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Abraxas
Abraxas
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual #2001 (September, 2001)
See Marvel Comics: Cosmic Entities
Aron the Rogue Watcher
Aron
Alter Ego: Aron
Notable Aliases: The Rogue Watcher
First Appearance: Captain Marvel #39 (July, 1975)
"As the Frightful Four knows, I want to involve myself in a life of action, but I must continue to hide from Uatu, on the moon — so I've create a set of pawns."
A rogue Watcher who replaced the Fantastic Four with evil duplicates and started a civil war within his own Watcher race. Was killed by Uatu the Watcher when Aron was about the destroy the Fantastic Four.
- Bald of Evil: Much like the other Watchers, he's bald.
- Evil Nephew: He's the nephew of Uatu.
Awesome Android
Awesome Android
Alter Ego: Awesome Android
Notable Aliases: Awesome Andy
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #15 (June, 1963)
A synthetic adaptive android designed by the Mad Thinker to combat super-heroes. Although later defecting and becoming an employee of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway.
- Alliterative Name: Awesome Android/Andy
- Beware the Nice Ones: After his Heel Faceturn. He still has all of his powers, only now he also has sentience to better fight opponents.
- The Blank: His 'head' is a featureless cube.
- Boring, but Practical: His general method of solving problems post-sentience. When facing a building full of supervillains temporarily shrunk down he uses a vacuum to subdue the Sandman and simply punches the non-powered Thinker in the face.
- Cute Mute: Exaggerated due to his lack of facial features. His body language and writing tablet are his only means of communication, but he remains generally cheerful and friendly to everyone he meets.
- Friend to All Children: Downplayed, he gets along extremely well with Southpaw even as she generally resents every other "adult" in her life.
- Gentle Giant: After gaining sentience. Despite retaining literally all of his powerset he cares more about the friendships he makes with his coworkers, and generally does menial labor rather than fighting.
- Heel–Face Turn: He eventually gains sentience and decides he likes having Friends rather than obeying the Thinker's every whim.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Played with. After discovering he was accidentally forcing Mallory Book to love him, he dejectedly jumps off a skyscraper. Doing so resets him back to his non-sentient state where he promptly returns to the Thinker. However his next appearances show he's regained sentience and continues to be the Nice Guy he was after doing so
- Hidden Depths: He's a big fan of the Mets, he knows how to do yo-yo tricks, he's a licensed physical therapist...
- He's also apparently devastatingly good at board games, as Southpaw absolutely refuses to play several of them with him.
- Material Mimicry: Possesses the unique ability to mimic certain characteristics or attributes of those he makes physical contact with. For example, he's taken on the rock-like hide of the Thing, the ice coating of Iceman's body, or Captain America's physique.
- Sizeshifter: Can expand his size by up to 10%.
- The Speechless: Andy lacks the ability to speak.
- Super-Breath: Can produce 180 mph winds from his "mouth".
- Super-Strength: Is superhumanly strong and the limits of his strength can vary greatly. For example, if he were to make contact with beings such as Thor, his strength would be increased to the point of being able to lift far in excess of 100 tons for approximately 1 hour. His normal level of strength, however, is significantly less. Under normal circumstances, Andy can lift about 25 tons.
- Super-Toughness: Andy's extremely dense bodily tissues are highly resistant to physical injury. He's able to withstand high caliber bullets, falls from tremendous heights, exposure to extremes in temperature and pressure, powerful impact forces, corrosive materials, and powerful energy blasts without being injured.
- Talking with Signs: As Awesome Andy he carried a small chalkboard he used to communicate.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Andy has demonstrated the ability to manipulate the shape and size of his body to some degree. He can transform his fists into giant blocks and has been seen to increase his height by as much as 10%.
- The Worf Effect: Used in his battle with Titannia after she gains the Power Gem. Despite being just as powerful as ever she dismembers him in a single hit
- You Shall Not Pass!: quoth the Andy:"You hurt my friends! My home!""You are bad! And I will stop you!"
The Blind God
The Blind God
Alter Ego: Harek Korgon
Notable Aliases: Korgon
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #224 (November, 1980)
Harek Korgon is a viking who was mutated by an extraterrestrial energy source, and became a leader of a settlement near the North Pole. He lives with his people in a crystal dome powered by his mutant energy that creates an artificial habitable climate.
- Eye Beams: Korgon emits an energy which allows him to shoot blasts of energy from his eyes.
- A God Am I: After 1000 years of maintaining the dome over his people,, the increasingly insane Harek came to believe he actually was a god.
Brute
Brute
Alter Ego: Reed Richards of Earth-1123
Notable Aliases: Mister Fantastic
First Appearance: Marvel Premiere #2 (May, 1972)
"Against the mighty Brute all others are helpless... and all resistance is useless!!"
Reed Richards of Counter-Earth, later escaped to Earth-1123 and became president of the United States. His greatest claim to fame is that he came extremely close to killing the Invisible Girl.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: Is able to survive floating the Negative Zone's Distortion Zone.
- Hulking Out: The Brute has the ability to transform into a purple-skinned creature, causing him to grow almost two feet in height and nearly 700 pounds of fortified tissue.
- Manipulative Bastard: The Brute is skilled in manipulating others, especially into thinking he is the Reed Richards of their respective reality.
- Purple Is Powerful: His body is purple and he's certainly physically stronger than regular Reed.
- Split Personality: Brute has a shifting mental state causing him to either become good or evil depending on the circumstances.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His body is purple.
- Super-Strength: The Brute possesses a great deal of superhuman strength, allowing him to hold his own against other superhumanly strong being like the Thing.
