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Hecate
Hecate
Alter Ego: Hecate
Notable Aliases: Hekate, Dark Angel, Goddess of the Crossroads, Mistress of Magic, Mistress of the Moon, Mother of Hounds, New Dark Queen of Brooklyn, Triune Goddess, Witch-Queen
First Appearance: Ms. Marvel #11 (November 1977)
Hecate is an Olympian goddess of magic, witchcraft, necromancy and sorcery, and also crossroads, entrance-ways, fire, light and the Moon. Occasionally depicted as a companion of Persephone, she wasn't so much identified with the Night (like Nyx or Nox), but with nocturnal wanderings.
- Ancient Astronauts: In her first appearance, in Ms. Marvel, she was treated as such. Much later on, she'd be retconned to be the actual goddess Hecate, who'd just been duped to believe she was one.
- Don't Make Me Destroy You: Said as much to Carol Danvers in their meeting in Ms. Marvel, but her inner monlogue reveals it's a bluff. Due to the Amplifier Artifact Carol was holding at the time, she could've easily killed Hecate, and at that time was severely tempted to do so.
- Mark of the Supernatural: Her eyes are default purple, and she's the goddess of witchcraft.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her black dress is open all the way to her navel.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her skin is chalk white and her hair is ebony. She's also not bad looking despite having three faces.
- Statuesque Stunner: Her default form is 6'3"/191cm tall and despite her three faces, very attractive.
- The Three Faces of Eve: Literally. Each of her three faces represent the maiden, the wife and the crone.
Nyx
Nyx
First Appearance: Avengers: No Road Home #1 (February 2019)
A primordial being who existed before the Olympians. Originally she dwelt alongside them, but her resentment at being sidelined by humanity drove her to evil, eventually being imprisoned alongside her children.
- Big Bad: Of Avengers: No Road Home.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Her eyes are completely pitch black.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She does genuinely love her children, if nothing else. She's horrified when Hypnos is killed by the Hulk, and she discovers Monica Rambeaux tricked her into killing Dolos and Apate.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: On Euphoria, she admits she did once want to just feel loved and accepted. Now, she couldn't care less.
- In Their Own Image: Her ultimate goal becomes gaining access to the House of Ideas and recreating reality in a permanent state of night.
- The Juggernaut: She starts off as powerful enough to casually slaughter her way through the Olympian gods, and even the Devil Hulk, possibly the strongest version of all Hulks, can only knock her back. And that's before she's even at full power.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Even weakened after Zeus defeated her, she's still able to swat down the Hulk and the Avengers with contemptuous ease. It's only on Euphoria they realize she wasn't even trying; when they actually piss her off, she becomes completely quiet.
- Parental Favoritism: She loves all her children, but Oiyzs, her youngest, is her favorite.
- The Resenter: She was already isolated from the Olympians to begin with, but as mankind began worshipping them and not her, she got more and more aggrieved, until she finally snapped.
- Speak of the Devil: Even saying her name will summon her, as Athena warns Hercules.
Nyx's children
Hypnos, Dolos, Apate and Oiyzs
First Appearance: Avengers: No Road Home #1 (February, 2019)
The children of Nyx, primordial god of night, representing sleep, deceit, trickery and despair.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Dolos has blue markings and clothes, Apate has red.
- Creepy Twins: Dolos and Apate.
- Gonk: Oiyzs is the least attractive of the four, looking like a frog thing, having been conceived by Nyx's sheer rage and hatred.
- Hate Plague: Apate's knives can inflict rage on anyone they stab.
- Mind Rape: Oiyzs, as the god of despair, can inflict crushing feelings of gloom and misery on anyone in her sight.
- Momma's Boy: Hypnos is absolutely devoted to his mother.
- Neck Snap: Hypnos is killed when the Devil Hulk gets a hold of him.
- People Puppets: Hypnos can control anyone who's asleep.
- Pretty Boy: Hypnos, born when Nyx was slightly happier, looks like an Ancient Greek statue come to life.
- Tautological Templar: Hypnos feels that his mother is good, therefore anything she does is good, therefore anything he does for her must also be good.
