Lucy Bauer

"I had a husband I loved, work, the challenge that thrilled me, and just as everything that I'd dreamed of was within my grasp, this happened. But I'm gonna make it alright. Don't take this personally."

- Lucy Bauer to Ghost Rider

Doctor Lucy Bauer was a member of Momentum Labs who found the ancient grimoire known as the Darkhold. Experimenting with the knowledge they found within it to power their technology, Bauer was betrayed by Eli Morrow, who trapped Bauer and her team between two dimensions, transforming them into ghostly apparitions. Bauer herself was freed several years later and, after releasing the rest of her colleagues, Bauer set out on a personal mission to reclaim the Darkhold and also get revenge on the man responsible. However this eventually lead to Bauer into conflict with S.H.I.E.L.D. and she was later killed by the Ghost Rider.

Finding the Darkhold
"We had help... A book, it showed us..." "Wait? What book?"

- Lucy Bauer and Eli Morrow

Lucy Bauer was a scientist employed under Momentum Labs, a privately funded scientific organization. During her time as a member there, Bauer came upon the Darkhold, an incredibly ancient text that held infinite knowledge pertaining the mystic arts. As Bauer studied the book, she became obsessed with the knowledge and capabilities it brought.

Some time later, Momentum Labs conceived the idea of constructing a Quantum Particle Generator, a machine that was designed to generate matter from practically nothing. While the concept was logically impossible, Bauer believed that the unique possibilities presented by the Darkhold were the key to achieving this.

Eli Morrow's Betrayal
"Where is Frederick? Where are the others? What have you done with them?" "Same thing that I'm going to do to you!"

- Lucy Bauer and Eli Morrow

The machine was successfully completed, but a freak explosion caused by the Darkhold's magics obliterated the lab. Bauer and three of her colleagues, Hugo, Frederick, and Vincent, were caught in the blast, and the magical fallout transformed them into grotesque, spiritual entities. They were subsequently placed within cubicle containment devices and placed in storage for several years.

Infecting the Chinatown Crew
"What was that?" "A breath of fresh air."

- Chen and Lucy Bauer

Bauer's storage cube was obtained by the Aryan Brotherhood, who believed that it contained some kind of weapon. Bauer was unboxed from the crate and infected two members of the Watchdogs, causing them to kill each other. She returned to the box and was handed over to Chen, the leader of the Chinatown Crew. When the crate was once again opened, Bauer infected all those around it, whispering in Chen's ear and causing him to go insane, as he saw horrific images and gunned down his own allies in a fit of both terrible rage and crippling terror.

As Chen began killing his own men, he was subdued by the arrival of May's Team, a special S.H.I.E.L.D. unit who knocked out all the surviving Chinatown crew by shooting them with I.C.E.R.s before taking them into custody. Seeing the strength of their leader, Bauer took the chance to infect Melinda May's mind, walking past her and causing a chill to run down her spine while Bauer left before being spotted. Later onboard Zephyr One, Bauer's infection took hold as May saw visions of Phil Coulson's eyes and face becoming black and demonic.

Freeing More Like Her
"I know this is confusing but I need you to focus." "Focus? Look at us, what did he do to us?! He has to pay, we have to find him. We could have been in there for hours!" "Hugo, we have been in there for years."

- Lucy Bauer and Hugo

Following her release, Bauer travelled to her old home to search for Joseph Bauer and try and find answers to what had happened to her. Finding another family living there, Bauer scared a little boy and then attacked the father who was currently residing there, demanding to know why they were in her home. Having been informed that the family had been living there, Bauer realised she had been trapped for several years.

The latter began to see his son's face become distorted and demonic. Realizing that years had passed while she was held captive, Bauer journeyed to Momentum Labs. While there, she discovered five Quantum Batteries similar to hers that held her former colleagues. First, she freed a man whom she recognized as Hugo. Frightened and horrified at their current ghostly state, Hugo demanded that Eli Morrow pay for what he had done to them, believing that they had been in the cells for hours, however Bauer then informed him that it had been years.

