Ultimate Fantastic Four: Encyclopedia II - Ultimate Fantastic Four - The Villains

Ultimate Fantastic Four - The Villains

Victor Van Damme aka Doom - Victor Van Damme was also a member of the youth research project that recruited Reed and Susan. Van Damme is a descendant of Vlad Tepes, better known as Dracula, ruler of Wallachia during the fifteenth century. As such, Van Damme is a member of European aristocracy and since his youth has also been a member of a secret society bent on achieving covert world domination. Van Damme saw the project as a means of achieving personal power.

Van Damme worked with Richards on his device to teleport organic matter to the N-Zone. But on the day of the teleporter's full-scale test, Van Damme reprogrammed the coordinates of the device resulting in the accident that created the Fantastic Four. Van Damme was also affected by the experiment: Most of his body was transformed into metal, and his legs are in the shape of cloven hooves and his internal organs were converted into a toxic substance. Van Damme is currently in the custody of the Danish government.

Dr. Arthur Molekevic aka Mole Man - Dr. Molekevic was performing forbidden experiments when he was expelled from the Baxter Building. It is suggested those experiments involve the creation of artificial sentient life forms from plant tissue. Molekevic was revealed to be schizophrenic, hearing voices in his heads that he refers to as "they". After he was expelled, Molekevic disappeared into an underground realm where he established himself as the ruler. The name 'Mole Man' is a name the students at the think tank would tease him with, due to his skin problems.

Nihil - Nihil is the transliterated name of the magistrate of a small alien community from within the N-Zone. The N-Zone is in a state of slow entropic heat death, and Nihil's community consists of aliens who have gathered their spacecraft close to a dying sun for warmth. Nihil's unidentified species is apparently long-lived and he is, as such, frustrated that his universe will die long before he will reach the limits of his life expectancy. He wants to flee the dying N-Zone and claim the young new universe that Reed and his friends hail from. He is the Ultimate Universe's Annihilus.

Rhona Burchill - Rhona was a genius from birth, displaying an incredible intellect but severe mental problems. While being extremely bright, she would always cause trouble at any school she went to. Rhona was tested as an applicant for the Baxter Building's young think-tank, but did not pass the test primarily due to her troubled psych profile. Reed Richards was welcomed in her place. Desiring to prove her worth, Rhona surgically attached her brother's brain matter to her own to accelerate her own brain's processing speed. However, the experiment horribly deformed Rhona's appearance. She is the Ultimate Universe's Mad Thinker as evidenced by her declaration that, "If it is mad to think the unthinkable, then I'm the maddest thinker there ever was."

Namor - Namor was a mutant member of the Alantean empire, but was imprisoned for unknown reasons. Unlike his 616 counterpart, he is a villain. In their first encounter, the Fantastic Four misinterpret the writing on his prison, mistaking it for a tomb, and that he is a prince, and not a criminal. They release him, and after a short battle in which he defeats Johnny, and Ben knocks him out, the Fantastic Four take him back to the Baxter Building. He has romantic designs upon Sue, and is very arrogant. His powers include superstrength, flight, and the ability to survive underwater. He is extremely arrogant, and is referred to by Reed Richards as "possibly the most powerful metahuman on Earth."

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "The Villains", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki