sentinels were pathetically easy to destroy. The only reason they managed to keep the X-Men they'd caught captive at all was because they were operating from a space station.
* MechaMooks: This may be why the Sentinels have appeared in every animated depiction of the X-men-verse; they're intimidating enough to make good enemies, but they can be slaughtered on-screen without any editor hassles.
* MookMaker: Their usual leader Master Mold, a "super Sentinel" that is an autonomous Sentinel factory.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Somewhat justified by multiple generations (at least ten) of the Sentinel line, but these are still MechaMooks that switch from grinding the whole world under their metal heels in more than one BadFuture to generic cannon fodder {{Mooks}} that even inexperienced X-Men can carve through like butter. In general, Sentinels tend to be ''exactly as strong or as weak'' as the storyline they're in requires them to be.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The very first Sentinels had purple shells, and that's held true for most of them since, though there have been some variations over the years like the Mark V Sentinels, which were blue instead.
* RoboSpeak: Usually, but the Project: Armageddon ones were remarkably chatty.
* RobotBuddy: The Sentinel rebuilt and befriended by the aforementioned Juston Seyfert.
* RobotGirl: The Omega Prime Sentinel Karima Shapandar, who joins the X-Men for a time after being released from her programming.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Sentinel Squad O*N*E and the X-Men didn't get along. Probably because the X-Men were about as happy as you'd expect to have their movement monitored and controlled by giant sized versions of things that had previously tried to ''kill'' them.
* TerminatorImpersonator: Prime Sentinels are a model of Sentinel which are humans that underwent an UnwillingRoboticization and were then released to [[ManchurianAgent live ordinary lives until they come into contact]] with a [[WitchSpecies Mutant]]. After activation, the cyborgs will attempt to terminate the mutant with extreme force, often undergoing more and more of a RoboticReveal until their entire bodies have transformed into a human-sized Sentinel in order to annihilate their target. Often, their target is a mutant that is either closeted or [[TomatoSurprise unaware that they're a mutant]] and thus an X-Man is sent [[TerminatorTwosome to protect them]] and get them to safety.
* TheyLookLikeUsNow: The 90s Zero Tolerance crossover introduced the "Omega Prime" model Sentinel which initially appeared to be a line of DeceptivelyHumanRobots but were soon revealed to be a type of {{Cyborg}} instead. They were designed to be sleeper agents capable of blending into heavily-populated cities to hunt for mutants.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In a number of alternate futures they turn against humans en masse, and certain Sentinels like Master Mold do this even in the normal timeline.
* TheVirus: The TurnOfTheMillennium introduced the "Nano-Sentinels" which as you might have guessed from the name are a line of {{Nanomachines}} that function as this.
* UnwillingRoboticisation:
** As the X-Men learned to their horror after their encounter with the Omega Prime Sentinel Karima Shapandar. While a few units from that line were fanatics who had volunteered willingly, most were ordinary humans who had been kidnapped and transformed against their will.
** Happened to the pilots of Sentinel Squad O*N*E, thanks to Bishop and a techno-organic virus. In seconds, the pilots were killed and turned into mini-Sentinels.
* YouCantFightFate: Not the giant robots themselves, but [[spoiler:Moira's attempts to permanently stop them by eliminating all Sentinel creators, such as Trasks and Langs, from existence is this. She discovered even after killing known Sentinel creators from previous timelines, someone is destined to create some version of Sentinels]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The original Sentinels turned on Trask pretty quickly, and demanded he manufacture more Sentinels, making it clear they'd kill him the minute he stopped complying.
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[[folder:Shadow King]]
!!The Shadow King
!!!Amahl Farouk ([[MultipleChoicePast maybe]])
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!!!'''Species:''' Abstract Entity
-> '''Debut:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #117 (1979)
--> ''Ah, such heroic sentiments. I like that -- but this is my game, my parlor, my rules. Here the house always wins!''
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A vastly powerful psychic entity that likes to possess people and bring out their darker emotions. ComicBook/ProfessorX met him as Egyptian crimelord Amahl Farouk, and killed his human body in a psychic-showdown. Farouk was the first evil mutant Xavier encountered, prompting him to form the X-Men. However, it has been since revealed that the Shadow King might have existed long before possessing Farouk.
An adaptational counterpart of the Shadow King appears as the BigBad of the 2017 television series ''Series/Legion2017''. Tropes and ideas from his character were also borrowed from for the adaptational counterpart of ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} from the 2016 film ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
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* AbortedArc: The original plan for the Shadow King under Creator/ChrisClaremont not only had him as the FinalBoss for the X-Men as a whole, but actually ''[[KilledOffForReal killing]]'' Professor X in their final battle, which would have resulted in Magneto becoming the permanent new leader of the X-Men. This plot was shelved when Claremont left the X-books, and to this day the Shadow King has never reached for any goal so grandiose, instead remaining firmly in C-list villain territory.
* AdaptationalBadass: Both of the adaptations of the Shadow King mentioned above are this compared to the original.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: During ''X-Men: Worlds Apart'' Storm lured him into a trap set by herself and Bast the [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Panther God]], who promptly devours him.
* ArchEnemy: To Storm. He employed her as a thief when she was a child, but was never able to completely bend her to his will. Her strength of character makes her his favorite target.
** He considers Professor X to be ''his'' archenemy, owing to Chuck dealing him a pretty decisive defeat in their first encounter.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Shadow King fits this trope to the letter, especially following the retcon that he might be an ancient demonic being, and not the psychic remains of an evil mutant.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Frequently does this with telepaths.
* BigBadWannabe: The Shadow King considers himself the FinalBoss to Charles Xavier and the X-Men as a whole, but falls a little short of that goal. He does ''[[LonersAreFreaks not]]'' play well with others, doing [[VillainTeamUp villain team-ups]] only when forced into them, and power-wise he's never quite been able to equal his hated rival.
* BondVillainStupidity: Being one of the older X-villains, he snuggles in this trope like a security blanket. Excepting Professor X, for whom ItsPersonal between him and Farouk, the Shadow King ''never'' tries to outright kill his targets, preferring instead to [[DespairEventHorizon break them]] or [[EvilGloating gloat at them]]. Unsurprisingly, the heroes turn the tide on him every time, only for him to come back the next time none the wiser.
* CardCarryingVillain: Would you really except any less from someone who calls themselves the ''Shadow King''?
* TheCorrupter: Prides himself on being this, though he's less about tempting his victims to evil and more about twisting their minds through brute telepathic force until they're corrupt enough for his taste.
* CripplingOverspecialization: The reason behind his long string of defeats. Despite being theoretically a telepath in the same league as Professor X, the Shadow King is much more interested in [[{{Sadist}} tormenting]] his targets than simply defeating them, and while he's not ''[[WeakButSkilled weak]]'', he definitely leans more towards [[ForceAndFinesse finesse than force]]. Lesser telepaths like ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} have still managed to take him down because they go for the jugular while he plays around, and he's never dared to challenge the stronger villain telepaths like Exodus or Madelyne Pryor, likely knowing they'd crush him like a roach.
* DarkIsEvil: His astral form is frequently depicted as a sinister shadowy being and Farouk is evil as the day is long.
* EmbodimentOfVice: To the point of warping and distorting any physical body he inhabits; see VillainousGlutton below.
* EvilCounterpart: To Professor X.
* EvilerThanThou: Subjected to this by ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}.
* FatBastard: Farouk has no physical body, but his VillainousGlutton tendencies end up in any body he inhabits inevitably degrading to this state.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being possessed by him. As revealed by Karma, victims are [[AndIMustScream completely aware]] the whole time, unable to stop Farouk from his systematic degradation of their bodies and, indeed, are suffering from ceaseless psychological torture in their own heads as Farouk works to make them [[EmptyShell empty shells]]. The harder a victim fights back, the more Farouk enjoys it and the longer he draws out their suffering.
* GenderBender: Happily possessed Karma for months in ''New Mutants'' and has frequent designs on doing this to Storm too.
* GodGuise: At one point he posed as Anansi, one of the Orisha of African folklore.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Clearly this is kind of Farouk's shtick.
** ''Really'' likes to torment Storm. One miniseries, ''Worlds Apart'', revolved around him trying to break her to his will.
** He also tried turning Psylocke and Rogue into his "Shadow Queens" at separate times.
** Also Karma in ''New Mutants''.
** And Val Cooper in the lead-in to the ''Muir Island Saga''.
* LivingShadow: If the Shadow King ever had an original body, he lost that long ago.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He stunted Destiny's ability to see the future, manipulated Legion into murdering her decades later, and was heavily implied to be the force behind Magneto's abrupt FaceHeelTurn in the early 90s.
* MoreThanMindControl: His preferred method of turning people against each other is by awakening the real doubts and insecurities in their minds, making them that much harder to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight get through to.]]
* MultipleChoicePast: Some stories have portrayed the Shadow King as a centuries-old mutant who survived the years by jumping from body to body and eventually possessed Amahl Farouk. In others, he was merely born Amahl Farouk and fabricated a grander backstory for himself.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: You don't get much more ObviouslyEvil than the ''Shadow King''.