Have released the others from their own cells to discover they had also become ghosts and Vincent had lost the power of speech, the group began to argue among each other, saying that Bauer should not have used the Darkhold. Bauer said that the book could help and fix them, and that after doing that, they would kill Morrow and anyone who got in their way. The group, excluding Frederick whose own hatred for Bauer's actions made him bloodthirsty and unwilling to trust her, then left Momentum Labs to begin their search for the lost Darkhold.

Retrieving The Book
"Wake up Joseph, I need you. Wake up. Wake up! There you are. Now, tell me. Where's the book?!"

- Lucy Bauer to Joseph Bauer

Eventually, Bauer located Joseph Bauer in his hospital bed where he was still recovering from Eli Morrow's attack on his, lying in a coma. No longer concerned for her husband's wellbeing, Bauer stuck her fingers into her own husband's head to wake him from his coma, demanding to know where the Darkhold was. Having gotten the information out of Joseph, Bauer left him being where he suffered horrific visions until his heart gave out. Bauer then found the book buried beneath the same basement as they had originally located it just before the disaster at Momentum Labs. Delighted that she may finally have a chance to return herself and her co-workers back to their original human bodies, Bauer began flicking through the pages of the Darkhold to find the answers. However, just as Bauer tried to read it, the pages faded blank and she could no longer touch it, much to her horror as Bauer let out a terrible scream of anger and frustration before seeking out another way to read the book and find a cure for them all.

Kidnapping of Elias Morrow
"Move! Or I will take your mind apart piece by piece!"

- Lucy Bauer to Eli Morrow

Seeking the assistance on the one man who could possibly read the Darkhold and help them, Bauer travelled to South Ridge Penitentiary to find and kidnap Eli Morrow. Going with Vincent and Hugo, Bauer searched throughout the whole prison until she discovered Agents Phil Coulson and Melinda May along with Quake who were also there searching for Morrow in order to protect him from Bauer and all her allies. Bauer waited for them all to walk through a hallway filled with prisoners at which point she trapped them inside and unlocked the prisoner's cell doors to attacked them. While Vincent and Hugo battled against Alphonso Mackenzie and Robbie Reyes, both soon being killed in the process, Bauer finally made it to Morrow's cell. However to her great frustration, Morrow had already been freed by S.H.I.E.L.D. with the help of their Pick-Lock Device. Enraged, Bauer threw Morrow's many books onto the ground before looking at a photograph of her target along with Reyes and his brother Gabe Reyes. Refusing to give up, Bauer turned herself invisible and then went to continue her search for her target elsewhere in the prison before he could get away. As the prison erupted into a riot, Bauer located Morrow moving through the fighting convicts in his attempt to return to S.H.I.E.L.D. and get away. As Morrow was now alone due to Reyes staying behind to confront Santino Noguera, Bauer took her chance and confronted Morrow, ordering him to go outside and drive them both away. When Morrow hesitated as he stepped into the van, Bauer lifted her hand and threatened to use her powers to tear his mind apart as she had done to both Chen and Joseph Bauer, forcing Morrow to obey all her demands.

Controlling Eli Morrow
"What's the book telling you?" "Why the experiment failed before." "It didn't fail, it was sabotaged!"

- Lucy Bauer and Eli Morrow

Bauer then forced Eli Morrow to travel to the Pasadena Momentum Laboratory, where Bauer killed the guards and led him into the reactor room. Bauer revealed her intentions for Morrow: he was to read the Darkhold and return her to human state before completing their work on the Quantum Batteries as, due to her current ghostly form, she was unable to read the book. Morrow opened the book and began to see words form on the pages.

Knowing that S.H.I.E.L.D. would be searching for them, Bauer moved the experiment to the Roxxon Power Plant where she had Morrow build a Quantum Particle Generator which she believed would restore her body back to normal. While Morrow questioned the safety of the test, Bauer revealed that they had moved to this location due to the incredible power it put out, despite being highly unstable. Now concerned, Morrow noted that if anything went wrong thousands of lives would be at risk, Bauer made it clear that she was not concerned about them.

