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N'astirh

N'Garai

N'Kantu, the Living Mummy

Naga

Nagala

Nahrees

Nameless One

The Nameless One is a two-headed demon. The Nameless One first appeared in Sub-Mariner #22 (February 1970), and was created by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. He was the leader of the Undying Ones, and led them to conquer the Earth millennia ago. The Undying Ones ruled the Earth for ages, though eventually their powers waned and were forced to return to their own realm. The Nameless One continued to rule them when they were exiled from Earth, and during several attempts to conquer it again in modern times. Later, another demon became a successor to the previous, two-headed Nameless One as leader of the Undying Ones. This demon tried to use Wolverine to kill Doctor Strange. Wolverine, enhanced by demonic magic, slew this Nameless One and many of the Undying Ones.^[1]

Namie

Namor the Sub-Mariner

Namora

Namorita

Nanny

Mutant

Robot

Nara

Hugo Natchios

Further reading Hugo Natchios at the Comic Book DB Hugo Natchios at the Grand Comics Database

Hugo Kostas Natchios is a fictional character in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Frank Miller, first appeared in Daredevil #168 (January 1981).

Hugo Natchios was a Greek Diplomat for the United States of America. He lived in an unclean house with a pregnant wife, Christina, who seemed unfaithful and a son, Orestez, who held his father in high regard, but disliked his mother. While vacationing, assassins came and shot at Hugo and Christina. They were hired by Orestez, but were only supposed to kill Christina; when Orestez found out his father was their he left his family in shame. Christina died, but not before giving birth to a girl. When Hugo learned that the baby was his, he named her Elektra.^[2]

Hugo loved his daughter and doted on her. He gave her the nickname 'Little Amber' and gave her a pet dog named Agamemmnon.^[3] Hugo took Elektra to Columbia University when she was accepted. One year into her studies, a group of terrorists held Hugo, Elektra and many others hostage. With the help of Daredevil, Elektra took out many of the terrorists, however Hugo was unintentionally killed by police.^[4]

Alternate versions

In Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra, Elektra's father is named Dimitri Natchios.

In other media

• Nikolas Natchios appears in the film Daredevil played by Erick Avari. He is a billionaire with connections to Wilson Fisk. When he decides to pull out of Fisk's dealings, Fisk hires Bullseye to kill him. Bullseye steals one of Daredevil's billy clubs and sends it straight through Nikolas' chest killing him instantly. Elektra thought Daredevil was responsible until Bullseye crashes their fight.
• Hugo briefly appears in a flashback in season 2 of Daredevil, but his actor is uncredited. He appears as an ambassador. Hugo and his wife are not Elektra's biological parents, but rather arranged to adopt her from Stick for her protection.

Native

Nebula

Nebulo

Nebulon

Nebulos

Nebulos appeared in Strange Tales #161-163 (October–December 1967), and was created by Dan Adkins and Raymond Marais. Nebulous is an extra-dimensional being, the ruler of the Planets Perilous. He once possessed the "Staff of Polar Power", which absorbed evil magical energy. Nebulos encountered Doctor Strange and Victoria Bentley, who had been banished from Earth to another dimension by Baron Mordo. Nebulos commanded Strange to take hold of his Staff of Polar Power, which placed him under Nebulos' control. Strange was sent back to Earth to battle Mordo, absorbing Mordo's power into the staff. Strange was able to banish Mordo to another dimension, but was then pulled back to the Planets Perilous by Nebulos. The staff returned to Nebolus' possession at his whim.

Necrom

Nedra

Needle

Nefarius

Negasonic Teenage Warhead

Nekra

Foggy Nelson

Nemesis

Isabel St. Ives

Jane Thorne

Amelia Weatherly

Neophyte

Neosaurus

Neooqtoq

Neooqtoq the Ravager is called the deadliest of the Great Beasts. Snow Bird assumed its form during the Secret Invasion to battle off the Skrull Gods army of enslaved alien gods. It resembles giant brittle star whose arms are covered with fanged maws.