* NephariousPharaoh: Has some elements of this, as his original form [[MultipleChoicePast and/or host body]] of Amahl Farouk was Egyptian and was modeled after a certain Egyptian king.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He physically resembles and shares the same name as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_of_Egypt King Farouk of Egypt]]
* PiggybackingOnHitler: During the 1930s he worked for two of Hitler's most trusted agents, one of them being the future [[Characters/CaptainAmerica Baron Strucker]].
* PsychicPowers: Strong enough to rival, though not defeat, Professor X.
** AstralProjection: As a being that exists purely on the astral plane, this is his default method of combat.
** DemonicPossession: Doubles with GrandTheftMe; Farouk can only act in the physical world by taking control of a human host.
** EmotionControl: Put it this way, Farouk has sometimes been known to spread a HatePlague just by ''being around.''
** MindManipulation: He can do it in several ways.
** PeoplePuppets: Tends to reduce everyone in his immediate vicinity to this.
** SlaveMooks: He often brainwashes whatever local populace is in his immediate vicinity, resulting in the heroes having to fight a horde of innocent bystanders.
** {{Telepathy}}: Has telepathic powers on par with those of Professor X.
* {{Sadist}}: As mentioned above, he's the very definition of a psychic sadist. He won't torture your ''body'', but he'll MindRape you with glee until you're an EmptyShell.
* SealedEvilInACan: He's often sealed away into various things. In the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse Apoc literally contained his essence inside of a small can with a sealed tube on top.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: For awhile he was trapped inside Psylocke's mind. This prevented her from using her telepathic powers.
* StayingAlive: He has near-CompleteImmortality, boasting at one point that he can revive himself off one dark thought in one man's heart. See AsLongAsThereIsEvil above.
* StarterVillain: He was literally this for Charles Xavier, being the first evil mutant Chuck ever met. The encounter was what convinced him of the necessity of a team like the X-Men.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: During the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' storyline the Shadow King was not included as part of the Scarlet Witch's ideal world, but instead shunted off to another dimension. After the reality warp was undone he made his way back to the current one.
* UniquenessValue: Like Mojo above, it's been asserted that there's only one Shadow King within the Marvel Multiverse; the ones we've seen in realities besides Earth-616 are supposedly all the same entity manifesting in different ways or extensions of it in some kind of HiveMind scenario.
* VillainousGlutton: When he claims a human host for an extended period of time, he becomes addicted to eating, and his host becomes morbidly obese as a result.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: Fighting him was what gave Professor X the idea to form the X-Men in the first place. Ironically, if this very loathsome villain didn't exist, neither would the X-Men.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Gives Professor X this speech upon their first meeting; presumably it wasn't so cliche back then.
* YourWorstNightmare: Clearly wants to be this for everyone and everything in his way.
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[[folder:Spiral]]
!!'''Rita Wayward / Spiral'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
-> '''Debut:''' ''Longshot'' #1 (1985)
--> ''Hers is a name that men whisper as she kills them.''
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One of the most loyal warrior-slaves of Mojo, Spiral is his [[TheDragon Dragon]] and an essential part of his operations. In her first appearance, she was sent to retrieve ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. She later had a stint as a member of Freedom Force, the US government's version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In the ''Shattershot'' storyline, it turned out she was Rita Ricochet (Longshot's former friend and lover) all along, brainwashed into becoming Spiral by Mojo and her future self.
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* AscendedExtra: Art Adams designed her as just another of Mojo's lackeys pursuing Longshot, but Ann Nocenti liked the look of her and decided to give her a more prominent role.
* AxCrazy: She hides it well behind her snark, but Spiral is ''completely'' off the deep end.
* TheBaroness: Tends to take this role in storyline where she strikes out on her own.
* BerserkButton: Has a ''major'' grudge against the Mojoworld scientist Arize, who invented the technology that empowered the Spineless Ones. She can also get this way at times regarding Longshot, but when it comes to Arize, [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/49601/4214217-spiral_1.jpg well]]...
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, surprisingly enough. Yes, she was roboticized by Mojo, and probably unwillingly too. But it was only a small part of how Mojo was able to turn her so completely insane.
* {{Cyborg}}: Three of her arms are at least partially robotic.
* DarkActionGirl: She was one of the first prominent female X-villains.
* DeadpanSnarker: She and Major Domo are the only Mojo minions who dare mouth off to their boss.
* TheDragon: Mojo may be strong, but he's also nearly immobile, counting on the acrobatics and swordplay of Spiral to keep his enemies at bay.
* DrivenToMadness: A ''major'' case of BreakTheCutie -- when Mojo captures Ricochet Rita, the first thing he does is tie her to the prow of the interdimensional airship he was using to get around at the time. Then he forces her eyes open so that she has to watch the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Wildways]]. Predictably, this causes her to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* DualWielding: Three times over!
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Spiral recently became the caretaker of a young mutant girl named Ginny. She seems to be one of the few people Spiral genuinely cares about at this point.
* EvilSorcerer: To the point where when Comicbook/DoctorStrange stepped down as Sorcerer Supreme of the entire Marvel Universe, she was mentioned as a contender for the job.
** MagicDance: She dances to cast her more complicated spells.
** MagicKnight: A sorceress and technological genius as well as an expert hand-to-hand (-to-hand-to-hand) combatant.
** {{Teleportation}}: This is her primary utility to Mojo -- [[InSeriesNickname the bloat]] can defend himself fairly well, but he is completely reliant on Spiral's spellcasting to traverse between dimensions.
* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: She uses the energy of the dimensional crossroads known as "the Wildways" to power her spells.
* FatalFlaw: Spiral has powers and combat ability on a level that allow her to give Phoenix Force hosts a challenge in battle, but her SmugSuper attitude often leads to her being beaten by heroes less powerful than herself, either because she toys with them too long or because she lets herself get distracted at a critical moment.
* GreenEyedMonster: The original ''Longshot'' mini showed her as being very jealous and resentful of ordinary humans, seeing herself as [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer a freak compared to them]]. Mojo states outright this is why he gave Spiral her extra arms.
* HazyFeelTurn: After being stranded by Mojo one too many times, she decided to settle down and stay out of superhero conflicts.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Frequently aids the heroes, especially after her WolverinePublicity became known to the writers. Amusingly enough, she's more than once lent her six hands to the {{Trope Namer|s}} himself.
* HollywoodCyborg: Aside from being one of these herself, she has a side hobby of turning other people into them via her Body Shoppe.
* HotChickWithASword: Six times over!
* ImmuneToMindControl: Or rather possession, as Rogue and Nocturne were both unable to wrest control of Spiral's body. In Rogue's case, she was the one possessed instead, much as Mr. Sinister did to her, while in Nocturne's case Spiral was actually able to fool her into thinking she had been possessed. It's unknown if a straight up mind control attempt would work.
* ItAmusedMe: Her motivation for joining the government team Freedom Force, led by Mystique and consisting mostly of [[BoxedCrook boxed crooks]], was never really clear- but it seems to have been mainly "bored and had nothing better to do".
* KickTheDog: Shortly after arriving in our reality she rips the shawl off an elderly woman and walks on the poor woman's head while making cracks about her 'pathetic face'.
* MadScientist: In the Mojoverse, she runs the Body Shoppe, where villains (including Lady Deathstrike) get cybernetic makeovers.
* MadeOfIron: Her profiles mention that the transformation Mojo put her through also gave her "hardened skin" which lets her absorb way more punishment than she should be able to take.
* MeaningfulName: After being brainwashed by Mojo, Ricochet Rita ''spiraled'' completely down the rabbit hole of madness.
* MoralityPet: Shatterstar serves as this to her from time to time.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: She has huge breasts.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: She has six arms, three of which are cybernetic replacements.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Well, more like Swordswoman Sorceress Mutate Cyborg in her particular case.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Longshot. Not by choice, since Mojo messed with her mind.
* PsychoSupporter: She's Mojo's most effective minion and is totally nuts.
* PsychoticSmirk: Noticing [[AxCrazy a theme]] to these tropes yet?
* PunchClockVillain: She doesn't have any particular grudge against the X-Men, instead just going after them because it's her Mojo-mandated job.
* {{Retcon}}: Neither Ann Nocenti (who created her) nor Chris Claremont (who popularized her by making her an X-Men antagonist) intended Spiral to be an evil version of Ricochet Rita. This retconned origin story was done by Fabian Nicieza in 1992, seven years after Spiral's first appearance.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: She was once one of Longshot's friends, and his lover. Then Mojo drove her insane and turned her into his servant.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: Like everyone from Mojoworld, she has a lot of off sayings. She doesn't kill people, she cancels them.
* ServileSnarker: She's not afraid to snark off at Mojo.
* SixthRanger: For Freedom Force. In keeping with the trope's spirit, she is ''by far'' the team's most powerful member.
* TheSoulless: In ''ComicBook/MrAndMrsX'' it was revealed that Mojo removed Spiral's soul from her body as part of the procedure that reforged her into his minion. With the aid of the titular Mr. and Mrs. X (Gambit and Rogue), she was able to reclaim her soul from Mojo and break away from his control seemingly once and for all.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Through unknown (but likely mystical) means, she is always aware (or is alerted of it) whenever someone speaks her name. Predictably, Wolverine is dismissive when warned of this ability by Mystique -- her name is, after all, a common word, spoken hundreds if not thousands of times per day, so how would Spiral know? Cue her instantly appearing and telling him it's all about context and tone of voice to indicate to her whether someone is referring to her or not.
