Character Index/L

==Character Index - L==
===L.J.===
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L.J. was a gang member who was attacked by the Night Terror.
===Lacey===
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Lacey co-hosted the show with Tom on the episode that Miguel O'Hara auditioned.
===Laclos===
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Monsieur Laclos was the social worker of the orphanage in which Jeanne-Marie Beaubier had grown up and systematically abused the children housed by her to the point of traumatizing them.
===Lafferty===
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Mrs. Lafferty was the owner of a boarding house.
===LaGraves===
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LaGraves was on the Sweat Shoppers team sent by the Power Broker on the order of the Red Skull to the federal penitentiary in Virginia to evade Viper from prison, which they successfully accomplished.
===Lake===
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Lake was an immigrant smuggler who was arrested after being caught by Wolverine.
===Lance===
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Lance was a friend of Bud Williams and when Bud said he was unable to bring Irma to the prom because his car didn't start, he immediately offered to accompany Irma to the prom as he could not accompany them both because his car only had two places, but Bud's other friend Don offered to repair Bud's car and only if he couldn't do it would he accompany Irma to the prom.
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A drunkard who met Winda Wester on the road to which he made heavy advances but after Winda defended himself by scratching him, he took his revenge by attacking and beating her.
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Lance was a kid who during the Uncle Elmer show was on a carousel that was rotated by Simon Williams as Mr. Muscle.
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Lance was a security guard at the entrance gate of the Colossal studios in Hollywood.
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Larry was one of the terrorists chased by the Man-Eater in South America. With an accompliace, Larry caused an explosion on their lair to cover their escape and to impair the pursuer's scent-tracking abilities. The Man-Eater still captured Larry and his partner, then threw Larry to the piranhas, killing him.
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Lance was among the group of mutant haters who lent the mutant Dennis Hogan by killing him.
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Lance was a Freeport High School student and an acquaintance of Chad.
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Lance was one of Cassie Lang's schoolmates.
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Lance was a prison guard in a New York prison and when Thor showed up to interrogate a prisoner Lance told him he had to leave his hammer but his colleague Bill told him to leave it alone so no one would be able to lift it.
===Lane===
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Mister Lane visited Jane while she was hospitalized at Fleming-Gardner Memorial Hospital.
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Mrs. Lane let Normie Osborn spend All Hallows Eve with her son Josh.
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Lane was one of two truck drivers who transported the weapons seized in police actions to be decommissioned, but in fact they delivered them to Sheriff Cole to be able to exchange with the Calavera's heroine.
===Lansfield===
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He brought his newborn son to his father to introduce him to him and when his father said he was heartbroken for not being able to give anything to his nephew except his love, his son replied that this was the best gift he could give him.
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Together with her husband she brought her newborn son Harry to his father-in-law to introduce him to his grandson.
===LaPierre===
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Mr. LaPierre was the homeowner of the Hudsons when they lived in Ottawa soon after they got married. When they left the apartment to move to New York, where James had accepted Roxxon's offer, Heather took leave of Mr. LaPierre giving him the following 4 months' rent in case they had to return, but Mr. LaPierre replied that they certainly would not be returning..
===Lara===
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Lara was a member of the Trustees of Hate, a group led by Doctor Vortex dedicated to pushing the nations of Borsia and Gratzia into warring with each other for unrevealed reasons. The group was opposed by the hero the Blue Blaze.
After escaping the Trustees' lime pit, the Blaze was held at gunpoint by Lara. Lara then showed the Blaze the Trustees' power by using a special hate ray to force Borsia's greatest speaker to break out into an anti-Gratzia tirade.
Lara later returned the Blaze to the Trustee's castle hideout. After two attempts to kill the Blaze failed, the Blaze tossed Dr. Vortex into the Trustees' lime pit to die. Without their leader, the group fell apart.
===Larissa===
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Larissa was a human that was integrated into the Phalanx collective. She and other members of the Falange collective were sent by Cameron Hodge to clash with the X-Men but were defeated and perished in the fight.
===Larry===
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Larry was one of the underprivileged children assisted by social worker Betsy Beatty.
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Larry was one of Doctor Octopus's henchmen and was working on an android that looked and reacted like Spider-Man to help train him.
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Twin brothers Larry and Gar stabbed each other to death over jealousy for a Gehenna Stone fragment.
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Larry was at the controls of the wrecking ball that demolished the smokestack where the corpse of the Spider-Man clone had been left there.
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Larry was a security guard who faced the Spider-Carnage.
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Larry and Georgie were ordered by Hammerhead to get rid of Peter Parker.
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Larry was an heroin dealer who was interrogated by the Black Cat about a missing runaway kid.
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Larry secretly alerted Gen. Thunderbolt Ross that Emil Blonsky quit his job at the library in Duncan and was about to leave town.
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Larry was a passerby from whom Astrid Bloom read the mind to discover that he was a paranoid schizophrenic who was convinced that his bird was cheating on him with his best friend and that the world would end next week.
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Larry was a former boxer and the owner of the Cyclone Bar & Grill. He took Daredevil and cared for him inside the bar following a fight against Bullseye.
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Larry and his partner Marv pretended to be two repairmen to retrieve a hammer that would save Cimarron's people.
The hammer, which Deadpool appropriated and gave it to the Walrus, believing it to be a fake, was used by Larry and his partner to defeat the werewolves in Cimarron.
Finally, they tell Deadpool that the hammer is in fact a magical object that was used to oppose a group of werewolves who were planning to storm the town of Cimarron.
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Larry approached Matthew Murdock and told him he knew who was after him. He was really a homeless boy who was paid for medical testing in order to replicate Daredevil's powers.
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Larry was a sanitation worker at the Fresh Kills landfill.
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Larry was a public defender who was assigned to defend Johnny Squarejohn, a childhood friend of Matt Murdock.
