X-Men Villains At A Glance

	APOCALYPSE X-Factor Vol.1 #5 (1986) Modern Age Villain
	'One of the very first mutants, Apocalypse is thousands of years old, a monstrous tyrant and longtime foe of the X-Men.'

Born nearly 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, Apocalypse is one of the earliest known mutants. Left to die, the infant was found by outlaw leader Baal, who named him “En Sabah Nur”. Baal taught Nur hs philosophy of the survival of the fittest. Nur travelled the world for thousand’s of years instigating wars to test which nation was fittest to survive. In the 20th Century, now called Apocalypse, he set about supplanting humanity with the emerging mutant race who he believed were fitter to survive.

Arcade claims he was the son of a millionaire, who despised him because of his childish interest in toys and self-centred personality. After cutting his trust fund, Arcade killed his father and in doing so discovered that he had a talent and liking for murder. He therefore became an assassin, but was soon bored with killing by ordinary means, and used his great wealth to construct hidden complexes of high-tech death traps known as ‘Murderworlds’.

Bastion is a Super-Sentinel, an amalgam of Master Mold, and Nimrod. The fusion happened when Nimrod encountered a portion of Master Mold’s body. After being forced into a dimensional portal created by the Siege Perilous, the being who would become Bastion was created, with no memory of his programming. Bastion was able to live among humans, when he became aware of the mutant race it re-activated his mutant-exterminating programming.

Although they resemble earth insects, members of the Brood are over 2 metres long. They are cunning, vicious hunters, driven by their need to procreate. The Brood captures members of other species, each of whom acts as a host for an egg laid by the Brood Queen. On hatching, the Brood embryo merges with it’s host, genetically restructuring the host’s body into an adult member of the Brood.

Cameron Hodge was the roommate of Warren Worthington in college. Worthington was believed they were good friends, but actually, Hodge was insanely jealous of Worthington's good looks and wealth. When Worthington was later publicly revealed as the mutant hero the Angel, it only fuelled the hatred. All those feelings attributed to Worthington were transferred to include all mutants, whom Hodge came to believe were a threat to the freedom of normal humans and therefore should be destroyed.

	CASSANDRA NOVA New X-Men Vol.1 #114 (2001) Modern Age Villain
	'Charles Xavier's twin sister, who died in utero. As a mummudrai, she hid for years before using her brother's DNA to obtain a body of her own.'

A member of a species of bodiless parasites composed of living emotional energy known as the Mummudrai, legendary for appearing to every being in-utero shortly before birth as their ultimate opposite, the creature that would become known as Cassandra Nova appeared to the unborn Charles Xavier, copying his DNA to create its own body, in effect becoming his twin sister.

D'Ken Neramani is a member of the royal family of the Shi'ar Empire, which was governed by the extraterrestrial Shi'ar race and controlled all known inhabited planets in the galaxy in which the Shi'ar dwelled.The eldest heir to the Shi'ar throne was D'Ken's older sister, known as Deathbird. However, after murdering her father and one of her sisters, Deathbird was denied her birthright as heir to the throne, and D'ken became emperor instead.

	EMPLATE Generation X Vol.1 #1 (1994) Modern Age Villain
	'Emplate, is a vampire-like mutant who can take on the abilities of those he feeds upon as well as controlling their minds. '

Emplate was born Marius St. Croix and was the first child of a wealthy family. When his mutant powers first manifested he killed his mother. After his grieving father threw him out. Marius turned to the dark arts of the nether realms for more power. In this other dimension, Marius was under extreme torture by some unknown beings, and traversing between dimensions was characterized as a thousand hands ripping at your flesh. Due to this torture, Marius had to acquire a respirator to aid in his breathing. Needing to feed on the marrow of mutants to survive, Marius travels to our plane of reality to satiate his hunger.

	KRAKOA Giant-Size X-Men Vol.1 #1 (1975) Bronze Age Villain
	'Krakoa is the island that walks like a man, a living island mutant in the middle of the pacific ocean, spawned from nuclear experiments.'

Krakoa was originally a very small island in the Pacific Ocean that was located close to some nuclear bomb test sites. The radiation somehow mutated the island's ecosystem into a hive-mind entity, which feeds on the energy sources of mutantkind.

The woman who eventually became the Leper Queen was a proud mother to a two-year-old daughter, when the infant's growing pyrokinetic powers incinerated their home. While the mother survived with major facial disfigurement and burns, the child was lost in the fire. The disillusioned and mournful Leper Queen claimed her child received mutant abilities when a mutant had passed by her during pregnancy, perhaps fuelling more rage during her time of grieving.

	MAGNETO X-Men Vol.1 #1 (1963) Silver Age Villain
	'The"Master of Magnetism" has played many roles in his long life: terrorist, saviour, conqueror, teacher, revolutionary, ruler, villain, and anti-hero.'