* StableTimeLoop: Ultimately, how she came into Mojo's service involved this, as one of the people who helped Rita become Spiral was Spiral herself.
* TheStarscream: During her time in Freedom Force, Spiral considered harnessing the power of Rachel Summers to liberate herself from Mojo. This was dropped and forgotten when story writer Creator/ChrisClaremont left the X-books.
* StatusQuoIsGod: She hates her boss and frequently works to undermine him but always goes back to working for him again in the next Mojoworld story.
* TragicVillain: She never ''asked'' to get driven insane and re-purposed into a deadly enforcer for an evil cosmic entertainment mogul. But she ''is'' insane, and dangerous as hell.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: She does this from time to time to guests of the Body Shoppe and may have been a victim of it herself.
* VainSorceress: Subverted; she uses magic but isn't particularly vain and has no problems at all with getting her many hands dirty.
* VillainousFriendship: She has a pretty solid relationship with Mystique and her old Freedom Force teammates, though even they know how nuts she is.
* WeaponOfChoice: Swords. [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Six of them]], to be precise.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Not originally one, but became one after her transformation into Spiral.
* WouldHurtAChild: In her very first appearance, where she's just one of several nameless Mojoworld {{Mooks}} who've kidnapped a woman's baby. Her distinctive appearance led to her returning two issues later as a proper villain.
* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind the Man]]: For anyone who gets a makeover in her Body Shoppe. 'Satisfied clients' include the Hellfire Club mercenaries Cole, Macon and Reese, Lady Deathstrike, and Psylocke (who admittedly wasn't [[UnwillingRoboticisation wasn't nearly as satisfied]] as the others).
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[[folder:Steven Lang]]
!!'''Doctor Steven Lang'''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/887834_steven_02.jpg]]
!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Prime Sentinel (formerly Human)
-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' #96 (1975)
A government scientist and the head of Project Armageddon, a secret federal program to investigate the biology of the Marvelverse mutants and assess the potential danger they posed to America. However, Lang's results led him to conclude that the danger was not only very great, but imminent; and when the government shelved his report, he took matters into his own hands and began to prepare for war. As his work progressed, he also came into contact with Bolivar Trask's legacy and his supporters, and used what had survived of his work to re-create the Sentinels. By ''X-Men'' #98, he was ready to launch his attack on the X-Men, the nexus of mutant activity in the United States.
An early villain in the Creator/ChrisClaremont run, and ultimately a rather minor one, but were it not for him, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga would never have happened. Killed by Jean Grey at the conclusion of his original story arc, though a version of him was later briefly brought back by Bastion as part of his schemes.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Pleads with Jean Grey to save him from his crashing hovercar, after having just tried to murder her and Scott (and we should note, Jean's the one who ''made'' it crash).
* AvengingTheVillain: Downplayed. While Lang's main motives are Darwinian, he also considers prior anti-mutant villain Bolivar Trask a heroic martyr he wishes to avenge.
-->'''Dr. Lang:''' Bolivar Trask knew. He understood the danger. He pointed the way. He tried to ''stop'' the mutants, Michael, and they ''killed'' him for it, him and his ''son''.
* BackFromTheDead: Via Bastion and the transmode virus.
* BadassBookworm: He's a quite better fighter than his background (a nondescript government scientist) would suggest.
* BerserkButton: When Jean Grey calls him a "sad, pathetic, screwed-up little man", he loses it and slapped her. Bear in mind, her implicitly calling him a Nazi before that just got brushed off.
* DependingOnTheArtist: In his original appearances, he looked quite different from the portrait given here, with wavy blond hair, icy blue eyes and harder facial features.
* DrivenToVillainy: Originally, Doctor Lang was simply a mild-mannered civil servant who tried to warn the government of the increasing danger of villainous mutants (such as, for example, ComicBook/{{Magneto}}). When no one would listen to him, and the threat appeared to be growing constantly with every passing year, he gradually became [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope more extreme]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: His death at the end of ''Second Coming'' isn't even acknowledged by the characters, and can easily be missed if the reader isn't paying attention, as he and Graydon Creed are torn to shreds by the X-Men.
* EvilGenius: Built [[EvilKnockoff robot versions]] of the original X-Men that basically authentically replicated their powers. Also, somehow himself scraped together [[{{Fiction500}} the billions of dollars]] needed to fund his [[NGOSuperpower huge anti-mutant organization]] after the government shut him down.
* EvilGloating: Being an older villain, he naturally indulged in this the first chance he got.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Lang is a biologist, and bases his opposition to the mutants on anthropologist Bolivar Trask's work and socio-Darwinian view of the conflict between humans and mutants. That said, he doesn't perform any inhumane biological experiments, or the like.
* TheExtremistWasRight: In a FridgeLogic sort of way. Some story arcs after his untimely demise, Jean Grey, one of the mutants he was mortally afraid of, [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga did just what he feared, killed some billions and almost destroyed the world]]. (A later RetCon, which might have realized the UnfortunateImplications but was done primarily for other reasons, changed that version of Jean into a sort of EvilTwin.)
* FantasticRacism: Aside from the usual mutant-hating stuff, there's a scene where some of his scientists are examining Wolverine. They're briefly confused by his strange metabolism, and ask just what he is. Lang just states "whatever he is, he sure isn't human." [[note]]This is actually a nod to Wolvie's originally-intended origin as a [[UpliftedAnimal mutated]] [[LittleBitBeastly human-like wolverine]] with steel claws.[[/note]]
* ForScience: Averted; while Lang ''is'' a scientist, his motives are largely political.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Or from obscure government scientist to [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]]-scale supervillain, in this case.
* GeneralRipper: A borderline case, as Lang himself is a civilian, but he's running a rogue military operation and generally behaves like one of these.
* GodwinsLaw: Jean Grey calls him a Nazi when he explains his motives to her. Then again, in the Marvelverse the Nazis ''[[FantasticRacism are]]'' opposed to mutants ...
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted, in spite of his being a Social Darwinist, and even a ''[[EvilutionaryBiologist biologist]]'', of all things. While he doesn't wear his religion on his sleeve, he is shown to be a believer.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: As he explains, somewhat sheepishly, to Jean Grey when she asks why he's attacking the X-Men. It's a [[TheNeedsOfTheMany matter of humanity's survival]] that [[BewareTheSuperman the mutants have got to go]], so he's just doing his duty making sure they do. The way he [[BerserkButton explodes]] when she proceeds to ridicule his views possibly suggests that deep down he's really [[DirtyBusiness at least a little uncomfortable]] with the whole thing, himself.
* JustFollowingOrders: Assumed to be doing this by Jean. Actually averted: He is acting quite illegally and contrary to his orders, and willingly takes on that moral burden in order to do what he believes necessary to save the human race.
* KilledOffForReal: Courtesy of a well-passed angry [[BewareTheNiceOnes Jean Grey]] and Cyclops making him crash his flying machine. Well, more or less. His brain got stolen and used to make a Master Mold Sentinel. Bastion brought him back a few decades later, but the X-Men kill Lang all over again at the end of ''Second Coming''.
* KnightTemplar: Lang is quite convinced of his own rectitude, to the point where he can tell a pretty young co-ed (and crypto-mutant) to her face that she and her race have to die. It's NothingPersonal, just {{necessar|ilyEvil}}y in order for humanity to live.
* LargeHam: When he feels he needs to announce his plans.
* MadScientist: Initially he's not really mad, just somewhat grandiose and affective. The later versions play it straight, however.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A humble government scientist who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope dived headfirst]] into the pool of radical supervillainy.
* MotiveRant: Delivers a pretty lengthy one at the beginning of one issue.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Not Lang himself, but the operation he's running. Its codename? '''Project Armageddon'''!
* NatureIsNotNice: In an in-universe example, Lang points to humanity's own evolutionary history, and the extinction of the non-''sapiens'' (sub)species, to forecast what will happen if the threat of the mutants is not contained.
* NecessarilyEvil: A product of his Darwinian worldview. In a war of [[FantasticRacism species supremacy]], obviously neither side will come off looking very good, but at least the victor will ''survive''.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Played with. Lang is able to relaunch the Sentinels program precisely ''because'' the Trasks ''did'' keep detailed notes on their construction, to which the Federal Government granted him privileged access--But some of the documentation was lost when the X-Men trashed Trask's base, so he and his team had to fill in the resulting blanks with their own kludges, making the new Sentinels somewhat less formidable war machines.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Like Bolivar Trask, he's not stated as such but by simple virtue of what he does has to have mastered at least three different fields of science. See RenaissanceMan below
* RenaissanceMan: Scientific expert in at least three widely separate fields (biology/genetics as well as mechatronics engineering and AI programming). Additionally, a fair pilot and fighter.