===Lars===
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Lars was one of Mary Jane Watson's friends who attended her wedding bash in a private Uptown club.
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Lars was an oil rig worker under Brom's supervision.
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Lars was one of the boys bullied and lured by an internet subterfuge by the Dark Beast and transformed into a Lizard-like being and then placed in the service of Dark Beast to catch other boys to experiment on.
It was revealed that Lars was the victim of a car accident and was consequently mutilated in his arms and legs. Dark Beast used a variant of Connors' serum on him, transforming him into a lizard-like creature.
After Emma Frost and Spider-Man escape, Dark Beast orders Lars to check equipment that could have been damaged during the fight. Shortly thereafter, he struck Emma Frost from behind as she was destroying Dark Beast's equipment, but was quickly defeated by the Lizard.
===Larson===
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Dr. Larson was a veterinarian working at the San Pedro Cat & Dog Clinic.
===Lassiter===
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Lassiter was a New York mobster. Some of his men failed to come to terms with mobster Garrick King, who escaped with the $ 2 million Lassiter would go to the Cult of Kâli for their alliance.
After Shroud clashed with his men, Lassiter contacted the leader of the Cult, Yannroth, who would unleash his killer, Kâli, against Shroud.
After explaining to Yannroth that he was not working with Shroud but that he was his enemy, to show his intentions he arranged a meeting with Garrick King where, however, there was also the Scorpion that captured him.
Lassiter and Scorpion also took King's wife hostage to force him to hand over the money, and after obtaining it they went to meet with Yannroth but after Shroud revealed that the money was counterfeit, Yannroth had Lassiter killed.
===Latour===
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Miss Latour was a stern French tutor.
===Laura===
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Laura and her sister Agnes were visited by Mr. Cotton from the Welfare Bureau after receiving complaints about the smell and filth of the house. He threatened to call an exterminator on the rats and attempted to kill one himself, one named Caesar, who attacked and bit him back. After he killed the rat, the women were distraught and lead him to their clean cellar where they chained up Mr Cotton and fed him to the rest of the rats.
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Laura was the first witness to notice the Demolisher flying towards Tony's private yacht.
===Laurel===
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This man was an agent of the Genesis Coalition and a supporter of Coalition high-ranking member Dmitri Petrovich. When the Coalition arrested Petrovich, this man and another Petrovich-ist posed as backup guards to approach the guards escorting Petrovich, and freed him by killing the real guards. They then took Petrovich to a hangar to escape in a stolen Hydra Issue Fighter, and told him that many Coalition agents supported him. Petrovich accepted the help of the two agents and led them to attack the Royal Palace of Symkaria to try to capture the Coalition's enemy, Silver Sable, who was there. Petrovich ordered to eliminate any other enemy, but make sure to capture Sable alive. However, Petrovich planned for this plan to fail so that Sable would capture Petrovich and then Petrovich could manipulate Sable by feigning fear; he did not care about the lives of his followers. Sable's agent Douglas Powell of the Wild Pack shot down the fighter; but the occupants were unharmed and continued the battle. Sable sent two of her men, Larry Arnold and Battlestar, against the Coalition agents, whom she dubbed "Laurel and Hardy" after the comedy duo, while she was fighting Petrovich. Laurel and Hardy were quickly defeated.
===Lauren===
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Lauren was an employee of O'Connell Daycare attended by Malik, the grandson of Kamala Khan.
===Laurent===
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Laurent was a mercenary hired to retrieve France's nuclear codes. He died when Black Widow activated a Life-Model Decoy booby-trapped with explosives, in order to kill Laurent and his employers.
===Lauria===
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Lauria lived in the monastery where an unidentified woman left a trio of Hellbent infants, who would be known as the Cadre. Lauria helped Gregori supervise the children, until, like the rest of the Knights Templar, she was slaughtered by the hellbents sent by Seth.
===Laurie===
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Laurie was Harlan Ryker's secretary at Cybertek. When Michael Collins showed up at Ryker's office, Laurie told him that Mr. Ryker was busy with Ben Jacobs in a weapons test and could not be disturbed.
A few days later Laurie warns Mr. Ryker in his office that Mr. Cross had arrived to meet him.
Later, Laurie warns via video, Mr. Ryker that there is Mr. Burr to see him
===Lawrence===
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Lawrence was one of the bouncers at the Eastern Promise, the club owned by Sergey Bulovic. Lawrence usually abused the girls that wanted to become dancers in the club until Silver Sable beat him while she infiltrated into the club.
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Bruno and Lawrence were two minions in Emmanuel Raposa Florida cocaine smuggling operation. When one of Raposa's sailors reported how he had been assaulted by Moon Knight, questioned and forced to drop a million dollars in cocaine, Raposa had Bruno and Lawrence grab the man so that Raposa himself could execute him by feeding him money. Bruno or Lawrence (the one with an eyepatch) mentioned that Moon Knight had been in the Avengers and was worried about these superheroes going after the operation; but Raposa focused on his drug lord rival Rory Valdez, deeming the latter to be the greater threat.
The story does not reveal which one is Bruno and which Lawrence. These character also seem to be Raposa's minions from the previous issue , with different coloring, but Raposa calls them by different names (Raphael and Andy).
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Lawrence was a servant for Justin Hammer.
Lawrence sacrificed his own life in order not to fail trust in his services towards the one he worked for.
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Lawrence was invited by Bob Cumeo to attend a gathering and discuss about Daredevil.
===Lawson===
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Lawson and Deruge were two subordinates of Nguyen Ngoc Coy, who were ordered to watch over Leong and Nga Cao Mạnh, but they were easily defeated by Spider-Man.
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Professor Lawson was a crazed scientist who invented a ray capable of devolving people by restructuring their genetic structure by matching them with a distant ancestor of whom they kept traces in their DNA. He assaulted the campus where he taught and did research, accusing the Chancellor of having never understood his work, he but was opposed and defeated by Marvel Boy.
