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Absorbing Man

Absorbing Man

Alter Ego: Carl "Crusher" Creel

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery (vol. 1) #114

"I can absorb the strength of livin' things... as easily as metal or rock! That means I can add your might... to my own!"

Empowered by the evil trickster god Loki, convicted felon Carl "Crusher" Creel was given the ability to absorb the physical properties of anything he made physical contact with. Using his new powers to return to his life of crime, Creel would go on to become battle The Mighty Thor (which was what Loki had in mind when he gave Creel his powers) but also numerous other heroes. Although he continues to be a charter member of Thor's Rogues Gallery, he's also tangled with everyone from Daredevil to Spider-Man to the Hulk.

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• Alliterative Name: Carl Crusher Creel.
• All Your Powers Combined: Creel has demonstrated the ability to combine previously absorbed abilities.
• Amazon Chaser: At the very least, Creel enjoys the fact that Titania can keep up with him. In turn, she admires his physical strength.
• Assimilation Backfire: Creel's greatest strength is also his greatest vulnerability. Not only does he absorb the strengths of whatever he touches, he also absorbs its weaknesses. Clever heroes can use this trait to beat him:
  • In one of his first appearances, Thor tricked him into absorbing the properties of helium, which caused him to literally float away into the upper atmosphere.
  • When he absorbed the strength and power of the Gray Hulk, he also absorbed the weakness to sunlight that the Hulk was suffering from. The Hulk was mostly protected from the sun by the three-piece suit he was wearing... but the Absorbing Man wasn't so lucky.
  • Later in that same fight, the Hulk used Deadly Dodging to get the Absorbing Man to short himself out after he became electrified and accidentally struck the river they were fighting near.
  • When the Absorbing Man turned himself into diamond, Daredevil used his radar sense to find and chip away at the flaws that developed in Creel's body. This continued until the Absorbing Man literally fell to pieces.
  • Another fight with Thor led the Absorbing Man to try and absorb the dimensional portal Thor was opening to escape. This resulted in him getting sucked into a barren, lifeless dimension... at least before he absorbed another portal and made his way back to Earth.
  • During a fight with Spider-Man, the wall-crawler once managed to trick Creel into absorbing two different (unidentified) substances that exploded when mixed together, allowing him to be collected as he was pulling himself back together.
  • In one story where Creel fought Deadpool, he attempted to absorb the properties of a nearby piece of steel only for Deadpool to toss a roll of toilet paper into his hands as he looked the other way. The results were what you might expect.
• Bald of Evil: Creel has no hair and is evil. This is kind of complicated though, because he's not totally "evil" and occasionally shows a Hidden Heart of Gold.
• Battle Couple: With Titania. They were eventually married.
• Body Horror: His battle with the Devil Hulk during Immortal Hulk causes Crusher's upper body to be torn in half, leaving his skull and spinal cord exposed. Then Hulk tears that out and beats him with it, and Crusher still doesn't die. Mercifully, he gets better.
• Bring the Anchor Along: The Absorbing Man is iconic with his ball and chain that was used to restrain him when he was in jail before he acquired his material absorption powers; the ball can also change its material along with him.
• Broken Tears: While duking it out with the Devil Hulk in Immortal Hulk, Creel unwittingly absorbed the monstrous "One Below All" and briefly became its puppet. He's so horrified he breaks down sobbing and profusely apologizing to his emerald nemesis.
• The Brute: Creel has often been pulled out to give Thor or someone else a fight with no real relevance to the story aside from the hero needing someone to fight.
• Carpet of Virility: At least he sported one at one point in his career.
• Depower: Norman Osborn once used an enchanted sword provided by Loki to remove Creel's powers.
• Drugs Are Bad: Had a drug problem at one point. This, combined with his powers, led him to temporarily turn into living cocaine, which the Owl tried to sell like it was regular cocaine.
• Dumb Muscle: Creel is noted to be kind of stupid. He is often tricked into absorbing something he shouldn't and usually does not carry around samples of things that would be useful instead relying on whatever is around him at the moment.
• Epic Flail: Creel's ball and chain has the same absorbing properties he does. It can even absorb the properties of Thor's mystic uru hammer, which is never a pleasant experience for Thor.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Creel has a distaste for attacking children and he remains haunted by a legbreaker job he did when he was a normal human where he broke the nose of an old woman. When one job saw him meet Captain America as the hero was trying to disarm a bomb in the heart of New York, Creel absorbed Cap's shield and used his own body to contain the blast so that innocent people wouldn't get hurt.
  • He also has scruples regarding other things; Black Bolt offered to buy the entire apartment that Creel and Titania were living in for him after the second time Creel helped Black Bolt in a battle. Creel turned him down as he realized while Black Bolt came from a good place with this, Creel doesn't take handouts and it's a bit of an insult to pay a friend for helping out.
  • Creel hates abusive parents due to being abused by his own father. He notes in Immortal Hulk that he once read a biography about Bruce Banner to try and get an edge of some sort, but reading about Bruce's childhood under Brian Banner just made him feel sorry for his long-time enemy.
• From a Single Cell: Even when shattered or dispersed, he'll eventually reform around the largest remaining piece of him. This happened most recently with his ball and chain, resurrecting him at his funeral where it was being buried.
• Future Badass: While plenty powerful as he is, in one Alternate Universe story Creel realizes he has the ability to also absorb knowledge. After absorbing the intellect and processing power of Ultron he is able to recall everything he ever absorbed and became able to display their properties at will and effectively became the most dangerous superhuman on the planet.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: In a fight against Wolverine during the Secret Wars, Creel's arm was cut off while he was in stone form, but he discovered that he could reattach his limbs and heal himself by holding the severed limb in place as he returned to human form.
• Happily Married: He dated and eventually married fellow supervillain Titania.
• Heel–Face Turn: Creel is brutal and mercenary, but he does have standards. Over time he seems to be changing sides. Most recently he's become a member of a heroic team called Gamma Flight, though ironically they're all wanted renegades.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He convinced Black Bolt to turn him into a human bomb to destroy the Jailer and the space prison they were in. Black Bolt and Creel's other prisoner friends pay their respects to him and intend on honoring Creel's last wishes.
• Hidden Depths: Creel is actually quite bright when he decides to use his brain, he's also an expert mechanic. To Black Bolt's surprise, Creel was able to look at an Inhuman machine that Black Bolt was puzzling about and figure out that it was a combustion engine. Creel was also the first to realize that their Jailer was using their deaths as fuel for his lifespan and powers.
• Magic Pants The outfit Creel wore when he got his powers changes properties with his body. This includes the ball and chain, providing him with a weapon.
• Material Mimicry: After Loki gave him power, Creel gained the ability to 'absorb' the properties of whatever he touches.
• Odd Friendship: Black Bolt is a good friend of his when both were being tortured in a space prison. During Immortal Hulk, he strikes up a surprising friendship with Puck.
• Official Couple: With Titania.
• Power Copying: The Absorbing Man can mimic the physical properties of anything he or his ball and chain touches. If he touches concrete, he gains the strength and durability of concrete. He touches electricity, he becomes electrical. He touches titanium, he becomes as strong and durable as titanium. He can also duplicate the strength and durability of anyone he touches, such as the Hulk or Hercules.
• Reality Warper: He once absorbed the fragments of a cosmic cube and was, briefly, this.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He is originally a Thor villain but he is frequently associated with the Hulk. He has a history with the Avengers as a whole, even if neither Hulk or Thor are on the team at the time, and has fought Spider-Man solo on a few occasions.
• Semantic Superpower: While the basics of Creel's powers stayed the same, he eventually realized that since they're magic in origin, and granted by a god of mischief, they don't necessarily follow cast-iron rules. In Immortal Hulk he demonstrates the function of an armored fighter jet, effectively turning himself into a mecha.
• Sizeshifter: Creel can absorb extra mass if the object he's touching is larger than himself. In an alternate universe he eventually ends up becoming New York City. The aftermath of a fight with the Hulk rendered him an island.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: If he's not completely shirtless he's usually wearing the tank top A-shirt generic tough guys are known to wear.
• Super-Strength: His strength level depends on what object he has absorbed the properties of. It has its limits though.
• Touched by Vorlons: Loki gave him his powers through a magic potion. Creel himself thinks the notion is kinda absurd though he certainly loves his powers.
• Tricking the Shapeshifter: Related to Assimilation Backfire, many heroes have overcome the Absorbing Man by getting him to absorb something that gives him a fatal weakness they can exploit.
• Unexplained Recovery: The Absorbing Man's ball and chain has been destroyed on several occasions, and yet somehow it's always good as new the next time the Absorbing Man appears.
• Unholy Matrimony: He's a supervillain and very Happily Married to Titania, a female supervillain with Super-Strength. They rob banks together.
• Villain Respect: Whilst he and Thor aren't exactly on the best terms, he does have a lot of respect for the "neo-Thor" superhero Thunderstrike, because Eric's kindness saved Titania from dying of cancer. When Eric was killed, Creel went to the superhero's grave to pay his respect, standing alongside Thor to do so. Creel also has a lot of respect for Captain America and was happy that Cap spoke at his funeral.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Often tends to go sans shirt.

All-Black the Necrosword

All-Black the Necrosword

First Appearance: Thor: God of Thunder (vol. 1) #2

The first symbiote, All-Black was created by the dark elder god Knull, who used it in an attempted genocide against the other gods. It was taken by Gorr, who unwittingly used it to follow in Knull's footsteps. Taken by Old Thor after Gorr's death, All-Black transferred to Galactus, turning him into the Butcher of Worlds; and ultimately bonded to Ego the Living Planet, turning him into Ego the Necroworld. It was eventually claimed by King Loki, who intends to use it to destroy the universe.

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See Marvel Comics: Symbiotes for more info.

Bison

Bison

Alter Ego: William "Billy" Kitson

First Appearance: Thunderstrike #13 (October, 1994)

Billy Kitson is a former basketball player whose leg got broke when he was accidentally tripped by another player. Seth turned him into the bull-like Bison to serve him where Seth will restore him to normal and heal his leg if his mission is a success.

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• Animal Theme Naming: The Bison.
• Animorphism: Combines human and bison aspects.
• Anti-Villain: Is a villain only because he is seeking a cure for his condition.
• Career-Ending Injury: Was an up-and-coming basketball player until a broken leg ended his career.
• Deal with the Devil: Was granted his power by the Egyptian god Seth, who promised to fully heal his leg in exchange for his servitude.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's one of the animal casualties of Hunted.
• Forced Transformation: Was transformed into Bison against his will by Seth.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Is desperately searching for a way to remove his powers and become human again.
• Mighty Glacier: Strong but slow.
• Our Minotaurs Are Different: Is a human/bison minotaur.

Black Berserkers

Alter Ego: None

First Appearance: Thor: God of Thunder #1

Offshoots of All-Black created by Gorr the God Butcher.

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• Blade Below the Shoulder: The Black Berserkers can morph their limbs into bladed weapons to slash and stab at their opponents.
• Creepy Crows: When Loki took up the Necrosword, he manifested corvid offshoots called Necro-Ravens and sent them after his nieces, though Gorr recalled them upon his resurrection.
• Effective Knockoff: The Black Berserkers are effectively knockoffs of the symbiote-dragons created by Knull, but are nonetheless powerful enough to fight evenly with gods as powerful as Thor.
• Eyeless Face: In all their forms, the Black Berserkers lack eyes — accentuating their creepy appearance.
• Genius Loci: When Gorr merges with All-Black and starts devouring the universe, he siccs "Berserker Moons" formed from symbiote-infected planetoids on the gods allied against him.
• Hive Drone: They are connected to Gorr in a rudimentary hive-mind, and are capable of limited initiative.
• Jagged Mouth: Most often, the Black Berserkers are portrayed without teeth, possessing a serrated edge to their mouths, and the few times they are shown with teeth they're black.
• Xenomorph Xerox: They are eyeless, bipedal, vaguely dinosaur-like monsters made of living abyss, and are connected to Gorr via a hive-mind of sorts.

Black Winter

Black Winter

Alter Ego: None

First Appearance: Thor (Vol. 5) #4

A cosmic entity that serves as a multiversal counterpart to Galactus, the Black Winter devours entire universes and was responsible for the destruction of the Sixth Cosmos.

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See Marvel Comics: Cosmic Entities for more info.

Bloodaxe

Bloodaxe

Alter Ego: Jackie Lukus

First Appearance: (as Jakie Lukas) Thor] #392 (June, 1988); (as Bloodaxe) Mighty Thor #450 (August, 1992)

Before gaining her powers Jackie Lukus was a successful New York architect. Her acquaintance with Erik Masterson, at the time wielding the power of Thor, lead her to find the Axe of Scurge the Executioner an enchanted Asgardian weapon almost as powerful as Mjolnir. When she picked up the axe Lukus was transformed physically and overwhelmed mentally by the weapons desire for combat and thirst for blood.

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• '90s Anti-Hero: She is a murderous vigilante who looks like if the Red Skull was revamped by Rob Liefeld. Bonus point for being introduced in the early nineties.
• Attack Reflector: The magical energies of the axe could be used to manipulate magnetic fields, allowing the user to deflect incoming gunfire back at attackers.
• Dark Age of Supernames: Bloodaxe is a perfect example of a dark supername.
• Evil Weapon: The evil that remained within the axe from Skurge's time as a villain would eventually drive any new owner of the axe insane, and compel them to kill.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: The magical energies of the axe could be used to produce intense heat and flame.
• Freeze Ray: The magical energies of the axe could be used to encase people in ice.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: The kneepads on Bloodaxe's costume are skulls.
• Super-Speed: Bloodaxe is capable of running and moving at speeds greater than that of the finest human athlete.
• Super-Strength: Bloodaxe possesses vast superhuman strength of an as yet unknown limit. However, it is known that she can lift somewhere in excess of 100 tons.
• Super-Toughness: The tissues of Bloodaxe's body are considerably harder and more resistant to injury than those of an ordinary human. She can withstand great impact forces, falls from tremendous heights, powerful energy blasts, high caliber bullets, exposure to extremes in pressure and temperature, and corrosives without sustaining injury.
• Teleportation: The Bloodaxe could be used to teleport to places the wielder has previously been.
• Transformation Trinket: Should Bloodaxe be separated from her weapon for more than sixty seconds she will transform back into her mortal form.
• Vigilante Man: Driven to become the vigilante known as Bloodaxe, she immediately began to target local criminals. Killing any she decided were unworthy of life and more than willing to attack anyone who got in her way.

Cobra

Cobra

Alter Ego: Klaus Voorhees

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery (vol. 1) #98

An early Thor foe, Klaus Voorhees was a research assistant in India who was working with a scientist to find a cure for snake bites. Tired of being a second-stringer, Voorhees murdered his boss by having a cobra bite him, and to avoid blame had it bit him too. He then took an antidote, but was informed by his dying boss that the cobra was radioactive. So, much like our friendly-neighborhood Spider-Man, Claus gained the powers of a cobra, and embarked on a life of crime. Often partnered with Mr. Hyde, and went on to join the Serpent Society. Became less of a Thor foe as time went on. See Captain America: Snake-Themed Enemies for more info.