Typhon
Typhon
Alter Ego: Typhon
Notable Aliases: Typheus, Typhaon, Typhaon, Typhos, Typhoon, Last of the Titans
First Appearance: Avengers #49 (Febuary 1968)
A storm-giant/monster created by Gaea to avenge the defeat of the giants in the Gigantomachy by destroying the Olympians. He was defeated by Zeus thousands of years ago and imprisoned in Tartarus. Released to serve Hera, but still has his own agenda.
- Beard of Evil: A full black beard and he's one of the most dangerous enemies of Olympus.
- The Dragon: To Hera.
- Dragon with an Agenda: Still plans to carry out destruction of the Olympians and willing to kill any he can.
- The Dreaded: When first appeared he so scared the gods that all save Athena fled to Egypt and hid as animals.
- Hates Everyone Equally: Created to exterminate the gods but has little to no love for mortal society and its colorful roster of heroes or villains. Almost gleefully exclaiming how beautiful the empty world created by Hera's Doomsday Device is without them in it is.
- His Own Worst Enemy: In one story, Typhon had gotten his battleaxe fused to his hand. He learns that "only the blood of your worst enemy can free you." Naturally, he assumes his hated foe Hercules is the one to go after, and spends most of the story futilely trying to make Hercules bleed. In the end, Typhon himself is cut, his blood flows over his hand and frees him from the axe. Sadly, he just doesn't get it and continues to be a hateful and revenge-obsessed person.
- Magma Man: Could spit and breathe volcanic substance in his true form.
- Mode Lock: The form we see before us is not his true form, but a punishment from Zeus.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Typhon can split his lower limbs into multitudes of snakes as a returned power from his old self.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Hijacking Hera's plan he would use Continuum to not only wipe out the gods but all existence as well.
- One Degree of Separation: His wife Echidna faced Hippolyta and the Fearless Defenders.
- One-Winged Angel: In ancient times was much more powerful and capable of matching Zeus. In modern times he has been reduced to a much weaker, but still very powerful form. He never does achieve his true power.
- Power of the Void: Can call fourth or banish entities from the land of shadows.
- Restraining Bolt: A bracelet to keep him from turning on Hera and killing her. It eventually fails, and he does kill both her and Zeus.
- Self-Disposing Villain: Though this would also mean he'd be erased along with creation while set outside of the device. Seeing as his mission would finally be complete, he's perfectly okay with that.
- Weather Manipulation: Before he was locked into his power bind by Zeus, the titan monster could whip up all manor of atmospheric phenomena similar to his nemesis.
- Winged Humanoid: Minus the human part, his true form gives him batlike wings.
Amazons
Hippolyta
Hippolyta
Alter Ego: Hippolyta
Notable Aliases: Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyte, Warrior Woman
First Appearance: Thor Vol. 1 #127 (April 1966)
The Queen of Amazons. A fierce and fearsome warrior, her fighting abilities are of legendary nature. She is the daughter of the Ares, the Olympian god of war and Amazon Queen Otrera, a daughter of Zeus. Hippolyta created the Amazons and Princess Artume is her daughter. Killed by her own daughter Artume, she was eventually revived, joining the Fearless Defenders alongside Valkyrie.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To Hippolyta of DC Comics. Also to her daughter Wonder Woman.
- Amazonian Beauty: Fitting for their queen, Hippolyta is very tall and muscular, as well as beautiful.
- Amazon Brigade: She's the Queen of the Amazons, and not only she reforms her people, she joins the all-female Fearless Defenders.
- Back from the Dead: She's brought back to life by Hela to serve on the Valkyrior, since their presence would also affect her realm.
- Closest Thing We Got: Hela chose her as her Warrior Woman since, with Valkyrie's inability to create a new Valkyrior, Hippolyta was the only other warrior qualified to join.
- Cool Helmet: Her golden helmet.
- Dreadlock Warrior: In her early appearances her helmet covered her hair, but after being revived, her mane of dreadlocks is on full display.
- Fire-Forged Friends: While at first she Valkyrie couldn't help but take potshots at each other, after fighting the Doom Maidens, they have become Vitriolic Best Buds.
- Flying Brick: At first she only had super strength, but now she can also fly.
