Marvel Villains quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   In which civilization was the X-Men villain Apocalypse born?

   Answer: Ancient Egypt

   Why: The Akkaba tribe left the gray-skinned baby to die in the desert; the raider Baal found him and named him En Sabah Nur, The First One.

2. 2 Medium

   What ability allows Taskmaster to replicate any physical movement?

   Answer: Photographic reflexes

   Why: Psychiatrists named the knack after young Tony Masters copied a TV cowboy's rope tricks, and every move he stores now erases part of his own past.

3. 3 Hard

   What type of energy does the Hellfire Club's Sebastian Shaw absorb?

   Answer: Kinetic energy

   Why: Punching him is a mistake: Shaw sometimes has his own mercenaries beat him up so that he can skip sleeping for a while.

4. 4 Easy

   What is the real name of the villainous Red Skull?

   Answer: Johann Schmidt

   Why: The first Red Skull, seen in Captain America Comics #1 in March 1941, was a decoy named George Maxon; the true Skull arrived in issue seven.

5. 5 Medium

   What is the real name of the time-traveling villain Kang?

   Answer: Nathaniel Richards

   Why: He shares his birth name with Reed Richards' time traveling father, and first appeared in 1963 as the pharaoh Rama-Tut.

6. 6 Hard

   Who created the villainous AI Ultron in the original comics?

   Answer: Hank Pym

   Why: Pym imprinted his own brain patterns on the machine, which then rebuilt itself again and again into an adamantium body.