Sebastian Shaw (comics)
| Sebastian Shaw | |
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Art by John Cassaday.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980) |
| Created by |
Chris Claremont John Byrne |
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| Full name | Sebastian Hiram Shaw |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations |
Hellfire Club Shaw Industries The Lights |
| Notable aliases | Black King, Lord Imperial, Black Bishop |
| Abilities | Ability to absorb energy to enhance his physical attributes and healing Possesses access to sophisticated weaponry and telepathic blocking technology |
Sebastian Hiram Shaw is a fictional supervillain who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was frequently an adversary of the X-Men.
A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb energy and transform it into raw strength. He is the leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, an exclusive secret society bent on world domination, although to the public, he is a legitimate businessman and ordinary human. He once funded the mutant-hunting Sentinel program to keep it under his thumb. In 2009, Shaw was named IGN's 55th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.Kevin Bacon played the character in X-Men: First Class.
Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, Sebastian Shaw first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980).
Comic artist John Byrne based the appearance of Sebastian Shaw on British actor Robert Shaw.
Sebastian Shaw was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His power first manifested shortly after he was accepted to engineering school and his father Jacob Shaw died after he contracted an incurable disease. Sebastian Shaw devoted himself to his studies and created Shaw Industries, becoming a millionaire by age 30 and a billionaire by age 40.
Shaw became engaged to a woman named Lourdes Chantel, also a mutant, and was soon initiated into the Hellfire Club thanks to his vast fortune along with Warren Worthington, Jr. (father of Archangel), Howard Stark (father of Tony Stark) and Sir James Braddock (father of Captain Britain and Psylocke), having caught the attention of Ned Buckman, then White King of Hellfire Club's New York Branch. Shaw became part of the Council of the Chosen, earning the rank of Black Bishop. Lourdes did not trust Buckman, and feared that Shaw's ambition and the nature of the Hellfire Club would corrupt him.
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