Marvel Xmen Count Nefaria 94 Retro Wood Comic Cover Plaque Wall Art
| Count Nefaria | |
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 Count Nefaria battles the Avengers on the cover of Avengers #166 (January 1978). Fine art past George Pérez and Ernie Chan. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Start advent | The Avengers #13 (February 1965) |
| Created by | Stan Lee (writer) Don Heck (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Luchino Nefaria |
| Team affiliations | Maggia Legion of the Unliving Death Squad Lethal Legion Ani-Men |
| Notable aliases | The Dream Main |
| Abilities | Ionic-energy physiology
Diplomatic immunity Genius-level inventor Vast wealth & resource Charisma |
Count Luchino Nefaria is a supervillain actualization in American comic books published past Marvel Comics.
Publication history [edit]
The grapheme first appears in The Avengers #xiii (February 1965), and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck.[ane]
Fictional character biography [edit]
Luchino Nefaria is a wealthy Italian aristocrat and traditionalist that also desires greater wealth and power, driving him to join the Maggia criminal organization.[2] The recently formed Avengers superhero team, however, thwart many of his plans and force a directly conflict, so Nefaria lures the Avengers to his castle on the pretense of a clemency result, and places the group in suspended blitheness, using images which threaten to take command of America. After he releases them, the Avengers become suspicious of him after hearing they are wanted and they cannot remember what happened at the castle. They go to the castle, nevertheless nearly all of them are paralyzed by Nefaria's gas. Meanwhile, the Teen Brigade were captured by Nefaria, and when they tried to contact the Avengers were thrown in a dungeon which would place them into suspended animation if they touched the walls. Captain America gets into the castle without touching the footing, other Avengers, or walls, and freed the Teen Brigade, who gave the antidote to the Avengers. Captain America was also paralyzed, and with his hands and feet fastened to ropes he was suspended betwixt floor and ceiling, where Nefaria mocked him, saying he would be a hero for capturing him. Withal, Iron Human then outburst through the wall. Neferia was defeated and deported afterward an officer heard him confess to being in the Maggia.[iii] In retaliation, Nefaria and then unsuccessfully attempts to destroy Iron Man,[4] and then suffers nevertheless another defeat when stopped by the mutant X-Men team.[5]
Nefaria reappears several years later and attempts to take control of the United States base NORAD, simply is stopped by the X-Men once once more. Nefaria attempts to escape in a plane which is attacked by the Ten-Man Thunderbird. The plane so explodes, killing Thunderbird and injuring Nefaria.[six]
Now virtually destitute and discredited, Nefaria hires the supervillains Living Laser, Ability Human being and Whirlwind to class the second Lethal Legion. The group rob several banks, and unwittingly finance an experiment Nefaria has created in a bid to get superhuman. Employing the onetime scientific adviser to Heinrich Zemo, Nefaria devises a ways of temporarily amplifying the abilities of the Lethal Legion, and then sends them into combat against the Avengers. The effect, all the same, is temporary and once defeated their combined abilities are drained by Nefaria who possesses them magnified a hundredfold. Later on a long and protracted battle, Nefaria is finally defeated.[7]
Nefaria is and so kept in isolation and under observation past the Avengers, and it is discovered that the process to empower him makes Nefaria immortal only vulnerable as his body reconfigures itself. Whitney Frost, likewise known as Madame Masque and the daughter of Nefaria, attempts to find a cure for what is believed to exist his deteriorating condition. She hires the Ani-Men to attack Avengers Mansion and gratuitous her begetter. While battling Iron Man, Nefaria's life-back up system is severed and his weakened form is crushed by a stored Jupiter Landing Vehicle.[8] Nefaria briefly reappears some time subsequently as a corpse reanimated by the Grim Reaper. Grim Reaper directs Nefaria to assault the Avengers, but loses control soon afterwards and Nefaria dies once once more.[nine]
Nefaria eventually reappears, only in an ionic humanoid form, and constantly requires ionic energy to sustain his existence. He battles Iron Human[10] and later Helm America and Ka-Zar in the Roughshod Land as he attempts to find sources of energy.[xi] Nefaria and then plans to detonate an ionic bomb, which will transform millions of people into an ionic land which he can then control, perceiving it as the best way to guarantee that he receives the respect that he feels he deserves. Nefaria gains control of the ionic heroes Wonder Homo and Atlas who he intends to apply to kill the Avengers, simply he is stopped by the combined efforts of the Avengers, young man superhero team the Thunderbolts and Madame Masque, Masque using a weapon she had developed to disrupt Nefaria's own ionic energy.[12] He is next seen every bit an inmate of The Raft, a prison for supervillains, and escapes when Electro stages a mass breakout.[13]
Following the "Siege" storyline, Madame Masque sought out her father to aid the Hood after Loki took back the Norn Stones. The New Avengers capture John King (Hood's cousin) and utilize him to track the Hood and Madame Masque. After a battle with Count Nefaria, they capture the villains and bring all four of them to Maria Hill to place them under arrest.[xiv]
