Lucia von Bardas

Lucia von Bardas
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Secret War #1 (February 2004)
Created by	Brian Michael Bendis (Writer) Gabriele Dell'Otto (Artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Lucia von Bardas
Abilities	Skilled diplomat Flight Force field generation

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

Lucia von Bardas first appeared in Secret War #1 and was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Gabriele Dell'Otto.

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 President of the United States did not take action, believing that relationship was relatively good and that they could simply negotiate. 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.

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