Lucia von Bardas | |
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Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Secret War #1 (February 2004) |
Created by | Brian Michael Bendis and Gabriele Dell'Otto |
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Alter ego | Lucia von Bardas |
Abilities | Flight Force field generation |
Lucia von Bardas is a fictional character, a supervillain in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Lucia von Bardas is a Latverian woman who used to teach at the University of North Carolina in the United States. After Victor von Doom was deposed as the leader of Latveria, the Americans helped von Bardas get elected as that country's prime minister. She then began publicly mending the ties between the two countries.
In truth, von Bardas was secretly funding American technology-based supercriminals through the Tinkerer. The United Nations espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D. uncovered this, but the U.S. president did not take action, believing that relationship are relatively good and that they can simply negotiate. S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury subsequently gathered a group of superheroes consisting of the Black Widow, Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, and Wolverine, as well as superpowered S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson, for an undercover mission to overthrow the Latverian government and assassinate von Bardas. In Latveria, Johnson used her seismic powers to take down Castle Doom, apparently killing von Bardas.
Von Bardas survived to become a deformed cyborg. A year later she attacked Cage, leaving him in a coma, and was eventually defeated once more by Johnson.
Lucia von Bardas is a cyborg whose abilities include flight and generation of a force field. Prior to this, she was a skilled diplomat.