One of the most powerful and dangerous of all mutants, Magneto has been both the foremost enemy of the X-men and, sometimes their ally. As a boy, he was imprisoned in the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Sickness and malnourishment prevented Magneto’s powers from emerging there. In Auschwitz, magneto’s family perished, and he witnessed the inhumanity man can show to those considered different. Following the emergence of his powers he decided the only way to prevent humanity from oppressing mutants was for mutants to conquer the human race.

	MISTER SINISTER Uncanny X-Men Vol.1 #221 (1987) Modern Age Villain
	'19th Century scientist, genetically mutated by the "first" mutant, Apocalypse, who shared his "survival of the fittest" philosophy.'

Master Mold was created by Dr. Bolivar Trask out of the fear that superhuman mutants would dominate the whole world and enslave normal human beings. Master Mold, is a super-computer, in the shape of a giant Sentinel that controls and facilitates the construction of Sentinels, mechanical warriors that are programmed to hunt and capture all superhuman mutants.

A visionary doctor living in 19th Century London, Dr.Nathaniel Essex was recruited by the Eternal mutant Apocalypse, his genetic structure enhanced to provide him with virtual immortality. Taking the name Mister Sinister, he dispensed with any pretence of human morality as he continued his forbidden experiments into the secrets of mutation. He will do anything to further his knowledge of genetics.

A literally spineless mass of yellow flesh, Mojo is the ruler of Mojoworld, a bizarre media orientated planet. Mojo produces movies and tv shows to keep the masses amused, The need to maintain these entertainments popularity has drawn him to Earth and conflict with the X-Men.

Created in an alternate reality, where most known mutants were imprisoned, Nimrod was a prototype of a new generation of Sentinels designed to be more accurate, efficient and deadly. Prematurely activated due to an infiltration by Kitty Pride and Rachel Summers, he followed Rachel into the time stream to Earth’s present day.

Arkady Rossovich was a cruel and violent man who served with the USSR’s Spetsnaz. A child abuser Rossovich’s crimes when discovered lead to his supposed execution. Surviving a fatal gunshot thanks to his newly emerged mutant abilities, Rossovich was court-martialed and forced into USSR’s own Super Soldier Project. Rossovich underwent years of experimental torture and enhancements that transformed him into the deadly cyborg Omega Red.

When Professor Charles Xavier, after an intense battle with his archenemy, Magneto, reached into his enemy's mind to "shut it off," a portion of Magento's mind similarly entered Professor X's. This essence remained dormant, but soon combined with the Professor's repressed "dark side" to create a separate personality that later called itself "Onslaught."

Kevin Tremain was a mutant CIA agent captured and studied by the Mandarin. The Mandarin subjected Tremain to painful experiments intending to use him as a template for an army of mutant soldiers. On a secret mission, the Six Pack attacked the base Tremain was held in. Kevin was mortally injured and Cable tried to save him, first using telekinesis, then by giving him a blood transfusion. Although it seems he survived this trauma, Cable believed Tremain had died. Years later Tremain resurfaced as Post, a servant of Onslaught who used the techno-organic virus within Tremain to transform him into a cybernetic powerhouse.

Predator X was created by the scientists of the Facility as requested by William Stryker shortly before his passing. It is designed to hunt and kill mutants, and some of its abilities come from direct experimentation on mutants, such as its bio-metal skin which was taken from the mutant Mercury.

The Sentinels were created by Dr. Bolivar Trask to combat superhuman mutants. Trask had concluded that a superhuman mutant race was evolving that would conquer the rest of humanity. He organized the team of scientists and engineers who built the first Mark I models. Over the years there design has evolved into even more deadlier forms.

	SHADOW KING Uncanny X-Men Vol.1 #117 (1979) Bronze Age Villain
	'The Shadow King is a powerful psionic entity that can possess and control human bodies. The first mutant fought by Charles Xavier.'

Recent discoveries suggest that the "Shadow King" was born "when the first dreams came in night, in the first nightmare". The Shadow King might have been a being of telepathic energy existing only through the astral plane, but taking human hosts for a time to have a link to the physical world. Alternatively, the "Shadow King" might have been a shared identity used by different people through the years, or the remains of an original telepathic mutant who have been possessing people since his first body's death.

Infected with a techno-organic virus that threatened to turn his entire body into organic metal, the infant Nathan Summers (Cable) was taken nearly two millennia into an alternate future to save his life. In case he should die, Mother Askani of the Askani Sisterhood arranged for the infant to be cloned. This clone, which was free from the techno-organic virus, was stolen away and raised by the tyrant Apocalypse, who gave him the name Stryfe.

Mortimer Toynbee was abandoned by his parents so early in his childhood that he cannot remember them. He was placed in an orphanage where the other children, who regarded him as a freak due to his ugliness, continually tormented him. Toynbee was so traumatized by his loneliness and the continual abuse that when he reached adulthood, he agreed to join Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

The U-men are the enforcement arm of John Sublime’s Third Species. The Third Species strive to become a new species by killing mutants and harvesting their organs for transplantation so they themselves can become super humans.

