Interestingly the Baroness was also a Hama-creation, who Hasbro later decided to make a figure of. Have a read of this, interesting stuff.
Thanks to fogger1138 over at HissTank for posting the link:
http://www.nycgraphicnovelists.com/...revolution.html
(original post here:
http://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-j...tml#post1960799)
No idea whether it was a licensing issue, but as Baroness was used perhaps not - more likely the Marvel designers didn't think some of our comic favourites (Billy, Hard, Soft, Blind masters, Kwinn) would be sales hits.