- Heel–Face Turn: Began as Hercules' enemy, but nowadays she's a hero, although her new relationship with Hercules hasn't been explored yet.
- Matricide: Her daughter Artume killed her after having enough of her obsession with Hercules.
- Statuesque Stunner: She stands at 6'2"/188cm tall, meaning she's not that short when compared to Hercules.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Hasn't reappeared since the dissolution of the Fearless Defenders besides an appearance during Deadpool: Assassin in 2018.
Artume
Artume
First Appearance: Incredible Hercules #121 (November, 2008)
Hippolyta's daughter, made from stone. She sought to create a Lady Land where men were enslaved to the whims of women.
- Breast Plate: A golden breastplate that doesn't fully cover her midriff.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Of Wonder Woman, lacking her love for the world of man.
- Dark Action Girl: Leader of the amazons, and a woman with extremely dark designs for the world, at least when it comes to the men.
- Expy: Of Diana Prince.
- Facial Markings: On her forehead and chin.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: One shoulder plate covering her right shoulder, and her left leg is bare.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Averted, she may be a blonde, but Artume is rotten to the core.
- Self-Made Orphan: Artume has her mother Hippolyta beheaded when the former gets fed up with her mothers’ infatuation with Hercules.
- Taken for Granite: She meets her end by getting turned back into stone and then being broken up by Delphyne. It is also a rare inversion, since Artume was originally carved out of stone, which was then brought to life by reverse engineering the gorgons' curse.
- Tattooed Crook: She’s got a palmleaf tattoo on her left leg.
- Wonder Woman Wannabe: The Amazon daughter of Hippolyta, but a Corrupted Character Copy thereof.
Gods of Egypt
Atum
Atum / Demogorge
First Appearance: Thor #300 (1980, as Atum), Thor Annual #10 (1982, as Demogorge)
- Arc Welding: The Immortal Thor gives a thematic connection between Atum (glowing golden figure) and Demogorge (misshapen pile of flesh) and the One Above All (all-loving, but not necessarily nice) and the One Below All (angry, empty thing smashing out of malicious hate).
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: At least part of the war between Primordial Gods was fighting over who could devour who first. Atum was born to outdo them all in that regard.
- Body Horror: Atum looks like a person, just golden and glowing. Demogorge often does not, and as time goes on has been depicted as progressively less human every time.
- Cannibalism Superpower: Demogorge gains power by eating other gods, absorbing their power into itself.
- The Dreaded: Even monstrously evil deities like Cthon and Set ran and hid from the Demogorge's first rampage.
- Hulking Out: Sufficient amounts of energy cause Atum to turn into his darker half, Demogorge. However, Demogorge is still fully capable of speech and rationality in this form.
- Monster Progenitor: As the Demogorge purging the corrupted power of the primordial gods he'd devoured from his body is said to have created the Legions of Hell.
- The Power of the Sun: Atum's a sun god, and can represent both the good part of the sun and the bad.
- The Purge: Per (one of) his origin(s), Atum was the first child of Gaea and the Demiurge, created when the former was utterly fed up with the constant war of the primordial gods and the damage it was causing to Earth. First thing Atum did on being born was incinerate as many of them as he could find, with the few he missed running and hiding.
- The Unfought: Thor has faced Demogorge several times, but he's not gone up against Atum. Gaea's warning to Thor on this matter is succinct: "Don't."
- Winged Humanoid: One of the few things that tends to be consistent about Demogorge is that it has a pair of wings jutting out of its back.
Bast
Bast
Notable Aliases:Baast-Hathor, Ubasti, Bubastis, Cat God, Cat Goddess, Lady of the East, Panther God, Panther Goddess, Panther-Spirit, She of Sun and the Moon, Devouring One, Bastet, Zenzi, numerous others
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #52 (July, 1966)
- Cat Folk: She has also appeared as a humanoid feline.
- Panthera Awesome: Usually takes the form of a giant panther and she's the deity of Wakanda.