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Crusader

Crusader

Alter Ego: Arthur Blackwood

First Appearance: Thor #330 (April, 1983)

"This is the beginning of a new age, child — presaged by a new crusade which will leave no one untouched! An angel with the beauty of a goddess has revealed to me my part in it as holy crusader — flaming scythe to the unholy! A herald of the true word!"

Arthur Blackwood was a seminary student in Chicago who believed that the Roman Catholic Church should become more active in fighting paganism and godlessness in modern society. Dismissed from the seminary after getting into an altercation with a superior, Blackwood visited his family crypt to meditate and had a religious vision from his ancestors who served in the Crusades. A spirit of one of his ancestors bequeathed to him the combined power of all his ancestors and dubbed him knight. He was then presented with a sword, shield and knight's rainment. He decided to take up the sword and new abilities to destroy Pagans and infidels. As his first target, he chose the thunder god Thor, whose claims of godhood seemed blasphemous.

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• Cool Sword: Wields a sword and a shield of unknown composition that were both durable enough to withstand multiple, direct blows from Thor's hammer without shattering.
• Eye Scream: Had an eye gouged out in a fight with Wolverine.
• The Fundamentalist: Crusader is a fantatical Christian who believes all Paganism should be stamped oout: violently if necessary. His powers are linked to the strength of his religious fervour.
• Healing Factor: The Crusader's metabolism has an advanced healing factor. His levels of regeneration is also parallel to his level of religious faith.
• Knight Templar: An extremist religious villain modeled after crusading knights.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Wields a sword and a shield of unknown composition that were both durable enough to withstand multiple, direct blows from Thor's hammer before shattering.
• Master Swordsman: The Crusader is a formidable combatant and is particularly skilled in using a sword and shield in battle.
• Religion is Magic: The Crusader possesses various superhuman attributes as a result of undergoing a religious vision in which was seemingly endowed with the combined powers of all of his ancestors who had served God.
• Super-Speed: The Crusader is capable of running and moving at a rate of speed that is superior to that of the finest human athlete. His levels of speed is also parallel to his levels of religious faith.
• Super-Strength: While at his peak, the Crusader possesses superhuman strength sufficient to lift at least 25 tons. His levels of strength is also parallel to his levels of religious faith.
• Super-Toughness: The tissues of the Crusader's body are much harder and more resistant to physical injury than those of an ordinary human. He can withstand powerful impact forces such as being repeatedly struck by Thor, temperature and pressure extremes, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining injury. His levels of durability is also parallel to his levels of religious faith.

Dark Gods

Dark Gods

Alter Ego: Adva, D'Chel, Majeston Zelia, Perrikus, Slototh, Tokkots, Tserron, Union

First Appearance: Thor (vol. 2) #4

A pantheon of evil deities from the extra-dimensional city of Narcisson ruled by Majeston Zelia and her son Perrikus, they are essentially the Evil Counterpart of the Asgardians. They are introduced in the early issues of Dan Jurgens and John Romita Jr.'s run.

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• Arc Villain: They are the villains of the first 12 issues of Thor Volume 2.
• Dark Is Evil: They're called the Dark Gods, and Narcisson is described as the dark to Asgard's light. It's no surprise that they're a pantheon of tyrannical and malevolent deities.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Their shadowy silhouettes are shown during the fight between Odin and Seth in Journey Into Mistery #513.
• Evil Counterpart: To Asgard and its people. Specifically, Perrikus is this to Thor while the all-mother Majeston Zelia is both an evil counterpart and a Distaff Counterpart to Odin.
• The Heavy: Perrikus is the Dark God with most time on panel and the first one to be introduced.
• Jerkass Gods: They have enslaved a whole planet and demanded frequent human sacrifices from its people. And they take delight in torturing the Asgardians and turning their city into a dark place.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Dark Gods of Narcisson don't really give you a "benevolent deities" vibe, do they?
• Obviously Evil: Check out their name and appearances. Would you willingly worship these guys?
• Two Girls to a Team: Majeston Zelia and Tserron appear to be the only females.
• The Worf Effect: Most of them get murdered by Desak after their arc to show what a menacing killer of gods he is, with Perrikus and Adva being the only known survivors.

Desak the God-Slayer

Desak the God-Slayer

Alter Ego: Desak Sterixian

First Appearance: Thor Annual (vol. 2) #2001

"Asgardian. The Designate. Reveal her whereabouts. Both of you are about to breathe your last."

Once pious worshiper of cruel, irate deities turned vigilante god killing, faith hating cosmic punisher thanks to the aid of a future Thor Girl in her Designate form. Desak has taken to roaming the cosmos, possibly even parallel worlds slaying pantheon after pantheon in his quest for vengeance against the divine.

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• Amplifier Artifact: The gemstone he wears around his neck provides him with all of his otherworldy power, power of which enables him to challenge entire religions worth of gods from across creation.
• Anti-Magic: Desak claims to be immune from being erased from existence as Thor is to the common cold.
• Cross-Melting Aura: Is completely immune to the divine and outright almighty powers of higher deities, even resisting all the powers of an augmented Thor Odinson backed by the Odinforce.
• Grandfather Paradox: His amulet was created by the Designate and sent to the past to avert a Bad Future where Asgardians led by Thor completely stagnated humanity's development by taking total control of the world. Now that it's averted, his amulet technically shouldn't exist anymore.
  • Unusual User Interface: When faced against The Destroyer powered by his creator's essence, Desak's amulet bonds to the armor and the armor bonds to him after placing it upon the suit.
  • Your Soul Is Mine!: How he fuels his god killing powers, by killing any deity he comes across and absorbing their essence into it making him stronger.
  • Superpower Lottery: Gains a rather impressive slew of abilities thanks to both this artifact and the energies of higher beings whom hes slain.
    • Flight: He can fly at Mach speeds.
    • Super-Strength: Enough to tussle with Thor and knock him aside.
    • Super-Reflexes: Very sharp reflexes, has caught Thor off guard with this.
    • Eye Beams: Can shoot beams out of his eyes powerful enough to hurt King Thor.
    • Teleportation: He can teleport nearly anywhere.
    • Made of Diamond: Both him and his army can survive King Thor’s Odinforce blasts.
    • Healing Factor: Whatever he can’t take he regenerates, it takes him time to recover from very serious injuries though.
    • Mind over Matter: He can manipulate energy both mortal and divine.
    • Super-Speed: He can take twin gods Pennsu and Tae in moments after their initial assault as well as waylay a distracted King Thor after weathering his Thorforce attacks.
    • Pure Energy: What his body really is now.
• Berserk Button: Desak truly and honestly hates gods, so much so he attempts to slaughter Gray Gargoyle for trying to usurp one's powers.
• Blood Knight: Seems to revel in the fight against Asgard and its reigning All Father Thor.
• Catchphrase: "The Time For Death Has Come."
• Dark and Troubled Past: Not as traumatic as most but pretty far up there. He was once a normal civilian on a distant planet who opted to offer his daughter for sacrifice to his patron gods. When he was represented a way out by a familiar spirit in the form of a jewel however, he adamantly refused while breaking down in tears as his daughter cast herself into the fire; watching on in horror as the priest commends his faith. This broke his wife's heart, who refused to ever pray again stating that most fathers were against such ritualistic practices, but he felt such a task was necessary for the prosperity their home. At least he did until his dissatisfied lord and savior beset their villa razing it to the ground, it wasn't until after his beloved was incinerated during the cruel transcendent's rampage destroying both her and their housing did he realize his horrible mistake. Appearing to him again The spirit of the Jewel presented him with the relic of his ascension given to him in order to correct his mistake as well as to take revenge on all cruel faith prospectors.
• Final Boss: The last antagonist of Dan Jurgens' run.
• Future Badass: Comes back to life after Thor killed him in the past, stronger than ever as he literally rips through god and country of New Asgard, even donning the Destroyer Armor which was sicced on him by Loki who powered it using a being who would've evolved man to a higher state of being.
• Hero Killer: He kills the Warriors Three during the battle in New Asgard.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Invoked, it's said he cannot distinguish the good deities from the bad.
• Hollywood Atheist: Both present and future tense iterations of Desak believe the powers deities have corrupts and the more they want it the more they're inclined to abuse it.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Tends to do this often since most of his quarry are Jerkass Gods, delivers a particularly satisfying one to Loki from an alt. future timeline who mooched and embezzled off of King Thor's decaying utopia.
• Killed Off for Real: Zigzagged, often. In his initially believed to be final appearance Thor kills him through a combination of Odinforce power coupled with The Bloodaxe before uttering his final words of calamity for the future. This veers into Disney Death territory, as he was soon whisked away by the very godly entity whom he initially came to destroy, the very same being called the Designate who created him via time paradox. After some 200 years, Desak was revived by her to exact judgement on Thor and the Asgardians for the taking over and degradation of the Earth. He soon found himself dead again being struck by an Odin Force imbued Mjolnir after the unworthy Thor managed to find himself again after two centuries of debauched lordship disabled his ability to wield it, decapitating Desak even while clad in The Destroyer Armor and razing most of his kingdom to the ground. After Thor went back in time to prevent his future rule thus negating Desak's revival (along with, possibly, his coming into being) as he had died before the events of Thor: The Reigning, how long this'll last however is up in the air.
• Kill the God: With a name like God Slayer, this is implied.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Desak Destroyer of Gods.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: He resisted the charms of Amora the Enchantress, of all people.
• Off with His Head!: How he dies for good. King Thor empowers Mjolnir with the Odinforce and throws it at Destroyer Desak, decapitating him.
• Omnicidal Maniac: As far as gods are concerned.
• One-Man Army: Defeats the soldiers of Asgard very easily.
• One-Winged Angel: His form after merging with the Destroyer.
• Powered Armor: Comes into this when revived Future Desak merges with the Destroyer armor to besiege New Asgard.
• Rage Against the Heavens: His particular calling in the story.
• Red Baron: The Destroyer of Gods, The Annihilator of Pantheons, The Executioner of the Gods. Just to name a few.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: After his transformation this became the default.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Hands a particularly harsh if not completely well deserved bitchslap to haughty Amora who boasted man was better off serving under them during Thor's reign.
• Spiritual Antithesis: To Gorr The God Butcher, who in his most recent incarnation as a killer of gods that took multiple Thors just to stuff back into the box and even then they still almost lost, who has a similar, if albeit infinitely more warped belief in line with Desak's and a nearly identical backstory, aside from a few differences. While Desak hated most, if not all, gods to begin with given his "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" mentality, he could at least be reasoned with. The God Butcher massacres both god and any followers, regardless of whether they're even standing in his path. Desak pursued his vendetta against the divine after judging them based on his own strict code. Gorr just kills them, and anyone with them. Even their origins are diametrically opposite despite both hating Gods, as while Desak originally believed strongly in the Gods and his faith was later destroyed after his God destroyed his family, Gorr despised the supposed apathy of his Gods towards his loved ones' suffering his entire life, and killed one of them after finally finding one.
• The Dreaded: Every known collation of divine types knows and fears Desak. Even all of Asgard, renown as a warrior race of immortals who love to fight as much as eat, drink and get laid are terrified of the guy.
• Was Once a Man: Used to be a simple worshiper from a distant cosmos.

Destroyer

Destroyer

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery (vol. 1) #118

"I live again!! Hear me, Odin!! The stakes of thy tournament have been raised! Now it is thine own life itself which is the prize!"

A suit of armour forged on Odin's command of an unknown metal and granted tremendous power. It was designed to defend Asgard against major threats, but generally is left in storage until Loki or someone else tries to use it to kill Thor.

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• 24-Hour Armor: Due to only the spirit inhabiting it it can be worn for any length of time.
• Animated Armor: Due to no body being in it. It requires a spirit to animate it.
• The Berserker: Any spirit outside of very strong willed individuals like Thor and Odin will eventually succumb to the Destroyer's desire to destroy everything.
• Energy Weapon: His devastating visor beam is capable of breaking even Uru metal.
• Godzilla Threshold: In the few times it is actually operated by the heroes, it is unleashed against seemingly unstoppable threats to Asgard like the Celestials and Mangog, even though it could go rogue at any moment.
• Golem: An animated humanoid construct Made of Indestructium.
• "Hell, Yes!" Moment: Kid Loki showing up with it and announcing that he's going to use it to take out Dark Asgard (save the real one by proxy).
• The Juggernaut: Anyone wearing the Destroyer is one of the Marvel universe's heaviest hitters, and when it goes on a rampage... worlds shake.
• Lightning Bruiser: The Destroyer has superhuman agility and reflexes despite being a big hunk of metal.
• Made of Indestructium: The best a group of Celestials could do was melt it to a puddle. It repaired itself good as new when imbued or brought close to someone's spirit. Blows from the Hulk and Thor have failed to dent it.
• Powered Armor: A magitek version that is powered by a disembodied soul rather than being physically controlled.
• Super-Strength: Enough to overpower Thor and break his jaw.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: Writers have come up with a wide range of weapons it has ranging from slicing beams, atomizing matter, to hurting astral beings.
• Worf Barrage: Its disintegrator beam is supposed to destroy anything, yet even when powered by all of Asgard save Thor, it failed to do anything to a Celestial. Tends to be much more effective against Thor.
• The Worf Effect: The Destroyer, empowered by the spirit of Odin and armed with the Odinsword, gets effortlessly trashed by the Celestial Host's energy beams in Thor #300 and in Jason Aaron's run, it gets smashed by Mangog after a brief fight.
  • On the giving end, the Destroyer managed to knock down Gladiator, with the latter stating he never felt such power.

Durok the Demolisher

Durok the Demolisher

Alter Ego: None

First Appearance: Thor vol. 1 #191 (August, 1971)

Durok was created by Karnilla at the behest of Loki for no other reason than to destroy Thor.

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• The Bus Came Back: Durok somehow was saved by Loki from the Big Crunch in the distant future he was stranded in and became a member of Loki's Quirky Mini Boss Squad during the final Ragnarok story.
• Flat Character: He's a brutish monster created to kill Thor, and that's about it.
• Golem: An artifical being created by Karnilla and brought to life by Loki with the power of the Odin Ring, and given one driving impulse: destroy Thor.
• Hand Blast: Uses energy blasts and fires them from his hands.
• Hero Killer: One-shots Brunilde with a Hand Blast during Ragnarok.
• Killed Off for Real: A hammerless Thor puts down Durok for good with a massive discharge of energy during Ragnarok.
• Implacable Man: His purpose was to destroy Thor. The only way the Silver Surfer could beat him was to transport him to a far distant future just before the "Big Crunch" and leave him there.
• Super-Strength: Capable of lifting well in excess of over 100 tons, and has demonstrated enough raw strength to crush the Silver Surfer's board with his bare hands.
• Super-Toughness: Has a high amount of invulnerability, being able to take hits from beings like Thor and Silver Surfer.
• The Voiceless: Durok is mute.

Ereshkigal

Ereshkigal

Notable Aliases: Erishkigel, Lisa, Hecate, Holly Deborah Steckley

First Appearance: Thor #283 (May, 1979)

"Call me Hecate, or what you will - but I prefer to be called Ereshkigal, Queen of Darkness! Black of Wing and dark of Thought, I too was sent here to spy upon the Celestials, by my Kind."

