| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''ComicBook/XMen'' '''[[Characters/XMen Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''The X-Men'''\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam The Original Team]] | [[Characters/XMen60sMembers '60s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen70sMembers '70s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen80sMembers '80s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen90sMembers '90s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2000sMembers 2000s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2010sMembers 2010s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2020sMembers 2020s Members]]\ |
| 4 | '''Other Teams'''\ |
| 5 | Characters/ChildrenOfTheAtom | [[Characters/ExcaliburMarvelComics Excalibur]] | Characters/GenerationHope | Characters/GenerationX | Characters/NewMutants | Characters/NewXMenAcademyX | [[Characters/SWORDMarvelComics S.W.O.R.D.]] | Characters/XClub | Characters/XCorp | Characters/XFactor | Characters/XForce | Characters/XStatix | Characters/XTerminators\ |
| 6 | '''Antagonists'''\ |
| 7 | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToI Rogues Gallery A To I]] | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryJToR Rogues Gallery J To R]] | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGallerySToZ Rogues Gallery S to Z]] | [[Characters/XMenVillainousOrganizations Villainous Organizations]] | [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Acolytes]] | [[Characters/XMenArakko Arakko]] | [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Brotherhood of Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenClanAkkaba Clan Akkaba]] | Characters/ChildrenOfTheVault | [[Characters/XMenExternals Externals]] | [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]] | [[Characters/XMenHellions The Hellions]] | '''Marauders''' | [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]] | [[Characters/XMenMorlocks Morlocks]] | [[Characters/XMenMutantLiberationFront MLF]] | [[Characters/XMenOrchis Orchis]] | [[Characters/XMenSentinels Sentinels]]\ |
| 8 | '''Other Characters'''\ |
| 9 | [[Characters/XMenSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] | [[Characters/XMenMutants Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenXavierInstitute Xavier Institute]] | [[Characters/XMenKrakoans Krakoans]] | [[Characters/MarvelComicsSavageLand The Savage Land]] | [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Shi'ar]] | [[{{Characters/Starjammers}} The Starjammers]] | {{Characters/NYX}} | [[{{Characters/Cable}} Cable's supporting cast]] | [[Characters/{{Deadpool}} Deadpool's supporting cast]] | [[{{Characters/Wolverine}} Wolverine's supporting cast]]-]]]]] |
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| 11 | !!'''The Marauders''' |
| 12 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marauders_portrait_7041.jpg]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:350:The original Marauders]] |
| 14 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-astonishing_x-men_vol_3_48_-_marauders_earth-616_6279.jpg]] |
| 15 | [[caption-width-right:250:The new Marauders]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ->"''[[DissonantSerenity Hi there, we're the Marauders]]. [[MurderInc We kill mutants]]. [[BadassBoast Who's next]]''?" |
| 18 | --> --'''Scalphunter''' |
| 19 | \ |
| 20 | It's 1986, and just one KnightOfCerebus isn't enough to threaten the ComicBook/UncannyXMen anymore. WhoYouGonnaCall You call ''these'' guys -- the Marauders. |
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| 22 | Created by Creator/ChrisClaremont and debuting in the aptly-named "[[BloodbathVillainOrigin Mutant Massacre]]" crossover story, the Marauders are a team of {{Professional Killer}}s organized by mysterious new villain Mister Sinister to exterminate [[Characters/XMenMorlocks the Morlocks]] an underground community of mutants living in the {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s of New York City. The ensuing clash between the Marauders and X-Men was, to this day, one of the [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest]] and [[BloodierAndGorier bloodiest]] ''X-Men'' stories ever told. No X-Men were killed, but several were maimed, even with the assistance of ComicBook/TheMightyThor and ComicBook/PowerPack. And the Morlocks? [[DownerEnding Almost completely wiped out]]. |
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| 24 | The ensuing ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' event saw the KarmaHoudiniWarranty expire for the surviving Marauders, most of whom were killed in a showdown with a demonically-influenced team of X-Men. And that would have been it for the Marauders... until subsequent storylines revealed that Sinister, now established as an accomplished MadScientist, had harvested DNA from his mutant murder squad and could clone them again and again at will. And thus began a long slow spiral into VillainDecay for the Marauders, at least as a team. ''Individually'', several Marauders experienced CharacterDevelopment over the years, not enough to headline any books but enough to score some surprising adaptational appearances in the Film/XMenFilmSeries. |
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| 26 | The Marauders reconsistuted in a big way during 2008's ''[[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]]'' event, a BatFamilyCrossover in which the whole team was pulled back together and gained several new members, including Lady Mastermind, a new-and-improved Malice, ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, and Sunfire. Entering into a fragile alliance with the fourth generation of [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Acolytes]], the team attempted to kidnap the baby that would become the future ComicBook/HopeSummers, but were stymied at every turn by the X-Men and ultimately defeated once more. This marked their effective end as a team, although a second, smaller iteration would appear in 2015's ''ComicBook/ExtraordinaryXMen'', now led by the villainess Chimera. |
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| 28 | A curious offshoot from the Marauders are the Nasty Boys, a team briefly featured in ''ComicBook/XFactor'' after ''Inferno'' but before TheReveal that the Marauders could come back as clones. Existing primarily to be a LighterAndSofter mook team for Sinister, the Nasty Boys were adapted into the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, where they featured far more prominently than they ever did in the comics. They were KilledOffForReal in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', but let's be honest, ''[[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies everyone]]'' was killed off in that book. At least two of them have been resurrected in ''ComicBook/XMen2019''. |
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| 30 | Note that the Marauders are not related in any way to ComicBook/KittyPryde's Marauders, a team of superheroes who decided they wanted to be APirate400YearsTooLate. For information on ''those'' Marauders, see [[ComicBook/{{Marauders}} their page]]. |
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| 36 | [[folder:Tropes related to the Marauders in general]] |
| 37 | * AbortedArc: Some issues and tie-in novels released during the early nineties indicated the Marauders were just a band of mercenaries that could and did operate independently of Sinister. |
| 38 | * AxCrazy: Apparently a requirement. Any outfit ''Sabretooth'' is ''not'' the craziest, evilest member of, you want to run away from. |
| 39 | * BloodbathVillainOrigin: Here's a hint: there's a '''reason''' why their origin story is called the ''Mutant Massacre''. |
| 40 | * {{Breakout Villain}}s: An oddly reliable source of secondary villains for the ''X-Men'' films. Arclight, Riptide and Sabretooth have all crossed over to the big screen, albeit in massively reimagined ways. |
| 41 | * TheBigGuy: Scalphunter & Sabretooth. |
| 42 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Explored in one story where ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} goes after Scalphunter for his transgressions and easily defeats him, only to decide he cannot entirely blame the Scalphunter he has been hunting for the Mutant Massacre, since that Scalphunter died years ago and the one he's got on his hands now is a clone of a clone of the original. One can take the premise to its uncomfortable conclusion: that it can be applied to almost ''all'' the Marauders, since Sabretooth is the only one of the original bunch who has survived over the years. |
| 43 | * BodyBackupDrive: Most, if not all of them, have been killed over the years and replaced with clones, sometimes repeatedly. Interestingly, the ''Magneto'' solo series indicates that most of them aren't especially bothered by this. |
| 44 | * TheBrute: Blockbuster and Arclight, though Blockbuster more strongly fits the role. |
| 45 | * CameBackWrong: During ''ComicBook/{{Hellions}}'', with the exceptions of Greycrow (formerly Scalphunter, as of 2020) and Vertigo, who is absent without mention, all of the Marauders were tortured and turned into zombie-like monsters by Madelyne Pryor. |
| 46 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Blockbuster and Harpoon deliver a particularly brutal round of this to Archangel just for shits and giggles. |
| 47 | * DeathIsCheap: For all of them, thanks to Sinister's cloning. |
| 48 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: Say what you will about Sinister, but he doesn't discriminate. His team consists of a Native American (Scalphunter), an Inuit (Harpoon), a Canadian (Sabretooth), a German (Blockbuster), a Korean (Scrambler), and an ''[[EvolutionaryLevels artificially evolved neanderthal]]'' (Vertigo). All they're missing is an African American, and some fans [[EpilepticTrees speculate that Prism is one]] underneath that crystal body of his. |
| 49 | * ExpendableClone: All of them at this point. |
| 50 | * FlatCharacter: The Marauders get varying degrees of fleshing out. Some, like Arclight and Scalphunter, have fleshed out backstories and personalities that raise them above rank-and-file {{Mook|s}} status. Others, like Blockbuster and Vertigo, suffer from being OutOfFocus and so little is known about what makes them tick. The worst case is Prism, who exists purely to be a RunningGag and has no personality aside from being cocky despite being shattered in almost every appearance he makes. Unlike most of the team, he's never even gotten a full name. |
| 51 | * ForTheEvulz: Primarily why Sabretooth joined the group. |
| 52 | * HeelFaceTurn: As of 2020 and the founding of the mutant nation of Krakoa it looked like the remaining Marauders were going to go for either this or RetiredMonster like Scalphunter did -- [[HeelFaceDoorSlam until it was revealed that all the others had been captured by Madelyne Pryor and were being subjected to mystical torture as punishment for their transgressions against her]]. |
| 53 | * HunterOfHisOwnKind: They're mutants who hunt and kill other mutants. |
| 54 | * {{Jerkass}}: Scalphunter especially, although they all apply. |
| 55 | * KickTheDog: Their specialty. Just ask the Morlocks and Threnody. Special shout-out to Malice for taking the trope ''literally''; during a plot to possess Havok, she murders an [[EvilDetectingDog elderly tourist's poodle]] for barking at her. EvilIsPetty indeed. |
| 56 | * KnightOfCerebus: Their debut was and still is one of the bloodiest ''X-Men'' stories ever told. From Scalphunter gunning down an elderly woman and her children in cold blood to Harpoon spearing Angel's wings to a wall (the damage was so severe they had to be amputated), the Marauders pushed the X-Men into darker territory than they'd ever visited before. This was even recognized in-story, with GentleGiant Colossus snapping mentally and physically snapping Marauder Riptide's neck a moment later. |
| 57 | * LackOfEmpathy: All of them. |
| 58 | * LaserGuidedKarma: |
| 59 | ** At the beginning of ''Inferno'', the X-Men swore to make them pay for what they did to the Morlocks. With the exception of the possessed Polaris, all the Marauders got dispatched one by one during the arc. |
| 60 | ** While he didn't exactly know who they were, Nate Grey recognised them for ''what'' they were when Sinister sent them after him and Threnody in his [[ComicBook/XMan solo series]], and promptly tore straight through them. |
