X-Men Hellfire Academy

Hellfire Academy

The Hellfire Academy was set up by the Hellfire Club as a rival school to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

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The Hellfire Club is a centuries old organization with roots in Britain during the 18th Century. It's members were infamous rakes who used their connections within the club to further boost their social standing and to indulge their sexual excesses.
Over time the club has evolved to include high-flying business men and women, as well as the profitable descendants of royalty and other Hellfire Club members. Being a member of the Hellfire Club is an illustrious boost among elite society. However, there is an even more esoteric sect of individuals who run the Hellfire Club, known as the Inner Circle.
The Club is run by a small group of influential members who form the infamous Inner Circle. Named after chess pieces, members of the Inner Circle will take on the titles of the Black and White (and later also Red) Kings, Queens, Bishops, and Rooks. The final position of Lord Imperial is reserved for the most powerful member of the club. Additionally, prominent members have also had assistants that did not have official titles within the club.
The Hellfire Academy was founded by Sebastian Shaw, the Black King of the Hellfire Club. Shaw recruited villainous mutant outlaws to act as faculty, and began scouring the country (and possible the world) enrolling newly manifesting mutants to attend this school. This academy serves as a direct opponent to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning's X-Men.
One purpose of the Academy was to form great mutant villains, in order to boost the sales of his Sentinels.

Shaw and his staff recruited both in the new mutants pool and in the Xavier School ranks. They recruited the new-comers Infestation, Mudbug and Snot.