Nefaria returns within the pages of Moon Knight, having established himself as the new Kingpin of Los Angeles.[15] He kills Repeat in battle,[16] and is later apprehended by the Avengers.[17] Also in L.A., Daken attempts to kill him but fails.[18] Later, back in New York, he is summoned by Nightmare to destroy The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl in dreams, but is bested at finger-counting, and leaves.[nineteen]
During the "Surreptitious Empire" storyline, Count Nefaria appears as a member of the Army of Evil and took part in the attack on Manhattan in retaliation for what happened at Pleasant Hill during "Avengers: Collision!".[20]
During the "Spider-Geddon" storyline, Count Nefaria is engaging Superior Octopus who counters his ionic abilities by having his tentacles charged with energy that disrupts ionic fields. Count Nefaria breaks gratis from the tentacles as Superior Octopus plans to threaten his female parent Vitto Nefaria and his relatives Giuseppe Nefaria and Paolo Nefaria who he is spying on with his Octobots. Count Nefaria takes his get out and vows to render when Superior Octopus' role as San Francisco's protector destroys him.[21]
In a lead-upwards to the "Sins Rising" arc, a wheelchair-bound Count Nefaria later forms his latest incarnation of the Lethal Legion with Greyness Gargoyle, Living Laser, and Whirlwind in a plot to target the Catalyst.[22] At Empire Land University, Dr. Curt Connors reveals the Catalyst to the crowd when the Lethal Legion attacks. While Grayness Gargoyle and Whirlwind attack the people present, Living Laser helps Count Nefaria to operate the Catalyst. Spider-Man shows upward and has a hard time fighting them due to the fact that his mind was focused on what a revived Sin-Eater did to Overdrive. Sin-Eater shows upward and starts using the same gun he used on Overdrive on Whirlwind and Grey Gargoyle while taking their powers. Immobilizing Spider-Man with Grey Gargoyle'due south powers, Sin-Eater proceeded to exercise the same matter to Living Laser and Count Nefaria. All 4 of them were sent to Ravencroft where they started to act like model inmates. Norah Winters was allowed by Norman Osborn to interview them nigh Sin-Eater. Count Nefaria expressed remorse over his actions.[23] When a riot occurs at Ravencroft, Count Nefaria informs Norman Osborn that Sin-Eater is coming for him.[24]
Every bit a side-upshot of Sin-Eater's suicide upon copying Madame Spider web'due south precognition revealed that Kindred was using them, Count Nefaria and the balance of the Lethal Legion regained their sins and are among the villains that went on a rampage.[25]
Powers and abilities [edit]
Count Nefaria was a normal human with a genius intellect long earlier he'd gained his superpowers. He was a well versed scientist, inventor, theoretical physicist, skillful strategist and organizational leader with deep ties to the underworld through his ain crime family unit, The Maggia. Such a taciturn criminal mastermind is he that upon his first appearance he'd hands turned the American public and the earth over confronting The Avengers in their beginning coming together.[26] It wasn't until being subjected to a process perfected past i of Baron Heinrich Zemo's scientists Dr. Kenneth Sturdy that he was granted the combined powers of the villains the Living Laser (energy projection), Power Man (strength), and Cyclone (speed), amplified a hundredfold.[27] Because of this, Nefaria is i of the physically strongest known humans in the Marvel Universe. He has toppled a xl-story edifice with trivial effort, withstood a blow from Wonder Man without flinching, and fought an enraged Thor to a standstill with no apparent damage from strikes of his hammer, even stopping it with his bare hand.[28]
The grapheme so aged until his body evolved, eventually shifting into pure ionic form. This increasing his already insurmountable abilities while granting him new ones,[29] such as the creation and manipulation of ionic energy for teleportation,[xxx] [31] mitt and centre blasts,[32] ionic force punches,[33] and/or controlling other ionic beings (and potentially gamma mutates) via parasitically siphoning their energies.[34] [35] Through this he tin also convert others into ionic energy beings also, in a vampiric mode, turning them into his superpowered thralls.[36] [37] As such, Nefaria is effectively immortal and virtually indestructible. He also has the power of flight, when before he could only leap not bad distances.[38] He's also showcased a new ability, creating energy constructs to environs his opponents in ionic energy and move them about telekinetically.[39] [40] He has withstood simultaneous attacks by multiple teams of superheros at one time.[41] Although it is possible to deplete Nefaria's ionic energy in combat past forcing him to expend it faster than his body tin replenish it, Giant-Man calculated that it would take iii weeks of abiding combat – without even giving Nefaria time to pause for breath – for fifty-fifty the combined forces of the Avengers and the Thunderbolts to deplete his ionic free energy reserves completely in that manner. Withal, Madame Masque has adult a weapon that disrupts Nefaria'due south ionic free energy.[42]
