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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
5/6 · Blob · Veteran muscle Blob brings experience with the Brotherhood name, and he expects that experience to count for something. His first problem with Mystique's team is accepting that it does not make him the leader. His complaint abo...
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4/6 · Avalanche · Disruption and demolition Avalanche introduces himself to the team's internal argument by destroying the sculpture Blob means to use against Pyro. It is a quick demonstration of his place in the group: when somebody reache...
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3/6 · Destiny · Precognitive adviser Destiny gives Mystique's Brotherhood an advantage that neither muscle nor fire can provide: warning of what is about to happen. Her precognition can turn an opponent's next move into information the team...
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2/6 · Mystique · Leader and organizer Mystique has to establish command before the Brotherhood even reaches its target. Blob objects to following a woman, and she makes clear that his experience with Magneto does not entitle him to dismiss...
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MYSTIQUE'S BROTHERHOOD OF EVIL MUTANTS 1/6 · The Brotherhood The new Brotherhood enters the X-Men's lives with an assassination plan. Mystique, Destiny, Avalanche, Blob and Pyro intend to kill Senator Robert Kelly, and Days of Future Past s...
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7/7 · Tessa · Shaw's aide Tessa's first appearance places her beside people who are eager to advertise their importance. Shaw and the other men announce ranks, demonstrate powers and congratulate themselves. His dark-haired attendant occupi...
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6/7 · Jason Wyngarde · Mastermind and aspiring insider Jason Wyngarde makes himself indispensable by offering the Inner Circle control of Phoenix. His illusions give Jean an invented eighteenth-century life, with him installed as her husban...
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5/7 · Donald Pierce · White Bishop Donald Pierce brings a mechanical surprise to the Inner Circle. Beneath the appearance of another wealthy club member is a cyborg capable of fighting the X-Men at close range. Wolverine's claws expose that...
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4/7 · Harry Leland · Black Bishop Harry Leland looks like the sort of man who would let someone else handle the fighting. Wolverine finds out how misleading that impression is when the Black Bishop increases his mass until the floor gives w...
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3/7 · Emma Frost · White Queen Emma Frost arrives with a school to offer and an agenda she has no intention of explaining to Kitty Pryde's family. The Massachusetts Academy gives the White Queen a respectable reason to seek out a young muta...
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2/7 · Sebastian Shaw · Black King and organizer Sebastian Shaw has a particularly unpleasant advantage in a fight: hitting him can make things worse. He absorbs kinetic energy and turns it into physical power, which makes the usual response...
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HELLFIRE CLUB: THE INNER CIRCLE 1/7 · The Inner Circle The X-Men go looking for new mutants and find people who have already been watching them. The Hellfire Club has money, surveillance, armed personnel and access to rooms most people neve...
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Count Nefaria, the employer Nefaria is the man paying for the operation and giving the orders. He has transformed the Ani-Men into his assault force, taken control of a military installation and made the X-Men race against the threat of a m...
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Dragonfly Dragonfly is the newcomer in Nefaria's Ani-Men. Veronica Dultry makes her debut in X-Men #94, joining the four animal-themed criminals with an insect-like appearance and wings of her own. Her abilities give the group more than ano...
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Croaker, the original Frog-Man Croaker is François LeBlanc, the Ani-Men's original Frog-Man. This is the criminal from that group, not the later would-be hero who shares the Frog-Man name. His transformed body makes him a mobile opponent, w...
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Cat-Man Cat-Man is Townshend Horgan, another member carried over from the Ani-Men's earlier criminal jobs. Under Nefaria, the feline appearance comes with actual claws and a more animal-like body. Putting him opposite Wolverine gives the fi...
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Bird-Man Henry Hawk is the original Bird-Man, and Nefaria's experiments have given him real wings for this incarnation. His old criminal identity has become part of his body. Flying changes the shape of a fight inside a crowded base. Bird-M...
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Gort, the Ape-Man Gort is Gordon Keefer, the original Ape-Man, transformed into the heavy hitter his name suggests. The animal theme has become something much more intimidating than a disguise. Inside Valhalla, he helps the Ani-Men hit the...
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COUNT NEFARIA'S ANI-MEN, 1975 The new X-Men barely have time to settle in before Count Nefaria puts them through a disaster. X-Men #94–95, cover-dated August and October 1975, sends the reorganized team against Nefaria's takeover of the Val...
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The figure behind Mesmero Magneto's presence hangs over this whole operation. His name carries authority with the Demi-Men, Mesmero answers to him, and Lorna is asked to accept him as her father. When he appears, the X-Men have every reason...
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