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It takes more than bullets -- or a harlot's kiss -- to kill Nathaniel Essex.
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~ Mister Sinister
Nathaniel Essex, better known as Mister Sinister, is a major antagonist in Marvel Comics particularly as a foe for the X-Men. He is a powerful mutant supervillain that is often depicted as being the right-hand of Apocalypse, although they tend use each other only for their own ends and eventually went on their separate ways. A brilliant geneticist, he is obsessed with evolution and evolving humanity, as well as creating what he views to be the perfect mutant, with his schemes to do so frequently bringing him into conflict with the X-Men. He is also the archenemy of the Summer Family in general, particularly Cyclops, being personally responsible for manipulating and orchestrating numerous tragedies in the former's life, as well as his creation, Madelyne Pryor.
During the 19th Century, before his mutation, he was an ordinary archaeologist named Nathaniel Essex, after he had an encounter with the SuperMutant Apocalypse who used his technology to transform Essex into "Sinister", the last dying word from his wife ever spoken to him. Soon after, a time displaced Gambit and Courier approached Sinister for help. Sinister agreed to help them, as long as he could have a DNA sample from Courier. This DNA sample allowed Sinister to replicate Courier shape shifting abilities, and within Sinister’s own body.
By the early 20th Century, Sinister had cracked the genetic genome and was willing to share the information with Herbert Edgar Wyndham, who would later become the High Evolutionary.
During World War II, Sinister had worked alongside the Nazis, collecting as many blood samples as he could. It was during this time that he first saw Sub-Mariner, and was inspired to create an excact copy of the Superbeing. The clone was experiment N2 and had varied success against the original Namor but was defeated by Captain America, shortly afterwards Some time later, Sinister recruited Gambit to gather together the Marauders and ordered the massacre of the Morlocks. Sinister had then cloned Jean Grey in the form of Madelyne Pryor, so that Cyclops would have a child with her, which Sinister would view as the Ultimate mutant. eventually, Cyclops then rejected Pryor when Jean returned from stasis, and the youth would be carried to the future, where he would return to present era as Cable. Sinister's machinations would lead to the event known as Inferno, where Cyclops supposedly killed Sinister with an optic blast, although Sinister then resurfaced alive and well, when he revealed that there was a third brother of Summers.
Sinister was involved in Stryfe's attempted assassination of Charles Xavier, trading Cyclops & Jean Grey to Stryfe in exchange for their DNA. However, Stryfe actually gave Sinister the Legacy Virus, which would terrorize Both mutant and eventually human organic life altogether, and lead to the deaths of several other mutants.
Sinister later involved himself with Nate Grey and the mutant Threnody. He joined the reestablished Weapon X program as Doctor Robert Windsor, claiming to help fellow mutants escape Weapon X's mutant concentration camp "Neverland," but in reality, he took them to be his test subjects for his experiments.
Other Media[]
X-Men Movies[]
Mister Sinister, also known by his true name Nathaniel Essex, is referenced in the post-credits scene of X-Men Apocalypse, where a group of mysterious men dressed in suits are shown entering the Weapon X facility at Alkali Lake and retrieving vials containing Wolverine's blood. The vials are placed in a briefcase bearing the name "Essex."
He was meant to appear in the post-credits scene of New Mutants, being portrayed by Jon Hamm, who also played Buddy in Baby Driver and Herb Overkill in Minions. He has since been removed from the film.
It is most likely that due to Essex Corp being under his name and that the organization has been behind certain events of X-Men: Apocalypse (Weapon X data), Deadpool 2 (Headmaster and Firefist) and New Mutants (Cecilia Reyes). Mister Sinister would have been the overarching villain of the New Timeline had the X-Men Cinematic Universe not ended with New Mutants.
Wolverine and the X-Men[]
Main article: Mister Sinister (Wolverine and the X-Men)
Deadpool[]
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Deadpool, you are a repugnant... REVOLTING... DISGUSTING ABOMINATION... WITH NO PLACE IN THIS WORLD!
In the 2013 video game Deadpool, Mister Sinister, or as Deadpool likes to call him, "Captain Douche", is the main antagonist, attempting to harvest mutant DNA from mutant corpses to become more powerful. His first move is hiring the corrupt media mogul Chance White, sending the Marauders to save him from Deadpool, who was trying to kill him and fulfill a contract.
