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Mr. Sinister

Character » Mr. Sinister appears in 794 issues.

19th Century scientist Nathaniel Essex was genetically mutated by the "first" mutant, Apocalypse, who shared his philosophy of Social Darwinism. Becoming the immortal Mr. Sinister, he is perhaps the greatest geneticist in the world; capable of cloning, creating, enhancing, and controlling mutant abilities.

Is Mr. Sinister actually a mutant?

Posted by The Impersonator (4253 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio

According to comics and the animated series, Mr. Sinister was never born a mutant, but gained powers by Apocalypse or experimented himself. So that makes Sinister a mutant?
#1 Edited by courtney12490 (3476 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio

No, it makes him a mutate.

#2 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@The Impersonator said:
" According to comics and the animated series, Mr. Sinister was never born a mutant, but gained powers by Apocalypse and experimented himself. So that makes Sinister a mutant? "
Correction.
#3 Posted by Tainted-Cell (299 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio

Nope, he's just freakin awesome.

#4 Posted by SoA (3527 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio

human mutant , like omega red or deadpool

#5 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@SoA said:
" human mutant , like omega red or deadpool "
Omega Red is a human mutant. Both Deadpool and Mr. Sinister are human mutates.
#6 Posted by LT1085 (3658 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@courtney12490 said:
" No, it makes him a mutate. "
#7 Posted by SoA (3527 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame:  can you explain the difference between the two? i always thought the two were interchangable
#8 Posted by ComicMan24 (146835 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@SoA:
Mutant is someone who has his powers because his was born with an x-gene. Mutates on the other hand are normal humans who gained their powers later in life through accidents, experimentation, genetic engineering etc.
#9 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@SoA said:
" @Edamame:  can you explain the difference between the two? i always thought the two were interchangable "
@ComicMan24 said:
" @SoA: Mutant is someone who has his powers because his was born with an x-gene. Mutates on the other hand are normal humans who gained their powers later in life through accidents, experimentation, genetic engineering etc. "
#10 Posted by SoA (3527 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame:  so omega has the x-gene ? i thought , like deadpool, weapon x gave him his abilities
#11 Edited by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@SoA said:

" @Edamame:  so omega has the x-gene ?

?
#12 Posted by RavenDark (792 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio

Omega Red was born as a mutant....when he matured his deathspore virus activated and everybody started dieing around him...... 
He decided to be a serial killer.
Eventually he was caught by Banshee when Sean was working for the Interpol......
"Somehow" he ended up in weapon X program where they outfitted him with carbonadium coils to control his deathspore virus....
 

#13 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@RavenDark:  Was Red also a child rapist? Also, he only had a death factor, as opposed to Logan's healing factor.  I am not aware of this deathspore virus.  Red never joined the Weapon X Program.  He worked for the Russians only and was a member of The Hand, I believe. 
#14 Posted by RavenDark (792 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame: 
No....your right the KGB gave him his coils(I mixed this one with an alternative version)....and death-spore is actually his Death Factor (Also mixed my realities..)
About being the child-r., I do not remember...I remember however how Banishee was disgusted in the way that Arkady had a perverse joy in killing innocents.....
#15 Posted by The Dude. (902 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@courtney12490 said:
" No, it makes him a mutate. "
 
Pretty much. He was not born a mutant, and become what he is with the help of Apocalypse once he entered his life.  A mutant is someone born with a mutant gene from homo sapien, in my opinion, Not genetic alteration.
#16 Posted by Ransack (125 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio

Apocalypse activated Sinister's dormant X-gene the same way he did to Exodus.
#17 Posted by SoA (3527 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame:  right, i think every secret government facility that specializes in augmenting powers in mutants and non mutants is weapon x. sorry about the typo from before  lol
#18 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Ransack said:
" Apocalypse activated Sinister's dormant X-gene the same way he did to Exodus. "
Apoc. did not give Sinister all of his powers.  Sinister was just a regular human scientist until he got some of the powers from Apoc and after he experimented on himself to add powers.
 
@RavenDark said:
" .I remember however how Banishee was disgusted in the way that Arkady had a perverse joy in killing innocents..... "

Venom would hate Red then. LOL. 
 
@RavenDark said:
" @Edamame:  No....your right the KGB gave him his coils(I mixed this one with an alternative version)....and death-spore is actually his Death Factor (Also mixed my realities..) About being the child-r., I do not remember...I remember however how Banishee was disgusted in the way that Arkady had a perverse joy in killing innocents..... "

I wonder how far into his body the Carbonadium tentacles go. Just up into his arms?  And is the Carbonadium armor stuck onto him?  
 
