Nikolaus Geist (Earth-616)

Geist
Name	Nikolaus Geist
Current Alias	Geist
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Formerly ICON; Hydra; Thule Society, Nazi Germany, Covenant
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	6′ (1.83 m)
Weight	118 lbs (53.52 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Grey-haired, Shaved, Brown (formerly)
Unusual Features	One Hand. He was missing his left arm.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human Cyborg
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	German
Occupation	Scientist
Base of Operations	formerly Madripoor; Berlin, Germany
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Archie Goodwin, John Byrne
First	Wolverine (Vol. 2) #17 (August, 1989)
First	Wolverine (Vol. 2) #17 (August, 1989)
Death	Captain America: Hail Hydra #5 (May, 2011)
Death	Captain America: Hail Hydra #5 (May, 2011)

 The Nazi ghost who still haunts the free world...an embarrassing cliche, yes? But why such outrage? The notion thrills most people. Look in any bookstore...from all the swastikas decorating the covers, you'd think we won the war. 

—Geist

History

World War II

Dr. Nikolaus Geist served in the diplomatic corps of Nazi Germany, and in 1936 participated in a plot to destabilize the British monarchy. He was a brilliant Nazi scientist who helped Adolf Hitler rise to power. He became Hitler's adviser during World War II, and gave Hitler ideas on how to run the concentration camps. The other members of the Thule Society gathered artifacts from Europe's hidden libraries. The Thule eventually unleashed the Kraken, a weapon of Lemurian origin and ungodly power.

Geist was then collected by the Covenant who enlisted Geist for their own purposes, forcing him to forget about his Thule Society affiliation.

He worked on Project Lazarus to create the Resurrection Corps, a group of dead Nazi soldiers brought back from the dead with superhuman abilities. He was stopped by Captain America and Bucky and escaped. To escape war crime punishment, he used German rocket scientists to help the OSS.

1950s

In the 1950s he was recruited into ICON, before it was dismantled by the Avengers 1950s team in the Fall of 1959. Geist was part of a group assembled by Geoffrey Sydenham in Washington, D.C., though he was knocked out in the fight with the Avengers by Nick Fury.

He later participated in questionable CIA operations.

Modern Age

When Steve Rogers returned to the modern age, Geist led an attack alongside Baron Strucker and the Resurrection Corps, which gained the attention of the other Avengers. During the fight, Geist was able to get a blood sample from Thor. Over the years Geist had the Corps and Hydra agents gathered mystic artifacts as well as blood and tissue samples from immortal beings, clashing with Captain America while doing this.

He reappeared as an adviser to President Caridad, of the South American country Tierra Verde. Caridad wanted Geist to create a superhero and champion for Tierra Verde, much like Captain America. He was experimenting on humans with a special crop of cocaine which drove the victims mad. His main guinea pig was Roughouse. Wolverine learned of this, and even though Roughouse had been his enemy, he helped him escape. Wolverine cut off Geist's metal shell, leaving him to die. However, Geist somehow escaped. Soon after, Magneto caught up with him and apparently killed him.

Heroic Age

Somehow he survived again and returned to Hydra as the head scientist of the infinitus agenda. During the Heroic age, Steve Rogers put together a team of heroes from the various Avengers teams to shut down all Hydra cells working on the project. It was then revealed that the agenda was to use the blood samples of Gods, Giants, Trolls, vampires, and other creatures to make a race of gods that would remake the world in the image of Hydra. Near death, Geist had himself grafted to the first subject to awaken, the Hydra God. During the fight with the Avengers, Rogers was able to convince the Hydra God that Geist was not worthy to be part of it. Geist was then made one with the universe.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Due to his cyborg nature and his exoskeleton, Geist was extremely long-lived, being well over 100 years old at the time of his death.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Geist was encased in a robotic exoskeleton which kept him alive.

Weapons

His cybernetic left arm had several attachments which could be used by removing his hand. These attachments included straight razors, pistols and dart guns, among others.

Trivia

• "Geist" in German means "Ghost"
• Geist had a strange obsession with shaving.

See Also

• 17 appearance(s) of Nikolaus Geist (Earth-616)
• 4 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Nikolaus Geist (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Nikolaus Geist (Earth-616)
• 1 image(s) of Nikolaus Geist (Earth-616)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Nikolaus Geist (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Nikolaus Geist on Wikipedia.org