Neptune

Lilandra Neramani

Diamanda Nero

Nesbitt

Nesbitt is a fictional Irish gangster in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Garth Ennis and Leandro Fernández, first appeared in Punisher Vol. 6 #10.

Kitchen Irish leader Nesbitt was an aged old man that was slowly dying and not wanting to pass without leaving a legacy, sent many of his peers letters telling them of a hidden fortune. He wanted them all to share it so that they could end their feud with one another. However, when this fortune was found, within a broken down freight car, it turned out to be a trap. In the car was a plastic bomb with the word "CUNTS" carved into it. The bomb blew up killing those their and fulfilling Nesbitt's dream of a Hell's Kitchen with no gangs.^[5]

In other media

Nesbitt appears in the season 2 premiere of Daredevil, played by Andy Murray. He is leading the Kitchen Irish due to the absence of Finn Cooley. He is first shown summoning the Kitchen Irish leadership to a meeting, where he delivers a speech about their plans to retake Hell's Kitchen in light of Wilson Fisk's arrest, only for Nesbitt and everyone in attendance except for Grotto to be gunned down by the Punisher.

Network

Neurotap

Neurotap was created by Fabian Nicieza and Tony Daniel, and first appeared in X-Force Annual #2. Neurotap worked with Martin Henry Strong to find mutants for his experiments. She hates the fact that she is a mutant and worked with Strong only because he promised he would not only cure her but also help settle the severe financial burdens her parents suffered when they both were put into comas when her powers first manifested. During her tenure with Strong Industries she was romantically involved with Adam X the X-Treme, but later betrayed him for the sake of her parents. Neurotap sends neurosynaptic pulses via eye-contact, causing slowness, paralysis, and nervous system damage.

Neutron

Kate Neville

Kate Neville first appeared in Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. #3 (August 1988), and was created by Bob Harras and Paul Neary. The character subsequently appears in the Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. series that began in 1989 and ran until 1993. Kate Neville was born on Long Island, New York. She majored at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy in efficient killing, an excellent hand-to-hand combatant and a superb marksman with firearms. Kate held the title of Chief of Ordnance. Kate was later transferred to the SHIELD Base Tau/Ce, a class C armory and Communications center. She posed as a receptionist for the firm Knopf and Lilicrap Insurance, which was just a front of SHIELD itself.b Kate Neville is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant and a superb marksman with firearms. She is a highly skilled assassin, adept in many techniques of killing.

In other media

• Kate Neville appeared in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., portrayed by Tracy Waterhouse.
• In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Sharon Carter/Agent 13 used the cover name Kate as Captain America's neighbor.

Nezarr the Calculator

Nezarr the Calculator is a Celestial. The character, created by Jack Kirby, first appeared in The Eternals #9 (March 1977). Within the context of the stories, Nezarr is a Celestial present during at least the First^[6] and Fourth Hosts to visit Earth.^[7][8] His specific task among the Celestials is not made clear in the stories, though he is shown to be their mathematician and possessing the ability to project illusions.

NFL SuperPro

Nicodemus

• Night Flyer

Night Nurse

Linda Carter

Georgia Jenkins

Christine Palmer

Night Thrasher

Dwayne Taylor

Donyell Taylor

Nightcat

Nightcat was an aborted attempt on the part of Marvel Comics to create a real-world character that would also star in its comic books. Portrayed by Jacqueline Tavarez, Nightcat was to be both a comic book superhero as well as a real-world singer (similar to the original concept for Dazzler). The experiment got as far as the release of one comic book and one music CD before the plug was pulled.^[9][10] In the comics, Jacqueline gained cat-like powers and used them to fight crime.^[11]

Nightcrawler

Nighthawk

Kyle Richmond

Neil Richmond

Jack Norris

Raymond Kane

Nightingale

Nightingale first appeared in Marvel: The Lost Generation # 12. She was a founding member of the First Line, joining at the request of the Yankee Clipper. Her origin is unknown, but she is apparently Caribbean. Nightingale has the power to sense emotions and life-forces and to heal the injuries of others. However, her abilities can be "overloaded" if she is in proximity to too much death at once. She also apparently has some psychic abilities which give her premonitions of future events. Nightingale died during the first attempted Skrull invasion of Earth. Her healing and empathic powers were overloaded by the amount of death surrounding her, resulting in her own death.

