Sebastian Shaw

Sebastian Hiram Shaw is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and is an adversary of the X-Men.

A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb kinetic energy and transform it into raw strength. He is the leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, an exclusive secret society bent on world domination, although to the public, he is a legitimate businessman and ordinary human. He once funded the mutant-hunting Sentinel program to keep it under his thumb. In 2009, Shaw was named IGN's 55th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, the character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1979).

Comic artist John Byrne based the appearance of Sebastian Shaw on that of British actor Robert Shaw.