Claremont’s Sinister isn’t a character so much as a plot driver, and given his assumption that he would be writing X-Men indefinitely, there’s a sense that he was going to get around to the origin and motivations of Sinister at some point in the ‘90s.Ĭlaremont set the basic template for Mister Sinister – master manipulator, mad scientist, obsessed with cloning, and knowingly camp in his villainy. In “Inferno” he’s revealed to be the mastermind behind the creation of the Jean Grey clone Madelyne Pryor in an elaborate scheme to mate Jean’s genetic potential with that of Cyclops’ despite Jean’s seeming death at the time he set the plan in motion. He’s responsible for sending his Marauders to murder the Morlocks in the “Mutant Massacre,” but we never find out why until a retcon a decade after that story was published. Sinister, who was originally introduced by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri as the mysterious new archvillain of the X-Men following the rehabilitation of Magneto, was never given a concrete backstory during Claremont’s original tenure on the series. Pencils by Carlos Pacheco with Jorge Molina, Rodney Buchemi, and Paco Diazīy the time Kieron Gillen got the opportunity to write Mister Sinister, the character was firmly established as one of the most prominent X-Men antagonists, but also one of the most confusing.
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