Khonsu
Khonsu
Notable Aliases: Chons, God of Vengeance, God of the Moon
First Appearance: Moon Knight (vol. 1) #1
Seth
Seth
First Appearance Thor (vol. 1) #240
Marvel's take on the Egyptian god of the same name. Seth is a powerful Egyptian God of the Dead who often tries to destroy the universe so he can rule over everything in the realm of the dead. He frequently comes into conflict with Thor and Odin due to Asgard inevitably opposing him, for destroying the World Tree would be a major step in his goals.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Powerful enough to prove a difficult challenge to Odin and rules his own death realm.
- Egyptian Mythology: Well he's an Egyptian god.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Loki and other villains will sometimes oppose him to save their own skin.
- Manipulative Bastard: His entire plan involves people screwing each other, and him taking advantage of it.
- My Nayme Is: Seth usurped the worshippers of the Elder God SET by claiming the worshippers got the name wrong: SETH. The snake motif comes from this usurpation.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: SETH: SERPENT GOD OF DEATH!!!
- Omnicidal Maniac: Blowing up the World Tree definitely makes him this.
- Scaled Up: Turns into a giant snake one time to battle a giant Odin.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Fitting for a serpent-themed god, his headpiece is orange and his clothing is green.
Elder Gods
Chthon
Chthon
An offspring of the Demiurge and the brother of Gaea, Chthon became corrupted into an Eldritch Abomination and sought to conquer the Earth before being imprisoned in a parallel dimension, only able to influence it through his Tome of Eldritch Lore, the Darkhold.
See Marvel Comics: Demons for more info.
Gaea
Gaea
Notable Aliases: Izanami-no-Mikoto, Jord, Mother Earth, Mother Nature
First Appearance: Doctor Strange Vol 2 #6 (February, 1975) note ; Giant-Size Avengers #4 (June, 1975) note
An Elder God personifying the planet Earth, and sibling to Oshtur, Chthon, Set, and numerous others. Whilst her sister Oshtur fled with the other Elder Gods to another dimension, Gaea dealt with them by giving birth to the entity Atum, who consumed the ones who did not escape and then dispelled their evil energies, which eventually became The Legions of Hell. Gaea then established countless magical barriers to prevent her demonic brethren from returning to Earth again, which were later reinforced by successive sorcerers. When Strange fell out of favour with the Vishanti, Gaea was there to serve as his new patron.
She also happens to be the birth mother of The Mighty Thor (under the name Jord) as well as the great-grandmother of The Incredible Hercules. In fact, it's revealed that "Gaea" is every Earth Mother goddess in every known pantheon.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Won the primordial Godwar by virtue of being the only Elder God who was humble enough to ask the Demiurge himself for help.
- Big Good: As she represents the Earth and all life on it; thus, protecting her is a priority.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Her sister is Oshtur of the Vishanti, which is fine, but the rest of their siblings are cannibalistic demonic entities who are bent on her death for siring another entity born to eat them before they could wreck more damage across the cosmos.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As anyone knows, nature can be motherly and gentle—or it can be cold, merciless and spiteful. This applies exponentially more so to Gaea, who once curbstomped Dormammu after he pissed her off enough. Furthermore she has no problem pitting her children against one another if she thinks it's for the best and will gladly let a sentient species die to make way for another ad infinitum.
- The Chessmaster: She, along with Frigga, Hela, Isis and other female godheads, appeased the Celestials by cultivating powerful human specimens over many centuries so that the Celestials would judge the Earth worthy of survival and spare it.
- Chosen Conception Partner: For Odin. Since the Aesir were vastly weakened upon stepping onto Midgard, where they were cut off from their sources of power at Asgard, Odin desired there to be one god amongst them who was equally powerful on Earth as in Asgard. He accomplished this by impregnating Jord (the Asgardian form of Gaea). This later turned out to be a Subverted Trope, and the reason for it is a bit of a story. After Firehair, the first human Phoenix host, violently rejected Odin's marriage, he started hitting on every Goddess he could find to mend his now broken heart. The reason why Gaea accepted Odin's proposal was because of Firehair actually feeling guilty about her rejection because not only did she actually love Odin, but her actions also led the Avengers disbanding. She spoke to Gaea not only about accepting Odin's courtship, but also becoming the mother of his child, one who would protect the earth. Gaea accepted, but only on the condition that the child be born of Love. Otherwise, it wasn't going to happen.
