Beyonder then tells Iron Man, Thor, and Loki to stick to being part of his experiment or else they'll get what Hulk got. Eventually it sent the Molecule Man's self back to Earth, and it turned into a new female humanoid being, Kosmos. He sought his power, but this is far, far, more than even he can bear. When the Beyonder arrived, Magik offered herself up as a sacrifice in exchange for the lives of the others; the Beyonder disintegrated her with no regard for the deal. Philosophical, maniacal, and deadly, The Beyonder pushes the term 'over-powered' to a whole new level. Doom, however, began to wrestle with his new limitless nature, and started to become unstable. But as the name suggests, it's mainly used by Odin. Illyana wanted to attack him, but Rachel stopped her and instead tried to psychically bond with him in an attempt to communicate. The Beyonder then teleports Spider-Man to the planet and introduces him to a device that will allow him to transport a small quantity of Earth's heros to the planet. He has the power to kill even me!" This explains his different personality and moral character, why his power level is so different, and why he is so obsessed with Havok. In Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (by Jim Shooter, Michael Zeck, John Beatty, and Christie Scheele), The Beyonder abducts Marvel's greatest heroes and villains and orders them to fight on Battleworld. He said the Earth heroes were just jealous, and that the Beyonder would be the greatest hero of them all--that only Death itself had anything to fear from the Beyonder, and the heroes certainly had no reason to worry. But when too many people started coming to his island, he began to wonder if he should move. Marvel had two God's, then changed to the One Above All as one God. He single-handedly defeated them, including the Juggernaut. (Whether or not Black Bolt actually remembered him, or just didn't want to talk about it, is somewhat ambiguous. He possesses the ability to control minds. Strange had once done himself, thus proving that the Beyonder, like Strange, had some goodness still inside him. The Beyonder is an immensely powerful extradimensional entity of disputed origin. Strange wanted to know more about him, and peered inside him with the Eye of Agamotto, where he saw his true self. And so, as the narrative ended,"within the new universe begat by the Beyonder's powermortal beings live their mortal livesgiving meaning to the infinity in which they dwellthus, finally, is the desire of the One from Beyondfulfilled!". [12], After Doom's plan was foiled, the Beyonder was told that his creation was actually the result of the creation of a faulty Cosmic Cube by the extradimensional Beyonders. The Beyonders received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #1. The Beyonder attacks them, but Doom persuades him that they are there to talk. He also stated that Beyonder was from a whole different multiverse. " In his battle with Owen Reece, after he had transformed into Kosmos but Reece reverted him into his old Beyonder form, their battle affected distant galaxies, distant time periods, and other dimensions. Created by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck in 1984's Secret Wars #1, the Beyonder can shape reality, regenerate on a cellular level and change into any form. Finally they stopped, realizing they could do nothing, and he just walked away, saying that he still knew he couldn't take the easy way out, and that he had 10 pointshe won. (Since it was implied that her essence would escape if her body was killed, then it would seem that her essence should be on the loose, but this has never been dealt with or mentioned.). He met a Unlimited Class Wrestling promotor at a bar as he downed Heinekens. He showed that he could change his physical form and erase the memory of others. This gave the Beyonder a new idea--a way in which he could fulfill his role as a champion of life in a way that no one else could ever achieve. The Beyonder went back to Owen's apartment to talk over all of these recent problems. [5], The Molecule Man later reiterates the same thing, while also revealing that the accident that gave him his power and the "child Beyonder" his awareness was engineered by the Beyonders. To test it, he had the machine recreate the New Mutants (whom he had killed earlier). The Beyonder's curiosity about our plane and planet continued, and eventually decided he wanted to know more. The passengers were then sent to Battleworld. It turned out that the Secret Wars I-era Beyonder, sensing that Doom was dead in that time, brought him back from the current time and put this current Doom into place in the Secret Wars. [49] Later, he attempts to hold captive the ruler of the Universal Church of Truth, Protg. There was now nothing left for him to desireexcept the challenge of defeating the Beyonder himself. For the book by Brandon Mull, see, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beyonders&oldid=1141077256, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 06:33. [20] There, over the next several days, they engaged in a "secret war" amongst