- "Power is about strength. If you show weakness... you will give our enemies an opening."
- āNikolai Kravinoff to Sergei Kravinoff[src]
Nikolai Kravinoff was a Russian crime lord and hunter, as well as the father of Sergei Kravinoff and Dmitri Kravinoff.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
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Wife's Death[]
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War with Rhino[]
Following the death of his wife, Sergei Kravinoff and his half-brother Dmitri are taken by their father Nikolai to prepare to take over his drug trafficking operations. During a hunting trip in Ghana, Sergei is injured protecting his brother from a lion. The lion then brings him to a girl named Calypso, who heals him with a serum and calls for rescue, leaving a tarot card behind. Sergei soon discovers his physical attributes have become animalistic. When Nikolai reveals he killed the lion to teach his sons a lesson, a disgusted Sergei flees to a sanctuary owned by his mother in Russia.
Sixteen years later, Sergei, now going by Kraven, is a vigilante who hunts criminals. After killing an arms trafficker in a Russian prison, Kraven travels to London for Dmitri's birthday. Their reunion is short-lived when mercenaries abduct Dmitri. When Nikolai refuses to pay the ransom, Kraven tracks down Calypso, now working as a lawyer, and convinces her to help. Meanwhile, Dmitri meets the man behind his kidnapping, Aleksei Sytsevich, who took part in an experiment granting him the strength and visage of a rhinoceros. Aleksei proposes an alliance to overthrow Nikolai. Discovering Kraven's connection to Dmitri, Aleksei lures him to a monastery in Turkey, but Kraven survives the ambush. Aleksei hires the Foreigner, an assassin who uses ocular hypnosis to disorient his targets, to kill Kraven.
After killing the Rhino and discerning that Nikolai was the one who revealed his existence to Aleksei, Kraven tracks his father for answers; Nikolai reveals that he knew Aleksei was targeting him and manipulated his sons to remove him. Kraven steals ammunition so that his father will be killed by a bear, leaving Chameleon to be in charge of his company, planning to exact revenge on Kraven.
Personality[]
- "My son, never show mercy. They are prey, we... are predators."
- āNikolai Kravinoff to Sergei Kravinoff[src]
Nikolai is a social Darwinist who believes that only the strong should survive and be respected and that the weak should be ostracized.
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Trivia[]
- In the comics, Grand Duke Nikolai Kravinoff is a nobleman married to the late Grand Duchess Anna Kravinoff. He fathered Sergei Kravinoff and Dmitri Smerdyakov.
Behind the Scenes[]
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References[]
- ā 1.0 1.1 Kraven the Hunter
