Alpha the Ultimate Mutant
Alter Ego: Alpha
First Appearance: The Defenders #15
Created by Magneto to help him take over the world using Maelstrom's technology, Alpha turned on Magneto and the Brotherhood and transformed them into infants before flying into space.
- Blow You Away: Can alter the air to generate a man-sized whirlwind.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Can animate concrete to generate monsters and lead these to attack his enemies.
- Evolutionary Levels: The Alpha mutant was in a state of constant evolution from the moment of his creation, changing physically and mentally whenever he used his powers: Initially a beastly caveman-like mute, Alpha quickly became a more svelte, athletic humanoid, with a bigger cranium every time probably due to a growing brain, and developed advanced skills by himself -from speech to the ability to use creatively powers, to advanced intelligence and morality.
- Flight: Can fly in atmospheric and space conditions.
- Forced Transformation: Can use this power to transform the biology of other beings, turning them into stone or modifying their bodies partly (ex., turning a person's legs into putty) or totally (most famously when he transformed Magneto into a baby).
- Force Field: Can generate an invisible force field that can withstand even Hulk's charges and magic-based attacks.
- Mind over Matter: Has telekinetic powers of very high level: he can lift huge buildings from the ground without harming the occupants, and later leave them as they were.
- The Needless: Can survive indefinitely in outer space without air, food or water.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Can withstand physical attacks without suffering real damage (although not without suffering pain).
- Taken for Granite: Can transform the biology of other beings, turning them into stone.
- Telepathy: Is a super-advanced telepath that can reach the thoughts and inner motives of any being, including superpowered mutants; and wipe memories of several hours to many humans, probably on a planetary level. He can also use telepathy to communicate in a non-hostile way with his friends.
- Teleportation: Can teleport himself and other beings at whim, even if he has never seen the destination. He can cover a distance of thousands of miles on a single jump.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Doesn't wear a shirt.
Anti-All
First Appearance: Defenders Vol. 6 #4
The first Devourer of Worlds, a draconic personification of the Void that existed in the Third Cosmos and battled Lifebringer One for the fate of the nascent Multiverse.
- Ancient Evil: While not evil per se, since it existed before those concepts came into being in the Fourth Cosmos, it is a manifestation of the primordial Void and embodies utter oblivion.
- Draconic Abomination: As a Call-Forward to Knull and his symbiote-dragons, the Anti-All is a star-sized black-and-red dragon made of living darkness, and existed in a universe before science and magic existed.
- Eternal Recurrence: The Anti-All's conflict with Lifebringer One serves as the primordial template for the Chaos King's conflict with Eternity, and Knull's with the God of Light.
- Jagged Mouth: It has a long, narrow jaw lined with black tooth-like serrations.
- Literally Shattered Lives: With the help of the Masked Raider and Eternity, Lifebringer One slays Anti-All, causing its body to shatter into fragments of red crystal containing miniature dragons made of darkness, which are scattered across the nascent Multiverse and implied to be the primordial void from which the Chaos King, Røkkva, Knull, and other dark entities emerged.
- Predecessor Villain: It serves as this to not only What-Must-Be / What-Can-Be — the Fourth Cosmos archetype of Galactus, and his Lifebringer form — but to the Chaos King, Knull, and all other entities of primordial darkness save Oblivion himself.
Dormammu
First Appearance: Strange Tales #126
Dormammu is the Ruler of the Dark Dimension, a being of immense mystical power. He uses his vast powers to conquer other universes and dimensions, earning himself the enmity of Doctor Strange in the process.
Echidna
First Appearance: Fearless Defenders #11
Echidna was the Elderspawn spawn of Ceto and Phorcys, and as such the granddaughter of the Elder God Set.
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: She has large webbed hands that end in sharp claws.
- Green and Mean: Her color scheme is green and she's a very dangerous and ancestral entity.
- Monster Progenitor: Echidna is known as the mother of all Greek monsters. She is the mother of the Sphinx, Cerberus, the Chimera, Orthrus, the Nemean Lion, the Lernaean Hydra and many other Greek monsters.
- One Degree of Separation: She faced Hippolyta and the Defenders, while her husband Typhon threatened Hercules and the Olympians.
- She's also the mother of Angerboda, making her grandmother of Loki's children: Hela, the Midgard Serpent and the Fenris Wolf.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Introduced as an enemy of the Fearless Defenders, she would later face the Avengers as part of Namor's Defenders of the Deep.
- Snake People: Looks half-woman, half serpent, which is inherited from her grandfather Set.
The Eel
Alter Ego: Leopold Stryke, later Edward Lavell
Enchantress
Alter Ego: Amora
First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #103
Gargantua
Alter Ego: Edward Corbert
First Appearance: The Defenders #126
Lunatik
Alter Ego: Arisen Tyrk
First Appearance: Creatures on the Loose #35
- "When you want to get somebody's attention — kick'em in the head!"
