Characters / MUA Villains

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Masters of Evil - Leadership

• Evil Counterpart: To the heroes and their alliance.
• Legion of Doom: They're a gathering of a lot of villains, working together for one goal, but with Doom, Loki, Baron Mordo, Ultron and Enchantress at the top.

Doctor Doom

Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom

Species: Human

Voiced By: Clive Revill (Marvel Ultimate Alliance)

First Appearance: Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962)

The scarred, egomaniacal leader of Latveria perpetually in search of revenge against Reed Richards, who he blames for scarring his face, and for a means to conquer the world.

• Affably Evil: During the final act of the first game, Doom is patronizingly friendly towards the Alliance, inviting them into his Castle and not sending any enemies after them; after all, they are the only people left on Earth who can truly "appreciate" the changes he's made to reality.
• And Your Reward Is Clothes: As a DLC playable character, he gets alternate costumes based on his appearance in Secret Wars, Kristoff's version of Doctor Doom, and the Ultimate universe version.
• Arch-Enemy: To the entire Fantastic Four, but most personally towards Reed Richards.
• Big Bad: The main villain of the game, and the last one the heroes must face.
• Big "NO!": Once he realizes Odin is free, and he's screwed.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: His first fight with the Alliance, which would have resulted in a Total Party Kill if not for the intervention of Uatu teleporting the heroes to safety at the last second
• Deal with the Devil: Doom makes a literal one with Mephisto, trading him the soul of the X-Man Nightcrawler for the Twilight Sword. Considering their past history, that this deal ultimate ends with The Alliance traveling to Hell and attacking Mephisto is likely just the cherry on top for Doom.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Doom's rivalry with Richards began when the man pointed out an error in an experiment he was performing in college. When Doom refused to heed this, as he believed he could make no mistakes, and the device exploded, Doom believed that Richards must have sabotaged it out of spite and has wanted him dead ever since. Even upon remaking the world in his image, Doom cannot simply kill Reed- he has to record him in The Book of Doom as a charlatan who attempted to assassinate the God-Emperor.
• Enemy Mine: The Playable version of Doom from the DLC is implied to be a time displaced version of the character who is able to see the damage being done to reality by himself and agrees to a temporary alliance to defeat his future self and preserve existence - if only because destroying the universe would prevent him from eventually ruling it.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Very much so. Once she died, and he learned that Mephisto was holding her soul captive, Doom even swallowed his pride to ask Doctor Strange for his Vishanti granted favor to travel with him to Mephisto's Realm and free her.
• Evil Sorcerer: Doom isn't just a scientific genius, he's also the second most powerful mage on Earth, and the runner up for the title of Sorcerer Supreme.
• Fate Worse than Death: Odin promises he's going to face an "eternity of suffering" for what he's done.
• Final Boss: Doom serves as the final battle for the first game.
• Flunky Boss: Before he fights the Alliance, Doom sends Dark clones of the Fantastic Four out to fight them for his amusement. Once the fight begins in earnest and the Alliance steal back a portion of Odin's powers, Doom floods the arena with more of these clones to back him up.
• Godhood Seeker: His entire plan is to defeat and steal the powers of Odin and then remake reality in his own image.
• God-Emperor: Once he gains the Odin-Force, Doom completely reshapes the world with him as the central and sole god of existence.
• It's All About Me: He betrays the other villains so he can become all-powerful. Once that's done, he starts brainwashing everyone who fights him to endlessly worship him.
• Magitek: He's as skilled a sorcerer as he is a scientist and has mingled the two arts together so intimately it's hard to tell when he's casting spells versus utilizing his weapons.
• Physical God: Doom plus Odin Force equals nigh-unstoppable threat, capable of curbstomping anything with no more than a twitch of his hands.
• Powered Armor: As usual, Doom wears a magic-enhanced suit of combat armor.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Doom usually just contends with making the Fantastic Four miserable, but in this game his actions threaten everyone everywhere.

Loki

Species: Jotun, raised Asgardian

Voiced By: Larry Cedar

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #85 (October 1962)

The adopted brother of Thor, and trickster god.

