Category Archives: Black Supervillains

Lord Chapel

Lord Chapel

Lord Chapel

Publisher: Image Comics

Created by:  Rob Leifield

1st appearance:Youngblood ???

Nationality: Denizen of hell

Team Affiliations: Horsemen of Apocalypse

Legal Status: Unknown

Height: Variable              Weight: Variable

Eyes: Red                          Hair: none

Relatives: Chapel (Genetic template/Father)

Skills and abilities:

Powers: As a creature born in hell he had superhuman strength and durability.

After he took over the throne of Hell, he became God-like in power with a seemingly infinite supply of energy.

Biography

Born from the death of Chapel after he committed suicide in hopes of becoming a like Al Simmons, a Spawn. Reborn in hell as Lord Chapel he waged war on the ruler of hell and managed to usurp his thrown after which he was separated from Chapel who was returned to earth. As the ruler of hell he recruited Crypt and set him to defeat Supreme in hopes of joining hell and Earth.

It took all the heroes of the Image comics universe and a reborn New Son to take him down, he was presumed dead but recently returned to battle youngblood.


Equinox

Equinox

Equinox

Real Name: Terrence “Terry” Sorenson

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Created by: Len Wein and Gil Kane

1st appearance: Giant Size Spider-Man #1 (In shadows), Marvel Team Up #23, 1974

Team Affiliations: Vil-Anon

Legal Status: US Citizen with criminal record

Height:  6’           Weight: 200 lbs

Eyes: Brown           Hair: Bald

Relatives: David Sorenson (Father, deceased), Margay Sorenson (Mother), Unidentified Wife (Deceased), Janet Sorenson (Daughter)

Skills and abilities: Unknown

Powers: Equinox has the ability in a state of thermodynamic flux to generate both intense heat and cold simultaneously. Whenever he activates his powers waves of both fire and ice coruscate across his skin, these shifts increase his strength to superhuman levels and also allow him to generate flame and ice constructs.

Biography

Terry was the child of two gifted scientists. His father even had a radical theory on thermodynamics that lead to estrangement and loss of work. As a result he began drinking and abusing his wife. Terry and his mother eventually moved out when he was seventeen but as they departed a fire broke out and Terry rushed to his father aid. In the process his father was killed and he was mutated into a creature in constant thermodynamic flux. His mother spent the next few years attempting to cure him and he began stealing whenever money ran short.

As a criminal he fought Spider-man, Iceman and the Human Torch. The unstable natures of his powers lead to bouts of insanity which were eventually stopped when his mother teamed with Spider-man and others to negate his powers.

Equinox then joined Vil-Anon where he learned to control his powers and gave up a life of crime. He started a family but his wife later died. As a single father he learnt his daughter Janet had inherited his powers and caused a series of fires. He attempted o teach her control but to no avail. The Falcon intervened and managed to defeat him and direct him and his daughter to people who could help her control her powers.

During Civil war he opposed registration and landed in the negative zone prison. After the event he joined the Avengers Initiative as a member of “Freedom Force” Montana’s team. Around this time he was abducted by the Skrulls but rescued after Secret Invasion.


Venom

 

Venom II

Venom II

Real Name: Conrad Marcus

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Created by: Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichell

1st appearance: Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol 2 #1 (November, 2011)

Nationality: American

Team Affiliations: Unknown

Legal Status: Unknown

Height: Variable                 Weight: Variable

Eyes: Brown                            Hair: Black

Relatives: Unknown

Skills and abilities: Trained biochemist.

Powers: Due to wearing a modified version of the Venom suit he has tremendous strength, regenerative abilities, can project prehensile tentacles and has limited shape shifting abilities. This version of venom was also far superior to the original in strength.

Like the original venom he had to devour other living beings to survive.