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Lawson was one of the members of the school A.V. Club at Midtown High School.
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Lawson was the security chief of Magnum Munitions working in Rock Hill, South Carolina. When High Tech stole some files on cybernetics that Magnum had bought to closuring Cybertek, Lawson tried to stop him, but High Tech's advanced weapons overpowered him. Lawson reported his blunder to Magnum Munitions' CEO Moses Magnum; then Lawson offered to track the files using a tracker in the file. Magnum then sent Lawson on a mobile weapon platform Terrordome to recover the file and kill High Tech. Lawson found High Tech in Stark Prosthetics facility in Denver and attacked, threatening to kill the other Stark employees lest High Tech returned the files immediately - Lawson intended to kill High Tech no matter what. However, the files had been also tracked by cyborg superhero Deathlok, who protected High Tech, broke the Terrordome and captured a slightly-injured Lawson, who was then turned to the police. Magnum Munitions denied any knowledge of Lawson's actions, of the Terrordome or of any stolen files. However, Moses Magnum arranged for another of his employees, Edgerton, to pay Lawson's bail, then have Lawson murdered.
As a security guard, Lawson used a laser gun.
===Le Guin===
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When Over-Mind, whose mind was possessed by the five psychics who had mind melded, decided to close loose ends with the individual personalities, Philip emerged and traveled to his native country. In the meantime, his mother, in Phillip's room, heartbroken, could not rest over the loss of her son, just as Philip entered through the window and at the sight of her son, her mother fainted.
===Leach===
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Leach was a thug who apparently drowned in the East River after being defeated by Daredevil.
===Leaman===
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Leaman was on the Sweat Shoppers team sent by the Power Broker on the order of the Red Skull to the federal penitentiary in Virginia to break Viper out of prison, which they successfully accomplished.
===LeBon===
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Mademoiselle LeBon was the daughter of a high-ranking Montreal government official who was kidnapped by a radical group of her father's political opponents who wanted to force him to give up his seat in parliament. Her father asked for the intervention of Silver Sable International to free her and for this reason Silver Sable created a group of ad hoc mercenaries called the Outlaws.
===Lee===
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Lee was a smuggling chieftain who pledged to Jessan Hoan's service.
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Aiming at Spider-Man, Lee fired his slazer gun and mistakenly hit Aura, almost killing her.
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Lee was one the mercenaries sent by Mr. Raven to capture Dani Moonstar at 1128 Mission Street.
===Leez===
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Leez and her friend were travelling to New Orleans during a school break when they met Gambit and asked for directions. During the conversation something exploded and Gambit was attacked by Assassins Guild. Her friend wanted to drive out there but Leez was fascinated by the battle.
===Lefkowicz===
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Lefkowicz was Jupiter's boss at the Oak Hills Mall.
===Leftenant===
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In the 19th century, The Leftenant worked with the Ingolstadt jail when several prisoners disappeared. He tried to get Colonel Blackstone to open an investigation but he refused to so the Leftenant began investigating himself. On his way to Castle Frankenstein, he ran into Frankenstein's Monster which the Leftenant attacked but was knocked out. Later, after recovering he found the monster chained up being held prisoner by the Colonel who was killing the prisoners and turning them into his mindless slaves using a Giant Spider. He fought the Colonel but was seemingly losing when the chamber began flooding and the spider escaped. The Leftenant fled begging the Colonel to flee too instead of dying. His fate after the castle crumbled is unknown.
===Lefty===
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Lefty was a seasoned reporter for the Daily Globe. During a discussion with a young reporter about the reality of haunted houses, Lefty advised the city editor to have the reporter sent to the haunted Griswald Mansion.
===LeGrange===
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LeGrange was an infamous, international mercenary. His weapon of choice was the knife. He sported a moustache and kept a cap even indoors. Marc Spector, another mercenary, considered him a second-rate professional. Along with Akkad, Banning, and Archie Simmons, he was hired by freelance mercenary Arsenal as a part of an elite unit to give support to the rebellion against dictator Bushman in Burunda; the whole operation being secretly funded by a drug cartel. Arsenal also recruited Spector, an expert in Bushman, and had the whole merc team gather in Marseilles, France. Spector sneaked away, discovered who was really behind the rebellion and, in his disguised identity as superhero Moon Knight, he easily battered him and his peers, delivering all of them to the French police. The police took them to jail in a van, but Arsenal released himself and escaped; he refused to release LeGrange and the other mercenaries because they have proven to be worthless.
===Leiberthal===
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Mr. Leiberthal was the prosecutor in the trial brought against the Red Skull for his war crimes.
During the trial, Leiberthal was taken hostage by Crossbones and released from the fake bioplastoid Avengers created by Arnim Zola.
===Leif===
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Leif and his colleague Kat were two archaeologists from the Stockholm Department of Archeology who identified an underground chamber in which there was a huge treasure, but as soon as they touched the cursed gold present there they turned into dragons and fought against the Valkyrie Rūna that had come to their aid. Runa destroyed the casket containing the curse, probably a trick by Loki for fun, causing Leif and his colleague to return human again.
===Leilani===
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Leilani was a neighbor of Peter Parker who asked if Spider-Man knew a super-hero stronger than him to face her problems with very powerful people.
===Lem===
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Lem was a mechanic from Mount Pressure who repaired She-Hulk's flying car.
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Lem was one of Lavender's goons. He was confronted by Captain America after their boss managed to shoot at Bucky.
===Len===
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Len was one of the sportscasters for the Freeport High School Red Devils football team.
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Len was Special Agent Aguinaga's partner.
===Lena===
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Lena was the stewardess of a wealthy businessman's private plane that was hijacked by Evil Deadpool to be flown to the United States. When she, along with the other members of her crew attempted to rebel against her hijacking, Evil Deadpool killed her.
