Eli Bard
Eli Bard is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Eliphas was a male human Roman who was born thousands of years ago. Two thousand years ago, he was a promising soldier of Rome before being injured in battle whereupon he sought a life as a poet. During this time, he met Aurelia who was influential and became his wife where she granted him a seat in the Senate. Thus, he became a member of the elite where he was a high-ranking politician in Rome who was respected by the military and wealthy beyond measure. However, Eliphas was simply a puppet for Aurelia who used him to sell his seat to a high ranking general named Mascius who she was having an affair with at the time. This resulted in Eliphas being forced out from his wife's home with only two ruby earrings in his hands that he was tasked with polishing which he gave to a slave girl named Claudia. Thus, Eliphas had nothing as his life was a sham and he wandered the city when he heard his name being called out by a voice. The figure turned out to be Selene who was an immortal Mutant who was seeking a servant to aid her in her plans. (X-Force v3 #11)
Seven hundred years later, a farmer discovered Eliphas' body in a field and was swiftly killed through a swift bite to the jugular. Eliphas returned to his former house, learning that it had been centuries and the people living there were descendants of Mascius and Aurelia. Furious, Eliphas slaughtered the entire family, before causing plague in Rome so he could re-obtain the dagger he had intended to use centuries ago. Still desperately in love with Selene, Eliphas traced her tracks, causing death everywhere he went. Eventually, he changed his name to Eli Bard and followed Selene's trail to the New World. He encountered a tribe of Apache who recognized him for what he was but were unable to kill him. He massacred the tribe for sustenance, which was blamed on diseases brought by the Europeans. (X-Force v3 #11)
By the 20th century, he had found Selene in Nova Roma but was too scared to approach her. He needed an offering to appease her, meaning that he would enact the same ritual he had two millennia before. He eventually joined the Purifiers, figuring that the religious mutant haters would be perfect sacrifices for Selene. In the aftermath of the Coopertown massacre, Eli assisted Matthew Risman in recovering Bastion's head from a S.H.I.E.L.D. base and attaching it to the body of Nimrod. (X-Force v3 #1) The android soon began enacting plans for the extermination of mutantkind, involving the recovery of an offspring of Magus. However, Bastion didn't trust Eli, as he had no record of him, future or present in his data banks. Only Risman's vouching for Bard kept him from being killed. (X-Force v3 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Eli Bard first appeared as a tall, gaunt man whose ancient origins betrayed themselves in every feature. His skin was pale and nearly ashen, stretched taut over angular cheekbones and a sharp jaw. His once-black hair had been worn long and loose and his eyes were small and deep-set. (X-Force v3 #1)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Eli Bard was created by Chris Yost, Craig Kyle, and Clayton Crain where he made his first appearance in X-Force v3 #1 (April, 2008).
In other media
Video games
- In X-Men: Battle of the Atom, Eli Bard appeared on a card in the iOS video card game.
Appearances
- X-Force v3: (2008)
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