Writers later on depowered The Beyonder, which resulted with other versions. He also stated that Beyonder was from a whole different multiverse. " Later, he visited Power Man, Iron Fist, and Falcon, who were discussing their building that he had turned to gold. When he returned, Dazzler was leaving. They eventually find the Fantastic Three? Kurse had finally reached New York, and randomly happened to hurt Margaret Power. Warlock and Magma attacked with their full fury, Warlock's being especially powerful, and the Beyonder lay on the ground. Perhaps there was another way to be fulfilled without destroying everything. Later, Dr. Doom asks Ben how everyone was brought to this world; Ben said he will tell him if Doom releases the heros. As everyone figures out that they have been teleported several miles away, Johnny Storm asks what Doom will do next. 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. He tried to explain what he was trying to do, but they wouldn't listen, so he knocked them all (including Rachel and the Silver Surfer) away with one swipe of his hand. The Beyonder is the sum total of a parallel reality called the Beyond-Realm or simply "Beyond", hence the name "Beyonder". The Red Skull and Doctor Octopus escape while Black Cat chases after. Comic Characters Biographies; Anime Characters Biographies; Video Game Characters Biographies . The Beyonder informs everyone that they will be teleported back to Earth with no memory of these events and will be as they were before this ever occured. The Beyonder appeared again, this time garbed as a super hero, and helped her fight the bikers, whose powers kept increasing. Powers and Abilities; Character Bios. Fantastic was unable to register the Beyonder's presence through his sensors, but Professor X could. 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. Doctor Doom, however, did not help matters. With utmost respect, he bowed down to Black Bolt, proving his loyalty to him. This, in conjunction with the fact that he thinks Black Bolt died long ago raises the possibility that he is actually coming from a future timeline somehow. scientists on Earth. Beyonder informs Spider-Man he needed to make sure that he was a capable leader of "the real task at hand." Ultimately Dr. Doom stole his power, and the Beyonder had to reclaim it. Or is he the kind that is born with certain Beyonder powers? [31], Furious, the Beyonder now believed that he had no role in the universe at all, and decided that he would be happier if he destroyed the Multiverse so that he would be alone once more. He reappears in Secret Wars II #1 (July 1985), which was written by Jim Shooter and drawn by Al Milgrom. If Doom truly had Beyonder's power all the heros would have been wiped out with a mere thought. He begins to float and is met by two yellow eyes. This fact did not please the One from Beyond. However, in her Maker persona, her powers were vastly more limited, perhaps due to her incarnation in a more mortal body. Spider-Man informs her of the situtation. He did attack the heroes, but then slipped back inside, trailing Captain America. He took a trip to soak up the good things about life on Earth. As she was being held there, she was revered but rarely seen. The heroes stopped them, and the Molecule Man brought them all down to the Beyonder's base. The Beyonder is capable of manipulating energy, matter, and reality on a massive scale. large insect like robots had been hidden in the desert sands assault the two,but are quickly defeated. The good side of Reece finally won out, and returned the Beyonder persona and power to Kosmos. He went to the Beyond to live with his fellow Beyonders. A man from a nearby island happened to come by and was inspired by the Beyonder's "think system," and told others. Kosmos and Kubik then departed as a couple. Fury of the Gods Special: Shazamily Matters, The X-Men's Greatest Adversary is Now the Last of His Kind, 10 Justice Leaguers With Powers That Make No Sense. Rachel Summers, meanwhile, had fully accepted the power of the Phoenix and decided to kill the Beyonder so as to keep him from hurting anyone else. Marsha Rosenberg was born in Denver, Colorado.She was a day care center employee who, along with her friend Skeeter, was among the residents of Denver transported to the Beyonder's "Battleworld" during Marvel Comics' first Secret Wars limited series. Bananatooshholeyyyyyy Yungdis6 Galactus yes DarkLord1010 Omega_Beyond868 footnugget Ezio Darks SilvioDante Danyel Vers05 All Users In addition, Eternity itself would be the gunner for the weapon. As it is the nexus of all psionic energy, it has mental abilities of cosmic scope, including telepathy and telekinesis. Other heroes could stop muggers or tidal waves, but only he could stop the named Death. Seeing Kubik's love for Kosmos, the Molecule Man reverted back to Owen Reece and restored Kosmos. He fuses himself with the Beyonder. People needed to be free to learn and take risks, just like the horse race. One is a clone but neither knows which. In order to talk about the Beyonder's formative moments (his "childhood"), they went to the Beyond-realm and the Beyonder showed him the pinhole that first showed him our universe. The Beyonder first became aware of our universe when the Molecule Man gained his powers through an atomic accident. 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 Beyonder's whole philosophical interest in the ways of desire came from a Cosmic Cube's innate desire to fulfill its owner's desires. 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 explored New York City in a naive fashion, trying to replicate basic human experiences like eating and wearing clothing, but inevitably made innocent mistakes, like eating a soda bottle along with its contents. Unfortunately the only way to reject the Beyonder's purity--and to save Kitty Pryde, who was in the demon's clutches--was to re-accept her Darkchilde essence once more. He was now the gateway between all realities, and if the Beyonder got hold of him, h would have access to the Nexus. He reached inside her, and pulled out her Darkchilde persona for the first time. In the retcon, they are directly related. He still had comic awareness and reality warping capabilities. Summers, meanwhile, was in a coma due to a bite from Dracula, and was under the care of that world's X-Men. He was frozen in indecision. [42], After his creator, Jim Shooter, left Marvel, writer-editor Tom DeFalco re-tooled the Beyonder, diminishing his power greatly: He was no longer nearly omnipotent, and several of the cosmic beings who were previously established to be below him in power were vastly upgraded in conjunction.