- Fertility God: She's revealed to be the same Earth Goddess from every pantheon, such as "Jord" from Norse myth and "Haumea" from Hawaiian myth. Naturally, as a "Mother" goddess, she is also depicted as solving a large number of problems by giving birth to the solution, such as giving birth to Typhon in an attempt to kill the Olympian Gods, giving birth to the Demogorge to kill the Elder Gods, and giving birth to Thor to kill Giants and other monsters. While acting as one of the co-rulers of Asgard, she was even depicted holding an unidentified newborn (later implied to be Laussa Odinsdottir) in her arms.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: However she appears is however the person who sees her can grasp her form.
- Gaia's Vengeance: Her patience with humanity's entitled behavior has finally reached its limit in "The Immortal Thor" comic, so she let loose Toranos to force them to improve or die. Thor refuses to accept this rational action.
- Hot God: Specifically, to Storm, who worships her as the Bright Lady she once met in her youth.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: During one meeting with Thor, she eventually confessed to him that she is his actual birth mother. Later this was put into question when Firehair, the first human Phoenix host, claimed the same thing. It was later revealed that Gaea is still Thor's birth mother. However, Firehair was the one who convinced Gaea to give Odin a chance in his courtship. Gaea herself said that if she can find in herself to love Odin, then the child born from said love would be just as much Firehair's child as Gaea's.
- Mother Nature: Is the Mother Earth of all the world's religions.
- Only Sane Woman: While she is powerful, violence isn't Gaea's ideal method. If at all possible, she will try to find a way to get what she wants with guile and manoeuvring, which was particularly shown with how she dealt with the Celestials as opposed to the male gods' approach to attack them head on.
- Physical God: About as powerful as her sister so she is this.
- Really Gets Around: She is the personification of life and motherhood, and boy does she carry that into her work. The Earth Mother's go-to solution to virtually any problem is to mate with someone and produce a child from the pairing that can deal with said problem. For example, when her fellow Elder Gods turned into Jerkass Gods, she mated with the Demiurge (her own father, more or less) to give birth to Atum, the Demogorge, who literally eats gods for breakfast. When Odin needed a child powerful enough to protect Earth, she mated with him to produce Thor - though in a conversation between her and Firehair, who persuaded her to give Odin a shot (as she was only willing to have a child with him if she did genuinely fall for him), she mentions that she once sired the child of a talking tree. However, she does make the distinction that she genuinely does care for all her children and doesn't birth them only as solutions to problems.
- Tangled Family Tree: She has given birth to a lot of children over countless millions of years. She is the reason why many gods of various pantheons are actually related to each other.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: We've never actually seen her "true" form on paper. We only see what human (or godly) minds can understand.
Oshtur
Oshtur
A sibling of Chthon and Gaea, Oshtur is the mother of Agamotto and a member of the Vishanti.
See Doctor Strange: Supporting Characters for more information.
The God Tempest
God Tempest
A cosmic entity in the form of a galaxy-sized hurricane, said to be the first storm. It was sealed inside Mjolnir by Odin, lending its power to Thor.
See The Mighty Thor: Enemies for more information.
The King in Black
Knull
An elder god of darkness who originated in the Void that existed between the Sixth and Seventh Cosmoses, and created the symbiotes in order to corrupt and destroy all of creation.
See Venom: Rogues Gallery for more information.
Meridius
See Venom: Rogues Gallery for more information.
The Eventuality
See Marvel Comics: Symbiotes for more information.
The Phoenix
The Phoenix
A cosmic firebird embodying creation and destruction, the Phoenix — more commonly known as the Phoenix Force — selects a host to serve as its avatar, and is a recurring ally and enemy of the X-Men.
See Marvel Comics: Cosmic Entities for more information.
Neith
Neith
An Elder Goddess on Earth-001, otherwise known as Loomworld, Neith is the Great Weaver of the Web of Life and Destiny and the progenitor of the Spider-Totems.
See Spider-Verse for more information.
Toranos
Toranos
First Appearance: The Immortal Thor #1 (August, 2023)
An Elder God embodying both the storm and the cycles of fate.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: He was the first storm, brought to life and sentience.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He, like all the other Utgard-gods, is giant-sized.
