List of Marvel Comics characters: L

La Lunatica

Lacuna

Lady Bullseye

Lady Deathstrike

Lady Dorma

Lady Grey

Lady Lark

Lady Lark (Linda Lewis), later named Skylark, is a character in the Marvel Comics series Squadron Supreme and hails from Earth-712. She first appeared in Avengers #85 (February 1971), and was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. She is based on Black Canary and later on Hawkgirl in DC Comics.

Linda Lewis was a singer before an enemy of the Squadron Supreme, Doctor Decibel, surgically implanted synthetic vocal cords into her throat, giving her the ability to generate a "sonic cry" which could incapacitate opponents. A reluctant hero at best, Linda often wished to return to her singing career.

She often partnered in crime-fighting, and later romantically, with the character Golden Archer (mirroring the relationship between the modern Black Canary and Green Arrow); however, she refused his marriage proposal. The Archer then used a mind-altering device to literally change her mind, but this had the unintended side effect of altering her personality to an air-headed, vapid persona that put her feelings for the Archer above all other priorities. This led to the two of them leaving the Squadron Supreme for a time.

When the Archer died under his later identity of the Black Archer, Lady Lark seemed to slowly shake off the effects of the mental modification, and returned to active status with the Squadron. Feeling she needed to increase her abilities to stand beside teammates that she perceived as more powerful, she began using the artificial wings that once belonged to deceased teammate Blue Eagle to gain the power of flight, and renamed herself Skylark. With this new ability came greater confidence, and Skylark became far more aggressive in combat than she had been as Lady Lark.

When returning to her native dimension with the team, she is injured and remanded to hospital care.

An alternate version of Lady Lark appears in the Supreme Power: Hyperion mini-series.

Lady Lotus

Lady Mastermind

Lady Octopus

Lamprey

Steven Lang

Lascivious (Titania)

Lasher

Petra Laskov

Petra Laskov^[1] is a female Syrian mutant appearing exclusively in the Marvel Comics' Ultimate Universe. The character, created by Mark Millar and Brian Hitch, first appears as the supervillain Swarm in Ultimates 2 #9 (January 2006),^[2] and later as the superhero Red-Wasp in Ultimate Comics: Avengers #3 (December 2009).^[3]

As Swarm, Petra is a member of the supervillain Liberators group that invades the United States to kill many in order to put a stop to perceived American aggression. During a showdown with the Ultimates, Laskov is apparently killed after being stomped by the giant-sized Janet Pym.^[4] However, she is later rebuilt as the Red-Wasp.^[3] Petra serves as a member of the Avengers led by Nick Fury and Gregory Stark. The character's past is also revealed: she was the wife of Georgian activist Nikolai Laskov, and the couple together had a child. The couple's child is held at gunpoint, forcing Petra to kill her husband to save her own child. She does so, only for Petra's child to be killed anyway, and then Petra was raped by thugs.^[1] When the Avengers fight the Red Skull, she is tormented until Captain America and Hawkeye save the team. Afterwards, Petra (disguised as a nurse) shoots her family's executioner in the head in a hospital.^[5] During a fight with vampires, Petra confides with ex-teammate Perun that's also added to the Avengers.^[6] She continues to serve with the Avengers.

As the inhuman-esque Swarm, Laskov has powers to control insects (albeit fully corporeal) with Margali Szardos's similar features of grey skin and horns. As the human-looking Red-Wasp, Petra is an aggressive variation of the Wasp.

Laufey

Morgan le Fay

Leader

Leap-Frog

Leather Boy

Leather Boy (Gene Lorrene) is a fictional villain in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Dan Slott and Paul Pelletier, first appeared in G.L.A. #1 (June 2005).