- Super-Toughness: The Brute's bodily tissues are substantially harder and more resistant to injury than the tissues of an ordinary human, allowing him to withstand attacks that normally kill an average person.
Council of Reeds
A gathering of alternate versions of Reed Richards from across the multiverse.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: A deconstruction. Yes, they are awesome, and not useless... because they've given up on the things Reed considers important, like his wife, friends and kids. They're also lacking in the empathy department.
- Ambition Is Evil: "Doom" Reed, whose ambitions, funnily enough, started up after he thought it was a good idea to put a bit of Victor Von Doom's brain in his. He then tried to take over the world.
- Bald of Evil: Some of them, such as the "Professor" Reed and "Doom" Reed, don't have hair.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Two of the last Reeds are abducted by Ronan the Accuser, and used as material to create the new Supreme Intelligence. They die screaming in horror.
- Didn't See That Coming: "Professor R" was sent to negotiate with the Universal Inhumans so they could get access to a doomsday weapon. He didn't know they had a Living Lie Detector who saw right through his lies.
- Disappeared Dad: The one common link they all have, regardless of universe, is that their father disappeared on them one day and never came back.
- Dwindling Party: Between the Mad Celestials, abandonment, and unforeseen circumstances, by the end of Hickman's run they're all dead. By the time of Venom (Donny Cates), however, they're back in business.
- Fatal Flaw: Arrogance, all the way. They're so hell-bent on fixing problems their way they refuse to consider better, less destructive alternatives, such as legitimately asking for help from the heroes, instead manipulating villains and aliens into a war that would've ended up with Celestials destroying Earth.
- In Spite of a Nail: Most of them generally look like our Reed, despite the different circumstances in their lives.
- Lack of Empathy: One of their major failings. They're willing to annihilate whole planets to save more, or murder alternate Galactuses rather than find alternate solutions.
- Love Is a Weakness: None of them seem to get why abandoning their families might be wrong.
- Mad Scientist: "Doom" Reed, of the "completely nuts" variety. Putting a bit of someone else's brain in yours doesn't give you their intelligence. But then, in a world run by Nazis, basic scientific logic was going to be dead in the water anyhow.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In-between the dodgy actions, some of them have done impressive things, such as killing a Beyonder, or gather their reality's Infinity Gauntlet.
- Pay Evil unto Evil:
- "Doom" Reed's plotting caused the death of his reality's Hitler, followed shortly thereafter by the entirety of the German government, and that reality's Sue and Johnny Storm, who were psychopaths.
- One of their standard operating procedures - find each reality's Doctor Doom and brain-fry him. Reed is appalled, but they justify it on the grounds that Doom, any Doom, is too dangerous to leave running around.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Some of the Reeds ran for it when the Mad Celestials attacked, and didn't come back. It's implied the Council went after them in revenge.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: They want to "solve everything". It's just their definition of "solve" can be pretty damned destructive, especially when they get desperate.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: For the ones who actually stuck around long enough to start families. They were so busy not being useless that their relationships with the other Fantastic Four grew strained, usually ending with Sue taking the kids (if any) and leaving. Our Reed is horrified to hear this, since he does genuinely love his family.
- The Worf Effect: One Reed has the powers of the Starbrand, designed to defend planets. He's frazzled by the Mad Celestials in one shot.
The Crusader
Alter Ego: Thelius / "Bob Grayson"
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #164 (Nov, 1975)
A mystery man who showed up on the warpath one day in New York, the spitting image of forgotten fifties hero Marvel Boy. He was fought by the Fantastic Four until he was killed, leaving behind the legacy of his weapons and a ever-increasing pile of retcons...
- The End... Or Is It?: FF issue #165 ends with Reed speculating that there is a chance he could recorporate. Since it's been over forty years now, it looks like, nope, he is most utterly, sincerely dead.
- Face–Heel Turn: What seemed to be the case when he first appeared, having gone insane from the disaster that wiped out his home. The truth is, thanks to those retcons, rather more complex.
- Going to Give It More Energy: Falls victim to the old "absorbs too much power and explodes" trick, trying to absorb more power than a human being can handle, at which he point he explodes.
- Human Popsicle: His return to Earth for vengeance was delayed by getting caught in the wake of Comet Kahotek and stuck in suspended animation for several years.
- Insane Troll Logic:
- The banks wouldn't give Bob money to buy medical supplies for his father, delaying him from returning to Uranus where everyone was dead anyway, ergo the bankers killed his father, therefore the Crusader must kill them all! The retcons make his motivation even nuttier, since killing bankers wasn't even close to what the Uranians wanted.
- As Agents of Atlas eventually noted, how exactly human medicine was supposed to help the hyper-advanced Eternals in the first place is anyone's guess.
- It's All My Fault: Feels he could stopped the disaster that wiped out Uranus and killed the Uranians if he had been there.
- Large Ham: Since he's a character from the 70s and certifiably insane, he's very bombastic.
- Loss of Identity: Thanks to the incomplete memory transfer, he forgot his original name and became convinced he was the real Bob Grayson.
- The Lost Lenore: One of his (supposed) motivations is his girlfriend died when the Uranus city was destroyed. Poor dear doesn't get a name.
- Magic Plastic Surgery: Used by the Uranian Eternals to make him look more like Bob.
- Older Than They Look: Looks like a twenty year old (ish), but thanks to enhanced longevity and space travel he's thirty (or would be if he was Bob, who was a toddler in the 30s). As a Uranian, he'd be far older.
