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The Marquis of Death is a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain, enemy of the Fantastic Four and the man who trained their archnemesis, Doctor Doom.

Fictional Character Biography
Clyde Wyncham was born in a world without any super-heroes, much like the real world. After growing up in a relatively ordinary childhood, he began to manifest strange abilities including advanced telepathy and the control of minds and bodies. Revealed as the first mutant of his world, he went on to accidentally call the entire population of the town to the house, and bring his dead father back from the grave. In terror, his mother hit him with a candlestick, damaging his brain and reducing him to a catatonic state. Years later, when his comic book collection is taken, Clyde reaches out with his powers in a fit of childish pique and opens a dimensional portal to the Marvel Universe from his old house, mentally controlling almost all major Marvel villains to wreak havoc upon the 'real' world. He was stopped only with the intervention of a young boy, Toby, who brought the heroes of the Marvel Universe to save the world. They took Clyde back into their universe.

At some point after this, he apparently regained use of his abilities and functions, and was sealed in a prison known as 'Clyde's Pit'. . When, in a possible future, the super-villains grouped together under the Red Skull and broke open the prisons, they unwittingly freed Clyde, his powers now fully developed and who had by now developed a nihilistic worldview. Taking on the name of 'The Marquis of Death', he existed simultaneously in many parallel dimensions at many times, effectively mastering time and space. He also had a pupil known as the New Apprentice who wielded an energy staff and who transported him between dimensions. At some point, the Marquis was approached by a young Victor Von Doom, who he became a mentor to, with Doom even acknowledging him, at least on the surface, as Master.

After instructing Doom, Marquis embarked on a genocidal sojourn across dimensions, murdering countless trillions to appease his own sadistic cruelty.

In order to torment him, the Marquis then used his telepathic abilities to project into Doom's mind an entirely false reality where Doom defeated his old Master, became a hero, and married Susan Richards after curing disease and starvation. After Doom was finally content in this false reality, the Marquis revealed its true nature, and that he had created it merely to torture his pupil for failure. He then apparently destroyed the entirety of Doomstadt. As a wounded Doom swore to kill him, the Marquis turned his heart to stone and his blood to acid, and then finally dropped Doom through time into the Pliocene Age to be eaten by Megalodons. The Marquis then swore to redeem Doom's failings, beginning with the Fantastic Four, and donned his mask, declaring himself to be the new Doctor Doom. Fantastic Four #567

Physical Appearance
After becoming the Marquis of Death, his body rooted to a twisted, thin and skeletal frame with almost clawed hands. He wore a large hooded black shroud-like cape with a red interior, with a metal helmet covering his head above his mouth, including obscuring his eyes. His most prominent physical feature was undoubtedly his large decaying and rotten teeth. After apparently killing Doctor Doom, he donned his facial mask instead of his former helmet.

Powers
The full extent of the Marquis of Death's powers is unknown. He has displayed the ability to destroy stars, to cause humans to burst into flames, to tear through bodies with his hands alone, to survive in the absence of heat or light, to exist across multiple timelines and to transform matter. It is unclear whether or not he can also travel through time and space or whether this is the work of his companion, the New Apprentice.