As a head of the Maggia, Count Nefaria besides has access to vast amounts of applied science, munitions, and gadgetry adult by his Research and Development department.[43] Much of this, he had a hand in crafting, such as the Electro-disc, Time Transcender Ray, Visio-Projector, Worldwide Electro-scanner, The Dream Main and the Ionic Bomb.[44] [45] [46] Being of Italian dignity, Count Nefaria has as well inherited a vast fortune, which he has used in conjunction with his intellect for the purpose of furthering his revenue and power. To that stop he would utilize it for the hiring of super villains, scientists and expendable workforce in his organization branch for the cosmos of inventions that were far in the advances of modern scientific discipline, give himself super powers or broaden the attain of his connections to both the unlawful and political circuit of the world. Being an aristocrat of understandable stature and influence, Nefaria also has claims to diplomatic immunity and as such he cannot be tried outside of his own dwelling house country.[47]
Other versions [edit]
House of M [edit]
In the Firm of M reality, Count Nefaria is the leader of the Maggia. He and the Maggia were slaughtered past Magneto's Sentinels for plotting confronting Magneto.[48]
JLA/Avengers [edit]
In JLA/Avengers, Count Nefaria is seen in #4 amid the other villains enthralled by Krona to defend his stronghold. He is shown fighting Superman in a panel spreading across ii-pages.[49]
Former Human being Logan [edit]
In the pages of Erstwhile Homo Logan, the elderly Logan awoke on Earth-616 and had a flashback to where Count Nefaria, Red Skull, Businesswoman Blood, Screw, and Whirlwind were standing over the dead bodies of the superheroes the day when the villains rose and the heroes brutal.[l]
What If? [edit]
Count Nefaria appears in the What If? story "What If the X-Men Died on their Outset Mission?" at the time he and the Ani-Men have taken command of NORAD (Uncanny X-Men #94-95). With the X-Men having perished in a prior fight with Krakoa, the former X-Homo Brute hastily assembles a mutant team to combat Nefaria. While attempting to abscond, Nefaria'south jet is brought down by Theresa Cassidy. Though Nefaria escapes, Theresa avoids mainstream Thunderbird's fate when her teammate James Proudstar catches her before she falls to her death.[51]
In other media [edit]
Goggle box [edit]
- Count Nefaria appears in the "Iron Human being" segment of The Marvel Super Heroes animated serial, voiced by Chris Wiggins.[52]
- Count Nefaria appears in the Iron Man: Armored Adventures animated series, voiced past Russell Roberts.[ citation needed ] This version sports a pikestaff that shoots electricity and is the only known leader of the Maggia. In the episode "Pepper, Interrupted", he, the Black Knight, and a group of Maggia enforcers concord a meeting with the Mandarin and his Tong until they catch Pepper Potts spying on them. When Iron Man arrives, a fight between the Tong and the Maggia breaks out, during which the Standard mandarin uses his Gene Khan allonym to save Pepper earlier the constabulary arrive and arrest the Maggia members. In the episode "Armor Wars", Nefaria and his henchmen rob a bank and defeat Guardsmen members Force and Shockwave before Iron Homo in turn defeats them. Pepper later discovers that the Guardsmen were formerly Maggia enforcers and they asked Nefaria to help them fake the bank robbery to build up their heroic reputations. In the episode "The Hammer Falls", Justin Hammer captures Nefaria and makes him a exam discipline for a zombification gas he developed.
Film [edit]
Count Nefaria makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the direct-to-DVD anime film Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher.[ citation needed ] He appears as one of Leviathan'southward investors earlier fighting Captain Marvel in his ionic grade and retreating soon later.
Video games [edit]
- Count Nefaria appears in Lego Marvel's Avengers.[ citation needed ]
- Count Nefaria appears in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.[ citation needed ]
References [edit]
- ^ DeFalco, Tom; Sanderson, Peter; Brevoort, Tom; Teitelbaum, Michael; Wallace, Daniel; Darling, Andrew; Forbeck, Matt; Cowsill, Alan; Bray, Adam (2019). The Marvel Encyclopedia. DK Publishing. p. 94. ISBN978-ane-4654-7890-0.
- ^ Brevoort, Tom; DeFalco, Tom; Manning, Matthew K.; Sanderson, Peter; Wiacek, Win (2017). Marvel Year Past Twelvemonth: A Visual History. DK Publishing. p. 106. ISBN978-1465455505.
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- ^ Tales of Suspense #67 (July 1965)
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- ^ Uncanny X-Men #94-95 (August–October 1975)
- ^ Avengers #164-166 (November 1977-January 1978)
- ^ Fe Man #115-116 (October–Nov 1978)
- ^ Avengers #353-354 (Early-Late September 1992)
- ^ Iron Man Annual 99
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- ^ Avengers Vol. ii #32-34 (September–November 2000) and Thunderbolts #42-43 (September–Oct 2000)
- ^ New Avengers #1-2 (January–Feb 2005)
- ^ New Avengers Finale one-shot
- ^ Moon Knight Vol. 4 #7
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- ^ Avengers Vol. 2 #34 (Nov, 2000)
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- ^ Avengers Vol 1 #13
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- ^ What If Vol. 2 #ix (1990)
- ^ The Marvel Super Heroes on Goggle box! Volume 1: Fe Man (2017) - by J. Ballmann, ISBN 9 781545 345658
External links [edit]
- Count Nefaria at Marvel.com
- Marvel Directory: Count Nefaria
- Leader's Lair: Count Nefaria
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Nefaria
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