| 61 | ** Magneto ''tore'' through them in his [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} 2014 solo series]], exacting his own form of retribution two decades after the fact. While he dispassionately killed most of the team, Scalphunter got singled out for a more brutal punishment: he was left alive, with [[ToThePain both his arms and both his legs forcibly amputated]]. |
| 62 | * LethalJokeCharacter: All of them. You wouldn't guess from their flamboyant attire and their devil-may-care attitudes that they're one of the deadliest villain groups the X-Men have ever faced. |
| 63 | * LighterAndSofter: The Nasty Boys, a gang of delinquent mutants created to be Mister Sinister's minions in the animated series as the Marauders themselves were much too dark for a children's cartoon. They had a short-lived stint in Creator/PeterDavid's run on ''ComicBook/XFactor'' but were not used too often after that. |
| 64 | * LondonGangster: ''The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix'' revealed the original Marauders to be a gang of these in the days of UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain. |
| 65 | * MookHorrorShow: On the collective receiving end of one at the hands of Nate Grey in ''ComicBook/XMan'' - hunting an Omega Class LivingWeapon? ''Not'' a good idea. Some years later Magneto subjects them to similar treatment in the pages of his own series. Then they get it a '''third time''' at the hands (well, pyrokinetics) of Chamber. |
| 66 | * {{Mooks}}: Frequently used for this after the revelation that Sinister could clone all of them at will. |
| 67 | * MurderInc A gang of mutant hitmen who specialize in killing other mutants. |
| 68 | * MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Gambit]] considers the Mutant Massacre perpetrated by them to be this, since he was the one who organized the team for Sinister. |
| 69 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: The ending of ''Hellions'' #1 reveals the Marauders (except Scalphunter) refused to have anything to do with Krakoa. As a result, they're now being held captive by Madelyne Pryor who is routinely torturing them. |
| 70 | * PersonalityPowers: Some of them manifest this and others don't. Blockbuster in particular is the cliched case of TheBrute manifesting brutish powers, though Arclight (also brutish with brute powers), Scrambler (a {{Troll}} with the power to induce PowerIncontinence) and Riptide (AxCrazy guy with [[SpectacularSpinning super spinning]]) also qualify. On the other hand, Prism, Scalphunter and Vertigo all manifest powers that don't really fit their personalities (or in the case of Prism, there's [[FlatCharacter not enough personality to go by]]). |
| 71 | * PsychoForHire: All of them! |
| 72 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: If an incredibly dark one. |
| 73 | * RedRightHand: Malice manifests a skull choker around the neck of anyone she possesses. |
| 74 | * RedShirt: Prism and Blockbuster to the group as a whole. They die the most often and have the least-interesting powers. Prism especially. His energy-channeling powers require the opponent to be using an energy-''blasting'' power, and his body is made up of a material similar to glass. Pretty much every fight with him goes thusly: Cyclops shoots. His EyeBeams get deflected/returned/scattered. Someone hits him. He shatters into a gajillion tiny bits. It's not known whether he can pull himself together, or if ''every single appearance'' of him is a new clone after the last died two seconds into his first battle. |
| 75 | * {{Sadist}}: Just about all of them, though Sabretooth, Scrambler, and Blockbuster are particularly bad in this regard. |
| 76 | * SendInTheClones: What Sinister does whenever one of them dies. This has also resulted in at least one instance where an X-team stumbled upon one of Sinister's old hideouts where multiple clones were unleashed. More recently Sinister himself created multiple clones of assorted individuals whose DNA he has collected over the years to swell his ranks. |
| 77 | * SlaveMooks: It was revealed in ''X-Men'' #34 that all the cloned Marauders are these, as Sinister manufactures them with gene imprints that shut them down if they ever try to turn against him. Decades later Magneto takes advantage of this to turn them into ''his'' Mook army. |
| 78 | * SixthRanger: Mystique and Exodus were both recruited to the team during ''[[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]]''. Neither of them stick around for long, though. |
| 79 | * SmugSnake: Scalphunter and Scrambler are the two most prominent, but they all qualify. |
| 80 | * TheSociopath: Almost all of them, but Scalphunter especially qualifies. |
| 81 | * SuperPersistentPredator: Sabretooth all the time, and the team as a whole during the Morlock Massacre. |
| 82 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: Arclight and Vertigo in the original group. Subverted with the new Marauders, which has numerous female villains such as Chimera and Lady Mastermind join up. |
| 83 | * VillainDecay: |
| 84 | ** In their first appearances, the Marauders ''ripped'' through the X-Men, inflicting brutal injuries on several of their members. While they've always remained a serious threat, they've never quite reached that level of menace again, and in some cases (most notably during the ''ComicBook/X-Man'' series - though in that case, they were up against someone who knew all about them, backed up by one of the most powerful mutants in history, Nate Grey a.k.a. the Characters/MarvelComicsXMan himself, who had beaten his version of Apocalypse to the brink of death), they were even degraded to WeAreTeamCannonFodder-grade mooks for the heroes to mow down. |
| 85 | ** Sabretooth in particular was generally a ''much'' less fearsome presence as a Marauder than he normally tends to be, and was often the Marauder most singled out for [[YouHaveFailedMe punishment]] by Sinister when they'd fail an assignment. |
| 86 | * WeAreTeamCannonFodder: Sometimes used this way. |
| 87 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: |
| 88 | ** Having a kind of JokerImmunity thanks to Sinister's cloning banks means the Marauders get killed on a fairly regular basis. They're treated kind of like organic versions of the Sentinels because of this, with the heroes often ripping through them despite their various oaths to not kill. |
| 89 | ** Magneto also shamelessly exploits Sinister's genetic failsafes to turn them into his army of SlaveMooks, presumably to remind the readers that he ''is'' a VillainProtagonist. |
| 90 | * {{Zeerust}}: The Marauders debuted in the mid-80s, and... well, they look it. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | !The Master |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Mister Sinister]] |
| 96 | !!Dr. Nathaniel Essex / Mister Sinister |
| 97 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/00d73cd5_2174_4926_a346_b1238ca86e16.jpeg]] |
| 98 | [[caption-width-right:350: [[ComicBook/XMan You]] are power incarnate, It's true. Crude, uncontained power. But I, child of the atom... I am '''control'''.]] |
| 99 | !!!'''Nationality:''' British |
| 100 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant chimera |
| 101 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #221 (September, 1987) |
| 102 | |
| 103 | ->''"You haven't understood at all. You can't kill me. There is no "me." Sinister is a system. Sinister is a species. Everything is Sinister. And if you're not Sinister, your time is over."'' |
| 104 | |
| 105 | Debuting in ''Uncanny X-Men #221'', Dr. Nathaniel Essex was a respected Victorian scientist and a contemporary of UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin, who read Darwin's theories with interest but thought they did not go far enough. Uncovering evidence for the existence of mutants and viewing them as the [[EvolutionaryLevels next stage in human evolution]], Essex put a radical kind of eugenics forward to the scientific community, arguing that children from the families of these unique bloodlines he was discovering (i.e. the children or descendants of mutants) should be taken and raised as lab rats in order to direct the human race more clearly and quickly to its future. Unsurprisingly, the scientific community were horrified and turned against him, and on her deathbed even his wife denounced him as "Sinister" after she discovered he had dug up their dead son for his increasingly twisted research. |
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| 107 | But Essex found a patron receptive to his ideas, the ancient mutant Apocalypse, who transformed him into an immortal and inhuman creature who takes the name his dead wife gave him- Sinister. Though he eventually turned against his master for his genocidal creeds, Sinister continued his unethical experiments throughout the ages and has cast a dark shadow over the lives of many young mutants and innocents. ComicBook/{{Magneto}} knew him as "Nosferatu", a Nazi MadScientist who took blood samples from children in the camps in exchange for sweets; Juggernaut, Prof. X and Sebastian Shaw were amongst a group of children experimented on as part of a long-term GrandTheftMe plot in the unlikely event of his death, and Cyclops was raised in one of his orphanages, after he recognized the potential for the Summers' bloodline as part of this he created a clone of Jean Grey called Madelyne Jennifer Pryor. Sinister was behind the massacre of the Morlocks and a host of other atrocities over the years, but with centuries of study backing him up he is likely the foremost expert in mutant genetics in the world. The combination makes him one of the X-Men's most intelligent, despicable and dangerous enemies. |
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| 109 | For Sinister's tropes, see his entry on the Characters/XMenSinister page. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | !Original Marauders |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Greycrow]] |
| 115 | !!'''John Greycrow / Scalphunter''' |
| 116 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/john_greycrow_xmen.jpg]] |
| 117 | !!!'''Nationality:''' American |
| 118 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 119 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #210 (1986) |
| 120 | |
| 121 | -> ''It's amazing what you can put together with a few pieces of scrap metal and a little know-how.'' |
| 122 | \ |
| 123 | A BadassNative of the Comanche tribe who has been alive since the days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and serving Mister Sinister for nearly that long. He's the tactical commander of the team, and since Malice's departure has been TheLeader of the group, with only Sinister himself ranking higher. On Krakoa, John wanted to atone for his crimes, and was drafted onto the ComicBook/{{Hellions}}, a makeshift team for those deemed too violent for the peaceful land of Krakoa to do some good, led by Kwannon. She and John would bring out the best in each other, and eventually become a couple. |
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| 125 | * AbusiveParents: Implied. When cleaning guns with Orphan-Maker, he told him he learned how to do it from his dad. Orphan-Maker told him this seemed nice but he replied it wasn't any time he made a mistake. |
| 126 | * AtrociousAlias: Aside from being a murderous sociopath in-story, the character's codename is also an uncomfortable semi-slur against Native Americans. Recent appearances and merchandise have referred to him by his real name, John Greycrow, instead. |
| 127 | * AmbiguousSituation: He is brought before Krakoa's Quiet Council in ''Hellions'' #1 under the charge of attacking the reborn Morlocks on the anniversary of the Mutant Massacre. However, the previous pages revealed Callisto brought the Morlocks together to attack ''him'' first. For some reason, John doesn't argue about being attacked first with the possible implication he's willingly taking the blame as a means of atoning for his past actions. |
| 128 | * TheAtoner: The 2020 ''ComicBook/{{Hellions}}'' leans into John becoming reflective on his past atrocities. He accepted the offer to join Krakoa and has been consistently portrayed as following all of the rules of the new society. His placement on the Sinister's team ultimately comes down to his ReformedButRejected status. |
| 129 | * BadassNative: He's easily the team's best-trained and deadliest member. |
| 130 | * BattleCouple: With Kwannon. They were two of the members who were offed the ''least'' on the Hellions, and would eventually become a couple. |
