Essex Corporation

Essex Corporation
Status	Unknown (Original Timeline) Active (Revised Timeline)
Appearances
Movie	X-Men: Apocalypse Logan

The Essex Corporation is a mysterious organisation led by Mr. Sinister.

History

X-Men: Apocalypse

After Wolverine is released from his imprisonment by Nightcrawler, Cyclops and Jean Grey, he begins murdering several guards and is himself shot at, leaving trails of blood throughout the complex. During this commotion, Nightcrawler, Scott, and Jean manage to rescue the other X-Men and Wolverine manages to escapes the Weapon X facility, disappearing in the woods. Sometime after the incident, a team of hazmat workers begin collecting the various mutant blood samples left behind and store them inside a briefcase labelled "Essex Corp.".

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Trivia

• The Essex Corporation is an allusion to the X-Men comic book villain Mister Sinister, whose real name is Nathaniel Essex. In the context of the comic books, Sinister is a geneticist obsessed with creating the perfect mutant, his experiments leading to the creation of several, highly powerful mutants, such as: Madelyne Pryor, Cable and Nate Grey, all of whom are based off of Jean Grey's and Cyclops's genetic material.
  • Mister Sinister also commanded a mutant hate group, The Marauders, whose members included: Sabretooth, Arclight, Riptide and Gambit.
  • In the X-Men comics, Sinister was an ordinary human being living in Victorian-Era England until he awoken Apocalypse from his eternal sleep. Interested in Essex's experiments on mutants, Apocalypse granted the geneticist mutant powers through genetic modifications. Sinister would later sever his ties with Apocalypse due to conflicting interests, creating Cable as a weapon against the ageless mutant. It is currently unknown if the Essex Corporation has had any contact with Apocalypse.
• Due to the nature of Mister Sinister's plans involving cloning, as well as the Wolverine blood sample acquired by the Essex Corporation, several fans of the film series have begun a rumor that Wolverine's clone, X-23, would be introduced to the film series.
• It is possible that the Weapon X facility Ajax works in is part of the Essex Corporation. Ajax's work focuses on creating Mutates which is Mr. Sinister's main goal.
  • Notably, two Morlocks are present in the Deadpool film's Weapon X facility, Angel Dust and Marrow. This could indicate the Marauders brought in Morlock members to experiment on rather than massacre.
• In the comics, many of Mr.Sinister's research was stolen and used by the Weapon Plus/X scientists such as Professor Andre Thornton. Gambit was hired by Mr.Sinister to retrieve the research.