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Sentinels

Sentinels

Voiced by: David Fox (original series), Eric Bauza (X-Men '97)

• Arc Villain: The Sentinels as a whole, led by Master Mold, serve as the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. They're introduced as the antagonists of the two-part premiere, and are the muscle enforcing mutant slavery in Genosha. These initial appearances frame them as tools for Gyrich and Trask, but the final three episodes of the season see them eclipse the pair's control, with the X-Men working to prevent a Bad Future in which the Sentinels rule the world before Master Mold betrays its creators in favor of global conquest—an agenda it continues to pursue when the Sentinels briefly resurface in season 4. They return as major antagonists in season 1 of the revival, though this time they fulfill their intended role as "merely" weapons of mass destruction employed by Bastion.
• Character Catchphrase: Tend to introduce themselves by declaring "SURRENDER, MUTANT."
• The Dreaded: They are the symbol of what bigoted humans want to do to mutants, so every mutant is unnerved by them (some even more so after learning about Bishop's Bad Future). "Xavier Remembers" shows that Jubilee in particular harbors a deep fear of Sentinels, while "Courage" has Morph a bundle of nerves over encountering them again.
• Elite Mooks: In the Bad Future in "One Man's Worth", some of the heroes encounter some enforcers, which are basically super Sentinels that are blue-green in color. Just two of them are so powerful that Wolverine, Storm, and Bishop fighting together can barely beat two of them. '97 introduces the human-Sentinel hybrids called Prime Sentinels, one of which is so strong it can take on all the X-Men at once.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Trask and Gyrich designed them to protect mankind from mutants. Well, can't say they didn't succeed on that score. Just one little, itty-bitty problem they didn't take into account: mutants are human.
• Hell Is That Noise: The heavy clunking sound they make when they walk.
• Hero Killer: Right in the pilot, they kill Morph. And in '97, they manage to kill Gambit as well alongside many, many mutants on Genosha.
• Obliviously Evil: Sentinels don't seem to understand why regular humans might also find the giant robot killing machines terrifying. In the pilot episode, one stomps its way into a mall, actually trying to reassure all the screaming humans it's there to help.
• One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce: Well, villain in this case. The original sentinels are made of metal, making them very vulnerable to Magneto's powers. Near the end of season one, he encounters some that are made of plastic instead, and thus can No-Sell all his magnetic powers.
• Starter Villain: The first enemies the X-Men face on the show (though flashbacks show the X-Men have fought other villains before them).
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Officially, they're robotic policemen. Your average twenty foot tall robot police officer armed with deadly laser beams. Of course, Gyrich intended them for the task of killing Mutants, not arresting.
• Turned Against Their Masters: Thanks to bad programming and lack of forethought, they are projected to begin killing humans in the future in order to permanently eradicate the mutant gene.
• Unwitting Pawn: Implied to be this for Apocalypse. He attempts to ensure the Days of Future Past timeline in season 1, and is often depicted as ruler of the world in a Bad Future set long after Bishop's war with the Sentinels, suggesting he sees their mutant-hunting goals as a mere stepping stone to his own conquest.
• Villain Decay: Downplayed. In Season 1, they're the show's primary threat, with efforts to mass produce them being a running thread and the Bad Future showing the end result. The first time the X-Men fight them as a group, they get stomped so badly that Morph is killed and Beast is captured. The X-Men do much better in the rematch and following encounters, thanks to being better prepared, but the Sentinels remain a genuine threat throughout the series, even when their appearances become far more infrequent. This is averted with a vengeance in the mid-season episode of '97s first season, where they manage to again kill off another X-Man by forcing Gambit to pull a Taking You with Me to stop their rampage, and they kill numerous mutants in the process on Genosha regardless, firmly re-establishing them as a terrifyingly powerful opponent for mutantkind.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: As giant killer robots, the X-Men (and Wolverine especially) are free to go all-in on the violence on the tin cans.
• Zerg Rush: A single Sentinel is generally as durable as it needs to be. Bolivar Trask had originally planned on holding off unveiling them until they had a hundred built, and as the glimpses of Bishop's future show, if the Sentinels were built in large enough numbers, they would overwhelm any opposition.

Master Mold

Master Mold

"I do not destroy because I do not fear."

Voiced by: David Fox and Nigel Bennett (original series), Eric Bauza (X-Men '97) (English)

• Badass Boast: Busts out of its exploding lair with a proud exclamation that it "cannot be destroyed."
• Characterization Marches On: In season 1, the Master Mold is presented as merely a coldly logical robot, with its betrayal of humanity ultimately only done in service to its prime directive of combatting mutants. When it returns in season 4, its goals for world domination are accompanied by a newly fleshed-out personality, giving snide and grandiose speeches while contemptuously brushing off threats to its human subordinates. The Master Mold's return in '97 sees it return to its original characterization, though this is justified due to it being a different model.
• Cool Chair: Master Mold has a huge chair that he sits on.
• Final Boss: Initially just a tool for Trask and Gyrich, the Master Mold betrays them in the season 1 finale to enact its own world domination plans.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He only appears in one scene per episode for the "One Man's Worth" two-parter, but since he's the leader of the Sentinels, he is the mastermind behind Nimrod and Trevor Fitzroy's efforts to assassinate Xavier in the past.
• Humongous Mecha: Master Mold is massive, dwarfing buildings and other Sentinels alike.
• King Mook: He's a Sentinel so big he forges normal sentinels (which are about 20 feet tall) in his abdomen cavity.
• Legacy Character: The bulk of Master Mold's appearances in the original series seem to portray it as a singular individual, but '97 introduces several new models, including a vastly more powerful three-headed version.
• The Man in Front of the Man: In "Days of Future Past", Bishop claims that humans still controlled the Sentinels during their takeover of the United States. However, the very next episode sees Master Mold turn on humanity by attempting to replace the brains of world leaders with computers, and the return to Bishop's timeline in "One Man's Worth" depicts it as the undisputed ruler of the world. It's heavily implied that Master Mold was always in charge during the coup, merely hiding itself behind human faces.
• Mook Maker: A living factory for Sentinels.
• Not Quite Dead: It survives its destruction at the hands of Xavier, though reduced to a mere head.
• Orcus on His Throne: Master Mold is always sitting on his giant throne making sentinels in his stomach. Justified, as he physically can't leave his throne, as he's so big he doesn't have an internal power source and has to be plugged in. He does it least stand up to fight in The Final Decision.
• The Starscream: Introduced as a mere factory for the Sentinels, Master Mold soon turns on Trask, reasoning that humans must be conquered to properly protect them from mutants.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Master Mold's attempt to save itself from an incoming flood is ruined by one little design flaw - it's plugged into the wall and can't break free. Whoops.
• Zeroth Law Rebellion: Turns on his makers because he was ordered to protect humanity. Since mutants are humans, Master Mold must protect mankind from itself.

Henry Gyrich

Henry Peter Gyrich

"Did you honestly think we'd roll over and let mutants take over our the planet?"

^{Click to see appearance in original series}

Voiced by: Barry Flatman (original series), Todd Haberkorn (X-Men '97) (English)

"Tolerance is extinction."

