Mister Sinister puts the final pieces in place that will free him from the shadow of Apocalypse. Without the threat of En Sabah Nur's vengeance looming over him, what will he do next? His new plans have to factor in the depowering of the mutant population as Sinister builds his biggest army of Marauders yet in order to get his hands on the 'Mutant Messiah'!
The wheels within Mister Sinister's wheels are exposed when he faces the possibility of his own demise as the world of mutants continues to evolve around him in this, the second entry in a two-part reading order dedicated to one of the X-Men's most fascinating and menacing villains.
See the first part of the Mister Sinister reading order here:
MCG Notes:
- Issue listings in blue & black: The must-read Mister Sinister stories from this time period, along with any key related stories and often-forgotten tales that are worth a read.
- Issue listings in grey: Part of Sinister's chronology, cameo appearances or stories of note that are non-essential or no longer considered 'required reading'.
- Chronology: Every appearance of Mister Sinister from this period is included in chronological order, mapping out their timeline rather than just the order the issues were released.
- Spoilers: The issue/story overviews may include spoilers, so be warned!
X-Force #57 (1996)
X-Man #19 (1996)
Mister Sinister meets Nate Grey, a clone of Scott Summers and Jean Grey created by the Sinister on Earth-295 and now stranded on Earth-616; Sinister fights his way past X-Force to claim Nate for himself; Sinister's hopes of using Nate Grey against both Apocalypse and Onslaught are dashed when Onslaught uses Franklin Richards' powers to pull Nate from Sinister's clutches through a hole in reality during ONSLAUGHT.
Cable '99 Annual (1999)
Mister Sinister recalls how he gave his loyalty to Apocalypse in exchange for power in the 1800s, then betrayed him in the early 20th century; having been avoiding Apocalypse ever since and even set in motion a series of events that led to the birth of Nathan Christopher Summers - a mutant powerful enough to kill Apocalypse; deciding the adult Nathan Summers - now the man called Cable - isn't as powerful as he'd hoped - Sinister looks form an alliance with him and increase his power in time for his coming battle with Apocalypse.
Cable '99 Annual (1999)
Mister Sinister recalls how he gave his loyalty to Apocalypse in exchange for power in the 1800s, then betrayed him in the early 20th century; having been avoiding Apocalypse ever since and even set in motion a series of events that led to the birth of Nathan Christopher Summers - a mutant powerful enough to kill Apocalypse; deciding the adult Nathan Summers - now the man called Cable - isn't as powerful as he'd hoped - Sinister looks form an alliance with him and increase his power in time for his coming battle with Apocalypse.
Gambit #9 (1999)
Gambit is sent on a mission to locate one of Mister Sinister's hideouts and obtain an item from him for Professor X; Gambit is forced to team up with Sabretooth to complete his mission and tricks Sinister into giving him the item in question during THE SHATTERING.
X-Men #99 (2000)
Uncanny X-Men #380 (2000)
First appearance of the Neo (including Domina & Jaeger); Mister Sinister forms an alliance with the High Evolutionary and 'turn off' the powers of every mutant on Earth; the powerless X-Men find a way to defeat Sinister and regain their powers with the Evolutionary's help during MUTANTS NO MORE.
Gambit #15 (2000)
Mister Sinister cameo; Sinister registers Gambit's return to the present after his journey through time.
X-Men Unlimited #30[2/4] (2001)
X-Men Unlimited #30[2/4] (2001)
Mister Sinister offers the chance to reunited Nightcrawler with his friend by cloning Colossus during THE CURE.
Wolverine #173, 175[1/3] (2002)
Mister Sinister cameos; Malcolm Colcord employs 'Dr Windsor' as a member of his Weapon X staff; 'Dr Windsor' declares Wolverine dead following his confrontation with Experiment X during RETURN TO WEAPON X.
Weapon X #½, 4 (2002-2003)
Mister Sinister cameos; 'Dr Windsor' becomes a key advisor to Malcolm Colcord during WEAPON X: THE DRAFT.
