Von Nebula

"The world will tremble when I have my revenge!"
― Von Nebula, Hero Factory Promotional Magazine

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Von Nebula, formerly known as Von Ness, is a rogue Hero-turned-villain. He was once a rookie member of the Alpha 1 Team, but defected during a mission, and eventually became a reputed crime lord.

Biography

Von Ness

Von Ness (unknown first name) was created in the Hero Factory. He was formerly a rookie hero who joined his four fellow Heroes, Dunkan Bulk, Jimi Stringer, Preston Stormer, and Thresher, to form the Alpha 1 Team, the first ever Hero Factory team and which was led by Thresher. There was one mission where Von Ness and Stormer exposed at least one plan''Italic textetary government's rampant corruption and secret deals with criminals, shutting it down.

Thresher sent Von Ness and Bulk to do a mission where they had to guard and escort a freight convoy. The two Heroes completed the mission when the freight convoy reached its destination without incident, and the shipmasters made sure everyone knew that the Hero Factory was providing security and scared off the local pirates. After the Heroes returned from the mission, they saw how Stormer and Stringer returned with an industrial robot who claimed to be a Hero. However, XT4 was later revealed to be a villain working for Black Phantom. XT4 escaped and stunned all the Heroes including Von Ness. The robot was tracked to Asteroid J-54, and the Heroes arrived in order to stop him. Bulk and Von Ness entered the prison, and confronted XT4, who was escaping with Toxic Reapa and Voltix. XT4 then released all the villains from the prison, and while Bulk held them off, Von Ness went to the top of the prison. Von Ness witnessed Stringer and Stormer's apparent death in mid-air. Then, he was approached by the escaping criminals on the top of the prison, and he realized that he would die if he challenged them because he was out umbered by them. Von Ness let them pass, and lied to Bulk by saying that he never saw them. Bulk and Von Ness tried to go after the three villains, but Toxic Reapa made their Drop Ship unable to fly, making the two Heroes stranded on the asteroid. Von Ness and Bulk were recovered by Thresher who arrived after a mission to Mechna, and later informed of Hero Factory's closing. Von Ness, Stringer, and Bulk took up Akiyama Makuro's offer of having them be security guards in various Makuro Industries plants. Right before the Heroes went to a Makuhero freighter to go to their new jobs, Stormer gave them ring-shaped devices called Hero Factory signalers just in case he needs their help. Von Ness, Bulk, and Stringer used the freighter to leave the Hero Factory building. Shortly after, Stormer signaled for help. Despite Von Ness feeling skeptical about it, the three Heroes arrived back at the Hero Factory where they saw the Legion of Darkness attempting to take over it. Von Ness defeated XT4 by increasing the gravity under him, starting to make up for his mistake in Asteroid J-54, and four Heroes chased Black Phantom into the Assembly Tower. Von Ness helped Thresher free himself from the Legion by lowering his leader's gravity. He then raised Speeda Demon's to slow him down to prevent him from escaping. After the battle, all the villains were easily captured. Von Ness, Bulk, and Stringer, were scheduled to use another freighter to go to their security guard jobs, but Nathaniel Zib announced to the Alpha 1 Team that Hero Factory would become active again, despite Von Ness not being excited about it. Von Ness stayed in the Hero Factory again instead. The Alpha 1 Team became aware of Von Ness' mistake on the asteroid.^[SM2]

Von Ness left with an injured Thresher

The team was once sent on mission where they were called to New Stellac City in order to investigate a routine burglary alarm. Instead, they encountered a gigantic robot. Stormer and Thresher shot at the drone to draw its attention. Thresher told the rookies to go to the Drop Ship in order to protect them from the drone while Thresher fought the drone alone. After the drone knocked out Thresher, Stormer instructed Von Ness to guard Thresher, but Von Ness instead retreated to their Drop Ship, and attempted to flee in it. Stormer tried to stop him, but Von Ness managed to escape. The robot was eventually disabled by Stormer,^{[Episode 4][C4]} and because of Stormer's success, Von Ness blamed Stormer for his own failure, grew bitter about Hero Factory, and went rogue. He eventually rebuilt himself into the tall criminal, Von Nebula. He vowed revenge on Stormer and the Hero Factory.^[HFPM]