| 131 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: He was uglier in the comics where the narrative portrayed him as an irredeemable killer, but is much more attractive in the stories where he's making a conscious effort to be good. |
| 132 | * BirdsOfAfeather: On the Hellions, it's only Greycrow and Kwannon who care about redeeming themselves in some way and serving Krakoa, everyone else has a darker motive or is there unwillingly. She notices this and encourages him to be a better person, and he develops a noticeable attraction to her. by the time the team disbands, they become its sole happy ending as an OfficialCouple. |
| 133 | * ChallengingTheChief: Unwittingly set up by Sinister for this when he tasked Scalphunter, along with Arclight and Sabretooth, with killing Polaris. The hit was unsuccessful, and after beating them "Polaris" revealed that she actually Malice, the whole thing being set up by Sinister to see which of them was most fit to be leader. |
| 134 | * CharacterFocus: As might be noticed from the rest of his entries, the Krakoa era has been pretty good to Greycrow, character-wise. |
| 135 | * ComboPlatterPowers: His plate combines {{Technopath}}y with a HealingFactor. |
| 136 | * CyberneticsEatYourSoul: He is a technopath who has had most of his body replaced with cybernetics. He was also characterized as one of the most sociopathic members of the team, at least in its early days. |
| 137 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 138 | ** One of Greycrow's iterations got a story in a one-shot released after ''Messiah Complex'', with him on the run in Mexico. |
| 139 | ** He is promoted to a team member in the 2020 ''Hellions'' title. |
| 140 | * DefiantToTheEnd: When sentenced to death and asked if he had any last words, the future Scalphunter's response was to spit in his executioner's face and laugh. |
| 141 | * TheDragon: He was [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] into being Sinister's first Marauder, but it was Malice who served this role during ''Inferno''. |
| 142 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: In ''ComicBook/{{Hellions}}'', John is the only draftee to genuinely make a go at being a good person and channel his dark instincts for Krakoa's sake without ever performing any serious betrayals on the team. This is despite having to fight deformed clones of the original Marauders, learning that the one person he thought he could trust (and had feelings for) had her own ulterior motives, and then almost giving into his darkest urges to kill someone for her anyway. He ends up free as any other mutant and in a relationship with Kwannon like he wanted. |
| 143 | * EvilCounterpart: To Cyclops, they're both field leaders for a team working towards the goal of someone who, to spite being a powerful mutant is generally a NonActionGuy. The difference is while Cyclops genuinely believes in Xavier's dream of peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants, considers him a father figure and has his complete trust. Greycrow is a SociopathicSoldier who never really liked Sinister, [[BloodKnight only working for him to put his killing skills to use]] and Sinster sees him as a disposible {{Mook|s}} who if killed can easily be replaced with a clone. |
| 144 | * FallenHero: Before he started scalping his superior officers in World War II, Greycrow fought under ComicBook/NickFury. Sure, he was only a part of Fury's squad briefly, but still -- working under ''Nick Fury'' in '''World War II'''? That's as good a heroic origin story as any Marvel character could've asked for. |
| 145 | * FightsLikeANormal: Since his powers aren't meant to be used in a fight, he compensates with his skill in guns. |
| 146 | * FireForgedFriends: With the rest of the Hellions, particularly Alex Summers and Wild Child. At the end of the series the team is clear that they will do anything for each other (with the exception of Hellion himself, who they all despise). |
| 147 | * FugitiveArc: The Scalphunter clone that was active during the ''[[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]]'' event went through this after the story's end, getting a job in a greasy diner in the middle of nowhere to hide from the X-Men and his surviving teammates both. Someone still found him, of course. |
| 148 | * TheGunslinger: His technopathy skills combined with his advanced weapons make him one hell of a shot. |
| 149 | * HandCannon: He's been known to carry a few of these, including an M1 bazooka and M79 grenade launcher. |
| 150 | * HealingFactor: While not as good as Wolverine or Sabertooth's he has one strong enough to allow him to survive a firing squad. |
| 151 | * HeelFaceTurn: He signed up with the mutant nation of Krakoa and seems to be aiming for this or RetiredMonster. |
| 152 | * HeelFaithTurn: Attempted, after a severe talking-to from Nightcrawler, but it didn't stick. |
| 153 | * HiddenDepths: He learned how to cook from his mother, and if Nightcrawler's taste is to be trusted, he's damn good at it. He also plays a mean game of poker. |
| 154 | * MacheteMayhem: He doesn't use it very often, but he carries a huge machete on his back. He tried to use it to kill Shadowcat during the Mutant Massacre, but fortunately for Kitty she was phased. |
| 155 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Scalphunter is pushing somewhere in his 70s at this point, but [[HealingFactor you'd never know by looking at him]]. |
| 156 | * PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Come the finale issue of ''ComicBook/{{Hellions}}'', #18, the Quiet Council's decision to place Orphan-Maker in the Pit of Exile has Greycrow screaming first protests that Orphan-Maker is just a boy, and then threats that he will burn the Council hall (or possibly Krakoa) to the ground.]] |
| 157 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Greycrow's own surprise, he becomes something of a surrogate father figure to Orphan-Maker during their time together on the Hellions. |
| 158 | * PornStache: Rocks this look without a hint of shame. In fairness, it ''was'' still being used as a facial shorthand for manly military dudes at the time he debuted. |
| 159 | * ProfessionalKiller: He considers himself "a serious man, engaged in a serious business" and while he will kill women and children, he considers himself above taunting them or making them suffer. |
| 160 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: When he first appeared drawn by Marc Silvestri, John was downright haggard and pretty ugly. By the ''Hellions'' series under Stephen Segovia and Carmen Carnero's pens, he's a downright {{Hunk}} with a gorgeous head of hair. |
| 161 | * SociopathicSoldier: He fought in World War II respectively, and gets along best with fellow ex-soldier Arclight. Perhaps not coincidentally, they are often depicted as lovers. |
| 162 | * TeamKiller: During World War II he earned his name from "scalping" his superior officers and earned himself a ticket to the firing squad in the bargain. Unfortunately, his mutant abilities kept the trip from being one-way. |
| 163 | * {{Technopath}}: He suffers from CripplingOverspecialization, being able to use it only to [[TheGunslinger put together guns]]. That said, he more than makes up for it with his combat expertise. |
| 164 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He's taken [=AoA=] Sabretooth's place as the handler of Wild Child as of ''Hellions''. |
| 165 | * TookALevelInBadass: Once he was able to expand his powers beyond guns and build an airplane from scratch, which he called the Dirty Bird (possibly the one [[Literature/{{Misery}} Annie]]'s always so mad about?) |
| 166 | * TookALevelInKindness: Played with, as his time with the Hellions shows Greycrow has a definite softer side as part of his subdued desire to genuinely atone for his actions. It's reached a point where even Kwannon acknowledges John doesn't want to be a killer anymore. |
| 167 | * VillainTeamUp: He and Sabretooth came to an "understanding" in the jungles of Vietnam and he even helped Vic backstab Sinister himself once. He also once joined an alliance of assassins including ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}}, and Sabretooth again, all working together against the super-assassin Cape Crow. |
| 168 | * WalkingArmory: ''Literally''. His "costume" is actually just a woven-together mesh of components he can use to reassemble and disassemble whatever firearm he wants at will. |
| 169 | ** An unusual example overlapping with AnatomyArsenal is seen in ''ComicBook/{{Hellions}}'' #14, where an unarmed Greycrow partially disassembles his own cybernetics, stripping away extraneous armor plating and components before interlocking them into a large, fully functional and very nasty gun. |
| 170 | * WouldHitAGirl: Scalphunter has no qualms about shooting Madelyne Pryor. |
| 171 | * WouldHurtAChild: Related to the above, he also showed no hesitation when killing Annalee's children. |
| 172 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Played with in ''Weapon X'', where he helps Sabretooth figure out how to beat his boss Sinister's latest creations and commits BetrayalByInaction because he fears that if they're not beaten that Sinister will have no more use for him except as a test subject. Amazingly, the plan worked, and even more amazingly, Sinister never punished him for this. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Malice]] |
| 176 | !!'''Alice [=MacAllister=] / Malice''' |
| 177 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5650488_img_8158.png]] |
| 178 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/de9157af_134d_4811_9265_844b925199f5.jpeg]] |
| 179 | [[caption-width-right:300: Malice’s original body before mutation and also currently courtesy of Krakoa’s resurrection protocols]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | !!!'''Species:''' Human Mutant / formerly Psionic entity |
| 182 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #210 (1986) |
| 183 | \ |
| 184 | The original field leader of the team, Malice is a psionic entity who was once a disaffected teenage girl who became disembodied when her mutation manifested. She maintained a longtime possession of [[Characters/XMen60sMembers Polaris]], in whose body she menaced the X-Men. Eventually she was expelled from Polaris's body and presumed dead, only to turn up years later as a 'digital entity' that possessed the Omega Sentinel Karima Shapandar. She was eventually forced to vacate that body too, and waited to squat in another mutant before finding one in Betsy Braddock. |
| 185 | |
| 186 | However, she was kicked out of Betsy's body and given her own original body back on Krakoa, as well as a blanket pardon, like all the other Marauders. |
| 187 | ---- |
| 188 | * AlasPoorVillain: She had been portrayed as quite horrible since her debut, stealing bodies and leading the Marauders, but her back story reveals that she was just a troubled and possibly suicidal teenager who “died” after an argument with her mother who she never saw again. This is implied to be why Kwannon and Betsy argued to have her forgiven despite her crimes which included going after Betsy herself. |
| 189 | * ArtifactDomination: Her possession is always signified by the host suddenly gaining a cameo choker. Whether it's an actual, physical object varies. |
| 190 | * BackFromTheDead: She’s essentially been dead since her debut appearance, having been disembodied when her mutation activated leaving her body behind decades ago. In the pages of ''ComicBook/Excalibur2019'', she’s given a cloned reproduction of her original body and walks among the living as herself for the first time in her publication history. |
| 191 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In her belated backstory, her mutation activated for the first time when she got in an argument with her mother and wished herself to be dead. Fortunately, it was only her physical body that expired, but it still must have been awfully inconvenient. |
| 192 | * BodySurf: She can freely jump between nearby bodies, making her highly evasive in crowds. |
| 193 | * TheCorrupter: Her shtick is usually to offer a better life to her target through selfishness and evil. |
| 194 | * DeathSeeker: Implied to have been this before her powers emerged and showed these traits again while fighting Betsy. |
| 195 | * DemonicPossession: Like the Shadow King, she's a psychic entity that exists entirely on the astral plane and has to possess a victim in order to interact with the regular world. |