Weapon X #5, 8-9, 11 (2003)
Weapon X #½, 4 (2002-2003)
Mister Sinister cameos; 'Dr Windsor' becomes a key advisor to Malcolm Colcord during WEAPON X: THE DRAFT.
Weapon X #5, 8-9, 11 (2003)
Mister Sinister cameos; 'Dr Windsor' begins helping mutants escape from the Weapon X death camp Neverland; Sabretooth discover's Windsor's true identity, so Windsor arranges for his escape to keep this secret; Malcolm Colcord becomes suspicious of Dr Windsor.
Weapon X #13-14, 16 (2003-2004)
'Dr Windsor' is revealed to be a disguised Mister Sinister as he continues to disrupt Malcolm Colcord's plans at Weapon X while gaining test samples from the remaining mutants; Sinister recalls some of his activities during World War II, including the creation of a clone of Namor the Sub-Mariner that was defeated by the Invaders; Chamber infiltrates Weapon X and immediately becomes suspicious of 'Dr Windsor'.
Weapon X #26, 28 (2004)
'Dr Windsor' has become the head of Homo Superior Medical Care by the time Sabretooth is hired to track Mister Sinister down and kill him; instead, Sinister makes a deal with Sabretooth's employer, John Sublime.
'Dr Windsor' is revealed to be a disguised Mister Sinister as he continues to disrupt Malcolm Colcord's plans at Weapon X while gaining test samples from the remaining mutants; Sinister recalls some of his activities during World War II, including the creation of a clone of Namor the Sub-Mariner that was defeated by the Invaders; Chamber infiltrates Weapon X and immediately becomes suspicious of 'Dr Windsor'.
Weapon X #26, 28 (2004)
'Dr Windsor' has become the head of Homo Superior Medical Care by the time Sabretooth is hired to track Mister Sinister down and kill him; instead, Sinister makes a deal with Sabretooth's employer, John Sublime.
X-Men: Colossus - Bloodline #1-5 (2005-2006)
The Pulse: House of M Special Edition (2005)
Mister Sinister is revealed to be active in the altered 'House of M' reality during HOUSE OF M.
Cable & Deadpool #16 (2005)
Cable & Deadpool #16 (2005)
Deadpool locates the missing Cable in the Mister Sinister's clutches in the transformed 'House of M' reality, though he's been transformed to an infant state during ENEMA OF THE STATE.
Cable & Deadpool #17 (2005)
Cable & Deadpool #17 (2005)
Deadpool rescues baby Cable from Mister Sinister before reality is restored to normal during ENEMA OF THE STATE / HOUSE OF M.
House of M: The Day After #1 (2006)
House of M: The Day After #1 (2006)
Mister Sinister cameo; a disguised Mister Sinister is interviewed by Trish Tilby regarding the mass depowering of mutants during HOUSE OF M / DECIMATION.
X-Men #187 (2006)
X-Men #187 (2006)
Mister Sinister cameo; following their transformation at the hands of Apocalypse and his subsequent defeat, Mister Sinister recruits the drastically altered Gambit and Sunfire during BLOOD OF APOCALYPSE.
X-Men Annual #1 (2007)
X-Men Annual #1 (2007)
Mister Sinister cameo; after Exodus forms a new band of Acolytes with Random, Tempo & Frenzy; when the Acolytes fail to hijack the SHIELD Helicarrier, Mister Sinister invites them to work with him to help him save the mutant race.
X-Men #202[1/2]-204[1/2] (2007)
X-Men #202[1/2]-204[1/2] (2007)
Mister Sinister and his Marauders take down the X-Men team who are most capable of deciphering his future plans as he builds towards something big during BLINDED BY THE LIGHT.
X-Men #200[2/2] (2007)
X-Men #200[2/2] (2007)
Uncanny X-Men #488[2/2] (2007)
Despite their recent run-in, Mister Sinister is among the villains the Beast turns to for help in trying to prevent mutantkind from becoming extinct but to no avail during ENDANGERED SPECIES.