A Deviant who frequently posed as the Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld Ereshkigal, she ended up facing Thor in her quest to rise above her place in the Cosmic hierarchy.

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• Cute Monster Girl: She is unusually beautiful for Deviant standards.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Has unnaturally pale skin and black hair, and she's one of the more ruthless Deviants.
• Immortality Seeker: While very long-lived, Ereshkigal is not truly immortal and wants to rise in the hierarchy imposed by cosmic beings like Eternity and The Living Tribunal.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Ereshkigal is merely her best known alias, her original Deviant name is unknown.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Deviants are usually foes of the Eternals, but she was introduced as a foe of Thor, and she would later face Quasar.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Due to the Star Brand affecting her cellular structure, she lost the ability to shape-shift and remained stuck in her humanoid bat-winged form.
• Winged Humanoid: She has bat wings so she can fly.

The Enchanters Three

The Enchanters Three are three brothers that hail from the realm of Ringsfjord, which exists on the extra-dimensional continent of Asgard. The original three Enchanters are Forsung, Brona, and Magnir, sorcerers whose power is amplified by the Living Talismans in their possession. A fourth brother named Enrakt was apparently still in training during the first battle with the Asgardians.

Fafnir

Fafnir

First Appearance: Thor (vol. 1) #134

"My past has been stolen, little god — stripped from me! I have lost my kingdom — my power — my glory! I have lost my authority to rule! And most of all, I have lost my form, my body, my face— lost it to the hideous form of a dragon! All of this because of you, Thor— Because of you and your accursed father Odin! But now, at last, here on the new kingdom Loki has granted me, I will take my revenge—by slaying hated Odin's first and favored son!"

Fafnir was once the king of Nastrond, an extra-dimensional realm located in Asgard. When Odin destroyed Nastrond for its wickedness, Fafnir was left to die amongst the ruins of his kingdom. He saved himself by drinking from an enchanted pool, which also turned him into a dragon.

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• Emergency Transformation / What Have I Become?: He will shuttle between thanking Odin for indirectly granting him his great power and cursing him for the loss of his human form.
• Hypnotic Eyes: He can cast hypnotic illusions through his eyes.
• Legacy Character: There was another Fafnir, long ago, who was killed by Sigurd the Ever-Glorious. His blood became part of the pool that created this Fafnir ("Fafnir is many", the narration explains).
• Our Dragons Are Different: Apparently before he was a dragon, he was an evil king.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are red, and he’s a huge threat.

Fenris Wolf

Based on Fenrir from norse mythology, Fenris Wolf is a giant wolf and another recurring foe of Thor.

God Tempest / God of Hammers

God Tempest / God of Hammers

Alter Ego: Mjolnir

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #83 (as Mjolnir); Mighty Thor (Vol. 3) #10 (as the God Tempest); Thor (Vol. 6) #20 (as the God of Hammers)

A cosmic entity in the shape of a galaxy-sized storm, the God Tempest was sealed inside a chunk of Uru by Odin Borson, which was later forged into the divine hammer Mjolnir. Falling dormant and assumed to be deceased, the God Tempest was awakened and eventually manifested a humanoid form as the "God of Hammers" to lay waste to Asgard as part of an ancient prophecy.

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• Ax-Crazy: After being corrupted by the Mangog, she becomes a Blood Knight to the extreme and spreads a trail of carnage across the Ten Realms.
• Blood Knight: In Thor Vol. 6 #21, she complains that Thor becoming the King of Asgard made him unworthy in her eyes since he spent more time sitting on his throne politicking than smashing skulls, and mockingly states that being "worthy" was never about being a noble warrior but using Mjolnir as a weapon of mass destruction.
• The Corruptible: When she appears before Jane Foster in Mighty Thor Vol. 3 #11, she is benevolent and helpful... but in Thor Vol. 6 she is bloodthirsty, cruel, scornful, and vindictive due to being corrupted by the Mangog's dark essence.
• Eldritch Abomination: As the God Tempest, she was a cosmic entity in the shape of a galaxy-sized living hurricane.
• Empathic Weapon: She is revealed to be the will of Mjolnir itself, born from the God Tempest merging with the souls of the dwarves who died forging Mjolnir, and later the dark essence of the Mangog.
• Energy Being: Her avatar is a female humanoid figure made of divine lightning, though she can also manifest an avatar of the Mangog.
• Face–Heel Turn: When Mjolnir was reforged, it was infused with some of the Mangog. This corrupted the God Tempest within, turning her, and thus Mjolnir, into a bloodthirsty lunatic who rebelled against Thor when he became All-Father and proceeded to wreak havoc on the Ten Realms.
• Gay Romantic Phase: She invokes this regarding Jane Foster's period wielding Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor.
• Merger of Souls: She is formed from the essence of the God Tempest and the dwarves who died forging Mjolnir, but was corrupted by the Mangog's darkness when Mjolnir was reforged in War of the Realms.
• Oh, Crap!: When an enraged Thor inherits the full might of the Odin-Force and uses it to burn her out of Mjolnir, the God Tempest panics and protests that this can't be possible.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Her first act upon manifesting is to carry out a genocide on the Dwarves of Nidavellir, and she is prophesied to cause another War of the Realms that will destroy the cosmos itself.
• Psycho Electro: She is an energy being made of divine lightning, and is prophesied to destroy the Ten Realms.
• Super-Speed: In Thor #21, Odin and Sif use the Bifrost to teleport her to the Void beyond the edge of existence, populated only by eldritch abominations made of living darkness. She returns to Earth in seconds and vengefully rams into Odin's spine at hypersonic speed.
• Woman Scorned: Mjolnir frames her brutal beatdown of Thor as retribution for him having spurned her by giving up his role as a warrior to become the Allfather of Asgard.

Gorr the God Butcher

Gorr the God Butcher

Alter Ego: Gorr

First Appearance: Thor: God of Thunder (vol. 1) #2

"It fell from the sky many years ago, on a world without a name. I picked it up... and butchered my first gods. And then as I stood there, baptized in their blood. A question formed in my simple little brain... I wonder if there are more?"

A vengeful mortal who suffered an epic Trauma Conga Line along with his people because his gods did nothing. He took up the Necrosword and attempted to kill every god that ever was and ever would be.

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• Amnesiacs are Innocent: After the destruction of the All-Black and loss of his memories, Gorr is reduced to an insane but harmless and sweet-natured being who spends his days frolicking in the gardens of the Sky Lords, picking flowers and rambling about Thor.
• Anti-Villain: He starts out as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who only wants revenge against the gods because he felt that they failed to listen to his prayers when his wife and children died, not to mention that his mother was brutally killed by predators while she prayed at a shrine. By the time he comes into conflict with Thor, it's clear that he's just using it as an excuse to vent his hatred for gods in all their forms.
• Arch-Enemy: Is this, along with Loki, to King Thor, as Gorr murdered and enslaved all gods, including Asgardians, but left Thor alone in an empty Asgard to face Black Berserkers as a way of torment. In fact, King Thor's final opponent isn't Loki, but a resurrected Gorr.
• Back from the Dead: In King Thor, he returns after eons as Thor's final opponent in the last days of the universe.
• Badass Boast: Lets out several over the course of his rampage. He can back all of them up, too.
  Gorr: Feel that, little lord of heaven? That sense of helplessness as you fall? That is how it feels to be mortal. Next, you will learn how it feels to be butchered.
  Gorr: I cannot help but wonder, little god, to the poor damned fools below us who worship you... what are you the god of? Axes? Drunkenness? Vanity? Or war perhaps? I have killed so very many gods of war. And gods of fear. Gods of chaos. Gods of blood and wrath and jealousy and lies. Of plagues and earthquakes. Genocide and revenge. Of degradation. Of death. Very few gods of poetry and flowers. Though I killed those just the same. Tell me now, prince of Asgard, before all you’re able to do is whimper and scream. What was Thor the god of before he died?
• Berserk Button: Don't suggest that he's a god. Ever.
• Breaking Speech: He loves giving these, though they're rather hit and miss. When they do hit, though, on Present Thor, they hit hard, and ultimately have an effect that far outlives Gorr himself once it's backed by the certainty of the Watcher: Gorr was right.
• Broken Record: After his final defeat in King Thor, he's left near-catatonic, repeating "Thor is Thor" over and over as he wanders around his garden.
• The Butcher: His title, and it's not much of an exaggeration.
• Came Back Strong: It turns out in King Thor that he wielded All-Black for so long that he melded with it and is resurrected after lying dormant within it for eons. He restarts his campaign to kill all gods and keeps escalating his feats; first making a BFS from All-Black called the Annihiliblade, then trapping them in an ocean of darkness, then assimilating the dying universe and manifesting his face in the fabric of existence as the Necro-verse.
• Casting a Shadow: The power granted to him by All-Black the Necrosword. It's an Imagination-Based Power that appears to be bolstered by spilling god blood.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus: The narrative of his arc uses parodic references to Christianity to refer to him, as a possible Take That!. He's first witnessed by a religious congregation on a boat as he's walking on water and there's an "and on the final day, he rested" reference at the culmination of his plan.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Very much so. It entails a lifetime of being abandoned by the gods; when he was a child, his widowed pregnant mother was attacked and Eaten Alive by predators whilst she worshiped at a god's shrine. As an adult, his world began to suffer a drought, all but one of his children were killed off by thirst/starvation/predators, his heavily pregnant wife died when an earthquake collapsed the cave they took shelter in, his last son died in his arms as they marched towards a salvation that never comes, and when he finally went off at his tribe about how there were no gods, they stoned him as a blasphemer and drove him away to die. Is it any wonder that he took up the Necrosword?
• Dark Messiah: Seeks to free mortals by killing gods.
• Deity of Human Origin: Rather ironically, being bonded to All-Black caused Gorr to undergo a sort of apotheosis, though he didn't take kindly to Old Volstagg spelling it out to him that he'd become the very thing he set out to destroy.
• Enemy Without: It's revealed that the construct of Agar is a manifestation of Gorr's suppressed self-loathing at the monster he's become.
• Freudian Excuse: His entire backstory is about the deaths of his family, which made him hate the gods for their perceived failure to answer their prayers.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: However, by the time Thor fights him, Gorr has become exactly what he hates: a god—and an evil one at that. By this point, his torment is an excuse to fuel his deicidal campaign, and he engages in the same actions the worst gods indulged in, notably murdering his Necrosword-replicated wife after she called him a god. Before he dies, the Necrosword-created replica of his son calls him "the God of Hypocrisy".
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From starving hunter-gatherer to nihilistic serial killer of gods with the power to take on three Thors at once - one of them being the All-Father with the associated power - and win, and come up with a plan that nearly succeeds in wiping out every god in existence.
• A God I Am Not: A rare villainous and negative example. Unlike most, he doesn't dislike being called a god because he's humble, but because he despises the very concept of gods. As such, calling him one is the best way to suffer a horrible death.
• God of Evil: What some suggest he has become. By King Thor, he's referred to as the "God of God Butchers."
• He Who Fights Monsters: As is repeatedly pointed out, Gorr himself became a god and an especially monstrous one, at that. By King Thor, he has become the God of God Butchers.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His black berserker constructs are largely mindless, but act independently on his subconscious desires. One such incident leads Thor to him. Furthermore, the construct of his wife's Blasphemous Praise-induced murder and his son construct's subsequent vengeance directly leads to his downfall and Thor the Avenger killing him with his own weapon.
• Hollywood Atheist: His entire backstory is a classic example of the trope. However, he doesn't disbelieve in gods, but rather wishes to destroy them, making him technically a misotheist rather than an atheist.
• Hypocrite:
  • Gorr sets out on a quest to kill the gods he hates, becoming one himself. At the end, the construct of his son even denounces him as the God of Hypocrisy.
  • Not to mention that, if the hints that the reason his world's gods didn't answer his prayers is because the Necrosword killed them are true, then Gorr's killing the gods of other worlds may have doomed their mortal worshippers to the same horrible fate he suffered.
• Kick the Morality Pet: Kills his own wife when she pushes his Berserk Button by calling him "her god".
• Kill the God: His whole goal. He apparently did massacre and kill the Slavic Pantheon, including Perun and Czernobog.
• Legacy Character: Going by the Saga of the God Butcher, Gorr succeeded Knull as the wielder of All-Black and was in turn succeeded by Thor, Galactus, Ego, and Loki.
• Living Weapon: All-Black the Necrosword is made of symbiote biomass which is, in turn, the shadow made flesh of Knull, a malevolent god of darkness. All-Black is, in fact, essentially a prototype for the Klyntar.
• Made a Slave: He enslaves the gods of countless pantheons across the multiverse, including several Asgardians, Thor's younger self, and Thor's future grand-daughters.
• More than Mind Control: Gorr may in fact be almost as much of a victim of the Necrosword as everyone he killed. If his family's deaths were caused by his world's gods being unable to answer his prayers because the Necrosword killed them, then it manipulated him into feeling a RageAgainstTheHeavens so he'd be a suitable wielder.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Gorr the God-Butcher and All-Black the Necrosword.
• Nay-Theist: A classic example. He acknowledges the existence of the gods, but refuses to worship any of them, since he believes they have brought nothing but misfortune to the universe.
• Omnicidal Maniac: As far as gods are concerned. He doens't seem to care at all about any mortals who suffer because his killing their gods prevents the deities from helping or protecting them.
• Oxymoronic Being: In King Thor, he's identified as "God of God Butchers," making him both a butcher of gods and a god of said butchers.
• Rage Against the Heavens: To a ridiculous degree. Seeks to destroy every god regardless of if they're good or evil, or how it might affect mortals, some of which need their gods for their planets to live or to protect them from non-godly threats.
  Gorr: In my travels, I have learned that there are two kinds of gods. Those who do harm, and those who do nothing at all. I have yet to decide which I find more more worthy of my wrath.
  • This stems from his world's gods never seeming to answer any of his people's prayers. Due to how he gains his weapon, it's implied that the reason they never responded to the prayers of his people is that they may all have been killed by the weapon Gorr himself later claims, the Necrosword. Thor himself even says it was meant to kill gods, claiming it to be one of the few things Gorr was blatantly right about in all his various boasts.
• Redemption Equals Death: A very strange version. His "son" construct, based on his subconscious, plays a key role in his death, choosing to help Present Thor on the grounds that while his father was once a good man who suffered, he has become every bit as vile as the gods he despises. In the end, Old Thor says, "It was the lonely little man who killed the God Butcher".
• Serial Killer: Explicitly described as such throughout his appearances, with a focus on all divine beings.
• Thong of Shielding: Gorr tended to manifest All-Black as a tattered cloak and C-string thong.
• Torture Technician: Part in parcel to being a butcher of gods, rather than a slayer of gods. His crowning achievement in this regard has to be the event he speaks of to a captive young Thor in Thor: God of Thunder #4:
  Gorr: I am not exactly a novice in the ways of torture, you understand. I once tortured a god of torture. After an evening alone with me, he told me where his own children were hiding.
• Tragic Villain: At the end of the day, Gorr is simply a desperate man trying to avenge the deaths of his family since he felt that the gods did nothing to save them.
• Villain Has a Point: Although the events of his premier arc rather discount this, the possibility stays with Thor - who's shown as having struggled with the concept of worthiness for a long time - that Gorr may have been right, and it causes Thor to become unworthy when Nick Fury says as much.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Just look at his Dark and Troubled Past backstory. Is it really any surprise he possesses such a burning hatred towards gods?
• Worthy Opponent: Seems to regard Thor as this after a fashion, remarking that without him he'd never have gone beyond being a mere butcher, and particularly present day Thor, who he gleefully identifies as his favourite because the one who knows he's right - "the God who Doubts." Which, in his own backhanded way, is more or less as close as he'll get to complimenting a god.