| 196 | * DistaffCounterpart: She's essentially just a weaker, female version of the Shadow King. |
| 197 | * EasilyForgiven: She did a lot of really horrible things, especially to Polaris and Havok, but has seemingly been forgiven for them. On the other end of the trope, she doesn't seem to hold any particular grudge against Mister Sinister, perhaps because the one currently serving on the Quiet Council is a clone of the one that used and abused her. |
| 198 | * EvilBrit: Originally from Doncaster. |
| 199 | * EvilerThanThou: Sinister subjects Malice to this after she goes off the reservation and possesses Havok in ''X-Factor''. |
| 200 | * FusionDance: Something about Polaris's psionic physiology caused Malice to become trapped in her body after possessing her, something that Mister Sinister knew was going to happen but neglected to warn Malice of because he had plans for the Malice/Polaris merged being. |
| 201 | * GenderBender: She can possess men too, although she seems to prefer women for long term periods. Cyclops, Havok, and Wolverine have all been her unwilling hosts at points. |
| 202 | * LivingShadow: Like the Shadow King, she exists on the astral plane and has no physical body of her own. |
| 203 | * TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: She is fond of revealing herself to her hosts through mirrors to play mind games with them. |
| 204 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Malice's original human name wasn't revealed until ''Excalibur'' #20, where it turns out to be Alice [=MacAllister=]. |
| 205 | * ThePowerOfLove: This, along with the HeroicSacrifice, led to her defeat and (ultimately temporary) death in the 90's, as Polaris begged Malice to re-possess her rather than force her lover Havok to suffer Malice's presence. Malice tried to re-enter Polaris under threat of death, but couldn't do it since Havok was holding onto her, determined not to let Polaris suffer that fate again. Caught between the two lovers and unable to possess either, Malice was torn away from both and killed by Mister Sinister. |
| 206 | * PowersViaPossession: Subverted. ''Malice'' gets the powers, not the possessed person. |
| 207 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: With the reveal that she was a disaffected teen before becoming a supervillain, Malice's actions that previously seemed to be just ForTheEvulz now seem to have their roots in this trope. |
| 208 | * RedRightHand: You can always tell if she's possessing someone by seeing whether or not they're wearing a skull choker. |
| 209 | * SealedEvilInACan: Spider-Man was able to remove her from Cyclops' psyche and trap her in a containment box. |
| 210 | * StayingAlive: Having the ability to survive on the astral plane even if her physical body is killed, she's very hard to permanently get rid of. Mister Sinister tried to kill her but failed, and she can apparently survive transitions between an astral and digital state. |
| 211 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Alice [=MacAllister=] |
| 212 | * UnwittingPawn: She raged and threw tantrums about it, she plotted and schemed to do something about it, but no matter what Malice did she could never stop being this to Mister Sinister, who even taunted her for being "such a wonderful pawn" before killing her. |
| 213 | * VagueAge: Her exact age was never specified, which allowed 2020s-era writers to give her an AgeLift of sorts and make her YoungerAndHipper. In her original appearances, her astral body was always shown as being a mature woman's. |
| 214 | * VillainDecay: She was the original field leader of the Marauders, but Scalphunter took up that role post-''ComicBook/Inferno1988''. When she possessed Karima in ''[[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]]'', she was treated like any other soldier of the team. |
| 215 | * VirtualGhost: For a time she was digitized into a computer virus, as justification for being able to possess Karima for some reason. |
| 216 | * YouHaveFailedMe: In the 90's Sinister seemingly killed her for defying his wishes. She vanished for years, but turned up again a decade later as a 'digital entity'. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Arclight]] |
| 220 | !!'''Philippa Sontag / Arclight''' |
| 221 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arclight_xmen.jpg]] |
| 222 | !!!'''Nationality:''' American |
| 223 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 224 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #210 (1986) |
| 225 | \ |
| 226 | One of the team's most prominent members, Arclight is the main team brick, boasting superhuman strength and durability along with the ability to project shockwaves. As Scalphunter's lover / partner, she usually leads the team into battle alongside him. |
| 227 | ---- |
| 228 | * AllWomenArePrudes: When she was recruited to the Marauders by Gambit, she told him to tell Sinister that she does violence, but not sex. |
| 229 | * AscendedExtra: She is one of the lucky few villains who has been blessed with an adaptation on the silver screens, appearing in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' as a member of a mutant street gang that joins up with Magneto. |
| 230 | * BloodKnight: During the ''Mutant Massacre'' she was disappointed at how little fight the Morlocks were putting up, and downright giddy when she realized she'd be going up against the X-Men. |
| 231 | * CoolShades: She started wearing these in the nineties, and ditched them after that decade's end. |
| 232 | * DarkActionGirl: As a former soldier she has the most training out of all the Marauders and is a lethal and ruthless combatant. |
| 233 | * DishingOutDirt: Has some degree of this, in addition to limited SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability. |
| 234 | * FreudianExcuse: She has PTSD from Vietnam, though most of her behavior can be summed up as just plain sadism. |
| 235 | * HumiliationConga: Getting punched out by Jack Power of ComicBook/PowerPack was not her finest hour. |
| 236 | * LightningBruiser: She moves fast and hits hard. |
| 237 | * MeaningfulName: Her codename comes from Operation Arc Light, a military campaign during the Vietnam War. |
| 238 | * NighInvulnerability: As one the team's two powerhouses, her strength makes her difficult to put down. |
| 239 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Along with Vertigo, she joined the maniacal misandrist villain Superia's army of superpowered women called the Femizons. She's no StrawFeminist, though -- she was paid $100,000 for signing on. |
| 240 | * RefugeeFromTime: Subverted. Even though she's from the increasingly-dated Vietnam War, her status as the latest in a series of clones since the original died in the 80's allow her to keep her backstory, unlike other Marvel Vietnam vets like ComicBook/ThePunisher. |
| 241 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Arclight served in the Vietnam War and it's implied that whatever she saw and/or did there left a lasting impression on her, though she's done plenty of inexcusable things since. |
| 242 | * ShockwaveStomp: How she usually projects her shockwaves, unlike her adaptational counterpart who prefers the ShockwaveClap. |
| 243 | * SociopathicSoldier: Like Scalphunter she is former US military, fighting in the Vietnam War. The two of them get along well and are often depicted as lovers. |
| 244 | * SuperStrength: She can lift over fifty tons. |
| 245 | * YourSizeMayVary: Usually she's of average height (her official height is 5'8) but DependingOnTheArtist, sometimes she's unusually tall and/or depicted with an unusually muscular physique. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Blockbuster]] |
| 249 | !!'''Michael Baer / Blockbuster''' |
| 250 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blockbuster_xmen.jpg]] |
| 251 | !!!'''Nationality:''' American |
| 252 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 253 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #10 (1986) |
| 254 | \ |
| 255 | The ''other'' strongman of the Marauders, Blockbuster is a former political terrorist with a fragile ego. Notable for being the only Marauder dumb enough to try brawling with ComicBook/TheMightyThor. |
| 256 | ---- |
| 257 | * AdaptationExpansion: His past is given eyebrow-raising attention in, of all things, a gamebook for TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes. His blurb (as part of the Marauders entry) notes that he was an American expatriate in Europe by his teenage years, that he worked as muscle for German street gangs and picked up "a radical political philosophy" from them, that he eventually fell in with a terrorist group called the Fists of Victory, and that he was recruited to the Marauders after all the other Fists were killed by police. Given the group's name, country of origin, and "radical political philosophy", this seems to suggest that Baer was a Neo-Nazi. |
| 258 | * BaldOfEvil: The guy is bald and is the most brutish of the Marauders. |
| 259 | * BeardOfEvil: Blockbuster has a beard. |
| 260 | * TheBigGuy: At 6'6, he's the tallest of the Marauders. |
| 261 | * BoomHeadshot: He's killed on the spot when an angry Thor throws Mjolnir right into his face. |
| 262 | * CombatPragmatist: He ambushes Thor during their second fight, breaking Thor's arm and trying to finish him off before Thor can recover. When Angel distracts him, that's all the time Thor needs to get Mjolnir spinning and smash his face to a pulp. |
| 263 | * DumbMuscle: All he is good for is hitting stuff. |
| 264 | * EatenAlive: One of his incarnations got this treatment from Predator X during the ''[[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]]''. |
| 265 | * FisticuffProvokingComment: Sabretooth teasing him about not being as good as Thor leads him to pick a fight with the Thunder God, one which he does not survive. |
| 266 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: He's noted to have proficiency in "street fighting techniques" (likely picked up from his German street gang days) making him a tough customer even without his mutant powers. |
| 267 | * NeckSnap: One of his favorite ways of killing, as seen when he and the other Marauders fought a squad of Purifiers in ''[[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]]''. |
| 268 | * NighInvulnerability: His strength makes him impervious or resistant to a lot of damage. He's still hurt when Thor bashes him in the head with Mjolnir, and killed on the spot when Thor flings the weapon into his face at full speed. |
| 269 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Well, more evil: during the ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' event he was the only Marauder who survived battle with the X-Men, and ended up transformed into a giant demonic form of himself. |
| 270 | * SuperStrength: The upper limits of his strength is unclear, but he can at least lift seventy tons. |
| 271 | * TerroristsWithoutACause: He is noted to have done some work for German terrorists before joining up with Sinister. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:Harpoon]] |
| 275 | !!'''Kodiak Noatak / Harpoon''' |
| 276 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harpoon_xmen.jpg]] |
| 277 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Inuit |
| 278 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 279 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #210 (1986) |
| 280 | \ |
| 281 | A dour Inuit who is one of the team's more [[ProfessionalKiller professional killers]], he hunts and kill his targets with harpoons charged with bio-energy. DependingOnTheWriter, he can be one of the team's few reasonable members, or he can be a sadistic little shitheel who'll pin Angel's wings to a wall for funsies. |
| 282 | ---- |
| 283 | * AntiRegeneration: His weapons impair healing factors and can harm psionic beings such as Chamber. |
| 284 | * CountryMouse: His one character trait besides being a sociopath is this. His teammates would occasionally tease him about it between rounds of mutant murdering. |
| 285 | * DePower: He lost his abilities on M-Day. |
| 286 | * EvilRedhead: He's got red hair and when he's evil, he's ''very'' evil. |
| 287 | * InsistentTerminology: In 80's stories, he was referred to by both his teammates and the X-Men as an Eskimo. That word no longer being so kosher, he's only ever referred to as an Inuit. |
| 288 | * KiManipulation: He requires an object to channel them energy into, usually his signature weapons. He's kind of like an evil Gambit. |
