Unforgivables

**The Unforgivables** was a supervillain terrorist organization founded and led by Xerek Newton. After his attempt to absorb Elastigirl’s life-force was foiled and he was forced to go underground, Xerek decided to assemble all of Municiberg’s villains into one organization. Members of the Unforgivables undertook whatever mission Xerek ordered them on, whether for profit or for other purposes. Eventually, it turned out that the whole reason for the founding of the Unforgivables was to allow Xerek’s plan, Operation Black Mirror, to come to fruition. After the failure of the plan and Xerek’s return to hiding, the Unforgivables collapsed and its members were left to fend for themselves.

## History

In an attempt to extend his life, Xerek Newton seduced Elastigirl, intending to expose her to his rejuvenation machine. Unfortunately for him, Elastigirl fought back and in the ensuing chaos Xerek’s machine and base were destroyed. The criminal mastermind went underground and began plotting a massive comeback that would allow him to seek his revenge on Elastigirl. As he bided his time and schemed, he took notice of how united the Supers of Municiberg had become. He decided to take a page out of their book and, using his vast resources and many connections, Xerek managed to recruit nearly every supervillain in Municiberg, creating a massive criminal organization that he called the Unforgivables. In addition, Xerek recruited many non-supervillain allies, including banker Oliver Sansweet, who agreed to launder money through the Bank of Municiberg for the group in exchange for being made president of the bank.

At some point, Xerek’s former patsy and business partner Avon Deavor’s campaigning for superhero rights had compromised one of Xerek’s operations that was in play. In retaliation, Xerek sent Strikeback to the Deavor mansion to intimidate Avon to stop his campaigning. Strikeback broke into the mansion but Mr. Incredible and Gazerbeam intervened. In the ensuing confrontation, Strikeback murdered Avon Deavor’s wife (the mother of Winston, Evelyn, and Nelson Deavor). The two Supers defeated Strikeback and he was sent to the NSA prison known as the Stockade. While locked up, Strikeback expected Xerek to free him, but the criminal mastermind contacted him and informed him that he had been excommunicated from the Unforgivables due to the murder of Mrs. Deavor.

With virtually every supervillain in the city under his thumb, Xerek became the undisputed ruler of Municiberg’s underworld. When the disgruntled Nelson Deavor faked his death and joined Xerek, taking up the mantle of the Screenslaver, he became Xerek’s right-hand man and de facto second in command of the Unforgivables. The two put together a plan they called Operation Black Mirror that would allow them to take over the city, and planned to use the Unforgivables to achieve it.

On the day of Mr. Incredible’s wedding to Elastigirl, Xerek learned that Oliver Sansweet had been questioned by a police task force investigating his money laundering. Feeling that Sansweet was a liability and could risk exposing the Unforgivables to the world, Xerek sent Bomb Voyage to the bank to kill him and make it look like a robbery gone bad. One step ahead of Xerek, Sansweet attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the bank’s roof. He was saved by Mr. Incredible, who also intercepted Bomb Voyage. Mr. Incredible’s wannabe apprentice Incrediboy arrived and warned Mr. Incredible that a suspicious helicopter was hovering over the bank. Mr. Incredible got to the roof in time to watch the helicopter fly away.

Knowing that he would need the brain of a Super with psychic powers for Operation Black Mirror, Xerek sent Skull Face Fred after Psycwave. The villain pursued the heroine through the city, but was ultimately defeated by her, along with Thunderhead and Shelectric. With this attempt foiled, Xerek decided to switch his focus to Everseer.

When Oliver Sansweet awakened from the coma he was in after his failed suicide attempt, Sporlanx was deployed to assassinate him, infiltrating the hospital disguised as a doctor named Landry before suffocating Sansweet with its tentacles.

Xerek decided he needed to keep the Supers busy while he prepared for Operation Black Mirror, so he had Rollergrrl and Tronasaurus break Mr. Pixel, Shifty, and Centsus out of prison. Together, the villains formed the Confederacy of Crime and wreaked havoc on Municiberg while Xerek profited off of their destruction through various investments. The villains were arrested, although when they were being loaded into an NSA van Mr. Pixel mentioned “the boss”, piquing Mr. Incredible’s interest.

Some time later, Mr. Incredible, Incrediboy, and Nimble Jack worked together to stop Bulbox from destroying the Municiberg police department. After knocking him unconscious, they heard him mumble the name “Mr. Newton”. Nimble Jack took Mr. Incredible and Incrediboy back to his hideout and informed them of an ongoing investigation he’d been conducting for a while - an investigation into the Unforgivables. Using various clues and pieces of information, Nimble Jack had deduced that every criminal in Municiberg was connected, and that the mysterious Mr. Newton was the leader of this organization.

The Unforgivables finally managed to capture Everseer after ambushing him in the criminal-only Club Nomanisan, incapacitating him with a zero-point energy device created by Screenslaver and based off of Double Dutch’s technology. Screenslaver called for Xerek to inspect his new prize, and Xerek ordered the Super to be transported elsewhere, operated on, and to have his brain removed for use in Operation Black Mirror.