Gene Lorrene is a BDSM obsessed individual who answered an ad left in the paper by Mister Immortal to join his team the Great Lakes Avengers as Leather Boy. When they discovered that he did not have any superpowers (he misread the ad), he was immediately booted off the team.^[7] Much later, Leather Boy, now donning a Doctor Doom-inspired version of his outfit, learned of Squirrel Girl's indoctrination into the team and set out to take revenge. He broke into their base and snapped Mister Immortal's neck, though clearly he did not die, and killed Squirrel Girl's companion Monkey Joe. However, he was immediately stopped by Big Bertha who had just returned from a modeling session, and was defeated by being sat on by her. The rest of the team returned home and interrogated him where he revealed that Doctor Doom had battled the Fantastic Four in Greenwich Village hence why he was wearing a Doom inspired costume, it had been "all the rage" in his area. Leather Boy was dropped off at the police station shortly afterwards.^[8]

Leather Boy got out, but Deadpool managed to catch him after the two somehow caused major destruction.^[9]

Leather Boy once again tried to take revenge on Squirrel Girl by kidnapping Tippy-Toe at a Deadpool cosplay contest she was hosting. The real Deadpool, who had at that point gained total sympathy for her, caught Leather Boy and proceeded to allow the local squirrels to take revenge for their fallen comrade.^[10]

Ganke Lee

Ganke Lee^[11] is a fictional supporting character in stories featuring Miles Morales, one of the characters to assume the Spider-Man mantle. The character, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, first appeared in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol. 2 #2 (November 2011), which was published as part of Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel line of books, which are set in a universe and continuity separate from the "mainstream" Marvel Universe.

Ganke is an Asian boy and Miles's classmate,^[12] best friend and confidant. After the accident behind Miles's superhuman abilities, Ganke is the first one with whom Miles shares this secret,^[13] and is the one who immediately suggests that Miles use these new powers to take up the Spider-Man mantle,^[12] following Peter Parker's much-publicized death.^[14][15]

Marvel Comics ended the Ultimate Marvel imprint with the 2015 "Secret Wars" storyline,^[16] in which the Marvel Universe was merged with other alternate universes, including the Ultimate Universe.^[17][18][19] Molecule Man's efforts transported Miles, Ganke and their families and friends to the mainstream universe.^[20]

Ganke befriends Danika Hart, a YouTuber obsessed with Spider-Man. He becomes an indirect source for Danika, but rather than use his real name asks to be called "Ned" (a reference to the composite character based in part on him in the MCU).^[21][22]

Leech

Ned Leeds

Left Hand

Left Hand (Diego Casseas), is a member of the supervillain group, the Folding Circle. Diego Casseas' wife was one of the brides of the Dragon's Breadth cult that Diego's military unit, the "Half-Fulls", encountered in Cambodia during the Vietnam war. The cult had been breeding superhumans for centuries, hoping to tap into the vast power of the Well of All Things, a mystic portal in an ancient temple. The Half-Fulls became part of this breeding program, each member fathering a child with a cult member. Diego's wife died and their daughter was left comatose after the fall of an elevator. Diego, having studied sorcery, stole his daughter's powers ten years later and became the Left Hand.^[24] The Left Hand had the ability to access and manipulate the energy of the Darkforce dimension. He used this ability to project blasts of extreme concussive force (sufficient to kill a human being with little effort), and to teleport himself and others over long distances.

Left-Winger

Prudence Leighton

Lei Kung

Leir

Harry Leland

Leo

Leonus

Leper Queen

Letha

Libra

Lifeform

Lifeguard

Lightmaster

Tommy Lightning

Lightspeed

Lilith

Lionheart

Litterbug

Live Wire

Live Wire (Rance Preston) is a fictional character in Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #5 (November 1967), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

The character subsequently appears in Marvel Two-in-One #70 (December 1980), and then as a member of the Circus of Crime in Ghost Rider #72-73 (September–October 1982).

Rance Preston was born in Houston, Texas. His weapon is an electrified lariat of which he is a master. He also has various skills that he learned working on a ranch as a cowboy, such as horseback riding. He was once an agent of the Psycho-Man.^[25] Live Wire later teamed up with Shellshock, another former agent of the Psycho-Man.^[26]

Live Wire frees the Circus of Crime from a prison wagon on its way to the penitentiary, and he then joins the group. The group captures Power Man, but with the help of Black Goliath, Power Man defeats the Circus.^[27] Live Wire also fights the original Ghost Rider as part of the Circus of Crime.^[28]

While battling John Steele, Live Wire was apparently accidentally eaten by Princess Python's pet snake.^[29]

Live Wire has an electrified cable that he uses as a lariat. Anyone ensnared by it suffers damage from the electricity. He wears insulated gloves and clothing that protects him from electricity.