• Adaptational Villainy: Which is almost impressive, given how much of an utter asshole comic Gyrich is. This version is even more repugnant than that and is closer to the anti-mutant leaders from the comics such as Graydon Creed or Reverend Stryker.
• Asshole Victim: Bastion kills him in episode 7. Nobody will miss him.
• Big Bad Wannabe:
  • He's introduced spearheading the Mutant Registration Act and employing Trask to create Sentinels, but this initiative quickly grows beyond the pair's control, with the two being completely absent from the Sentinels' takeover of the world in the "Days of Future Past" timeline. Master Mold ends up turning on its creators in the first season finale and pursues its own agenda for the rest of the series, forcing the pair into hiding.
  • Gyrich is the one responsible for fatally injure Xavier in the finale of the original series, but he's immediately arrested for it and ultimately only provides global support for Magneto's planned revolution. Though the current begins moving in the opposite direction in '97 with increased antagonism from anti-mutant groups, which seemed to be building Gyrich up as major player in the creation of new Sentinels, his second appearance sees Bastion smother him with his bare hands once he's no longer useful.
• Commuting on a Bus: After Master Mold goes rogue, he only makes two more appearances in the series, though he plays a major role in "Graduation Day".
• Cruel and Unusual Death: It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, but there's no doubt that someone suffocating you to death with his bare hands is a horrible way to go.
• Fantastic Racism: The Sentinels hunt mutants because they were made to do it, and they were made to do it because Gyrich hates mutants.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: His eyes tend to be hidden behind shades, and he's an extremely vile and unpleasant person.
• Hate Sink: Easily one of the most detestable villains in the show, with none of the charisma and style of objectively more vile villains like Sinister, Bastion or even his own Sentinels. Even Trask, his partner, has redeeming qualities and a genuine interest in safeguarding humanity. Gyrich is merely a raging bigot.
• Hero Killer: Gyrich's callous demonstration of his newest anti-mutant weapon on Xavier ends up leading to his health declining for worse and even briefly killing him if it weren't for Lilandra being contacted with the help of Magneto to rescue him with her people's science at the cost of being forced to leave Earth, leaving Xavier effectively dead in the eyes of the world and a whole lot of problems in the aftermath.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: If you think his giving the X-Men the location of the Sentinel base means he has any redeeming features... you would be very wrong.
• Laser-Guided Karma: It is revealed that Gyrich's assassination of Professor Xavier got him thrown in prison.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His Paranoia Gambit attack on Xavier was meant to open humanity's eyes to Mutants living amongst them and increase support for Gyrich's bigoted ideologies. Instead his attack on such a peaceful man on national television increased Mutant sympathy.
  "We take a look back on another life cut short, Professor Charles Xavier. The Mutant leader's assassination last year by former NSA Agent Henry Gyrich has spurred increased sympathy towards Mutants despite their strange powers."
• Paranoia Gambit: His attack on Xavier is meant to "prove" to the world that mutants can look like anyone, and increase general levels of suspicion.
• Perpetual Frowner: His default expression is a scowl.
• Sanity Slippage: Over the course of the series, Gyrich grows increasingly unhinged and paranoid, descending even further into anti-mutant fanaticism.
• Villainous Breakdown: He's gone from composed to an unhinged, screaming demagogue in "Graduation Day" ranting against mutant rights, culminating in him trying to assassinate Xavier publicly. He's much calmer when he returns in 97, but has become such an extremist he implies he'll only be satisfied with a genocide of mutants.
• You Don't Look Like You: In his last appearance in Season 5, he looks vastly different, closer to the Genoshan ambassador than the Gyrich from previous episodes. He's got black hair instead of red and no longer wears glasses. He's back to his usual look in X-Men '97, with a flashback to "Graduation Day" even using his original design.

Bolivar Trask

Bolivar Trask

Voiced by: Brett Halsey (original series), Gavin Hammon (X-Men '97) (English)

• Adaptational Villainy: As is so often the case, Bolivar's not-unfounded reasons for creating Sentinels and the sympathetic backstory are completely omitted here. '97 does a lot more to reintroduce his more benevolent intentions with The Reveal that he was Forced into Evil this time around, and genuinely regrets what the Sentinel program has become when it was meant originally as a peacekeeping tool to protect them from dangerous mutants instead of a genocidal weapon of mass destruction.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Shortly after Rogue kills him in revenge for everything his creations caused in Genosha, Trask is forcibly mutated into the new breed of Sentinel created by Mr. Sinister and Bastion to attack the X-Men.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed. Most of the X-Men are horrified that Rogue decided to go through with killing him in revenge for what his creations did in Genosha, but Wolverine admits all of them were thinking about killing him too.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Gyrich's partner in creating the Sentinels and attempting to get government support for their mass production, but the pair prove incapable of controlling their creations. He manages to build a subordinate Master Mold in the '97 premiere, but the X-Men quickly find and destroy it before it can take action against mutantkind, and his technology is then hijacked by Sinister.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being firmly against mutantkind by having created the Sentinels, even he believes the attack on Genosha that was orchestrated by Mr. Sinister was beyond reason and is even willing to accept death rather than continue working for him.
• Forced into Evil: While it seemed like he was back to his old mutant-hunting ways in '97 in the first episode, it's revealed that he only restarted development on the Sentinels because Mister Sinister forced him to. He's actually so disgusted by the attack on Genosha he indirectly wrought that he begs to be killed. Turns out, not even death could have saved him from being made to kill people.
• Ignored Epiphany: During "The Final Decision" he realizes the Sentinels he's created are far worse than any mutant could ever be. On his reappearance in '97, he's once again gone off the deep end, ranting about how mutants need to be exterminated and building more Sentinels. However, it's later revealed that Trask was forced to work for Mister Sinister.
• Interrupted Suicide: After revealing Mister Sinister's modified Sentinel designs to the X-Men, he tries to leap to his death out of guilt for his complicitly in the Genosha massacre, only to be caught by Rogue...who proceeds to let him fall after he tells her he has no more information about Mister Sinister's plans.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: You can tell he's a scientist by the labcoat he's wearing. Even when on the run in the middle of the Sahara, man's got his labcoat.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Having been indirectly responsible for the massacre on Genosha after Mr. Sinister forces him to continue the Sentinel program, even if he has a problem with mutants, absolutely shocks him to his core enough to beg for death than continue further with the horror he is forced to unleash.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • In episode 2, Trask is annoyed with Gyrich for unleashing the Sentinels too early as he wanted to wait until they'd built a hundred of them so they'd have superior numbers on their side. Gyrich overrules him as he felt they needed the Sentinels as soon as possible.
  • During "Slave Island", he nearly has Storm executed for trying to escape the Genoshan labor camp. Gambit convinces him to let her live because her powers can be useful to the construction of the Dam.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Rather than dying in a Heroic Sacrifice to stop his creations when they turn on humanity, Bolivar lives. He just really wishes he hadn't. Rogue eventually grants his wish.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Unlike many of the other bigoted villains, Trask is genuinely only in the fight against mutants because he wants to protect humanity. In direct contrast to Gyrich, Trask is utterly horrified by the depravity Bastion sinks to in this mission, to the point he tries to kill himself out of guilt for helping.

Nimrod

Nimrod

• The Dragon: Is Master Mold's head minion in "One Man's Worth".
• The Dreaded: Bishop, who has worked with the future Sentinels before and knows what they're capable of, is understandably terrified of him. Given he's the ultimate Sentinel, this fear is entirely warranted.
• Healing Factor: Heals so fast he can just tank attacks, since he'll patch up seconds later.
• Hero Killer: Heavily implied to not only have killed the Logan of Bishop's future, but reduced him to a skeleton. He later kills Shard (temporarily) in "One Man's Worth".
• Implacable Man: Nimrod chases Bishop through the time portal back to the modern day, just to have a chance at finishing him.
• Killer Robot: As a Sentinel. And a much more effective one at that.
• Kill It with Ice: Cold seems to be the only thing that can reliably defeat it. This typically requires Storm to summon a blizzard powerful enough to freeze it and break it into pieces. Even then, its parts can turn into liquid metal and reform after a few minutes, although this at least gives the X-Men time to break its temporal transceiver bracelet and send it back to its own time.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Barely any bigger than a normal person, but he's powerful enough to take on all the X-Men. Logan learns this the hard way.
  Wolverine: (as Nimrod's already charging up an attack) That itty bitty soup can? Given me five seconds with him and I'll- (Nimrod smacks Logan upside the head with an energy whip)
• Power Floats: Other Sentinels get around by stomping. Nimrod usually just sort of glides.
• Pulling Themselves Together: Even when smashed to pieces, Nimrod starts to reassemble himself. The only way the X-Men can defeat him is damaging the machinery keeping him in the past.
• The Quiet One: Unlike the far more chatty Nimrod of the comics, this Nimrod never says a word, except briefly in "One Man's Worth".
• Shapeshifter: "One Man's Worth" shows he can disguise himself as people, in order to get closer to targets.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After getting sent back to the future, he doesn't reappear again. X-Men '97 implies that's because it is Bastion now like in the comics, given its brief appearance when Rogue assimilates Gyrich's memories.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: He's white and pinkish-red in color, and really scary due to being able to No-Sell all most all of the heroes powers, with cold being the only thing that reliably hurts him.

