8 Creepiest X-Men Villains - ComicBook.com
Marvel Comics’ mutant vigilante squad, the X-Men have spent decades defending a world that fears and despises them against forces mundane and magical. Whether thwarting the villainous Count Nefaria and his criminal syndicate or stopping a star-spawned horror from swallowing a city of souls, the X-Men shield society from domestic threats as well as temporal incursions of demonic aliens. The X-Men often take on bizarre and harrowing foes, as mutants it comes with the territory, and nightmarish creatures seem to seek them out. You name it, the X-Men have faced it, but there are some foes that are just especially creepy.
8 Creepiest X-Men Villains - ComicBook.com
Let’s take a look at eight of the creepiest X-Men villains to inhabit the pages of their uncanny tales.
8 Creepiest X-Men Villains - ComicBook.com
The alien insectoid race known as the Brood scour the universe in search of hosts for their voracious offspring and to build nest-colonies in the farthest corners of deep space. The predatory Brood are bulbous winged terrors of cosmic origin that were experimented on by the Kree and used as living weapons against the Shi’ar Empire. With skin as thick as armor plate, razor-sharp teeth, and tail stingers loaded with venom, the Brood are highly-intelligent killing machines that answer only to their Queen Mother.
Traveling the galaxies in living starships, the Acanti, sentient, whale-like beings enthralled, lobotomized, and consumed from the inside by the parasitic Brood, the hunters seek out host bodies for the Queen to implant her eggs in and perpetuate the species. The intergalactic Brood are endoparasitoids like parasitic wasps, whose horrific larvae develop within the body of its host, eventually killing it and they live to serve their imperious Queen Mother. Exasperating encounters with the X-Men, Carol Danvers, and Shi’ar Imperial Guard have occasionally dissuaded the Brood from pursuing hostilities in nearby systems and only the Brood mutant Broo, whose charm offensive with the X-Men earned them a place at their side, and No Name the Brood, war bound to the Hulk, are known to have allied themselves with other species. The hyper-sensitive Wolverine says they smell like “ants and decay.”