| 289 | * KnightOfCerebus: He might not have managed to ''kill'' any X-Men, but boy did he mess a few up. Colossus and Shadowcat were both trapped in their altered states (metallic and phased respectively) because of his attacks, and Angel had to have his beloved wings '''amputated''' because of Harpoon. Kitty regained physical form quickly enough, but Colossus was trapped in his metallic form for ''years'', and Angel became Archangel to get his wings back. |
| 290 | * MeaningfulName: It's believed that he was named for Hodiak, an Inuit god who is the grandfather of ComicBook/AlphaFlight's Snowbird. |
| 291 | * MortalityPhobia: Unlike the other Marauders, he maintains a healthy sense of self-preservation, as seen in ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s book when he had reactivated the Marauders to hunt them down for his personal revenge; the survivors were trying to decide what to do and Harpoon told them that maybe they might think they're immortal because they always get brought back, but the clones are ''not'' them. |
| 292 | * OnlySaneMan: In UXM vol. 5. He tries to explain to the X-Men that they didn't kill the Morlocks (this time) and when the team attacks, he immediately surrenders. Chamber still toasts him along with the other Marauders. |
| 293 | * TakingYouWithMe: When Chamber incinerates the Marauders in a fit of rage, a badly-burned Harpoon stabs one of his spears into Jono's chest before dying. |
| 294 | * YourSizeMayVary: Like Arclight, his physical size varies DependingOnTheArtist, sometimes being of average height and sometimes being taller and more muscular than Scalphunter (but not as much as Blockbuster). Officially, he's 5'7. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Prism]] |
| 298 | !!'''Robbie / Prism''' |
| 299 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prism_xmen.jpg]] |
| 300 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 301 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #10 (1986) |
| 302 | \ |
| 303 | By ''far'' the weakest of the Marauders, Prism is a man with a body made of GemTissue. Little else is known about him. |
| 304 | ---- |
| 305 | * AttackReflector: His crystal body can absorb and redirect any energy attacks thrown his way. |
| 306 | * BodyToJewel: Subverted, unfortunately for him. He's always in his crystal state and has no way of turning back to human. |
| 307 | * ButtMonkey: All the Marauders are vulnerable to death, but Prism breaks every time. |
| 308 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Prism's power is only useful against opponents who use use energy beams. Against everyone else, he's just a really brittle guy. |
| 309 | * FlatCharacter: While most of his fellow Marauders have gotten fleshing out over the years, Prism remains almost a complete cipher. Nothing is known of his past before joining the Marauders, nor is the extent of his powers (specifically, whether or not he can put himself back together after being shattered) known, nor even is his full name known. He's just a crystal guy there to talk big and get shattered. |
| 310 | * GemTissue: His body is made of a crystalline material that is useful for absorbing energy attacks, but even more frail than a normal human body when it comes to taking punishment. |
| 311 | * GlassCannon: He is a ''literal'' one, being a man made of solid crystal who is usually broken in whatever fights he shows up for. |
| 312 | * HumiliationConga: One of his clones was institutionalized in a psychiatric ward around the time when M-Day happened. |
| 313 | * InformedAbility: His power grid lists his Durability with a rank of 3, which corresponds to "enhanced" and suggests that he's as tough as ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. As anyone who's read even a single one of his appearances can note, this is very much not the case. He's also given a rank of 4 for fighting ability, despite exhibiting no particular hand-to-hand combat skill in any fight (in fact, he's usually shattered well before anybody closes to melee range). |
| 314 | * LeeroyJenkins: He has a very aggressive personality and always charges into battle despite being so very fragile, leading fans to suspect that he might be capable of pulling himself back together after being broken. |
| 315 | * LightIsNotGood: His powers are light-based and he's a milky white being, but he's definitely not a hero. |
| 316 | * OneHitPointWonder: Prism is a rare non-video game version of this, being a character that is invulnerable to energy attacks but will shatter into a million pieces if a pebble so much as drops on him wrong. He's so fragile, in fact, that him getting killed is a kind of a RunningGag when it comes to the Marauders. |
| 317 | * OnlyOneName: He's called Robbie but his last name (as with most of his past) is unknown. |
| 318 | * RunningGag: He's been killed at least 8 times, far more than any other Marauder. Everyone from Jean Grey to a rank-and-file Purifier to demonized cops has had a turn at breaking him. |
| 319 | * WeaksauceWeakness: His body is very brittle and all that is needed to get rid of him is to smash him against a wall. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Riptide]] |
| 323 | !!'''Janos Quested / Riptide''' |
| 324 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/riptide_xmen.jpg]] |
| 325 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Mexican |
| 326 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 327 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #210 (1986) |
| 328 | \ |
| 329 | A frighteningly homicidal man who can strip the flesh from his victims' bones with his high-speed spinning attacks and deadly barrages of organic shurikens. Notable for driving ComicBook/{{Colossus}} to break his ThouShaltNotKill lure during the ''Mutant Massacre''. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Neither his film version discussed below or the cameo version of him that appears in ''Anime/MarvelAnimeXMen'' are anywhere near as evil or as sadistic as the original Riptide. |
| 332 | * AscendedExtra: He is one of the lucky few villains who has been blessed with an adaptation on the silver screens, appearing in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' as a younger (and mute) mutant who works for the movie's BigBad. |
| 333 | * AxCrazy: Even by the standards of the Marauders this guy is nuts. It's why he's one of the first of them to die, since he attacks Colossus without any sense of self-preservation. |
| 334 | * BadWithTheBone: Those shurikens he throws are actually calcium shards he generates from his own body. |
| 335 | * GlassCannon: He is probably the most destructive member of the team next to Arclight, but he's more or less screwed if someone can get past his barrage. |
| 336 | * NeckSnap: Had one inflicted on him by Colossus. As seen in the [[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]] story, he remembers this. |
| 337 | * PsychoticSmirk: Usually sports one of these in battle. |
| 338 | * PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Like Catwoman in the 90's, he has a purple suit. |
| 339 | * RazorWind: His primary mutant power, which he generates by spinning himself in place like a top at extremely high speeds. |
| 340 | * SecretlyWealthy: You'd never guess it to look at him, but apparently he comes from some wealth. When Gambit recruited him for the Marauders (an event seen only in a single-panel flashback in ''X-Men Legacy''), he was in the private library of a sumptuous mansion, dressed in fine clothing he's never worn on-panel since. |
| 341 | * SmarterThanYouLook: He doesn't have a particularly intellectual appearance or attitude, but he was in a library when Gambit recruited him, and he was informed enough to know who Nathaniel Essex was at a time when not even any of the X-Men knew. He's got more brains than you'd think. |
| 342 | * SpectacularSpinning: Unsurprisingly, since his mutant power depends on it. |
| 343 | * SpinAttack: His stock in trade. |
| 344 | * TornadoMove: Almost always depicted using one. Interestingly, he can somehow keep his head stationary and keep talking while the rest of his body below him is spinning. |
| 345 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is white and his heart black enough to slaughter children without a shred of remorse. |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:Scrambler]] |
| 349 | !!'''Kim Il Sung / Scrambler''' |
| 350 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scrambler_xmen.jpg]] |
| 351 | !!!'''Nationality:''' South Korean |
| 352 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 353 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #210 (1986) |
| 354 | \ |
| 355 | The youngest member of the team, Scrambler is not the ruler or related to UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea, despite what his name suggests. He's one of the more reckless members of the team, having the ability to induce PowerIncontinence through touch but no defensive abilities to go with it. Accordingly, he dies a lot. |
| 356 | ---- |
| 357 | * ADayInTheLimelight: The Scrambler clone that appeared in [[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]] has definitely had the most attention and character development of all Scrambler's incarnations, getting a redemption arc after that book's end and getting to hobnob with everyone from ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} to ComicBook/SheHulk to even one of Odin's ravens! |
| 358 | * TheDandy: Scrambler's the only member of the team who dresses in normal clothes instead of some kind of supervillain costume, and his foppish personality certainly fits the trope. |
| 359 | * ForcedIntoEvil: Arguably, as a flashback in ''X-Men Legacy'' of Gambit recruiting the Marauders showed him finding Scrambler and pinning him down, with Scrambler frantically saying he'd come in a way that clearly showed he was under duress. That said, he was certainly willing enough once had actually ''did'' join the Marauders. |
| 360 | * GuttedLikeAFish: Inflicted on him by X-23 during the [[ComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex Messiah Complex]] storyline. |
| 361 | * HappyEndingOverride: Possibly, depending on whether or not the Scrambler that has been captured and tortured by Madelyne Pryor is the same one who achieved redemption. |
| 362 | * HeelFaceTurn: Losing both arms below the elbow and nearly dying in his own spilled entrails turned out to be the incentive that Scrambler needed to turn his life around, and he even gets a HappilyEverAfter complete with a beloved wife and stepdaughter, his own business, and a nice chunk of land. |
| 363 | ** HeelFaceDoorSlam: Possibly, as he has now ended up in the claws of Madelyne Pryor and is being used as a minion by her alongside most of the other Marauders. It's not clear if this captured Scrambler clone is the same as the redeemed Scrambler, though. |
| 364 | * HeroInsurance: Subverted for the redeemed Scrambler, who manages to defeat a number of his former teammates when they come after him only to find himself living in "an insurance nightmare" when they trash his house. |
| 365 | * InformedAbility: His power grid gives in a 4 Rank in fighting, classifying him as an "Experienced Fighter" of combat skill equal to ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/DoctorDoom. As you might guess, he never even remotely lives up to this high ranking, although he is good at finding a way to touch foes before they beat him unconscious or just kill him outright. The redeemed Scrambler, on the other hand, has more than earned this ranking. |
| 366 | * MesACrowd: Like Vertigo below, there may possibly be two Scramblers in the world, the clone who redeemed himself and the one being tortured by Madelyne Pryor (who is likely one of Magneto's activated clones if he's not the redeemed Scrambler). |
| 367 | * MundaneUtility: The reformed Scrambler uses his power to get a job as an auto mechanic, "unscrambling" the cars that get brought in. |
| 368 | * PowerNullifier: : As you might have guessed from his name, Scrambler messes with other mutants' powers via touch. He can also use it to mess with machines, ala Shadowcat. On a 1:60 time ratio (meaning if he touches someone for 1 second, the effect of his power lasts for 60 seconds; 2 seconds equals a 120 second interval, and so on). |
| 369 | * RetiredMonster: As noted above, one of his clones tried to become this. Sadly, it didn't take. |