* ReplacementGoldfish: To Bolivar Trask, from a narrative standpoint. They're both [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist omnidisciplinary scientists]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] who veer FromNobodyToNightmare in record time. This is probably the reason why Lang didn't stick around for very long, and was instead replaced by a series of more distinctive anti-mutant villains.
* RogueAgent: Originally, Lang was commissioned by the federal government to study the potential of superhuman mutants as a strategic danger to the United States. When his study found that the danger was imminent and the government basically ignored his report, he took matters into his own hands.
* ScienceHero: The villain in his story, obviously, but otherwise he fits the classic stereotype perfectly.
* TheSocialDarwinist: The racist type, but subverted. Lang believes that the mutants ''are'' a superior species to humanity, at least in the purely biological sense, and that this is precisely why the conspiring mutant supervillains are so dangerous--But he still takes humanity's side in what he considers an evolutionary struggle, standing by the "weaker" race.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name is officially spelled Steven Lang, but it is often misspelled both InUniverse and out as ''Stephen'' Lang.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Downplayed. While Lang never demonstrates any ''overt'' remorse for his persecution of the mutants and insists on his own moral rectitude throughout, his angry self-justificatory outbursts when questioned by Colonel Rossi and Jean suggest that he still has some doubts.
* VillainousValour: In his initial appearances, he was just a more-or-less ordinary government scientist (albeit fairly Badass by those standards), and wisely did ''not'' try to go toe-to-toe with any superheroes when he had a choice. But when the X-Men trashed his Sentinels and military security detachment, he did try to fight them himself as a last resort. [[LastVillainStand It ended badly for him]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A fairly typical X-Men example. The world-shaking antics and mutant-supremacist ideology of various superpowered evil mutants convinced him that humanity must defend itself forcefully against the mutants in order to survive.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Chillingly, Lang very rarely does anything actually "evil," at least by his own standards -- As long as one remembers that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance non-human mutants are not part of his moral in-group]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Loses it and slaps Jean Grey when she tells him he's full of it -- Possibly because her insults hit [[CloseToHome Too Close To Home]].
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[[folder:Sugar Man]]
!!Sugar Man
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
-> '''Debut:''' ''Generation Next'' #2 (1995)
--> ''Must you scream, Nathan? I'm trying to work here.''
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A depraved mutant from the parallel universe known as the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', Sugar Man was one of the many camp bosses, running a gruesome concentration camp where he tormented thousands of slaves, human and mutant alike. His specialty was the study and creation of biological weaponry, and he earned his place in Apocalypse's regime by inventing horrific plagues and epidemics. In a [[KarmaHoudini cruel twist of fate]], he is one of the few souls to survive the death of that twisted reality and escape to the mainstream universe.
He appears as a {{Boss}} in ''X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse''.
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* ArchNemesis: To [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey,]] who he's quite sensibly afraid of (because Nate is a PhysicalGod and has frequently tried to kill him), taking a certain glee in having the upper-hand in ''Unfinished Business.''
* AxCrazy: A literal example, as he is often depicted in merchandise with AnAxeToGrind.
* BadBoss: In the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' he ran the work camps which housed thousands of humans and regularly tormented his slaves.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He looks, and often acts, quite ridiculous, but he's deceptively dangerous in a physical brawl, he's much smarter than he seems, and he's extremely hard to kill.
* TheBrute: Despite having fairly advanced scientific knowledge, his very physical mutation makes him favor shaking it up with the heroes as one of these.
* CanonImmigrant: Sugar Man comes from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse and has no 616 counterpart.
* CharacterDeath:
** He was [[DeathIsCheap temporarily]] killed by Magneto just prior to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with his own lab equipment.]] He was revealed in ''Apocalypse Wars'' to have survived [[StayingAlive this too]].
** As of 2018 he's dead again, courtesy of [[spoiler:ComicBook/XMan ripping him in two shortly before the ComicBook/AgeOfXMan]], though given his track record of StayingAlive mutants might want to hold off on the confetti and streamers for a few years... or a nice solid decade, just to be on the safe side.
** Sure enough, two years later Sugar Man turned up alive and well in the pages of ComicBook/NickSpencersSpiderMan, having a VillainsOutShopping day for himself at the Foreigner's casino.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Sugarman appears as a rotund torso dominated by a huge, ugly face, with four arms and a single pair of legs.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Has SuperStrength; a [[MultipurposeTongue multipurpose]], [[TongueTrauma needle-tipped]] [[OverlyLongTongue tongue of intestinal length]]; MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, SuperSenses that allow him to [[IKnowWhatYouFear smell fear]] and [[SizeShifter size-shifting]].
* DirtyCoward: He's more than willing to run for the hills the moment the tide looks to be turned against him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Depraved as he is, even he was surprised by the ''things'' the Dark Beast created to serve him when the two villains reunited in the 616 universe.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Let's be honest; "Sugar Man" doesn't make you think "sadistic plague-engineering cannibal mutant", now does it?
* ForTheEvulz: As is generally the case for a willing servant of Apocalypse.
* ForWantOfANail: When discussing Sugar Man with the [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix7/sugarmanaoa.htm Marvel Appendix]], creator Scott Lobdell said that the reason the Sugar Man has never had a 616 counterpart is to make readers wonder what changed between the Age of Apocalypse and the regular timeline, if the mainstream Sugar Man died or never manifested or if he's in fact just an ordinary guy someone in the world with the potential to become a nightmarish, concentration camp-running mutant monster.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: While literally ''every other'' inhabitant of the Age of Apocalypse has (eventually) been linked to a counterpart in the regular 616 reality, the Sugar Man has not and no mutant has ever been seen that even ''remotely'' resembles him.
* HeroKiller: Killed several members of Generation Next, the Age of Apocalypse analogue to ComicBook/GenerationX.
* HornsOfVillainy: Two over his eyebrows, usually small but DependingOnTheArtist sometimes they can vary wildly in size.
* HypercompetentSidekick: A ''very'' unusual example, but the Sugar Man has proved himself to be this over the years, particularly where Genosha is concerned. He allied himself with Cameron Hodge and the Genegineer in secret, and ultimately succeeded where they failed by engineering a stable Genoshan regime (well, as stable as things ever get on Genosha) that supplied him with a regular feed of mutant slaves. Later, when he joined up with Holocaust and the Dark Beast and the Shi'ar came for all of them, he was the only one of the three with the sense to play ball with the Sh'ar, resulting in a cocky (and free) Sugar Man glibly taunting his betters while they lay helpless in Shi'ar custody.
* ImAHumanitarian: Sugar Man is in fact an ExtremeOmnivore who can digest virtually anything as sustenance... but as he's fond of reminding his victims, he has his ''preferences'' in food.
* MadScientist: Though not the foremost example of this trope, as he admits to Magneto when the latter comes to him for a better dose of MGH.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Retconned into being the mastermind behind Genosha's various anti-mutant tech, as he arrived twenty years in 616's past.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has four arms, plus his prehensile tongue.
* MultiMeleeMaster: ''Master'' is definitely pushing it, but as a four-armed mutant the Sugar Man is known to carry multiple types of weapons in battle, including:
** AnAxeToGrind: As mentioned above, his brand of AxCrazy is very often literal.
** DropTheHammer: Carries one with SUGAR on it. He's a weird guy, okay?
** GoodGunsBadGuns: When edged weapons aren't enough, he's also known to carry TMPs and other machineguns.
* MultipurposeTongue: Sugar Man uses his long razor-sharp tongue as his weapon.
* OutGambitted: Magneto tricked him into providing him a 'quick and dirty' boost to his failing mutant powers, using Briar Raleigh as a go-between to make Sugar Man think he had given up his mission of being a mutant VigilanteMan. Unfortunately for Sugar Man, Magneto had done no such thing, and the moment Sugar Man had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness given him what he wanted]] Magneto pulped him.
* OutsideContextProblem: According to his creator Scott Lobdell, Sugar Man was created specifically to be this, providing a villain for the Age of Apocalypse who ''wasn't'' just a new take on an old character. And to this very day, well over 20 years later, no 616 counterpart of him has ever appeared.
* PlagueMaster: His primary contributions to Apocalypse's regime were the nightmarish biological weapons he invented.
* PsychoForHire: Degenerated into a MadScientist variant of this after he was run out of Genosha. When Magneto went to him for an extra strength dose of MGH to power him up, he even bluntly pointed this out, noting that Magneto could have gone to any one of a number of geneticists higher up on the scale than him (the answer was that Magneto wanted quick and dirty).
* PsychopathicManChild: The Man-Child part is indicated by his drawings, which look like childish scribbles. The psycho part goes without saying.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Implied to have sexually abused a number of his prisoners, including, chillingly, a young Illyana Rasputin.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Occasionally drawn with them.
* TheRenfield: An odd example in that he is perfectly capable of operating on his own, but the minute a stronger leader emerges he starts kissing up, particularly if that leader is Apocalypse or someone connected to him somehow.
* {{Retcon}}: Despite being the writer who decided to bring Sugar Man over to the mainstream Marvel Universe, Sugar Man's creator Scott Lobdell never intended to make him TheManBehindTheMan to the mutant-enslaving regime on Genosha. That was done by Warren Ellis and Jeph Loeb in the pages of ComicBook/{{Cable}}'s title.
