S'ym is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe, a demon of Limbo who served as a frequent enemy and sometimes supporting character in The Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants. He was created as an homage to independent cartoonist Dave Sim's character Cerebus the Aardvark.
Created by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson, the character is an homage to Cerebus the Aardvark and his creator, Dave Sim, after Sim featured a villain named "Pro...
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S'ym is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe, a demon of Limbo who served as a frequent enemy and sometimes supporting character in The Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants. He was created as an homage to independent cartoonist Dave Sim's character Cerebus the Aardvark.
Created by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson, the character is an homage to Cerebus the Aardvark and his creator, Dave Sim, after Sim featured a villain named "Professor Charles X. Claremont" in early issues of Cerebus. S'ym always referred to himself in the third person ("S'ym thinks this is a bad idea"), a trait shared by Cerebus. S'ym also has the same purple-grey coloration as Cerebus, and looks vaguely like Cerebus (right down to his trademark vest), only taller, more muscular, and with a horn. And, of course, "S'ym" is pronounced the same as "Sim".
S'ym was a minion of Belasco, the ruler of the demonic dimension known as Limbo. S'ym first battled the X-Men when the team were transported to Limbo...
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