Nightmare

Nightmask

Keith Remsen

Izanami Randall and Trull

Adam Blackveil

Nightshade

Nightside

Nightwatch

Nightwind

Nikki

Tana Nile

Nimrod

Vampire

Nimrod the First was a former soldier appointed by Varnae to be the lord of Earth's vampires, and was granted the ability to control other vampires mentally. Nimrod captured Dracula on the night Dracula first became a vampire, and forced Dracula to submit to him. Dracula challenged Nimrod to a battle with wooden stakes. As Varnae predicted, and anticipated, Dracula slew Nimrod in the duel, and succeeded him as the new lord of Earth's vampires.^[12] Nimrod first appeared in Dracula Lives! #3 (October 1973), and was created by Marv Wolfman and John Buscema.

Sentinel

Ningal

Ningal is a demon who has clashed with Doctor Strange. He allies himself with the demons known as Ludi and Dweller-in-Darkness. Ningal first appeared in Chamber of Chills #3 (March 1973), and was created by Gardner Fox and Ernie Chua.

Adri Nital

Nitro

Kiden Nixon

No-Girl

No-Name

Nobilus

Nobilus is a clone of Thor created by the High Evolutionary as one of his New Immortals. Along with fellow New Immortals Juvan and Zon, Nobilus was a part of the civilization of the New Men aboard the High Evolutionary's starship called New Wundagore. Nobilus was to be a warrior and defender of New Wundagore. Nobilus was cloned from Asgardian cell samples obtained from Thor by the High Evolutionary. As such, he has superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes, as well as an extremely long life span and immunity to all Earthly diseases. He is also a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, trained in various forms of ancient and modern armed and unarmed combat techniques with the Knights of Wundagore.

Nia Noble

Nia Noble is the daughter of two supervillains, but she herself is heroic. She first appeared in New Invaders #3 (November 2004). Nia Noble is a hybrid of a human telepath and an enhanced Atlantean. Her father was the Atlantean Nazi sympathizer U-Man, and it is believed that her mother was the World War II-era villainess called Lady Lotus. Nia is a hybrid of Homo sapiens (possibly Homo superior) and Homo mermanus. As such, she has the ability to breathe and survive indefinitely in either air or water. Her strength, stamina and physical durability are all superhuman, sufficiently so to allow her to fight hand to hand against U-Man. In addition, she has inherited some limited telepathic ability from her mother Lady Lotus. Nia is able to project intensely painful mental attacks, create mindscapes to allow for the astral interactions of others and to control the powers of others as if they were her own.

Nocturne

Angela Cairn

Angela Cairn is primarily associated with Spider-Man comics. She was created by J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema, and first appeared in Spectacular Spider-Man vol. 1 #190 (July 1992). Cairn was first introduced as a New York City police officer.^[13] Later she was transformed by a mutate of Baron Helmut Zemo into a mute bat-winged entity known as Nocturne.^[14] Following her transformation she had several encounters with Spider-Man. At one point she met, cared for and allied herself with the sometime-villain Puma.^[15]

Talia Wagner

Nomad

Steve Rogers

Edward Ferbel

Jack Monroe

Rikki Barnes

Ian Rogers

Nonstop

Norns

Dakota North

Northstar

Nostromo

Nostromo is a mutant character created by Marvel Comics for their Marvel 2099 run X-Nation 2099. This short-lived series only lasted six issues before being cancelled and absorbed into the 2099: World of Tomorrow imprint. In the year 2099, President Doom contacted Cerebra of the X-Men 2099 to let her know about a recent prophecy about a Mutant Messiah. She undertook the task of locating and training possible candidates and bringing them to Halo City, one of which was Nostromo. Nostromo is gifted with a technological mutation that allows him to interface with and restructure technology via his arms, and use techno-organic material to heal any of his wounds. After he became possessed by the Phalanx, it is assumed that he acquired their abilities of shapeshifting, matter assimilation, and collective consciousness.