With the experiment ready to go, Morrow warned that it could no longer be turned off, reminding her that the plant could overload at any time. As they returned to the Generator, Bauer noted how she wished Joseph Bauer could have been there to witness this success as this had been his dream, however Morrow argued that Joseph deserved to die by hiring the Fifth Street Locos who put Gabe Reyes into a wheel chair when the attacked him and Robbie Reyes. Morrow then continued to blame the Darkhold for all their tragedies and recent bad luck.

Confrontation with the Ghost Rider
"I'm here to make you pay for your actions. There are consequences for playing God." "Me? Your uncle is the one who wants to play God. He is the one who started this whole nightmare."

- Ghost Rider and Lucy Bauer

When S.H.I.E.L.D. and Robbie Reyes were searching in the facility, Bauer appeared behind them. Reyes told Phil Coulson that he could deal with her alone, as he was the only one who could kill her. Bauer mistook Robbie for Gabe Reyes, Robbie's paraplegic brother, but an angered Reyes hinted that he was in fact the second brother who had survived the hit that would turn him into Ghost Rider as his eyes burned red. Bauer tried to explain that the attack on them was a mistake and was actually intended for Eli Morrow and explained that she was going to kill him because of what he had done to her and her friends. After an intense argument, Bauer then attempted to infect Reyes by walking through him, but she failed and was physically grabbed by Reyes, a feeling that she had believed was impossible, while Reyes yet again noted that he might not have been clear about who he really was as he was there to make her pay for her actions due to the many deaths she had left in her wake since becoming the ghostly figure. As Bauer had began to explain the true story behind the Pasadena Momentum Facility incident: Morrow became obsessed with the Darkhold and had taken advantage over Joseph Bauer's experiment in an attempt to kill them so he could take the Darkhold for himself. Morrow had secretly taken Joseph, Frederick, Hugo, Vincent and herself and locked them individually into the machine that would turn them into the entities that they were now. Although Bauer was indeed telling the truth, Reyes, who was angered because of her crimes of recent incinerated her regardless as she screamed in agony.

Personality
"You realise if anything goes wrong, thousands could die." "Not my problem."

- Eli Morrow and Lucy Bauer

To be added

Powers
Thanks to Eli Morrow, Lucy Bauer became out of phase with the Earth realm, which gave her ghost-like abilities. "What was that?" "A breath of fresh air."

- Chen and Lucy Bauer

"Dr. Bauer can walk through walls, so we got to go."
 * Infection: With a single touch or whisper, Bauer was capable of infecting a person's mind. The infection would affect the part of the brain that controls the sleep/wake cycle, resulting in nightmarish hallucinations that would gradually drive the victim to paranoia and homicidal rage. The hallucinations would usually be of people around the victim having black eyes and their faces being becoming darkened and mottled. Eventually, the resulting constant state of fight or flight would cause cardiac arrest, killing the victim.

- Alphonso Mackenzie


 * Intangibility: Bauer was able to phase through walls unimpeded, though she was still tangible enough to physically interact with the outside world.
 * Invisibility: Bauer could render herself invisible and occasionally used this ability to surprise and scare her targets before infecting them.
 * Superhuman Speed: Bauer displayed superhuman speed when she managed to propagate across a room instantly with barely any effort.

Family

 * Joseph Bauer † - Husband, Infectee and Victim

Allies

 * Hugo †
 * Frederick †
 * Vincent †

Enemies

 * Eli Morrow † - Hostage and Attempted Killer
 * Ghost Rider - Attempted Infectee and Killer
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * May's Team
 * Melinda May - Infectee
 * Phil Coulson
 * Watchdogs
 * Chinatown Crew
 * Chen † - Infectee and Victim
 * Daisy Johnson/Quake