A extra-dimensional ruler Arisen Tyrk attempted to flee the Other Realm when facing threats to his life. His attempt to cross a damaged extra-dimensional portal, created several different fragments of Tyrk and scattered them across dimensions. Four fragments of Tyrk ended up on Earth.
One fragment of Tyrk was sentient, intelligent, and normal-looking. He became Harrison Turk, a drama professor at the Empire State University. Another fragment became the original Lunatik. This fragment was driven by a twisted sense of righteousness, and became a vigilante. He wanted to punish evil-doers, but lacked the rationality to distinguish between serious crimes and misdemeanors. He violently attacked people for the slightest breaking of a law or rule. Two other fragments were driven by different aspects of Tyrk's personality, but looked up to the original Lunatik. They also adopted the identity of the Lunatik, resulting in three different Lunatiks running around. Each looking identical, but acting in different ways. Harrison Turk became aware of his fellow fragments and acted to protect them, providing them with refuge from their foes and shelter in his apartment.
The fragments have since been reabsorbed by the original Arisen Tyrk, who was left inert following his last battle.
- All Crimes Are Equal: Attacked persons who violated either laws or rules, no matter how insignificant the violated rule was. He obviously wanted to punish criminals, but could not tell the difference between drug dealers and litterbugs.
- Literal Split Personality: One of several fragments of Srisen Tyrk created when he attempted to cross a damaged extra-dimensional portal. This fragment was driven by a twisted sense of righteousness, and became a vigilante.
- Vigilante Man: This fragment was driven by a twisted sense of righteousness, and became a vigilante. He wanted to punish evil-doers, but lacked the rationality to distinguish between serious crimes and misdemeanors. He violently attacked people for the slightest breaking of a law or rule, in some cases resulting in their deaths.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Lunatik is spelled with a 'K'.
Mandrill
Alter Ego: Jerome Beechman
First Appearance: Shanna the She-Devil #4
- "All women love me. I am their master."
Mutant Mandrill super-villain who can control women with his pheromones.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: While he has the appearance of a mandrill, his pheromones aren't related to it.
- Commonality Connection: He bonded with Nekra Sinclair because of their similar situations growing up.
- Like Brother and Sister: Nekra is probably the only woman he actually respects.
- Maniac Monkeys: He's a humanoid mandrill that controls women.
- Pheromones: His mutant ability is to produce pheromones that can control women.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: A confessed misogynist, Mandrill is also a polygamist, being illegally married to more than a single woman, all of them his slaves.
Nebulon
First Appearance: The Defenders #13
Enemy of the Defenders. Nebulon is an Ul'lula'n, a race of six-tentacled, finned, water-breathing extraterrestrials about 10 feet (3.0 m) in length. He was one of a number of Ul'lula'ns dispatched to locate and secure worlds with the mineral resources that they had depleted on their own home-world of Ul'ula in the Ul system, in the Milky Way galaxy. He took on a glistening, golden humanoid form in an attempt to blend with Earth's human population. Happening upon the evil Hyperion of the Squadron Sinister who was trapped in space, Nebulon rescued him. Hyperion led the alien back to Earth to let him have it. Nebulon helped Hyperion gather the other Squadron Sinister members to build a laser cannon that would melt the polar ice caps and flood the planet, making it perfectly suitable to the Ul'lula'ns.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is yellow and his hair is white. Subverted in his true form, which is anything but human-like.
- Human Aliens: Subverted. He may look like a yellow-skinned human with silver hair, but this is just a disguise. His true form is an inhuman tentacle monster.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: His shirt in humanoid form is wide open to show his chest.
- Planet Looters: Nebulon the Celestial Man, before he underwent a Motive Decay and became obsessed with getting revenge on the Defenders.
- Starfish Aliens: His true form is pretty alien to look at.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: During Steve Gerber's run, Nebulon returns to Earth with the intent of bringing peace to mankind through a brainwashing-like method disguised as a pop psychology, making anyone that fell on his talk devoid of free will and individuality.
Moridun
First Appearance: New Avengers (Vol. 4) #2 (October, 2015)
- "Life is horror!"
Moridun was the Sorcerer Supreme of the Fifth Cosmos, the multiverse where magic and sorcery were first formed.
- Beard of Evil: A beard made of tentacles, no less. He keeps it as Omnimax, about the only facial feature he has.
- Berserk Button: No-one tells Mor-i-Dun what is! Mor-i-Dun tells them! Zota learns this the hard way, getting a face full of glass for his trouble.
- Cthulhumanoid: Mor-i-dun is a green-skinned five-eyed humanoid entity with a tentacled face, and was the entity who codified the rules of magic. As the Great Devourer Omnimax, he becomes a bonafide Eldritch Abomination.
- Demonic Possession: He's a parasitic entity capable of possessing any living being.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The Scienceteers of Taa drove Omnimax off by zapping him with a massive amount of positive emotions, things totally alien to him.