• Animated Armor: Loki seeks to take control of the Destroyer Armor and abandon his physical body to rule Asgard from its invincible shell.
• Arch-Enemy: Towards Thor.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Once known as the God of Mischief, by the time Loki joins with Doom and the Masters of Evil he has taken on the new title of the God of Evil and fully embraces it.
• Child of Two Worlds: He's a Frost Giant by blood and raised as an Asgardian; but because of this he never felt connected to either and remained an outsider - which bred the resentment that lead to him wanting to kill Odin and take over Asgard.
• Evil Sorcerer: Loki is one of the most powerful sorcerers in Asgard and makes use of a variety of spells in battle.
• Fate Worse than Death: Same deal as Doom.
• Flunky Boss: He has less health and fewer gimmicks to his battle than any of the other major boss characters in the game, and mostly tries to compensate for this by summoning Fenrir wolves and trolls to swarm the heroes. The reason for this is that he's throwing the fight to trick you, and isn't really trying.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Loki wants to seal away his physical body and transfer his consciousness into the Destroyer. While this works, the Alliance still defeats him by tricking Loki's armored form into attacking his physical form, knocking them both out.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: Once he has control of the Destroyer, it cannot be harmed by any attacks, and deals absurd damage. Your only chance of victory is to trick it into attacking himself.
• Large Ham: One of the few things that he has in common with the rest of his Asgardian family; hammily monologuing while laying siege to Asgard
• Legendary Impostor: Loki disguises himself as The Mandarin to trick the heroes into chasing after him while the Masters of Evil capture Nightcrawler. He pulls the trick off a second time when he disguises himself as Nick Fury to fool the Alliance into gathering the God-Swords for him to free the Destroyer armor.
• Magic Knight: Thanks to his heritage, Loki is still vastly stronger than the average human, and while he is best known for his dark magics, he is perfectly capable with a sword as well.
• Master of Illusion: Loki is capable of making near-undetectable illusions. He loses his boss battle on purpose so he can cast an illusion that tricks the heroes into freeing the Destroyer armor for him.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Despite his centuries-old age, Loki is essentially just in the midst of one constant temper tantrum and has a very childish attitude.
• Squishy Wizard: Once the heroes catch up to him, they take him down quickly. Then its revealed that its all part of his ploy
• The Un-Favorite: Growing up, he was treated as Odin's lesser son and a disappointing black sheep. While Thor is well beyond any love he might have had for his brother by the events of the game, even he admits that Odin probably should have treated Loki better growing up.

Enchantress

Species: Asgardian

Voiced By: Gabrielle Carteris

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #103 (February 1964)

A rogue Asgardian who carries a torch for Thor.

• Dual Boss: She's fought alongside her personal bodyguard, Skurge the Executioner.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only woman among Dr. Doom's lieutenants. In fact, she's the only female member of the Masters of Evil as a whole.
• Support Party Member: In her Dual Boss fight alongside The Executioner, she will focus on healing Skurge while he does the heavy lifting, requiring you to take her out first.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: Deeply infatuated with Thor, much to Loki's chagrin.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Although you defeat her before freeing Balder, she's seen with Doom and the other Masters of Evil lieutenants discussing the final phase of their plan. However, she's never seen again afterward, leaving her fate unknown.

Ultron

Species: Robot

Voiced By: James Horan

First Appearance: The Avengers #54 (July 1968)

A killer robot accidentally invented by Hank Pym, who has made it his mission in life to kill all humans.

• Adaptation Personality Change: The comic version of Ultron would never willingly work with anyone else, especially humans, unlike this version.

Baron Mordo

Species: Human

Voiced By: Phil Proctor

First Appearance: Strange Tales #111 (Aug. 1963)

Arch-Nemesis of Doctor Strange and a powerful sorcerer.

• Black Magic: Mordo has very few physical abilities and tends to rely on powerful dark spells in battle.
• Dual Boss: He's never fought on his own, only being battled by the party at the summit of Raven's Peak alongside Ultron.
• Mind Manipulation: Mordo can take control of the minds of lesser men. He hijacks the mind of a Dark Elf warrior and forces them to trigger a trap while trying to identify Odin's Spear.
• Out of Focus: Mordo's only real involvement with the plot is to hijack the first teleportation spell in the second act and send the party to Murderworld instead of Castle Doom. Aside from that, he mostly just stands around in the villain briefing cutscenes, and is promptly ditched by Doom and Loki once they have finished their business in Asgard.
• Teleport Interdiction: When the Alliance moves its base to Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum and plans to travel via teleportation spell, Mordo uses his own magic to hijack the spell and forces the heroes to Murderworld.

