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Nakia Bahadir
Nakia Bahadir is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a Turkish girl and friend of Kamala Khan.Nakia Bahadir in other media
Nakia Bahadir appears in Ms. Marvel, portrayed by Yasmeen Fletcher. This version is a student at Coles Academic High School.Bakuto
Bakuto is a ninja in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Andy Diggle, Antony Johnston and Marco Checchetto, first appeared in Daredevil #505.Bakuto, the head Daimyo of South America, meets with the other four Daimyos in Jigoku-Chu Castle in Japan. He shows some doubt in Matt Murdock leading The Hand and especially scoffs at White Tiger's involvement due to her being a woman. Beforehand, Bakuto killed his master, Izanagi, to showcase " strength of will", even going so far as to not allowing him seppuku.
In the present, while having dinner, Bakuto's food is spiked causing him to hallucinate demons. Matt goes to check on him as Daredevil and are both immediately attacked by ninjas that were secretly sent by the other Daimyos. After defeating them, Matt is led to believe that someone is attempting to take Bakuto's life and ups the security. Despite this Bakuto believes that Matt was the one who sent the ninjas and begins plotting to kill him. He is later confronted by a possessed White Tiger and killed in combat.
Bakuto in other media
Bakuto appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Iron Fist and The Defenders, portrayed by Ramón Rodríguez. This version is one of the leaders of The Hand and Colleen Wing's former sensei.Balloon Man
Balloon Man is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Emilio Inflato was a professor who suffered from an accident that caused him to only breathe helium. While mocked by his fellow scientists and discovering that he can control gas, Inflato became Balloon Man and used his balloons in his criminal activities with one of them leading to his first encounter with Spider-Boy. Balloon Man took control of the balloons at the Thanksgiving Day Parade where he fought Spider-Boy and Squirrel Girl. Amidst the fight, Santa Claus revealed himself and helped Spider-Man and Squirrel Girl to defeat Balloon Man.
Balloon Man and his henchmen planned to unleash a helium bomb on the city. Spider-Man and Daredevil came across Spider-Boy, Hulkette, Ms. Marvel, and Spider-Girl fighting them. Spider-Man and Daredevil helped to defeat Balloon Man and his henchmen.
Balthazar
Balthazar or Belathauzer in his first appearance, is a demon who has clashed with the Defenders and Devil-Slayer.Martine Bancroft
Martine Bancroft is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, she first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #102. She is the fiancé of Morbius the Living Vampire.Bancroft works as an assistant to Michael Morbius and Emil Nikos, whose experiments aim to cure his blood disease. They backfire and turn him into a vampire-like being. After being manipulated by a cult, Bancroft personally assists in finding resources to cure Morbius' "pseudo-vampirism". She is interrupted and ultimately turned into a similar creature before Morbius and Simon Stroud inject her with the cure. After being killed by David Langford, she is resurrected but becomes possessed by the Lilin Parasite of Lilith's group before being saved by Morbius. Bancroft's original personality returns, albeit now as a true undead vampire, and she even has a friendship with Jack Russell / the Werewolf. She ultimately acts spiteful towards her ex-fiancé. After becoming a true undead vampire, Bancroft is destroyed by Morbius while saving Peter Parker / Spider-Man.
Powers and abilities of Martine Bancroft
Martine possessed the typical powers associated with true undead vampires.Martine Bancroft in other media
Martine Bancroft appears in Morbius, portrayed by Adria Arjona. This version is a scientific colleague of Michael Morbius. She personally assists in the experiment that creates his vampiric form and is later killed by Morbius' adoptive brother Milo. Bancroft is later revived as a similar vampiric creature after unintentionally ingesting some of Morbius' blood.Bruce Banner
Elaine Banner
Elaine Banner or Elaine Walters is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appeared later in multiple spin-offs and dramatizations of the Hulk and She-Hulk comic book titles. She was created by writer David Kraft and artist Mike Vosburg. She first appeared in The Savage She-Hulk #15 of April, in 1981 and was created by David Anthony Kraft and Mike Vosburg. She is the sister of Susan and Brian Banner, the wife of Morris Walters, and the aunt of Bruce Banner who would grow up to be the gamma-powered superhero known as the Hulk; while her daughter and Bruce's cousin, Jennifer, would become the super-heroine known as She-Hulk, when Bruce saved her life with a blood transfusion.Elaine Banner is the sister of Susan Banner and Brian Banner. During their childhood, all three of them including their mother were physically and mentally abused by their alcoholic father, Bruce Banner. For years they suffered but eventually they pulled through until he died. Even though Elaine and Susan learned to put it behind them, their brother Brian was not so fortunate.
Susan, Elaine, and Brian all wanted to move on with their lives but Brian was still suffering from the trauma of their childhood together and would do everything he could to spend as little time with his siblings as possible because he did not want to relive anymore bad memories, straining the relationship between them. Susan married a man by the name of Drake, and Brian ended up marrying a woman named Rebecca.
Elaine married Morris Walters, becoming Elaine Walters, and soon after gave birth to their daughter, Jennifer. Morris hoped that Jennifer would become a police officer like him, but Elaine supported her daughter's ambitions to become a professional dancer growing up instead.