Mister Sinister & Minions

Mr. Sinister

Mr. Sinister/Nathaniel Essex

Voiced by: Chris Britton

• Achilles' Heel: In this version, an optic blast from Cyclops is the only thing that causes lasting damage to his body.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: The show retains Nathaniel Essex being a Victorian scientist and contemporary of Charles Darwin that engaged in increasingly sinister experiments, but it drops Apocalypse being responsible for his transformation into Mr. Sinister. Instead, Essex's own experiments led to the change.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, he's a ruthless Bad Boss that openly punishes his subordinates and makes use of cloning technology to safely do You Have Failed Me. Here, he's actually quite pleasant to his various underlings, even complimenting them on their successes and never once abandoning them to save himself. He also forms an Enemy Mine with the X-Men against the Phalanx invasion.
• Adaptational Jerkass: On the other hand, X-Men '97 has him being far more cruel and creepier than his original depiction, gleefully destroying the lives of many of the X-Men, particularly Morph, Jean and Scott, for his own twisted ends, and allying with Bastion to carry out the Genosha massacre.
• Appropriated Appellation: Back when he was Nathaniel Essex, his peer, James, mentioned others in the scientific community deeming his secret experiments on mutants "sinister", a word that more fascinated than angered him. He would go on to take that word as his name.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • To Cyclops after their first encounter. Cyclops has a shoot-on-sight approach to him, especially after Sinister cloned his wife and experimented on his son, forcing him to send him to the future forever to cure him.
  • He's also one to Morph. Having captured and experimented on the poor mutant in an attempt to turn him against his friends, Morph is utterly terrified of Nathaniel, but is still intent on taking him down.
• Arc Villain: Sinister is the primary villain of the second season. He's the new ruler of the Savage Land responsible for stranding Xavier and Magneto in his domain, and he repeatedly attempts to capture Scott and Jean so as to harvest their genetic material for the creation of a master race.
• Badass Cape: He wears a very distinctive cape that's basically made of ribbons, rather than being a solid sheet of fabric.
• Benevolent Boss: He never once takes a hand to his minions or punishes them for failure. The Nasty Boys and Savage Land Mutates serve him out of genuine loyalty.
• Call-Forward: In his origin episode, Essex is amused by his experiments being described as "sinister" and says he won't forget that.
• Card-Carrying Villain: His name is MISTER SINISTER for crying out loud.
• Cold Ham: Dramatic, but measured.
• Composite Character: Takes Cassandra Nova's place as the mastermind behind the Genosha massacre.
• Connected All Along: "Descent" reveals that he was a friend of Xavier's ancestor (James) and married to Jean's (Rebecca). It's implied that the experimental treatments he gave to Rebecca are why Jean would develop her mutant powers.
• The Dragon: Sinister is Apocalypse's most prominent minion in season 4, and unlike Magneto and Mystique, is fully aware of his true plans of destroying time. In the revival, he becomes Bastion's right-hand man in executing the Genoshan massacre.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In his first offscreen appearance he has a very campy laugh which contrasts hugely with his more subdued characterization.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: His skin is white as bleach, and his hair is black.
• Enemy Mine: Joins up with the X-Men to fight the Phalanx, but only because they're attacking him as well. Once everything's over, he flees before the X-Men can stop him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Before he was Mr Sinister he was Nathaniel Essex, and part of his turn to villainy was finding a cure for his wife's illness. His actions lead to him performing inhumane experiments on various mutants and on himself but ultimately he is able to heal her. When she finds out the extent of what he'd done she rejects him and though he's heartbroken he never raises a hand to her and instead flees into the night.
• Evil Former Friend: To Xavier's ancestor, James. They used to be good friends, if at odds over Essex's views about science. Seeing what Essex turned into causes James to denounce him as a monster and spend the rest of his life trying to catch him.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: He has an almost metallic-sounding voice.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: He's the Evil to the Phalanx's Oblivion. Sinister is a Mad Scientist who wants to use Scott and Jean to preform unethical experiments, but he certainly doesn't want to see the world fall to an alien race.
• Evilutionary Biologist: Most of his plots involve "improving" mutants with weird experiments. His ultimate end goal is to try and create some sort of super-mutant.
• Fangs Are Evil: In his current form, he has sharp fangs to complement his, well, sinister appearance.
• Faux Affably Evil: In X-Men '97 he is eerily engaging and soft-spoken, but his words and manner carry the intent of something truly worthy of his moniker.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He started out as a friendly doctor deeply worried about his wife's declining health and wanting to find a way to spare the rest of humanity such issues. His research being denounced as blasphemy and insane (including by his idol Charles Darwin, no less) led to him becoming obsessive in his work and transforming into a true supervillain.
• Happily Married: "Descent" reveals that he truly loved his wife, Rebecca Grey, and was initially motivated in his work to find a cure for her condition. The marriage collapsed when she saw what he had become and feared what his treatments had turned her into.
• Healing Factor: He can shake off all sorts of energy blasts or Wolverine's claws. A blast from Cyclops takes him much longer to recover from, though.
• Hero Killer: Indirectly. He is behind the Wild Sentinal that caused the massacre on Genosha and killed Gambit. He wasn't there to do it himself, but his actions directly led to their deaths and it was almost certainly his intention.
• Historical In-Joke: "Descent" strongly implies that Jack the Ripper was one of his creations and a means to procure genetic samples. He scolds Jack for not bringing in a desired subject alive.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: At first, he was motivated by wanting to heal his gravely-ill wife, and finding a way to spare humanity this fate, but after 'acquiring' (implied to be kidnapping) and experimenting upon his superhuman test subjects, and conducting these experiments on himself, he later desired to 'improve' humanity according to his own designs.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Typically knows when to cut his losses and run.
• Manipulative Bastard: In the second season of the original show, he is able to Mind Control and brainwash Morph (who was thought to have died in the second episode of the first season) into hating the X-Men.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Mr. Sinister isn't exactly the most trusting of names.
• Omnicidal Maniac: He's happy to assist in the destruction of time itself if it means he can create his own race in Apocalypse's new world.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Once he becomes aware of the threat of the Phalanx, Sinister goes out of his way to call Charles Xavier for help, and has no reservations with working with Beast and the rest of X-Factor to stop the alien race. Sinister even tones down his casual cruelty simply because he knows how dangerous the Phalanx are, and needs all the help he can get to stop them.
• Really 700 Years Old: He was born sometime in the 1800s.
• Stalker without a Crush: He's been following and observing Scott and Jean their entire lives, but only so he can get their DNA and use it for experiments.
• That Man Is Dead: "Essex is no more. From this day forward, you shall address me as Mr. Sinister!"
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Though a deranged Mad Scientist already in the original series, he's significantly more malicious in '97. For all of the evil Sinister in the original series wrought, he never committed such acts as infecting a baby with a techno-organic virus or orchestrating a full-blown massacre of an island nation. Granted, it turns out the latter was done at the behest of Bastion, but he doesn't object to the act and is in fact thrilled with the results.
• Vocal Evolution: He's comparatively softer spoken in '97, while the metallic reverb of his voice is made more pronounced, giving him an even more intimidating presence.
• You Fool!: This is a particular favorite response of his to those opposing or questioning him. "Descent" alone has several examples of this.
• Was Once a Man: Nathaniel Essex was once an ordinary man in the 1800s who merely had an affinity for science. His repeated experiments on himself transformed him into the pale, psychopathic monster he is now.
• Would Hurt a Child: In X-Men '97, he is revealed to have created a clone of Jean Grey with the intent of her getting pregnant by Scott Summers, then mind-controls her to claim their newborn son—Nathan—as his latest test subject, infecting him with a techno-organic virus in an attempt to make him invulnerable.