After Deadpool kills Arclight, the rest of the Marauders bring White to Sinister, revealing that White was setting up satellites for Sinister to control. Deeming Chance no longer useful, Sinister ordered Blockbuster to kill him. Angered over losing his money, Deadpool kills Vertigo with a gunshot and subdues Blockbuster with a kick before holding Sinister at gunpoint, demanding the money that the now-dead White owed him. The terrorist, however, easily defeated the Merc with a Mouth by using his telekinesis to violently dismember him, leaving Deadpool to regenerate unconscious.
Afterward, Sinister went to Genosha with the now-conscious Blockbuster in order to profane mutant corpses for their DNA, with Deadpool, the X-Men, and even Cable trying to stop him (Deadpool however, did not care about Sinister's plan and just wanted to kill him for revenge over his lost contract). In his way to find Sinister, Deadpool interfered in his plans, as he killed a clone of him which was broadcasting a signal through a security tower, rescued Rogue from Blockbuster, and stopped the profaning of corpses with Cable's help.
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Wait, that was the real Sinister, right?
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~ Deadpool after killing the real Sinister.
When Deadpool finally got to Mr. Sinister's base, Magneto's old citadel, the villain sent numerous clones, including that of the late Marauders, to fight him. After the Merc killed them all, the real Sinister finally showed up, angry with Deadpool's interference, quickly subduing the recently arrived X-Men using concussive blasts. Sinister started insulting Deadpool, without noticing he was standing right in a giant "X" the mercenary had painted before the final battle. Deadpool, commanding the player to "push the button", proceeded to punch Sinister in his crotch, and used a modified boot of a destroyed Sentinel to crush him when he was reeling from the pain, finally killing him. Initially confused if he was the real Sinister, Deadpool learned to his relief from Cable that he was indeed the real deal.
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Absorbing Man |
Absalom |
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Cameron Hodge |
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Doctor Rice |
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Emma Frost |
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Erik Killmonger |
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Freedom Force |
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Frightful Four |
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Graydon Creed |
Green Goblin |
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Hammerhead |
Hand |
Hela |
Hellfire Club |
Henry Peter Gyrich |
High Evolutionary |
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Holocaust |
Horsemen of Apocalypse |
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Impossible Man |
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Jack O' Lantern |
J. Jonah Jameson |
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Kang |
Kid Omega |
Kingpin |
Killer Shrike |
Klaw |
Knull |
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Lord Deathstrike |
Lady Deathstrike |
Legion |
Leper Queen |
Lilith |
Living Monolith |
Lizard |
Loki |
Mad Thinker |
Madame Viper |
Madelyne Pryor |
Magneto |
Magus |
Malekith the Accursed |
Mandarin |
Marrow |
Masters of Evil |
Master Mold |
Medusa |
Maximus |
Mesmero |
Mikhail Rasputin |
Mister Jip |
Mister Negative |
Mister Sinister |
M.O.D.O.K. |
Mojo |
Mole Man |
Moonstone |
Morbius |
Morlocks |
Moses Magnum |
Mutant Response Division |
Mystique |
Mysterio |
N'Astirh |
Namor |
Nanny |
Nekra |
Neo |
Nightmare |
Nimrod |
Nitro |
Norman Osborn |