Biography

Dr. Conrad Marcus was a gifted biochemist working for the Roxxon Corporation. When reporter Betty Brant tracked him down to find information about a dead genetic experimental Spider which had given Miles Morales his abilities he went back to Roxxon and put on the Venom suit. With it he killed Brant and gathered her notes on who the new Spider-man was, Jefferson Davis. He attacked Jefferson and critically wounded him but was defeated by Miles Morales. He followed Jefferson to the hospital where he had a finale showdown with Spider-man. He managed to seemingly devour Spider-man and attacked Rio Morales fatally wounding her in the process. Miles managed to overload the suit stripping him of it just as the police arrived to shoot him dead.


Lady Marabunta

Lady Marabunta

Lady Marabunta

Created by: Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray

1st appearance: Batwing #20, 2013

Team Affiliations: Marabunta Army

Legal Status: Unknown

Height: 5’7              Weight: 110 lbs

Eyes: Brown                   Hair: Brown

Relatives: Unknown

Skills and Abilities:  Capable leader.

Powers: None

Technology: She uses a giant mechanoid ant queen armed with machine guns and claws.

Biography

A female African Supervillain with an ant motiff who controls foot soldiers in metal suits as a sort of “queen ant”. She engaged Luke Fox/Batwing in battle but was defeated and captured. Subjected to a modified fear/truth serum combination she gave up all the information on her organization which lead Luke to battle Lion Mane and his brides. Left for Interpol by Luke she was presumably jailed. (Batwing #20)


ColdFire

James Lucas-Coldfire

James Lucas-Coldfire

Real Name: James Lucas Jr.

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Created by: Marc McLaurin and Dwayne Turner

1st appearance: Cage #3, June 1992

Nationality: American

Team Affiliations: Unknown

Legal Status: Unknown

Height: 160 lbs                 Weight: 5’9

Eyes: Brown                        Hair: Black

Relatives: James Lucas Sr. (Father), Luke Cage (Brother)

Skills and abilities: Unknown

Powers: He could animate an incendiary protoplasm which he could mold into various shapes most notably waves of heat, white hot flame and multiple humanoid duplicates of himself.

Biography

Growing up with his family in Harlem, New York James and older brother Carl never really got along. Their relationship worsened as Carl became involved in crime as a teenager. When Carl went to prison his mother died and James was convinced Carl was to blame. When Carl was presumed dead and Luke Cage came on the scene he convinced his father to move from place to place in hopes of keeping them separated and believing the other to be dead. [Cage #3, #8, #10]

When Cage was closing in on their location Dakota North confronted him but he was rescued by Hardcore. Taken in by “The Corporation” he complied with Power Master’s and Hardcore’s plans to deal with his brother. While there he became interested in gaining superpowers so he could deal with his brother Cage.

He was trained in the ability to transfer his consciousness into incendiary protoplasm. His father was taken hostage to ensure his cooperation.  He battled Luke but eventually teamed up with him to save their father. In the process his body was killed and his energy form began to dissipate.

After the explosion he was assumed dead though his energy form was seen moving afterwards. [Cage 13-14]. He has not been seen since.


Kibuka

Kibuka

Kibuka

Real Name: Jonathan Peyton “Black Jack” Cole

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Created by: Christopher Priest and Andy Kubert

1st appearance: Black Panther #50 , 2002

Alias: Brother of the Panther

Nationality: American

Team Affiliations: 66 Bridges

Legal Status: U.S Citizen with no criminal record

Weight: 185 lbs    Height: 5’10

Eyes: Brown            Hair: Black

Relatives: Triage/Nigel Blacque (son), Kasper Cole/White Tiger (son), Ruth Cole (Wife)

Skills and abilities: Skilled marksman with firearms, trained by the police force. Also appears to possesses a brilliant strategic, business and criminal mind.

Powers: None.

Biography

A New York City police officer nicknamed “Black Jack” because of how dark his skin was. It is also suggested he once lived in Africa before making life in America. In the US he married Ruth Cole a Jewish woman. Black Jack was well respected in his community and father the father of Kasper Cole. To his co-workers, community and friends he was a “hero” cop who was a faithful husband and dutiful father who had even the respect of the most cruel and corrupt street hustlers.

He was eventually jailed for cocaine possession and everyone especially his son Kasper thought he had been set up by the corrupt police force for doing his job.