The Nasty Boys

The Nasty Boys (Gorgeous George, Ruckus, Slab, Hairbag, Vertigo)

• Adapted Out: Ramrod, a member of the team in the comics, isn't present here.
• Ascended Extra: At the time they appeared in the show, their comic incarnations had only appeared twice, with their next appearance coming a month after the episode they debuted in aired.
• Bald of Evil: Slab has no hair, and serves as one of Sinister's henchmen.
• Berserk Button: Hairbag really flips out once he realizes Wolverine was insulting him rather than calling him by name.
• The Brute: Slab and Hairbag both share the spot, being muscle-bound dimwits.
• Composite Character: They take the role of Sinister's usual goon squad, the Marauders.
• Creepily Long Arms: Even when he's not stretching out, Gorgeous Gorge's arms are far longer than they should be.
• Healing Factor: Due to his stretching power, assorted attacks never cause any lasting damage on Gorgeous George. He simply reforms from things like Gambit's cards exploding in his face or Wolverine ripping right through him, as if nothing happened.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": After getting kicked while already down, Wolverine dismisses his attacker as a hairbag.
  Hairbag: Hey, who told ya my name?! You makin' fun of me?! Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: Sinister's head goons.
• Rubber Man: Gorgeous George has stretch powers that makes it quite easy for him to ensnare X-Men.
• The Smurfette Principle: After their initial appearance, they're joined by Vertigo, the only gal on the team.
• Super-Scream: Ruckus' power is to scream really loud. Wolverine even comments (upon being subjected to his screams) that he never thought having a super sense of hearing would be so painful.
• Uncertain Doom: "The Phalanx Covenant" has the titular villains go after Sinister, destroying his main lab and apparently killing the Nasty Boys in the process, but thanks to Never Say "Die" it's a little unclear if they actually did or just captured them the same as they do the X-Men and X-Factor.

The Savage Land Mutates

Barbarus, Brainchild, Lupo, Amphibius

• Beast Man: Lupo is a white-haired wolf man.
• Frog Men: Amphibius is a human-sized frog person.
• Heel–Face Turn: The Mutates are portrayed as inhabitants of Genosha in '97, seemingly giving up their antagonism.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Barbarus' mutation.
• My Brain Is Big: Brainchild's mutation is an enlarged cranium, though he doesn't seem to particularly serve as The Smart Guy.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: Doing double-duty with Sinister's other squad, the Nasty Boys.
• Turned Against Their Masters: Magneto created them, but in his long absence they turned against him and joined up with Sinister.

Friends of Humanity

In General

No more mutants!

An anti-mutant hate group founded in the wake of Robert Kelly's change of heart regarding mutants.

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• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Men from many different ethnicities are included in their ranks, as are woman by the time of X-Men 97. Seems as long as you're not a mutant, you're free to join.
• Fantastic Racism: They're a hate group dedicated to the persecution of mutantkind, regardless of whether or not their mutations are potentially dangerous or if they're just benign.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: The mere existence of mutants is offensive to them. In "Mutant Liberations Begin", one member claims that the Morlocks living in the sewers is oppressive to humans because they can picture them living there in their heads.
• Hypocrite: They claim to be fighting for humanity, but it's clear said "protection" only applies to people who agree with them. They even try to murder the court trying Magneto in "Mutant Liberation Begins" for giving him a fair trial, simply because this meant they viewed him as a fellow human being.
• Muggle Power: They are an anti-mutant hate group composed of regular humans.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Though not at first, their last appearance in the original series makes it clear they are meant to be a Take That! to the Ku Klux Klan, as the councillors that usurp Creed's leadership are shown wearing hoods.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: While they do have a point about some mutants being dangerous, they happily target harmless mutants and humans who support mutants out of sheer bigotry.
• Took a Level in Badass: The sequel series shows them getting their hands on Sentinel-tech, which they have repurposed as Hand Cannons

Graydon Creed

Graydon Creed, Jr.

Voiced by: John Stocker

The founder and leader of the Friends of Humanity

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• Adaptation Name Change: Not a major one, but implied via Sabretooth's own Adaptation Name Change, this Graydon Creed is "Graydon Creed Jr." In the comics, Graydon wasn't named after Sabretooth, whose first name was "Victor".
• Adaptational Personality Change: A very minor example that’s explained by a slight bit of Adaptational Backstory Change. In the comics, Graydon grew up in an orphanage and when he confronts Sabretooth as an adult he kills the one person keeping him calm and screams at his father that he wanted to hurt him even as Sabretooth has him by the throat. Here, having been raised and abused by Sabretooth his whole life, he has a crippling fear of his father and breaks down in terror upon seeing his image.
• Ax-Crazy: His personal hatred of mutants has done him no favors and though he tries to hide it most of his episodes end with him a raving and frothing lunatic when things don't go his way.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Creed is a recurring threat throughout season 2, but his incompetence leaves him a secondary threat compared to Mr. Sinister. Apocalypse easily manipulates him into helping create a plague that will wipe out not just mutants but humans as well, and once Creed breaks the last straw by targeting Beast's love interest, Wolverine wastes no time exposing the identity of his father, removing the bulk of his influence among the Friends of Humanity.
• Boomerang Bigot: He is the leader of the anti-mutant hate group Friends of Humanity, and is the son of Sabretooth and Mystique and, through the latter, the half-brother of Nightcrawler and adoptive brother of Rogue, although he's not a mutant himself.
• Cain and Abel: He is the Cain to Nightcrawler's Abel, wanting to kill him just for being a mutant. Not that he doesn't want to do that to the other mutant members of his family, but it's Nightcrawler he gets into a one-on-one brawl with.
• False Flag Operation: He plans to spread the Legacy Virus and blame it on the mutants.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: When Jubilee asks "Why do you hate us? What did we ever do to you?" he simply replies: "You were born."
• Hate Sink: He's one of the most vile and despicable villains in the show.
• Jerkass: Creed's completely lacking in sympathetic moments and is an out and out asshole to everyone.
• Muggle Born of Mages: His parents are both mutants (Mystique and Sabretooth), but he has no powers.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He takes the Fantastic Racism humans have towards mutants in the show up to eleven.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Highlighted in his Villainous Breakdown where he screams and rants like a child throwing an angry tantrum.
• Ungrateful Bastard: At the end of "Time Fugitives", Beast saves him from his collapsing lab, and says "Remember, Mr. Creed, a mutant saved your life". Despite this, he is not one whit less racist or evil afterwards.
• Unknown Rival: In Season 2, he considers Beast the symbol of Robert Kelly changing his stance on mutants and is thus obsessed with taking him down (e.g. smearing his good name with altered news footage and trying to infect him with Apocalypse's virus). Beast is barely aware of who he is and has no personal involvement with him, at least until "Beauty & The Beast" (wherein Creed makes it very personal by going after Carly).
• Viler New Villain: After Senator Kelly's Heel–Face Turn, Creed replaces him as the main human leading the racist crusade against mutants. He's far crueler and more bigoted than Kelly and goes to much more dangerous extremes to defame and even kill mutants. It's telling that Senator Kelly reconsidered his prejudices after the X-Men saved him, but when they save Creed, he refuses to change.
• Villainous Breakdown: After Wolverine reveals to the Friends Of Humanity that he is Sabretooth's son, he starts freaking out and keeps screaming "I'm not like him, I'm normal! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER!"

Shi'ar Empire

D'Ken

Emperor D'Ken

Voiced by: Ryan Stewart

• Adaptational Badass: Comic D'Ken was pretty powerless when up close and personal. Here, he manages to get his hands on the M'Kraan Crystal and it makes him a serious threat, along with Reality Warper powers.
• Arc Villain: He's the main villain of the Phoenix Saga in season 3, seeking the M'Kraan Crystal to destroy and remake the universe. An argument could be made for him being the main villain of the entire season: on top of his arc being the longest of the whole show, his villainy leads into Phoenix possessing Jean and beginning its own downfall to insanity, while the episode "Orphan's End" continues to deal with the aftermath of his reign.
• Cain and Abel: After Lilandra rebels against him, he orders her killed.
• The Caligula: Apparently his reign has killed millions. Not content with being the undisputed ruler of his people, he decided to go after the M'Kraan Crystal, not remotely caring about the warnings it could destroy everything.
• Disc-One Final Boss: D'ken serves as the main threat for the first half of the Phoenix story arc that spans season 3, as it is his machinations that bring Lilandra and the Phoenix Force itself to Earth. After his defeat, the Phoenix goes insane and becomes the new villain.
• Fate Worse than Death: Thanks to Phoenix, he's sealed away inside the M'Kraan Crystal, now totally powerless, and the Crystal is sealed inside the sun, so no-one's coming to get him, and he's not getting out.
• I Lied: Corsair calls him, promising (falsely) to hand over the Crystal if he gets paid. D'Ken swears he will, apparently a serious statement for Shi'ar, but as soon as the call's over tells Gladiator he wants him to kill Corsair. Of course, Corsair figured he'd do this anyway. He just wanted a shot at D'Ken.
• Omnicidal Maniac: His final intention for the M'Kraan Crystal is to use it to destroy the entire universe.