Grey Gargoyle

Grey Gargoyle

Alter Ego: Paul Pierre Duval

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery (vol. 1) #107

" Forgive me for not shaking hands, sir..."

Dr. Paul Duval, a young chemist working for a pharmaceutical company in Paris, accidentally spilled a potion contaminated by some unknown organic substance on his right hand. To his dismay, his hand began to turn to stone-like material still capable of movement. Accidentally touching his other hand, he found that he could transform his entire body into the stone-like material. He also discovered that any matter he touched also turned to stone.

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• Alliterative Name: Both words in his codename begin with G, though his real name barely averts the trope by having a last name with D after two first names with P.
• Chemistry Can Do Anything: He got his powers in a lab accident. He was a chemist before becoming a supervillain.
• Color Character: Grey as in the color of a stone. Having it in his name differentiates him from the other two guys named Gargoyle.
• Characterization Marches On: He used to be no more than a thug looking for glory and power. More contemporary stories see him as a Faux Affably Evil character, who uses his charisma and Everything Sounds Sexier in French to lower people's guard before ambushing them if he can avoid a fight. He can also be a Man of Wealth and Taste, usually in a rich condo or apartment somewhere under an alias. That said, he still desires to get his hands on at least one of the golden apples of the Norse Gods. Its been one of his consistent goals over the years.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: A dark example. He assumed the identity of a famous sculptor by turning unwitting models into statues and selling them off later, becoming a Mad Artist. He even covered them in a see-through polish so they wouldn't change back after an hour. Iron Man catches on and exposes him, but by then he's already wealthy enough at that point that he still escapes a rich man.
• Domino Mask: He wears one as part of his costume, but it's almost unnoticeable due to being the same grey as his face.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In Marvel Adventures, he saved a kidnapped model from being turned to stone and having her arms chopped off.
• French Jerk: He's French and a quite unpleasant person.
• Godhood Seeker: One of his main goals. Whether that means he wants to be an actual god or just be immortal is unknown, since he's never been close to getting his hands on the golden apples.
• Hour of Power: His powers wear off after an hour and people or things turned to stone will go back to normal.
• I Have Many Names: Following the Mad Artist story in Iron Man, he uses several aliases to spread his funds around so he always has at least one permanent safe house somewhere. He was once sent into space and was gone so long that when he came back to Earth, the apartment he raced to had been leased to another tenant. Good thing the Avengers were right behind him, because finding out the new tenant threw out his hidden stash of chemicals infuriated him.
• Immortality Seeker: Since Thor is real along with the rest of the Norse Gods, he wants the golden apples that grant the Norse Gods their power, eternal youth, and immortality. It's been one of his few consistent traits over the years.
• Living Statue: What his powers basically turn him into. When he first got them, he would pretend to be part of an exhibit in a museum or camp out outside a jewelry store, staying perfectly still until he could rob the place at night.
• Logical Weakness: In one story, the Hulk breaks his arm by bending it in the opposite direction. Duval flees from the fight to try to fix it before he turns back to flesh and blood.
• The Magic Touch: It's only his one hand that has the power and he wears special gloves at all times to prevent any mishaps.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: When he first got his powers, he quickly became the most successful thief in Europe. He travels to New York to face Thor because nothing else at the time could give him a challenge. He's consistently shown to quickly amass a small fortune every time he gets out of prison and then be bored of how easy it was to do.
• Power Incontinence: He cannot turn off his powers, though he gets around the issues with that by wearing a glove on the hand that causes the effects.
• Red Right Hand: One of his hands is permanently moving stone since it was the one he spilled the chemicals on that gave him his powers in the first place. He has to touch it to the rest of his body to turn his full body into moving stone or turn other people or things into stone.
• Required Secondary Powers: He's not immune to being petrified by his own powers but he can still remain animate afterward.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He's frequently a Thor villain but he's also faced the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man and She-Hulk
• Sealed Evil in a Can: In Fear Itself, he becomes one of the Serpent's Worthy when a hammer lands in France and calls the Gargoyle to it. He receives a massive power-up of his normal powers, but becomes possessed by the spirit in the hammer.
• Space Pirate: During a long exile in space, he ends up the captain of a crew of Beast Man. He naturally runs into Thor, Balder, Sif, and the Warrior's Three while they are also on a trip in space.
• Stripperiffic: Mask, cape, gloves, boots, and trunks. Nothing else.
• Super-Strength: He's very strong in his stone form. Kind of a requisite to go toe-to-toe against Thor.
• Taken for Granite: Not only can turn his victims into statues, he looks like one himself.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: Depending on the Writer, his victims are solid stone statutes just as durable as he is or they can be shattered too easily. In an early story, Iron Man doesn't worry about one of his victims when a building collapses because they were turned to stone. Most later stories tend to lead toward this trope as a threat he uses against heroes.
• Thunder Hammer: His other main goal over the years is to steal Thor's hammer and gain its power. He's never been successful and isn't to clear on what he hopes to get from it. It's a source of godlike power and he wants it.

Harald Jaekelsson

Harald Jaekelsson

First Appearance: Thor: Vikings #1

"There is more to my reign than a band of corpses. There is more to my kingdom than a flying longboat. This city is mine, Thunder God; it offers me its backside like a well-schooled wench, its people cower and tremble at my footfall."

A vicious Viking raider cursed by a wise man to sail for a thousand years, shortly after pillaging his village and sailing West to the New World. Arriving in modern-day New York as a nigh-invincible undead, he sets out to unleash a onslaught of carnage in his wake. He appears in the limited miniseries Thor: Vikings by Garth Ennis from the Marvel MAX imprint, and despite his brief appearance, he stands out as one of the most vile enemies that the God of Thunder has faced.

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• And I Must Scream: He is launched into space by Thor, where he is doomed to float in the vacuum for all eternity, being unable to die because of his curse. For someone who brought nothing but misery and pain to everyone around him, its extremely deserving.
• Arc Villain: For Thor: Vikings.
• Axe-Crazy: Harald is driven to butcher and lay waste everywhere he passes. The very first thing he does upon setting foot on New York was killing an innocent bystander who happened to be too close, by shoving up his sword through his face. He was also like this before becoming undead.
• Beard of Evil: Sports a viking-style beard that is hard to notice with his rotting face and is most definitely one of the worst villains Thor fought.
• BFS: His weapon of choice is a very large broadsword, not that he can't kill people with his bare hands.
• Big Bad: Of the Vikings miniseries.
• Blood Knight: Jaekelsson isn't fazed in the slightest by the God of Thunder standing against him and cracks a smile in response.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite technically being canonical to Earth-616, he hasn't made an appearance after his featured miniseries beyond an offhand reference during Aaron's run.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers a vicious one to Thor, breaking his wrists and throwing him in the Hudson river. He also defeats the Avengers so thoroughly that they don't even show their fights, only them limping away in defeat.
• Cursed with Awesome: His curse made him and his crew undead, but unstoppable.
• Establishing Character Moment: His very first scene is stepping a woman's neck after she had been brutalized by his men, setting her entire village on fire and putting their people to the sword, all men and children. It gets much worse...
• Facial Horror: On top of his face being rotten just like his entire body, he is missing his right eye.
• Fate Worse than Death: Thor punches him so hard that he is launched into space, where he is left to float there for all eternity, since he cannot die.
• Horny Vikings: He embodies the darkest and worst aspects associated with vikings (although he and his crew don't wear horned helmets).
• Humanoid Abomination: Despite just a very evil man who was cursed to be a zombie by a run-of-the-mill mystic, Jaekelsson has shades of this trope as he is capable of not only withstanding one of the most powerful heroes in the Marvel Universe, but kick his ass too, which requires divine to cosmic levels of strength.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: A chilling example that shocks even Thor. And he's the least superpowered of Thor's rogues.
• The Juggernaut: Its nearly impossible to injure him, when Thor struck him with Mjolnir, he ended up breaking his own wrists! It takes hurling him to space to truly defeat Harald.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is Norwegian for "Son of the Jackal".
• Nigh-Invulnerable: If you can not only tank a blow from Mjolnir, but break Thor's hands while doing so, you can qualify for this.
• Offscreen Momentof Awesome: He sent the Avengers, and Captain America, packing. It's part of his curse, which Dr Strange discovered on investigation; Thor needed the descendants of the man who cursed Jaekelsson originally to help him out in defeating him.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He has no respect for women, children, or anyone at all, and addresses them by demeaning slurs. He is also a profilic rapist who ordered every woman in the village he razed raped and then killed by his men after they are done. One of the first things he does when he reaches New York was trying to rape a young woman before being stopped by Thor, and he calls his female companion Sigrid a "whore at arms".
• The Punishment: The curse the wise man lays upon Jaekelsson and his men turns them into unstoppable engines of destruction capable of killing anything on its path and nobody, except those who share blood with the man that cursed in the first place, can even harm (let alone kill) them. One can assume the wise man who cursed Harald and his crew intended it as A Fate Worse Than Death for them, but he ended up turning them into zombies that are impossible to destroy and can throw down with the God of Thunder himself. Nice job, man.
• Punny Name: Jakelsson, Jackal's Son.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Jaekelsson's MO. Shortly before sailing west, Harald and his men destroy a village of Lakstad, raping their women and killing nearly all their people. He proceeds to do it over again in New York when his ship arrives, and proceeds to turn the city into a death camp within three days.
• Revenant Zombie: Jaekelsson and his men are high-functioning zombies, they just happen to be psychotic and violent because they were also like that in life.
• Sadist: Harald is very good at causing pain and takes joy in it.
• Slouch of Villainy: He fashions a throne out of the corpses and bones of innocent New Yorkers.
• Undead Abomination: Despite being transformed by a garden variety wizard's curse, Jaekelsson seems to possess enough power and strength to have shades of this, as he's able to go toe-to-toe with a God and is capable of defeating him.
• Undying Warrior: Cursed with immortality by a botched rune spell, and is over a thousand years old by the time he and his crew make landfall in New York. He has also become virtually invincible during that time, to the point that he is able to fight Thor to a standstill.
• Warrior Undead: The man is a decaying sack of meat and can still tear through Gods, what's more he and his mean can use tactics and can pull off a raid of New York City, which is crawling with superheroes, extremely very well.
• The Worf Effect: As if kicking the snot out of Thor wasn't bad enough, he also defeated an Avengers team comprised of Captain America, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye and Vision. Offscreen, no less.
• Would Hit a Girl: He would do much worse than that. He's introduced breaking a poor girl's neck after he and his men had their way with her.
• Would Hurt a Child: Neither children or adults are safe from his onslaught.

Karnilla/The Norn Queen

Karnilla

Alter Ego: Karnilla

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery (vol. 1) #107

" Too late... For you, for Thor, and for Asgard... I had the right plan— the right opportunity— and the will to make it happen. And now... My time is at hand! Death to Asgard! Death to the All-Mother! Long live Karnilla!"

The ruler of Nornheim, a province within the dimension of Asgard but not under Odin's control. She rules over various nonhuman looking creatures. She has several times tried to conquer Asgard, but her main storylines usually involve trying to win the love of Balder and placing him on the throne of Asgard whether he wants it or not. She also empowered the Wrecker.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: To Balder. Especially after she ends up in a political marriage with Hela.
• Altar Diplomacy: She married Hela despite neither woman being a lesbian, in order to save Balder.
• Beehive Hairdo: She used to have a large cone shaped mane of hair in the classic era.
• Combat Stilettos: She unsurprisingly wears high heels, which make her look even more imposing.
• Cool Crown: She's the Norn Queen and she's been seen with more than one elaborate crown.
• Dark Magical Girl: One of if not the most powerful sorceress in Asgard and second only to Odin.
• Dating Cat Woman: The recurring subplot of Karnilla trying to seduce Balder that has been going on since the Lee/Kirby days.
• Heel–Face Turn: In recent years, she's been more heroic, with death in particular redeeming her.
• Lady of Black Magic: An Asgardian queen known for her stunning beauty, and feared for her magical power.
• Most Common Super Power: Especially in her early appearances, she was drawn with big ample breasts.
• Spanner in the Works: Once sabotaged one of Loki's schemes to mess with the X-Men from afar, not because of any real care for what would happen, or even because she had any stake to begin with. It was just a "screw you" towards Loki to stop him winning.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's 6'6" tall and quite attractive.
• Super-Empowering: She gave the Wrecker his powers after mistaking him for Loki.
• Tsundere: She goes from throwing Balder into her dungeon and cursing him for rejecting her to...
• Villainesses Want Heroes: She really wants Balder.
• Yandere: Once threatened Nanna, Balder's wife, to try and get Balder to marry her.

Kurse

Kurse

AKA: Algrim the Strong, Lady Waziria

First Appearance: Thor (vol. 1) #347

"MALEKITH! Not Thor at all but Malekith! I remember now! I shall find you, Malekith! I shall find you and wring the life from you drop by drop for what you did to me!"

A Dark Elf formerly known as Algrim the Strong, he was charged by his king Malekith the Accursed to fight Thor, but was betrayed by Malekith and left to die in a lava pit. However, he survived (albeit with amnesia) the encounter and eventually found his way to The Beyonder, who transformed him into Kurse. After rampaging through Earth to find Thor, he does indeed fight him, but as the battle rages on, Thor convinces him that Malekith is his enemy, who he then kills. Afterwards, Kurse is allowed into Asgard, and guards their children until Ragnarök, where he then dies.

Malekith later bestowed the Kurse armor to Waziria, a dark elf who opposed his rule and joined Thor's League of the Realms. Enslaved to Malekith's will, Waziria became his top enforcer during the War of the Realms, but was freed from his control by Spider-Man and her former teammates.

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• Achilles' Heel: Iron, which all Dark Elves suffer from. It negates their natural magical properties.
• Gentle Giant: Once his Roaring Rampage of Revenge is done, Kurse becomes quite docile.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being convinced that his need to fight Asgardians is a falsehood invoked by Malekith, he lays down his arms and becomes an ally to Asgard.
• The Juggernaut: At his strongest, not even Thor & Beta Ray Bill working together or Hela's Touch of Death could stop him.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: He forgot everything but his desire for revenge when he awoken.
• Legacy Character: After Algrim the Strong was killed, Malekith bestowed his armor to Lady Waziria in order to enslave her to his will.
• Living Weapon: His armor.
• Made of Iron: Of course, his armor does help quite a bit there. Once being empowered by The Beyonder twice, moves to Made of Diamond.
• Our Elves Are Different: Of The Fair Folk type.
• Super-Senses: His Living Armor helps him see all around him.
• Super-Strength: The Official Marvel Databook of the time he debuted lists his strength level as "incalculable". Even when he was still Algrim, he could go toe-to-toe with Thor even when he's wearing the belt of strenght.