@The Dude. said:
" @courtney12490 said:
" No, it makes him a mutate. "
 Pretty much. He was not born a mutant, and become what he is with the help of Apocalypse once he entered his life.  A mutant is someone born with a mutant gene from homo sapien, in my opinion, Not genetic alteration. "

It wasn´t all because of Apoc though.
#19 Posted by RavenDark (792 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame
" @Edamame:  No....your right the KGB gave him his coils(I mixed this one with an alternative version)....and death-spore is actually his Death Factor (Also mixed my realities..) About being the child-r., I do not remember...I remember however how Banishee was disgusted in the way that Arkady had a perverse joy in killing innocents..... "

I wonder how far into his body the Carbonadium tentacles go. Just up into his arms?  And is the Carbonadium armor stuck onto him?  
I think that his tentacles are the only fixed parts permanently embedded into his body....He fought Wolverine and Colossus almost naked....
The range of those coils is pretty impressive, they are telescopic in behavior, which more or less explains its compact form...... 
The carbonadium is slowly killing him though, but like Logan, his Death Factor keeps him alive....(Unless he cured himself with carbonadium synthesizer)
 
Omega Red


Do you think that Exodus is a mutate?
#20 Posted by Ransack (125 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame:
You're right. Over the past century or so, Sinister mutated himself even further by splicing the genes of other mutants into his system, but he is still a mutant first and foremost. His x-gene was activated by Apocalypse, but does that make him less of a mutant?
#21 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@RavenDark said:
" @Edamame
" @Edamame:  No....your right the KGB gave him his coils(I mixed this one with an alternative version)....and death-spore is actually his Death Factor (Also mixed my realities..) About being the child-r., I do not remember...I remember however how Banishee was disgusted in the way that Arkady had a perverse joy in killing innocents..... "

I wonder how far into his body the Carbonadium tentacles go. Just up into his arms?  And is the Carbonadium armor stuck onto him?  
I think that his tentacles are the only fixed parts permanently embedded into his body....He fought Wolverine and Colossus almost naked....
The range of those coils is pretty impressive, they are telescopic in behavior, which more or less explains its compact form...... 
The carbonadium is slowly killing him though, but like Logan, his Death Factor keeps him alive....(Unless he cured himself with carbonadium synthesizer)
 
Omega Red
Do you think that Exodus is a mutate? "
LOL at Red fighting Colossus and Wolverine naked. 
 Red looks kind of devilish in that scan. LOL.  
Exodus is a mutant, not a mutate.
 
Yes. That is what confuses me. Red has both a death factor (death spores) and a healing factor.  That is like putting freezing cold with scorching heat.  No wonder why Red is insane.  
 
How often does he have to use the Carbonadium synthesizer? Is the Carbonadium synthesizer like an extra boost to his healing factor to combat the poisons emitted by the Carbonadium?
#22 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Ransack said:
" @Edamame: You're right. Over the past century or so, Sinister mutated himself even further by splicing the genes of other mutants into his system, but he is still a mutant first and foremost. His x-gene was activated by Apocalypse, but does that make him less of a mutant? "
No. Sinister is not a mutant. He was a human geneticist and became a mutate through aforementioned methods and processes.  I am not sure why you think that Sinister is a mutant. Are you thinking about the mutant named Exodus whose powers Apocalypse activated?
#23 Posted by RavenDark (792 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame: 
Omega Red has a healing factor like Scalphunter....That means "back from the dead" healing factor...
His healing factor, strength, speed and durability is also boosted to  superior levels when his actively killing some one with his Death Factor.....
When they first put carbonadium into his body it was slowly killing him...The only way to stop this was for him to kill people in a regular time intervals with his death factor to boost
his healing factor...Essentially he HAD to kill people to survive....
Omega Red was searching for the carbonadium synthesizer either to remove the carbonadium from his body or to purify it of the toxic impurities it had.....
#24 Posted by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@RavenDark said:
" @Edamame: 
His healing factor, strength, speed and durability is also boosted to  superior levels when his actively killing some one with his Death Factor.....

You mean Red had to use that life force absorption ability of his to accomplish such....
#25 Posted by Ransack (125 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Edamame said:
" @Ransack said:
" @Edamame: You're right. Over the past century or so, Sinister mutated himself even further by splicing the genes of other mutants into his system, but he is still a mutant first and foremost. His x-gene was activated by Apocalypse, but does that make him less of a mutant? "
No. Sinister is not a mutant. He was a human geneticist and became a mutate through aforementioned methods and processes.  I am not sure why you think that Sinister is a mutant. Are you thinking about the mutant named Exodus whose powers Apocalypse activated? "

No, I'm, thinking about Sinister. Read The Futher Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix. Apocalypse activated sinister's dormant X-gene and same way he did Exodus. Read and learn.
#26 Edited by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Ransack said:

" @. Read and learn. "

: D
#27 Edited by Edamame (26173 posts) - 2 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio
@Ransack said:

" @Edamame said:

" @Ransack said:

" @Edamame: You're right. Over the past century or so, Sinister mutated himself even further by splicing the genes of other mutants into his system, but he is still a mutant first and foremost. His x-gene was activated by Apocalypse, but does that make him less of a mutant? "
No. Sinister is not a mutant. He was a human geneticist and became a mutate through aforementioned methods and processes.  I am not sure why you think that Sinister is a mutant. Are you thinking about the mutant named Exodus whose powers Apocalypse activated? "
No, I'm, thinking about Sinister. Read The Futher Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix. Apocalypse activated sinister's dormant X-gene and same way he did Exodus. Read and learn. "
Do you have scans? I don't think that that makes him a mutant.
#28 Posted by Solarflare32 (385 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

If sinister is mutate why in first to last was he identified as a potential leader for the mutant race.

#29 Posted by Hazlenaut (1679 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

has he and or she or neither been reborn. That could take some effect.

#30 Posted by Nerx (11701 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

He got touched by apocalypse while strapped to a table

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