===Lenny===
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Lenny was one of "Lucky Max" Galeno's affiliates in Los Angeles.
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Lenny was an enforcer for the ESI and was killed in an explosion within the ESI building while trying to capture Spider-Man and Lee Camino.
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Lenny was one of the best Taskmaster students and was hired with others for a sparring partner session dressed as Captain America. The opponent turned out to be the Red Skull who killed Lenny and the other sparring partners in an extremely simple way.
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Lenny was one of the two employees of Jason Tso, who were tasered and rigged with explosives by the Pro. Sent into Club Noir to kill Tso, their grenades were slapped away by Ben Reilly.
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Lenny was one of the gunmen that Lucky Lobo had trained on Mary Kelleher.
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Lenny was part of a contingent of Junior Gates' mob who was defeated in Lower Manhattan by the New Warriors.
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Lenny was one of the bouncers at the Eastern Promise, the club owned by Sergey Bulovic.
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Lenny served as head of the Chicane County police. It was not revealed whether he also was a psychopath who had been brainwashed or if he was a handler of the Psychoville project.
===Lenya===
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Lenya was Yuri Petrovich's dog, who stayed with his father Ivan when they were forced to leave Moscow.
===Leo===
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Leo was a henchman of Vince Baker. While trying to break into Jackson Kimbal's house, Wally and another henchman were knocked out by Benjy's body thrown at them by Kamorr.
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Leo was an inveterate tippler who witnessed Nazis gathering in London with uniforms and guns; he warned the police about it, pleading to be believed.
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Leo was a police officer in Port Jefferson and along with his partner, encountered the aliens Idiot and White Light who used a mind control technique to make them go home and think their encounter was just a dream.
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Leo was an agent of the Shadow Consortium, tasked with hijacking and retrieving a secret United States defense surveillance satellite. He was confronted by Nova, who convinced him and his partner Herb to surrender, but died in the explosion of the ship he was travelling in.
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Leo was a child who dressed as Captain America went with his mother to the Smithsonian Exhibit where he met Steve Rogers and, recognizing him, asked if he was Captain America. Steve replied, after asking his name, that he could have been, but he too could have been Captain America as everyone present at the exhibit.
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Leo encounters the Human Torch outside the Baxter Building complaining that the hostage situation inside the building is stalling traffic making him late for his shift. Soon after, he helps Johnny pass through the force field that surrounded the building.
===Leon===
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Leon was one of Mr. Wilson's social patients.
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Leon was a young boy who played soccer outside Drake's dojo. He hit the paint can Elektra was painting the outside wall of the dojo with the ball, making her angry. He later managed to get Elektra to play soccer and this convinced Drake to accept Elektra as her student.
===Leonard===
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Leonard cured Ellen Brandt's face after she was burned by Man-Thing.
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Leonard was Mr.Canfield's butler.
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Leonard was Hammerhead's cell inmate in Salamanca.
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Leonard was mistaken for a robber by Spider-Man.
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Leonard was the Eagleton, Wisconsin police commissioner who broke the news to April Manning that his son had been killed during a police check while driving his car.
===Lerner===
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One of the security guards at GARID, under the command of Calvin Falconer they tried to capture Tendril but were saved by the timely intervention of Spider-Man.
===Leroy===
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Leroy was the owner of a grocery store in Harlem who got into a dispute with a kid over whether he was owed for work done. Leroy disputed this saying that he had no proof. He pulled out a shotgun because the kid had been smashing up the store but the dispute was handled when Power Man arrived on the scene and broke up the conflict.
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Roy was the owner of Leroy's Tavern in the Pennsylvania time-looped town of Cedar. Now friends with Ben Grimm and his wife Alicia, Roy offered to accompany Alicia to the table, but she replied that she now knew the route.
===Les===
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Les was a member of the Teen Brigade. He thought that the Army would soon polish the Hulk off.
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Mel was a student who frequented the Incantesimo witchcraft shop, and in which a circle of friends who had the same tastes and mentality was formed, supporting each other and in which Patty Prue also joined, overturning her belief that she would remain alone after the loss of her family.
===Lesgetti===
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Mrs. Lesgetti was the wife of Gary Lesgetti, an old friend of Paul Duval, who died prematurely.
===Leslie===
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Leslie worked at Jacqueline Carr's Observatory as a secretary in Denver.
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Leslie was a survivor of a plane crash that helped Juston Seyfert.
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Leslie was a child and was among the people, who following the Serpent War, fell into a comatose sleep full of nightmares playing Nightmare's plot but was exorcised and awakened by Loki in collaboration with Leah and the Son of Satan.
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Leslie was a young vampire follower of Dahlia. To upset Dahlia, Dracula promoted Leslie to Dungeon Guard and tasked her with incarcerating the extradimensional being called Fio'ri. During his incarceration Leslie was attacked by Fio'ri and Dahlia who left him helpless in terror.
===Levon===
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A member of the Harlem gang of the Thunderbolts, Levon saved the Black Panther's life from Li'l Herbie.
After being defeated by the Avengers, Levon was arrested by the police.
===Levy===
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Mr. Levy was a pastry chef who served Peter and in his bakery Peter luckily managed to find a pecan pie for his Aunt May even in the afternoon, which is somewhat unusual even according to Mr. Levy.
===Lewis===
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The night before Christmas, Santa Claus impersonator Lewis from the St. Michael's Hospice for Handicapped Children was robbed and injured by a gang of junkies.
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Lewis was a member of a hunting expedition in Kenya and worked for Andreas von Strucker, who had been harassing a bartender when Lewis sought to intervene in favor of his boss. Lewis was quickly dealt with by Ororo Munroe, however.
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Lewis was a second grade student whose class was guided by Mrs. Platt on the Liberty Island ferry.