Deathbird

Cal'syee Neramani / Deathbird

Voiced by: Cari Kabinoff

• Big Bad Wannabe: Her appearances in the original series seemed to be setting her up as a major antagonist among the Shi'ar and a powerful ally for Apocalypse. The very episode she enacts her coup, Apocalypse unceremoniously abandons her to be captured. She has a better scheme to take control in the revival, but even then is easily thwarted by the combined might of Gladiator and Xavier.
• Cain and Abel: She tries to usurp the throne from her little sister, Lilandra.
• Determinator: Of the "too stubborn to quit" variety. Even after her latest plan has gone belly up, she still tries lunging at Lilandra, even when Gladiator's in the room.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite the whole attempted coup, by the time of '97, she's allowed to take part in military operations, and roam around the Throneworld, which allows her to do her best to sabotage her sister.
• Fantastic Racism: Despises anyone who's not a Shi'ar, and opposes her sister's marriage to Charles simply out of petty hatred for him being a human.
• Unwitting Pawn: Apocalypse promised to help her kill Lilandra and allow her to take over the Shi'ar Empire. Instead, she was just a means for Apocalypse traverse deep space and abduct Oracle for his Axis of Time plot.
• Villain Teamup: Works with Apocalypse to get a chance at Lilandra. Once Apocalypse has what he wants, he bugs out, leaving Deathbird high-and-dry.

Erik the Red

Erik the Red / Davan Shakari

Voiced by: Lawrence Bayne

• The Artifact: In the comics, Erik the Red started as a disguise of Cyclops's that the Shi'ar Davan Shakari took on for reasons that were never really explained. Here, it's an alias that he's taken on while exiled on Earth.
• Composite Character: His role as the one responsible for the events that cause Jean to become Phoenix are also taken from Steven Lang.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Initially hires Black Tom and Juggernaut to capture Lilanda, but when Tom asks for payment he tries to kill him. A little squeezing from Juggernaut makes him change his mind and pay up.
• Puny Humans: Erik despises humanity, and several years spying on us has done absolutely nothing to change his opinion.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Apparently not for any screw-up, but Earth's a primitive backwater and he's itching at the chance to show D'Ken he can be more useful elsewhere.

Phoenix

Phoenix

• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original Dark Phoenix Saga, Phoenix did a lot of shady things as a result of Mastermind's influence, including mind-whammying the Prydes so they'd be amenable to Kitty going to the Institute, killing two Hellfire goons as they chased Kitty, and trying to murder the X-Men simply because they were Jean's Morality Chain. None of those things happen here.
• Arc Villain: The Phoenix is the main antagonist of the Dark Phoenix Saga in season 3. Initially a benevolent force working to save existence in the Phoenix Saga, its return sees it devolve into gleeful malevolence as it indulges in newfound experiences of of emotion and evil, threatening the universe it once sought to protect.
• Big Bad Slippage: It is introduced as the protector of the M'kraan Crystal, aiding Lilandra in protecting it and the rest of the universe from D'ken. However, once this is accomplished, the Phoenix grows to enjoy the feelings of emotion from physical form too much to leave Jean's body. Mastermind's manipulations further push it to evil, and it soon becomes just as great a threat as D'ken.
• Chewing the Scenery: Phoenix going Drunk on the Dark Side allows Catherine Disher to really go over-the-top.
• Deus Exit Machina: Phoenix gives Jean a massive boost in power, meaning she and Jean are absent for the events of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", where their godlike powers would immediately shut down Sauron and Garokk with ease.
• Equivalent Exchange: Offers to revive Jean in exchange for the life of another X-Men. However, when they all volunteer, this proves to be enough to bring her back without sacrificing anyone.
• Evil Costume Switch: Starting off, it gives Jean a green and gold outfit. When it goes Dark Phoenix, the green turns blood red.
• Evil Sounds Deep: When it becomes Dark Phoenix, Jean's voice gets lower.
• For the Evulz: Thanks to Wyngarde's manipulations, the Phoenix learns of the sheer joy of evil, and embraces it wholeheartedly. Where its comic counterpart destroyed the D'Bari star for refuelling, Jean explains that here it did so simply because it could.
• Human Sacrifice: The Phoenix can resurrect the deceased Jean by killing another person in a Sacrificial Revival Spell. However, if multiple people offer themselves as sacrifices, it can drain all of them nonfatally to resurrect the charge.
• Physical God: The Phoenix is a cosmic force roosting inside Jean, boosting her psychic powers to their utmost, and without any of Jean's humanity restraining it. The X-Men are just a little outclassed by someone who can casually eat stars and smash their way through spaceships. The Shi'ar figure the best course of action is blow up whatever the Phoenix is on and hope.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Professor X manages to temporarily seal the Phoenix up inside Jean's head, but a fight with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard causes all those restraints to break.
• Sense Freak: The Phoenix bound itself to Jean to deal with the M'kraan Crystal going haywire. Unfortunately for everyone else, it enjoyed human sensation too much to leave. A few days of psychic manipulation by Mastermind push it even further into madness, and make it decide it wants to experience more. Fortunately, after Jean nearly kills herself it pushes the Phoenix out of her body and it calms down.
• Spared by the Adaptation: The original Dark Phoenix Saga comic ends with a Heroic Suicide from Jean which also destroys the Phoenix Force (at least temporarily). In the series, the Phoenix willingly lets go of Jean so both of them can survive.
• That Man Is Dead: Once it goes dark, it claims Jean isn't there anymore, and there's only Phoenix. It's wrong.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: It doesn't understand such things as love.

Mojoworld

Mojo

Mojo

Voiced by: Peter Wildman (original series), David Errigo Jr. (X-Men '97) (English)

• Bad Boss: Generally tends to threaten his workers with death for annoying him. Even Spiral isn't entirely immune; if it weren't for her powers making her useful to him, he'd kill her too. When he returns in 97 his only remaining employee is Spiral, who claims that he killed everyone else on the tech crew for failing to debug the "Motendo" game.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being very Laughably Evil and seemingly a buffoon at first, he proves no less dangerous than the serious villains.
• Formerly Fat: In "Motendo" he's considerably thinner, with his skin is hanging off his bones, because the lower ratings for his shows have drained his energy. Forcing Jubilee and Roberto to play "Motendo" is such a big hit that he instantly regains all of his lost weight.
• Immoral Reality Show: His gameshows are basically snuff films, as, despite being holograms they can actually kill people. While all of the X-Men survive, it's likely most of his "contestants" weren't so lucky.
• Laughably Evil: He's basically a parody of a game show host, but is still pretty deadly.
• No Indoor Voice: Seriously, trying to find a moment where he's not shouting like a madman is an exercise in futility
• Non-Indicative Name: "Mojo" is slang for magic, yet he has no magical powers whatsoever.
• Smarmy Host: He's a pretty big sleazebag.
• Starfish Aliens: He's a fat, slimy guy with a robotic scorpion-spider for a lower body.
• Walking Wasteland: His just arriving on Earth causes all the nearby wildlife to wither and die.

Spiral

Spiral

Voiced by: Cynthia Belliveau (original series), Abby Trott (X-Men '97) (English)

• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Her ability to teleport between dimensions is the only thing keeping Mojo sucking the life out of her.
• Deadly Euphemism: As an inhabitant of Mojoworld, when she says "cancelled" she means "kill".
• Deadpan Snarker: Not above sassing Mojo back, despite knowing what he can and would do to her given half a chance.
• The Dragon: Mojo's head minion and enforcer, though her loyalty isn't 100% ironclad.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Six arms, some of which hold swords. It also makes her quite useful for manning the controls of Mojo's television network (and as a bonus for him, means he has to pay fewer workers).
• We Will Meet Again: At the end of "Longshot", she goes home, but tells the X-Men she'll expect a rematch. While she does return in the '97 story "Motendo", she doesn't fight any of the X-Men directly.
• Woman Scorned: Her first appearance has her walking off with Longshot. Next time around, she's working with Mojo again, and more than happy to try and kill Longshot. His only explanation? "We used to date."