Nova

Frankie Raye

Richard Rider

Sam Alexander

Nova 0:0

Nova 0:0 (Robert Rider) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a visitor to the mainstream 616 timeline. In his original timeline he, not his older brother Richard Rider, was given the Nova Force powers.

Nova 0:0 is the alternate reality version of Robert Rider the younger brother of Richard Rider aka Nova. In his reality he stayed behind to help Xandar after their war with the Skrulls, because of this his earth was destroyed by a threat known as the Deathstorm. Nova 0:0 traveled to the Marvel 616 earth to prepare Richard Rider, (the Nova Corpsman for that reality's version of earth) for the impending Deathstorm. Nova 0:0 would often fight with Nova in order to push Nova into using his powers in ways he never had before. Nova 0:0 would later sacrifice his life to stop the Deathstorm. Richard Rider buried Nova 0:0 on the planet Mars.

Years later in the mainstream 616 reality that version's Robert Rider would become empowered as a member of the Nova Corps.

Cassandra Nova

Nova-Prime

Further reading Nova-Prime at the Comic Book DB Nova-Prime at the Grand Comics Database

Nova-Prime (Tanak Valt) is a member of the Nova Corps in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Marv Wolfman, Keith Pollard, and Joe Sinnott, first appeared in Fantastic Four #204 (March 1979).

Tanak Valt was one of the founders of the Nova Corps, and was its high commander (Centurion) for several years. His wife Adora was the Suzerain (queen) of Xandar. He was made Nova-Prime upon Nova's return to Earth, and was also made leader of the Champions of Xandar. The Fantastic Four aided Tanak and Adora when the Skrulls attacked Xandar.^[16] Tanak and Adora were killed by Nebula when she wiped out the population.^[17]

Nox

Nox is the Olympian Goddess of the Night (possibly degenerated into a demon), one of the Fear Lords, who has clashed with Doctor Strange. She seduced her fellow Olympian, Ares, the Olympian God of War, by posing as Aphrodite a.k.a. Venus, the Olympian Goddess of Love, in order to trick him into giving her sons: Phobos, the Olympian God of Fear, and Deimos, the Olympian God of Terror.^[18] She then fought Strange, Clea, and Rintrah.

N'rill'iree

Nth Man

Nuke

Albert Gaines

Frank Simpson

Nuklo

Null, the Living Darkness

Numinus

Nut

Nut is a member of the Heliopolitans in the Marvel Universe. The character, based on the Nut of Egyptian mythology, was created by Bill Mantlo and John Buscema, and first appeared in Thor #241 (November 1975). Within the context of the stories, the character is the wife of Geb, and mother of Isis, Osiris, and Seth. Nut is the Egyptian goddess of the sky.

Nuwa

Nuwa was a member of the Chinese super-powered team 3 Peace which had allied with the MLF under Reignfire's leadership. Nuwa was portrayed as a more reasonable member of 3 Peace and questioned their alliance with the MLF. Ultimately, Reignfire betrayed Nuwa to the Chinese government.^[19] When the events of M-Day occurred, where the Scarlet Witch removed the mutant gene from over 90% of the world's mutant population, Nuwa was one of the few to retain her powers. Nuwa can cause biomolecular feedbacks within human anatomy, releasing a tranquilizing wave that sedates her victims. More a state of drowsiness than a real sedation, the effects of her powers can actually be warded off by consuming sufficient quantities of stimulants, such as caffeine.

Nyx

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