- One-Steve Limit: The alias Crusader has also been used by an enemy of Thor and a Skrull warrior turned superhero.
- The Power of the Sun: Reed eventually notices the Crusader only attacks on sunny days, and from there extrapolates his weapons are powered by sunlight. He can use them either for purposes of blinding light or heat rays.
- Retcon:
- The Eternals as a concept wouldn't come into existence until the year after this guy exploded. The concept of them being banished Eternals wouldn't come about until 1981.
- His wrist bands eventually turned out to be the Quantum Bands, signature weapons of the Quasars, empowered champions of the cosmic entity Eon. They were supposed to be for Captain Marvel (as in Mar-Vell), but the Uranians got their mitts on them.
- At the time of his first appearance, he was Marvel Boy, gone nuts from grief. It wasn't until the 2000s when Agents of Atlas had Bob Grayson turn up completely fine and dandy, and not exploded at all. This guy was explained as being a knock-off the Uranians had made when Bob turned against them.
- A later mini-series would state Horace Grayson had, in fact, been killed by the Uranians when the real Bob had started getting too free-willed for their liking, during Bob's years on Earth.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Smashes banks and kills the owners to avenge his "father"'s death.
- Super-Strength: He, a supposedly human male, is able to slug Ben Grimm, who can go toe-to-toe with the Hulk, hard enough in the face for Ben to feel it.
- Unreliable Expositor: As Reed eventually admitted, his obvious insanity makes any information he gave unreliable, giving Jeff Parker an easy time excusing him away.
Darkoth
Darkoth
Alter Ego: Desmond Pitt
Notable Aliases: The Death Demon, the Invincible
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #142 (October, 1973)
A friend of Ben Grimm's in flight school, Desmond Pitt was working at NASA when he discovered some Latverian infiltrators. Trying to catch them, he was caught out and brought to Doctor Doom, who turned the would-be spy into Darkoth, the Death Demon, after a figure from Latverian myth.
- Cool Sword: Benefits of ruling Limbo included being one of the bearers of the Soulsword.
- Deal with the Devil: After dying, he made one with Mephisto to take Donald Blake's soul in return for his freedom, which he did so he could get back to his son. Desmond couldn't bring himself to do the deed.
- Dimension Lord: For a while, he was ruler of Limbo.
- For Want Of A Nail: Due to the dimensional weirdness of Limbo, Darkoth lost Limbo in one of two ways; he killed Bedlam, and as a result was taken over by a symbiote spawned as Bedlam died, fleeing back into the regular universe into Asgard, or Bedlam just killed him.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: Including shaking off Mephisto's demonic brainwashing.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The terrifying if somewhat ridiculously over the top "Darkoth".
- Reforged into a Minion: Regular human Desmond Pitt was turned into Darkoth by Doom using some very invasive surgery, some chemicals, and a little bit of brainwashing.
- Unobtanium: His bones are now made of the nigh-unbreakable metal promethium.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After a while ruling Limbo, he just sort of... vanished, and the next time Limbo was important Margali Szardos had taken over. It wasn't until 2023 that an answer was given.
Dark Raider
Dark Raider
Alter Ego: Reed Richards of Earth-944
Notable Aliases: Mister Fantastic, The Great Enemy of humanity, Stretcho, Man in the Mystery Mask
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #387 (April, 1994)
"Away from my person, treacherous cretins! The Dark Raider has come to liberate Earth from its deadliest nemesis!"
Dark Raider is a counterpart of Reed Richards from Earth-944. When he entered the ship of Galactus to search for the Ultimate Nullifier, this Reed was distracted by all the technology around him. While he looked around, Galactus was free to consume his world. Realizing what he had done, Reed was consumed with self-loathing. He sought to destroy all versions of himself throughout the various realities. He was eventually killed by the Invisible Woman of Earth-616.
- In the Hood: Wears a hood to cover his face.
- Killed Off for Real: Killed by the main version of Sue and so far hasn't reappeared.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Unlike regular Reed, he wears purple and green.
Devos the Devestator
Devos the Devestator
Alter Ego: Devos
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #359 (December, 1991)
" You are apparently the least cerebrally evolved of your comrades—!"
Devos the Devastator's sole responsibility is to eliminate every life form that has any prospect of ever waging war.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Devos is an alien on a mission to destroy all races capable of making war. He will exterminate any being, race or civilization for the sake of Galactic Peace.
- Power Armor: Possesses a power suit with numerous capabilities.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Seeks to estabalish Galatic Peace, but seeks to do so by exterminating any race capable of waging war.
Doctor Sun
Doctor Sun
Alter Ego: Sun
First Appearance: Tomb of Dracula #16 (January, 1974)
Dreadface
Dreadface
Notable Aliases: The Great Nightmare from the Cold Beyond, Most Savage of Slayers
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #359 (December, 1991)
" I am a conqueror of worlds! A slayer of vast civilizations! I would gladly sacrifice your comrade if it served my purpose!"
An amorphous black symbiotic alien and member of a warlike empire, held captive by Devos the Devastator. Unwittingly freed by the Fantastic Four, it took over a gorilla to attack the Thing and Human Torch; briefly taking over the former before jumping to the latter. It was dubbed Dreadface by the Thing, and seemingly killed when it was tricked into blowing up the Fantastic Four's crashed ship's fuel tank.
- The Conqueror: Dreadface is a warrior of a spacefaring empire of similar creatures whose MO is to bond to the greatest warriors on a planet and use them to conquer the populace, turning them into chattel for the rest of its species.
