By the time he met Wolverine, his torso was covered in hundreds of them arranged in an ornate pattern. X kept a public image of a handsome, single, wealthy socialite, while he secretly coveted the honor of being the greatest hand to hand combat fighter on earth, which, of course, meant killing all of the other greatest fighters.įor every murder, X would cut a scar somewhere on his body. The thrill of killing an opponent in hand to hand combat provided him with a rush that he had never dreamed of. After X learned all he could from each of his teachers, he would kill them. Using his family's considerable fortune, X traveled throughout the world and studied under some of the finest martial artists in the world.
Over the years X would commit hundreds of murders and had his identity erased. He murdered his pet dog by locking it in an oven, followed soon after by his entire family, including his mother and father. As a youth, X committed several murders to recreate the high of telepathically connecting with another person at the moment of their death. This is very similar to the trauma that awakened Jean Grey's psionic abilities. His latent telepathic power was awakened by seeing a woman who had been hit by a car, which fascinated him he felt her die.
Mister X is an extremely wealthy businessman who has demonstrated a psychological addiction to killing that, by his own account, started in his adolescence.