Hellfire Club (X-Men Movies)

The Hellfire Club are the secondary antagonists of X-Men: First Class. They are Sebastian Shaw's minions and enemies of the X-Men.

X-Men: First Class
Their overall goal is to start world war lll in order to wipe out the human race from Earth, allowing the mutants to rise up and take over as the survivor race, with Shaw as the leader of the new world order. To this end, they manipulate American and soviet Government officials to instigate the Cuban Missiles Crisis. At the end of the movie, Sebastian Shaw is killed by Magneto while many of its members (Emma Frost, Azazel, Riptide and Angel) join Magneto and his new group of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.