- The Don: Dreadface's second appearance has it attempt to become a crime-lord and construct a machine to create clones of itself.
- Kill It with Fire: Dreadface is vulnerable to fire, needing to retract from Johnny Storm's arms to use his pyrokinesis and seemingly being killed in an explosion.
- Not Quite Dead: In its first appearance it was seemingly killed when the Thing tricked it into blowing up a fuel tank, and in its second appearance when its island base exploded. Each time, however, it managed to make a comeback until in its final appearance it was banished back to the depths of space.
- The Symbiote: Dreadface is an amorphous creature made of living darkness, bonds to a host it can dominate at-will and drain of vitality, and even calls itself a symbiote. Despite this, its official Marvel handbook entry says there's no evidence it's a member of the same species as Venom.
Ebon Seeker
Ebon Seeker
Alter Ego: Xanth
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #229 (April, 1981)
The Ebon Seeker is a living black hole that is fated to seek life through the ebon vastness of space. He comes to destroy Earth in order to be reborn and the Fantastic Four must find a way to stop him.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: Can travel through space unaided.
- Planet Destroyer: When on a planet, Xanth loses his energy, shrinking him and making him weaker. Eventually, he destroys the planet and regains his strength.
- Power Parasite: Has the ability to project tendrils to ensnare his enemies and drain their powers.
- Super-Toughness: Has shown extraordinary durability, such as the ability to absorb a nova blast from the Human Torch and punches from the Thing without harm.
- Telepathy: Xanth can communicate telepathically.
Ego-Spawn
Ego-Spawn
Alter Ego: Franco Berardi
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #228 (March, 1981)
The Ego-Spawn represents a negative aspect of Franklin's personality.
- Flight: As an ectoplasmic projection, Ego-Spawn could fly.
- Intangibility: As an ectoplasmic projection, Ego-Spawn could turn intangible.
- Literalsplit Personality: The Ego-Spawn represents a negative aspect of Franklin's personality.
- Hand Blast: When the Ego-Spawn possessed Berardi he could fire beams of energy from his hands.
- Psi Blast: As an ectoplasmic projection, Ego-Spawn could project mental force beams.
Fasaud
Fasaud
Alter Ego: Sheikh Farouk al-Fasaud
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #308 (November, 1987)
Fasaud was the oil minister of the oil-exporting country of Aqiria. His body has been transformed into a pure electricity.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin turned pale blue.
- Arab Oil Sheik: Once the powerful oil minister of Aqiria and—according to CBS journalist Gregory Dunbar—the richest man on Earth.
- Beard of Evil: A classical goatee for a guy from the Middle East.
- Ghst In The Machine: Can enter and take over any electronic transmission device.
- Intagability: A living electronic image, Fasaud is able to make himself intangible.
- Shock and Awe: Fasaud's molecular structure has be completely transformed into energy. He can become immaterial, travel at the speed of light, draw electricity to him and electrocute others with his touch.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Fasaud is vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses and insulators.
- Technopathy: Can enter and take over any electronic transmission device.
- Telephone Teleport: To travel across the globe, Fasaud transmits himself up to a satellite in orbit and back down again.
Futurist
Futurist
Alter Ego: Randolph James
Notable Aliases: The Futurist
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #215 (February, 1980)
The Evolved Future Human. A classmate and friend of Reed Richards, Randolph James was assaulted by a street gang and suffered life-threatening injuries. In order to speed up his natural recuperation powers, Randolph used an evolution accelerator on himself. Instead of healing him it evolved him into a superhuman being with God-like powers - the Futurist.
- Crystal Spires and Togas: Dresses this way to show how evolved he is.
- Evolutionary Levels: His evolution accelerator turned him into an evolved future human.
- Eye Beams: The Futurist emitted a beam from his eyes that turned people into rodents, insects, and presumably other creatures.
- Forced Transformation: The Futurist emitted Eye Beams that turned people into rodents, insects, and presumably other creatures.
- My Brain Is Big: His enlarged head represents his evolution.
Giganto
Giganto
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #1 (November, 1961)
Giganto is one of the Mole Man's pets from Monster Isle. Giganto appears on the cover of the legendary Fantastic Four #1, squeezing the Invisible Girl, who is unable to turn invisible fast enough.
- Kaiju: Giganto is one of the Mole Man's monstrous beasts from Monster Isle and is the largest creature ever to walk the land.
- One-Steve Limit: Giganto is unrelated to the race of Atlantean Beasts of the same name.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Faced the Champions after being introduced as foe of the First Family.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His body is green and serves the Mole Man.
- Starter Villain: Has the honor of being the first ever villain battled by the Fantastic Four.
- Super Non Drowning Skills: Can hold its breath beneath water for an extended period.
- Tunnel King: Is an expert at digging tunnels.
Gregory Gideon
Gregory Gideon
Alter Ego: Gregory Gideon
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #34 (January, 1965)
" I want to own everything — and I want it now!!"
Gregory Gideon is one of the richest men in the world and considered a ruthless financial wizard. He wants to take over all the financial empires in the world but the Fantastic Four stand in his way.
- Alliterative Name: Starts with 'G's.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He was one of the most successful businessmen on Earth, and obsessed with attaining ultimate wealth.
- Killed Off for Real: Killed in 1975 and has never returned.