themselves; most of the criminals sought to destroy the heroic adventurers in order to gain the prize that the Beyonder had promised. Then he effortlessly erased the armada, as well as all their homeworlds, and every planet that had ever had any contact with any of those worlds. The Beyonder and Muramoto had been having a number of conversations about enlightenment. Thankfully, Owen Reece, a humble lab technician in New York, opens an interdimensional portal connecting The Beyond to Earth-616. He was actually pleasantly surprised to see them there, despite being somewhat hesitant to accept their reality; at first he thought they might be creations of his own that he made himself forget in order to surprise himself. Spider-Man continues and informs Doom that these creatures are a result of his troubled mind; the Thing warns Doom that his lack of control over the Beyonder's power will kill him from the inside. [13], The Beyonders are what Doctor Doom calls "linear beings". This version of the Beyonder was not to be trifled with: he had little of the sense of wonder and respect for human life that the 616-Beyonder at least occasionally possessed. Beyonder demonstrates his abilities by splitting the Hulk and Bruce Banner apart before sending them to the other parts of Battleworld. Instead, he learns the incursions are being caused by the Beyonders, whom he also refers to as the Ivory Kings. Having nothing else to do, he decided to go along with the man. He came out as a scrawny blonde man; his power was stored in a nearby vessel. Unsure of the morality of such an act, he decided to put the Beyonder through the same experiences he had when he was a drunk, showing him the seediness of alcoholism, the enlightenment of the Ancient One, and the treachery of Baron Mordo, when Mordo originally tried to kill the Ancient One. [2] A hole was poked into the Beyonder's universe which caused him to be aware of the Marvel Universe. [3][2][1] The other Beyonders created a universea "womb-space"[1]to incubate this Beyonder. Looking in, they saw the accident that had transformed Reece into the Molecule Man! Secret Wars II: A Complete Guide to Marvel's Forgotten Crossover, Doctor Strange 2 Just Gave the MCU a Better Dark Phoenix Story, One of Marvel's Most Powerful Villains, The Beyonder, Returns for a New Defenders Story, Marvel's Secret Wars II Was Ahead of Its Time. In this illusion, the Beyonder tried to stop Mordo, just as Dr. So, who can stop Superman? Professor X explained to his Illuminati colleagues that the Beyonder was not only an Inhuman, but a mutant Inhuman. The Defenders went further beyond into the White Hot Room and the Beyonder followed as he was caught in Loki's narrative arc. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll He could even reshape the world in the hidden thoughts of the Illuminati, if only they wished it to be so. He discussed how hard it was, since there really was no reality other than what he willed to be: "Cows don't have wings because I don't want them to!" He raised his hand to attack back, but the Marsha put her reserve plan into action. Doom was unsure what to do with his newfound omnipotence, which was even greater than it was when he had Galactus' power. He was still quite powerful but didn't compare to the likes of Eternity and the Living Tribunal. Dani Moonstar saw death visions above all her comrades, and knew what was about to happen. He finally calmed down, and revived Blaire. He was no longer omnipotent as many initially believed, being an incomplete Cosmic Cube, with less raw power and the same limitations of a complete cube. [18], Subsequently, the Beyonder gave himself a body identical to that of Captain America. For most of his lineage, The Beyonder acts as an omnipotent being who exists apart from space and time. He walked in to his Sanctum Sanctorum while Strange was out, ripped off the cover of the Orb of Agamotto (effortlessly negating the spells by Agamotto himself), and found him in the Dark Dimension with Clea. Now fully-grown, he lived with his fellow Beyonders in the Beyond,[1] until he escaped the House of Ideas. Rachel then wanted revenge against the students, but Magneto persuaded her to stop. The whole scene frustrated the Beyonder, who once again lost a hard-won friend. However, Spider-Man stopped the Puma long enough for him to gain doubt in his role, and he lost his power, and was unable to hurt the Beyonder--a result that disappointed both the Puma and the Beyonder. This flashback story took place after the events of Secret Wars I and before Secret Wars II. While waiting for the Legion Accursed to arrive, Mephisto tricked Thing into signing a contract that would increase his strength. Childlike and vastly powerful, he grew up in a universe created by the other Beyonders for their young. Finally, a rift opened in space-time, from which poured a blinding light, and the passengers within the constructs heard a voice telling them, "I am from beyond! He tried giving her fame and success in show business, and he faked a fight with the Avengers to make her feel sympathy for him, but none of it worked. Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Abstract Existence (Type 1), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Reality Warping, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Nothingness Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Life & Death Manipulation, Conceptual After the amnesiac Maker destroys a Shi'ar colony, the Imperial Guard manage to imprison it in the interstellar prison called the Kyln. Finally he gave her half of his power (making her more powerful than anyone else in existence), but it didn't matter. Much earlier, the Beyonder had revived Kurse as an experiment, but then had largely forgotten about him. The Beyonder wanted to help so he mimicked the super-hero costumes he had seen, and created a new super-suit for himself. Reed reasoned that if the Beyonder killed Doom, instead of sending him back in time, he would destroy the continuum of history, and perhaps not even the Beyonder could survive that. Strange warned that the Beyonder was going to destroy all the multiverses. The purpose of their experiment was to eventually kill all of the Molecule Men at the same time, bringing an end to the multiverse. [26], In a retcon of past events, Charles Xavier reveals to his fellow Illuminati members that in the original Secret War, he had attempted to mind-scan the Beyonder, revealing him as one of the Inhumans previously ruled over by fellow Illuminati member Black Bolt. Remains to be seen. However, he was unharmed, and kept her power from having any effect on the area outside a patch of fused glass perhaps 40 feet in diameter. During the Dark Reign, the Molecule Man created a group of beings that resembled the Beyonder, Mephisto, Dormammu, and Enchantress. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars introduces The Beyonder's immortality, omnipotence, and unparalleled power to create and destroy at will. More impressively, The Beyonder can destroy the multiverse, possess every human on earth, and, as exemplified in Secret Wars' Battleworld, transport people between planets--or universes--at will. The dome (as powerful as the multiverse) Molecule Man created, which the Beyonder shattered, wasn't as powerful as the original. However, the Beyonder was really just sitting and thinking. The story serves as an essential precursor to Secret Wars as it provides background details about the character. Doom used the Cube to restore his memories but Kubik and the Shaper of Worlds stopped him before he could take its power. Upon discovering the truth of the Ivory Kings, Pym returns to the Illuminati to warn them about their enemy: the Beyonders. Now Galactus emits life all around, as opposed to consuming it. Doctor Doom, however, did not help matters. Since he was still somewhat naive, and often intentionally limited his awareness of the world in order to experience things more like a true human would, they were able to draw him into their tenement, telling him that they could provide him with true happiness through their drug. This time, after he was reborn, Mephisto showed up with a horde of demons, bent on destroying him. They felt that if the Beyonder took care of everything, people would get lazy and wouldn't take care of themselves any more. His frustration with this attempt led him to become more and more erratic and dangerous to the rest of the multiverse. He was first properly depicted by Al Milgrom in Secret Wars II #1. He then obliterated Death itself from the universe, thus earning the wrath of Mephisto, the "satanic" ruler of an other-dimensional realm of the dead. No, Wait, He's an Inhuman! Superman is considered as the most powerful among them by the fans. The Spider-Verse is set to be pushed to the forefront when Sony's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse premieres later this year, but Marvel is doing its own thing to promote the Multiverse storyline in the comics. [31], The Beyonder is an infinite-dimensional,[32] or beyond-dimensional,[2] entity and was originally portrayed as the most powerful being in the Marvel Comics multiverse, and as the be-all and end-all of the "Beyond Realm",[33][34] that took human form to better understand the nature of human beings. Dr. [7][8] This dimension was accidentally accessed by lab technician Owen Reece; some of the energy from the dimension escapes and imbues Reece with infinite powers, which he wields as the villainous Molecule Man, and the remaining energy gains sentience and curiosity as the Beyonder. He searched around the universe, and discovered Mephisto's plan, noting that he and the other cosmic beings were being very clever, and the Beyonder would never notice until it was too late. It is this encounter that marks the beginning of the High Evolutionary's mental instability. However, Kubik decided to prove him wrong, and battled the Beyonder to a standstill, to the Beyonder's great amazement. He went to talk to Vinnie about it, but all he could do, now that he was controlled, was offer platitudes of obeisance. This is the first, or Cosmic Cube, retcon. This is also a bit odd in relation to the Beyonder's various origins. [4] Various superpowered adventurers