| 370 | * ShoutOut: His real name is Kim Il-sung. Yes, as in ''[[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea that]]'' Kim Il-sung. No relation, at least none that we know of. |
| 371 | * StartingANewLife: After his disastrous fight with the claws-and-hairballs duo of Wolverine and X-23, he was found and saved by paramedics; this, along with some persuasion from the ComicBook/SheHulk, led him to turn state's witness and testify against his former teammate Scalphunter; in exchange, the government put him on parole, got him a pair of prosthetic hands, and cleared his record. He got a job at an auto garage, got a girlfriend, and truly had made a new life for himself, and depending on if the HappyEndingOverride is in effect, he might still have. |
| 372 | * {{Technopath}}: His powers work just as well on machines as they do people, and he can even reverse his abilities to repair them. He learned how to use his powers on his prosthetic arms to gain greater dexterity. |
| 373 | * TookALevelInBadass: The redeemed Scrambler, who made Scalphunter and the Vanisher soil themselves the first time they came after them and outright beat them (along with Blockbuster and Harpoon!) the second time, even though they were wearing collars that were supposed to protect them from his powers (since he can short out electronics, he just fried the collars and then their powers). |
| 374 | * WeaksauceWeakness: He needs to touch people to negate their powers, which leaves him very vulnerable to long range attacks. His power also doesn't do squat against mutants with physical weapons, such as Wolverine and X-23's claws (although he is able to negate their healing factors). |
| 375 | * YellowPeril: He is a minor example. He's Korean, but [[TheDandy dresses in a nice suit]] rather than any stereotypical Fu Manchu garb. |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Sabretooth]] |
| 379 | !!Victor Creed / Sabretooth |
| 380 | [[quoteright:143:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sabes.jpg]] |
| 381 | !!!'''First Appearance as Marauder:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #211 (1986) |
| 382 | |
| 383 | -> ''Mister Sinister's dealin' a game that don't allow for wild cards like the Morlocks -- or you X-chumps.'' |
| 384 | \ |
| 385 | A savage, violent mutant SerialKiller. Deemed too uncontrollable by ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, Mister Sinister was more than happy to sign him up, and thanks to TheWorfEffect he actually ended up being the ButtMonkey of the Marauders, being manhandled by Mister Sinister just to show how much the master meant business. He stayed on with the team through the ''Mutant Massacre'' and ''Inferno'' events, but hasn't been affiliated with them since.\ |
| 386 | See ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} for more on him. |
| 387 | ---- |
| 388 | [[/folder]] |
| 389 | |
| 390 | [[folder:Vertigo]] |
| 391 | !!'''Vertigo''' |
| 392 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vertigo_xmen.jpg]] |
| 393 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 394 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 395 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Fanfare'' #1 (1982) |
| 396 | \ |
| 397 | One of the few Marauders who predates the team, she was originally a member of the Savage Land Mutates, a band of indigenous peoples who were mutated by ComicBook/{{Magneto}} to act as his {{Mooks}}. With the power to inflict SensoryAbuse on others by projecting waves of psionic energy, she's always a headache for the X-Men to deal with. |
| 398 | ---- |
| 399 | * AdaptationalJobChange: In the ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, she was the closest thing Mister Sinister had to TheDragon. |
| 400 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: To DC's Count Vertigo, as both characters disorient their foes and are named for that effect. |
| 401 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: When she appeared in the ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' book, for some reason she had blue skin and red hair. She also manifested a power to make victims fall into a ForcedSleep that, like the different skin and hair color, hasn't been seen since. |
| 402 | * AuthorAppeal: It's not the most prominent of his interests, but her co-creator Chris Claremont does have a fondness for characters getting their senses messed with. And Vertigo helps provide that in spades. |
| 403 | * BoxedCrook: Along with the other Savage Land Mutates, she was once arrested and jailed only to be released so they could help defend the Savage Land from the Hauk'ka, an invading force of evolved sentient dinosaurs. |
| 404 | * TheDogBitesBack: One of her counterparts rebelled against Sauron, although he quickly killed her regardless. |
| 405 | * EatenAlive: One iteration of her was eaten by Predator X during a battle between the Marauders and the X-Men. Ironically, she was the only non-mutant in the fight. |
| 406 | * EvolutionaryLevels: Vertigo was originally an Neanderthal from a Savage Land tribe known as the Swamp Men who was evolved into a human-like woman. Every now and then back in the day she would get de-evolved, only for StatusQuoIsGod to kick in and show up human again later. |
| 407 | * GlassCannon: Her powers can disable almost anyone who attacks her and are strong enough to even affect gods like ComicBook/TheMightyThor. If you can get past them somehow, you don't need much to take her down. She's also vulnerable to her own powers, as Thor once reflected them back at her with Mjolnir. |
| 408 | * HumiliationConga: Apparently after the defeat of the Savage Land Mutates in ''Marvel Fanfare'' she left the Savage Land somehow and found herself in a city, where without money she was destitute. When recruiting her for the Marauders, Gambit found her huddled in a gutter and she was glad to join him just for the promise of food. |
| 409 | * MesACrowd: It is possible (though unconfirmed) that there are two Vertigos in the world at any time, the original and Sinister's clone. The original Vertigo was thought killed during ''Inferno'', but she later appeared among the Savage Land Mutates once again, a group that unlike Sinister doesn't have the advanced technology required to clone her. She has appeared in multiple stories since, as has the Marauder clone Vertigo, leading to a fan theory that the original Vertigo never actually left the Savage Land at all and was merely cloned (though this would seem to be contradicted by ''X-Men Legacy''). |
| 410 | * MindManipulation: She has an extremely limited degree of this, being able to induce sensations of intense dizziness and nausea in others. |
| 411 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Along with Arclight, she joined the maniacal misandrist villain Superia's army of superpowered women called the Femizons. She's no StrawFeminist, though -- she was paid $100,000 for signing on. |
| 412 | * OnlyOneName: Since she comes from the Savage Land, she doesn't have a last name. |
| 413 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Unfortunately for her, she doesn't have them, and while it's rare, if a being comes along that can reflect her own psionic waves on her, she'll be struck down by their effect too. To date the only being that has been able to do this has been ComicBook/TheMightyThor. |
| 414 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: While she's primarily an X-Men villain, she's also fought ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica at points. |
| 415 | * SquishyWizard: Like Scrambler, she has no defensive powers and is as fragile as any woman of her thin build would be if someone can get ahold of her. |
| 416 | * SupportPartyMember: As mentioned above, she's on the team solely for the supportive nature of her powers, and while she can make people ''wish'' they were dead, she has no killing power on her own. |
| 417 | * UnfriendlyFire: One of her clones was killed this way when the Characters/MarvelComicsXMan, Nate Grey, took control of Riptide and had him fling his shuriken barrage at his own teammates. |
| 418 | * WeakWilled: Like all the other Savage Land Mutates, she's psychologically conditioned to follow leaders and has no initiative of her own. Most of her clones follow suit, though one was able to find enough willpower to attempt rebellion (for all the good it did her). |
| 419 | [[/folder]] |
| 420 | |
| 421 | !Later Marauders |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder:Lady Mastermind]] |
| 424 | !!'''Regan Wyngarde / Lady Mastermind''' |
| 425 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ladymastermind.jpg]] |
| 426 | !!!'''Nationality:''' American |
| 427 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 428 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Treme X-Men'' #6 (2001) |
| 429 | \ |
| 430 | One of three known daughters of the deceased mutant MasterOfIllusion Mastermind, Regan surpasses her father in both power and bloodlust. Given the opportunity to redeem herself as an X-Man, Regan chose instead to become a SixthRangerTraitor. She later joined the Red Queen's Sisterhood but after nearly dying of the M-Pox had a change of heart and as of 2020 is a citizen of Krakoa. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * AvengingTheVillain: When she found herself face-to-face with the younger, timeshifted Jean Grey, Regan attempted to trick her into killing her friends as revenge for driving her father insane. |
| 433 | * BadassFamily: Her father was a powerful mutant, as are both of her sisters, and of course so is she. |
| 434 | * ConvenientComa: Fell into one after her introductory appearance. She was comatose through M-Day but woke up thanks to some psychic meddling from the Children of the Vault. |
| 435 | * DaddysLittleVillain: Unlike her sisters, she grew up knowing that her father was a super-villain and still took his name as a way to honor him. |
| 436 | * DarkActionGirl: She wears black and is much more fond of superhero brawls than her father ever was. |
| 437 | * DualWielding: Like her sister Martinique, Regan carries a pair of handguns and usually wields them both at once. |
| 438 | * TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: A variation. Regan, Martinique [[spoiler: and the X-man Pixie a.k.a Megan Gwynn]] are the 3 daughters of Jason Wyngard, the original Mastermind. All three have inherited his powers and have worked together multiple times. And while Martinique and Regan are renowned for their bitchiness, even if they're not antagonists, [[spoiler: Megan is definitely the "nice one" out of all Mastermind's daughters]]. |
| 439 | * LovelyAngels: With Martinique with whom she often works in conjunction. |
| 440 | * MemoryWipingCrew: Sebastian Shaw hired her to do this to his former attendant Sage (formerly Tessa) in her introductory appearance. If not for Rogue and Lifeguard, she would have succeeded too. |
| 441 | * NavelDeepNeckline: Most of her outfits have her top split open with an ImpossiblyLowNeckline, leaving almost her entire torso exposed. It's a miracle she doesn't[[WardrobeMalfunction expose her assets]] every time she takes a step. |
| 442 | * NotInThisForYourRevolution: Like her father, Regan doesn't care too much about other mutants or mutant rights. She signed on with the Marauders more for the action than for any grand goal Sinister might have, and when Mystique broke her out of prison Regan was more than happy to join her campaign of personal enrichment, mutantkind be damned. |
| 443 | * PsychicPowers: Like those of her father, only with greater efficacy. She's used them in the following ways: |
| 444 | ** JediMindTrick: She can make herself and others invisible at will, or alter perceptions to make LetsYouAndHimFight-type scenarios happen. |
| 445 | ** MasterOfIllusion: To a degree far greater than the original Mastermind, as her powers also come with YourMindMakesItReal, allowing her to place her victims in life-threatening illusions that cause them to kill themselves. |
| 446 | ** {{Telepathy}}: Unlike her father Regan is capable of true telepathy, though not at the level of the likes of Professor X or Emma Frost. She usually uses it to find what her victims are afraid of and confront them with it. |
| 447 | * {{Sadist}}: She can kill victims very easily with her powers but prefers to torment them instead, betraying a sadism even the original Mastermind didn't have. |
| 448 | * SixthRanger: To the X-Treme X-Men. She helped them against the Children of the Vault and the Hecatomb, but betrayed them to Mister Sinister, thereby becoming a SixthRangerTraitor. |