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Lewis was taking photos of the corpses of Elektra's victims in the Mojave Desert when he was killed by a member of the Hand.
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Lewis was Glory Grant's boyfriend. Right after the Spider Island crisis, Glory took Lewis to a party and Lewis wondered if they should celebrate right after the past crisis, but Glory reiterated that that's exactly why they needed to celebrate.
Lewis was attacked and beaten up by the Vulture's Flock when he got in the way of one of their members, Michael, who was hitting on his girlfriend, Glory Grant.
===Lhosa===
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The Lhosa Brothers were soldiers under the orders of General Hector Carranza, protecting the barraca west around the prison compound of Sierra Angeles where he was supposedly held. Punisher killed them. When Bene reported the loss to Carranza, the General did not recognize their name.
===Liam===
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Liam was a customer of Wesner's Pub in Greenwich Village. While Peter Parker was listening to the news about him as Spider-Man, Liam asked them to change the channel to watch the game and when Peter said he was still listening to the news, Liam took him into the back room to lecture him but in favor of the dark was Peter who knocked him out with little effort. The club owner later found Liam passed out thinking he was still drunk.
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Liam's mother was one of the victims of Massacre. During the celebration in memory of the victims J. Jonah Jameson promised Liam that Massacre would die.
===Lichter-Dale===
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Mrs. Lichter-Dale hosted a fashion show in the crystal ballroom of a posh, world famous hotel on Park Avenue.
===Lieber===
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Frau Lieber was one of the first to notice something strange in Herr Braun, as if he was walking around in trance.
===Lief===
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Lief was a child who was rescued from Harlow by Ant-Man.
===Lila===
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Lila was an assistant to Jeremy Briggs. When the students of the Avengers Academy visited Briggs at his headquarters, out of enthusiasm Briggs ordered Lila to bring various refreshments for all of them and to cancel any appointments he had previously scheduled for that hour.
===Liliana===
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Liliana was an acquaintance of Rigo Zapata.
===Lin===
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Lin was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. or of their Chinese allies (see notes on the Dreadnough's page), serving on the Dreadnought, an aquatic counterpart of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier developed by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Chinese allies.
He was present when the Dreadnought was deployed along the Hulk against Attuma's Lemuria. After the Dreadnought was hit multiple times by the Seabreaker, a Lemurian beam cannon, and forced to withdraw to the surface for repairs, Lin disagreed, feeling that Attuma should still be monitored, and Banner saved. The admiral allowed Lin to assemble a crew and track Attuma in a sub.
As Lin's crew approached the city of Lemuria, their cloaking was penetrated by the magical surveillance of Lemuria. In a single strike, Lin, his crew and the sub were destroyed by "Attuma's Gift", a new weapon devised by Rasa, chief wizard of Lemuria.
===Lily===
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Lily is a student at Public School 20 Anna Silver. She was one of the girls playing with matches in the restroom that set the school on fire.
Later she was exposed to Terrigen Mist, while walking Yancy Street with Sasha, and underwent Terrigenesis.
===Linc===
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Linc was a junkie who was confronted and knocked out by Daredevil.
===Lind===
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Mrs. Lind is an employee of the Beyond Corporation. Upon returning from her lunch break, she greeted the Beyond HQ receptionist and he asked her if she had had a good lunch, to which she replied that she had the best.
===Linda===
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Linda was a staff member of Senator Muffoletto, and witnessed a discussion by her boss about the role of a leader using hamburgers as a metaphor.
===Linderman===
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Mrs. Linderman was a student pilot. During one of her lessons, Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara) landed on her plane and used it to launch off.
===Ling===
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Mr. Ling was an arms dealer who used the little boy Timmy Rice to distract the Punisher and eliminate him, but the attempt turned on him ending with the Punisher killing Ling.
===Link===
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Link was a government employee who was helping Douglas Carmody hunt down the Power Pack who he suspected of being mutants after they destroyed the Matter/Antimatter Converter. Link had a change of heart after the Power Pack saved him from falling off the cliff at Lookout Point and Carmody carelessly shot at them with Link close by.
===Lionel===
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Lionel was a Harlem resident who, when he listened to Scatterbrain ranting, began to joke with a friend of his about the voices Scatterbrain was hearing.
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Lionel was saved by the Spider-Man (Ben Reilly) from Hammerhead.
===Lisa===
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Lisa was walking with her boyfriend in the evening when they were attacked by two robbers, but just at that moment the Man-Wolf attacked the two robbers and slaughtered them while Lisa and her boyfriend fled.
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The former girlfriend of Marc Spector, Lisa was killed by Marc's brother Randall.
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Lisa was a Carnage victim, killed by him throwing her through a marble wall after kidnapping J. Jonah Jameson just to keep himself in exercise.
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Lisa was Tommy Kavanagh's girlfriend.
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Lisa was a friend of Jennifer Hardesty.
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Lisa was one of the friends of Nate who, following the passage of a destructive tornado in Redfield, asked to Captain America if he wanted to go with them to see if there was still someone to help.
===Liu===
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Mr. Liu was a cocaine dealer who witnessed the Hulk dismantle a major cocaine refining and processing facility.
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Ms. Liu teaches art at Public School 20 Anna Silver.
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Doctor Liu, a Ravencroft Institute staff member was secretly killed and replaced by Spidercide.
===Liza===
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Liza was a Freeport High School student and an acquaintance of Chad.
===Lizzy===
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Lizzy was a psychiatric patient, cellmate of Elektra, who had been hospitalized after the death of her father, and Mary Walker. Lizzy was obsessed with hypnotizing snakes; when she attempted suicide, Elektra intervened and saved her life.
Years later, during a confrontation between Elektra and Typhoid Mary, Elektra recalled her past in the psychiatric hospital in her cell with Lizzy.
