Sugar Man is a relatively minor character, but as you can see, he's all kinds of messed up.
Introduced in the mid-nineties as a mutant from an alternate reality ruled by Apocalypse, Sugar Man is an expert geneticist and pupil to Mister Sinister. He's also basically just a giant head with a big tongue, red eyes and four arms, which is somehow also not the most terrifying image I've encountered in the process of writing this list.
True, it's possible to derive some comedy from the character's appearance (his upper left arm has a love-heart tattoo that has "sugar" written in the middle), but all of that flies away the instant you realise what his powers are. Sure, they might not be giving you a run for your money in X-Men Legends II anytime soon, but on paper, they're truly wicked.
So, you know his tongue? Well it's actually razor-sharp and can cut through anything - and I mean ANYTHING - which basically puts Toad out of business as the strongest tongue-wielding mutant to have fought the X-Men. His teeth are also razor sharp - he has CLAWS instead of nails - and he can change his size at will. How rotten is that?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