[23][43][44][45]. Black Cat later thanks Spider-Man with a kiss, meanwhile on Earth, Blade watches his mothers castle from a distant ledge while Morbius explains that he has connection with Black Cat and knows she is in safe hands. Dispersing the forms of Cage and Iron Fist, the Beyonder teleported himself up to the Illuminati. However, the Watcher suddenly came to talk to him. However, his scale of power has been stated as below that of the Living Tribunal and Eternity, the Celestials, or the Molecule Man (when unfettered from his emotional weaknesses). Rafter Pound has a deep connection with the Tudor family He briefly had the young superhuman mutant called Boom-Boom as a companion, and terrified her when he threatened to destroy the entire universe on a whim. Beyonder tells Spider-Man to think of him and his assistant, Madame Web, as 'ones from beyond.' Taking his inspiration from Reece, he was going to be human and omnipotent at the same time. When he appeared to see her, however, she placed a time bomb on him and ran away. He couldn't believe the people of Earth were still "hounding" him. Hence the Beyonder's energy caused the creation of a new universe. He is an extradimensional being who has been depicted as a cosmic force with unimaginable power. She wanted them all to engage him in one last ditch effort. This is the time when his personality really began to take on most of his recognizable personality characteristics. The Beyonder once again left in a flash of light. Instead they had to just ask him not to kill Death. Also, Mr. These heros try to understand where they are and how they got there, the Human Torch and the Thing attack Spider-Man, thinking he was their enemy, the others heros try to break everything up. Doom informs the heros that they will be held trail for treason,if they are found guilty they will be executed. He realized that if the Thing could have doubts about his role, then it was OK for him to have doubts too. Now, they had to fight, or die; they all meant less to him than an amoeba, other than perhaps Rachel, who he called a "starsoul." Havok finally awoke. It took them a while to get up, however, and they had been knocked miles away. (The Illuminati used some very specious logic in trying to argue that he was disrupting the natural order of things. However, he and Doom were, as Captain America said, "swatted back like flies!" Every-moment is precious because, at any time, death can take life away. At home, he started to get bored, and made a bunch of his favorite gadgets, then pictures of Dazzler. First he had an affair with a beautiful woman named Sharon Ing. The process of becoming a Cosmic Cube, then Kosmos and the Maker, then back to the Beyonder supposedly fixed him and matured him, though he admitted that he may always be a little broken. Inspired by the Thing's heroism, the Beyonder decided to inspire others in turn to find their true role in life. Kubik showed up and explained that because he and the Beyonder/Kosmos were purely abstract containers of power, they did not contain the full degree of potential that Owen Reece, as a human, had. Kubik said that he and Kosmos were pure power--that if their power was taken, they would be nothing. Intent on discovering his true purpose, The Beyonder falls in love, exacts revenge, and chases pleasure, yet every road leads to a dead end. Pre-Retcon Beyonder/Classic Beyonder- As a result of being the entirety of a dimension of far more scope than our own multiverse, he was more powerful than all of the rest of reality (he was described in narration as having "millions" of time more power than all the power in our multiverse combined). Instead of seeing them all as amoebas, he was forced to see that they each contained an infinity of their own, which were perhaps equal to his own, other kind of infinity. Why can't you see that I'm better than you? He and Reece stepped together and melded into a true, perfect Cube--the one that their power had been meant to make so many years ago. The Beyonder is the manifestation of the "Beyond-Realm," or simply the "Beyond," which exists separately from the multiverse. 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. After observing humans, and ultimately interacting with them, the Beyonder still did not feel fulfilled. She was found guilty and sentenced to the Kyln in Creche confinement. To study the effects of the desire for revenge, the Beyonder transformed Thor's enemy, the Dark Elf Algrim into the powerful menace Kurse. All of the religions therein were warped around him and he was the center of it all. Giving her a tour of a mall from the air, he said he would join her crusade of public awareness for mutants, but she said she would rather do it on her own, so he brought her back to the place from where he had taken her originally, and they parted on good terms. They then explained that the accident that gave Owen Reece the power of the Molecule Man opened a portal to the realm of the Beyonders (plural) and let some of that energy flow into him. [3], The Beyonders have been witnessed killing all of the Celestials in the Marvel multiverse at the same time, destroying abstract entities such as Eternity and Infinity, and three members of the race together managed to kill the Living Tribunal itself. Sphinx quotes: "He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions." [16] Beyonder then attempts to get Dazzler to fall in love with him, but fails, leading to feelings of despair. From his first appearance as a celestial being to his transition into human form, The Beyonder has