Mangog

Mangog

First Appearance: Thor (vol. 1) #154

"My master demands the Chalice! E'en though I must tear it from thy being — 'tis the Chalice Mangog shall have!"

An entity that is an embodiment of the hatred of a race that once invaded Asgard, but were destroyed by Odin. Odin restored the race after the first attack, but Mangog has returned several times since feeding on other emotions or just out of nowhere.

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• Achilles' Heel: Being deprived of his power source causes Mangog to either vanish or shrink to the size of a rat.
• Accuser of the Brethren: Even after Odin resurrected the alien race that formed Mangog, thus making his quest to destroy Asgard pointless, he still wants to spread death and destruction and kill gods.
• As Long as There Is Evil: As long there's hate (especially directed at Asgard, or Gods in general, like the incident that formed it), the Mangog will eventually return.
• Attack Its Weak Point: In Jurgens' run, Thor defeats Mangog by blasting a bolt of Anti-Force in the monster's mouth as his insides are not as hard as his skin.
• Berserk Button: The Asgardians in general seems to be this to him, especially Odin.
• The Berserker: By Odin's beard yes! This 12 foot tall behemoth is basically wrath and vengeance incarnate. Mangog is always shown to be extremely strong and durable and cares little for restraint due to his immense power and his hate factor that fuels him.
• The Brute: He's a rampaging, destructive monster who never uses subtle tactics.
• The Corrupter: Mangog's essence is what turned the God Tempest into the God of Hammers.
• The Dreaded: His return is enough to give a weakened Odin a Oh, Crap! moment.
• Eleventy Zillion: Often boasts about being the embodiment of the hatred of "a billion, billion beings."
• Emotion Eater: Mangog depends on the emotions of others to exist. Without those, it fades from existence. However, it can't just feed off anyone and needs a specific source.
• Enemy to All Living Things: In his first appearance he declares himself the foe of all who live. Asgardians are not the only targets of Mangog's wrath as the people of Rigel-3 found out the hard way.
• Establishing Character Moment: After Ulik frees Mangog from his imprisonment, he refuses to thank Ulik, declaring himself to be the enemy of everyone, and beats up the troll a bit before starting his march towards Asgard.
• First Law of Resurrection: It looked like he'd be dead for good after Thor used the Rune Magic on him, but seeing how he came back even after Odin eliminated the source of his existence, it's not exactly surprising that he came back again - now as the 'Final Judgement' of the Gods.
• Forced Transformation: While disguised as Odin, Mangog uses magic to turn Balder and the Warriors Three into animals and Lady Sif into a feeble old crone.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: During Kirby and Lee's run in the Silver Age, he was one, predating the Trope Namer.
• God Guise: He impersonated Odin between issues 245 and 250 with the help of the evil asgardian wizard Igron as part of their plan of absorbing the life energy of the asgardians.
• Hero Killer: Mangog causes the temporary death of Odin in The Mighty Thor #198.
• Horrifying the Horror: Even Cul the Serpent, the God of fear, is intimidated by the Mangog.
• Hurl It into the Sun: How Jane Foster Thor finally managed to destroy him during her run. She bound Mangog with indestructible chains, then tied him to Mjölnir and threw the hammer into the sun, sacrificing it and her own life (albeit temporarily).
• Kick the Dog: When he finally makes his entrance in Jason Aaron's run, he casually decapitates one of Thor's giant pet goats.
• Kill the God: In Jason Aaron's run, Mangog proclaims himself to be the instrument of vengeance against arrogant gods.
• Implacable Man: Just about nothing can stop him when he gets moving, except for beings of high power.
• In a Single Bound: Mangog can't fly but he moves through space by jumping on moons and asteroids, as seen in The Mighty Thor #701.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Mangog was once reduced to tiny size due to Asgard being momentarily disconnetted from reality and his power source and later had to make a deal with Igron to return to normal
• Insistent Terminology: He always reminds Thor and co. that he has the power of a billion billion beings.
• The Juggernaut: He's 12 feet tall, bulky, mops the floor with Storm Giants and Asgardian armies with ease, and he can shrug off most of Thor's attacks.
• Large Ham: Mangog has a big presence both physically and also verbally. He always speaks in a very dramatic fashion, including his billion billion beings catchphrase.
• Made of Evil: He's generated by the vengeful souls of a alien race.
• Megaton Punch: Mangog's punches can repel Mjolnir being throw at him.
• Merger of Souls: Donny Cates' Thor run reveals that the Mangog's soul merged with the God Tempest's essence inside of Mjolnir when it was reforged at the end of War of the Realms, giving rise to the God of Hammers.
• Near-Villain Victory: In the first Mangog story, Thor and the Warriors Three failed to stop the monster from reaching the Odinsword. It took Odin pulling a Deus ex Machina and restore the alien race that fueled Mangog to make him vanish.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: To give you an idea, in Thor Annual 2000, he No Sells the Rigellians' Doomsday Device called the Sun Shredder.
  • In his first story arc, Mangog survived being submerged by lava without a single burn.
  • In the Thunderstrike mini-series from 2010, Mangog easily shrugs off Iron Man's Uni-Beam empowered by the energy of the entire city of New York.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: One of the few, if only, beings that gives one to Thor on a regular basis.
• No Name Given: The mysterious alien race that spawned Mangog is never given a name.
• Omnicidal Maniac: He wants to draw the Odin Sword and destroy the universe.
• The Power of Hate: Hate is literally his power source, but also his weakness, as removing the connection with the power source causes him to either shrink or disappear.
• Rage Against the Heavens: Or rage against the realm of Asgard in this case. Mangog follows the tradition of Thor villains having a beef with the Asgardians by being the embodiment of the desire for vengeance of an alien race exterminated by Odin eons ago.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mangog isn't subtle in the slightest. He always leaves a path of death and destruction in his quest to avenge the death of the race that created him.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Was imprisoned by Odin in a cave before Ulik the troll set him free.
• Super-Strength: One of the few beings far stronger than Thor and relies on it almost exclusively. He even managed to overwhelm the Destroyer Armor controlled by Freyja.
• Tone Shift: Mangog's appearances in comics are few and far between, but when he appears, expect things to get darker and more brutal very quickly.
• To Serve Man: In Thunderstrike, Mangog eats Adam Mann alive after he boasted about being a god.

"The power is mine, little thief. And I hate gods!"

• Tulpa: A monster made physical by the hatred of an entire race.
• Ungrateful Bastard: What is the first thing Mangog does after being set free by Ulik? Beating up the troll and send him running for his life. And his second story, after being revived by Loki, he imprisons the trickster god in a block of amber.
• Unstoppable Rage: A physical embodiment of hate and rage who's constantly angry and virtually unstoppable.
• Villain Team-Up: He joins forces with a rogue clone of Thanos during Dan Jurgens' run on Thor.
  • He also made a deal with the wizard Igron in a story arc from the seventies.
• The Worf Effect: Mangog is on both the giving and receiving end of these. During the Ragnarok storyline, he gets effortlessly disintegrated by Rune King Thor. And in Jason Aaron's run, he's re-introduced by giving War Thor Volstagg, who was going on a rampage throughout the Nine Realms, a brutal beatdown.

Malekith the Accursed

Malekith the Accursed

Alter Ego: Malekith

First Appearance: Thor (vol. 1) #344

"Isn't it obvious? You are. You wanted the Dark Elves to stand together, remember? And so they have. Who do you think they would elect? A peacemaker? Have you met my people before? Dark Elves aren't weak little children, looking for a mother to love and cuddle us. We only follow the leaders we fear. And as for now... Svartalfheim fears no one more than me. Many thanks for your assist in this matters, God of Thunder. Would you like a seat of honor at my coronation feast?"

A king and sorcerer among the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim. Malekith was long ago banished beyond the nine worlds by Odin for his crimes. He was rescued by Surtur to aid the fire demon in one of his attempts at kicking off Ragnarok. Since then, he has returned several times to try and conquer the nine worlds.

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• Achilles' Heel: Like all of the Fair Folk, iron.
• Alas, Poor Villain: After being defeated at the end of the War of the Realms storyline, Malekith suffers a Villainous Breakdown, during which he begins rambling about how the war cannot end because it was always there to take everything (his family, his childhood, his freedom, and his innocence) from him, and is thus all that he has ever known, so without it he feels that he will be left with nothing and be nothing. Malekith's fear over this causes his own beasts to turn on him, something which Thor tries to warn him about, in spite of everything that Malekith has done. When he ends up in Hel, the deeply buried part of Malekith's soul that embodies the innocent child that he once was is split off from him by Hela and Karnilla; Malekith, seeing the child as all that is left of his true self, begs the Queens of Hel to leave him alone, which they do, as their plan for the child involved giving him the happy life that he never had while the adult Malekith is tortured by being Forced to Watch.
• An Arm and a Leg: He's the one who cuts off Thor's arm and it appears that one-armed Thor will be the new normal for the God of Thunder.
• Ax-Crazy: And getting worse with each appearance. In his most recent modern appearances, he's completely lost it.
• Batman Gambit: It turns out that his attempted genocide of his own people wasn't just for the fun of it - he was basically terrifying them into making him King. It works.
• Big Bad: Malekith was always easily one of Asgard's greatest enemies, but now, what with Loki's somewhat ambiguous moral status (even they're not sure which side they're on these days) and Surtur being dead, following his return in The Accursed, he is the definitive Big Bad of the Thor books, his machinations resulting in the War of Realms.
• Blade Enthusiast: He's very fond of bladed weapons in general, but knives in particular.
• Bullying a Dragon: This is the guy who drives Thor Odinson into a wild rage for fun - most recently, by cutting off his arm, then burning it to nothingness in front of him. Unlike most examples, he's usually smart and powerful enough to get away with it. However, even he realized during the Rings of the Mandarin arc that he might have bitten off more than he can chew when he pulls his usual tricks on Tony Stark - who, unlike Thor, isn't constrained from killing Malekith by Asgardian politics, and after Malekith jumps up and down on his Berserk Button, carves a swathe of Dark Elf corpses through Svartalfheim in a set of Cold Iron armour, intent on getting Malekith's head on a platter.
• The Bus Came Back: Spent a long time on the bus, in the prisons of Nifelheim. Following his return, he's been back with a bang, replacing Loki as the definitive Big Bad of the Thor books.
• The Caligula: To the Dark Elves whenever he's ruling them.
• Casting a Shadow: Can manipulate darkness.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Svartalfheim was such a war-torn Crapsack World while Malekith was growing up that he knows nothing but war and suffering. As such, the idea of peace actually sickens him because he cannot see any purpose for himself in harmony.
• The Dragon: To Surtur when he first appeared. Following his return, he's stepped up to Big Bad status.
• The Dreaded: The Dark Elves, his own people, are petrified of him. As his return shows, there's a good reason for this.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: A major part of his character as a result of being Conditioned to Accept Horror. His mentor gave him the chance to end the wars that have plagued Svartalfheim and also took his father and brothers. Malekith, because he's known nothing but war and pain all his life, is horrified by the idea of harmony and kills his master. After his death in War of the Realms, his punishment in Hel is being Forced to Watch the same part of himself that takes the form of his child self live a happy life.
• Evil Is Petty: He's a psychopathic monster who'll not only kill and torture for fun, but he'll also spoil your series. Poor Star-Lord.
• Evil Laugh: Constantly.
• Evil Sorcerer: Faerie magic is his primary and most versatile weapon.
• Eviler than Thou: With Loki. Malekith is basically Loki without any moral inhibitions and had embraced his depravity.
• The Fair Folk: Takes elements not only from the Nordic Dark Elves, but also from the folklore of the British Isles in that he summons The Wild Hunt and has his lair in the Cotswolds in England. Personality wise, he fits some of the darkest interpretations of this trope.
• For the Evulz: A large sum of all the wanton killing and destruction he partakes in is all for fun.
• Freudian Excuse: Lost his father, brothers, and uncles to war, betrayed by his unrepentant mother and sold for food for her beasts, and spent his childhood on battlefields as a corpse burner burning the dead and half-dead bodies of fellow Dark Elves before being captured by Trolls. When he completed his apprenticeship in wizardry, he rejected his master's proposal that he use his powers for good and end the wars, instead choosing to keep war going forever, because he cannot see an identity without it, as he explains in his Villainous Breakdown at the end of War of the Realms. Hela and Karnilla recognize this... so they take his young self from before all of that happened and opt to give Malekith a Loss of Identity by giving his younger self a happier life as he is Forced to Watch in Hel.
  Malekith: No. No, the war... must never end. I lost twelve brothers and a father and a dozen uncles. I was... sold by my own mother. Because of war. I... turned the ten Ten Realms to ruin. There must always be war. For without war... what... what would I—
• Greed: Malekith's primary motivation for almost everything, if he's not just doing it for his own amusement.
• It's All About Me: Everything from day one is about him; his sadistic games and domination are just an ego trip.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After spending years with his schemes and depravities unhindered, everything comes crashing down on Malekith at the climax of War of the Realms. Defeated by Thor, he suffers a Villainous Breakdown where he's eaten by his own hounds and tiger. But even in the afterlife, he's prevented from finding any peace, as Hela and Karnilla force him to watch as his younger self finds peace and happiness, which was completely against what Malekith stood for.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Displays this in The Rings of the Mandarin, realizing when the rings become more trouble than they are worth - and more to the point, when antagonising an enraged Tony Stark further is likely to be a lethal mistake - Thor can't kill him because of political reasons. Tony, on the other hand, isn't so constrained and is more than capable of it.
• Legacy Character: During the War of the Realms, he aspired to become one to Knull and Gorr, capturing the Venom symbiote and bonding to it in order to become the "Butcher of Thors".
• Legion of Doom: During the War of the Realms, Malekith assembled the villainous monarchs of the Ten Realms — plus the CEO of Roxxon — into one in the form of the Dark Council.
• Light 'em Up: Oddly enough for a Dark Elf, this is one of his common spells.
• The Magnificent: Seldom spoken of without adding "the Accursed".
• Manipulative Bastard: Very good at getting in someone's head.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In an attempt to kill Thor, he was willing to sacrifice fellow Dark Elf Algrim the Strong, nearly killing the later. Algrim, who was nearly as strong as Thor, later became Kurse with his strength increased. Once Thor revealed the truth about what had happened, Kurse tracked down Malekith with revenge on his mind.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Starts with "Mal-", indicating evil. And then there's the whole "accursed" part of it.
• One-Winged Angel: Shifts into an armored, demonic form when he can't escape in order to fight Thor. Doesn't stop the Thunder God from delivering a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle without Malekith landing a single blow.
  • In War of the Realms, he bonds with the Venom symbiote which gives him a demonic form a la Gorr the God Butcher.
• Our Elves Are Different: Leader of the Dark Elves.
• Panthera Awesome: Malekith possesses a gigantic "bog tiger" which serves as his personal mount. It is basically a giant white tiger with bat-like wings on its back.
• Perpetual Smiler: Following his return in The Accursed, he's either wearing a Slasher Smile or a small, amused smirk.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His iconic outfit is mostly red and black.
• Sadist: Probably the most obvious and psychotic one in Thor's rogues gallery.
• Sanity Slippage: His time in Hel has done nothing for his sanity. Except possibly destroy it.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Imprisoned in the void by Odin, until Surtur freed him. Later trapped in Hel while still alive.
• Shadow Walker: Utilizes shadows for Villain Teleportation.
• Shapeshifting Seducer: Transforms into a beautiful woman at one point to seduce a human enemy... and drain the life from him.
• Slasher Smile: Is a big fan of them. It seems to be his default expression in The Accursed.
• The Sociopath: Exceptionally talented manipulator, gleefully violent and sadistic, holds no loyalty to anyone (he butchers his own people to satiate his greed and lust for death and carnage) and with absolutely no remorse or qualm for his horrific actions.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Following his return in Jason Aaron's run, he's rarely raised his voice, mostly cheerfully revelling in whatever horrific mayhem he's caused this time.
• Sorcerous Overlord: Of his race, with the ambition to become this to the entire Nine Realms, if only through his allies on the Dark Council (though all of them, naturally, intend to stab each other in the back).
• Squishy Wizard: Averted, he's like all of his species, so he has superhuman strength and extremely dense bones and body tissue. He may even be tougher than the average elf due to his time surviving in Hel. However, since his usual enemy is Thor, he does still qualify.
• Threat Backfire: The Enchantress threatened him once with "turning the breath in his lungs to acid and his bones to hungry maggots" if he dared to betray her, which Malekith interpreted as flirting. As Amora didn't object, you might not wanna think too hard about their kinks.
• Two-Faced: One half of his face is blue like the other Dark Elves and the other half is black.
• Viler New Villain: To Loki, especially when the trickster god's moral compass gradually leans towards the side of heroism. Malekith quickly supplants Loki's position as the Big Bad, and is far more depraved.
• Villainous Breakdown: Malekith has one in Issue #6 of War of the Realms after Thor, Young Thor, All-Father Thor, and Jane Thor manage to separate him from the Venom symbiote. This leads to him getting devoured by his Bog Tiger and hounds.
• Villain Respect: Seems to have gained a degree of honest respect for Thor Odinson during The Accursed, due to the latter's apparent ruthlessness, skilled use of illusion magic, and taking of several levels in Magnificent Bastard. Not that this stops him from chopping off his arm and burning it to nothing in front of him for his own amusement, of course.
  • Also develops this towards Tony Stark of all people, during The Rings of the Mandarin, when Malekith decides to take the various rings from their wielders by force and Tony comes to Svartalfheim to take them back. Tony, not especially happy in the first place, is driven into Unstoppable Rage by Malekith's taunting, especially about the elven habit of stealing children. When Malekith sends his forces out on the hunt after him, he turns the tables and promptly mows through Malekith's forces with a suit encased in cold iron, using iron filings blown by fans as one weapon, before using holograms and smart tactics to put Malekith himself on the run. Malekith, also under attack from the remaining ring wielders (who decided it was better to unite against him than be picked off one by one), gave up the ring to Tony and in doing so, remarked that Tony's rage scared even him - no small thing from a guy who enjoys arousing the fury of Thor. It gets to the point where, during the War of Realms, he considers Tony a particular problem and manipulates a powerful dragon into going after Tony so he can't get in Malekith's way.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Of the Humanshifting kind. During his original arc, he takes several humanoid shapes both for disguise and combat.
• White Hair, Black Heart: The only white-haired dark elf that we've met, and undoubtedly the most evil.
• The Wild Hunt: Possessed a horn that could summon it.
• Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": When he returns from Nifelheim, he decides that his people have grown soft, therefore he must "purge" them.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Loves devouring the souls of virtuous mortals.