* SizeShifter: He is also able to control his own mass. If he loses mass, the lost mass is shunted off to some unknown location, presumably an extra-dimensional space and he shrinks in size. It's unknown how long it takes him to regain his normal size.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Often, though not always, depicted with spiked shoulderpads.
* StayingAlive: The most complex yet useful perk of his mutation: whenever Sugar Man is killed, a smaller Sugar Man (a fourth the size of the original's body) emerges from the corpse. He survived a pipe through the head courtesy of Callisto and Omega Sentinel this way.
* VerbalTic: In early appearances he had a habit of running words together likethis. It was either quietly dropped or quietly forgotten.
* VillainTeamUp: Fairly fond of teaming up with his fellow Age of Apocalypse expatriates Holocaust and the Dark Beast. He inevitably betrays them just like he betrays everyone else, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
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[[folder:Vargas]]
!!Vargas
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Spanish
!!!'''Species:''' Homo sapians superior
->'''Debut:''' ''X-Treme X-Men'' #1
A mysterious man searching for Irene Adler's diaries who ends up clashing with the X-Men because he believes he is fated to die at the hands of one of them.
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* ArcVillain: He is the primary villain in 2001's ''X-treme X-Men'' initial story arc.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Vargas is not a mutant, but he is also not fully human either. He claims to be the natural response of human evolution against mutantkind.
* BadassNormal: His strength, speed and durability are at peak for human potential, and he manages to curbstomp ComicBook/{{Rogue}} and ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} in a fight.
* {{BFS}}: His weapon of choice is a large broadsword.
* CListFodder: While he might have [[HeroKiller killed]] a [[ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} big league X-Man]] and was a pain in the ass to the X-Treme X-Men, when it comes to the large picture, he doesn't hold a candle to [[EvilOverlord Apocalypse]], [[DiabolicalMastermind Mr. Sinister]], [[SinisterMinister William Stryker]], [[HumanoidAbomination Cassandra Nova]] and many other enemies that the heroes faced, who threatened the world on regular basis. And as such [[spoiler:he is killed off without ceremony just before ''Messiah Complex'' by the Marauders on Mr. Sinister's orders]].
* DashingHispanic: A very evil example, being a ruthless warrior of Hispanic background who not only holds his own against superpowered foes, but manages to overwhelm them. He has a tendency to drop GratuitousSpanish.
* GratuitousSpanish: He tends to drop Spanish words a lot and in one infamous instance he uses Betsy's blood to write "pronto" (Spanish for "Done") in the wall above her corpse.
* MasterSwordsman: A pretty dangerous one. His duel with Psylocke was pretty one-sided.
* HeroKiller: The thing he is most famous for is killing ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} in a duel. He also very nearly killed Rogue, Gambit and Beast in other encounters.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The reason why Sinister had Vargas executed was his possession of Destiny's diaries, as he wanted to silence everyone who had knowledge of the future. So the very object he used to avoid his own death was indirectly responsible for it, in a way he couldn't have predicted]].
* KilledOffscreen: Whether Rogue [[spoiler:or the Marauders]] killed him, either way we never see his body.
* ScrewDestiny: The reason why he is a thorn on the X-Men's side: Irene's diaries state he is fated to die at the hands of one, believed to be Rogue. And he wants to avoid that by any means necessary.
* {{Transhuman}}: He claims to be a level of human evolution even higher than mutants, but we never find out if he's telling the truth.
* UltimateLifeForm: He made the audacious claim that he is the next step in human evolution.
* TheUnreveal: During the final battle, Rogue had him pinned to the ground and ready to stab him with his own sword, but she hesitated because she didn't want to fulfill the prophecy and [[ScrewDestiny wanted to prove him wrong]]. It's unknown whether she spared or finished him off since the comic cuts way before that happens and the next panel showed her declaring that "it's over". [[spoiler:She evidently spared him, as years later, Mr. Sinister sends his death squads to finish the job.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Considered Psylocke to have been this moments before killing her.
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[[folder:Vulcan]]
!!'''Gabriel Summers / Vulcan'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
-> '''AKA:''' Kid Vulcan, Emperor Vulcan, Majestor
-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men: Deadly Genesis'' #1 (2006)
--> ''I claim D'Ken's throne as my own! By right of blood and combat! By right of succession! I name myself Emperor Vulcan, ruler of the Shi'ar Imperium!''
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A prisoner of Shi'ar experiments concealed on Earth, the experience awakened him to a [[PowerLevels Omega level]] mutant, but also drove him mad and filled him with an urge to devastate the Shi'ar, an urge he happily set about fulfilling once he realised how powerful he was. Ironically, he ended up becoming their ruler, even falling in love with the exiled Shi'ar princess, Deathbird, herself an outcast for being a mutant.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: His status as leader of the Shi'ar is this at first, since they see him as TheUsurper.
** VillainWithGoodPublicity: ... but after leading the Imperium to numerous victories and conquests, he achieves a dramatic shift in popular approval.
* AChildShallLeadThem: Becomes TheEmperor of the Shi'ar through a KlingonPromotion.
* AntagonisticOffspring: To Corsair.
* AxCrazy: Completely and utterly insane and wildly, violently unstable. [[spoiler:As of ''House of X'' he seems to have stabilized, though the hows and whys are currently unknown.]]
* BadBoss: As Emperor of the Shi'ar. Though it's a safe bet he never read Machiavelli, he personified the Machiavellian style of leadership.
** Actually ''{{averted|Trope}}'' more often than not, surprisingly enough. Yes, Vulcan had absolutely no mercy for his people's enemies, leaned towards a [[AttackAttackAttack overly-aggressive]] sense of diplomacy and was prone to [[TheCaligula screaming fits of rage]] when things didn't go his way. But he never actually ''[[YouHaveFailedMe killed]]'' any of his underlings even when they screwed up, was [[PsychopathicManchild almost childishly exuberant]] when things ''did'' go his way, and his mixture of political savvy and raw power kept even the [[BoxedCrook highly dangerous boxed crooks]] in his employ from stepping out of line.
* BeingEvilSucks: [[spoiler:After his resurrection, he declares he doesn't want to go back to being the psychopath he was before.]]
* BigBad: In most of the stories he's in.
* BigDamnVillains: Without him the Starjammers, and by extension the rest of the universe, would have been utterly ''screwed'' by the [[ConflictKiller Scy'ar Tal]].
* BigScrewedUpFamily: And how!
* CainAndAbel: Mainly between him and Havok.
* TheCaligula: In ''War of Kings'', and very deliberately so.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: In ''War of Kings'' this is his objective.
* {{Determinator}}: Definitely something that's [[InTheBlood in the Summers blood]]. Wannabe TheManBehindTheMan Talon even [[DeconstructedTrope points this out]] in-story, remarking to a confederate that Vulcan's determination to win the ComicBook/WarOfKings will ruin the Shi'ar Empire, and the sooner they can get rid of him and install a proper PuppetKing, the better.
* TheDragon: ''Very'' briefly to D'Ken. See IndyPloy below.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: He accepts D'Ken's offer to marry into the Shi'ar royal family, with the ultimately successful goal of becoming a...
** DragonAscendant: After he nukes D'Ken.
* ErmineCapeEffect: He was introduced wearing an X-Men uniform as he was one of Xavier's lost students, but quickly switched it out for a more regal, cape-adorned uniform after being promoted to TheEvilPrince by D'Ken.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vulcan is ''devastated'' when Deathbird winds up crippled just before the War of Kings.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even ''he'' thought that Black Bolt's plan to force the entire galaxy into becoming Inhumans was way out of line. Though seconds later, he admits his plan after killing Black Bolt is to take the T-Bomb and throw it at the Kree.
* EvilIsPetty: When Vulcan captures Havok at the conclusion of ''Emperor Vulcan'', he spends inordinate amounts of time tormenting the captive Starjammer from his cell, to the point of neglecting his duties as the Shi'ar majestor. Interestingly, he never actually tortures Havok ''physically'', instead just going for a series of wannabe [[HannibalLecture Hannibal Lectures]] that [[ShutUpHannibal completely fail to break Alex]].
* TheEvilPrince: Not born one, but becomes one after marrying into the Shi'ar royal family.
** Graduates through KlingonPromotion to TheEmperor
* EvilVersusEvil: Unwittingly, during his fight with [[spoiler:the Magus, who had already taken over Adam Warlock and was planning to summon the Many-Angled Ones]].
* {{Expy}}: He has a ''lot'' in common with DC's [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ Superboy Prime]]. Also fellow X-villain [[KnightTemplar Exodus]], both of whom are antagonists with sympathetic backgrounds who clearly won the SuperpowerLottery but suffer from SanitySlippage for it and spend lots of time [[LongBusTrip on buses]] due to writers having little idea of what to do with them.
* EyeScream: Loses an eye to a pissed-off Gladiator. It's the only injury he ever sustains that sticks. [[spoiler:And then it gets fixed by his ressurection.]]
* FreudianExcuse: His mother was murdered and he was forced to spend his childhood as a slave.