Von Nebula

Von Nebula established a lair, which is on a barren place with several dark structures, in a dark building, for himself.^[C2][C3] He had a weapon called the Black Hole Orb Staff and used it to create a giant black hole, which he used as a base of operations.^{[Episode 3][Episode 4][C4]} Von Nebula recruited an assortment of villains to his criminal empire, who were XPlode, Rotor, Meltdown, Corroder, Thunder, and Vapor. Using his criminal associates, Von Nebula enacted a plan to get revenge on Stormer and the Hero Factory. At one time, Von Nebula was recently chased by a Hero, but he escaped from this Hero.^{[Black Hole Orb Staff]} Von Nebula smashed an inhabited house, making the house's dweller call the Hero Factory to stop him, but he got away as well. Von Nebula, XPlode, Rotor, Meltdown, Corroder, and Thunder were known to have stolen Palamino Diamonds from the Deltari Quadrant at another time.(Hero Factory FM)

As part of the first phase of his plan, Von Nebula instructed XPlode and Rotor to steal explosives, though Rotor was eventually apprehended.^{[C1][Episode 1]} He next directed Corroder to attack a prison construction site on Tantalus 5. Corroder was eventually repelled as well^{[Episode 2]} while Von Nebula knew that William Furno tricked Corroder into thinking that he is bringing more Heroes to fight Corroder. Corroder returned to Von Nebula in his lair, reported him on the battle, and told him that he could not handle ten heroes in the battle. However, Von Nebula corrected him that Furno tricked him. Von Nebula then immediately directed Meltdown to infect Stormer with nano-bots.^[C2] Meltdown was successful in his mission, and evaded capture. However, Stormer was eventually cured before causing too much damage. Von Nebula became aware of Drax and Stormer having been cured from the nano-bots.^{[Episode 3][C3]}

Von Nebula organized Thunder, Corroder, XPlode, and Meltdown and sent them to New Stellac City in order to draw the Alpha 1 Team out. Von Nebula first gave Thunder a Nebula Gas Cannon, which shoots nebula gases, and then sent him and Corroder to the city to fight Stormer, Stringer, and Bulk. When Furno, Mark Surge, and Natalie Breez arrived at the city, Von Nebula sent XPlode and Meltdown there to help Thunder and Corroder fight the six Heroes. Von Nebula also arrived at the city with his black hole base. He stole the Heroes' weapons and gadgets, and then revealed himself, speaking to the Heroes from his black hole base. Stormer let himself get sucked into the hole to face Von Nebula, and Furno followed. Von Nebula explained his plan to use their core energy to enhance his black hole. He then vanished into the black hole base's walls, monitoring the heroes with his staff. When the two Heroes came up with a plan to use their Anti-Gravity Thruster Rings to negate the vortex, Von Nebula reappeared and demanded the devices. Believing Stormer had them, Von Nebula attacked him, but Furno was actually in possession of the rings and dropped them in the vortex. Stormer then used Von Nebula's black hole staff against him, and the villain was sucked into it. Stormer and Furno escaped the black hole, and took the staff back to Hero Factory.^{[Episode 4][C4]}

Von Nebula being absorbed into his staff

Breakout

A projection of Von Nebula created by Voltix

When Voltix was imprisoned in the Hero Factory's Storage Facility, he explained that Von Nebula's staff remained a symbol of hope to him. He used his electric power to project an entity that looked like Von Nebula. When the entity activated the staff by touching its orb part, it created a massive black hole that freed all imprisoned villains in the Storage Facility, so they could escape, causing a breakout.^{[Episode 8]} It is unknown what happened to Von Nebula or where he is. His hand was seen getting the stolen schematics of the Hero Factory building from Black Phantom through a laptop.^{[Episode 9]}

