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CLAREMONT KILLER VICTIMS SERIES

Sebastian Shaw and his allies were their first victims, but Selene and the Gamesmaster soon put them to work hunting mutants of all stripes.

Deadly Game: The Upstarts were Hunting the Most Dangerous Game in their corner of the universe, which was of course mutants.

Not to mention the decadence extends to sexual depravity courtesy of the collection of Dirty Old Man members running the club with female members or employees being required to dress in fetishistic BDSM-type outfits and aspirants being suspended in cages.

Decadent Court: While the Club styles itself as merely a Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club, behind the scenes its most powerful members scheme and jockey for power with a treachery and fervor rarely seen outside of Westeros.

Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, and Donald Pierce were all experienced corporate raiders before joining the Hellfire Club's ranks.

Corrupt Corporate Executive: Being one isn't a requirement for membership, but it sure does seem to help.

Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Many of the Hellfire Club's original members were named for and physically modeled after various actors that Chris Claremont liked.

There is typically a White monarchy and a Black monarchy, though some Club branches have shaken this formula up by adding a Red monarchy to the mix. Initiates are Rooks, mid-level members are Bishops, and the leaders are a King and a Queen. Chess Motifs: The Inner Circle's members rank themselves by chess piece names.

Category Traitor: Unlike the Brotherhood, species loyalty is not a premium virtue in the Hellfire Club, and its mutant leaders are not at all above Playing Both Sides for their own advancement.

Card-Carrying Villain: Like the Brotherhood, the Hellfire Club proudly codes itself in the ranks of Names to Run Away from Really Fast.

Beware the Superman: As a secret society of mutants who seek to subvert human society and steer it towards their own ends, they are effectively everything the various anti-mutant groups of the X-Men universe hate and fear.

Aristocrats Are Evil: The Hellfire Club's members aren't actually aristocrats (not the American or non-Western branch members at least), but they like dressing up in antiquated British aristocrat garb and referring to themselves as lords and ladies.

Ancient Conspiracy: A fairly young one as these things go, but they are a centuries-old organization, and they are most definitely powerful and secretive.

Ambition Is Evil: Like the Brotherhood before them, the Hellfire Club was very ambitious in its scope, and that ambition was almost always portrayed as a bad thing.

CLAREMONT KILLER VICTIMS SERIES

With the increasing ostracization of mutants from human society and the increasing trend of isolationism/separatism among mutants, the Hellfire Club and its goals seem to have become obsolete, the product of an earlier age when mutants could still aspire to subvert the system from within.Īs of Jonathan Hickman's X-Men the Hellfire Club is effectively dead, having experienced a schism that birthed two new organizations: the Hellfire Trading Company (a thinly-veiled take on the East India Trading Company run and staffed by most of the mutant Hellfire alumni) and Homines Verendi (yet another mutant-hating group run by the Creepy Children who briefly turned the Club into an Academy of Evil while everyone of actual importance was away).įor tropes related to the X-Men Film Series adaptation of the Hellfire Club, see their page. Magneto himself rejoined the Club in the pages of Uncanny X-Men (2016), but he was no more successful in his goals of reforming/subverting the Club than he had been before, and he departed its ranks without fanfare. Some X-Men have joined the Club, seeking to follow Magneto's intended footsteps of turning the Club into a positive force, only to find to their belated horror that The Dark Side Will Make You Forget. Since that time the Hellfire Club has been largely static, remaining in the background as a powerful yet passive economic force in mutant affairs. until it was revealed that Sebastian Shaw had in fact survived, and through his characteristic force of personality the Hellfire Club was reconstituted and back in business. This seemingly marked the end of the Hellfire Club. Selene soon fell prey to this Game herself, and without her guiding influence, the Upstarts soon fell to bickering between themselves, ultimately ending their game and disbanding without any clear resolution or winner. This led to the "Upstarts" era, in which said new young mutants competed amongst themselves in a Deadly Game masterminded by Selene and arbitrated by her ally, the mutant omnipath Gamesmaster.