* GalacticConqueror: He swallowed up a large swath of space into the Shi'ar Empire during his reign, including several territories held by other empires.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Like many mutant baddies, he has these when using his power.
* GoingNative: He initially went to space with the goal of wiping the Shi'ar Empire off the map, but falling in love with Deathbird made him pull a complete 180 and become their ruler instead. You'd ''think'' this would translate to him becoming a BadBoss EvilOverlord, but he ends up genuinely wanting their approval and to be seen as one of them.
--> '''Deathbird''': You ''are'' Shi'ar. [[LadyMacbeth I can see it inside you]], and the the time will come when you will show the Imperium that you were born to rule them.
* GooGooGodlike: Vulcan, Cyclops's long-foreshadowed second brother was found as a baby and raised to adolescence by aliens, and has the power to absorb literally any form of matter or energy and fire it back, survive in the vacuum of space, and shut off superpowers. He was described as "beyond Omega-level", but since Omega-level already means a mutant of unlimited potential, the part about being beyond a mutant of unlimited potential is most likely a regretful mistake. Still, he's very powerful.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The chancellors and conspirators still loyal to D'Ken conspired to let Vulcan go free so that he could release Deathbird and dethrone Lilandra. The plan went a little too well.
* HairTriggerTemper: Developed one after becoming the Shi'ar majestor. He could go from calm and calculating to screaming madman in the blink of an eye.
* HappilyMarried: From all indications, his feelings for Deathbird were genuine.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He's returned in 2019's ''House of X'' and is listed in that story as being an omega level mutant affiliated with the X-Men]].
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He killed Banshee, Corsair, and a lot of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard]]. He also killed pretty much the ''entire cast'' in a what-if tale where he gained the power of the Phoenix.
* IndyPloy: His plan to take the Shi'ar throne, which was a strange mixture of this and BatmanGambit. He came to the Shi'ar on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, fully intending to destroy their entire empire, but shifted his focus when he [[InterspeciesRomance fell in love with Deathbird]]. Deathbird talked him into reviving the comatose D'Ken, the very Shi'ar who had killed his mother and been the architect of his misery. Vulcan ''considered'' just killing the comatose D'Ken, but decided there would be no point in revenge on a vegetable. So instead he revived D'Ken, let himself be talked into becoming D'Ken's [[TheDragon Dragon]], and patiently waited until his marriage to Deathbird to kill him, since by Shi'ar law he would then have the right to claim the throne.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Deathbird (Shi'ar mutant).
* InTheHood: Early in his reign he is shown as using this to go KingIncognito and learn what his new subjects think of him.
* JekyllAndHyde: [[spoiler:After his resurrection, his original, volatile personality is buried beneath an artificial one created by his resurrectors.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: A rare justified example. Due to being a ''literal'' PsychopathicManchild artificially grown into adolescence before his time, Vulcan's sense of empathy is sorely stunted. The only person he shows any affection for care to is Deathbird.
* LargeHam: Actually pretty restrained most of the time. Not so much when written by Jonathan Hickman, who has him going on in practically ultra-violet speeches all the time. Even [[MundaneMadeAwesome when cooking steak]].
* LightIsNotGood: His powers often manifest as light and flames, but he is most definitely not the protagonist.
* LineOfSightName: He chose the name 'Vulcan' because as a slave the only solace he had was a book about Roman mythology.
* LongLostSibling: He's the third Summers brother.
* LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe: Being the very definition of a SmugSuper, he's ''always'' going on about his being an Omega-level mutant.
* LongBusTrip: After his battle with Black Bolt at the end of ''War of Kings''. Black Bolt quickly returned to life, but Vulcan spent nearly a decade on the bus before [[spoiler:returning in 2019's ''House of X'']].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His hyper-aggressive leadership pushes the Inhumans to rise up against him.
* {{Omniglot}}: He can speak cotati at the very least.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: On a level comparable to the Inhuman king Black Bolt.
* PsychopathicManchild: He appears to be in his late teens but due to his severely messed up history he has the maturity level of a ten-year old child and the temperament of a perpetually angry kid.
* PuppetKing: Talon of the Fraternity of Raptors ''attempts'' to make him one, only to find out very quickly that Vulcan can't be controlled. By anyone.
* RandomPowerRanking: Since M-Day Vulcan is a classified omega level mutant. He's not particularly shy about letting people know, either.
* ResurrectedForAJob: [[spoiler:He was saved from the Fault by interdimensional aliens, who'd been looking for Black Bolt, who fixed some of his insanity and sent him back to Earth-616 as a ManchurianAgent.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: On the Shi'ar. It eventually winds up with him in charge.
* SealedEvilInACan: In his backstory, and the main reason why he hates Professor X so fiercely. [[spoiler:After failing to stop Krakoa, Gabriel and his dying teammates were all entombed within the island while it was launched into space. He didn't get out until M-Day.]]
--> '''Vulcan:''' ''(to Professor X)'' Now I trap ''you'' in a rock!
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[ComicBookDeath For a time]].
* SlouchOfVillainy: After becoming majestor of the Shi'ar he becomes prone to this.
* SmugSuper: Probably the best example of this trope in the ''X-Men'' universe. As one of the most powerful mutants alive, there's almost nobody in the universe who can stand up against him. As such, the very idea of someone actually being stronger than he is absolutely inconceivable for him to imagine and at the same time, it's what deep down, he fears the most. The look on his face when Polaris briefly overpowers him is ''priceless''.
* TheSociopath: Professor X labels him as one in an alternate canon story.
* StartOfDarkness: In the 'Kid Vulcan' short during ''Deadly Genesis'' it was shown that he grew to adolescence as a slave of the Shi'ar, which accounts for his sunny disposition.
* StrongerSibling: To Cyclops and Havok, though Havok was able to beat him once when Vulcan foolishly overcharged him by ''throwing him into a sun''.
* SuperpowerLottery: Oh, boy. Where to begin?
** EnergyAbsorption: Vulcan's an 'Omega-level energy manipulator', which effectively makes him a god. There's not a lot he ''can't'' do. His demonstrated uses of this ability include:
*** AttackReflector: Can do this as long as he's being attacked with an energy-based attack, like the optic blasts of Cyclops.
*** {{Flight}}: Capable of this on an interstellar level, being able to fly under his own power through the vacuum of space.
*** HandBlast: His standard method of attack.
*** HealingFactor: Black Bolt unleashes the full power of his voice, managing to flay Vulcan's skin off. And he still gets up a few minutes later.
*** ImmuneToMindControl: He's not completely immune to them, but is highly resistant to both telepathic and psionic attacks.
*** NighInvulnerability: Tough enough to tank attacks from Polaris and Havok at once, as well as being able to withstand blows from Gladiator.
*** PowerCopying: A very strange case, and possibly an ability he was only able to tap into with the psyches of his teammates, as he never used it after ''Deadly Genesis''. It wasn't actually ''copying'' as much as it was manipulating the powers of others, presumably through his own energy-manipulating abilities.
*** PowerNullifier: Like the above Power Copying, this was an ability he was only shown using during ''Deadly Genesis'', and he may have lost it after [[spoiler:Darwin's psyche separated from him]].
*** PowerParasite: He can rob the energy reserves of other energy manipulators, even non-traditional ones such as ComicBook/AdamWarlock.
*** PsychicSurgery: Not a psychic, but he awakened the comatose D'Ken from a decades-long coma by using his energy powers to re-ignite the dead neurons in D'Ken's brain.
** ElementalPowers: A case of AllThereInTheManual. Vulcan's creator, Ed Brubaker, explained an interview that he has the unrealized potential to generate and control the seven elements (fire, earth, electricity, wind, water, darkness, and light). He's only actually exhibited control over a handful of those elements, though.
*** DishingOutDirt: Only used this during ''Deadly Genesis''.
*** LightEmUp: Via his HandBlasts.
*** PlayingWithFire: By far his most favorite elemental ability, as well as the one most befitting his personality.
*** ShockAndAwe: Another one he only used during ''Deadly Genesis''.
** ComboPlatterPowers: As if all of the above [[SuperpowerLottery wasn't enough]], ''Deadly Genesis'' revealed that he'd psionically absorbed the powers (and psyches) of his teammates Petra, Sway, and Darwin when they died, leading to:
*** DishingOutDirt: From Petra.
*** TimeMaster: From Sway.
*** AdaptiveAbility: From Darwin. [[spoiler:Later lost when Darwin's psyche was separated from him.]]
** So, in short, Vulcan's a PhysicalGod.
* TangledFamilyTree: He's a late addition to the ever-tangled Summers family line.
* TeensAreMonsters: A shining example of what happens when you give a teenager with a shitty childhood way too much power and then let them run wild.
* TooPowerfulToLive: The trick was finding something powerful enough to kill him.
* TradingBarsForStripes: When the original Imperial Guard fails to wipe out the Starjammers, he puts together a new one made up of the Shi'ar Empire's most fearsome prisoners, rationalizing that hardened criminals will have more of a killer instinct than lifelong soldiers.