| 449 | * SquishyWizard: Like her father, Regan is an ordinary human physically and can be physically subdued by anyone who can snap out of her illusions. She has had some combat training, though, so she's not ''quite'' as squishy as her dad. |
| 450 | * StatuesqueStunner: She counts at 5'9"/175cm tall. |
| 451 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her meta character origin is actually rooted in this, as due to a communication mix-up writers Chris Claremont and Joe Casey both had stories that were planned to release at the same time and both would have been using Martinique Wyngarde, the first introduced daughter of Mastermind. Realizing what had happened, Claremont reworked his story by creating the character of Regan and using her in his story instead of Martinique. |
| 452 | * TakingYouWithMe: When she contracted the M-Pox Regan's response was to trap as many people around her as she could in illusions, planning to make them all die with her. |
| 453 | * UglyGuysHotDaughter: Jason was average-looking at best, Regan is a total bombshell. |
| 454 | * WouldHurtAChild: She once trapped the junior X-Man Anole in a fear-based illusion just to test the limits of her powers. |
| 455 | [[/folder]] |
| 456 | |
| 457 | [[folder:Chimera]] |
| 458 | !!'''Chimera''' |
| 459 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-chimera_interdimensional_pirate_003_5092.jpg]] |
| 460 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 461 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Wolverine'' #97 (1996) |
| 462 | \ |
| 463 | An inter-dimensional {{Mutant}} pirate of questionable sanity, Chimera lives to plunder the space-time continuum and travels with her "plasma-wraiths", super-strong half-starved creatures wrapped in black bandages with sharp claws. See her entry on Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToI for more information. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Coda]] |
| 467 | !!Coda |
| 468 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4917562_coda.png]] |
| 469 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 470 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Extraordinary X-Men'' #1 (2016) |
| 471 | \ |
| 472 | A more recent addition to the Marauders who works under Chimera. He and his allies were sent to capture Nightcrawler. |
| 473 | ---- |
| 474 | * BadWithTheBone: His mutant ability seems to be this in some way, as he uses protruding blades on either wrist as his weapons ala Baraka of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fame. |
| 475 | * BandagedFace: His face and large parts of his body are covered in bandages. |
| 476 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: He comes with some sort of bone-blades. |
| 477 | * MysteriousPast: His past before joining the Marauders is completely unknown, and accordingly he has... |
| 478 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His human name (or if he even has one) is unknown, leaving him only known as Coda. |
| 479 | * SnakePeople: Has a bifid tongue and the exposed parts of his skin look reptilian. |
| 480 | * {{Sssssnaketalk}}: And befitting that tongue, he hisses his speech in proper serpentine villain fashion. |
| 481 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He only appeared in 3 issues before being PutOnABus. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Azimuth]] |
| 485 | !!Azimuth |
| 486 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4917561_azimuth_01.png]] |
| 487 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 488 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Extraordinary X-Men'' #1 (2016) |
| 489 | |
| 490 | -> ''[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Mister Sinister is trying to help us]]. He just wants to keep us safe from the Terrigen.'' |
| 491 | \ |
| 492 | A more recent addition to the Marauders who works under Chimera. She and her allies were sent to capture Nightcrawler, and it was her personally who took the Fuzzy Elf down. |
| 493 | ---- |
| 494 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin is purple. |
| 495 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: She apparently has some sort of healing ability, as Magik put her Soulsword straight into her chest yet two issues later she was back up and none the worse for wear. |
| 496 | * GravitySucks: She can use her black hole maw to ensnare teleporters, keeping Nightcrawler from being able to teleport to safety. |
| 497 | * MonochromaticEyes: She has no visible irises or pupils, being completely white. |
| 498 | * MysteriousPast: Her past before joining the Marauders is completely unknown, and accordingly she has... |
| 499 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her human name (or if she even has one) is unknown, leaving her only known as Azimuth. |
| 500 | * UnrealisticBlackHole: Like Xorn of the X-Men, except instead of the black hole being in her head it's in her mouth. |
| 501 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: She only appeared in 3 issues before being PutOnABus. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | [[folder:Aries]] |
| 505 | !!Aries |
| 506 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4917559_aries.png]] |
| 507 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 508 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Extraordinary X-Men'' #1 (2016) |
| 509 | |
| 510 | -> ''I'm gonna rip that [[ComicBook/OldManLogan little old Wolverine]] apart.'' |
| 511 | \ |
| 512 | A more recent addition to the Marauders who works under Chimera. He and his allies were sent to capture Nightcrawler, and afterward they tangled unsuccessfully with the Extraordinary X-Men. His current whereabouts are unknown. |
| 513 | ---- |
| 514 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His skin is red. |
| 515 | * BeardOfEvil: His beard might be badass, but he's evil enough to work for Mister Sinister. |
| 516 | * EvilOldFolks: His actual age is unknown, but he sure ''looks'' like he's getting up there in years. |
| 517 | * TheBigGuy: His actual height is unknown but he's easily the tallest and largest of the new recruits. |
| 518 | * HornedHumanoid: Fitting for his codename, he has some impressive ram horns. |
| 519 | * MeaningfulName: Both his name and appearance has obvious associations to a ram. |
| 520 | * MysteriousPast: His past before joining the Marauders is completely unknown. |
| 521 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His human name (or if he even has one) is unknown, leaving him only known as Aries. |
| 522 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He only appeared in 3 issues before being PutOnABus. |
| 523 | [[/folder]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | !Nasty Boys |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Ruckus]] |
| 528 | !!'''Clement Wilson / Ruckus''' |
| 529 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruckus_xmen.jpg]] |
| 530 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 531 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #75 (1992) |
| 532 | \ |
| 533 | The field leader of the Nasty Boys, Ruckus was an effeminate young mutant more concerned with beer runs and making a quick buck than executing the byzantine schemes of Mister Sinister. |
| 534 | ---- |
| 535 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Once used his powers to [[MundaneUtility rob a convenience store for some beer]], which Sinister was [[PragmaticVillainy none too pleased about]]. |
| 536 | * BroughtDownToNormal: After the Nasty Boys disbanded he came to feel guilt for his supervillain past and took the "mutant cure" X-Cise, which not only took away his powers but also his higher brain functions, reducing him to a childlike mentality. Later made an UnexplainedRecovery. |
| 537 | * ButtMonkey: Life was more or less a nonstop HumiliationConga for Ruckus ever since the Nasty Boys broke up. After the incident above, he tried to rob a bank in England, failed and was arrested by normal humans, tried to assassinate Senator Kelly (because why not, every other evil mutant takes a crack at the guy), failed and was arrested by the X-Men, then had to be saved from Terrigen death by the X-Men. Then he got killed in the notorious 2018 UXM series. At that point, he probably welcomed death's sweet embrace. |
| 538 | * TheCameo: Ruckus and the other Nasty Boys briefly appear in the Literature/XMenMutantEmpireTrilogy, journeying to Manhattan after Magneto takes it over and fighting the X-Men on his behalf. |
| 539 | * EvilCounterpart: To X-Force's Siryn, though he lacks Theresa's soundwave-propelled flight. |
| 540 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: One of the many, ''many'' characters pointlessly slaughtered by Matthew Rosenberg in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''. Along with the other Nasty Boys, he's killed by the resurrected Upstarts because... well, more or less just "because". |
| 541 | * FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: As mentioned above, he was subjected to the losing end of this trope, though per the trope's rules it didn't last. |
| 542 | * KilledOffForReal: He and the rest of the Nasty Boys were killed offscreen by the [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Upstarts]]. |
| 543 | * MakeMeWannaShout: Like the X-Men members Banshee and Siryn, this is his mutant power. Specifically he absorbs and amplifies ambient sound. He can't fly with it like they can though. |
| 544 | * MysteriousPast: His nationality and past are unknown, as is the story of how he came to be in Mister Sinister's service. |
| 545 | * NumberTwo: Mister Sinister favored him over the other Nasty Boys (to the extent that he 'favored' any of them) and kept him in reserve on missions. |
| 546 | * RealMenWearPink: Played with, as he has pink hair and is the team leader but isn't terribly manly otherwise. |
| 547 | * TeensAreMonsters: His actual age is unknown but he is younger than the other Nasty Boys, and it is once stayed that his youth makes him arrogant. Additionally, he's called a kid by a convenience store clerk. |
| 548 | * UnwittingPawn: Mystique once hired him to carry out a hit on Senator Kelly. Since she also tipped off the X-Men to the hit, he didn't get very far with it. |
| 549 | * VillainousRescue: He and the other Nasty Boys rescued Polaris from a murderous Malice on Sinister's orders. |
| 550 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Made more appearances in the animated series than he ever did in the comics. |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | [[folder:Gorgeous George]] |
| 554 | !!'''George Blair / Gorgeous George''' |
| 555 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/george_blair_xmen.jpg]] |
| 556 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Australian |
| 557 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 558 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #75 (1992) |
| 559 | \ |
| 560 | A young Australian mutant with an amorphous physiology, Gorgeous George was killed by the Upstarts after the Nasty Boys disbanded but resurrected thanks to the Five in ''ComicBook/XMen2019''. |
| 561 | ---- |
| 562 | * AddledAddict: He once drunk himself into such a stupor that he forgot how long his arms were supposed to be. |
| 563 | * AlliterativeName: '''G'''orgeous '''G'''eorge. |
| 564 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Obscure ComicBook/TheFlash villain Tarpit is his DC counterpart, being another tar-based shapeshifter. |
| 565 | * AwesomeAussie: Averted. He hails from Australia, but he's stupid, gross, not really a very effective super-villain and on top of all that, is kind of a JerkAss. |
| 566 | * BlobMonster: His mutant physiology makes this his natural state. He can form himself into a more humanoid shape, but if he loses the ability to maintain his cohesion, he'll degenerate into a formless goo. |
| 567 | * TheCameo: George and the other Nasty Boys briefly appear in the Literature/XMenMutantEmpireTrilogy, journeying to Manhattan after Magneto takes it over and fighting the X-Men on his behalf. |
| 568 | * CompanionCube: He has a pet mold that he is apparently quite attached to and waiting for it to attain sentience. Mister Sinister's reaction to it is polite disgust. |
| 569 | * DeathIsCheap: So far he is the only Nasty Boy shown to have been resurrected by the House of X. |