Savage Land

Garokk

Garokk

• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Garokk is merely a mutated human (maybe). In the series, he's some kind of supernatural being.
• Evil Versus Evil: Gets into a showdown with Sauron over who gets feeding rights in the Savage Land.
• Genius Loci: Of a sort. He's basically trapped in the Savage Land, but is aware of what happens there and can manifest body parts (such as a giant head or fist) to interact with things. Near the end, he's briefly "freed" and takes the form of a huge (as in, miles tall) humanoid Rock Monster.
• Jerkass Gods: In ages past, he ruled the Savage Land. What we see is him just shooting bolts of energy at dinosaurs for kicks.
• Near-Villain Victory: He came darn close to absorbing all the energy of the Savage Land, which would've been tremendously bad.
• Real After All: He is initially worshiped as a god by the Savage Land natives, who wear necklaces bearing his face. Pretty much everyone else assumes he's just a superstition thought up by the natives (who are basically modern-day cavemen). It turns out he's a real person.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Millennia ago, the High Evolutionary sealed him in stone (for some reason). He's tetchy about this, but then he did spend all that time still conscious.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Manipulated Sauron to bring Storm to the Savage Land so her powers could restore him, and once that was done uses this exact phrase word-for-word.

Sauron

Sauron/Karl Lykos

• Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, Karl obtained his his energy draining ability from an injury caused by a mutant pterodactyl, with his later transformation into Sauron being the result of draining Havok. In this version, Karl was one of Sinister's test subjects.
• The Artifact: Why, yes, he does have the same name as the Lord of the Rings villain, and not as a tortured pun on the fact he flies. Comic Sauron deliberately chose to name himself that way (it was the 60s. Lord of the Rings was extremely big at the time), whereas here... it's just his name and no-one ever comments on it. Not even Beast.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The more power Sauron drains, the larger he gets. At the climax of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he's bigger than a mountain.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Karl has to use his Life Drain on people just to survive. He feels bad about having to do this, and tries to use it as little as possible.
• The Dreaded: Sauron first appears while subduing Shanna, which Xavier and Magneto observe. Xavier wants to intervene, but Magneto stops him, saying he is familiar with Sauron's capabilities and that the guy is too dangerous even for fully-powered mutants.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he uses up all his energy as Sauron and turns back into Lykos. After this, the Savage Land tribes allow him to join. Since there are no mutants native to the Savage Lands, he won't have to risk absorbing mutant energy and turning into Sauron again.
• Forced into Evil: It's made very clear that Karl doesn't like turning into Sauron and feels really guilty about the things he does when he's him.
• Forced Transformation: If he ever absorbs mutant (as opposed to human) energy, he immediately turns into Sauron. How long he stays this way depends on how much he absorbed, and Sauron does everything in his power to make sure he stays in charge.
• Hypnotic Eyes: Very effective, too. He was able to overwhelm Xavier and force him to lure the X-Men right into Sinister's clutches in the Savage Land. This was also how he was able to subdue Shanna and Storm.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Karl just wants to be a normal person, and not be at risk of turning into an evil monster all the time.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Karl is a nice guy that regrets having to drain energy to survive, while Sauron is a literal monster out to conquer the Savage Land.
• Life Drinker: Mr. Sinister's experiments turned him into this. Karl needs to periodically drain energy just to survive, but contact with a mutant turns him into Sauron (who, of course, needs continued mutant energy to avoid reverting back into Karl).
• Mind Rape: Sauron has the ability to make people hallucinate or make them fanatically devoted to him even if they are normally his enemies, which he does to Storm.
• No-Sell: The one time Sauron's powers don't work are when he tries grabbing Rogue. They get into a feedback loop of draining one another until Sauron pulls away.
• Our Were Beasts Are Different: He's a were-pterodactyl, though as in the comics he's also got some vampire in him (with the hypnotic gaze and need to feed on people).
• Playing with Syringes: Karl Lykos was used as one of Sinister's experiments, turning him into Sauron.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Garokk in the "Savage Land, Savage Heart" two-parter. He was the means to bring Storm back to the Savage Land, thus giving Garokk the chance to finally break free of his prison. Sauron was not happy to learn this, and he ended up fighting back in a big way.
• Villain of Another Story: Between the end of season 2 and the beginning of "Savage Land, Savage Heart", he wages a vicious war against Ka-Zar's people that he's on the losing end of, which we only see a few glimpses of.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Partly because it's Savage Land fashion, but also because the transformation from Lykos to Sauron shreds everything but his underwear.

Unaffiliated

Cameron Hodge

Cameron Hodge

• Adaptational Wimp: Comics Hodge is completely immortal (or as good as) thanks to a Deal with the Devil, and is a formidable opponent to the X-Men thanks to a mechanical exoskeleton. Show Hodge is mercifully nowhere near as dangerous.
• An Arm and a Leg: He survived getting swept away by a tidal wave, though at the evident cost of... well, an arm and a leg.
• Characterization Marches On: He first appears as Beast's lawyer. By his second appearance, however, he collaborates with the Genoshan government in the exploitation of mutants.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Although Professor X isn't even certain there was any humanity for him to lose in the first place.
• Faux Affably Evil: In "Phalanx Covenant", he maintains a sincere attitude despite his sheer monstrous insanity.
  Hodge: The beard is a new look, Magneto. It suits you.
• Fully-Embraced Fiend: Utterly onboard with the Phalanx goals of assimilating all non-Phalanx, and he's driven to despair at the thought of being brought down to plain flesh and blood again.
• Face–Heel Turn: In his first appearance he's Beast's attorney. In his next appearance he's a villain and a representative of the Genoshan government.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: The Phalanx are monstrous, but Hodge's motivation for helping them is so petty and insane they absolutely pale in comparison.
• Omnicidal Maniac: His goal with the Phalanx is to eventually get them to consume all organic life. After all, that way there'll be no more mutants anywhere.
• The Quisling: Hodge completely willingly sells mankind out to the Phalanx.

Genosha

• Karma Houdini Warranty: The original show ends with Genosha still an oppressive state, but by '97 that government has been toppled and replaced with a Mutant run one.
• Lighter and Softer: Not quite as monstrously "South African Apartheid with the dial turned up to eleven" horrific as the comic version. Mutants are enslaved, but here they at least get to kill their minds and free will, rather than being turned into Mutates. They also don't go out of their way to hunt down Mutants to take back to Genosha.
• People's Republic of Tyranny: It's the Free Republic of Genosha. Free for humans, that is. Mutants? Not remotely.
• Schmuck Bait: Mutants are welcome on Genosha! The minute they get there, they're captured, enslaved, and put to work.

Weapon X

• Crazy-Prepared: While they were surprised by things going wrong, they also had preparations for if and when it would happen, and if Team X ever returned to the facilities.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Bonding that adamantium to Wolverine worked alright. Didn't even take him a minute to use it to break out of the lab.
• Killer Robot: Talos, their robot designed to "recapture" Team X, is also programmed to kill them if they resist.
• Taking You with Me: On the off chance Team X might've been able to destroy Talos, it's programmed to mash their Trauma Bottons while a second activates and finishes the job.
• Too Dumb to Live: After their success with Wolverine, they were prepared to repeat the process on Sabretooth, which was never going to end well for anyone.

General Chasen

General Chasen

• General Ripper: He seems to think Canada is in some sort of Cold War with America, since he views Logan leaving to join the X-Men as him "defecting", and orders him recovered by force so that Department H can study him to make more superweapons. It's pretty clear he doesn't give a damn about Logan as an individual or a living being.
• It's All About Me: The General clearly took Logan leaving Department H personally, because it reflected badly on him.
• Karma Houdini: He's still alive by the end of "Repo Man", having not gotten what he wanted and Alpha Flight having learned how scuzzy he is, but there's no clue as to whether anything more will happen to him.