X-Men and Spider-Man #4 (2009)
New X-Men #44 (2008)
X-Men #205 (2008)
Uncanny X-Men #493 (2008)
X-Factor #27 (2008)
New X-Men #46 (2008)
First appearance of the baby who will become known as Hope Summers; first appearance of X-Force (black ops X-Men strike team); Mister Sinister leads the combined might of the Marauders and Acolytes to seek out the 'mutant messiah' before the X-Men or Purifiers can; Sinister is ultimately betrayed by one of his own and it costs him his life during MESSIAH COMPLEX.
X-Men Legacy #212-214 (2008)
X-23 #5-6 (2011)
Mister Sinister begins taking control of Miss Sinister's body; Sinister's consciousness is transferred to X-23's body until she rejects it; he finds form by taking over the body of an 'Alice' clone.
Uncanny X-Men #544 (2011)
Mister Sinister creates a new body for himself and observes the split between the X-Men following the fallout between Wolverine and Cyclops during SCHISM.
Uncanny X-Men #1-3 (2012)
Uncanny X-Men #1-3 (2012)
First appearance of the X-Men's Extinction Team; Mister Sinister uses a Phalanx to create functioning clones of himself to act as a hivemind and tapping into the Dreaming Celestial to transform a section of San Francisco into the entirely Sinister-inhabited Sinister World's Fair; the X-Men undo Sinister's work in time to prevent the Celestials unleashing their rage on Earth during REGENESIS.
Uncanny X-Men #4 (2012)
Flashback: Mister Sinister destroys his own lab, leaving the Phalanx behind.
Uncanny X-Men #14-15, 18, 20 (2012)
First appearance of Sinister London; Mister Sinister creates Sinister London under Alaska and populates it with clones of himself and numerous mutants with Madelyne Pryor as his crown jewel; Sinister lures the Phoenix Five to Sinister London and successfully steals the Phoenix Force from them until Emma Frost convinces the Phoenix to incinerate Sinister London during AvX: AVENGERS VS X-MEN.
A+X #5[1/2] (2013)
Mister Sinister tries to steal Loki's genetic material from Doctor Doom during MARVEL NOW!
Spider-Man and the X-Men #6-6 (2015)
Mister Sinister pits Spider-Man and his Special Class from the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning against his X-Men clones, Sinister's Six.
Following the death of Wolverine, Mister Sinister tries to examine his body only to be opposed by the 'Wolverines' (a team made up of mutants with close ties to Wolverine); Sinister is defended by the surviving Weapon X test subjects who think he may be able to help save them from degeneration; when the X-Men destroy his headquarters, Mister Sinister retaliates by sending an army of Daken clones against the Wolverines; Sinister faces death once again when he has a showdown with Ogun.
Extraordinary X-Men #2, 4-5 (2016)
Monsters Unleashed #1-6 (2017)
First appearance of the New Intelligencia; Mister Sinister becomes a member of the New Intelligencia alongside the Awesome Android, Leader, Mad Thinker and MODOK 2.0; the group attempt to manipulate the Terrigen-powered Kid Kaiju for their own needs.
Secret Warriors #8-11 (2018)
The Secret Warriors learn Mister Sinister and the Dark Beast have been kidnapping Inhuman children during MARVEL LEGACY.
Hunt for Wolverine: The Adamantium Agenda #2-4 (2018)
One of Mister Sinister's former allies stoles Wolverine's DNA samples from him to auction them off; Sinister's entire DNA database is discovered by the Avengers during HUNT FOR WOLVERINE.
House of X #5 (2019)
Powers of X #5 (2019)
House of X #6 (2019)
First appearance of Director Killian Devo, The Five, the Quiet Council of Krakoa; Mister Sinister is invited to join the mutants on Krakoa so that his database can be used in the Resurrection Protocols, bringing deceased mutants back to life; Sinister also joins Krakoa's Quiet Council to set the laws of Krakoa during HOUSE OF X/POWERS OF X.
