High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andreas von Strucker is a comic book character in Marvel Comics` main shared universe. The character was created by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr. Andreas and his twin sister Andrea were known together as Fenris; after she was killed, he became the new Swordsman. Andreas first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #194, although his powers and codename were not revealed until #200. His first appearance as the Swordsman was in New Thunderbolts #2, but he was not revealed to be the Swordsman until issue #17.