History Characters / MarvelComicsCosmicEntities

* DestroyerDeity: In its Dark Phoenix aspect, it is a bloodthirsty cosmic entity that revels in razing entire planets with its flames.

* LoveBeALady: She ''is'' love itself, an emotion often considered feminine. While she has taken on other genders when encountering other characters in some cases, her physical form will typically resemble a feminine woman.

* AlmightyJanitor: '''The''' Marvel example. An EldritchAbomination bellow everything and everyone, both literally and figuratively, yet is TheAntiGod of the whole of Marvel and the all-powerful Hulk persona of The One Above All.

* EvilIsNotAToy: It's a grotesquely powerful DestroyerDeity, but it's not really some actively malevolent demiurge. Rather, it is a unfiltered force of devastation that is shaped by the dark wishes and warped perspectives of those that with to harness its might. It never ends well for them.

* AchillesHeel: The Celestials took precautions on Cal-Horra to make it so he would never become a serious threat to them or their experiments. He has built-in vulnerabilities to the very biology of a Celestial, so a fist coated in Celestial blood can harm him with a punch he would have otherwise laughed off. His incredible senses have programmed blindspots when observing Celestial technology, so anything cloaked with the same would be utterly invisible to him even if it could be parsed through by those "weaker" than he is.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: As he can weather almost any attack thrown at him, his typical strategy when dealing with a Beyonders is to walk up to, fly towards, or teleport in front of them before stabbing them to death with rather basic weapons conceptually attuned to kill them.

[[folder:Beyonder]]
!!Beyonder
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Kosmos
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Frank, Kurami
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Secret Wars'' #1 (May 1984)

The Beyonder is an immensely powerful extradimensional entity of disputed origin. The Beyonder is the beyond-all and end-all of all things, striven on occasion to be both mankind's greatest savior and threat, in a quest to better understand human nature.

* WantingIsBetterThanHhaving: Her maybe crush on Deadpool stems from the fact that he can't die.

* MysteriousPast: He is the Creator of all Marvel universes and it is explicitly their God, but Marvel doesn't seem to want The One Above All with an identity identifiable with real world religions, his mysterious nature could be linked to several monotheistic gods with a benign nature and interest in love; in contrast Creator/DCComics who has always been clear The Presence, the absolute God of their universes, is the Abrahamic God Yahweh. However, his domain is sometimes referred to as {{Heaven}}, and under Creator/AlEwing in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' and ''ComicBook/DefendersBeyond'', references to the UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} are constantly used around him, which really would make him the Abrahamic God, or at least those faiths were the closest to describing him.

[[folder:Dominion]]

[[folder:Dominion]]
!!"The Dominion"

A mysterious cosmic threat from outside the Multiverse.

* CoolCrown: What the limited human mind can comprehend of it is as a giant "crown above all things".
* TheDreaded: The Beyonders, who can wipe out most of the other cosmic entities, were scared enough of the Dominion that they [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 blew up all of reality]] as a "necessary experiment" to keep it at bay.
* EldritchAbomination: It's some immeasurably powerful ''thing'' from beyond the Multiverse, and when the Defenders see it, they can only comprehend it as a giant crown seeming to float above five realities at once.
* EvenMoreOmnipotent: The Beyonders initiated the Incursions as a "necessary experiment" to stop this thing. Loki also states that it makes the Black Winter look like an "angry jelly baby."
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Blue Marvel outright says that the vision of the Dominion the One Above All is showing the Defenders, a giant crown, is the closest they can comprehend.
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[[folder:Eternity]]
!!Eternity
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The AnthropomorphicPersonification of Eternity has existed since the dawn of time and represents one of the fundamental aspects of the universe. It is enemies with some of the most powerful and dangerous evils in the cosmos which seek either to kill it or take its power for themselves, which in either case will result in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the End of Reality as We Know It]]. He has assisted Doctor Strange when he comes into battle with these enemies.
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[[folder:The Gravedigger]]
!!"The Gravedigger"
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''The Incredible Hulk'' vol. 1, #[=-1=]

An unnerving being who appears to be a loquacious gravedigger, hiding a sinister bent.

* AllJustADream: His encounter with the Hulk in issue [=-1=]. Of course, in the Marvel universe, just because it's a dream doesn't mean it didn't happen ''anyway'', and the stuff he shows the Hulk turns out to be right.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: Might be an aspect of the One Below All, or just someone who's face it's taken on. Or he might be his own person.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The first time he appeared to the Hulk, he mentions he use to handle "the plots 'round these parts". Since he looks eerily like Stan Lee, he could well be talking about plots as in a graveyard, or story plots.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Looks like a dead ringer for Stan the Man himself. Only malevolent and creepy.
* NoNameGiven: He never actually gives his name.
* SinisterShades: Always wearing a pair of sunglasses. Sinister as all Hell.

[[folder:Eternity]]
!!Eternity
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The AnthropomorphicPersonification of Eternity has existed since the dawn of time and represents one of the fundamental aspects of the universe. It is enemies with some of the most powerful and dangerous evils in the cosmos which seek either to kill it or take its power for themselves, which in either case will result in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the End of Reality as We Know It]]. He has assisted Doctor Strange when he comes into battle with these enemies.

