Sinister - what's the deal with his name?Īccording to Chris Claremont, Mr. So here is the biggest question about Mr. What he exactly wants from the DNA tends to change from writer to writer. He believes that there is something hidden within their genetic code that he desires for his own mysterious ends. He is an evil scientist with a wide range of mutant abilities at his disposal, who has an obsession with the DNA of both Scott Summers and Jean Grey. Sinister in their stories, his character the form we are familiar with today. The Inferno storyline involved an army of demons invading New York and it took an alliance of several Marvel teams to stop themĪs more writers used Mr. Pryor would eventually gain demonic powers, becoming the Goblin Queen. The next big X-Men crossover was Inferno, where it was revealed that Cyclops' wife, Madelyne Pryor, was actually a clone of Jean Grey created by Mr. Sinister, an evil scientist who was obsessed with Scott Summers. This figure was revealed in Uncanny X-Men #221 to be Mr.
It was revealed during the Mutant Massacre storyline that a shadowy figure was behind the whole thing. Claremont had grown bored with the major recurring X-Men villains (like Magneto) and wanted to create someone new. Sinister was created in the late 1980s by longtime X-Men writer Chris Claremont.
