Judith McNaught

Fenris (Andrea von Strucker and Andreas von Strucker) are two supervillain characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are the German twin children of supervillain Baron Strucker of Hydra and the half-siblings of Werner von Strucker.

The two characters appear in The Gifted.

Created by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr., the von Strucker twins first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #194 (June 1985) in their civilian identity and in Uncanny X-Men #200 (December 1985) as Fenris.

Andrea and Andreas are the children of Hydra leader Wolfgang von Strucker. While the two are still in their mother's uterus, they are genetically modified by Arnim Zola. This gives them bio-energy powers which they can use when in physical contact with one another (usually when holding hands). Strucker indoctrinates his children in the beliefs of white supremacy, Nazism, and the Fourth Reich. In adulthood, the twins become the supervillains known as Fenris and lead the terrorist organization of the same name.^[1][2]

Andrea later discovers that Citizen V is actually Helmut Zemo. Zemo kills Andrea to keep her from telling anyone the truth.^[3] After Andrea's death, Zemo has the Purple Man brainwash Andreas into taking the alias of Swordsman. The Purple Man has him flay the skin from Andrea's corpse to incorporate the resulting leather into his sword's hilt, allowing him to channel their shared powers through his sword. Andreas breaks free of the Purple Man's control and joins the Thunderbolts.^[4]

Under the control of four imprisoned telepaths, Strucker takes over the title of Baron Strucker and shaves his head in his father's honor. He gains the loyalty of guards by paying them well and orders them to set off a bomb in the Zeus (the Thunderbolts' carrier) to initiate a lockdown. He declares to one of his guards that Norman Osborn will bring him back his sister or everyone in Thunderbolts Mountain will be killed.^[5]

It is later discovered that Andreas had Arnim Zola create a clone of his sister. Although Andreas has Andrea back, he wants to complete his Thunderbolts contract, leaving as a free man. To protect Andrea while on missions, Andreas skins his arm, giving the flesh to his sister's clone to hold and allowing her to use their shared powers.^[6]

Andrea's clone and Andreas later return to the land of the living and open "Club Fenris", a supervillain club in Manhattan. They are also residents of the mutant nation of Krakoa.^[7][8]

As a result of genetic engineering with their X-Genes when they were still in utero, Fenris are able to fly and generate energy blasts, but only when they are holding hands. When holding hands, Andreas can generate concussive force blasts while Andrea generates disintegration beams. The Swordsman uses various hidden blades; his primary sword blade is sheathed in an adamantium alloy and can shoot a grappling hook-like projectile. His sword's hilt is wrapped with Andrea's skin to release bioelectric blasts of concussive force.

An alternate universe variant of Andreas von Strucker / Fenris from Earth-90214 appears in Marvel Noir. This version is an agent for the German-based Weapon X.^[9][10]

Alternate universe variants of Andrea and Andreas von Strucker from Earth-58163 appear in House of M. These versions are members of their father Baron Strucker's resistance against mutants and the Kree. Both of them end up killed in action.^[11]

Alternate universe variants of Andrea and Andreas von Strucker from Earth-1610 appear in the Ultimate Marvel imprint. These versions are androgynous mutant twins who can generate heat rather than energy.^[12][13]

Fenris appears in The Gifted, with Andreas von Strucker portrayed by Paul Cooper (younger) and Carsten Norgaard (older) and Andrea von Strucker portrayed by Caitlin Mehner (younger) and Julia Farino (older).^[14] This version of the duo are mutant terrorists who were active in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Additionally, Andreas possesses telekinesis while Andrea has molecular forcefield creation, with the two being able to produce destructive light energy when in physical contact. Horrified by their actions, Andreas's son Otto runs away from them and manages to suppress the X-Gene after years of conducting research on his son Reed to prevent the threat from returning. However, Reed's children Lauren and Andy Strucker inherit Fenris' abilities.

• Andrea von Strucker, as Viper, appears in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., portrayed by Sandra Hess. This version is Werner von Strucker's half-sibling.
• Fenris were originally slated to appear in Dark Phoenix as members of the Hellfire Club, but were ultimately cut from the film.^[15]

Andreas von Strucker as the Swordsman appears in the PSP version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.