* UnskilledButStrong: He's had only a week of training as an X-Man, compared to the decades Cyclops and Havok got, but he's probably stronger than 95% of the X-Men's rogues gallery (and even more seeing as he was capable of trading blows with some of the Marvel U's super-heavyweights like Adam Warlock and Black Bolt). This was how Polaris got the upper hand; he was definitely the more powerful of the two, but she was powerful enough to be able to hold her own and much, much more experienced with fighting people on her level or stronger, whereas he was so used to annihilating anyone who challenged him that he genuinely had no idea where to go when he ''didn't'' manage to atomize someone in one shot.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: When Moira [=MacTaggert=] first found him, he was an earnest young man who was enthusiastic about being an X-Man as well as desiring to control his powers to avoid unintentionally hurting others.
* VillainDecay: Possibly overlapping with SanitySlippage, as Vulcan's actions became increasingly less rational as time went on. Most vividly seen when the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy sent Adam Warlock to negotiate with him; true, Warlock slipping aboard his ship without invitation ''probably'' wasn't the wisest thing to do, but Vulcan's response? ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Immediately]]'' attempt to incinerate Warlock, and when that didn't work, pick a knock-down-drag-out fight with him right there in the middle of his own flagship.
* VillainHasAPoint: As monstrous as Vulcan is, he's fully justified in hating and blaming Xavier for manipulating him and his comrades to be sent on a suicide mission and then mentally wiping the memories of others to cover up the incident. If Xavier had been more upstanding and honest, Vulcan wouldn't have turned out the way he did.
* WarriorPrince: Once he marries into the Shi'ar royal family.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Explicitly stated. He wasn't originally so powerful; the energies Scarlet Witch released on M-Day were somehow all absorbed by him in his [[SealedBadassInACan comatose state]], leading him to experience an exponential power increase all at once. Gaining so much power so quickly definitely took its toll.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Hinted at in the main books, and explicitly stated in an alternate story where he gained the power of the Phoenix Force.
* TheWorfEffect: As mentioned above, Vulcan fought Adam Warlock at one point. He also ''completely dominated'' Warlock, using his energy-absorption powers to drain all of Warlock's magical reserves and rendering him nearly helpless. Keep in mind that Adam Warlock is a cosmic-tier hero who has thrown down with the likes of ComicBook/{{Thanos}} and even ''ComicBook/{{Galactus}}''. [[spoiler:More impressive given this was Adam turning into the Magus, who's even stronger and more dangerous than his good self.]]
* WreathedInFlames: Uses them for his BattleAura.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Between the Shi'ar forcibly speeding up his aging, and that long period spent being not quite dead, despite looking to be in his mid-to-late teens, he's mentally a lot younger than he should be (at one point during "Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire", he hallucinates a child version of himself who tries to work out the math).
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[[folder:X-Cutioner]]
!!'''Carl Denti / X-Cutioner'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human
-> '''Debut:''' ''Uncanny X-Men Annual'' #17 (1993)
--> ''"Villain", "hero", it's all a matter of perspective, wouldn't you say?''
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A LawmanGoneBad who takes it upon himself to act as judge, jury and executioner for fugitive mutants. Not the BigBad of the ''X-Cutioner's Song'' crossover, or even affiliated with it, despite what his handle might lead you to believe.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Invokes this in his debut appearance, as seen with his profile quote above.
* [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought to You By The Letter "X"]]: His name was inspired by the ''X-Cutioner's Song'', a 1992 X-books BatFamilyCrossover that featured X-Force villain Stryfe as the titular X-Cutioner (though he was never called that on-panel). Evidently creator Scott Lobdell thought it was too cool a name to waste, as he gave it to this new character a year later.
* CowboyCop: When the FBI couldn't apprehend a mutant (or he thought a jail cell wasn't enough) Denti would gear up and go after them as the X-Cutioner.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In later appearances Denti became a Gambit villain, targeting the Ragin' Cajun for termination solely because Remy was able to defeat and humiliate him.
* FantasticRacism: Played with, as Denti himself does not hate mutants in general but recognizes how dangerous some of them are and is all too willing to work outside the law to deal with them. This naturally motivates him into becoming a VigilanteMan.
** The second version hates all mutants, after his wife and son are killed in the crossfire of mutants fighting each other.
* FollowTheLeader: Denti is basically retread of ComicBook/ThePunisher that targets mutants specifically, and was created when the Punisher's popularity was at an all-time high. This turns out to be true ''in-universe'' as well as out, with Denti meeting Frank and admitting to him that the Punisher was his inspiration for becoming the X-Cutioner. Ironically, Denti himself ended up serving as the inspiration for an even more deranged fellow, who has become the new X-Cutioner.
* HeelFaceTurn: Denti eventually abandoned the X-Cutioner persona and returned to work as an FBI agent.
* InTheHood: One of the more sensible examples in comics. Being a still-active FBI agent, Denti uses this to maintain his SecretIdentity.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite (accidentally) murdering two kids he'd tricked into working for him, Denti is able to return to his old job without facing any charges.
* KickTheDog: Aside from his first kill, the mutant rapist Tower, Denti seems to go after mutants too weak or vulnerable to fight back. His next target after Tower is Mastermind, who was already in his literal deathbed thanks to the Legacy Virus, and after that was a wash he targeted Emma Frost, who was in a coma at the time. The main exception to this is Rogue, who had the powers she'd stolen from ComicBook/CarolDanvers, and he didn't initially back down when faced with both her and ComicBook/XMan, who he actually gives a decent fight (it's worth noting that X-Man was exhausted from a long flight, a misunderstanding fight with Rogue, and was inexperienced with his malfunctioning powers), only teleporting out when both got their second wind.
* LawmanGoneBad: An FBI agent following in the footsteps of the Punisher.
* LegacyCharacter: A second version of the X-Cutioner appeared in ''ComicBook/XMenGold''. This version is much more indiscriminate of who he kills, falling into the WouldHurtAChild category when he attacks the Jean Grey School.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: The second X-Cutioner took advantage of a crisis involving the Darkhold to infiltrate the X-Mansion, plant explosives, and murder two students.
* MilitaryBrat: His family has a distinguished tradition of military service.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: True to his name, the X-Cutioner did not try to arrest mutants, instead just opting for summary executions.
* NoNameGiven: The second X-Cutioner was never named, even though he was eventually arrested (and presumably identified) by the NYPD.
* NeverMyFault: One of Denti's main character flaws. He's always blaming the X-Men for getting in his way, reasoning that they deserve death by not stepping aside to let him commit murder.
* NinetiesAntiHero: You don't get much more nineties than ''The X-Cutioner'' (unless your name is [[UpToEleven Adam X the X-Treme]]).
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The main reason why he failed as a villain and was retired. Despite his whole identity being based around the concept of killing fugitive mutants, Denti's only kill over his entire villainous career was the aforementioned Tower. Every time he tried and failed to kill a target (most of whom were invalids unable to even defend themselves!) it took a little more wind out of his sails. By the time Gambit was mopping him up in his solo series, Denti was firmly in has-been territory.
* PutOnABus: Owing to the character's now-goofy handle, he's been pretty much banished back to the nineties that spawned him.
* SanitySlippage: Denti's father was revealed to have died from it, going nuts on a battlefield and having to be put down by his own men, and Denti himself suffers from it in later appearances, blurring his already vague sense of morality in the name of getting another kill under his belt.
* SerialKiller: Unlike Denti, the second X-Cutioner never had any affiliation with the law, and was just a nutjob who decided that all mutants needed to die after his wife and son were (accidentally) killed in a mutant conflict.
* UngratefulBastard: Archangel saves him from a nasty fall the first time they meet. Denti's way of saying 'thank you' is a taser to the face.
* VigilanteMan: Rest assured, his mission of mutant execution did ''not'' come with an FBI mandate.
* VilerNewVillain: As mentioned above, the second X-Cutioner of ''X-Men Gold'' was a much more villainous character than Denti ended up being. He ended up killing 7 mutants in total, while the original X-Cutioner's body count stands at just a single mutant, and that kill was a mutant rapist who is missed by no one.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: To the point of being a non-powered case of PowerCopying -- Denti uses his FBI connections to piece together a small arsenal of confiscated weaponry from the various extraterrestrials the X-Men have battled over the years. Archangel aptly describes him as a "walking medley of the X-Men's greatest villains".
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[[folder:Xarus]]
!!'''Xarus / Shadow Colonel'''
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!!!'''Species:''' Vampire
--> '''Debut''': ''Death of Dracula'' (2010)
The youngest son of [[ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula Dracula]], unhappy that humanity kept pushing vampires further and further into the darkness, he devised a coup against his own father and sets his eyes on world domination, starting by converting all mutants located in San Francisco to his cause.
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* AssassinOutclassin: Shortly after staking his father, Alyssa tried to have Xarus killed by sending [[HoneyTrap three Siren vampires to seduce him]]. He managed to overpower them just in time when things started to get intimate.
* AntagonisticOffspring: To his father.
* BigBad: In ''ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants''.
* TheCasanova: Xarus is introduced with his girlfriend Alyssa around his arms, has no problem getting hooking up with three Siren ladies at the same time. Like father, like son.
* CainAndAbel: He tried to get his eldest brother Janus killed for refusing to side with him in his coup.