Megatak

Megatak

Alter Ego: Gregory Nettles

First Appearance: Thor #328 (Feb. 1983)

"Surrender yourself to the fury of new reality! There is no escaping—Humanity is completely surrounded by new reality!"

Gregory Nettles was an industrial thief when a freak accident at an electronics show transformed him into Megatak. His ability to control electricity and electronic components brought him into conflict with Thor. Megatak would later meet his demise by Scourge but is resurrected years later by the Hood.

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• Back from the Dead: Megatak was among the eighteen criminals, all murdered by the Scourge, to be resurrected by Hood using the power of Dormammu as part of a squad assembled to eliminate the Punisher.
• Flight: He can fly by absorbing electricity.
• Freak Lab Accident: Gained his powers in a freak trade show accident.
• Living Program: After being resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu, Megatak's powers had completely taken him over, and he has morphed into a living computer program.
• Logical Weakness: If a villain is powered by electricity, depriving him of it will leave him helpless. Thor defeated Megatak by draining all the electricity from him with Mjolnir.
• Off with His Head!: He's killed by Toxin (Eddie Brock) eating his head when he declares his intent to kill Agent Venom.
• Psycho Electro: The same accident that gave him his powers also short-circuited his brain. When he fought Thor, he acted as though he was really the video game character Megatak. After his resurrection, he became almost like a mindless video game character, following the orders of whichever "player" managed to control him.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Would go on to batttle the Punisher and Agent Venom.
• Shock and Awe: He can cause a great amount of electric damage on touch or short-range blasts.
• Telephone Teleport: He is able to travel through information lines such as to computersand mobile phones.

Mephisto

Mephisto

First Appearance: The Silver Surfer (vol. 1) #3

An embodiment of ultimate evil, powerful hell-lord and Marvel's most common stand in for Satan. He has antagonized just about every hero, but tends to single out those who are especially noble like the Silver Surfer and Thor. As can be expected, many of the traditional tropes associated with Satan are part of him. He is almost as powerful as Odin himself (and thus far stronger than Thor), but how big or small the margin is varies from issue to issue. As a Hell Lord, he is a rival of Hela. See his page for more info.

Mercurio

Mercurio

First Appearance:: Thor Vol. 1, #204

When a freak space warp manifested near Gramos it altered the planet's polarity, making it so that only the extremes of the electromagnetic wavelengths could penetrate its atmosphere. As many Gramosians began to go mad and die due to this phenomenon, Mercurio volunteered to try and find a solution to the problem by venturing to Earth, the electromagnetic fields of which he decided to steal using power siphoned from Donald Blake's transformations into the Mighty Thor. While Mercurio eventually succeeded in finding alternative means of saving his homeworld, his adventures gave him a thirst for conquest that led him to become a ruthless warlord intent on establishing a galaxy-spanning Gramosian empire.

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See Venom: Rogues Gallery

Midgard Serpent

Midgard Serpent

Alter Ego: Jormungand

First Appearance: Marvel Tales (vol. 1) #105

Jormungand is the son of Loki and sorcerer-giantess Angerboda. He is so large that he quite literally can wrap around the entire Earth. He usually exists in a parallel dimension to Earth or at the bottom of the sea. He is a sworn enemy of Thor, and at Ragnarok the two are destined to kill each other. Due to this, any time the snake appears, Thor knows there is a stronger than usual chance he could die in this battle.

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• Abusive Parents: Loki once manipulated events so Thor would kill him early, believing Jormungand was growing too powerful.
• Animalistic Abomination: A harbinger of Ragnarok in the form of a snake that can wrap about the entire planet.
• Evil Is Bigger: He can enlarge himself to planet size and bind the Earth in his coils.
• Evil Nephew: Jormungand is the son of Thor's half-brother, Loki. According to Earth's prophecies, he and his uncle are destined to kill each other during Ragnarok.
• Green and Mean: Just like his father and sibling Hela, Jormungand has a mostly green body.
• Hero Killer: Much like in the original myths. Not only is he destined to kill Thor, but he has done so on at least one occasion, and come close on many others. At one point, Thor and Beta Ray Bill together were unable to defeat Jormungand.
• Kaiju: He is a massive snake monster.
• Joker Immunity: Jormungand will always be resurrected for Ragnarok.
• The Juggernaut: No one who isn't Thor stands a chance against Jormungand. And even then the fights leave Thor bruised, bloodied, and all too often, nearly dead, even when he's wearing the Belt of Strenght and his special battle armor.
• Mutual Kill:
  • Subverted in #380. Thor and Jormungand clash and appear to vaporize each other in a final desperate attack. However, although Thor's body is destroyed, his spirit lives on, as he had been cursed with immortality at the time.
  • With Freyja in Loki: Agent of Asgard #15. She came back in the next issue though (because heroic death meant going to Valhalla and Ragnarök meant coming back for the finale), the snake wasn't that lucky.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Nothing save Thor can injure Jormungand.
• To Serve Man: Has no problem with the idea of eating Thor. While disguised as Fin Fang Foom, Jormungand repeatedly threatens to devour nearby humans.
• Shapeshifter: Has disguised himself as other beings, notably Chinese dragon themed villain, Fin Fang Foom.
• Super-Strength: As a massive snake, Jormungand unsurprisingly is very powerful. In terms of sheer power, his strength rivals that of Thor himself.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Thor and Jormungand tried to kill each other several times before Ragnarok in part to defy fate. Thor ended up killing the serpent several times, but it always returned for Ragnarok.

Minotaur

Minotaur

Roxxon president.

Occasional minotaur.

Alter Ego: Dario Agger

First Appearance: Thor: God of Thunder (vol. 1) #19.NOW

"This world is a maze of money and power. In which human beings lose themselves. They live their lives in the labyrinth... and I am the Minotaur."

Also known as the Minotaur, Dario Agger is the CEO of Roxxon and a Corrupt Corporate Executive that puts others to shame, gleefully skirting the law while doing whatever it takes to make a buck. As the name suggests he can turn into a Minotaur, but only uses the form as a last resort, preferring to instead use his vast resources to take care of his enemies. After coming into conflict with the Thunder God due to Thor being alerted to Dario's highly polluting business practices, Dario's set his sights on using the resources of the other 9 realms for his own personal gain.

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• Allegorical Character: Of unchecked capitalism as a whole. There is nothing Dario won't do the make money, and he's proud of it.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Dario was apparently born in Greece to presumably Greek parents, but his name isn't even remotely Greek; "Dario" is Italian/Croatian and "Agger" is Danish, resulting in a completely non-Greek name being given to a Greek man.
• Bad Boss:
  • His idea of a brainstorming session is to cover employees in fish, then unleash genetically engineered bears that won't stop eating until they're dead, until his employees either die or come up with something to defeat Thor.
  • Immortal Hulk shows him repeatedly killing underlings for such heinous insults as... correcting him, hesitating to exploit someone's private medical records, and being within arm's reach when he needs a "stress ball."
• Big Bad Ensemble: Part of one during Jason Aaron's Thor run, as part of Malekith's Legion of Doom.
• Body Horror: As a result of being partially eaten by Xemnu, he becomes a fused and melted ball of flesh that is begging for mercy. He eventually receives some sort of medical treatment to recover...that involved removing most of the flesh from his minotaur head. One can only wonder what would happen if he ever returned to his human form now...
• Card-Carrying Villain: He's a corrupt, self-serving greedy piece of shit who cares for nothing but his bottom line and will happily admit his willingness to destroy the planet if it makes him one extra dollar. After the War of the Realms, he doesn't even bother using his human form, having seen how little people actually care that one of the biggest companies on Earth is run by a literal monster who sold out humanity. When Thor confronts him in Immortal Thor, Dario reveals that the end of the world is exactly what he wants to happen so that he can sucker the billionaires into giving him all their money while he goes to conquer other planets and exploit their resources for fun and profit.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He wouldn't be out of place as a Captain Planet villain. Dario gleefully dumps toxic effluent wherever he can for kicks and giggles, came up with the idea of unleashing genetically engineered, eternally starving bears to render wild salmon extinct so as to corner the market on farmed salmon with Roxxon's aquaculture division, and fed his lawyers to said bears when they failed to come up with a way to stop Thor.
• Crapsaccharine World: His ultimate goal for the Earth is to suck it dry of resources, provide his investors and best customers with a suburban paradise in the last safe haven on the planet in "The Roxxdome" where they will be treated like royalty and attended to by an indentured employee caste. Every one of their wants and needs will be met while supplies last, but that's not going to be Dario's problem as he will have already escaped into outer space to start all over on some other world and so on and so forth until the day he dies.
• Cruel Mercy: It's revealed in Thor (Vol. 4) #6 that he has the disembodied heads of the crooks who massacred his family on life support in a room plastered with copies of the magazines that he's starred in, leaving them incapable of doing anything but feebling pleading for death. Malekith, who he's showing it to, is amused and remarks that he applauds Agger's "commitment to sadism."
• Dark and Troubled Past: In Thor (Vol. 4) #6, Dario exposits to Malekith that he was the son of a wealthy Greek socialite, but when he was nine pirates attacked his father's private island and slaughtered his family. Dario fled into a cave and desperately prayed for the power to take revenge, and as it turned out said cave contained a shrine to the Minotaur. Dario was imbued with its power and slaughtered the pirates, took over his father's fortune, and paid his way to become Roxxon's CEO. However, he dismisses the notion that his "tragic childhood" was what led him to become a Card-Carrying Villain as an excuse for the rubes to eat up.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • Malekith comments that Dario sold his soul to an ancient and evil deity the night he got his powers, but Dario doesn't care.
  • With Malekith. One suspects that he has absolutely no idea what he's getting into. He also made a deal with Loki later. At that point we started to suspect that someone from the Dark Council put a "Con Me!" sign on his back.
• Didn't See That Coming: He had Roxxon sign onto the government's latest anti-Hulk program, figuring it'd be an easy way to skim some money, without bothering to really do anything to fight the Hulk (a smart decision, really). He didn't think the Hulk might take offense and start smashing Roxxon's stuff.
• Ecocidal Antagonist: As the CEO of Roxxon Corp, Dario is firmly of the belief that he can do whatever he wants—primarily turning as much of the Earth as possible into a polluted wasteland and murdering anyone who tries to stand up to him—and get away with it because he's rich, earning him the enmity of Thor and the Hulk. He also joins Malekith the Accursed's Dark Council when promised the opportunity to do the same to the Ten Realms.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Dario may be a greedy ecocidal sadist who'd happily do anything to make a buck, but his sole redeeming feature is that he cared about his parents—who were murdered by pirates when he was a child. He obtained his powers praying for revenge, and even Malekith is impressed by what he did to do attain it—keeping the pirates' severed heads alive so that he can torture them and enjoy listening to them screaming and begging for mercy. However, he mocks the idea that his "tragic childhood" or a desire to avenge his family is what caused him to become the greedy Ecocidal Antagonist he is as an adult.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Brought on Xemnu to try and deal with the Hulk, figuring it would all work out fine. And if he was still being written by Jason Aaron, he would've been right. But Immortal Hulk has a different writer. Turns out Xemnu's beyond Agger's control, and by the time he realizes he's been had, it's far, far too late.
  Xemnu: Our deal was satisfactory. But not satisfactory enough.
• Evil Is Petty: When Thor one-upped Dario selling water mined from Europa for exorbitant prices by bringing an iceberg from Jotunheim and giving away the water for free, Dario became obsessed with making the God of Thunder as miserable as possible and rubbing it in his face that he couldn't do anything about it without causing a diplomatic incident between Asgard and the United States.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Admits to Thor in a rare moment of frankness that while could just blame the murder of his family, a desire for revenge, or the bloodlust caused by his powers for his villainy (and the public would eat it up), everything he's done as President of Roxxon—teaming up with Malekith and Xemnu, battling superheroes, and engaging in other shortsighted destructive business practices—was done simply because he enjoys making money for the sake of it.
  Thor: Do you know why, Agger? After all this time, do you know why you kill your own planet for coin? What caused this black winter in your heart...?
  Minotaur: Oh... I could make a speech, I suppose. Some RoxxTube-ready blather—pop-fascism for the rubes and the tech-bros. I could blame my tragic childhood or the lust for blood and cruelty that never abates... or revenge, of course... you'd believe revenge... But the truth, Thor? Absolute and unvarnished? I like it when the number goes up. That's all. Because that means I win. That means I'm better. And that's all there is.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Used to be just an ordinary kid, until his family's vacation home was attacked by pirates who slaughtered his family. Fleeing their murderers, he found a deep cave where his prayers for vengeance awoke something that turned him into the Minotaur.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His secret drilling in the Nine Realms causes other big CEOs to take notice and the Silver Samurai to hand Dario his ass when Dario refuses to share.
• Karma Houdini:
  • Due to being legally untouchable and blaming things on the trolls he set loose and the Asgardians being nearby, he gets away scot-free with heavily polluting Broxton, setting the trolls loose in the city, and the town getting flattened in the ensuing chaos, and his actions thereafter. Subverted in Issue 8 of The Mighty Thor where his own arrogance and greed causes him to get his ass handed to him by The Silver Samurai and The Exterminatrix.
  • He even brags about being a Karma Houdini in Immortal Hulk, since he and Roxxon have gotten away with their actions in War of the Realms scott free. He has even decided to stay in his minotaur full time because he has come to the conclusion that no one cares. Unfortunately for him, the Hulk does.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • In War of the Realms, deliberately orchestrating a worldwide hacking attack to take down communications across Earth, along with proclaiming Antarctica as "New Roxxon" in a similar fashion to the other members of the Dark Council naming one of the continents on Earth after their own realm shows to the entire world that he is in league with the forces attempting to conquer the world and killing millions, resulting in not only a bout of Storming the Castle brought on by the Agents of Wakanda and their Avenger allies once communications are restored, including an assault against him personally, but also the Roxxon stock plummeting at the same time, since having it would be equated with aiding the enemies of humankind.
  • Unfortunately, Immortal Hulk issue 26 shows that this didn't stick and Roxxon and Agger bounced back just fine (which he explains as the world just not caring about what he had done). The good news is that Banner has decided to go after Agger personally, with the intention of playing this trope straight. He gets karma catching up to him thanks to Xemnu betraying him when the Hulk comes after him in what he sees as a PR disaster. He is left in a misshapen form of flesh to be used as a tool for the Leader.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Dario is a man who sees his fellow humans as nothing more than tools to sacrifice for personal profit and revels in displaying the power of his Minotaur form. It's only fitting that after sacrificing tons of employees to Xemnu, he's overpowered by the monster and partially consumed. When Hulk finds him, he's a whimpering misshapen ball of flesh and is only allowed to live because the Leader might find some use for him.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Zig-Zagged. He is capable of fighting, but generally prefers to have the law protect him.
• Oh, Crap!: Has two leading to his defeat in Immortal Hulk; first, learning Xemnu has "converted" all his employees, and then realizing despite what he thought, he isn't actually immune to Xemnu's powers.
• Our Minotaurs Are Different: He can transform into a hulking, super-powerful minotaur via Voluntary Shapeshifting.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: He wears shades for a reason: his eyes are constantly glowing red even when he isn't about to transform into the Minotaur.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He was created as a villain for Thor, but has since become a major enemy of the Hulk.
• Sadist: He reveals to Malekith that he kept the severed heads of the pirates who killed his family alive, just so he can enjoy their suffering for all eternity.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: His creed is that because he's the wealthy CEO of a corporation, he can do whatever he wants and get away with it scott free.
• Smug Snake: His biggest and most recurring issue. He can be genuinely clever, but usually spoils it by overreaching. He also thinks that since his transformed strength puts him in the same weight class as the Hulk, Thor isn't a threat to him and that he can indulge in Evil Gloating. As it turns out, not so much. In Immortal Hulk the arc focused around him reveals at the conclusion that he recruited Xemnu for a mass brainwashing scheme without any protection for himself against being telepathically manipulated, allowing the Living Hulk to hijack the plan.
• Super-Strength: When he transforms into the Minotaur, he's in the same weight class as the Hulk. Unfortunately for him, this just means that Thor has the opportunity to unleash a well-deserved No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Taking You with Me: He has contingencies in place to Colony Drop Roxxon Island into Manhattan at terminal velocity should he be killed or even taken hostage.
• Villain Ball: Rather than trying to hide behind his reputation, he declares Antarctica "New Roxxon" in the War of the Realms, showing all of Earth that he is collaborating with the invaders. However, as shown in Immortal Hulk, this doesn’t stick anyway. This leads to him gleefully boasting that people are so apathetic he can do whatever he wants and get aay with it.
• Villainous Breakdown: In Immortal Hulk, when he realizes Xemnu has turned on him and there's nothing he can do, he's reduced to terrified screaming and pleading. It doesn't help him.

