Lucifer

Lucifer is a Quist villain who desires power and conquest.

Biography

Crippling Xavier

In the 1950s, Lucifer came to Earth at the behest of the Supreme One, ruler of the Quist people. He employed the great Quist machine Dominus to enact mental control over the population of a small walled city in Tibet. Ultimately, Dominus would be used to conquer the planet, but it required testing and scaling first. Investigating, a young Charles Xavier came to the city and used his mutant psychic powers to learn what was going on. He allied with the city's rebellious element and forced Lucifer from his citadel. The Supreme One in turn ordered Lucifer to relocate. During his escape, Lucifer brought a huge rock slab down on Xavier's legs, rendering him paralyzed and soon wheelchair-bound.

The X-Men

Lucifer began constructing a large thermal bomb that could be fired at Antarctica, causing the icy continent to break apart and melt, producing catastrophic tidal waves across the world. It appears that he wished to use this weapon as a deterrent to achieve power rather than simply as a means of destruction. He carried out the construction in an underground cavern beneath the Balkans in Bavaria. He completed the bomb in 1964, connecting it to his vital signs such that any interruption of his heartbeat would cause it to launch. His old foe Charles Xavier, now known as X-Men founder Professor X, caught wind of his plans, and singlehandedly sought him out using specialized spelunking equipment. Xavier made his way to Lucifer's base, but was put off of his revenge by the bomb's connection to Lucifer's heartbeat. As the X-Men approached from above, he used a surgical mental strike to knock Lucifer unconscious without altering his heartbeat. Professor X and Cyclops of the X-Men defused the bomb, and Xavier let the recovering Lucifer free, reminding him that the X-Men would stop him once more should he ever act up again.

The Quist invasion

Lucifer continued tuning Dominus to Earth, and began to test its effectiveness at greater distances. Now located in the American Southwest, he influenced villainous mutants the Blob and Unus the Untouchable to team up in disguise as the X-Men in a series of robberies. Professor X meanwhile could detect that a third party was behind the duo's actions, and used his Cerebro machine to track down who. Lucifer used Dominus to take advantage of Xavier's mental prying, returning a potent psychic attack. He contacted the Supreme One and declared his intention to enact Dominus's final goal.— The X-Men soon arrived and attacked, taking advantage of Dominus's great weakness: it was designed only to be operated by a small set of robots, which the heroes destroyed. Lucifer contacted his master, the Supreme One, for assistance, on a huge video screen. With the robots to operate it destroyed, Dominus was useless. The Supreme One activated the pillar of light from the sky, banishing Lucifer "to a nameless dimension where neither time nor space exists."