* DaywalkingVampire: Xarus manages to get the support of the vampires by having invented a light-bending device that allows them to walk under the sunlight.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Artists never seen to agree whether he should have blonde or brown hair.
* TheEvilPrince: Fits this trope like a glove since he wants to replace his father as the new vampire king, and get rid of any potential threats such as his brother Janus.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He is beheaded by his resurrected father, whom he had previously staked and beheaded]].
* NewEraSpeech:
-->''For centuries -- centuries -- we've been told we are damned! That we must live our lives in the dark, the world's dirty secret. That we are the corrupt shadows of humanity, undeserving of our own place in the light. And you -- like my father over there -- have accepted that. I say, by our own might, by the force of our will, we are redeemed! Together, united, we will reintroduce vampirekind to the world. And the world will tremble.''
* UnholyMatrimony: Originally used to be romantically involved with Alyssa, but she betrayed him too many times. He then decided to take {{ComicBook/Jubilee}} as his consort.
* VampireMonarch: What he inspired to become.
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[[folder:Zaladane]]
!!'''Zala Dane / Zaladane'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
-> '''Debut:''' ''Astonishing Tales'' #3 (1970)
--> ''I think you'll find a full measure of respect, and not a little fear... for the woman responsible for the ultimate destruction of Magneto.''
An ambitious Savage Land priestess who attempted several times to take over the region. Notable for her alliance with Sauron and for having stripped Polaris from her magnetic powers not long after the ''ComicBook/{{Inferno}}'' arc, to the point of being on par with Magneto in terms of mastery over magnetism. She was eventually killed by Magneto himself for claiming his own title.
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* AbortedArc: Under Creator/ChrisClaremont's original plan Zaladane was going to come BackFromTheDead and join new villain group the Wild Boys (yes, named after the Music/DuranDuran song). This group was retooled into the Upstarts after Claremont left and Zaladane remained dead, her place in the new group taken by new villain Siena Blaze instead.
* AmbiguouslyLesbian: Her interactions with [[ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil Shanna]] in the X-Men's late 80s "Savage Land" story arc were ambiguous, to say the least. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #250, especially, which had her all but going IHaveYouNowMyPretty on the captured jungle heroine. (The story was written, naturally, by Creator/ChrisClaremont.)
* AntagonisticOffspring: Towards [[spoiler:Magneto]], assuming she was in fact his daughter.
* ArchEnemy: To Ka-Zar and later Polaris.
* BigBad: Only used for this in a single issue, ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #275, but in that issue she successfully supplanted ''Magneto himself'' in threat level.
* [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought To You By The Letter "Z"]]: As the High Evolutionary's assistant Zaladane wore an outfit featuring a prominent stylized Z, predating [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Lord Zedd]] by a handy decade or so.
* CainAndAbel: She's the Cain, Polaris is the Abel.
* ConflictKiller: She was a big enough threat in UXM #275 to necessitate an alliance between S.H.I.E.L.D, the Russian government, the X-Men (via Rogue) and Magneto.
* ContinuitySnarl: ''Is'' she [[spoiler:Magneto's]] daughter? Is she Polaris's sister? We know Lorna definitely is Erik's kid, but nothing definite's been given about Zaladane.
* TheDragon: To Garrok and later the High Evolutionary before striking out on her own.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Her last costume incorporated these, presumably as a riff on her first (which featured a headdress that looked ''remarkably'' like a rooster comb).
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Introduced as the queen of the Sun People, one of the Savage Land's multiple indigenous tribes.
* HighPriest: For Garrok's cult.
* KickTheDog: She once kidnapped an innocent man and subjected him to a ritual that overwrote his mind and body with that of Garrok, essentially condemning the poor sucker to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* KillItWithFire: Alongside Garrok, she attempted to have Colossus executed via burning at a stake.
* KilledOffForReal: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #275, courtesy of Magneto.
* LadyMacbeth: Played this role to both Garrok and the High Evolutionary, actively egging on and encouraging their villainy (not that Garrok needed much encouraging).
* LongLostSibling: Revealed/retconned into being one for Polaris.
* ManipulativeBitch: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} during her time as the High Evolutionary's assistant, when she all but broke her back trying to manipulate the latter only for him to reveal to the heroes that he knew her true goals all along, but didn't care enough about politics to go to the trouble of stopping her. As long as Zaladane helped him preserve and restore the Savage Land's environment, the High Evolutionary didn't care at all what she did in her off time.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: In her sole ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' appearance Zaladane was able to successfully consolidate her rule over the Savage Land, only for it to become moot when a fleet of Sentinels slaughtered her and nearly every other mutant on Earth.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: She is heavily implied in her last appearance to have grown stronger than Magneto, so much so that Mags declares her TooPowerfulToLive and kills her. Few heroes or villains can said to have made ''Magneto'' feel fear, but Zaladane is one of them.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: She’s quite busty.
* MouthOfSauron: Served this role to Garrok in her first few appearances.
* {{Mutant|s}}: Averted, at least if we accept her word for it. Zaladane claims at one point to be a mutate, an ordinary human empowered with mutant-level abilities via technology, and while she never proves this it should be noted that the Savage Land features a ''heavy'' mutate population. [[spoiler:Though if she is truly Polaris's sister then she was either lying and actually a mutant or she had latent mutant potential that was activated by mutate technology.]]
* NearVillainVictory: In part due to a Russian colonel's grudge against Magneto, but Zaladane came ''this'' close to having the Savage Land under her leadership declared a sovereign state by the United Nations, in exchange for her agreement to leave the rest of the world in peace. Zaladane was smart enough to realize the U.N. would probably not leave things at that, but her fledgling statecraft went no further as the good guys kicked in her door not too long after.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: At the height of her power Zaladane was powerful enough to threaten every nation on Earth with devastating earthquakes.
* PowerParasite: Not naturally, but she used the High Evolutionary's technology to siphon Polaris's powers into herself. As a Creator/ChrisClaremont plot, this event stuck for some time, with Zaladane retaining Polaris's powers right up to her death and Polaris manifesting a secondary FlyingBrick mutation that lasted until the inevitable StatusQuoIsGod reset button.
* StrongerSibling: To Polaris, if she is in fact her sister.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: A debatable case with her debatable lineage, but it does bear noting that she uses magical powers very similar in nature to those of [[spoiler:her possible half-sister the Scarlet Witch]].
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Literally the words used by Magneto himself as he killed her: "There can be only one Master of Magnetism."
* TookALevelInBadass: Took several levels in her final appearance, to the point where Magneto himself decided she was TooPowerfulToLive.
* UngratefulBitch: In their first fight Ka-Zar saved Zaladane's life by cushioning her fall when they both fell off a pterodactyl. Zaladane's way of saying thanks was to lure Ka-Zar into a cavern guarded by a demonic beast. Amusingly, this led to some LaserGuidedKarma when an out-of-control Garrok chased her right back into said cavern.
* VainSorceress: Mildly vain. Zaladane's not above a good gloat, but fighting for power in the Savage Land also taught her the necessities of being a CombatPragmatist.
* WouldHurtAChild: In one issue she used her sorcery to control Colossus and ordered him to kill Ka-Zar's infant son out of spite.
* {{Zeerust}}: Presumably the reason she has not been revived; like the Marauders, Zaladane's design was heavily influenced by the era she was created in and consequently she comes off as rather dated today.
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!!'''Zzxz'''
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Klyntar
!!!'''Species:''' Symboite
-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men: Kingbreaker'' #2
--> '''Oracle:''' ... Some kind of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote]], we had never encountered anything like it. D'Ken wanted it studied, but after he died, it just remained locked away. My Lord... it is a monstrosity. It feeds on people. It consumes their brains...
--> '''Emperor Vulcan:''' Then if it wants a fresh meal, it will do as I tell it. What else?
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* BlankWhiteEyes: Like its [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} distant relations]] it has large white eyes.
* BoxedCrook: One of the Shi'ar's most fearsome prisoners, until Emperor Vulcan decides to give it a job.
* BrainFood: Like Venom, it has a taste for brains.
* CombatTentacles: It can project pseudopodia and tendrils to attack and restrain opponents.
* TheDreaded: It is one of the five most dangerous entities captured by the Shi'ar Empire.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: It possesses a wide mouth full of sharp fangs.
* PuppeteerParasite: It took over the body of Raza Longknife during a fight with the Starjammers.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The symbiotes are much more common foes of Franchise/SpiderMan than the X-Men. Appropriately he's finally restrained and captured by Nova who had a lot of rogues gallery overlap with Spider-Man in the past.
* TheSymbiote: It is a member of the same species as ComicBook/{{Venom}}. Nova managed to capture and separate it from its host due to his experience with fighting Venom.
* TradingBarsForStripes: It was imprisoned by Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, who intended to study it, but Gabriel Summers killed him and recruited Zzxz into his army.
* {{Yandere}}: Zzxz ''really'' wanted Lilandra as its next host, but took over Raza of the Starjammers instead.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: It is a black symbiote with large white eyes, making it largely identical to its distant relative Venom.
* AVillainNamedZrg: Its name is composed completely out of consonants from the end of the alphabet.
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