Living Brain

Living Diamond

Living Laser

Living Lighting

Living Monolith

Living Tribunal

Lizard

Llan the Sorcerer

Llyra

Llyron

Llyron is the son of Llyra, and was genetically accelerated in age by Llyra so that he might take the crown of Atlantis. His mother Llyra was a Lemurian/human hybrid and a foe of Namor. She decided to conceive a child with Namor and introduce him as a successor to the Atlantean throne. After discovering that Namor was sterile, Llyra instead seduced a human named Leon McKenzie to create Llyron. Leon's father Lawrence was Namor's half-brother via their father Leonard, thus making Leon Namor's nephew and by extension Llyron is Namor's great nephew. The Atlantean Council voted Namor off the throne, and declared Llyron to be his rightful heir. However, the sorceress Morgan le Fay raised Atlantis from the ocean floor, and in the resulting chaos Llyron left with a number of Atlantean refugees to find a new home.

Llyron is named after his maternal grandfather Llyron who was Lemurian. His maternal grandmother was a human named Rhonda Morris.

He has resurfaced in the Thunderbolts series, as the leader of Fathom Five, a militant Atlantean splinter group determined to destroy humanity. Llyron was defeated and nearly killed by The Radioactive Man. He escaped and returned to Atlantis, only to discover that he had radiation poisoning, and furthermore had spread the poisoning among the Atlantean population. Radioactive Man was able to reverse the poisoning.^[30]

Llyron has super-human strength, agility, endurance, and some resistance to physical and energy attacks. He also possesses gills, allowing him to breathe underwater as well as on land, and can swim incredibly fast compared to humans. Llyron is resistant to cold, presumably another adaptation to undersea life.

Loa

Maximus Lobo

Lobo Brothers

Lockheed

Lockjaw

Locus

Locust

Lodestone

Loki

Raza Longknife

Longshot

Lord Chaos

Lord Dark Wind

Lord Deathstrike

Andy Lorimer

Lorna the Jungle Girl

Lorelei

Loss

Nancy Lu

James Lucas

James Leonard Lucas (legally changed to James Greary), is a fictional retired police officer in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Marcus McLaurin and Dwayne Turner, first appeared in Cage #3 (June 1992).

James Lucas joined the police force at a young age and rose in the ranks, eventually becoming a detective. During the 70's, Lucas teamed up with reporter Constance Molina, Blue Marvel, Kaluu, Blade, and the mysterious woman known as The Bear and formed The Mighty Avengers. They disbanded after their first and only mission.^[31]

James settled down with his wife Esther and they both had two sons, James Jr. and Carl, the latter of whom would grow up to become Luke Cage. James had a rough relationship with Carl who was always getting arrested due to the gang he was in. When his wife died, James and Carl's relationship was strained even more.^[32][33] Years later, James Jr. joined The Corporation which did not settle well with James Sr. due to its racist history.^[34] Carl, who by then had become Luke Cage, rescues James Sr. from Corporation, but are unable to save James Jr. who had transformed into Coldfire. They reconcile, but are driven apart by the memory of Esther.^[35]

Luke asks his wife Jessica Jones to look for James who had remarried and changed his name to James Greary. Though he refuses to speak to Luke initially, he finally sees his son and asks him how life is with the Avengers.^[36]

Lucifer

Lucy in the Sky

Ludi

Luis

Luis is a fictional character who originated in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before appearing in Marvel comics. The character, created by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay and Paul Rudd, first appeared in the 2015 film Ant-Man.

Aleksander Lukin

Willie Lumpkin

Luna

Lunatik

Lupo

Lurking Unknown

Lyja

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