Griever at the End of All Things
Griever at the End of All Things
Notable Aliases: Entropy, Heat Death, Griever
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Vol 6 #2 (November, 2018)
See Marvel Comics: Cosmic Entities
Hate-Monger
Hate-Monger
Alter Ego: Adolf Hitler
Notable Aliases: The Führer, Nazi "X", Edmund Heidler, Adam Hauser
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #21 (December 1963)
See Captain America: Rogues Gallery
Hyperstorm
Hyperstorm
Alter Ego: Jonathan Reed Richards of Earth-967
Notable Aliases: Master Supreme, Master, Supreme One
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #406 (November, 1995)
" I will bathe your blood on my gloved hand, and there's nothing any of you can do about it."
The son of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers from Earth-967, Hyperstorm has powers many times magnified.
- Astral Projection: His abilities extend to Astral Travel and he can communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. When in the astral realm, he can use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects.
- Bad Future: He hails from yet another apocalyptic future in which Sentinels took over.
- Body Surf: He is able to possess the mind of another, and use that beings body as his own.
- Healing Factor: He has the ability to heal any injury to himself or others. Gunshot wounds, broken bones, severe blood loss, punctured organs, or even severed limbs heal within a matter of hours.
- Invisibility: He has the power to render himself wholly or partially invisible at will. He can also render other people or objects invisible, affecting up to forty thousand cubic feet of volume.
- Kid from the Future: Hailing from the alternate future reality of Earth-967, he's the child of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers, inheriting their vast power but none of their morals.
- Master of Illusion: He has the ability to create realistic telepathic illusions that cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
- Mind Control: He has the power to control the minds of others upon mere concentration.
- Mind over Matter: He possesses very strong telekinetic abilities enabling him to levitate and manipulate living beings, inanimate objects, and (to some extent) manipulate energy psionically. He can “lift” an unknown amount of weight and can enable himself to “fly” at great speed.
- Multiversal Conqueror: He'd already conquered every single planet known to mankind in his home realities, so of course he eventually sets his sights on enslaving other universes.
- Psi Blast: He can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
- Psychic Link: He has an ability to develop a mental link with any person and it remains thereafter as a connection to that individual.
- Reality Warper: As the child of two of the most powerful Omega Level mutants, Hyperstorm is expectedly godlike and can shape reality in any way he can imagine.
- Summon Bigger Fish: The Fantastic Four defeat him by reawakening Galactus, who drags Hyperstorm into another dimension from which he has never been seen to have escaped from.
- Telepathy: He can read the minds of others and project his own thoughts into them within a radius of 250 miles (on Earth). With extreme effort he can greatly extend that radius.
- Teleportation: He has the ability to teleport himself through hyperspace from one place in space-time to another, possibly at any distance.
Ion
Ion
Alter Ego: Voletta Todd
First Appearance: Machine Man #15 (June, 1980)
Scientist Voletta Todd was caught in a tragic accident that changed her body into ionized hydrogen, giving birth to the criminal Ion.
- Amazon Brigade: Was a member of Superia's all-female army of supervillains, the Femizons.
- Containment Clothing: Her ionized form is easily disrupted by electrical currents, forcing her to wear a special containment suit at all times.
- Freak Lab Accident: Was transformed by an experiment gone wrong into a living cloud of ionized plasma.
- Hand Blast: She has the ability to fire bolts of electromagnetic energy.
- Healing Factor: Has superhuman regenerative powers.
- Magnetism Manipulation: She is able to manipulate electromagnetic fields, project electromagnetic energy, and levitate herself or objects.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Originally appeared as a foe of Machine Man.
- Super Smoke: Ion is composed of a cloud of sentient ionized hydrogen gas. She can manipulate any part of her body while she is in her formless ionized gas form.
- Weaksauce Weakness: If Voletta is exposed to extremely cold temperatures she reverts back to her human form. Ion's electromagnetic field can also be disrupted by a powerful electric current.
Kala
Kala
Alter Ego: Kala
Notable Aliases: Queen of the Netherworld, Mole Woman
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #43 (July, 1963)
Kala, Queen of the Netherworld. Originally an Iron Man foe, later consort to the Mole Man.
- Domed Hometown: Kala and the other residents of the Netherworld are descendants of the people of Atlantis. Fearing it was going to sink, the resident scientists enclosed the city in an unbreakable but transparent dome. When the entire Atlantis sunk to the sea, Netheria followed it to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Netheria sank more deeply over the years until it finally came to rest in a huge sub-sea cavern.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Kala was not content within the traditional borders of her realm. She wanted to use her armies and their advanced weaponry to conquer the surface world.
- Rapid Aging: When exposed to the air of the surface world, Kala becomes aged and decrepit.
- Unholy Matrimony: Has been consort to the Mole Man.
Karisma
Karisma
Alter Ego: Mary Brown
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #266 (May, 1984)
"Grimm! Stop that lolly-gaging, you wicked boy! Come along now!"
Mary Brown creates a make-up that allows her to control and hypnotize men and becomes the villain known as Karisma.
- Amazon Brigade: Was a member of Superia's all-female army of supervillains, the Femizons.
- Makeup Weapon: Karisma wears cosmetics made of a radioactive isotope of her own design that enabled her to enslave men's wills.
- Mind Control: Karisma wears cosmetics made of a radioactive isotope of her own design that enabled her to enslave men's wills.
Kristoff Vernard
Kristoff Vernard
Alter Ego: Kristoff Vernard
Notable Aliases: Dr. Doom, Victor Von Doom, Kristoff Von Doom
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #247 (October, 1982) note ; Fantastic Four #278 (May, 1985) note
Kristoff Vernard is the adopted son of Victor Von Doom and heir to the Latverian throne.
- Body Backup Drive: Doom uses him as a spare memory jar.
- The Bus Came Back: After disappearing for... some time, he returned in Jonathan Hickman's run, having been put into exile by Doom for reasons unknown.
- Happily Adopted: By Doctor Doom. Mostly. Doesn't mean he really serves as a Morality Pet, though.
Lucia Von Bardas
Lucia Von Bardas
Notable Aliases: Ms. Von Bardas
First Appearance: Secret War #1 (April, 2004)
"Congratulations on your perseverance and American spirit. Most of you were supposed to be dead by now. But so was I. So I guess we're even."
Lucia Von Bardas was Latveria's prime minister. She used tech-based super villains to smuggle certain tech to American soil. Nick Fury however found out her plan and when he didn't get authorization to get rid of her, he went behind his superiors' backs. He gathered a group of heroes who overthrew Latveria's government, Lucia among them.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Her Ret-Canon appearance has her with black sclerae and glowing purple eyes.
- Cyborg: Her body was rebuilt with cybernetics, to the point it's difficult to determine how much of her remains organic.
- Reforged into a Minion: She was turned into a cyborg and made loyal to Dr. Doom. She eventually snapped out of her programming and went back to being independent.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: She's heavily associated with the colors green and purple.
- Starter Villain: For Winter Soldier vol 1. It's her plot that kicks off the story arc, but she's quickly taken out once a certain other Latverian ruler got involved.
- The Von Trope Family: Just like Victor, she's Lucia Von Bardas.
- Too Dumb to Live: She once tried picking a fight with Doom. Brave, but given at the time she was a cyborg and Victor has skills with technology... it didn't end well for her. He instantly seized control of all her systems and left her a vegetable.
The Marquis Of Death
The Marquis Of Death
Alter Ego: Clyde Wyncham Jr of Earth-807128
Notable Aliases: The Master, Doom's Master
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Vol 1 #562 (February, 2009)
The titular "Master Of Doom", The Marquis of Death is an alternate future version of Clyde Wyncham Jr from Marvel 1985. In his universe the damage to his brain was undone, leading him to slaughter the heroes of that world and begin a path of conquest. He claims to be the one behind Doctor Doom.
- Ax-Crazy: What else can you call a guy who butchers entire universes and their inhabitants in horrible ways for the sheer thrill of it?
- Card-Carrying Villain: Openly admits to being an utter sadist, and his disappointment in Doctor Doom boils down to him not being evil enough for his tastes.
- Eviler than Thou: Boasts of being a greater threat than Doctor Doom, seemingly killing him and dropping him off in prehistoric times in a humiliating manner. Ultimately Doom proves to be better than him, surviving the ordeal and out-playing him.
- For the Evulz: He has no reason for the immense suffering and destruction he brings, asides from the sheer joy he gets from it.
- Lean and Mean: Looks almost skeletally emaciated, and an extremely dangerous Physical God.
- The Man Behind the Man: Claims to be this for Doom, and Doom did learn under him in the past. Ultimately Doom is his own person and eventually kills him.
- Multiversal Conqueror: His main hobby is conquering and/or destroying whatever universe he invades, mainly for fun.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Usually just destroys whatever universe he invades. And for no other reason than his own enjoyment.
- Out-Gambitted: Thinks he's outclassed Doctor Doom and killed him in favor of his new apprentice. The new apprentice is actually Doctor Doom, having survived and time traveled so he can take the Marquis out.
- Physical God: His main counterpart was already a Reality Warper, and by the time he becomes the Marquis of Death he can conquer and destroy universes without breaking a sweat.
- Reality Warper: His mutant power is the ability to mold the fabric of the multiverse itself to his liking, with Galactus being less than a bug to him. With his bloodthirsty tendencies, that's a very, VERY, bad combination.
- Sadist: It isn't just enough for him to conquer universes, no. He goes the extra mile of tormenting and torturing the heroes of said universes before wiping them all out.
- Sadistic Choice: Fond of sadistic mind games when torturing the heroes, like trying to compromise Reed Richard's morality by deciding who he should kill.
- Scary Teeth: Holds a lipless, rictus grin, made especially apparent as his normal visor covers most of his face.
- Time Abyss: After he removed the competition in his own world, the Marquis spent a billion years harnessing his power and master over space and time.
- Was Once a Man: Used to be Clyde Wyncham Jr, a human (albeit also a mutant). By the time he becomes the Marquis of Death, he barely looks human.
Miracle Man
Miracle Man
Alter Ego: Joshua Ayers
Notable Aliases: Brother Joshua, Professor
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #3 (March, 1962)
"How do you fight a man who can accomplish miracles! That was the problem which confronted the fantastic four when they faced the threat of the Miracle Man... The Fantastic Four discovered that even miracles are not always what they seem... not when they are produced by a master hypnotist!"
- Back from the Dead: He was one of the many lesser known villains killed by the Scourge that was revived by the Hood to try and kill the Punisher.
- Master of Illusion: The Miracle Man possessed superhuman hypnotic powers which enabled him to influence the minds of large masses of people simultaneously. Apparently, he could telepathically plant his hypnotic illusions in the minds of his victims, for they would "see" the illusions without being told what to see. The Miracle Man's hypnotic powers even worked over television.
- No Eye in Magic: The Miracle Man could not use his hypnotic powers without making eye contact with his victims either in person or over television.
- Reality Warper: For a time, the Miracle Man possessed vast psionic abilities to manipulate matter and energy that were taught to him by the spirits of the Cheemuzwa elders. With these powers, the Miracle Man could rearrange matter, project energy blasts, and increase his own strength to superhuman levels. He could not create living beings, although he could create androids with these powers.
