#sinister's six

[jkparkin]

Sinister’s Six #3 (Marvel, December 2025) cover by David Marquez

[comicwaren]

“I would be done with this hell my body has become.” – Omega Red

Cover art for Sinister’s Six #002

Art by David Marquez and GURU-eFX

[wordishismart9]

Havok has a kid too?!? Is there anyone who didn't have a kid in the Age of Revelation?

[univemma]

Sinister's Six spoilers

you have GOT to be fucking kidding me

who at marvel editorial hates lorna dane?? FREE HER FROM THIS FUCKING LOSER OH MY FUCKING GOD GIVE IT A REST

genuinely infuriating that kid should've been some test tube baby sinister made to blackmail alex and im sorry lorna LITERALLY PREGNANT saying we cant trust him and alex STILL WENT TO SINISTER GOD

like WHAT. Also this is like the fourth pregnancy plot in the SAME EVENT FUCK OFF ???? who asked for this ???

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Sinister’s Six #2

SINISTER'S SIX #2

SIX AGAINST WOLVERINE!

X YEARS LATER, Sinister’s Six race to find the cure that could save them! But is the chance at life worth an encounter with Revelation’s Angel of Death — Wolverine? Or will the team kill each other first?

Written by: David Marquez Art by: Rafael Loureiro, Alex Sinclair Cover by: David Marquez Page Count: 32 Pages Release Date: November 12, 2025

[gotham-at-nightfall]

In the Age of Revelation, Mr. Sinister works to understand and cure the X-Virus!

Sinister's Six #1

[readingtoinfinity]

Sinister’s Six

Mr. Sinister is up to his old tricks, tasking five mutants who work for him to bring Venom under his control. But can he be useful to the cause?

Mr. Sinister is one of my more favorite of the X-Men villains, in that he's delightfully campy and theatrical. But as charming as he can be he's also a massive prick, and it takes a lot to make him in any way heroic or someone you can root for. Surprise surprise, this book seems to have done that for him (the latter, not the former), which is an astounding feat on its own.

There's an angle here that's very interesting, that of genetic aberrations and alterations. It can range from the beneficial (Black Cat is now actually part cat), the benign (Havok turns out to be part-crystal) or the detrimental (Omega Red is... not doing great). And because Mister Sinister has expertise in genetic engineering, he has a hold over them. The possessive apostrophe doesn't necessarily refer to them being a team, more them being subjects. In both senses of the word.

I like the ending. It's tragic and fits the scope for this world, and characters drop like flies by the end. We also get a twist for who Venom is under the mask (of course) but it makes a certain kind of sense. And we get a reminder that, for all that Mr. Sinister is working against Revelation, he is in no way a hero.

[summerstrash]

Sinister's Six #1 is delivering me things I didn't know I wanted and more directly clarifying Alex's position as a Nothing Girl, what with:

Alex's son Chris in this book paralleling Kwannon's daughter in Hellions and Maddie's Nathan Christopher in the original Inferno; all these children are under direct implicit threat from Sinister in order to control the actions of their parents.

The narration from Sinister about Alex having more to him than even Alex himself knows; this lack of self-knowledge is perpetually part of Alex's relationship to his body, from the Living Pharaoh outing his mutanthood in the Thomas/Adams run to Maddie abusing him in From the Ashes.

The ghost of some kind of illness in the form of the X-Virus; disease (and mutation-as-disorder) is frequently used as queer allegory in these comics; we don't know yet how exactly Alex has been impacted, though I suspect it has to do with the child.

Additionally, some other thoughts:

Re: The Kid:

Returning to Chris, nothing about him is conclusively indicative of another genetic parent, though his being a blue-eyed blonde does potentially indicate Maddie for his genetic mother, since Maddie and Scott produced a blonde child in Nathan Christopher, which indicates Maddie and Scott are both carriers of blonde genes, so any child Alex and Maddie have has significant chance of being blonde.

(Please note I specify "genetic" rather than "biological" mother; I do not see Maddie gestating another Summers son after her previous trauma, but I CAN see Sinister using Maddie's/Jean's genetics to create a test-tube kid to manipulate Alex with.)

Alternately, Chris could also be the genetic offspring of Alex and Janet Van Dyne, since his alt-timeline at-least-half-sister, Katie, long-lost in the whole timeline cluster fuck of 2015, is also a blue-eyed blonde, indicating similar recessive genes in Jan as well.