Since Morris was the Sheriff of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department, he came across many enemies, the biggest one being the mobster Nicholas Trask. Trask planned to murder Morris by making his death look like a drunk driving incident, but his plan backfired when Elaine had been the one driving to see Jennifer's dance recital with two of her friends.
Elaine Banner in other media
- Elaine Banner appears in The Incredible Hulk episode "Down Memory Lane".
- Elaine Banner appears in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, portrayed by Tess Kincaid.
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Bantam
Bantam is the name of two characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first Bantam was created by Jim Lee and John Byrne, and first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #282.Bantam (mutant)
Bantam is an assistant of Trevor Fitzroy who uses his power as a chronal anchor to keep track of Fitzroy's time portals. When Fitzroy takes over a future timeline and renames himself the Chronomancer, Bantam accompanies him. Bantam realizes that Fitzroy had been driven mad by his dreams of power, and eventually betrays Fitzroy to the rebellion led by Bishop. Bantam assists in the raising of the gate to the Chronomancer's keep, and is killed by Fitzroy's Chronotroopers.Robert Velasquez
Robert Velasquez is a boxer who is subjected to the Power Broker's superhuman enhancement treatment and accidentally kills another boxer in the ring. When Aviles, the man who arranged to have him enhanced, shoots him and leaves him for dead, Bantam goes looking for revenge, but Aviles is shot dead by one of his own men. Bantam then goes to avenge one of his friends and attacks Captain America while in a berserk rage, but goes on to aid Captain America once he calms down.During the Civil War storyline, Bantam confronts Thunderclap, a superhero who opposes the Super-human Registration Act. Thunderclap accidentally knocks Bantam into a gas truck which then explodes, instantly killing him. The battle is viewed by Sally Floyd, a reporter who later wonders if the gas truck had been deliberately placed near the battle.
Powers and abilities of Bantam
The first Bantam is a mutant who possesses sensitivity to the bioenergy emissions of other superhumans. This allowed him to locate and keep track of Trevor Fitzroy's time portals.The second Bantam's powers possesses superhuman strength, durability, and speed coupled with uncontrollable rage.
Bantam in other media
The first Bantam appears in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "One Man's Worth".Baphomet
Baphomet is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Baphomet is a servant of Satan who battled Daimon Hellstrom.
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Eli Bard
Eli Bard, also known as Eliphas, is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Christopher Yost, Clayton Crain and Craig Kyle, Bard is a member of the Purifiers and an enemy of the X-Men.Eli Bard was born "Eliphas" at the height of the Roman Empire. He was recognized as an outstanding soldier until a spear injury ended his military career. For a while he worked unsuccessfully as a poet until he met Aurelia, one of the most powerful women in Rome. He soon married her and achieved a position in the Senate. As a well-respected senator, he was known as a great orator and a friend to the army. His wife left him for a general named Mascius and conspired to give Mascius his seat in the Senate.
Left with nothing, Eliphas was approached by Selene, who offered him immortality in exchange for helping her kill and absorb every soul in Rome. Eliphas drew pentagrams and performed rituals at several locations in the city, but warned a small girl to get her family out. The girl's father alerted the authorities and Eliphas and Selene were captured before the spell could be carried out. Just before they were burned at the stake, Selene killed the guards. She cursed Eliphas for his perceived betrayal with an eternal life of torture, turning him into a vampire-like creature. Eliphas was buried alive for 700 years until a farmer discovered him in his field. Eliphas killed the farmer with a swift bite to the jugular. He spent the next several hundred years searching for Selene. He ran into the ancestral Apache tribe of Warpath. They recognized him as a vampire but could not stop him from wiping out almost the entire tribe.
Eliphas, having at some point in time changed his name to "Eli Bard," finally located Selene in Nova Roma, where she was worshiped as a god. Still in love with her despite her curse, Bard realized that he must make an offering to her before approaching her. Bard later joined the Purifiers, an anti-mutant terrorist group. During this time, he worked diligently to further the Purifiers' goals. Secretly, he had hoped to sacrifice thousands of Purifiers' souls using the same ritual from Rome to gain Selene's attention. He assisted in the resurrection of Bastion but the android was suspicious of him, as he had no record on him. After seeing Bastion reprogram an offspring of Magus, he changed his plan and instead re-animated the corpses in the burial grounds of the Apache tribe that he had decimated decades earlier using the Technarch transmode virus he had absorbed from an offspring of Magus. Among the bodies reanimated were those of the mutants Caliban and Thunderbird. He presented Caliban to Selene and stated that he intended to use Caliban's mutant-tracking abilities to track down deceased mutants and reanimate them to form an army for Selene, an offer which she accepted.
He uses the virus to resurrect a variety of mutants, including Cypher, Banshee, the Hellions, Risque, Pyro, and Destiny.
When Bard returned to Proudstar's grave to resurrect him and Caliban, the spirits of Proudstar's tribe rise to protect those buried there. Bard attacked them with Selene's mystical knife, transforming them into a Demon Bear. After fleeing the battle, Bard leaves the blade behind, unaware it was pivotal in Selene's plans. He is then dispatched to Utopia to retrieve it, taking Warpath hostage in the process. When he returns to Selene with the blade and the hostage, Selene kills him by stabbing him in the heart.