- Stage Magician: The Miracle Man began his career as a cheap stage magician. He wasn't very good but he discovered he was subconsciously hypnotizing his audience into “seeing" him perform incredible tricks.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: When endowed with his "mind-over-matter" abilities, these powers appeared to have an effect on his sanity.
Modulus
Modulus
Alter Ego: Modulus
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Vol 3 #62 (December, 2002)
Originating as data from Mr. Fantastic’s inter-dimensional notepad, Modulus was inadvertently given sentience and mobility when Franklin Richards played with the pad.
- Cyber Green: Modulus generally appears as a human shapped outline of Matrix Raining Code.
- Matrix Raining Code: Modulus generally appears as a Cyber Green human shapped outline of Matrix Raining Code.
- Stalker with a Crush: To Reed; Modulus, made of pure data, viewed itself as incomplete without a living counterpart and it naturally gravitated to its creator to fill this role. This led it to try to eliminate any rivals for Reed's attention (which primarily meant Ben, Sue and Johnny).
- Telephone Teleport: Modulus could travel along media signals, disappearing one place and reappearing somewhere else so long as the signal was active.
Nicholas Scratch
Nicholas Scratch
Alter Ego: Nicholas Scratch
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #185 (August, 1977)
Nicholas Scratch is the son of Agatha Harkness and a resident of the hidden community of New Salem, Colorado.
- Antagonistic Offspring: He's the son of Agatha Harkness and her enemy.
- Beard of Evil: Because he's an evil sorcerer, of course he has a full beard.
- Evil Sorcerer: He's made deals with demons in the past too.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His cloak is purple and his outfit is green.
Occulus
Occulus
Alter Ego: Occulus
Notable Aliases: The Unforgiving One, Doc Occulus
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #363 (April, 1992)
Ruler of his planet and former ward of the Gem Guild.
Overmind
Over-Mind
Alter Ego: Grom
Notable Aliases: Champion of Champions
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #113 (August, 1971)
It was his goal to carry on the prophesy of the Eternals. "From Beyond the Stars Shall Come the Overmind - And He Shall Crush the Universe!" He was stopped by a combination of the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom and The Stranger.
- Beard of Evil: Although after turning good it can be seen as Manly Facial Hair.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He was unknowingly controlled by Null the Living Darkness and used him to try to destroy Earth-712.
- Evil Is Bigger: Stands at 10ft tall and he's an enemy of the Fantastic Four.
- Heel–Face Turn: For a time he quit villainy and even joined the Defenders.
- Human Aliens: He's an Eternal from the planet Eyung, and other than size, he's similar to humans.
- Super-Toughness: Over-Mind's body is highly resistant to physical injury. He was able to withstand with no effects the combined blows of Hulk and Hyperion.
- Weak to Magic: Other than mind control, Overmind is weak against magic.
Primus
Primus
Alter Ego: Flb'Dbi
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #221 (August, 1980)
Psycho-Woman
Psycho-Woman
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual #32 (August, 2010)
Vengeful daughter of Psycho-Man.
The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man
Notable Aliases: Cully Moore, John Eden, Aiden Toliver
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Vol 5 #5 (July, 2014)
A villain introduced in Frank Robinson’s run on the comics in 2015, ‘the Quiet Man’ is revealed to have been the mastermind behind the team’s recent misfortunes (Ben being framed for murder, Johnny losing his powers, Reed and Sue losing custody of their children) and claims to have been indirectly attacking the team for years… all because he had a crush on Sue years ago and Reed talked to Sue first.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Admittedly, the first time Reed and Sue spoke to each other was probably important to them anyway, but they couldn’t have known that it also marked the start of the Quiet Man’s hatred of them.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Basically defied; according to the Quiet Man, he owns everything from corner shops to Fortune 500 companies, and he still blames Reed for the fact that he’s miserable.
- Didn't Think This Through: The main reason the Quiet Man’s plan fails in the end; as Reed observes, trusting a villain who proudly proclaims himself to be ‘the Psycho Man’ to keep his word and abandon power over two Earths was a very stupid move.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The Quiet Man is attacking the team to the extent of framing Reed for causing an invasion from an alternate Earth just because Reed talked to Sue before he could, even though neither Reed or Sue had any idea the man even existed.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The villain introduces himself as ‘the Quiet Man’ and explains that he has developed so many other aliases over the years that he doesn’t even remember his original name.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Part of the reason the Quiet Man failed was that he underestimated the better nature of some of the villains he’d recruited to assist him, such as the Wizard sparing his clone, Bentley, whom he acknowledges as a son.
- Evil Is Petty: The Quiet Man claims that he developed a cure for cancer and decided to destroy it because there were too many people anyway and he saw no point in letting them be happy when he couldn’t be.
- Hidden Villain: The Quiet Man only reveals himself half-way through Robinson’s run.
- Man Behind the Man: The Quiet Man has claimed to be this to some of the team’s other villains over the years, although it’s hard to be sure how seriously this claim should be taken.
- Master of Disguise: Uses holograms and other advanced technology to disguise himself, to the extent that he can’t remember what he originally looked like.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Downplayed, but despite being high-functioning enough to make a fortune and become a Villain with Good Publicity, his motivations for targeting the Fantastic Four (and if his claims are true, orchestrating the rise of several other villains that have antagonised the Four over the years) shows that he’s still ultimately an entitled, resentful brat at heart.