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: That's what he's supposed to maintain. That doesn't always mean he's good.

* OxymoronicBeing: As Galactus pointed out in a fight with them, Lord Chaos is inherently weakened by being a part of a system.

* EmotionControl: Master Hate can inspire and ingrain varying levels of hate into any sentient being to various effect.

* GreaterScopeParagon: She is the creator of Lifebringer One, the first hero, to defend against Anti-All the first evil ever fought.

* MythologyGag: Three times over. His labels of pilgrim and true believer are both terms Stan Lee used to address fans and readers, and the Fourth is mentioned as being on a "journey into mystery".

* MythologyGag: His description as weaver of illusions of change alludes to a Stan Lee quote about Marvel's philosophy for continuity and the floating timeline.

%%Scrier has vast cosmic powers and also claims to be a being older than the universe and the several universes that occurred before the current one. He claims that he was old when Galactus was young. Nothing he says should be taken at face value, though, because he obfuscates and lies. He was asleep for a long time before the Silver Surfer woke him him and he resumed his war against the Other.

!!Personifications of the Previous Cosmoses

* EldritchLocation: Earlier in the line their laws of physics become less defined, with the inhabitants being nascent incarnations of character archetypes.

* AllPowerfulBystander: THE all-powerful bystander. When he interacts with beings, it is usually to heal them (either physically or emotionally) or to assist heroes in ways only a extraordinarily powerful entity could if they need help. His bystander nature is justified since his ''only'' weapon is love.

* ContinuitySnarl: In New Avengers vol 3 issue 33 Doctor Doom talks about how the Beyonders cannot travel through time, however the Beyonder has been seen time traveling several times, notably in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' where he transports Iron Fist and Power Man through time.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: The more traditional Yahweh does exist in this setting, being (unsurprisingly) involved with ''ComicBook/GhostRider'''s lore and a satirical appearance in ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' [[Creator/MarvelMAX MAX]] of all places. It's unclear how they tie into one another. There's also the Fulcrum from ''ComicBook/Eternals2008'', who is the creator of the cosmic system the Celestials maintain, is described as omnipotent, and also takes the appearance of Jack Kirby, leading fans to speculate he's related to the One Above All, but thanks to ChuckCunninghamSyndrome, we don't have an answer.

!!! '''Alter Ego:'''

* UnexpectedCharacter: He was Marvel's villain in the ''ComicBook/BatmanVsTheIncredibleHulk'' crossover.

* GeniusLoci: Originally (before all the subsequent retcons), he was supposed to be the living embodiment of an entire alternate universe -- albeit, apparently one with nothing in it except... him. When a freak accident created a pinhole opening to the main Marvel Universe, he became fascinated by the sight of things that were not part of himself, and traveled there to investigate (leaving his own world completely empty). [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued.]] Later writers have retconned away this origin in many different ways, but it does still seem to be what he ''believed'' himself to be, at the time.

* BigBad: It is the primary antagonist of ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', ''ComicBook/PhoenixResurrection'', and the ''Enter the Phoenix'' arc of ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron The Avengers]]''.

* TheDreaded: The Shi'ar once worshiped the Phoenix as Phal'kon, but when after its avatar Rook'shir went Dark Phoenix they came to fear and despise it. After "Jean Grey" went Dark Phoenix and ate a star, the Shi'ar decided to wipe out her bloodline and even put Jean's time-displaced younger self on trial.

* GodCouple: ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron The Avengers]]'' reveals that the Phoenix, through its avatar Firehair, was in a romance with Odin Borson. [[spoiler:The Phoenix, through a manifestation of Firehair, claims that Thor was conceived as a result of this, but ''ComicBook/{{Thor|2020}}'' both acknowledges and disputes this.]]

* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: The Phoenix Force chose a dying Jean Grey as its host, but after the ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'' it was retconned that the Jean Grey seen between ''X-Men'' #101 and ''X-Men'' #137 was actually the Phoenix Force itself having assumed Jean's appearance and identity, placing the real Jean Grey in a healing cocoon to recover from her injuries.

* OmnicidalManiac: Despite proclaiming itself "fire and life incarnate", it very easily succumbs to its destructive impulses and relishes razing whole planets and devouring stars.

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: If the Phoenix's host is evil or succumbs to its destructive impulses, this will cause the host to become a Dark Phoenix, as has happened to Rook'shir and "Jean Grey",[[note]]Retconned into being the Phoenix Force itself impersonating the real Jean Grey after ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga''.[[/note]] and almost happend to Firehair and Fongji.

* MysteriousPast: He is the Creator of all Marvel universes and it is explicitly their God, but Marvel doesn't seem to want The One Above All with an identity identifiable with real world religions, his mysterious nature could be linked to several monotheistic gods with a benign nature and interest in love; in contrast Creator/DCComics who has always been clear The Presence, the absolute God of their universes, is the Abrahamic God Yahweh.

* HumanityIsInfectious: Once spent time inhabiting Margo Chandler as a gambit to hide from a crazed death god who had the power of all the live of a single galaxy. She was influenced by Margo's personality and emotions. Since then, whenever death walks the earth, she does so in the guise of Margo.