from Earth, including the Hulk, Spider-Man,[19] and members of the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men, went to New York City's Central Park to investigate an enormous circular construct which had materialized in the park's Sheep Meadow. The Beyonder also had to exert himself in battle against the Molecule Man (who was a multiversal level entity), and he was overloaded by the Rachel Summers Phoenix, after which he collapsed on the ground, though only after granting her enough power to do so. The Illuminati then went through several imaginary situations reflecting what would happen if their inner desires came true. When the Second Cosmos ended and was reborn as the next iteration of the multiverse, the Omegas observed from the outside and thus became known as the Beyonders. Pym then led them in an attack against the Stranger to force him to stop his Beyonder-inspired experiments. Jones was dying of cancer; Clark missed her lover Rom and her previous incarnation as the Space Knight Starshine, and Adams was tortured by the presence of a Dire Wraith in her mind. In the retcon, they are directly related. Mephisto suddenly attacked with demons, but sadly to no avail. He later appeared in front of her, Professor Xavier, and Magneto. But he also made plans with the other cosmic entities of the universe; they would share their power, so Beyondersbane would also have all the power in the universe in addition to the Beyonder's spent power. By the event's conclusion, it is undoubtedly clear that no one, save the celestial god himself, can defeat The Beyonder. The Puma found the Beyonder, and suddenly realized how powerful he was--unlike Foxxe, the Beyonder radiated power. While there an army of superhuman criminals assembled by Mephisto attacked him, but he was saved by the Thing. He begins to float and is met by two yellow eyes. He remained a totally mysterious force to the people on Battleworld, hero and villain. This was surprising, since the Beyonder had chosen to appear in a male form. The One-Above-All: Who Is Marvel's Supreme Being?,The One-Above-All and The Beyonder are godlike beings in the Marvel Universe, but one is definitely a more supreme being. He then let the heroin affect him, and was stunned at how horrible the experience was. Doom eventually broke, believing he had lost control of his powers, and the Beyonder left Klaw and took his powers back from Doom. The Beyonder, meanwhile, was just trying to think through his problems. [12], The narration stated that he possessed power millions of times greater than the entire multiverse combined,[35] and that a regular universe was a drop of water in the ocean compared to the Beyond Realm. It can directly absorb energy such as Cyclops' optic blasts or even the entire energy of a sun. On a journey to the Andromeda Galaxy to locate the Avengers, he was responsible for the escape of their foe Nebula. Lost in reflection, The Beyonder walks off into the night, contemplating life, death, and meaning. [12], His time as a Cosmic Cube was short-lived and he eventually returned to being the Beyonder. When she got back to Earth, she called the Avengers, who got together to attack him. This is known as the second retcon. The Beyonder was knocked back, but not really hurt. He was shown and described to repel Galactus "like a bug", and even greatly exceeded the collected energy of the latter's World-Ship. AzureSky2099 Also, his power is omnipotence. Reece decided to take the role of a therapist with the Beyonder, since he himself was quite a veteran of therapy sessions. A man from a nearby island happened to come by and was inspired by the Beyonder's "think system," and told others. Then he decided to show off, and started a fight with them. He can also fire powerful bursts of anti-matter energy and is capable of reactivating Manhunters with his power. The Beyonder took control of Klaw's subconscious mind and thus motivated him to encourage Doom's fears of his superhuman opponents in the "secret war" as well as playing upon Doom's own deep-seated doubts over his ability to control his newly gained powers. She ran away, and had another vision, this time of her grandfather, who recounted the conflict between the Cheyenne and the white settlers, and how the Cheyenne tried to face extermination with honor. Omnipotent and coming from another universe, he stuck around for a bit, which often meant cosmic-scale trouble. And even more so: he had helped the Thing eventually realize that he couldn't murder someone in cold blood, so perhaps the Beyonder's new role could be to help others find their roles! He then erased all memory of them from the universe. He would have to think about all this. He was so angry that he unleashed a multiversally-destructive bolt of energy--which Reece then quietly fixed. The Beyonder's unlimited power and his drive to experience desire like a human were a dangerous combination, which prompted the Molecule Man to take advantage of a moment of weakness and destroy the Beyonder's physical form, releasing his energy into another universe. He insists than Ben must take him to this lab. She