| 570 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: One of the many, ''many'' characters pointlessly slaughtered by Matthew Rosenberg in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''. Along with the other Nasty Boys, he's killed by the resurrected Upstarts because... well, more or less just "because". |
| 571 | * DrugsAreBad: Alongside Hairbag and Slab, he ran a drug lab for a little while that manufactured the mutant drug MGH, until [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2016 Magneto's X-Men]] shut them down. |
| 572 | * {{Jerkass}}: In ''House of X'', where he makes fun of redeemed X-rogue Black Tom and starts a brawl just to be a dick. |
| 573 | * KarmaHoudini: His actions on Krakoa will make readers wonder why the Five even went to the trouble of resurrecting him. |
| 574 | * MysteriousPast: We know he's Australian, but the rest of his past is completely unknown, as is the story of how he came to be in Mister Sinister's service. |
| 575 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Averted, as he's one of the stronger Nasty Boys but that really isn't saying much. |
| 576 | * SupernaturalSuffocation: He can suffocate people by plugging himself up their olfactory orifices, as he once attempted to do to Strong Guy. |
| 577 | * VillainousRescue: He and the other Nasty Boys rescued Polaris from a murderous Malice on Sinister's orders. |
| 578 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can shape his tar-like body into any continuous shape he can imagine. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't have much imagination, so the most he really does with it is stretch, wrap himself around various disgusted X-Men, and reform himself from whatever injuries he takes. |
| 579 | [[/folder]] |
| 580 | |
| 581 | [[folder:Hairbag]] |
| 582 | !!'''Michael Suggs / Hairbag''' |
| 583 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/michael_suggs_earth_616_from_uncanny_x_men_vol_4_15_001.jpg]] |
| 584 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 585 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #75 (1992) |
| 586 | \ |
| 587 | Think of a junkyard dog given human form and you've got Hairbag. After a brief career as a Nasty Boy and [[FantasticDrug MGH]] dealer, Hairbag met his end alongside the other Nasty Boys at the hands of the Upstarts. |
| 588 | ---- |
| 589 | * AdaptationalNationality: Inverted, as he has a very distinctive Jamaican accent in the cartoon but his nationality in the comics is never specified. |
| 590 | * BeastMan: Like Spoor of Magneto's Acolytes, he's not themed after any specific animal but has a generally feral mutation. |
| 591 | * BreathWeapon: Had the power to exhale some kind of toxic gas in the cartoon, though he hasn't demonstrated it in the comics to date. |
| 592 | * TheCameo: Hairbag and the other Nasty Boys briefly appear in the Literature/XMenMutantEmpireTrilogy, journeying to Manhattan after Magneto takes it over and fighting the X-Men on his behalf. |
| 593 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: One of the many, ''many'' characters pointlessly slaughtered by Matthew Rosenberg in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''. Along with the other Nasty Boys, he's killed by the resurrected Upstarts because... well, more or less just "because". |
| 594 | * DrugsAreBad: Alongside Gorgeous George and Slab, he ran a drug lab for a little while that manufactured the mutant drug MGH, until [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2016 Magneto's X-Men]] shut them down. |
| 595 | * EvilCounterpart: To X-Factor's Wolfsbane, who he usually went after (and was beaten by). |
| 596 | * GuysAreSlobs: When introduced he's sitting next to a spilled carton of milk and what looks like a bar of butter, neither of which he bothers to clean up. |
| 597 | * KilledOffForReal: He and the rest of the Nasty Boys were killed offscreen by the [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Upstarts]]. |
| 598 | * MysteriousPast: His nationality and past are unknown, as is the story of how he came to be in Mister Sinister's service. |
| 599 | * PrehensileHair: Has some level of control over the hairs of his body, as befits his otherwise-ignoble codename. |
| 600 | * ScaryBlackMan: Whether he's Jamaican as he is in the animated series is up for debate, but either way he's a big black supervillain and is quite scary for ordinary folks to face (although superpowered folks never have much trouble with him). |
| 601 | * ScaryTeeth: Per his feral mutation, he has these. |
| 602 | * SlaveMook: After the Nasty Boys disbanded he was captured by William Stryker and brainwashed into a hound hunting mutants for Stryker's Purifiers. He was rescued by Sabretooth and joined up with him to help take Stryker out for good. |
| 603 | * SuddenNameChange: According to the ''All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe'', Hairbag's first name is actually Shaun, not Michael. This may have been an error, as Slab's name is stated to be Kris, when that's actually a diminutive of his real name. Then again, it could mean his full name is [[Wrestling/ShawnMichaels Shaun Michael Suggs]]. |
| 604 | * SuperSenses: He's got low-level ones in keeping with his feral mutation, not anywhere near Wolverine's level (or anyone else of any note), but he does have them. |
| 605 | * VerbalTic: He has Wolverine's habit of using "flamin" to describe things. |
| 606 | * VillainousRescue: He and the other Nasty Boys rescued Polaris from a murderous Malice on Sinister's orders. |
| 607 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Made more appearances in the animated series than he ever did in the comics. |
| 608 | [[/folder]] |
| 609 | |
| 610 | [[folder:Slab]] |
| 611 | !!'''Christopher "Kris" Anderson / Slab''' |
| 612 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/christopher_anderson_earth_616_from_x_factor_vol_1_75.png]] |
| 613 | !!!'''Nationality:''' American |
| 614 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 615 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #74 (1992) |
| 616 | \ |
| 617 | TheBrute of an already brutish group, Slab is noteworthy for being the first of the Nasty Boys to appear and for being the only one who escaped death at the hands of the Upstarts. As a member of ''[[ComicBook/SWORD2020 S.W.O.R.D.]]'', he's also the only Nasty Boy who has cleaned up his act. |
| 618 | ---- |
| 619 | * BigOlEyebrows: Sports a pair of distinctively forked and long (if thin) brows. |
| 620 | * TheCameo: Slab and the other Nasty Boys briefly appear in the Literature/XMenMutantEmpireTrilogy, journeying to Manhattan after Magneto takes it over and fighting the X-Men on his behalf. |
| 621 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Slab's a SizeShifter who gets the you've-seen-it-a-million-times-before combo of SuperStrength and SuperToughness when he increases his sizes. |
| 622 | * DumbMuscle: None of the Nasty Boys are especially bright, but Slab is easily the dimmest bulb of the bunch. |
| 623 | * DrugsAreBad: Alongside Gorgeous George and Hairbag, he ran a drug lab for a little while that manufactured the mutant drug MGH, until [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2016 Magneto's X-Men]] shut them down. |
| 624 | * EarlyBirdCameo: He actually debuts one issue before the rest of the team is properly introduced. |
| 625 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's outraged when Guido ''bites him'' during their fight. |
| 626 | * EvilCounterpart: To X-Factor's Strong Guy, who he develops a strong animosity for after being beaten by Guido. He even has a similar body type (which is played up when he is first introduced in shadow). |
| 627 | * GuysAreSlobs: And he's more of a slob than most, as he doesn't actually ever wash his socks but just leaves them standing to step back in later. Nasty boy, indeed. |
| 628 | * HeelFaceTurn: He is among the many villainous mutants who have accepted amnesty on Krakoa, going so far as to join S.W.O.R.D. as a security guard. |
| 629 | * IdiotHoudini: The dumbest of the Nasty Boys is, ironically, the only one who managed to avoid being killed by the Upstarts, as his body was not seen alongside the others. |
| 630 | * LightIsGood: Since joining S.W.O.R.D. he's ditched the grody Goodwill discards in favor of a neat and clean white uniform. Hopefully they also made him change his socks. |
| 631 | * MonumentalDamage: His debut appearance has him fight Strong Guy at the Washington Monument, which is predictably destroyed during the fight. |
| 632 | * PlaceWorseThanDeath: He and his sister both hail from UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}. |
| 633 | * ProducePelting: Hurls tomatoes at a TV broadcasting the recap of his fight with Strong Guy. |
| 634 | * SiblingsInCrime: He has a sister who is also a mutant supervillain, the shrinking Thumbelina from Stryfe's Mutant Liberation Front, and she cares about her brother enough to have convinced Stryfe to send the MLF on a rescue mission after Slab and the other Nasty Boys were arrested. |
| 635 | * VillainousRescue: He and the other Nasty Boys rescued Polaris from a murderous Malice on Sinister's orders. |
| 636 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's the only Nasty Boy whose fate is unknown, as he is not seen among the others killed by the Upstarts, nor has he been seen on Krakoa. As if his story wasn't ironic enough already, the mutant who can grow to freakish size seems to have vanished into thin air. |
| 637 | ** He reappears in an issue of ''ComicBook/SWORD2020'', having joined the Krakoan space agency as a member of its security force. |
| 638 | [[/folder]] |
| 639 | |
| 640 | [[folder:Ramrod]] |
| 641 | !!'''Patrick "Roddy" Mahony / Ramrod''' |
| 642 | [[quoteright:228:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/patrick_mahony_earth_616_from_extraordinary_x_men_annual_vol_1_1_001.jpg]] |
| 643 | !!!'''Nationality:''' United Kingdom |
| 644 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutant |
| 645 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #75 (1992) |
| 646 | \ |
| 647 | The only Nasty Boy who never appeared in the cartoon, Ramrod was the poor man's [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Black Tom Cassidy]]. Whether he's from Scotland or Ireland, they weren't sending their best when they let him cross the pond. |
| 648 | ---- |
| 649 | * AllThereInTheManual: His real name is never stated on-panel, and it is only known of through the Marvel Handbook. |
| 650 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: One of the many, ''many'' characters pointlessly slaughtered by Matthew Rosenberg in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''. Along with the other Nasty Boys, he's killed by the resurrected Upstarts because... well, more or less just "because". |
| 651 | * DumbMuscle: When Ruckus tells him to empty a cash register, he empties it... [[LiteralMinded on the floor]]. |
| 652 | * GreenThumb: He's a low-rent Black Tom Cassidy, having the latter's plant control powers (which he also channels via a shillelagh) but not Tom's laser-shooting ability nor the power to turn into a plant outright. |
| 653 | * TheIllegal: Which comes back to bite him, as after the Nasty Boys are arrested he is deported for being in the country illegally (where exactly he is being deported to is not stated). |
| 654 | * KilledOffForReal: He and the rest of the Nasty Boys were killed offscreen by the [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Upstarts]]. |
| 655 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: He's the only Nasty Boy who never appeared in the animated series and is usually forgotten about, although he did get the dubious honor of being killed alongside them by the Upstarts. |
| 656 | * MysteriousPast: His nationality and past are unknown, as is the story of how he came to be in Mister Sinister's service. |
| 657 | * {{Oireland}}: His nationality has never been definitively stated but his name is Patrick Mahony, he carries a shillelagh, he's not American, and he's basically a Black Tom Cassidy ripoff. It's safe to say he counts. |
| 658 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: He was hunched and ugly originally but in later appearances was drawn much more attractively, in a way that emphasized his youth. |
| 659 | * VillainousRescue: He and the other Nasty Boys rescued Polaris from a murderous Malice on Sinister's orders. |
| 660 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He didn't even appear in the animated series and has only appeared in half a dozen issues since his introduction nearly 30 years ago. |
| 661 | [[/folder]] |
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