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Wolfgang von Strucker V or later on better known as Charnel is an alternate-reality Baron Strucker merged with the remains of the original Death's Head, although not as well known as some more mainstream villains he is one of Marvel's deadliest villains and successfully killed his reality's versions of Dr. Strange, Punisher, Spider-Man, Captain America, Daredevil, and Wolverine just to name a few.
Initially as Wolfgang he is a muscular human male with green eyes.
After merging with Death's Head body he has a more disfigured appearance of his original body with half of his face being human while other half has Death's Head metal face, right tusk, and robot eye. His rest of his body is deformed and warped version of Death's Head body. He ends up growing larger to tower over human.
After absorbing Scarlet Witch's energy he becomes more warped and monstrous with the traits of Death's Head body beyond recognizable.
After his defeat and return he only retain shape of Death's Head’s original body while still human and light brown human skin looking.
In What If… #54 due to him possessing and merging with Minion's body instead of Death's Head's body his appearance is identical to minion except more muscular and his human face is somewhat visible behind Minion's face.
Personality
History
Main Timeline
In an alternate future 2020, A.I.M. had turned their corporate back upon the Strucker family. Baron Strucker V decided to get his revenge.
Strucker was called by Spratt to Death's Head's former headquarters to repair the Death's Head mechanoid after it's fight with Minion. He punched Spratt out and declared his intention to gain revenge for the Strucker family. He used necromancy to fuse his body with that of the Death's Head mechanoid and became Charnel. He went to A.I.M central and slaughtered everybody there. He then took an A.I.M. time travel belt and went into the past to destroy A.I.M. Death's Head II (now in control of the Minion cyborg), Tuck, Dr Necker and the Avengers of Earth-Charnel all travelled to that same point in time to attempt to stop him. Charnel burst up through the floor and rendered Scarlet Witch unconscious. She-Hulk leapt at him, but he snapped her neck with ease. Rhino was next, he went crashing through a plate glass window. Then Death's Head approached him, and Charnel sensed something familiar about him. Death's Head explained that it was his former mechanoid body that Charnel was using. Charnel blasted Death's Head, seemingly killing him. Wolverine attacked, followed by Captain America and Doctor Necker. Both Death's Head and Rhino recovered and the fighting continued. However Death's Head believed that without magic on their side, they didn't stand a chance. Scarlet Witch heard him and managed to summon a hex bolt, but Charnel drained most of her power into himself and twisted his body into the form that would one day rule in the alternate future Earth-Charnel. He killed Wolverine with a thought. Death's Head placed a second A.I.M. time belt on Charnel and Scarlet Witch used her remaining hex power to activated both belts at once. The result split Charnel in half, sending one back in time to prehistory and the other to the thirtieth century.
Kite, having been given the body of a minion cyborg by Dr Necker, used an A.I.M. time machine to find his future counterpart and transport him from the future. The two reconnected and once again became Charnel. Death's Head, Tuck, and the Requiem Sharks attacked him, but even their combined firepower wasn't enough to kill him. Charnel blasted Smart, rendering him unconscious. Smart and Dr Necker got him clear of the battle, which soon attracted the attention of A.I.M.'s security troops. Charnel made short work of them, and killed Switchblade too. While he fought Death's Head, Dr Necker activated a synapse disrupter in his brain-stem. This had the effect of divorcing his mental functions from his physiological receptors. While Charnel was dysfunctional, they attempted to stop him with a temporal warp. Charnel attempted to absorb the temporal energies but Death's Head shot him and made him overload.
What if… #54
In this timeline due to Death's Head surviving his assault with Minion with teleporting safely away, Wolfgang resorted to using the cyborg instead, luring Minion to a trap where he forcefully merge with the cyborg to become Charnel instead and wrecking havoc on A.I.M’s lab. This forced Minion's creator Dr. Evelyn Necker to hire Death's Head to put astop to Charnel. Death’s Head used the grieving Fanastic Four (Who mourning Reed Richard’s death killed by Minion in this timeline), War Machine, Captain America, Namor, and Lucas Cage to wear him down by using revenge for Reed Richards killer to get them to fight Charnel. At first the heroes was seemly winning until Charnel overpowered them; Decapitated Namor with’s Captain America's shield which he redirected a throw meant for him, burned the Human Torch with his own flames, stabbed War Marchine in the face with Minion's blades, tore Lucas Cage and turn the Thing into rubble with his magic when they tried to restrain him, blasted the Invisible Woman with his gun, and beaten up Captain America before Death's Head fire a rocket at Charnel (Either Charnel killed Captain America by beating him to death or was blown up by the rocket) and entered the fray with Charnel all weakened up. With Death’s Head new upgrade’s following his earlier with Minion, he manage to hold his own against Charnel and used synaptic scramble to disorientate Charnel by having Reed Richards personality take over that allow Death's Head to put an end to Charnel/Minion once and for all.
Powers / Abilities
As Baron Strucker he had master level necromancy and was adept at cybernetics. As Charnel he merged his body with that of the Death's Head mechanoid gaining it's superhuman strength (class 10-25), durability and futuristic weaponry. He can use his necromancy for various effects. He could increase his strength (potentially to class 100 and incalculable levels, dependant on the amount of energy at his disposal), durability and size, and regenerate virtually any wound. He could wield necromantic blasts and absorb magic, energy and powers to increase his own abilities. Using the Scarlet Witch's powers he could reshape reality in his image, even killing people with just a thought, and his other abilities increase to incalculable levels (it is in that form that an alternate Charnel would go on to bring about Earth-Charnel). He lost Scarlet Witch's power when his body was torn in two by the time belts. After Charnels two halves were merged together again, he had the superhuman strength (class 100), durability and abilities of the Minion cyborg that had been surgically bonded to Kite.
In What If… #54 he was much more powerful than his main version without Scarlet Witch's power due to Minion's more advanced weaponry and technology at his disposal. He was able to kill the Invisible Woman. the Human Torch, the Thing, Captain America, War Machine, Namor, aned Lucas Cage. He was able to hold his own against a upgraded Death's Head I, though Charnel was weakened by time he fought Death's Head. He was able to regenerate, use powerful magic to make Human Torch’s own flame kill him, deflect Captain America's shield back at Namor, destroy Lucas Cage and the Thing by obliterating them both with magic and beaten up Captain America to death (Though could been killed by Death's Head missile launcher instead).
