Spotlight on... COUNT NEFARIA!

[Douglas Mangum]

Count Nefaria began as a Maggia crime boss, threatening the early Avengers and X-Men with guns and hired thugs. In time, however, he evolved into the age of super-villainy when Project N stole the powers of his Lethal Legion and gave Nefaria ionic powers a hundred times stronger than his henchmen. Now a threat in his own right, Count Nefaria has become immortal and indestructible. At his peak, he was able to battle the united Avengers and Thunderbolts single-handedly. Constantly seeking to feed his ego, Nefaria will inevitably return to challenge the Avengers and other heroes again.

[Nu-D]

Nefaria always struck me as an odd choice for the X-Men. But I guess CC didn’t really manage to escape the villain-of-the-month model for a couple of years. Looking back, those issues with Nefaria, Moses Magnum, Arcade and Warhawk, all seem old-school, compared to the longer arcs that surrounded them and the more developed characters.

[WorldWideWade]

Count Nefaria was a much more interesting character as an Avengers villain.

This is yet another instance of Monolith writing an article about a God Complex villain with vaguely defined and overwhelming powers. Does he perhaps identify with these type of characters...

[comicsfan666]

Shooter certainly did at least!