- Evil Sorcerer: Moridun was the Sorcerer Supreme of the Fifth Cosmos, the multiverse where magic and sorcery were first formed. It was prophesied that Moridun would see the end of the Fifth Cosmos and enter the Sixth as Omnimax, its iteration of the Devourer of Worlds.
- Face Framed in Shadow: Initially seems to be the case with Omnimax. Then it turns out, no, his face just always looks like that.
- Hero's Evil Predecessor:
- First off, to Doctor Strange, the current Sorcerer Supreme of the Seventh and Eighth Cosmos.
- As Omnimax, he's one to Galactus. While Galactus is driven by endless hunger, he hates it. Omnimax, not so much. He hates all life, and enjoys eating planet after planet.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Mor-i-Dun is the Sorcerer Supreme of the Fifth Cosmos, and the one who shaped the rules of magic. This does, however, mean he's also bound by them as well. Not that this slows him down terribly.
- Horrifying the Horror: Moridun has a freak out on seeing the Green Door, and begs Doctor Strange to make it go away.
- Mind Rape: Moridun wields a psychic knife, the focused totality of his psychic powers. He uses it to violently extract thoughts from people's heads.
- Straw Nihilist: His ghost was defeated by Billy Kaplan easily shooting down his attempts to psychologically crush him by pointing out bad thoughts don't mean much to someone who's had to deal with depression before.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Not that he had any intention of it, mind. Mor-i-Dun knew well ahead of time he was going to become Omnimax. The Defenders kind of killed him, but he winds up getting to the end of the Fifth Cosmos regardless. He just gets there the hard way.
Overmind
Alter Ego: Grom
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four Vol. 1, #113
Plantman
Alter Ego: Samuel "Sam" Smithers
First Appearance: Strange Tales Vol. 1, #113
Presence
Alter Ego: Sergei Krylov
First Appearance: The Defenders #52
- "But, inevitably, the truth has a way of eventually triumphing —- even when the truth is ugly— alien— and deadly dangerous!"
The father of Darkstar and Vanguard, later became the father to a new breed of Dire Wraiths.
- Archnemesis Dad: His children don't like him very much.
- Atomic Superpower: The Presence is capable of generating and manipulating vast amounts of nuclear energy. He can harness this energy for such powers as augmented strength, stamina and durability, force blasts, flight, energy constructs, telepathy, mind control and survival in space.
- Containment Clothing: Following his transformation into pure radioactive energy, the Presence's physical form is always covered in a golden body armor.
- Cool Chair: Has a hover chair.
- Flight: Can fly at warp speed.
- The Mentally Ill: Mentally unstable, the Presence has acted as an altruistic adventurer at times but is usually a menace motivated by selfish ambition and irrational animosity.
- The Needless: Does not need to eat, drink, sleep or breathe.
- Walking Wasteland: After exposing himself to deadly radiation, Krylov's body constantly generates lethal radioactive energy sufficient to poison or kill any unshielded individual who remains in his presence for too long. This is why he wears an armored body suit.
Red Ghost
Alter Ego: Ivan Kragoff
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four Vol. 1, #13
Satannish
First Appearance: Doctor Strange #174
Satannish was created by the Dread Dormammu. He is sometimes referred to as the son of Dormammu and father of Hellstorm and Satana. Satannish has been one of many demons to be called Satan.
What-Must-Be
First Appearance: Defenders Vol. 6 #4
The Archetypical Devourer of Worlds of the Fourth Cosmos.
- Ancient Evil: He is the Archetype of Evil upon whom Galactus is patterned.
- Good Costume Switch: Like Galactus' Lifebringer form, What-Must-Be has a golden Archetype of Good form called What-Can-Be.
- Horror Hunger: Like Galactus, What-Must-Be hungers for the essence of worlds.
- More than Mind Control: Carlo Zota uses the mask of Never-Open — the Archetype of Evil for Doctor Doom — to seize control of What-Must-Be and send him on a rampage.
Yandroth
First Appearance: Strange Tales #164
Evil scientist from the Planet Yann. He was also Scientist Supreme of a group of scientist known as the Masters of the Mental Arts while living on Yann, until he shamed his people. Yandroth fled to earth and has given Dr. Strange and the Defenders trouble through the years.
- Bald of Evil: He's completely bald.
- Evil Sorcerer: Yandroth is skilled in sorcery and was able to combine his magic with various technologies which could grant him a variety of powers including levitation and mind bolts.
- Green and Mean: His outfit is green and is never nice.
- The Omniscient: Yandroth became omniscient to an unknown level. He displayed the ability to be aware of the past, present and future as well as claiming to see cosmic connections throughout reality.
- Reality Warper: Through use of his Quantum powers, Yandroth became capable of manipulating the world around him.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Dresses completely in green.
- Time Travel: Yandroth's Quantum powers allowed him to travel through and manipulate the time-space continuum.