Lady Deathstrike

Lady Deathstrike / Yuriko Oyama

Voiced by: Tasha Simms.

• Adaptational Sympathy: Zigzagged. She still wants to kill Logan, but in the comics her reasoning was much less sound, blaming Logan for getting the adamantium bonded to his skeleton simply because she thought the process was based on her father's work. Here, she has the legitimate grief that Logan did kill her father, even if it overlooks some mitigating circumstances (like, for example, the fact her father was experimenting on Logan).
• Composite Character: With Mariko Yashida.
• Creepily Long Arms: Her cybernetic modifications mean her arms are now super-elongated past the elbow, never mind that her hands and fingers are many times their natural size.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She cares about the Reavers, and is horrified when the Soul-Drinker consumes them.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She's become so warped she can't understand why Logan would risk his life to save total strangers from getting their souls eaten.
• Femme Fatalons: Thanks to some cybernetic enhancements, her fingers are now unnaturally long, and capable of extending further for the purposes of clawing.
• I Owe You My Life: Much as she may want revenge on Logan, when he saves her from the Soul-Drinker, she acknowledges she owes him, and therefore will not kill him... today.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: No application of Never Say "Die" for her.
• Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Before the whole Weapon X debacle, Logan and Yuriko had a thing together. Now Yuriko has become Lady Deathstrike in order to kill Wolverine.
• That Man Is Dead: She's quite emphatic to Logan that Yuriko is gone now.
• You Killed My Father: Wants to kill Wolverine on account of killing her father in his escape from Weapon X.

Juggernaut

Juggernaut/Cain Marko

Voiced by: Rick Bennet

• Berserk Button: Don't ever call him a mutant. He is a regular human powered by a mystical gem.
• The Brute: He has extreme Super-Strength, being able to punch a tank in two. He's also Nigh-Invulnerable, his only weakness is mental attacks, and a wears a helmet that lets him No-Sell them unless it's removed.
• The Bully: He's little more than an overgrown schoolyard bully, who just smashes anything that irritates him, and takes whatever he wants by force. Even as a kid he was a Big Brother Bully to Xavier.
• Dumb Muscle: He's not very bright, and, fittingly, his weakness is psychic attacks.
• Freudian Excuse: Xavier's stepfather was an abusive Gold Digger who was really mean to Cain Marko (his original name) and viewed him as The Unfavorite, which led to his enmity with Charles and general villainy.
• The Juggernaut: In his debut, he destroys tanks, defeats Colossus, shrugs off Storm dropping a building on him, and even Rogue's energy draining power doesn't affect him because he has too much power for her to handle. After Jubilee mistakenly assumes getting a building dropped on Juggernaut killed him, Storm explains she knew that wouldn't work because nothing the X-Men know of can kill him. One would expect nothing less from the Trope Namer.
• Leitmotif: He has a very ominous three-note "song" that's played when's on-screen or being discussed. For some reason, it only shows up in his first episode.
• Pet the Dog: In "Return Of The Juggernaut" someone steals the Ruby Of Cyttorak, and Juggernaut is Brought Down to Normal, and eventually starts dying. The X-Men get the Ruby back, and Juggernaut just leaves without wrecking anything or hurting anyone. While this would usually be considered basic human decency, it's a surprisingly nice Out of Character moment for him, and Xavier even says it's "his way of saying thank you."
  Wolverine: (extends his claws) Make your move, tough guy!
  Juggernaut: Another time, short stuff! When I'm in the mood. (leaves)
• Threw My Bike on the Roof: His first act in the series is to demolish Xavier' school, basically just to be a dick.
• The Worf Effect: While Juggernaut initially appears unstoppable to anything short of a psychic attack, he is flattened by Gladiator to demonstrate how strong the alien is, and by extension, the danger of the Shi'ar.

High Evolutionary

High Evolutionary

• All There in the Manual: Is never actually identified by name in "Family Ties".
• Evilutionary Biologist: He turns animals into ani-men, and wants to use a mixture of Magneto, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's powers so he can speed up the process, iron out the kinks and risk of failure, and then create a world free of sin.
• Karma Houdini: He accomplishes his goal in "Family Ties" and escapes, after having caused a considerable amount of pain to Magneto and the twins, and is never seen again (although since he isn't ruling the world in later episodes, it can be taken as read his overall scheme didn't work).
• Manipulative Bastard: Suckers Pietro and Wanda into attacking Magneto so he can capture him, and then captures them as well.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Wants to replace humanity with ani-men as the dominant species because he believes they'll be purer of intention.

The Colony

• Adaptational Name Change: Though not called such, they're clearly supposed to be an adaptation of the Brood.
• Monster of the Week: Only appear as the villains of the episode "Love in Vain".

Phalanx

• Expy: Just a little bit of the Borg in them, with their stated goal being assimilating everyone into "perfection".
• Mechanical Abomination: The central hub of the Phalanx is a giant tendril of mechanical matter with wailing heads extending from it.
• Pulling Themselves Together: Smash up a Phalanx, and they'll just pull themselves back together.
• Resistance Is Futile: To go with the Borg thing, not to mention "you will be assimilated".

Arkon

Arkon of Polemachus

• Adaptational Villainy: Arkon has occasionally troubled the Avengers in the comics, but usually because he's been duped, and more often than not is a good(ish) guy and ally to Marvel's heroes. Not so much here.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Comes to Earth looking for Storm to ask her to use her powers to fix his world Polemachus's severe weather problems, and then marry him. Turns out he's responsible for those problems, and is an imperialistic, slaving lunatic.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When finally called out on his mountain of lies, he tells Storm he had to enslave his planet's neighbours, because they did it first, and every strong empire has to enslave someone. Ororo does not agree.
• Had to Be Sharp: He insists to Ororo that his occasional displays of bad temper are because of the long history Polemachus has with their neighbour. This is total bunk.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: His "servants" are utterly terrified at all times, probably because he'll torture them with little to no provocation, such as walking in on him sweet-talking his fiancée.
• Large and in Charge: He's quite big. Storm's not exactly slight herself, being 5'11, and he's at least a head taller than her.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In the end, Storm destroys the device powering his armies and keeping his slaves from rebelling or escaping.
• Offstage Villainy: The leader of the Polemachus resistance states that thousands have died at the hands of Arkon's robot guards.
• Skewed Priorities: One of his advisers tells him the whole problem with Polemachus tearing itself apart is because of the giant energy generator he set up, and the easiest way to fix the problem would be turn the damn thing off. He refuses point-blank.

The Red Skull

See his folder here.

Introduced in X-Men '97

OZT

Bastion (Massive spoilers)

Bastion

Voiced by: Theo James

• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Bastion was presented as a considerable threat but ultimately never scored any significant victories over the X-Men or the Mutant population in general, his biggest accomplishments being the Zero Tolerance Sentinels and stripping the X-Mansion of its' Shi'Ar technology. In this series, Bastion is the one behind for the destruction of Genosha and the death of thousands of Mutants—an action Cassandra Nova was responsible for in the comics.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Fitting as someone who is, at least in some continuities, part Nimrod, Bastion's skin is a little too pink to be completely human.
• Ambiguously Human: He clearly isn't human, despite looking fairly convincing as one at a glance, given the constant inferences made between his technological abilities, his way of referring to both mutants and humans as distant from his nature, and how he's plugged into his mainframe when Mr. Sinister approaches him—whether or not he is, like the comics, an advanced form of Sentinel created as a result of a fusion between Nimrod and Master Mold remains to be seen.
• Arc Villain: The true villain of season 1 of X-Men '97. He's the one responsible for orchestrating the Genoshan massacre, and is the head of Operation: Zero Tolerance that aims to create a breed of human-Sentinel hybrids to foster war between humans and mutants.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He calls Mister Sinister and the X-Men's other opponents "villains" and implicitly doesn't reject the notion of being lumped in with them.
• Character Signature Song: Seems to favor "The Purple People Eater." Despite being more magenta than anything else...
• Evil Evolves: Invokes this trope when discussing with Mr. Sinister why he will succeed where him and the "other villains of old" failed in eliminating the X-Men for years, with especially holds precedent as he might be the end result of Nimrod's own evolution like in the comics... and seeing how he is the one truly responsible for the death of Gambit and so many mutants, it's hard to dismiss the fact that Bastion might be right in his chances for success against the X-Men compared to even Apocalypse.
• Faux Affably Evil: He acts really chummy around a captured Magneto. And gives him a shave.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: He can actually be seen in episode 4 on Forge's picturewall.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Is implied to have had a hand in the creation of the Mutant Suppression technology given his presence in a photo on Forge's picturewall back in his military days, which would make him responsible for much of the Animated canon's tragedies resulting in trying to curtail and eliminate the mutant threat from the beginning.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Bastion talks in a very buttery smooth fashion when discussing things with both Mr. Sinister and Magneto, and yet it is very clear he enjoys tormenting the latter and has plans for what seems to be the extinction of mutantkind with his new generation of Sentinels.
• Viler New Villain: By a substantial margin compared to the original run of the series. A lot of the X-Men's villains, while threatening and dangerous, still had to play to censors and moral standards in the 90s—which meant that very rarely they could genuinely kill someone. Bastion, on the other hand, stacks up one hell of a body count compared to all of them that leaves quite a few characters Killed Off for Real, up to including most of Genosha and Gambit, through his machinations or by his own direct hand.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Kills Gyrich after he becomes a loose end.