- Revenge Before Reason: Even if the Quiet Man is exaggerating the scale of his influence on the FF’s history, he definitely goes to ridiculous lengths to destroy the team when they never deliberately did anything to hurt him in the first place.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: In the end, the Quiet Man gets away in another disguise while Reed and Valeria are distracted cleaning up his mess, and he hasn’t been seen since.
- Villainous Crush: Everything the Quiet Man has done can be traced back to an inability to get over his crush on Sue, when Sue never had any idea he even existed.
- Would Hurt a Child: The Quiet Man’s plan required him to not only endanger Franklin and Valeria’s lives, but also use Franklin to basically recreate ‘Counter-Earth’ and attack the FF with its forces.
Samurai Destroyer
Samurai Destroyer
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #226 (January, 1981)
An explorer discovers a skeleton of a powerful robot inside some ruins of a hidden sanctuary. He rebuilds the giant robot warrior and calls himself the Samurai Destroyer.
- Humongous Mecha: It's a giant robot that towers over buildings.
- One-Shot Character: Only showed up in one issue in 1981, was destroyed and has never reappeared.
Senso
Senso
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Vol 3 #52 (April, 2002)
Senso is from a race known as the Hidden Ones - a crossbreed of humans and Inhumans.
- Bald of Evil: Her real appearance doesn't have hair.
Street
Street
Alter Ego: Henry Kramer
First Appearance: Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man #4 (August, 2005)
Henry Kramer was factory worker involved in an industrial accident that transformed him into a living piece of asphalt.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: Can be seen as the equivalent of DC's Tar Pit, who is also a human turned into a tar monster.
- Canon Foreigner: He only appears in the Marvel Adventures continuity.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: His whole character is built around his being such a pathetic villain that he always gets defeated before he can even finish monologuing about his origin story.
Stygorr
Stygorr
Notable Aliases: The Nightlord; Lord of Sub-Space
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #231 (June, 1981)
Stygorr is a powerful being in the Negative Zone and seeks to destroy the Fantastic Four when they get trapped in his realm.
- Hand Blast: Stygorr can alter his bodily substance from positive to anti-matter creating a blast of energy.
- Killed Off for Real: Apparently blown up at the end of his only appearance and has never been revived.
- Purple Is Powerful: He dresses in purple and neither Mr. Fantastic nor the Thing were unable to face him head on.
- The Rival: Wanted to destroy a stranded Baxter Building as a display of power for Annihilus and Blastaar.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Like many other enemies of the Fantastic Four, he dresses in purple.
Super-Apes
Super-Apes
Alter Egos: Peotor the Orangutan, Igor the Baboon, Grigori the Gorilla, Miklho the Gorilla, Alpha, Beta, Dmitri, Various other unnamed primates
Notable Aliases: Red Ghost's Super-Apes, Gamma-Apes
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #13 (April, 1963)
Red Ghost's apes who were granted superpowers after being exposed to cosmic rays.
- Amplified Animal Aptitude: The cosmic rays increased their intelligence, although not to a human degree.
- Killer Gorilla: Miklho and later Grigori.
- Killed Off for Real: The Apes were killed alongside their master by a Hydra-turned Captain America.
- Mind Control: Beta's ability.
- Replacement Goldfish: After Miklho the Gorilla was killed during Fall of the Hulks, Kragoff replaced him with a baby gorilla with identical powers named Grigori.
- Selective Magnetism: Peotr the Orangutan's power. He possesses the ability to project magnetic forces, enabling him to attract or repel objects containing iron or steel. Using his magnetic powers, he may be able to suspend weights above his head that are roughly equal to the amounts that Miklho can lift (press) through physical strength.
- Shapeshifting: Igor the Baboon's ability. He is limited to shapes roughly equal to his normal size. However, he can only make baboon sounds if he attempts to resemble a human or humanoid.
- Super-Strength: Mikhlo the Gorilla's ability that makes him roughly the equal of the Thing. Alpha also has this ability.
- Sweet Tooth: Igor the Baboon loves candy.
- Unexplained Recovery: They somehow reappear alive during Savage Avengers alongside Red Ghost as patrons of the Bar with No Name.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Alpha and Beta have never reappeared ever since they fled to the jungle in the late sixties.
Terminus
Terminus
Notable Aliases: Ravager of Worlds, Despoiler of Planets, Great Destroyer, Great One, Terminoid
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #269 (August, 1984)
A lethal creation by a dying race to get their revenge on the Celestials. Terminus is an incredibly powerful and gargantuan cosmic scavenger, who exists in various stages and has threatened the Earth a number of times.
Victorious
Victorious
Alter Ego: Zora Vukovic
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Vol 6 #1 (October, 2018)
A dedicated patriot and freedom fighter in her homeland of Latveria, she was given cosmic powers bestowed by Doctor Doom.
- Badass Cape: To imitate Dr. Doom, she wears a green cape.
- The Champion: For Latveria and Doctor Doom specifically.
- Empowered Badass Normal: She was Doom's bodyguard and received Power Cosmic, making her a greater threat.
- Flight: Victorious is capable of propelling herself through the air at extraordinary speeds that make her look like a blur to the naked eye.
- Modesty Bedsheet: Covers herself with one after sleeping with Johnny Storm and accepting Doom's marriage proposal.
- Sex for Solace: She doesn't have a problem doing this with Johnny Storm, who was feeling down at Lyja leaving him for good and not being able to share it with Sky. To her it was just sex, nothing more, nothing less.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's pretty tall and certainly beautiful.
- Super-Strength: Victorious has showcased incredible strength, being able to destroy one of Invisible Woman's force fields by ramming into it.
- Undying Loyalty: For Doctor Doom, being his loyal champion.
