Hellfire Club



The Hellfire Club is a fictional rich socialite or gentlemen's club created by Marvel Comics in 1980 that often comes into confrontation with the mutant superhero team, the X-Men. It was inspired by real clubs that were formed among the British upper class in the 18th century. Although the Club appears to merely be an international social club for wealthy elites, its clandestine Inner Circle seeks to influence world events to their own agenda.

It first started off as a non-mutant club that hated mutants and had plans to destroy them, however two mutants Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw were accepted into the Hellfire Club and hid their abilities from the Club. Later, Shaw and Frost got together and overthrew the original Inner Circle appointing themselves as Black King and White Queen.