Obnoxio the Clown |
Omega Gang |
Omega Red |
Onslaught |
Orphan-Maker |
Ozymandias |
Pandemonia |
Phalanx |
Piledriver |
Pilgrimm |
Predator X |
Proteus |
Psycho-Man |
Puma |
Punisher (Earth-95216) |
Purifiers |
Pyro |
Quicksilver |
Reavers |
Red Ghost |
Red Skull |
Reverend Craig |
Rhino |
Right |
Rogue |
Ronan |
Sabretooth |
Sandman |
Sat-Yr-9 |
Sauron |
Savage Land Mutates |
Scarlet Witch |
Scorpion |
Sebastian Shaw |
Selene Gallio |
Sentinels |
Serpent Society |
Shadow King |
Shadow Xavier |
Shocker |
Silver Sable |
Silver Samurai |
Simon Trask |
Sinister Six |
Skrulls |
Spiral |
Stranger |
Stinger |
Stryfe |
Stephen Lang |
Sublime |
Sugarman |
Super-Adaptoid |
Super-Apes |
Supreme Intelligence |
Swarm |
Thanos |
Thunderball |
Thunderbolt Ross |
Tiger Shark |
Tinkerer |
Toad |
Trevor Fitzroy |
Typhoid Mary |
Tyrannus |
Unus |
Vampires |
Venom |
Vulcan |
Vulture |
Wendigo |
Whiplash |
Whirlwind |
White Rabbit |
William Stryker |
Wizard |
Wrecker |
X-Man |
Xemnu |
Xorn |
Ymir |
Zaladane
Movies X-Men: Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Mystique, Sabretooth & Toad) | Pyro X2: William Stryker Jr. | Lady Deathstrike | Jason Stryker | Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Mystique & Pyro) X-Men: The Last Stand: Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Dark Phoenix, Pyro, Juggernaut, Multiple Man & Mystique) | Omega Gang (Callisto, Psylocke, Quill, Arclight, Avalanche, Spike, Glob Herman & Phat) | Archangel X-Men: First Class: Hellfire Club (Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Azazel, Angel Salvadore & Riptide) | William Stryker Sr. | Magneto | Mystique X-Men: Days of Future Past: Trask Industries (Bolivar Trask, William Stryker Jr. & Sentinels) | Magneto | Mystique | Toad | Horsemen of Apocalypse (Apocalypse) X-Men: Apocalypse: Ashir En Sabah Nur/Horsemen of Apocalypse (Apocalypse, Magneto, Psylocke & Archangel) | Dark Phoenix | Mystique | William Stryker Jr. | Blob X-Men: Dark Phoenix: Dark Phoenix | D'Bari (Vuk & Jones) | Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto & Selene Gallio) | Mystique The New Mutants: Essex Corp (Cecilia Reyes) | Demon Bear | Reverend Craig | Smiley Men
Television X-Men (1992): Magneto | Sentinels | Sabretooth | Juggernaut | Apocalypse | Mesmero | Horsemen of Apocalypse | Mister Sinister | Omega Red | Brotherhood of Mutants (Mystique, Avalanche, Blob & Pyro) | Dark Phoenix | Master Mold | Bolivar Trask | Silver Samurai | Hellfire Club (Sebastian Shaw, Harry Leland, Jason Wyngarde, Donald Pierce & Emma Frost) | Reavers (Bonebreaker & Lady Deathstrike) | Supreme Intelligence | D'Ken | Deathbird | Graydon Creed | Red Skull | Toad | Sauron | High Evolutionary | Phalanx | Brood | Skrulls | Super-Adaptoid | Awesome Android | Mojo X-Men: Evolution: Magneto | Brotherhood of Mutants (Mystique, Avalanche, Toad, Blob, Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch) | Pyro | Mastermind | HYDRA (Madame Viper & Omega Red) | David Haller | Juggernaut | Bolivar Trask | Sentinels | Apocalypse | Horsemen of Apocalypse | Mesmero | Sabretooth | Destiny | Arcade Wolverine and the X-Men: Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Mystique, Scarlet Witch, Juggernaut, Quicksilver, Avalanche, Blob, Pyro & Toad) | Dark Phoenix | Bolivar Trask | Sentinels | Sabretooth | Mutant Response Division (Colonel Moss) | Shadow King | Hellfire Club (Sebastian Shaw, Donald Pierce, Harry Leland, Selene Gallio, Emma Frost & Stepford Cuckoos) | Master Mold | Silver Samurai | Nitro | Mojo | Mister Sinister | Apocalypse Marvel Anime: X-Men: Hellfire Club (Emma Frost, Martermind) | U-Men (Sublime) Legion: Legion | Shadow King | Oliver Bird | Time Eaters The Gifted: Sentinel Services (Jace Turner, Ed Weeks) | Trask Industries (Roderick Champell) | Ted Wilson | Hellfire Club (Fenris, Reeva Paype, Frost Sisters) | Benedict Ryan
