Count Nefaria (Marvel Comics)

## Summary

**Count Nefaria** is a supervillain of the Avengers and the father of Madame Masque. He was the descendant of a long line of Italian noblemen, thus he inherited a vast fortune. Nefaria was conservative in many of his tastes and attitudes, therefore dressed in the fashions Italian noblemen wore much earlier in the century. He was also fascinated with technological advances and commissioned scientists to create inventions far in advance of contemporary science. Nefaria greatly valued his family tradition of utter respectability, yet his lust for greater wealth and power led him to become a powerful figure in the Maggia, the notorious international crime syndicate which has its origins in southern Europe, but included no noblemen. Nefaria quickly made himself a powerful force in the Maggia through the offering of large sums of money to established Maggiosi, the financing of major criminal operations for the Maggia in return for shares of power, the advanced weaponry his scientists devised for him, and his own immense talent for criminal strategy.

## Power and Stats

**Tier:** **5-B**

**Name:** Count Luchino Nefaria

**Origin:** Marvel Comics

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** Likely late 40s, early 50s

**Classification:** Human

**Powers and Abilities:** Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Telekinesis, Regeneration (Mid-Low), Immortality, Self-Sustenance, Energy Manipulation, Projection and Absorption, Non-Physical Interaction, Enhanced Senses. Resistance to Magic and phasing-based attacks

**Attack Potency:** **Planet Level** (Easily knocked back the Avengers and Thunderbolts. Brushed the Avengers back with a huge shock-wave that Hank Pym claimed "not even the Hulk could make")

**Speed:** At least **FTL** (Perceived the whizzer, who could match Quicksilver's speed, as standing still)

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown**

**Striking Strength:** **Planet Level**

**Durability:** **Planet Level**

**Stamina:** Superhuman

**Range:** Standard melee range. Kilometres with Energy Projection

**Standard Equipment:**

* **Electro-disc:** Designed to communicate instantly and easily with his American family members, the disc allowed a three-dimensional image of whoever was in contact with the disc to be projected into his presence, thousands of miles away in his castle in Sicily.
* **Time Transcender Ray:** These devices bath their target in a soothing, hypnotic light that effectively places them in a state of suspended animation until the ray is deactivated
* **Visio-Projector:** The Visio-Projector was a variation on the electro-image technology with which Nefaria had previously created duplicates of the Avengers. It was designed to generate complex three-dimensional images.
* **World-wide Electro-scanner**
* **Dream Machine:** A group of scientists in Norway who he funded had invented a machine, which could be used to psychically manipulate the dreams of a chosen target. So powerful was this manipulation that if the machine's target died in their dream, they would die in real life

**Intelligence:** Gifted (Criminal scientist and formidable combatant with good deal of experience in using powers in combat situations)

**Weaknesses:** Needs ionic energy to sustain powers. Very arrogant on occasion