===Lloyd===
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Lloyd was a waiter who served drinks to the Warzone.
===Lois===
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Lois' husband shared his popcorn with Spider-Man.
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Lois was May Parker's personal nurse. After Peter Parker was hospitalized following a fight as Spider-Man, Lois was put in charge of his physical therapy. Despite Peter's initial refusal, he mustered enough will to agree to therapy, and Lois was happy with the progress he eventually made.
===Lola===
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Lola was Blackie Ross's girlfriend and an accomplice in his car racing racket.
She tricked the Human Torch into the trap but was later captured by the Torch in Auson City and turned over to the authorities.
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Lola was one of the organizers of the parade and meeting in Chicago against the law that banned underage from being superheroes.
===Lombardo===
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Mr. Lombardo with his partner Mr. Carter, owners of the Carter & Lombardo Agency, as advertising promoters intercepted Spider-Man offering him a business proposal to become the spokesperson for Corona Motors which led to the construction of the Spider-Mobile.
A few times later Spider-Man left the destroyed Spider-Mobile hanging outside the Carter & Lombardo offices.
===Lonnie===
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Lonnie and Jimmy were caught by Spider-Man while they were about to drop Francis from a thirty-story building.
===Lonny===
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Lonny was one of Billy the Beaut's poker players who were killed by the Punisher.
===Loot===
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The Loot was one of a group of homeless men that invited a hungry Micah Synn into their group before trying to rob him before Daredevil showed up and stopped them.
===Lopes===
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Carlos Lopes threatened his brother Ricardo to tell the warden, lying, that he was his accomplice in the murders for which he had been convicted if he did not provide him with 500 dollars; Ricardo was scared and said that if she made him his wife she would die so he would somehow find the money.
===Lopez===
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Doctor Lopez was among the members of a commission of psychiatrists who had to decide on the recovery of Stan Carter and thus be able to release him at liberty. Lopez took the case to Dr. Costello because he hadn't seen the file the previous evening because he had preferred to watch a football game.
===Lor===
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Lor was the Hangman of Horror Hall, who was on his way to throw more prisoners in the pit, when Blue Blaze rose from a nearby lime pit, frightening Lor so much his heart gave out.
===Lori===
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Lori was a young woman who was friends with Harry and Liz Osborn and went to see them in the hospital with her boyfriend after their son was born.
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Lori was a friend of Milla Donovan.
She suspected her friend had a crush on Daredevil.
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Lori was the editor of the online tabloid The Unexpected Truth who published a post airing the idea that the death of Captain America / Barnes was a hoax and this infuriated the Black Widow who went to the editorial office and chatted with the various members. Eventually Lori deleted the post.
===Lorna===
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Lorna was a Target Technologies operative who captured Speedball by hitting him with a weapon that imprisoned him in a kinetic energy dampening field.
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Lorna was a colleague of Harvey Elder who pitied him.
===Lorraine===
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Lorraine was the wife of Musenda, who was attacked by a vampire that created a symbiotic link between them that caused Lorraine to become a vampire during the daytime. The root of the symbiosis was discovered by Rachel van Helsing. The vampire was eventually killed by Blade, restoring Lorraine to normal.
===Losang===
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Losang was a priest who came with two others from Kamar-Taj to beseech Doctor Strange for help in finding the as-of-yet unidentified High Lama of their order. After meeting Arnie Green, who Strange suspected was the right man, Losang was surprised when Green called him by name despite not having previously told him.
===Lou===
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Lou was a radar outpost operator who was tricked by the Krill into betraying the Earth.
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Lou, the doorman of the building where Dr. Donald Blake's Medical Office was located, at the sight of Dr. Blake after many months of absence was surprised telling him that he thought that his absence was due to some accident he had suffered or something of the sort, so immediately after he informed the new owner of the building of his arrival.
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Lou was a member of the crime gang who kidnapped Vanessa Fisk. When they were eventually defeated by the Kingpin, he was forced to sign a written confession.
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Lou was a prison guard at Ryker's Island who attempted to stop Bullseye from escaping from Ryker's, but he was knocked down and apparently thrown off the copter.
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Lou was a butler working at the Hellfire Club, first seen welcoming Storm and Colossus when they arrived incognito. He later chatted with one of the maids, Mary, and reminded her to give special attention to the host and presidential candidate Robert Kelly while delivering a tray of drinks.
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Lou worked as a barman in Broken Cross.
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Lou was one of the baggage handlers who saw Mr. Fixit's footprints from under the plane.
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"Lou" was a handler assigned to the US Agent by the Commission to direct his cover missions. He met the Agent on a drug bust and offered him a mission to collect the Iron Monger Armor.
Later, he directed the Agent to investigate a US/Canada military outpost in Bathurst Inlet for suspected actions by Russian terrorists.
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Lou was an editor of the Big Apple Advocate small press newspaper. He approved Sara Harrington's story revealing Matthew Murdock's secret identity as Aderevil, but with a question mark to avoid legal fallbacks, even if he suspected she had stolen the story.
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Lou was the cameraman who worked with Hildy Johnson while she was covering the AIDS protest outside the Theodore Roosevelt School.
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Lou was one of the two over-worked cooks and a co-worker of Ben Reilly at the Daily Grind.
Lou and Joe met the new waitress Alison Mongrain.
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Lou and his co-workers pulled out of Puget Sound a body wearing Whitney Frost's mask.
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Lou was a journalist who sneaked into the World with a mutant rights activist.
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Lou was the clerk of the hotel where Emma Frost resided and threatened to kick her out if she didn't pay the rent, but to make up for her missed payments he made very heavy advances but for which Emma refused using her powers to drive him away.
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Lou was the Blind Spot bartender.
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Lou was a worker for Damage Control, he was rescued by Peter Parker as he was about to be crushed by the rubble he and his team were taking off the street.