Masters of Evil

Arcade

Species: Human

An eccentric but deadly assassin, Arcade is responsible for the creation of Murderworld, a massive complex of death traps themed after an amusement park, which he uses to entertain himself by pitting superheroes against it.

Attuma

Species:Atlantean

A barbarian chief who seeks to usurp Namor's throne and thus fulfill a prophecy written in the Atlantean Chronicles. The Masters of Evil provided him technology to mind-control the citizens of Atlantis in exchange for access to the Atlantean catacombs.

Bullseye

Species: Human

A man with impossible aim, and Daredevil's archnemesis

• Badass Normal: Incredible aim aside, he's just a normal squishy human, up against Captain America (super-soldier), Wolverine (nigh-invulnerable killing machine), Spider-Man (enhanced strength, agility and reflexes) and Thor (god of thunder).
• It's Personal: Killing Elektra made it very personal between him and Daredevil. And with Elektra as well.

Crimson Dynamo

Real name: Valentin Shatalov

Species: Human

The title and armor of Crimson Dynamo has been taken up by many figures since the days of the Soviet Union, who have been a long-running series of opponents for Iron Man. The Crimson Dynamo fought in Ultimate Alliance is the 6th person to don the armor, KGB operative Valentin Shatalov, who took the armor from Dimitri Bukharin and would use in an attempt to institute a new Stalinist regime.

Fin Fang Foom

A dragon-like alien from the planet Maklu IV who desires conquest of Earth.

• Wake-Up Call Boss: As the first end-of-area boss fight, he poses a much larger threat than Scorpion, Bullseye, Winter Soldier, and Radioactive man did due to his larger health bar, heavy-hitting attacks (including a projectile attack with a wide range), and ability to place himself out of your attack range.

M.O.D.O.K.

Real name: George Tarleton

The head of the criminal organization A.I.M., M.O.D.O.K. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) is a former technician for the organization who underwent a genetic experiment that massively increased his intelligence and granted him psionic powers. As his full name suggests, he is very eager to kill things.

Radioactive Man

Real name: Chen Lu

Species: Human Mutate

Dr Chen Lu was a nuclear physicist backed by the Chinese Communist Party. After exposing himself to high levels of radiation, he himself would become radioactive and develop superhuman control over radiation. While he is a hero to his homeland of China, he is not above acts seen as villainous by the international community, such as allying with the Masters of Evil.

• Starter Villain: Paired with Winter Soldier as the first Dual Boss faced.

Scorpion

Real name: Mac Gargan

• Starter Villain: Scorpion is the first villain fought in the game.

Tiger Shark

Real name: Todd Arliss

Species: Human-Atlantean-Tiger Shark hybrid

A former Olympic swimmer who volunteered for an experiment that gave him the DNA of both Namor and a tiger shark. The process had negative effects on his mind, leading him to become a supervillain.

• Dirty Coward: He sells out Attuma and the Masters of Evil when the heroes threaten him with the prospect of having to face the wrath of the now un-brainwashed Atlanteans.

Winter Soldier

Real name: Unknown, heavily implied to be James Buchanan Barnes

Species: Human

A shadowy figure with some unknown connection to Captain America's past

• Adaptational Villainy: Unlike Comic Winter Soldier, who was amnesiac and/or Brainwashed and Crazy during his brief period of villainy, this version is willingly working for the villains and enjoys taunting Cap about his failure to save Bucky. Who he is.
• Developer's Foresight: Bring Cap along to the fight with him, and they get some unique dialogue.
• Jerkass: He's a piece of work.
• Mysterious Past: Who is he? Why does he hate Cap so much? The game never explicitly says, but he drops a small truck's worth of hints that he is Bucky, blaming Cap for what happened and out for revenge. And his comic self pretty openly is Bucky, so...
• Starter Villain: One of the first villains the alliance fights against, in the opening level.

Mysterio

Real name: Quentin Beck

Species: Human

A former special effects artist in the film industry who took up a criminal career for the notoriety it would bring him.