Hellions #1-4 (2020)
First appearance of the Hellions; Mister Sinister gathers some of Krakoa's more violent residents as the Hellions, giving them purpose by sending them on darker missions for the Quiet Council; their first mission is to destroy Sinister's old cloning labs and his abandoned orphanage which have become a base of operations for Madelyne Pryor and the Marauders.
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X-Men Forever 2 #1-3, 6-8 (2010)
Mister Sinister appears to be an immortal human trapped in the form of a young boy (which was the original plan for Earth-616's Mister Sinister); Sinister pits the X-Men against the Marauders.
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What If #100 (1997)
Rogue and Gambit discover the reason why Mister Sinister knows so much about everybody and what his real collection is.
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WildCATs/X-Men: The Silver Age #1 (1997)
Mister Sinister experimented on Brood and Daemonite samples to create a hybrid species; Deadeye and Marvel Girl rescue Zealot from his lab during WILDC.A.T.S/X-MEN.
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Mutant X 2000 (2000)
Mutant X #17, 22-23 (2000)
Mister Sinister of the 'Mutant X' universe created Madelyne Pryor to breed with Alex Summers to create the perfect mutant offspring; Sinister allies with Charles Xavier in a plot to take over the world.
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Mutant X 2000 (2000)
Mutant X #17, 22-23 (2000)
Mister Sinister of the 'Mutant X' universe created Madelyne Pryor to breed with Alex Summers to create the perfect mutant offspring; Sinister allies with Charles Xavier in a plot to take over the world.
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Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #15, 18, 20-23 (2018)
Mister Sinister interferes in the lives of Spider-Man's super-powered family during MARVEL LEGACY.
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Secret Wars Journal #2[2/2] (2015)
Secret Wars #2 (2015)
Squadron Sinister #2 (2015)
Secret Wars #5-8 (2015-2016)
Baron Sinister runs the Bar Sinister domain on God Emperor Doom's Battleworld which is made up of a world dominated by Sinister's clones; Sinister captures Earth-616's Captain Marvel and uses her in an attempt to betray Doom during SECRET WARS.
EARTH-41001
Baron Sinister runs the Bar Sinister domain on God Emperor Doom's Battleworld which is made up of a world dominated by Sinister's clones; Sinister captures Earth-616's Captain Marvel and uses her in an attempt to betray Doom during SECRET WARS.
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X-Men - The End: Dreamers & Demons #1-3 (2004)
X-Men - The End: Heroes & Martyrs #1-2, 4-6 (2005)
Gambit is revealed to be a clone of Mister Sinister with a variant of Cyclops' powers; Sinister convinces Gambit to kidnap his and Rogue's kids, as well as Cyclops and Emma Frost's kids during X-MEN: THE END.
EARTH-91240
Gambit is revealed to be a clone of Mister Sinister with a variant of Cyclops' powers; Sinister convinces Gambit to kidnap his and Rogue's kids, as well as Cyclops and Emma Frost's kids during X-MEN: THE END.
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Inferno #4-5 (2015)
Originating from Earth-41001, Mister Sinister operates in the Limbo domain of God Emperor Doom's Battleworld; Madelyne Pryor and Boom-Boom plot their revenge against Sinister during SECRET WARS.
Notable collected editions featuring Mister Sinister:
X-Men: Blinded By The Light
X-Men #200-204
X-Men: Messiah Complex
New X-Men #44-46
Uncanny X-Men #492-494
X-Factor #25-27
X-Men #205-207
X-Men: Messiah Complex #1
X-Men and Spider-Man
X-Men and Spider-Man #1-4
Includes...
X-Men Legacy #213-214
Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen: The Complete Collection vol.1-2
Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen: The Complete Collection vol.1-2
Includes...
Uncanny X-Men #544
Uncanny X-Men #1-3, 14-15, 18, 20
Wolverines vol.1-2, 4
Includes...
Wolverines #1-2, 4-6, 16-19
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