===Loufek===
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Loufek was persuaded by Emma Frost to do what Wilson Fisk asked by mentally convincing him that otherwise a person not as friendly as her would have intervened, referring to a possible intervention of the assassin Elektra.
===Louie===
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Louie told Spider-Man (Peter Parker) where was located the Sandman's and the Enforcers' hideout.
Many years later, Louie was recruited by Dracula to assault the Avengers Mansion.
Some time later, he told Spider-Man where was located the body of Dr. Octopus.
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Louie shot the Masked Marauder's special truck to slow it down and have the Boss hijack it.
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Louie and another mobster were about to ask a shopkeeper for protection money on behalf of Crime-Wave, when Daredevil appeared who easily defeated the two criminals, but at the time of arrest the shopkeeper was afraid of reprisals from Crime-Wave. he opted not to report the two mobsters saying that it was all a misunderstanding.
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Louie was a regular of Fogwell's Gym and was interviewed by Daily Bugle reporter Ben Urich.
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Louie was a bookie who operates his betting ring out of a newspaper stand. He was contacted by Luke Cage who, under threat, made Louie give him information about the missing billionaire, Jeff Mann.
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Louie was reverted to his natural Skrull form by the Wasp's bio-electric sting.
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Louie was a street thug who attempted to assault Nick Fury at the Grand Central Station.
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Louie was an assistant to Goulding, who assisted him in removing the armor from Rhino.
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Louie and his associate were two criminals who took advantage of the elders of the neighborhood by creating their own reign of terror at least until the intervention of Cloak and Dagger who attacked them with Dagger who first hit him with his bolts of light and then Cloak who them he wrapped in his cloak sending them into his Dark Dimension and making them re-emerge in the grip of the deepest terror.
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Louie was Lucky Lobo's bodyguard.
===Louieville===
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Louieville was defeated by Daredevil and the Punisher.
===Louis===
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Louis and Dirk were ordered by Tommy "Peach" Cullen to dispatch Jimmy Pierce.
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Louis was a medical attendant at a maximum security prison for criminally insane.
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Louis was a French parkour enthusiast, he and a friend met Batroc on the roofs of Paris as they embarked on a parkour course.
===Louise===
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Louise and Harold mistook Edwin Jarvis for a bum, when he was looking for help after escaping from the Masters of Evil's hideout.
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Louise was Frankie Majors' girlfriend.
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Visions: 
Louise was Skinner's wife, unbeknownst to her a member of the demonic race of Lilin. When Skinner's mother, Lilith, requested his services, Skinner killed Louise and their baby son before following her.
Years later, Skinner revealed to Michael Badilino that he had suppressed his familiar to prevent Lilith from torturing Louise before killing her and to avoid bringing the demon out of his son, as he was of the same blood as theirs.
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One of the mercenaries and member of the Model Soldiers.
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Louise was Man Mountain Marko's aunt and helped criminals cross the border when they fled the United States.
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Louise was a girl who Bucky met in a dance hall and asked her to dance until a man came who pounced on Bucky asking what he meant with her and hit him by starting a fight in the club.
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Louise was a New Yorker living in Queens with her husband Carl. One day Louise was chastising him for his lack of domestic help while Carl was trying to watch a baseball game on TV. As their discussion escalated, the cosmically-empowered Iron Man happened to use the Power Cosmic to boost the collective brainpower of the entire city to match his own. This caused Louise and Carl to suddenly become more introspective, allowing them to settle their differences amicably.
===Love===
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Connecticut Detective Love arrested and interrogated Matt Murdock about the murder of Uri Rosenthal.
===Lowry===
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Father Lowry was involved in an accident with Prometheus.
===Lucas===
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Mrs. Lucas was Johnny Storm's landlady in Liddleville.
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Lucas was the brother of Julian, a young mutant native, who during the robbery attempt by the sheriff's son against their grandmother, Lucas intervened and was punched, bringing in Julian who used his mutant powers.
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Lucas was a worker tasked with cleaning up the toxic protoplasm left over from the clash between the X-Men and D.K.. While arguing with his colleague Matty about the misuse of the term "mutie", what appeared to be one of Maggott's sentient myriapods emerged from the mass of protoplasm, which devoured him.
===Lucie===
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Lucie was Slasher's and Demitrius' driver.
===Lucrezia===
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Lucrezia was one of the circle of friends of the Incantesimo witchcraft shop, who for a time had to go away. On her return among the girls was also joined by Patty Prue, who initially thought that Lucrezia would take her predominant place and that she would be left out returning to her belief that she would be alone after the loss of her family, but that after an encounter with the Scarlet Witch made her change her mind and she returned to the group happily accepting Lucrezia.
===Lucy===
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Lucy was one of Hedy Wolfe's wealthy and elitist neighbors.
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Lucy was a nurse at Forest Hills Hospital who helped Dr. Caputo assisting May Parker.
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Lucy was flying in a hot air balloon with her husband on their honeymoon when Iron Man seemingly flew through their balloon causing it to crash. The armor was piloted by a mysterious entity called The Omnos, which ultimately resulted in a three-way conflict between it, Doctor Demonicus wearing an older model of the armor, and Tony Stark piloting a Quinjet and wearing a pair of newly minted repulsor gloves.
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Lucy was the mother of Abigail, a mutant girl who lived on the island of Tristan da Cunha. When Abigail developed her seismic powers, the Krakoa mutants intervened thinking that the inhabitants would turn against the girl because of the damage she had done, but they had to change their mind as the inhabitants protected the girl and Warpath quietly handed Abigail to her mother.
===Luigi===
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Luigi was an Italian chef and an acquaintance of Matt Murdock.
===Luis===
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Luis was a member of the Mexican Border Hawks.
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Luis was among the festive crowd in San Juan that celebrated Ben Grimm as El Morrito and was recognized by Ben and greeted by him.