Alternate Universes

Reality 11275.6

Early into Akiyama Makuro's Hero Factory, Von Ness decided to betray the Heroes early to Black Phantom because he felt fighting an entire galaxy was no way to live, and he would rather be on the winning side of the battle to come. Von Ness gave Black Phantom plans of the Hero Factory, so Black Phantom formed the Legion of Darkness, and the villains went to attack the Hero Factory. They destroyed the building and imprisoned some of the Heroes. Von Ness rebuilt himself into Von Nebula and led a crime ring called the Citadel that took over Makuhero City and many planets. Makuro was also imprisoned secretly by Von Nebula, who forced him to make Amelium for him, so Von Nebula would not destroy the city with his 'engineering marvel'. Von Nebula obtained an XT4 robot and reprogrammed it to be a villain, XT4. Leading the city, which he renamed Von Nebula City, Von Nebula and the inner circle of the Citadel, which consisted of the Legion of Darkness, XT4, and Core Hunter, created a society where it was against the rules not to commit a robbery and where power was valued. Noticing his dependence on his Black Hole Orb Staff, Von Nebula attempted to merge its power in him, but Stormer stopped him midway through the process and both of their bodies were heavily distorted. Stormer got away. Von Nebula thought he had seen the last of Stormer.

Three years ago, Von Nebula made Makuro make an Amelium cylinder. Since then, Makuro refused to cooperate with him. Von Nebula had a wrist communicator, so he could contact the inner circle.

Recently, Von Nebula and the inner circle were making and testing a generator, and he used the Amelium cylinder to power it. Speeda Demon approached Von Nebula and told him that a robot named L-22 had recorded robots searching for Hero Factory at the Von Nebula University. L-22 was brought to Von Nebula where she told him of the robots and that Stormer was the one who activated the search. Robots matching L-22's description were then reported encroaching on Citadel territory, calling themselves the Alpha Team. Von Nebula sent XT4 to get Alpha Team to negotiate, and signaled them to come to the Citadel by giving them an imprisoned Jawblade. There, Alpha Team demanded the Citadel's surrender, but Von Nebula was shocked to see the Stormer of the main reality, so Von Nebula had a group of Jolters put the Heroes in prison. When the Brains invaded, they allied with Von Nebula to find the information in Stormer's mind. Stormer's mind was scanned and the Brains informed him that Stormer was from another universe and that another Von Nebula existed there. As the Brains went to activate Von Nebula's generator to go to the main universe, he told them he had to get it to work personally first. Fearful that the prime Von Nebula would infringe upon his empire, and jealous of his assumed lack of physical deformities, Von Nebula allied with the Alpha Team and Makuro to create a low-emission beta wave device to defeat the Brains. Stormer threatened Von Nebula that he would let the Brains get him if Von Nebula would not let Makuro go after the crisis is over. The Brains sensed the deception and attacked. Von Nebula contacted Speeda Demon to have the Jolters defend the Citadel's laboratory section from the Brains, or Von Nebula would have the Jolters dismantled if they do not do what he says. When Von Nebula saw a unit of Jolters getting defeated by the Brains, he impatiently took the jammer from Stormer and used it to aggressively defeat some Brains, but this attracted the rest of the Brains' attention. The Brains overwhelmed the Heroes, but they were attacked in turn by the Alpha Team of Von Nebula's universe and their fellow Heroes of it, led by a repaired Stormer. Von Nebula was shocked to see his Stormer return, which allowed Breez and Furno to take the jammer from him. Von Nebula's rage at seeing Stormer caused Von Nebula to activate his staff to prepare to destroy his enemy. Both Stormers attacked and overloaded Von Nebula's staff, and Von Nebula's body folded on itself and vanished.^[SM5]

Reality 37834.1

In this reality, Von Ness never betrayed the Hero Factory, and became a prominent Hero and leader of the Factory after Makuro retired. He was eventually killed by a reformed Legion of Darkness.(Dangerous Dimensions)

Abilities and Traits

After Von Ness was created, he did not have the same commitment to his duty as his fellow Heroes. He was cowardly, unsure, pessimistic, and sarcastic.^{[SM2][FO:MSG]} His cowardice caused him to eventually flee during a crucial mission. However, Von Ness did not accept responsibility for his actions, and instead blamed Stormer for it. He developed a deep, unyielding hatred for Hero Factory, the Heroes, and his old teammate, and set out to exact revenge against the perceived wrongs they had inflicted upon him.

