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* AdaptationalWimp: Despite supposedly being an entire race akin to the Beyonder, they don't demonstrate as impressive omnipotence. The Beyonder established his power by wiping out a galaxy, which even Doctor Doom admitted required power beyond measure. These Beyonders can be killed (albeit with great difficulty) by mortals.



* AlwaysABiggerFish: Higher up the cosmic chain than the likes of Galactus or the personifications. With the Phoenix, it's a little zigzagged; a fight between one Beyonder and the Phoenix in regular space would be a draw at best. In the White Hot Room, it'll win.



* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Despite supposedly being an entire race akin to the Beyonder, they don't demonstrate as impressive omnipotence. The Beyonder established his power by wiping out a galaxy, which even Doctor Doom admitted required power beyond measure. These Beyonders can be killed (albeit with great difficulty) by mortals.



* YourSizeMayVary: The Brood Queen's size seems to depend on who is drawing her. In the original Claremont stories, she was barely larger than any of her children. After Claremont left, stories started featuring bigger Brood Queens, starting with her appearance as a villain in ComicBook/GhostRider.

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* YourSizeMayVary: The Brood Queen's size seems to depend on who is drawing her. In the original Claremont stories, she was barely larger than any of her children. After Claremont left, stories started featuring bigger Brood Queens, starting with her appearance as a villain in ComicBook/GhostRider.''ComicBook/GhostRider''.



* AmbiguousRobots: How they look, and act. The reveal of how they recreate raises even more questions about how they got started. Certainly, they're not robots... well, not ''entirely'' robots.

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* AmbiguousRobots: How they look, and act. The reveal of how they recreate raises even more questions about how they got started. Certainly, they're not robots... well, not ''entirely'' robots. They can be hacked by someone who knows what they're doing, but can also be cloned, and have enough biological parts to feel pain or be incapacitated when someone hits them hard enough.



* HijackedByGanon: X-Men Red reveals that at some point they were brought under the control of Orbis Stellaris,[[spoiler: who is a spade-marked, decrepit clone of Nathanial Essex.]]

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* HijackedByGanon: X-Men Red ''X-Men: Red'' reveals that at some point they were brought under the control of Orbis Stellaris,[[spoiler: who is a spade-marked, decrepit clone of Nathanial Essex.]]


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* SquishyWizard: Overlord-class Progenitors may be extremely powerful, but they're not made for actual fighting.
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* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: They are practically the highest level a species can get without ascending to higher dimensions, freely shapeshifting, casting planet wide illusions or throwing down with other cosmic heavyweights. These are abilities they've long since ingrained into themselves, and do not cover the sheer scope they're capable of with their technology.

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* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: They are practically the highest level a species can get without ascending to higher dimensions, dimensions; capable of freely shapeshifting, casting planet wide illusions or throwing down with other cosmic heavyweights. These are abilities they've long since ingrained into themselves, and do not cover the sheer scope they're capable of with their technology.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: At the end of the Reckoning War, all their cosmic abilities get funneled into Uatu, reducing their abilities to just their technology while he is elevated to a cosmic being (and subsequently more motivated not to interfere than ever, since he's now too powerful).


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* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: They are practically the highest level a species can get without ascending to higher dimensions, freely shapeshifting, casting planet wide illusions or throwing down with other cosmic heavyweights. These are abilities they've long since ingrained into themselves, and do not cover the sheer scope they're capable of with their technology.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Some adhere to their non-interference clause to the point that they'll work to disrupt the attempts of similarly powerful beings to affect less developed species. During the Reckoning War, they all go so radical that they imprison and torture the Watcher for trying to help stop the Proscilians, even though the entire universe is under threat and are ''their'' responsibility in the first place.

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The Beyonders are a mysterious omnipotent race from another plane of existence, for whom the Marvel multiverse is simply a lab for them to conduct experiments upon. Like the original Beyonder, they are godlike entities who exist outside of space and time. They have been carefully plotting to erase the Marvel multiverse. However, sabotage from the mysterious interloper known as [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Rabum Alal]] results in their plan backfiring, causing universes to collide with each other. These "incursions" are the ongoing crisis explored throughout ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman'' before culminating in the epic crossover event, ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''.

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The Beyonders are a mysterious omnipotent race from another plane of existence, for whom the Marvel multiverse is simply a lab for them to conduct experiments upon. Like the original Beyonder, they are godlike entities who exist outside of space and time. They have been carefully plotting to erase the Marvel multiverse. However, sabotage from the mysterious interloper known as [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Rabum Alal]] results in their plan backfiring, causing universes to collide with each other. These "incursions" are the ongoing crisis explored throughout ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman'' before culminating in the epic crossover event, ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''. ''ComicBook/DefendersBeyond'' revealed that they were created by the Celestials to maintain the Multiverse, and their attempt to destroy it was done in an attempt to prevent a looming threat.



* ArcWelding: 2022's ''ComicBook/DefendersBeyond'' reveals them to be the Omega Council from Matt Fraction's ''Defenders'' run.

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2022's ''ComicBook/DefendersBeyond'' reveals them to be the Omega Council from Matt Fraction's ''Defenders'' run.run.
** ''ComicBook/Venom2021'' reveals that they are counterparts to the King in Black: where the Beyonders maintain every universe from the outside, a King in Black works on one universe from within.



* {{Precursors}}: They're purported to be the ones who've shaped the entire Marvel multiverse. ''Defenders: Beyond'' clarifies this a little; they shaped the second multiverse, but after that decided to try and stay out of the way for the next four.

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* {{Precursors}}: They're purported to be the ones who've shaped the entire Marvel multiverse. ''Defenders: Beyond'' clarifies this a little; they shaped since the second multiverse, but after that decided to try and stay out time of the way for Second Multiverse they've worked from their higher-dimensional home to keep the next four.Multiverse in working order.



* SmugSuper: As the Enlightenment says to a horrified Eddie Brock, the fact one of their titles is "Ivory Kings" speaks to their mindset. Worse, it's pretty justified.
-->'''Enlightenment:''' Yes. They really think they are.

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* SmugSuper: As the Enlightenment says to a horrified When Eddie Brock, reacts to learning about them with a "My God", the fact one Eventuality's response suggests they think highly of their titles is "Ivory Kings" speaks to their mindset. Worse, it's pretty justified.
-->'''Enlightenment:'''
themselves.
-->'''Eventuality:'''
Yes. They really think they are.
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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The Brood were a corrupted character copy of the xenomorph monster from ''{{Film/Alien}}'', taking what the film presented as a wild animal following its reproductive and survival instincts and turning it into an entire society built around exploitation and torture of other species whose leaders not only force the masses to partake in but force them to ''[[MindRape enjoy]]'' it. The Brood were so effective that aspects of them actually got copied back into the original monster for ''Alien's'' sequels. ''However'', ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' shows that despite their reproductive method being problematic for other species, Brood isolated from the main society can be [[AntiVillain perfectly decent individuals]] otherwise. Far more agreeable than the original monster could ever be when left to its own devices.
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: It's why they turned away from the First Firmament in the first place. In the current multiverse, their current manager the Fulcrum also wishes this for them, and praises the Dreaming Celestial for doing so.


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* MightMakesRight: As Hawkeye points out during Judgment Day, it's moot whether they could justify their arcane moral standards to "lower lifeforms", because they have the unassailable power to impose and enforce it either way.


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* SecretlySelfish: It's implied that at least on some occasions that their genocide of certain species is motivated by securing their own safety. Either a species is so warlike to be considered disruptive to their work or powerful enough to be a threat to hinder it anyway when they come knocking.

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