Until we see some kind of mutant gift from the kid, though, I'm hedging my bets and guessing Chris is probably test-tube Summers-Grey/Pryor offspring, because Sinister likes to dip his nasty fingies in that gene pool sososo frequently, and Maddie has lost control of Limbo in this future timeline, given that the Limbo lands are ruled by Darkchylde and Juggernaut, so I got absolutely see Alex seeing this child as the only thing he has left of Maddie, who he still loves, despite what she did to him the last time we saw them together.

There's also the interesting return of the Other Nanny, not the woman who was once Eleanor Murch but rather the robot who once worked with Magneto. This Nanny is also presented with red "hair," reflecting her Age of Apocalypse iteration rather than her 616 iteration, which I think is curious, because this Nanny is typically associated with Magneto, not Sinister, so why is she here, playing Nanny to Alex's son?

The X-Virus and Queer Womanhood:

The most prominently, visibly impacted members of Sinister's Six are women, one of whom is canonically a queer woman (Felicia Hardy, known bisexual). She's also been rendered feral by the virus, drawing a parallel between her and two separate important women - Hepzibah, Alex's stepmother, who she strongly resembles, and Rahne, subtextually religiously-self-hating queer woman (and transfem allegory in her death in 2019), who was once psychically linked to Alex on Genosha in the 90s.

The other queer woman on the team hides her face, is the female iteration of a character who is otherwise male (and she only exists due to a mad science accident) and she uses a traditionally masculine name (Charlie Cluster) when not referred to as Lady Fantomex. She's also the reason we know Betsy Braddock is bi, because Betsy has a fling with her during her time in Kwannon's body. It's not immediately clear how Cluster is impacted by the X-Virus, but her dialogue implies plurality, alongside her red hair being a motif among the women who are transfem metaphors (Maddie, Rahne) or, essentially, sci-fi trans women (Mystique, Cluster).

Cluster's potential plurality or madness also ties her into the idea of the Nothing Girl as a Mad, Mirrored Woman, as depicted by Hellions with Nanny, nightmare!Betsy, and Maddie, as well as directly with Maddie in Dark X-Men.

Domino isn't technically a queer character, but I feel that frequently, the subtext can be there; additionally, the X-Virus has turned her ash-white skin a dark, Mystique-adjacent blue.

Overall, the women of Sinister's Six immediately draw to mind queerness and transfemininity-coding in the text, whereas, aside from Alex, the one male teammate is Omega Red, who is actively dying from the way the X-Virus impacted him.

The key to the nature of the virus is also extracted from Venom, whose most definitive iteration is a queer relationship more or less expressed as a parasitic kind of plurality; while it's not clear which Venom is present in this book, the presumption of many readers, especially readers less familiar with current comics-Venom lore, is going to be that it's Eddie Brock in there, unless we're explicitly indicated otherwise.

So, total, Sinister's Six is made up of:

Felicia Hardy, a bisexual woman transformed and made feral by the X-Virus, bearing parallels to women associated with Alex.

Neena Thurman, one of Cable's exes who has been physically transformed by the X-Virus to look more like Mystique, a queer woman whose transfem subtext is more or less text and who has, in the last five years, been strongly in parallel with Alex.

Charlie Cluster, more or less a sci-fi trans bi woman exhibiting signs of plurality and carrying the redheaded transfem metaphor motif.

Venom, likely the gestalt entity of a queer interspecies relationship, whose body holds the key to understanding the situation surrounding the X-Virus.

Omega Red, a dying man.

Alex Summers, who does not carry any physical or behavioral indications of having been impacted personally by the X-Virus at all.

I suspect Alex may be a non-symptomatic carrier of the virus, because, while mutants are "unaffected" by the X-Virus, it seems to strongly impact people whose genes have been messed with — and we know Sinister did that when he tied Alex to the Pharaoh all those years ago.

There's also the question of Chris — is Chris potentially not a mutant, created specifically to give Sinister a vector of control over Alex by turning Alex's mutant body into a literal threat to his child?

Also, is Chris even "real"? Will he still be real when the story is over? Or will he go the way of Katie Summers before him, forgotten by the narrative?

Very interesting, very curious potentialities here.