Nothing is known about the Vanisher's past before he embarked on a one-man crime wave of spectacular thefts using his power of self-teleportation. Thanks to his remarkable successes, the Vanisher quickly assembled a criminal organization under his leadership.

	VULCAN X-Men: Deadly Genesis Vol.1 #1 (2006) Modern Age Villain
	'The forgotten third Summers brother, an Omega-level mutant, who rose from slave to tyrannical emperor of the Shi'ar.'

When the parents of Scott and Alex Summers were kidnapped by the alien race, The Shi'ar, Katherine Summers was pregnant. Katherine was killed, but the child survived, and was aged to adolescence in an incubation accelerator and subsequently enslaved. Gabriel was sent to Earth to serve a Shi'ar agent named Davan Shakari. Gabriel managed to escape and was found by geneticist Moira MacTaggert., she invited him to join a group of young mutants that were under her tutelage. When the original X-Men were captured, the group was sent by Professor X to rescue them, but died in the process. Professor X erased Cyclops’s painful memories of his brother's death. Gabriel was then launched into space along with the Krakoa land mass by Jean Grey and remained inert until years later, when the massive backlash of power resulting from M-Day awakened him, now bent on gaining his revenge on Charles Xavier and his X-Men.

	X-CUTIONER The Uncanny X-Men Annual Vol.1 #17 (1993) Modern Age Villain
	'A former government agent out to assassinate violent mutants using weapons and paraphernalia collected from former X-Villains.'

Carl Denti was an FBI agent who accumulated government records on mutants and stockpiled the weapons and other technology of the X-Men's primary foes to punish renegade or murderous mutants. He often came into conflict with the X-Men themselves because of their crimes. taken from Earth’s mutants revived a revenge seeking Gabriel, now dubbed Vulcan.

	ARCADE Marvel Team-Up Vol.1 #65 (1978) Bronze Age Villain
	'Seeking a challenge, Arcade has tested the abilities of the X-Men in his dangerous 'Murderworld’s'.'

	BASTION X-Men Vol.2 #52 (1996) Modern Age Villain
	'An amalgam of Master Mold and Nimrod, who see’s himself as humanity's last "bastion" of hope, against mutantkind.'

	BROOD Uncanny X-Men Vol.1 #155 (1982) Bronze Age Villain
	'The Brood are a race of alien parasites that reproduce by implanting their eggs in others.'

	CAMERON HODGE X-Factor Vol. 1 #1 (1986) Modern Villain
	'Angel's jealous college roommate who later became a cyborg killing machine.'

	D'KEN X-Men Vol.1 #97 (1976) Bronze Age Villain
	'Former ruler of the Shi'ar Empire.'

	LEPER QUEEN Decimation: House of M - The Day After #1 (2006) Modern Age Villain
	'The Leper Queen is an anti-mutant terrorist who once had a mutant daughter of her own.'

	MASTER MOLD X-Men Vol.1 #15 (1968) Silver Age Villain
	'Created by Dr. Bolivar Trask, to be the Progenitor of the Mutant hunting Sentinels.'

	MOJO Longshot Vol.1 #3 (1985) Bronze Age Villain
	'An Extradimensional tv and movie producer obsessed with keeping the masses entertained.'

	NIMROD Uncanny X-Men Vol.1 #191 (1985) Bronze Age Villain
	'An advanced Sentinel from an alternate reality.'

	OMEGA RED X-Men Vol.2 #4 (1992) Modern Age Villain
	'A Russian super soldier with a hatred for Wolverine, who has clashed with the X-Men on numerous occasions.'

	ONSLAUGHT X-Men Vol.2 #53 (1996) Modern Age Villain
	'Onslaught was born from the minds of Professor X and Magneto, and is a near-omnipotent villain.'

	POST X-Men Vol.2 #50 (1996) Modern Age Villain
	'A cybernetic powerhouse, created to serve Onslaught.'

	PREDATOR X New X-Men Vol.2 #34 (2007) Modern Age Villain
	'Predator X is a deadly enemy of mutants and the product of extreme genetic engineering.'

	SENTINELS X-Men Vol.1 #14 (1965) Silver Age Villain
	'Sentinels are advanced androids designed to hunt down and eliminate mutants.'

	STRYFE The New Mutants Vol.1 #87 (1997) Modern Age Villain
	'A clone of Cable created by the Askani, raised by Apocalypse and founder of the Mutant Liberation Front.'

	TOAD X-Men Vol.1 #4 (1964) Silver Age Villain
	'An early enemy of the X-men and a constant in the ‘Brotherhood of Evil Mutants”.'

	U-MEN New X-Men Annual 2001 (2001) Modern Age Villain
	'The U-Men are a group of humans who use mutant body parts to augment themselves with superhuman powers. '

	VANISHER X-Men Vol.1 #2 (1963) Silver Age Villain
	'A powerful teleporter and one of the X-Men's earliest enemies.'