As a criminal mastermind, Von Nebula excels in planning and organization, applying his talents to criminal enterprises.^[HFPM]

When Von Ness was Von Ness, he always thought that Stormer always has to claim the glory and goes first, which was why he believed Stormer had Anti-Gravity Thruster Rings, so he attacked him before Furno threw the Rings to Von Nebula's black hole base's vortex to destroy the base.^{[Episode 4][C4]}

When Von Ness became Von Nebula, he became taller than all of his henchmen except Rotor, who is around the same size as him.

Armor and Tools

Von Ness was built with Hero Factory standards with a Hero Core. He later transformed into a larger, sinister villian, and renamed himself Von Nebula. He seemingly lost his Hero Core during the process.

As a Hero, Von Ness carried a handheld weapon that could alter gravity.^[SM2] After his transformation into Von Nebula, he carried a staff called the Black Hole Orb Staff, which allowed him to create powerful black holes.

Von Nebula has spikes on his arms, mandibles on his head, and claws.

Set Stats

Face Off: Makuro's Secret Guidebook Stats

Strength
Agility
Intelligence
Control
Courage
Toughness

Set Information

Set 7145 Von Nebula

Set 7145 Von Nebula was released large box set in the summer of 2010. The set contains 156 pieces. The Black Hole Orb Staff can spin its two blades around its orb part.

Quotes

"I'm a Hero. They're villains. It's my job. But ... I never asked for this job. I just got created and told this is what I would be doing. No one asked if it was what I wanted to do."
― Von Ness' thoughts, Secret Mission 2: Legion of Darkness

"Hero Factory will be crushed, by the hand of Von Nebula!"
― Von Nebula, The Enemy Within

"We take it back to the Hero Factory and put it in an isolation cell. And then we hope there's a prison that can hold his evil. We hope very, very hard."
― Preston Stormer, Von Nebula Rising

Trivia

• Von Ness/Von Nebula was voiced by Mark Hamill in Episode 3: The Enemy Within and Episode 4: Von Nebula.
  • Von Nebula is the first character to be voiced by Hamill, the second being Black Phantom.
• Von Nebula is considered to be one of the Hero Factory's archenemies, the other being Black Phantom.^[FO:MSG] Bulk also looks at Von Nebula as Stormer's worst enemy.^[SM5]
• Von Nebula is the first Hero to turn into a villain, the second being Core Hunter.
• In Von Nebula's set form, he has short forearms, but in the television episodes, the forearms are extended to look like Rotor and Thunder's.
• Von Ness looks different in various Hero Factory media. In the Television Episodes, he wears black armor, has yellow eyes, and arm spikes, meanwhile in Comic 4: Von Nebula Rising, his eyes are blue, and in Secret Mission 2: Legion of Darkness, he was described as wearing gray armor.
• According to Von Nebula's set description, he is powerful. His counterpart from Reality 11275.6 in Secret Mission 5: Mirror World also considered himself as powerful.

Appearances

• Secret Mission 2: Legion of Darkness (In a Flashback)
• Comic 2: Core Crisis (Cameo)(First Appearance)
• Episode 2: Core Crisis (In a Flashback)
• Comic 3: The Enemy Within (Cameo)
• Episode 3: The Enemy Within (Cameo)
• Comic 4: Von Nebula Rising
• Episode 4: Von Nebula
• Hero Factory Promotional Magazine
• Hero Factory FM (Mentioned Only)
• Episode 8: Breakout Part 1 (Projection Only)
• Episode 9: Breakout Part 2 (Cameo)
• Secret Mission 1: The Doom Box (Mentioned Only)
• Secret Mission 3: Collision Course (Mentioned Only)
• Secret Mission 4: Robot Rampage (Mentioned Only)
• Secret Mission 5: Mirror World (Alternate Universe)
• Dangerous Dimensions (Alternate Universe)
• Face Off: Makuro's Secret Guidebook
• Makuhero Star (Non-canonical Appearance)
• Mission: Von Nebula (Non-canonical Appearance)

See also

• Gallery:Villains § Von Nebula
• Gallery:Alpha 1 Team - Thresher's Team

External links

• 7145 Von Nebula (instructions)
• Von Nebula's Bio on HeroFactory.com (archived)