Mister Hyde

Mister Hyde

Alter Ego: Calvin Zabo

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery (vol. 1) #99

"I am Hyde. I've fought the likes of Thor, Hercules, and the Hulk — do you expect me to believe that a motorcycle riding freak could hurt me more than they could?"

An early Thor foe, Calvin Zabo was a shifty scientist and doctor who had a tendency to rob places he worked at. When Don Blake refused him a job knowing what would happen, Zabo took revenge by inventing a serum to make his favorite story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a reality. As Mr. Hyde, Zabo was almost strong enough to match Thor, but not quite. He is also the father of Daisy Johnson.

Soon after his first defeat, Loki sprang Hyde and the Cobra from prison and increased their powers. Hyde was now on better footing, but still suffered defeat at Thor's hands. He would then go on to fight several other heroes such as the Hulk, Daredevil, Spider-Man, Captain America, and various incarnations of Ghost Rider, still fighting Thor on occasion.

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• Ascended Fanboy: In-universe, Zabo loved Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and created a formula to live out the story, bringing out Hyde to do bad things, not get caught, and take revenge on his foes.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Mr. Hyde's costume is always some sort of Victorian-era gentleman's attire as a homage to the original Mr. Hyde character.
• The Brute: Hyde's a really strong, durable man with a penchant for violence, often having to be talked out of immediately killing downed foes.
• Civvie Spandex: Subverted. Hyde's "costume" is usually some sort of Victorian-era gentleman's suit. They're normal clothes, but they're nothing that most ordinary people would wear in the modern era.
• Co-Dragons: With Cobra.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Hyde's strength and durability fluctuates depending on the story and his opponent. Sometimes a weaker showing is justified by saying he wasn't at full power or hadn't taken his serum in a while.
  • Whether Zabo and Hyde are the same person, or distinct entities; while a lot of stories portray them as interchangeable, others have them treat each other as different people, not share memories or knowledge, and even converse with each other, like in All-New Ghost Rider.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: His serum is just the most obvious example. The comics have shown him come up with all sorts of bizarre inventions like his "Time Reversal Ray" (which allows him to see the past of any object he focuses the ray on) and a giant infrared light beam that could short out electronics it's shined on. Of course, he uses them for extremely petty reasons, like trying to discover Thor's civilian identity or breaking out of jail.
• Disproportionate Retribution: After the Cobra betrayed him, Hyde decided to take revenge by blowing up New York City so the Cobra would die with it.
• The Dragon: Sometimes to Loki, sometimes to various others. Other times he works solo.
• The Dreaded: While in lock-up at the Raft, a guard notices scrawny Zabo just calmly standing in line, unattended and being harassed by a bigger prisoner. Said guard then yells at the other guards for not keeping an eye on Zabo, and he suddenly has several BFGs pointed at his head.
• Evil Counterpart: Early on he was this to Thor, as both were doctors in their civilian identities who could turn into super-strong men, but while Blake and Thor were good Zabo and Hyde were evil. Hyde is also one to the Hulk, though he considers himself a superior counterpart who's not held down by compassion.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Zabo loves his daughter, Daisy. And while he still has affection for her as Hyde, it is fickle and warped due to Hyde being the already quite unfettered Zabo's unbridled ID, with Hyde even showing a willingness to try and kill her after she kept refusing his offers of We Can Rule Together in Secret Warriors.
  Zabo: It's my fondest memory. Holding you in my arms. I never believed until that moment that something so beautiful could have come from any part of me.
• Foil: While Thor got his powers from magic, Hyde got his from science.
• Gadgeteer Genius: In early appearances he was fond of building machines and other devices to get the drop on Thor.
• Genius Bruiser: Both sides of him retain Zabo's intellect, though it's tempered at times by Hyde's impatience.
• Hiding in Plain Sight: The Hyde potion lets him turn back into Zabo and slip away into crowds.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Unlike the literary Jekyll, both of his forms are evil, though like Jekyll, Zabo created the potion partially to live out his vices and not get caught.
• The Jekyll Is a Jerk: Whether Zabo and Hyde are separate personalities or simply the same person in a different form shifts Depending on the Writer, but one thing that's remained consistent that they're both equally vicious, sadistic sociopaths - to the point that even in stories where Zabo is prevented from changing into Mister Hyde, he's proven to be more than capable of enacting depravity and mass murder on his own.
• Kick the Dog: His most infamous act was torturing the Avengers' butler, Jarvis, in "Under Siege."
• Lightning Bruiser: Hyde is as fast as he is strong, often catching opponents off-guard with his speed.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: Hyde takes pleasure in causing pain to others.
• Mad Scientist: Dr. Zabo created his formula to wreak havoc, and in some appearances he injects it or similar serums into others as experiments. An arc in Sensational Spider-Man had Zabo abducting kids and giving them spider powers to see what they would do with them.
• Motive Decay: An extremely accelerated example. Zabo first became Hyde to take revenge on Don Blake for not giving him a job, but by his second appearance, he's kidnapped Blake solely as a means to get to Thor, even claiming that Blake meant nothing to him.
• Not Me This Time: One Daredevil storyline had Hyde contact Matt Murdock and demand he defend him, as while Hyde is a known killer and was planning on killing the victim, someone else beat him to it.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While a foe of Thor, he has faced the Hulk and Captain America as well.
• Sadist: Hyde brutally tortured Jarvis, the Avengers butler, during the Under Siege arc For the Evulz.
• Shape Shifter Mode Lock: After years of taking the potion Hyde was threatened with being unable to transform into Zabo. He once developed a serum to stay Zabo permanently, but Daredevil stopped him from taking it and he decided to stay Hyde forever. Later stories have had them switch out as needed, so it wasn't a permanent problem.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He's almost always seen in a green Victorian-era suit, complete with knotted tie.
• Split Personality: Some stories have Hyde's personality as separate from Zabo's, with them referring to each other as associates.
• Super-Strength: He's strong enough to fight Thor, the Hulk, Spider-Man, and Captain America, depending on the writer.
• Super-Toughness: He's taken everything from a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Thor to Captain America chopping him in the ribs to Spider-Man accidentally hurling him out of a fifth-story apartment. Spider-Man was horrified, thinking that he'd killed Hyde, but Hyde was just knocked out cold. Like his strength, his toughness arguably fluctuates based on how recently he's taken his serum.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: He tried to blow up New York City to get rid of one person.

Nobilus

Nobilus

Alter Ego: None

First Appearance: Mighty Thor #422 (September, 1990)

After Thor shaved his beard at Wundagore Mountain, Nobilus was created by the scientist High Evolutionary from cells that he obtained from Thor's hair and blood, granting him similar powers to him.

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• The Berserker: Nobilus has a berserk personality. Thor mentioned to the High Evolutionary that this was because Thor previously had Loki's evil influence in him.
• Healing Factor: Although he's extremely durable, it is possible for Nobilus to be injured. However, his natural metabolism allows him to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue at a rate far superior to that of a human being, or most other Asgardians for that matter. Injuries as severe as broken bones can completely mend within a matter of days.
• Long-Lived: Nobilus', like all Asgardians, has a greatly extended lifespan and ages much slower than a human being. Although Nobilus' will naturally age and, at some point, die from old age, his ultimate lifespan will be many thousands of years. Even though Nobilus isn't completely immune to the effects of aging, he is immune to all known Earthly diseases and infections.
• Super-Speed: Nobilus can run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
• Super-Strength: As with Thor, Nobilus possesses vast superhuman strength of unknown limits. As with Thor, Nobilus is physically stronger than any other Asgardian and can lift well in excess of 100 tons.
• Super-Toughness: Just like Thor, Nobilus' body is highly resistant to conventional forms of physical injury. Nobilus can withstand high caliber bullets, powerful impact forces, exposure to temperature and pressure extremes, acidic corrosives, falls from great heights, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining injury. Nobilus can also withstand the rigors of space, at least for a certain period of time.

Quicksand

Quicksand

Alter Ego: Nguyet

First Appearance: Thor' #392, (June, 1988)

"Out of my way, you witless clods! Your puny weapons cannot stop one who possesses the power of a living elemental!"

Quicksand was once a scientist of Vietnamese descent working at a nuclear facility when an "accident" transformed her body into a sand-like substance. Petty and selfish, she had a hard time adjusting to her transformation. Calling herself Quicksand, she attacked the nuclear reactor in rage and in hopes of revenge, hoping to force it to shut down, and bringing her into conflict with Thor in the process.

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• Amazon Brigade: Has been part of the Femizons and later the Women Warriors.
• Blob Monster: Can become soft sand or hard rock.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Quicksand is able to alter the shape of her body in a variety of ways for various purposes. She is able to essentially sculpt her body to create blunt weaponry, such as transforming her hands into large hammers or transfiguring her body into a cage. She is also able to alter her human shape and appear as a pile of sand, which can enable her to potentially squeeze through exceptionally small spaces and then reform herself at will. Quicksand is also able to disperse her body and, through some unknown means, generate intense winds over a small area. Essentially, she creates a sand storm by using her own body.
• Distaff Counterpart: In terms of powers, she's essentially a female Sandman. They did not get along when their paths crossed.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Quicksand has the ability to transform the tissues of her body into a malleable substance very similar to sand.
• From a Single Cell: Even if she were to be shattered or grounded into an inert form, her consciousness would be completely unharmed and she would simply reform herself. She could still reform herself even if the material of her body was spread out over great distances, it would simply take longer.
• Fully-Embraced Fiend: She was originally desperate to become an ordinary person again, but she soon came to love being a supervillain.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being helped by the Juggernaut, she agrees to join his team of reformed villains The Unstoppables.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At least at first, but she eventually learns to love her appearance and powers.
• Kill It with Water: Like Sandman, Quicksand gets turned into helpess mud by water. Sandman helped Spider-Man defeat Quicksand by spraying her with a broken water main while Spider-Man distracted her.
• No Name Given: Her name has never been mentioned. It wouldn't be until late 2020 for her first name to be revealed.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Started out as a Thor villain, she would later go on the menace the wider Marvel Universe, joining organizations such as the Femizons and the Masters of Evil.
• Tank Goodness: One of her more creative uses of her powers was to turn the lower half of her body into a large tank against Thor.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She transformed into everything from a hammer to a cage to even a tank.