Video Games The Uncanny X-Men: Magneto | White Queen | Juggernaut | Sabretooth | Boomerang X-Men: Madness in Murderworld: Arcade | Magneto | Juggernaut | Blob | White Queen | Mystique | Pyro | Wendigo | Silver Samurai X-Men II: The Fall of the Mutants: Mystique | Avalanche | Blob | Pyro | Spiral Spider-Man & X-men: Arcade's Revenge: Arcade | Carnage | Rhino | Apocalypse | Juggernaut | Selene Gallio | Sentinels | Master Mold X-Men (1992): Brotherhood of Mutant Terrorists (Magneto, Mystique, White Queen, Juggernaut, Blob, Pyro, Wendigo & Living Monolith) | Sentinels X-Men (1993): Magneto | Apocalypse | Sabretooth | Juggernaut | Sentinels | Ahab | Mojo X-Men 2: Clone Wars: Apocalypse | Phalanx | The Brood | Magneto X-Men: Children of the Atom: Magneto | Juggernaut | Omega Red | Silver Samurai | Sentinel | Spiral | Mojo X-Men (1994): Magneto | Sebastian Shaw | Callisto | Sauron | Brood Queen | Omega Red X-Men 2: Game Master's Legacy: Gamesmaster | Apocalypse | Mister Sinster | Exodus X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse: Apocalypse | Juggernaut | Omega Red | Brood Queen | Sentinels | Acolytes | Exodus | Magneto X-Men vs. Street Fighter: Apocalypse | Acolytes | Magneto | Juggernaut | Sabretooth | Rogue | Angel X-Men 3: Mojo World: Mojo | Magneto | Master Mold | Trevor Fitzroy | Spiral X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse: Apocalypse | Mister Sinister | Magneto X-Men: Mutant Academy: Magneto | Mystique | Sabretooth | Toad X-Men: Mutant Wars: Magneto | Mystique | Sabretooth | Apocalypse X-Men: Wolverine's Rage: Lady Deathstrike | Sabretooth | Deadpool X-Men: Mutant Academy 2: Magneto | Mystique | Sabretooth | Juggernaut | Toad X-Men: Reign of Apocalypse: Apocalypse | Archangel | Magneto | Dark Phoenix | Juggernaut | Sabretooth | Silver Samurai | Sauron | Blob | Pyro X-Men: Next Dimension: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Magneto, Sabretooth, Toad, Mystique, Juggernaut, Blob, Lady Deathstrike & Pyro) | Bastion | Sentinels X2: Wolverine's Revenge: Magneto | Sabretooth | Wendigo | Lady Deathstrike | Juggernaut | Omega Red | Apocalypse | Mr. Sinister X-Men Legends: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants/Acolytes (Magneto, Mystique, Blob, Pyro, Avalanche, Sabretooth & Toad) | Marrow | Juggernaut | Shadow King | Apocalypse | Master Mold X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse: Apocalypse | The Brood | Lady Deathstrike | Sauron | Omega Red | Stepford Cuckoos | Deadpool | Mister Sinister | Dark Beast | Living Monolith | Mystique | Destiny | Blob | Emma Frost | Sebastian Shaw | Archangel | Selene Gallio | Quicksilver X-Men The Official Game: Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Sabretooth & Pyro) HYDRA (Silver Samurai & Deathstike) | Multiple Man | Jason Stryker | Master Mold | Mystique | Toad
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Absorbing Man |
A.I.M. |
Apocalypse |
Arcade |
Arnim Zola |
Aryan |
Avalanche |
Baron Strucker |
Baron Zemo |
Bastion |
Batroc |
Beetle |
Beyonder |
Bi-Beast |
Black Cat |
Blackheart |
Blob |
Bolivar Trask |
Boomerang |
Brood |
Brotherhood of Mutants |
Bushwacker |
Bullseye |
Cameron Hodge |
Cannibals (Marvel Universe Vs) |
Cassandra Nova |
Collector |
Contagion |
Count Nefaria |
Crimson Dynamo |
Crossbones |
Crossfire |
Crusader |
Daken |
Damage |
Dark Beast |
Dark Phoenix |
Dark X-Men |
Deadpool |
Deathwatch |
Doctor Doom |
Dr. Octopus |
Dr. Rice |
Donald Pierce |
Dracula |
Egghead |
Ego |
Electro |
Emma Frost |
Enchantress |
Galactus |
Gorgon |
Green Goblin |
Hand |
Hellfire Club |
Hit-Monkey |
HYDRA |
Hobgoblin |
Holocaust |
The Hood |
Hulk |
Impossible Man |
Iron Monk |
Jack O' Lantern |
Juggernaut |
Kang |
Kingpin |
Killer Shrike |
Klaw |
Kraven |
Lady Deathstrike |
