Lucia von Bardas

Lucia von Bardas
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Secret War #1
Created by	Brian Michael Bendis and Gabriele Dell'Otto
In-story information
Alter ego	Lucia von Bardas
Notable aliases	Doctor Doom, Tinkerer, Diamondback IV
Abilities	Flight Force field generation

Lucia von Bardas is a fictional character, a supervillain in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Fictional character biography

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. 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, and was eventually defeated once more by Johnson.

Powers and abilities

Lucia von Bardas is a cyborg whose abilities include flight and generation of a force field. Prior to this, she was a skilled diplomat.

In other media

Television

• Lucia von Bardas appears in the animated television series Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, voiced by Venus Terzo. She is an assistant to the supervillain Doctor Doom, and revealed to be an android in the episode "Doomsday Plus One".

Video Games

• Lucia von Bardas will appear in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 as a Main Villain on the first mission during the Secret War.