Unknown to everyone however he was really the leader of the international crime syndicate known as the 66 bridges and also had another son who helped him run the “business”, Triage/Nigel Blacque. From behind bars he pulled the strings that lead his son as the Black Panther down the path of a superhero hoping to either forge him into the perfect weapon or corrupt him.


Aku Kwesi

Aku Kwesi

Aku Kwesi

Publisher: DC Comics

Created by: G. Willow Wilson and CAFU

1st appearance: Vixen: Return of the Lion #1, 2008

Nationality: African (unspecified state)

Team Affiliations: Intergang

Legal Status: Unknown

Height: 6’2          Weight: 230 lbs

Eyes: Red                        Hair: Grey and white

Relatives: Unknown

Skills and Abilities: Accomplished street fighter

Powers: While Kwesi has no natural powers he possesses a device made by Intergang which allows him to mimic the powers of Vixen by granting him the powers of the animal kingdom.

Biography

 Kwesi was a man from the village in which Mari Jiwe was born. When Mari was still a child he murdered her mother which lead to her becoming an orphan and landing in America where she became the superhero Vixen. After Mari had joined the justice league she had to return to the village of her youth to face Kwesi who had allied with Intergang on some world conquering scheme. When they first met he defeated Vixen easily and left her for dead. When the league became involved he managed to control both Superman and Black Canary who could only be stopped with the aid of Vixen and Back Lightning.

With his gang defeated he fought Vixen once more and this time found himself soundly defeated and stripped of his weapon and jailed. He has not been seen or heard from since.

Note: When he first appeared it was hinted that he was Vixen’s biological father.


Virus

Paul Morris-Virus

Paul Morris-Virus

Real Name: Paul Morris

Publisher: Milestone Comics

Created by: Dwayne McDuffie

1st appearance: Static #9, 1993

Team Affiliations: None

Legal Status: Unknown

Height:  6’3           Weight: 210 lbs

Eyes: Brown           Hair: Unknown

Relatives: Unknown

Skills and abilities: Unknown

Powers: Biological Fission allows him to split into several proportionately sized copies of himself, from twins half his original size to thousands of thumb-high replicas.

Biography

After his father left them both, Virus followed his mother into the streets where she became a crack addict who abused him constantly. Despite his large size he suffers from an unspecified mental illness that gives him the mental ability of a child. He eventually joined the force syndicate, Dakota’s “Misfit” Gang because they treated him with care. For this surrogate family he began stealing. Then came the Big Bang, his gang was killed and he discovered he had been granted super powers. Virus then lived under a mall where he stole to survive. Befriended by Static he was taken to St. Peter’s mission where he still resides.

 


Sweet Stick Max

Created by: Dwayne McDuffie

First Appearance: Icon #22, 1996

Nationality: American

Team Affiliations: none

Legal Status: Unknown

Weight: 195 lbs    Height: 5’10

Eyes: Black       Hair: Black

Relatives: Unknown

Skills and Abilities: Longtime Pimp, Leadership, Commands the ho-hordes- a group of well trained prostitutes that do his bidding, he also has a walking stick able to fire concussive force beams.

Biography

He is a longtime Villain having fought the patriot who was partnered with a young “Buck” going by the name of “Jim Crow”. He later battled Buck while he was using the Icon persona. When buck died he paid tribute to the only man who ever defeated him. His current whereabouts are unknown.


Father Lost

Father Lost

Father Lost

Publisher: DC Comics

Created by: Judd Winick

1st appearance: Batwing #13, 2012

Nationality: African

Team Affiliations: The Bringers

Legal Status: Unknown

Height:  5’11           Weight: 190 lbs

Eyes: Brown           Hair: Black

Relatives: Unknown

Skills and abilities: Skilled in necromancy and voodoo

Powers: His primary power appears to be mind control

Biography

Nothing is known of his past before he killed and tortured members of Dawn’s military team. His cult grew as did his powers while he worshipped death. Pursued by Dawn he ran amok of Batwing though he managed to seriously wound Dawn in battle.


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