Lady Mastermind |
Lizard |
Lt. Ethan Warren |
M.O.D.O.K. |
Madame Masque |
Madame Viper |
Maestro |
Magneto |
Master Mold |
Masters of Evil |
Master of Illusions |
Mauvais |
Mr. Jip |
Mojo |
Mole Man |
Morlocks |
Mister Sinister |
Mysterio |
Mystique |
Nightmare |
Nimrod |
Nitro |
Norman Osborn |
Nuke |
Omega Red |
Onslaught |
Overdrive |
Prime Evil |
Professor Thorton |
Puma |
Punisher |
Punisher (Earth-95126) |
Quicksilver |
Romulus |
Red Skull |
Reavers |
Rhino |
Sabretooth |
Sandman |
Savage Land Mutates |
Sauron |
Scarlet Witch |
Sebastian Shaw |
Sentinels |
Shadow King |
Shingen Yashida |
Shocker |
Silver Samurai |
Sin |
Skaar |
Spiral |
Spot |
Stryfe |
Stepford Cuckoos |
Symbiotes |
Taskmaster |
Thanos |
Thomas Logan |
Tiger Shark |
Tinkerer |
Titania |
Titanium Man |
Toad |
Tarantula |
Ultron |
Vampires |
Venom |
Vermin |
Vulture |
Wendigo |
Whiplash |
Whirlwind |
White Rabbit |
William Stryker |
Winter Soldier |
Wrecker
Movies Hulk Vs. Wolverine: Professor Thorton | Deadpool | Lady Deathstrike | Sabretooth | Omega Red X-Men Origins: Wolverine: William Stryker Jr. | Sabretooth | Deadpool | Agent Zero | Blob The Wolverine: Silver Samurai | Madam Viper | Shingen Yashida | Noburo Mori | Magneto Logan: Essex Corp (Zander Rice, Donald Pierce, X-24 & Reavers)
Television Wolverine and the X-Men: Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Mystique, Scarlet Witch, Juggernaut, Quicksilver, Avalanche, Blob, Pyro & Toad) | Dark Phoenix | Bolivar Trask | Sentinels | Sabretooth | Mutant Response Division (Colonel Moss) | Shadow King | Hellfire Club (Sebastian Shaw, Donald Pierce, Harry Leland, Selene Gallio, Emma Frost & Stepford Cuckoos) | Master Mold | Silver Samurai | Professor Thorton | Mister Sinister | Apocalypse Marvel Anime: Wolverine: Shingen Yashida | Hideki Kurohagi | Omega Red |
Vadhaka | A.I.M.
Video Games Black Cat |
Brigade |
Fault Zone |
Hazmat |
Johnny Ohm |
Niles Van Roekel |
Solara |
The Wink |
Vulture
Antagonists
Comics Abomination |
Absorbing Man |
A.I.M. |
Annihilus |
Apocalypse |
Arcade |
Ares |
Arnim Zola |
Attuma |
Awesome Android |
Baron Mordo |
Baron Zemo |
Batroc the Leaper |
Beetle |
Beyonder |
Black Box |
Black Cat |
Black Talon |
Black Tom Cassidy |
Blastaar |
Blob |
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants |
Boomerang |
Bulldozer |
Bullseye |
Carnage |
Chameleon |
Constrictor |
Crossbones |
Daken |
Dark Avengers |
Deadpool |
Dracula |
Dreadpool |
Doctor Bong |
Doctor Doom |
Doctor Octopus |
Egghead |
Electro |
Emma Frost |
Enforcers |
Erik Killmonger |
Fixer |
Flag-Smasher |
Frightful Four |
Galactus |
Green Goblin |
Grizzly |
Hand |
Hit-Monkey |
Humbug |
Hammerhead |
HYDRA |
Hydro-Man |
Jigsaw |
Juggernaut |
Kingpin |
Klaw |
Knull |
Kraven |
Lady Bullseye |
Lady Deathstrike |
Leader |
Lizard |
Loki Laufeyson |
Mad Thinker |
Madame Masque |
Madame Viper |
Madcap |
Magneto |
Masters of Evil |
Mephisto |
Mister Negative |
Mister Sinister |
M.O.D.O.K |
Mole Man |
Morbius |
Mystique |
Mysterio |
Norman Osborn |
Piledriver |
Porcupine |
Psycho-Man |
Punisher |
Puppet Master |
Red Ghost |
Red Hulk |
Red Skull |
Rogue |
Rhino |
Sabretooth |
Sandman |
Sauron |
Scorpion |
Sentinels |
Shocker |
Sinister Six |
Skrulls |
Stryfe |
Super-Apes |
Swarm |
T-Ray |
Taskmaster |
Thanos |
Thunderball |
Thunderbolts |
Tiger Shark |
Tinkerer |
Titania |
Tombstone |
Trapster |
Turner D. Century |
Typhoid Mary |
Ultimate Deadpool |
Ultron |
Venom |
Vulture |
Walrus |
Wrecker |
Winter Soldier |
Wizard
Video Games Deadpool: Deadpool | Mister Sinister | Marauders (Arclight, Vertigo & Blockbuster) | Chance White
Movies Deadpool: Deadpool | Dopinder | Ajax | Angel Dust | Agent Smith Deadpool 2: Deadpool | Cable | Dopinder | Firefist | Juggernaut | Essex Corp (Headmaster) | Black Tom Cassidy | Sergei Valishnikov | Omega Red | Weapon XI