DAILY MR. SINISTER FACTS

Essex insured himself the genetic way: a virus in a stranger, set to go off at his funeral. The stranger woke up with his face, his powers — and her own objections.

Most villains keep a getaway car. He kept a shelf of one woman so reality would restart the level on demand.

The fangs, the cape, the name — of course a kid designed him. The cool thief was draft two of the same kid.

A century of scheming, and the schemer was a copy — dealing from a deck of four.

Most villains build a clone army. He built a clone census — then crowned himself king of it.

Scott's childhood bully, his orphanage director, and his doctor walk into a bar. They're all the same immortal geneticist.

Victorian eugenics, grave-robbing, and a marriage that ended with the worst possible review.