Quote Originally Posted by The Cool Thatguy View Post
Long overdue, IMO.

I think people often forget how evil the Hellfire Club was when it was introduced. They were gene traitors, selling out their own kind for money and power
They saw themselves as an elite class/group above not just humanity, but the rest of mutantkind as well. Sacrificing a few "lesser" mutants --- whether as pawns, foot soldiers, or even "collateral damage" --- for their own power and prosperity would be par for the course. After all, at one point in the comics, the Sentinels were being built by Shaw Industries, run by the Hellfire Club's Black King Sebastian Shaw. Come to think of it, that was an excellent racket --- build Sentinels for the government to hunt mutants, then use the Sentinel hunts as a way to convince disenfranchised mutants to buy into what the Hellfire Club was selling. Kind of like what seems to be happening now in the show with the likes of Benedict Ryan being used to stir up anti-mutant hate and drive up Purifier recruitment so that mutants who might otherwise just try to lay low or live in peace will feel so besieged by humanity that they're easier for Reeva to sway into the Inner Circle.