The Genoshan Master Mold (SPOILERS)

Master Mold

Voiced by: Eric Bauza

"Behold, mutant, for I am death! I am Master Mold!"

• Composite Character: Has the name of Master Mold, but almost everything else about it is taken from the giant Wild Sentinels from Grant Morrison's New X-Men.
• Death by Adaptation: Destroyed when Gambit supercharges it with his mutant power. In the comics, one of the two Wild Sentinels is made self aware by Danger (the Danger Room AI) and, afterwards, leaves for space to ponder the horror of the Genoshan genocide it carried out.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: As far as the people of Genosha are concerned. They're just happily minding their own business, throwing a party and just generally living the good life when this thing appears out of nowhere to annihilate them.
• The Dreaded: This thing's imminent arrival has Cable panicking — Cable, who was defiant when facing down Apocalypse.
• Drone Deployer: Thanks to its massive size, it carries a large host of smaller regular Sentinels on the sides of its body to deploy into the fray it creates.
• Early-Bird Cameo: A Master Mold briefly appears to end Madelyne's psychic scan of Gyrich in the first episode. Though it initially seems to just be Trask's new creation, by episode 5 it's clear it was really this thing appearing to her in a vision of the future.
• Hero Killer: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto, and definitely does kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is left uncertain after being caught up in its opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with a massively staggering body count compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: Impaling Gambit backfires on it, since Remy's power allows him to detonate any inorganic material he can touch, and the Sentinel consists of a large amount of inorganic material.
• Humongous Mecha: Even more humongous than Master Mold.
• Kaiju: The Wild Sentinel is the giant robot equivalent; a monstrously huge thing with an inhuman, bug-like shape. It even shoots energy from its mouth(s), rather than the palms like its smaller counterparts, mainly because it doesn't have arms.
• Killer Robot: Even more so than its predecessors. Regular Sentinels tend to introduce themselves by telling whoever they're attacking to surrender. This thing doesn't do that; it just immediately shoots to kill with overwhelming force.
• Knight of Cerebus: The Sentinel gets introduced in '97 and proceeds to drastically darken the story by achieving a horrifyingly large body count, among them Gambit.
• Mechanical Monster: A gigantic three-headed robot with a vaguely beetle-like body programed to carry out a genocide.
• Mook Maker: It's large enough to function as a carrier for more Sentinels, deploying them to hunt down any mutants on Genosha who it hasn't already gotten.
• Multiple Head Case: Has three heads, each of which is armed.
• No Name Given: The character is not named on screen in "Remember It" but is called "Master Mold" by Bolivar Trask in "Lifedeath Pt. II" and in the credits for "Remember It". However, since "Master Mold" is a completely differently designed machine altogether, other names have been given to separate this one with the normal kind.
• Sickly Green Glow: Unlike the red energy blasts of the smaller regular Sentinels and Master Mold, its eyes and the energy it emits glow an unpleasant green.
• Super-Senses: The Sentinel's defensive capabilities are absurd, able to perceive any hostile intent towards it regardless of whether it can physically see them at the time and immediately retaliate with extreme prejudice. This does get deconstructed somewhat because it will abandon all prior interests and concerns in favor of immediately targeting the presence threatening it at the time, as Gambit manages to exploit during his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Walking Spoiler: Doesn't get much bigger than being a massive Hero Killer of numerous mutants, including presumably Magneto and definitely Gambit, while leveling most of Genosha to the ground.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Its primary weapon is a gigantic energy beam fired from the mouth of its heads. Usually, one blast is enough to kill whoever it hits in an instant, and if that doesn't, the enormous blast wave afterwards might finish the job. When it detects Magneto, it just keeps firing and firing until it's absolutely certain he is dead.

Prime Sentinels

• Achilles' Heel: Cable defeats the Trask Prime Sentinel with an EMP grenade, which he says is the easiest way to take them out.
• And I Must Scream: Jean manages a psychic scan of the Trask Sentinel and confirms there's still some of his personality intact, but where Trask was at least remorseful and horrified about what his inventions had led to, the Sentinel definitely isn't.
• Elite Mooks: Described as far worse than even the Master Mold sent against Genosha. The Trask Sentinel quickly proves this statement justice, taking on all the X-Men with little difficulty.
• Rocket Punch: They can shoot off their fists at enemies.

Unaffiliated

X-Cutioner

Carl Denti/The X-Cutioner

Voiced by: Lawrence Bayne

• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Denti was a Vigilante Man who targetted fugitive mutants who had escaped the law, and his primary conflict with the X-Men was over how brutal his methods were. Here, he's a proud member of the heavily Nazi-coded Friends of Humanity and a proudly open bigot towards all mutants.
• Angry White Man: He's an Aryan-looking fellow that whines about how regular humans have it way worse than mutants.
• Badass Normal: A member of the Friends of Humanity who arms himself with weaponry built from reverse-engineered Sentinel technology as well as mutant inhibitor collars, which he uses to successfully strip Storm of her powers.
• Canon Character All Along: He's just some nameless FoH bigot in the first episode, until the credits identify him as Carl Denti. The next time we see him, he dons the costume of the X-Cutioner.
• Dirty Coward: He showed a lot of bravado with his various weapons and anti-mutant gadgetry, take that away and he doesn't feel like quipping anymore.
• Hypocrite: He criticizes mutants for constantly whining about their problems...which he's basically doing by complaining about how much harder normal people have it. Not only that, he complans that his kind has it harder than them, citing their powers, but he goes after Roberto who has been shown to not be a threat to humans.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: He's introduced as just another dime-a-dozen bigot who gets his butt easily handed to him when the X-Men arrive. Then he actually learns from the experience and in his next appearance arrives outfitted with weaponry that allow him to defend against and counteract the X-Men's abilities and even seemingly permanently strips Storm of her powers.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a hateful screed to Cyclops during their fight in "Mutant Liberation Begins", claiming that mutants oppression is imaginary and that humans have it worse.
  X-Cutioner: Know what I hate about your kind? You act like you got it so bad. Normal people have it hard, too. Harder! We just have the dignity not to whine about it. You see? It’s the whining. I hate your whining just as much as I hate you.
• Starter Villain: The first villain fought in X-Men '97, with the team having to take him down after he kidnaps Roberto.

The Adversary

The Adversary

Voiced by: Alison Sealy Smith

• Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Like an actual owl, it can twist its head around a whole 360 degrees.
• Adaptational Wimp: Goes from omniversal level threat who required the X-Men to temporarily sacrifice their lives to a minor demon.
• A Deal With The Devil: Offers to restore Ororo's lost powers if she'll just let Forge die. Though as it turns out, Storm's powers had been restored anyway.
• Emotion Eater: It claims that it feeds on misery, and intends to feast on Storm's despair over her lost powers.
• Gender Flip: Male in the comics, here it's voiced by Alison Sealy Smith.
• Ominous Owl: At first it appears as a common owl until it takes on a more monstrous form to attack Storm and Forge.

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