- Distaff Counterpart: As a primordial Elder God said to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of the first storm, he is a Spear Counterpart to the God Tempest—who ironically served as the significant augmentation of Thor's powers until being exorcized from Mjolnir.
- Enemy Mine: He and Utgard-Loki teamed up to escape Atum's purge, much as they hate one another.
- Foil: To Thor. Both are storm gods, but while Toranos is a storm granted a humanoid form, Thor is generally mortal but wields the power of a storm. Their parallels are emphasized by both having a similar name (Toranos is another name for Taranis).
- Hate at First Sight: With Utgard-Loki, due to their very natures being so opposed to one another.
- Hero's Evil Predecessor: As the Utgard-Thor, he is this for Thor himself, and presumable other storm-gods as well. He is especially implied to be this to the Celtic storm-god Taranis, who has been featured as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann and not only more-or-less shares his name but also wields a thunderbolt and wheel as his regalia.
- The Juggernaut: As an impossibly ancient god, he far outclasses even All-Father Thor in raw strength, and Thor can only temporarily banish him. In the end, he's required to outthink him, rather than try out-fighting him.
- Lack of Empathy: He's just following his job as a storm and destiny god, and has no real connection/sympathy towards humanity. Thor gives him Mjolnir as part of a gambit to make him develop a conscience, and he is overwhelmed by his destructive actions.
- My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Surpasses Thor's ability to control storms and the concepts of such in terms of raw power, though neither of them can simply shut down the other's when they clash.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Has never liked Utgard-Loki, and is only working with him during The Immortal Thor because their purposes, for once, align.
Utgard-Loki
Utgard-Loki
First Appearance: The Immortal Thor #1 (August, 2023)
An Elder God embodying trickery and magic
- Big Eater: Boasts of draining the contents of his enchanted mead-horn, which is connected to all the world's oceans, in three long gulps shortly after he was born. Thor cannot do this, both because it's difficult even for a god, and the fact that salt water tastes rather foul.
- Identity Impersonator: Foreseeing that he would take on his own name in the future, Utgard-Loki took on the alias of Skrymir when he first met Thor and Loki as a little joke to himself, eventually spreading some degree of confusion later down the line.
- Master of Illusion: As master of the deepest magicks, his spellcraft often involves disguising abstract concepts as mundane people and things that no one, not even gods, can overcome because they're trying to affect fundamental pillars of reality.
- No Name Given: Hides his true name, and it is said he shall only give it on the occasion of his death.
- Not So Above It All: A master schemer and magician who was nonetheless in the thick of the Godwar throwing punches at Toranos and any other Elder God in reach.
- Pretender Diss: The Utgard-Loki isn't terribly impressed by the beings who've tried claiming his and his kin's names, such as Ulik and Loki. As rival and foe to "Utgard-Thor" Toranos, he prefaces Thor's name with a number of demeaning descriptors while addressing him such as Small and Shadow.
- Schmuck Bait: When he and several other Elder Gods retreated to Ut-Gard, he handed the only key that could let them out to his enemy Gaea, anticipating that the temptation to use it to barter a favor from them would eventually become too great to resist. He was right.
- Skull for a Head: His true face is a horned skull wreathed in flames.
- Words Can Break My Bones: His magic is so powerful he can incarnate the abstract concepts behind single words into invincible objects and people.
Others
Amatsu-Mikaboshi
Amatsu-Mikaboshi
Alter Ego: Amatsu-Mikaboshi
Notable Aliases: Ama-no-kagaseo, Chaos King
First Appearance: Thor: Blood Oath #6 (February 2006)
Purportedly the Japanese god of evil, Amatsu-Mikaboshi was imprisoned in and rules over Yomi eons ago. Escaping, it killed Zeus and laid waste to Olympus before being stopped. Released from its prison within Yomi to use his shapeshifting powers to aid against the Skrull gods, it was thought to have been killed, but survived and attempted to destroy the entire Multiverse—revealing itself to be an embodiment of the primordial chaos that preceded creation and an aspect of the abstract entity Oblivion.