Now that they had Everseer’s brain, the Unforgivables needed the technology to weaponize it. Thus, Screenslaver launched a series of attacks on DevTech factories throughout Municiberg, seemingly destroying them to hide the fact that he’d smuggled out the technology within beforehand to use as part of Operation Black Mirror. The Incredibles tracked down Screenslaver and seemingly managed to capture him, although this was actually a pizza delivery driver Nelson had brainwashed to act as a patsy while he continued to operate from the shadows.

After two weeks with Everseer missing, the Supers still had no leads on his location. Mr. Incredible and Universal Man decided to work together on an operation where Universal Man went undercover in Mr. Pixel’s gang. While undercover, he learned that Nimble Jack’s suspicions of a united criminal syndicate were correct, and also learned that they called themselves the Unforgivables and met at the Club Nomanisan.

With this information, the Incredibles and the Phantasmics raided the club, only to find Everseer’s corpse floating in the zero-point-energy trap in the middle of the room, with a pre-recorded message from Screenslaver taunting the heroes. The heroes were furious and Elastigirl headed to New Urbem, Screenslaver’s old stomping grounds, to try and find out more information about the criminal. Unfortunately for her, Screenslaver was one step ahead of her and sent Organa to delay her while agents of the Unforgivables destroyed any remaining traces of Screenslaver’s presence and activities.

Things finally came to a head when the Incredibles went to DevTech to interrogate Avon, Winston, and Evelyn Deavor due to their technology being used in Screenslaver’s trap. As they were leaving the building, the Supers bumped into Xerek. Winston introduced him as DevTech’s biggest investor, and Xerek passive-aggressively taunted Elastigirl about their past. He then ended the conversation and went with Winston to go meet with Avon. Avon complained to Xerek about their technology that had been seemingly destroyed during the Screenslaver’s attacks, unaware that Xerek had actually had the technology stolen for use in Operation Black Mirror.

With the Supers now onto him, Xerek needed a distraction as he made final preparations for his grand plan. He sent Snoring Gloria to kidnap geologist John Gilgen and wreak havoc with her plants in Municiberg. The Incredibles defeated Gloria (although Gilgen was apparently killed in the battle), but this had bought Xerek enough time to go off the grid, hiding out at an abandoned television station.

Shortly after this, Screenslaver and Double Dutch launched a raid on the Municiberg Police Department’s confiscated evidence locker to steal technology used by the first Screenslaver in order to prevent the Supers from reverse-engineering it to stop Operation Black Mirror. While Double Dutch distracted Mr. Incredible, Incrediboy, and Blitzerman, Screenslaver made off with duffels full of tech. Incrediboy intercepted him and Screenslaver hypnotized him, trapping him in an illusion world, before making his escape. Unluckily for Screenslaver, Incrediboy managed to snag a pair of goggles anyways, which he and Edna Mode managed to reverse-engineer to counter his brainwashing signal.

The NSA raided DevTech and arrested Avon, Winston, and Evelyn, while also releasing information about Xerek publicly, revealing to the world that he was a criminal mastermind and terrorist, as well as publicly exposing the Unforgivables’ existence. As news footage began to air live revealing his face, Xerek ordered Screenslaver to initiate Operation Black Mirror. Thus, instead of footage displaying Xerek’s face, televisions and other screens all over Municiberg displayed Screenslaver’s hypnotizing patterns, his signal being spread citywide thanks to the broadcasting technology at the television station being powered by Everseer’s lobotomized brain.

Operation Black Mirror took effect, and almost everyone in Municiberg had been hypnotized. The only exceptions were Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Incrediboy, Frozone (due to the reverse-engineered tech), and the villains associated with the Unforgivables who weren’t incarcerated, as Xerek had provided them protection from his machine and allowed them to roam the city freely. Xerek and Screenslaver then sent out a signal to all the Supers under their thrall to kill the Incredibles and Frozone. The Incredibles and Frozone managed to track down Xerek and Screenslaver and defeat them before disabling the Black Mirror device. Xerek was then revealed to be nothing but a holographic projection created by one of Double Dutch’s zero-point energy devices. The real Xerek was miles away on a private jet. He detonated the Black Mirror device in an attempt to kill the Supers, but this also failed.

With Xerek’s disappearance, the Unforgivables collapsed. The villains who had been apart of it each struck out on their own, attempting to return to solo crime, but they were disorganized and confused without a leader to guide them like they’d had for so long.

Some time later, all the villains that had been members of the Unforgivables were captured by the Hoarder before being freed and engaging in a massive battle with the Supers, dubbed the “Battle of Municiberg”. The villains were defeated and they were all arrested. The NSA and federal government proceeded to charge all of them with racketeering and various other crimes due to their association with Xerek and the Unforgivables. Thanks to Double Dutch striking a deal with the NSA and testifying against his former allies to avoid prison time, they were all found guilty and many of the villains were locked up for good within the Stockade. However, a few managed to either escape or avoid imprisonment in some way and continued to menace Municiberg for years to come.