gathered a following of inmates who worshipped her. Some USAF jets attacked him as he flew by in the car, and he switched vehicles with one of them, taking the jet to Owen and Marsha's apartment. Uatu explained that the Watchers had all come together and voted to break their oath against inaction for the first time, because the Beyonder posed such a threat to the multiverse. Impressed, the Beyonder appeared and asked what he should do with Kurse now. He was awakened by an enormous release of power during a battle between the Earth-616 Havok, who had been transported to this universe some time ago, and the psychotic Earth-1298 Captain America, who was also an energy-wielding powerhouse. When she destroyed an entire Shi'ar settlement known as Eru 7, she caught the attention of the Imperial Guard. The Beyonders are a fictional enigmatic higher-dimensional race appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Beyonder created a vast machine necessary to bring about this transformation and tested it by resurrecting the New Mutants that he had killed earlier. He is the secondary antagonist of the Battleworld arc in Season 4: Secret Wars. The Beyonder could endow himself with a corporeal form of practically limitless strength and endurance. Each Cosmic Cube is a receptacle for energy that comes from their dimension. [28], Now the Beyonder's mood began to change. Allistar Smythe stays behind, Smythe agrees to help Spider-Man. The Molecule Man defeated the Beyonder, and Kubik showed up asking him to stop. After listening to Cloak and Dagger's arguments, the Beyonder agreed, and brought the drug dealers all back to life, then left. Spider-Man takes notes on his tape recorder and makes a pun "I feel doom hiding behind every corner." She was found guilty and sentenced to the Kyln in Creche confinement. It took them a while to get up, however, and they had been knocked miles away. The character played in a more antagonistic role in the 1985 sequel, Secret Wars II, in which he took human form to learn about desire, but threatened to destroy the multiverse out of increasing frustration. The Molecule Man, not exactly a ladies' man, was hard put to it to explain, but he said that as a result of his relationship with Marsha, he had finally understood it. Kosmos and Kubik then departed as a couple. Then, before their eyes, a planet, which became known as Battleworld, was created to orbit that star. He acted as a "super hero" both on Earth and on other planets, but still seemed uncertain of his role in the universe, especially after Captain America and Mister Fantastic advised him of their fears that humanity would become overly dependent on the Beyonder to solve their problems for them. Rachel attacked him with the Phoenix, but to no avail. As he matured, he discovered love. [3] When the Molecule Man extracted the Beyonder from Kosmos, their battle took place in more than three spatial dimensions, and threatened to cause vast destruction across the multiverse. She entered the apartment in trepidation, and found it in ruins. The people of Earth began to worship him for calming the catastrophes, not realizing he had started them in the first place. First, it is unclear when it takes place. With utmost respect, he bowed down to Black Bolt, proving his loyalty to him. Alarmed by the imminent threat of extinction, Phoenix, a.k.a., Rachel Summers, realizes she must use her powers to destroy the multiverse and protect future generations from The Beyonder's reign. The Beyonder was first introduced as a being from outside the, As a note regarding his retcon history, the Beyonder was, As a consequence of his retcons, the other sentient Cosmic Cubes may be Beyonders in a "larval stage. Angrily, Namor, speaking on Black Bolt's behalf, demanded that the Beyonder behave as he should, obey his Kings wishes, and leave the Universe, never to return. I also added scans and references. The Beyonder went out into space again, contemplating existence. He later said that even as he was a human who was learning to be omnipotent, they were omnipotents who were learning to be human. For instance, they hired the Nuwali to conduct experiments in evolution in the Savage Land. Spider-Man unaware of Beyonder's great cosmic powers, attemps to attack the Beyonder. Living in a self imposed exile for centuries, Druig led his secret . One day, the Fantastic Four, with the Thing, She-Thing, Human Torch, and Doctor Doom, showed up in his universe. as a help to the upcoming war. She attacked him with her Soul Sword, but it had no affect on him, and he took it from her (something no one else could do). He finally turned his life around and decided to take a more positive, proactive approach. This was the first time the Beyonder was actually "seen" on panel; he appeared simply as a omnipresent energy surrounding Doom. Although she suffers defeat, Phoenix attempts to sway The Beyonder's mind by reminding him that death makes life meaningful. Protege's great raise in power gained the attention of the Living Tribunal, who put both Protege and the Beyonder on trial.
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