• Depending on the Writer: The official strategy guide says that Mysterio is Daniel Berkhart, the second Mysterio, which would also make it the only time Berkhart's appeared outside of the comics.

Shocker

Real name: Herman Schultz

Species: Human

A career bank robber armed with self-made "Vibro-Shock Gauntlets". Having been hired by Doom and Arcade, he takes on the heroes in Murderworld.

• Adaptational Badass: Shocker is a pretty competent villain in the comics, able to put up good fights against heroes like Spider-Man, but he's more of a street-level threat and prefers to stay that way to keep big name heroes like the Avengers off his back. In this game, however, he's able to take on teams of Marvel's highest-power characters (Thor, Silver Surfer, and Magneto, just to name a few) by himself with nothing but his suit and gauntlets.
• Badass Normal: He doesn't have any powers, just his own self-made tech. Said tech lets him put up a fight against the major heavy-hitters of Marvel's roster of heroes.
• Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit: His outfit may seem goofy with it's quilted, padded look (Human Torch compares it to oven mitts), but it serves a purpose in absorbing the backlash from his gauntlets so he doesn't harm himself using them.

Independent villains

Deathbird

Species: Shi'ar

Exiled princess of the Shi'ar Empire, Deathbird is prepared to do whatever it takes to regain what she feels is her birthright.

• Cain and Abel: With her little sister, Lilandra, the current majestrix of the Shi'ar. If the player doesn't succeed in / bother saving her, Deathbird wins out.
• Human Aliens: As a Shi'ar, she almost looks human, save for the feathery hair and those big fluffy wings attached to her arms.

Galactus

Species: Taan / anthropomorphic personification

The Devourer of Worlds, Galactus has existed before the current universe even came into being. He roams the cosmos, seeking planets that he may consume for sustenance with the help of his heralds.

• Adaptational Villainy: He vows vengeance on the heroes for stealing from him, an unusually petty move from the big guy, who usually doesn't give a damn about mortal concerns.
• The Juggernaut: He's a Devourer of Worlds. No matter who the player has in their party, this guy is several notches above any of their weights. Assistance from the Silver Surfer is required just for them to get away alive.

Mandarin

Species: Human

A man who came into possession of ten alien rings, the Mandarin has opposed Iron Man many times in his bid for world domination.

• No Honor Among Thieves: He got himself kicked out of the Masters of Evil trying take control of the team from Doom.
• Not Me This Time: Doom's alliance points the heroes in his direction, but once they've beaten him up, he reveals he's not remotely involved in what's going on.
• Puzzle Boss: After a bit of damage, he'll teleport to a safe spot and send some Ultimos and exploding spider-bots after you. In order to continue the fight against him, you need to trick one of the spider-bots into a portal to destroy the Ultimo preventing you from going after Mandarin.
• The Starscream: What caused him to be ousted from the Masters of Evil.

Mephisto

Species: Demon

A demonic entity who rules over his realm of fire and brimstone, Mephisto is an embodiment of evil with a long list of villainous deeds, including the creation of the pact that would bind Zarathos to Johnny Blaze and create ghost rider, the torture of the soul of Dr. Doom's mother, and the end of Spider-Man's marraige to his childhood sweetheart.

• Sadistic Choice: Mephisto's biggest act in his scenario is forcing the heroes to pick whether to sacrifice Nightcrawler or Jean Grey in order to save the other. Of course, if Magneto is in the party, it allows them to Take a Third Option and save both.

Tinkerer

Species: Human

Formerly a weapons supplier for low-level villains, Phineas Mason entered into a partnership with Lucia von Bardas after the death of his son. In exchange for near-unlimited resources, Phineas upgraded her personal army with modified super-villain tech. Under Latveria's sponsorship, he also re-opened his ties with his American tech criminals, supplying their equipment at greatly reduced prices. Whether this was an attempt to recruit future soldiers or merely incite U.S. instability remains unclear.

• Big Bad: Of the second game, being the one who designed and installed the nanite network.
• Big Bad Friend: Provided you choose Pro-Registration, he's actually on your side until the nanites begin taking control of the supervillains.
• Climax Boss: He's fought just before you fight Nanite Nick Fury.
• Mad Scientist: Several audio recordings found throughout the final level consist of him rambling about his experiments with the nanites and how proud he is of his creations.