Since the start of the X-Men in Marvel Comics, their greatest enemies have been the members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. This is a clear case of differing ideologies. Professor Charles Xavier founded his institute and the X-Men to protect humanity, aiming to build a bridge that unites mutants and humans in peace. Magento had a darker childhood, living life in a Nazi concentration camp and seeing the actual hatred humans have in their hearts for anyone different from them. He formed his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to protect mutants from humans through violent means, knowing it was essential to strike first to survive.
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With so many different members of both the X-Men and Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the power levels of these mutants have differed drastically over the years. Here are the most powerful members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in Marvel Comics history, from Magneto’s run as leader to later versions of the team.
10) Pyro
Pyro is a mutant who got his start in Marvel Comics as a part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He joined the team when Mystique worked as its leader, and he was part of the team that attempted an assassination on anti-mutant presidential candidate Robert Kelly (which created the Days of Future Past timeline). Unlike the movie version, he wasn’t a young teen, but an adult, and he had some serious mutant powers. As his name indicates, Pyro can control fire, growing it to any size and intensity he wishes and then turning it into weapons (like gigantic claws or phoenix-like birds). The only limit to the size of the fire and its form is based on the limits of his own imagination. However, his main weakness is that he needs fire to be available for manipulation and cannot create it from within himself.
9) Mystique
Mystique is a powerful member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants for a very different reason. She is powerful thanks to her brains and her devious nature. Her power is simply to change into any other person she wants, and her powers are so powerful that she can take on all the attributes of that person, including taking on the sexual organs of a male if she takes on a male persona. However, she is also very tactical, and she is the reason the Days of Future Past timeline happened since it was her leadership of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants that led the assassination attempt on presidential candidate Robert Kelly. On top of that, when she works with her partner Destiny, the two of them are a dangerous combo thanks to Destiny’s precog abilities.
8) Sabretooth
Sabretooth is a powerful member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants for one reason – he is one of the strongest and most immoral members of the team. His strength is so mighty that every year on Wolverine’s birthday, Sabretooth would seek out Logan and beat him to an inch of death as an annual event, and Wolverine has only been able to stand up to him very few times. He is a mutant with most of the same abilities as Wolverine, but he is stronger and has no morals when it comes to killing anyone at any time for no reason. He is so evil that he was one of the few mutants who couldn’t fit in on Krakoa and was banished to the pits of the island nation.
7) Mastermind
Jason Wyngarde is Mastermind, one of Magneto’s original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and also a member of the Hellfire Club. His powers enable him to create powerful illusions that alter the reality and perception of those he affects. In his early days with the Brotherhood, he was a dangerous member of the team and consistently helped them in battles against the X-Men. Mastermind also used his telepathic powers to alter Polaris’s memories to block the truth of her parentage (she is Magneto’s daughter). However, his true might was shown in the Hellfire Club when he used his powers to mentally break Jean Grey, which ultimately unleashed the Dark Phoenix.
6) Blob
When it comes to pure power, few people match that of The Blob when he is standing on solid ground. He was the first person Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants recruited when they initially appeared in X-Men comics. The X-Men also recruited him, but he rejected them, causing Professor X to wipe his memories of them, which made them mortal enemies when he realized what had happened. Blob’s powers increase gravity to become virtually immobile as long as he remains in contact with the ground. He is also mostly impervious to any injury, and his size makes him superhumanly strong. Of course, the fact that a person like Jean Grey could disrupt the ground beneath him allows some mutants to take him off his feet, although they really can’t hurt him once they do.
5) Dark Beast
Dark Beast is a variant of Hank McCoy, and he became a massive name thanks to the X-Men crossover event, Age of Apocalypse. Dark Beast is the same as the Beast from Earth-616, except he never had Professor X there to help teach him morality and the difference between right and wrong. As a result, he used his scientific knowledge to create bad things and became one of Apocalypse’s most dangerous allies in that timeline. The Beast on Earth-616 showed he could also become this evil, but Dark Beast remained the most deranged and destructive version of Hank McCoy seen in Marvel Comics. He joined the Brotherhood when Havok was its leader.
4) Quicksilver
Quicksilver was one of the original members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. While he was later revealed to be Magneto’s son, in his early appearances, he was just another member of the team. Eventually, though, he and his sister Wanda Maximoff, tired of Magneto’s manipulations, left the team to join the Avengers. Quicksilver’s mutant powers are superhuman speed, and he originally ran at around 175 miles per hour when he was in the Brotherhood and could maintain this speed for around four hours. However, his powers were boosted by Isotope E, and there is now no limit to his speed. He has run at Mach 5 (3,800 mph) and covered half the planet’s distance in 92 seconds.
3) Rogue
While Rogue has been a hero for most of her time in Marvel Comics, she started as a villain. Raised as an adopted daughter by Mystique and Destiny, she worked with them as a villain. As a part of Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, she stripped Carol Danvers of her powers and memories, leaving the future Captain Marvel devastated. However, this also drove Rogue into the arms of the X-Men, asking for help to control her powers and become a better person. Rogue’s mutant powers involved absorbing the energy and psyche of any living creature she touches. If she touches them for too long, she could kill them, though. She also possesses superhuman strength and flight, having retained the powers she stole from Carol Danvers, which makes her even more powerful.
2) Magneto
Magneto is the mutant who formed the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto and Charles Xavier were friends from their younger days, but while Professor X wanted to lead mutants and humans to live in peace, Magneto knew that humans had too much hatred and bigotry in their hearts for that to work. As a result, he created his Brotherhood to attack humans before they could hurt mutants. Magneto is an Omega-level mutant who has the power to manipulate magnetism. He has been referred to at times as the most powerful being on Earth, and the upper limits of his power can’t be measured. He once ripped out Wolverine’s skeleton, and his Ultimate Universe counterpart damaged the Earth’s core, causing massive flooding and weather disasters that killed countless people.
1) Scarlet Witch
While some consider Magneto the most powerful being on the planet, the Scarlet Witch has proved many times to be the most dangerous. When she first appeared with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, she was simply a magic user, but she soon became much more. She possesses chaos magic and has used it to wreak havoc many times, thanks to her uneasy grip on her sanity. She rewrote the entire world in House of M. She depowered millions of mutants with three words in M Day. She killed three Avengers and Agatha Harkness in Avengers Disassembled. She is so powerful and dangerous that the Avengers and X-Men once considered killing her to stop her from doing any more damage to the world.
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