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Assures Mr. Alcantara that no one will be able to enter his mansion but that would have been better if they had moved away from the windows for further security.
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Luis was a kid from Cuba who was healed by Babalú.
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Luis was a boy who was bullied until Spider-Man passed by and he intervened, frightening the group of bullies.
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Luis was a neighbor of Sky in the Soho neighborhood.
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Luis was the lover of Olivia's mother.
After Kushala rescued Heather Rae, Luis and Olivia's mother went to their house and Olivia introduced them to Kushala, showing them that she wasn't a fictional character.
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Luis was the receptionist of Beyond HQ. When a visitor asked to meet Maxine Danger, he replied that he had no scheduled visits for Ms. Danger, so the visitor showed his tentacles revealing himself to be Dr. Octopus and replied to Luis with a cynical smile that it was a visit surprise.
Soon after he was gassed and knocked out by Octopus.
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Luis was a clerk at a drugstore where Clayton Cortez shopped regularly in his civilian life.
===Luisa===
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Luisa and Ramon were on board a pickup truck in the town of Beebe, Arkansas when they were hit in full by a tornado but fortunately they were rescued by Red Hulk.
===Luísa===
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After a tip from Misty Knight, Sam Wilson and Joaquín Torres set out on the trail of what they thought was a load of Super-Soldier Serum to trade on the black market, but instead found a load of immigrants from Mexico including Joaquin's cousin Luisa.
After being detained in the Commission on Superhuman Activities Facility, it was discovered that Luisa and the other immigrants had been tested on them in a laboratory by an unknown group. Seeing the attempt to eliminate the evidence, Joaquim made her cousin escape, bringing her to safety.
Luisa, after being taken to safety in an old secret base of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Joaquin, she tells her cousin how she was picked up from her workplace and kidnapped.
Joaquin found Luisa unconscious in the cell where the White Wolf mercenaries had locked her up.
Luisa reveals to Joaquim that White Wolf had come for them looking for the piece of Vibranium that she was hiding in the shoe, so Joaquim took her to her grandmother and there she met one of the boys who was with her on the train.
===Luiz===
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Luiz was thrilled to be able to see American superheroes especially Ms. Marvel, during his battle with a Nul-possessed Hulk, and convinced his friend Gustavo to go with him. Due to the clash of the two super-powerful beings, Luiz suffered a collapse and died.
===Luke===
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A member of the Smashers, Luke was put on look-out by Bullwhip Grogan.
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Luke was Belinda Tompkins' ex-boyfriend.
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Luke was a student of the University of Sheffield who in the game of Truth or Dare among friends revealed a secret desire of his which was to have sex with a mutant. When his roommate Zee activated mutant powers, Luke filmed him on his cell phone and put the images online. Due to that situation Zee committed suicide, and Luke was about to be killed by Zero to avenge him, but he was stopped in time by Wolverine.
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Luke was a fan of the Thing thinking that if we were all like him things would be better until the day he, possessed by Angrir, saw the Thing destroy Yancy Street. This caused him to fall into nightmares playing Nightmare's plot but he was exorcised and awakened by Loki in collaboration with Leah and the Son of Satan.
===Lung-Sei===
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Lung-Sei was a peasant who first saw the Inhumans on a desolate shore somewhere on the coast of China.
===Lupe===
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Lupe was a neighbor of Ramon Carrejo. Suffering from hip pain, Ramon advised her to go to a clinic but she replied that her insurance did not cover her medical expenses.
===Lupei===
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Lupei was a henchman in the Vlad Dinu crime family. Vlad ordered Lupei to create chaos in Hell's Kitchen but Black Panther learned about it and forced Lupei to leave the city.
===Luther===
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Luther was the owner of Jayroam's private club.
===Lydia===
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Lydia was a gypsy midwife who adopted Olga's child.
===Lyle===
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Lyle was one of the two members of the Glitch Brothers, a pair of criminal experts in surveillance technology dressed in matching shirts. Lyle was thin, rarely sitting and giving commands. He also interacted with other people, as his partner Character Index/T#Tector was less talkative. While proficient in his work, Lyle was not good at protocol and failed to refer to his employers as anything but "boss" and derivatives of the word.
The Glitch Brothers were hired by President Bushman of Burunda to get as much information as possible on Bushman's enemy the Moon Knight; Bushman claimed that this information was "vital to my nation's security", thus the Glitch Brothers operated from a room within the Embassy of Burunda in New York City. The Glitch Brothers provided the information, allowing Bushman to start an operation against the Knight. The Moon Knight answered by approaching the Embassy, being detected by the Glitch Brothers. Bushman ordered the Glitch Brothers to keep him away, and send a messenger with instructions for him. The Glitch Brothers complied, but the Moon Knight managed to sneak into the Embassy, overcoming Bushman's security. Lyle noticed that and at first reprimanded the guard that had been outwitted. When Lyle noticed that the Moon Knight was literally on the other side of the door, he decided to leave the Embassy with Hector.
===Lynbrook===
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Lynbrook worked at the ground control of the Vertex shuttle mission.
===Lynn===
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Lynn was a news anchor for a station in Albany, New York who reported on an encounter at a parking garage between members of the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, and Crimson Dynamo.
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Lynn was one of the people that were invited by Bob Cumeo to discuss about Daredevil.
===Lynne===
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Lynne was a fashion photographer who worked with Mary Jane Watson-Parker.
===Lynskey===
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Mr. Lynskey was an elderly neighbor of Kamala Khan, a former convict who had learned to love books in prison and when he came out of prison he started running a free library, working to get people in the neighborhood to read by donating books and accepting them from those who wanted donate them.
===Lython===
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Immediately after the death of the king of Phaselis, Lython attempted to oppose the appropriation of Holy Spear of Achilles by the Order of the Hydra, but for this he was killed.
==References==
Category:Character Index