Ragnarok

Ragnarok

Alter Ego: "Thor", "Clor"

First Appearance: Civil War (vol. 1) #3

"The madness is thinking that that any real Thor would suffer you to live. There is no madness, there is only justice. I am Ragnarok."

A robotic clone of Thor, made by Tony Stark during the events of Civil War, which proved to be uncontrollable, inadvertently killing Bill Foster in its first engagement. Badly damaged by Hercules in the war's last fight, it was taken to Camp Hammond, where it was kept on ice, until the end of Secret Invasion, when it was reactivated by a dead man's switch. After brawling with the Initiative, it left to find the real Thor, which didn't go well for it. It wound up being recovered by HAMMER, who brought it onto Norman Osborn's second Dark Avengers team. After that, it became part of the Thunderbolts.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Being designed by Tony, who has a spotty record with AI to begin with, in a distinctly amoral phase would've been bad enough, but having a Skrull infiltrator in the form of Hank Pym did not help.
• Alien Blood: Bleeds a dark green goop.
• Berserk Button: Don't suggest he's not the real Thor. Don't tell him what to do. Actually, almost anything will set him off.
• Blood Knight: Thor, without all the character growth that came of getting banished to Earth. His blood runs hot, and it doesn't take anything to set him off, at which point his default reaction is "kill".
• Character Development: He starts getting some during his time in Dark Avengers.
• Clone Angst: He takes it a little hard when he finds out he actually is just a replicant. During his time on the Dark Avengers, it starts really bothering him.
• Costume Copycat: His starting outfit is Thor's 60s outfit.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Hercules smashed his head open with his copy of Mjolnir, but his self-repair program eventually fixed it up.
• Hero Killer: The first time it showed up, it blasted a hole right through Bill Foster's chest, killing him stone dead. During his fight with the Initiative, he fries Michael of the Iron Spiders.
• The Juggernaut: During his fight with the Initiative, since absolutely none of them are heavy hitters capable of fighting him. The only reason anyone gets out alive is because Baron Blitzschlag shows him he really is a robot.
• Manly Facial Hair: Side-effect of worthiness apparently includes suddenly growing an impressive beard and mustache combination to go with.
• Mythology Gag: His outfit when he becomes worthy in Dark Avengers is more based on Ultimate Thor.
• Pretender Diss: On the receiving end from Hercules. Later on, Ai Aipec, an actual god, takes task with him claiming to be a god.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A good hint that he's not the real Thor (besides the murderous rages) is his eyes tend to glow red.
• Restraining Bolt: Initially he was programmed with a verbal shutdown code. The Skrull replacing Hank Pym made sure when he reactivated it that it no longer functioned.
• Thunder Hammer: Wields a mechanical replica of Thor's hammer. He later gets an alternate Thor's hammer, proving worthy of it.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Ragnarok just sort of vanished after Dark Avengers, back in 2012. Where he's gotten to since is unknown.
• Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Another way of distinguishing between him and the real deal, since by the time he showed up, Thor and the Asgardians had moved onto less florid methods of speaking.

Ratatoskr

Ratatoskr

Default Form

As Rachel Oskar

First Appearance: Thor (Vol 2) #83

A giant squirrel from Norse myth who used to travel across Yggdrasil the World Tree as a messenger. However, she found her job boring and decided to leave her job and have some fun messing around on Earth.

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• Heel–Face Turn: Like many other foes of Squirrel Girl, she has reformed and now works as a reporter in Ontario, Canada.
• Meaningful Name: She takes on the name of Rachel Oskar.
• Noodle Incident: According to Loki, she caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
• Rodents of Unusual Size: One of her forms is a gigantic one-horned black squirrel.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Though she belongs to Thor's pantheon, she eventually ends up a rival to Squirrel Girl.
• Screwball Squirrel: More on the zany side rather than anything outrageous.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can change her form easily.

Røkkva

Røkkva

First Appearance: Valkyrie: Jane Foster (vol. 1) #8

The Røkkva was a primordial antilife entity spawned near the beginning of the universe, roaming the cosmos and mindlessly destroying or corrupting everything it came across.

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• Black Eyes of Crazy: Gods infected by the Røkkva have black sclerae and pupilless yellow irises resembling Glowing Eyelights of Undeath.
• The Corruption: Øde, one of the first kings of Asgard, tried to harness its power and for a time he became one of the most powerful beings in the Ten Realms. However, it corrupted him into a monster that — even after he was killed — was seen as being so dangerous the future All-Fathers of Asgard were charged with ensuring that the Røkkva never escaped. After it tries to infect her, Jane Foster compares it to cancer.
• Eldritch Abomination: It's an ancient force of antilife and corruption that has existed since the beginning of time.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: It was sealed away beneath the Barren Mountains of Jotunheim, until Tyr exhumed Øde's corpse and brought it to Midgard.
• The Symbiote: While it's (probably) not a Child of Knull, it is an entity of antilife that corrupts and consumes everything it attaches to. It laid dormant for countless eons inside Øde's corpse, but was reactivated by Tyr Odinson. After being reactivated it tried to bond to Valkyrie, and succeeded in bonding to Thor.
• Time Abyss: It has existed ever since life came into being, making it billions years old.
• Touch of Death: Any mortal it infects dies, the Røkkva consuming their very souls. Deities infected by it are blackened into soulless, evil monstrosities.

Serpent

Serpent

Alter Ego: Cul Borson

First Appearance: Fear Itself (vol. 1) #1

"My children. We must not fail. I told you all I'd reclaim you from the veil of tears, and so I have. And now you must be ready for your work. Go forth and bring my terror to this place. Spread my gospel across this tomb of a globe we remain trapped upon. Punish and terrify every single living thing you can. You must not tire and you must not fail... Show no mercy here; show no patience for these vermin. See them driven before you. Beat them and maul them and break them any way you know how. Do not stop. Make them tremble. Make them beg. Fill them with doubt and panic. And fear... Crush their capitals. Bring their leaders to their knees. Make them beg for mercy. Always fear. Our time is at hand! Go forward in war and slaughter!"

The Asgardian God of Fear and supposed former All-Father and twin brother of Odin, The Serpent was defeated by Odin ages ago and was sealed on Earth deep within the seas until modern times where Syn transformed into a being called Skadi, his general, after picking up a Uru Hammer freed him. Then, he called down more of the Hammers and began to cause chaos on earth to gain enough strength to go to Asgard and take back his throne.

He actually is indeed what he says he is. His real name is Cul Borson and he is also the real Serpent Thor is destined to kill and die in the process, not Jormungand. Sure enough, the prophecy rings true and Cul and Thor were briefly dead by each other's hand. Now, following a period in limbo with his brother, he's serving as Asgard's Minister of Justice, and its regent while Odin's occupied trying to heal Freyja from Loki's poison.

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• Artifact of Doom: His Hammers are imbued with the spirits of his followers, letting them take over and transform whoever grabs them.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: He was All-Father once for a reason.
• Big Bad: Of Fear Itself, whre he escapes his prison to wreak havoc on Earth and reclaim his throne.
• Bullet Catch: Destroys Captain America's shield this way.
• Carry a Big Stick: His staff changes into a warhammer as he changes.
• Continuity Snarl: Apparently he is the Serpent Thor is meant to kill at the cost of his own life... despite the fact that Jormungandr, his great-nephew, has already been an established character.
• The Dreaded: As soon as Odin heard he was freed, he wanted to bomb the Earth completely just to make sure he killed him.
• Elderly Immortal: Until he absorbs enough fear to assume a younger form, he resembles an old man.
• Emotion Eater: He can get stronger by feeding off the fear of others.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Loki stabbing Freyja in the back and poisoning her absolutely disgusts Cul, who ponders what kind of god would do such a thing.
• Evil Chancellor: After his return Odin makes him his minister of justice and claims he is a changed god. He gets promoted to regent after Loki poisoned Freyja. Surprisingly enough, he's not as evil as might be expected - antagonistic, apathetic to the troubles of other realms, and set on ruling through fear, but not actually particularly malevolent.
• Evil Counterpart: Creates a "Dark Asgard" from Antarctica, even having his own, twisted parody of Heimdall to guard it.
• Evil Cripple: His limbs were improperly aligned after as a young child, a pack of Giants threw him down off a cliff, and he tried to set them himself. Healed some in the past, but fully once he feeds upon enough fear.
• Evil Is Hammy: He could probably give Doctor Doom a run for his money.
• Evil Twin: To Odin, being his direct predecessor as the All-Father, and even more of a cruel tyrant.
• Evil Uncle: To Thor, and probably others like Balder and Loki, technically.
• For the Evulz: Implied to be the reason he fed off fear in the past and why Odin overthrew him.
• Green and Mean: Cul's signature color is green. He wore green armor when he's the Serpent. Even after joining Asgard, his armor still has green in it.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: He's brought back by Odin as a minister of justice, becoming an antagonist in Thor (2014). He doesn't seem to care about other realms, but his main motivation for that antagonism is getting Mjolnir from Jane!Thor on Odin's behalf. And he is apparently genuinely loyal to his brother these days. Certainly, he's not planning to destroy Earth or anything like that.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In War of the Realms he sacrifices himself blowing up a mine of magic mushrooms the dark elves were using to power their Black Bifrost. In the process he saves the miner children working there, enslaved because they weren't as callous and sadistic as the rest of their people. They're inspired to revolt in his name.
• Hidden Depths: He's a good deal more insightful than you'd think, at least on certain matters, being the only person, of heroes and villains alike, to figure out that Loki poisoning Frigga by stabbing her in the back without killing her either makes him "a very bad poisoner or a very, very good one." He doesn't follow it up, however, because Loki then immediately points out that that act made him the most hated person in Asgard and thereby takes the negative spotlight off Cul and Odin.
• The Lost Lenore: Kid Loki wrote in Leah, and she just disappeared, in his biography to humanize him and buy Thor a chance to defeat him.
• Mutual Kill: With Thor, though both eventually return. Cul in particular returns as a result of one of Loki's acts in Original Sin.
• Now That's Using Your Teeth!: He got revenge against the Giants that crippled him by crawling to their camp and ripping out their throats with his teeth as they slept.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Used as an excuse to go with the Asgardians' plan of saving Jane!Thor from the Shi'ar gods despite Odin's strong disapproval of her existence. Cul being regent in Odin's absence was pretty much caught between his orders and the wish of the people.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: Invoked by Kid Loki. Thor going against the Serpent was going to be a Senseless Sacrifice so Loki promoted himself to author (which he could do because in Marvel gods are creatures of story), wrote The Lost Lenore example and made the Mutual Kill retroactively possible.
• Scaled Up: As the final battle of Thor arrives, he assumes a One-Winged Angel form rather similar to Jormungand, interestingly enough.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: In Earth.
• Super-Empowering: After he feeds off enough of Midgard's fear, he assumes a younger form, his limbs heal, and his knobbled staff changes into a massive warhammer.
• Villain Respect: Briefly and grudgingly, but when an enraged Jane Foster Thor says that she intends to beat the Jerkass Gods of the Shi'ar to a pulp, he remarks that she's finally talking like an Asgardian.

Those Who Sit Above in Shadow

Those Who Sit Above in Shadow

First Appearance: X-Men / Alpha Flight #1

The ones who even gods must answer to, Those Who Sit Above in Shadow are the gods of gods, responsible for the cycle of destruction and rebirth that is Ragnarok.

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: They attempted to dissuade Thor from smashing the tapestry of fate and ending the cycle of Ragnarok forever.
• Ambiguous Situation: At the end of Loki: Agent of Asgard, they apparently return to life in the face of the Final Incursion, but Loki hypothesizes they may well just be Beyonders putting on an act (a suggestion backed up by their borrowing some of the Beyonder's phrases). No confirmation is given either way, and Loki just calls it "a nice suggestion for the science crowd".
• Back for the Dead: First appeared in the 80s, they disappeared until 2004 when Thor ends the cycle of Ragnarok, supposedly killing them.
• Cosmic Entity: They are mysterious metaphysical beings who have been manipulating the lives of the asgardians for eons.
• Energy Absorption: They sustain themselves by absorbing the energy released by the destruction caused by the Ragnarok event.
• Face Framed in Shadow: The name says it all. Whenever they show up, they're surrounded with darkness.
• God Needs Prayer Badly: Loki idly suggests they may well have been created by Asgardian belief in a higher power, rather than creating the Asgardians themselves.
• Greater-Scope Villain: For the Mighty Thor mythos until the events of Ragnarok.
• Orcus on His Throne: Despite being gods of gods (so they say), they seem quite content to sit and watch.
• Two Girls to a Team: Their number includes two gals and three guys.
• Time Abyss: Being the ones behind the Ragnarok cycles makes them older than Odin.
• We Can Rule Together: They tried to convince Thor to not destroy the thread of fate by offering to make him one of them. Thor refused.

Ulik

Ulik

First Appearance: Thor (vol. 1) #137

"Of all the mighty Trolls — Ulik is the strongest — Ulik is the most powerful!"

A rock troll that is far stronger than the rest of his race. He is one of the few beings of the nine realms whose strength comes close to matching Thor.

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• Becoming the Mask: Subtly implied; during his masquerade as Tanarus, when the troll king strips him of the charm that makes him appear as a human, he screams in horror and repeatedly pleads for his king to "give (him) back (his) face".
• The Brute: Many, many of his appearances are due to being one of the few beings that can give Thor a decent fight.
• The Dragon: The rare times when he is not The Brute.
• Dumb Muscle: Usually does not affect his speech much, but trolls are not known for their intelligence.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: His signature weapons are brass knuckles.
• Green and Mean: He's default outfit is green, and he sure can be mean.
• The Mole: Thanks to Karnilla's magic, he was temporarily Tanarus, the new God of Thunder to replace Thor. Only Kid Loki knew that something wasn't right about him until Thor came back and killed him to protect the other Asgardians.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: His outfit is green and his skin is pale orange.
• The Starscream: He has betrayed the troll king several times only for it to come back to bite him.
• Super-Strength: Far greater than virtually all other trolls, giants or even gods who all possess some level of super strength themselves. Though still doesn’t hold a candle to Thor.
• Troll: In Jane Foster's War of the Realms tie-in, Ulik deliberately antagonizes her by serving as a mouthpiece for common online complaints regarding Jason Aaron's changes to various status quos, such as mockingly asking how a woman could be Thor when that's a man's name and not a hereditary title; leading to her beating him to a bloody pulp before literally exploding in rage when he asks her to marry him.

Wrecking Crew

Wrecking Crew

Alter Ego: Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite), Bulldozer I (Henry Camp), Piledriver (Brian Philip Calusky), Thunderball (Dr. Eliot Franklin), Excavator (Ricky Calusky), Bulldozer II (Marci Camp), Demolisher

First Appearance: The Mighty Thor (vol. 1) #148 (Wrecker), The Defenders (vol. 1) #17 (As Group)

Mistakenly given Asgardian powers by the Norn Queen, they are four hardened convicts with enchanted weapons and Super-Strength. Their names are Bulldozer (Henry Camp), Piledriver (Brian Calusky), Thunderball (Eliot Franklin), and Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite, leader). Originally the Wrecker worked solo until he put his team together.

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