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, believing that relationship are relatively good and that they can 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.
Von Bardas survived to become a deformed cyborg. A year later she attacked Cage, leaving him in a coma, and was eventually defeated once more by Johnson.
She has recently resurfaced, having regained a far less deformed looking body, working with the Red Ghost on a plan to use KGB super-spies placed in suspended animation to frame Doctor Doom of starting a nuclear war.
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