superior -- a new breed of man, gifted with strange and fantastic abilities simply by virtue of their cellular makeup. However, his unorthodox experiments resulted in his ouster from the Royal Society. Shunned even by his wife, Essex found an ally in Apocalypse, an immortal mutant who had witnessed firsthand virtually the whole of human history. The merciless warlord transformed the rogue scientist into the ageless being who would become Mr. Sinister.
As Essex, Sinister operated an obstetrics clinic in New York during the late 19th century, secretly studying society's deviants, and influenced the work of Herbert Wyndham, now the master geneticist known as the High Evolutionary. Plotting the course of specific gene pools for more than a century, Sinister discovered that a being of incredible power would result from the union of two young mutants: Scott Summers, known today as the optic-blasting Cyclops, and Jean Grey, the telepath who will one day come to be called Phoenix. To confirm his findings, Sinister arranged for the boy to be brought to his orphanage in Nebraska, and collected a blood sample from the girl.
Sinister's unflinching obsession with evolution has brought him into repeated conflict with the
X-Men, the outlaw band of heroic mutant adventures whose members include Cyclops and Jean Grey. Assembling a team of superhuman assassins, Sinister set in motion the massacre of the Morlocks, an underground community of mutant outcasts, simply because he considered them genetically obsolete. The X-Men were able to help some of the Morlocks to safety, and a considerable number managed to escape Sinister's Marauders on their own -- but the majority perished.
Sinister sometimes aids the X-Men, but only when it furthers his own ends. However, In almost every instance for his aid, Sinister always exacts a price costly to the soul. |
