Ah, the X-Men. I'm sure just reading those words brought floods of memories rushing back to you, probably specifically that cartoon theme song. But the X-Men have fought a litany of villains and monsters throughout their existence. Some good, some bad, most very, very complicated. But in narrowing it down to the best of the best of the worst of the worst, I came up with these ten best foes of Marvel's merry mutants.
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10. Mojo
I like villains with some theatricality. And Mojo is almost the most theatrical of the X-Men villains (we'll get to the most theatrical later).
Mojo runs Mojoworld, an inter-dimensional entertainment emporium devoted to putting on the greatest show possible. He’s a gross, blobby, monster creature who gets around via a spider chair with a scorpion tail. Also, a sort of Clockwork Orange-like type of gear holds his eyes open.
He may be the grossest of the X-Men villains. No, wait, I forgot Sugar Man. Never mind. But, okay, he's pretty gross. He was originally designed to be kind of a gross parody of a network executive, which is especially hilarious, and I love it a lot. He's such a mean-spirited parody, too. At the very least, he’s an "entertainer" who can't create, so he steals people and abuses them to make his entertainment corporation profitable. That’s super mean. And very funny.
Not that I agree with that assertion.
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9. Cassandra Nova
Honestly, Professor Xavier is scary enough, so it’s much worse that there’s an evil version out there.
Cassandra Nova is a psychic parasite in search of a host body. Sensing the fetus that would one day be Charles Xavier, the parasite embeds itself in Charles' mother's womb and pretends to be his twin sister. But baby Charlie senses how evil this new baby is, so he attempts to kill her while they’re still in the womb.
The evil “twin” is stillborn, but manages to cling to psychic life and grow way more powerful due to the contact with Xavier. It becomes a female Xavier clone and names itself Cassandra Nova. A super long time later, she returns and absolutely effs up the X-Men.
Cassandra Nova is a Grant Morrison creation, so you can expect some weirdness, but if you judge from her appearance, you’ll hardly have a clue.
