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The Hellfire Club is a fictional society appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hellfire Club often comes into confrontation with the X-Men mutant superhero team. Although the Club appears to merely be an international social club for wealthy elites, its clandestine Inner Circle seeks to influence world events and ...
Marvel Comics: First appearance: The Uncanny X-Men #132 (April 1980) Created by: Chris Claremont John Byrne: In-story information; Alter ego: Donald Pierce: Species: Human cyborg: Team affiliations: Purifiers Reavers Hellfire Club: Notable aliases: White Bishop, White King, Cyclops: Abilities: Cyborg body Superhuman strength and reflexes Bionic ...
The Hellfire Club is forced to battle alongside the X-Men against Nimrod, a Sentinel from the future, and though victorious, two key members perish in the fight. After the battle, the Hellfire Club and the X-Men become allies of sorts, with Magneto and Storm filling the position of White King. [13]
Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, Leland first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #132 (April 1980).. Artist John Byrne based Leland's appearance on actor-director Orson Welles, and the name refers to two characters in Welles' films: Harry Lime from The Third Man, and Jed Leland from Citizen Kane.
Mudbug - A mutant with a crayfish physiology who was a former student of the Hellfire Club's Hellfire Academy. He later appeared as a member of the Young Masters in the pages of Avengers Undercover. Radioactive Kid - A young criminal in a hazmat suit has demonstrated the ability to melt and mutate human flesh with a touch. His very flesh glows ...
Tessa first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #132 (April 1980), and was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.Initially an agent of the Hellfire Club, decades later, she would join the X-Men and adopt the code-name "Sage" in X-Men #109 (February 2001).
Selene's time with the Hellfire Club was a turbulent time, due to her contempt for Sebastian Shaw and quite open desire to rule the Hellfire Club as its sole leader. This led Shaw and Emma Frost to conspire to kill Selene by manipulating and training the young mutant Firestar to assassinate her.
The Upstarts were part of a secret competition founded by Selene, the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, who wanted to test potential members for her own Inner Circle.. Overseen by the Gamesmaster, the Upstarts would each try to kill as many mutants as possible and the Gamesmaster would award points based on the mutant's power, skills and general importance in the