Essex House is supposed to allude to Nathaniel Essex (Mr. Sinister), but the headmaster and the others at the mutant school sounded an awful lot like the William Stryker's Purifiers from the X-Men comics. And Mr. Sinister was never mentioned or seen.
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Reply by TheTenth
on May 23, 2018 at 10:08 AM
I guess they still don't know how to introduce Mr Sinister at this point.
But the purifier's angle is very clear in The Gifted, with Senator Montez clearly presenting mutants as "evil" in the religious sense. Sinister in the comics is a scientist, even if his aspirations are almost religious, placing mutants as Gods with humans as a decaying species. Anyway, to make his research grow, he'd side with any kind of individuals.
From the things we see of Essex House, it could only be a place where they do experiments on mutants, which could be even unknown to the headmaster, as Sinister is extremely devious and manipulative, and his experiments can be on the very long term and thus nearly impossible to perceive as he can clone himself to be near immortal.
Reply by Movie Queen41
on May 29, 2018 at 8:05 PM
I think it was an Easter Egg. The villains remind me of Stryker's minions rather that Mr. Sinister.
Reply by TheTenth
on May 29, 2018 at 8:22 PM
a, Easter egg for a post credit scene?