- Ambiguously Related: The Chaos King is the Anthropomorphic Personification of the Void that existed before the universe and in his true form closely resembles a symbiote, but isn't known to be related to Knull—who also claims to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of the Void that existed before the universe, and who derives his power from said Void.
- The Anti-God: Contrasting with Eternity.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Gained control of the Skrull slave gods by defeating Sl'gur't, the Skrull god of war, and retained command by consuming the power of every captured god.
- Big Bad: For the Chaos War, wherein he tries to devour the universe and return it to the primordial Void.
- Black Magic: His powers draw on this, and Olympians are weak to it.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Hercules's attempts to constantly punch it out do nothing but fail.
- Cosmic Entity: He is Anti-Eternity, an embodiment of the cosmic void that existed before the universe was created.
- Eldritch Abomination: An embodiment of the pure chaos that preceded creation.
- Evil Twin: To Eternity, though he technically predates him as an incarnation of the Void.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Considers the torments of hell to be horrifying.
- God of Chaos: As the name suggests, he's the embodiment of the chaos before reality.
- God of Evil: Stated to embody everything that is negative in Shintoism or the closet thing the Kami have to a devil. His post-retcon biography reveals that he is not actually a kami, but when Eternity came into being he was forcibly integrated into the Japanese pantheon as a means of shackling his power.
- Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter: A Japanese variant, anyway: Amatsu-Mikaboshi communicates almost entirely in haiku.
- Humanoid Abomination: Can sometimes take the form of a humanoid shadow-like creature, sometimes with spines or tendrils emitting from it.
- The Juggernaut: When he becomes Chaos King, he's nigh-unstoppable.
- The Man Behind the Man: A victim of this. A later issue revealed that the reason Mikaboshi was so powerful compared to other gods is it was an aspect of the conceptual entity Oblivion. Fittingly, this works since Oblivion claims to embody the void between/absent of creation.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: In its true form, the Chaos King has a mouth full of massive fangs.
- Multiversal Conqueror: Seeks to absorb all of existence back into itself.
- No Biological Sex: Technically speaking, it's true form is a golden, slitted eye surrounded by darkness, but as Amatsu-Mikaboshi, it prefers a female form to let it's opponents' guard down.
- Primordial Chaos: An aspect of the conceptual entity Oblivion (who embodies the void absent of creation) and in Shintoism itself represents the primordial chaos before creation.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Believes existence itself is abhorrent and wants a return to the peace of pure chaos.
- One-Winged Angel: At the beginning of Chaos War when it reverts from its Kami form to its true form.
- Our Dragons Are Different: One of his most useful morphs is a giant, black dragon whose fire breath burns even Apollo.
- Power of the Void: Amatsu-Mikaboshi is revealed to be the Chaos King, an avatar of Oblivion and manifestation of the primordial void that existed before the universe began.
- Power Limiter: Mikaboshi's post-retcon backstory reveals that he was a primordial cosmic entity embodying the Void, but when Eternity came into being he was forcibly integrated into the Japanese pantheon as a means of shackling his power, which he only regains towards the end of Chaos War.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: After the end of the Chaos War, he is sealed in a sub-dimensional plane.
- Shapeshifting: The most skilled shapeshifter among the Kami, capable of matching (and defeating) the Skrull goddess of shapeshifting in an extended (although largely off-panel) Shapeshifter Showdown.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In a twisted way, seeks to end the suffering caused by existence and cites some like damned souls in hell would even welcome the release it brings.
The Mother of Horrors
The Mother of Horrors
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk (Vol. 4) #1
A primordial entity who came into existence independently of the One Above All's creation of the Multiverse.- Ancient Evil: She's so old that she predates every other cosmic entity and deity other than the One Above All, and her goal of usurping the One Above All was what enraged the Top God enough to lead to the creation of the One Below All.
- Demiurge Archetype: She is an ancient primordial evil goddess who resented the One Above All's dominion over the Multiverse and claimed the Earth as her domain, creating Udru in order to challenge and oppose Him.
The One Above All
The One Above All
The highest authority in, and creator of, the multiverse, outranking by far the Living Tribunal, Eternity, the Phoenix Force, the Infinity Stones, and Galactus.
See Marvel Comics: Cosmic Entities for more information.