starred in some of the most existential and exciting stories Marvel has ever told. By the time Mephisto planned to drop his contract with Thing, nearly all of the Legion Accursed were defeated. Each Cosmic Cube is a receptacle for energy that comes from their dimension. The Beyonder was the all-powerful instigator of the Secret Wars, a 1984 all-star extravaganza that pulled Marvel Comics from a tough financial spot. The other X-Men, some willingly, some possibly under her psychic influence, and some unwillingly, joined their life forces to hers. He then decided to try to take over the world in a more "limited" fashion than he had before: by doing it legally. [47] He once destroyed a galaxy on a whim to meet his needs during the first Secret Wars,[46] and later created a universe out of his own being. (Others, like the Enchantress, also tried to leave, but were unable to pierce the barrier set up by the Beyonder.) [23], Months later, the Beyonder arrived on Earth to continue his study of humanity and of desire. The retcon does better explain the link between the Molecule Man and the Beyonder. They were both sentient Cosmic Cubes--Cosmic Cubes that had evolved into having self-awareness and personalities. Marvel's Most Powerful Cosmic God Did Drugs with Two Forgotten TV Stars - Yes, Really. And if that didn't work, she had a backup plan. After the amnesiac Maker destroys a Shi'ar colony, the Imperial Guard manage to imprison it in the interstellar prison called the Kyln. Strange. During the battle, he famously said, "The trouble is, lesser beings can't really perceive the bulk of the action--the billions of feints, thrusts, and parries per second--or the countless levels, besides the physical, upon which this fight, however one-sided, is taking place!" The creator of the character, Jim Shooter, on the topic of the character, says "We introduced the Beyonder was studying these beings, us, that he had discovered." The Puma was now brought to the absolute limit of his anger and his sense of righteousness in his cause. As he recounted, Doom participated in the first Secret War despite the fact that he had already died; in the second Secret War, it was revealed that Doom had secretly swapped minds with Norman McArthur. Moonstar was the only one left. When they arrive, they see a mysterious figure approaching, Ben Grimm (Thing) has been restored to his original human body. But as soon as he stepped in the door, Reece blasted him with his full force. But everything he had heard led him to believe that being partly mortal was the only way to make it through. The Beyonder simply walked out the window, and Cage jumped out to get him. As the Beyonder himself replied, "But I'm part of the universe's natural order. in: Character. [29], Deciding he could not simply return to the Beyond-Realm and forget that he had ever experienced desire, the Beyonder remained on Earth but fell into despair. Loki hypothesized that Those Who Sit Above In Shadow could very well be the Beyonders. This flashback story took place after the events of Secret Wars I and before Secret Wars II. He teleported into Nebula's ship and, thinking he was helping the Avengers, teleported her away from the scene. The Beyonder accepts. He revived her, but felt that she wanted a "business deal" kind of relationship, since she loved what he did for her (although she really meant she loved how he made her feel). Meanwhile, Rachel Summers teleported all the heroes of Earth to the Rockies, above his bunker. 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. [22] Too weakened to strike back against Doom, the Beyonder secretly took possession of the body of Klaw,[23] who had been resurrected on Battleworld[24] after his seeming destruction by Dazzler. The Beyonder took Storm on a tour of the boy's sad past, showing him that his heroic exploits had in fact provided the only bright spots in his short life. Protege's great raise in power gained the attention of the Living Tribunal, who put both Protege and the Beyonder on trial. Right then, some punks tried to mug them. Dazzler eventually realized that he had stimulated the situation by amping the bikers' powers, and made him stop the fight. He was shown and described to repel Galactus "like a bug", and even greatly exceeded the collected energy of the latter's World-Ship. The machine would only be able to hold the Beyonder's power for a short time, so Mephisto put together a plan to trigger it. [11] References [ edit] Mephisto was particularly fearful and enraged. Bereft of another host, the cosmic energy creates The Beyonder and imbues him with all the wisdom, power, and purpose of The Beyonders. He allowed the passengers to land softly, then continued on his walk. The heroes argued over what to do: some thought they should kill him, while other could not stomach such a deed. Beyonder claims that the war is over and teleports everyone to space. (At the end of Secret Wars I, when the Beyonder seems to kill Doom, he actually sends him back to the "present" again.) And yet the Beyonder was once again unhurt. While all the heros make their trek to the Red Skull's base they take a hovercraft to cross the desert,a sandstorm causes the hovercraft to come to a stop and crash due to it's overwhelming force. He accelerates the time of this planet 1 year into the future. In classic continuity, the thing that attracted his attention in both instances was the presence of the Molecule Man. Owen Reece, the conduit for the Beyonders' power, transferred that power to Reed Richards, leading to the Multiverse's recreation. Although she suffers defeat, Phoenix attempts to sway The Beyonder's mind by reminding him that death makes life meaningful. 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. It convinced her that if she had enough power, she could resist the Dragon's evil. Marvel characters can be divided into two categories: Superheroes and Supervillains. It is possible for the Beyonder to be weakened, albeit by performing such a great feat as destroying a fundamental force of the universe such as Death. Chapter 1"Arrival" In this episode we find Spider-Man floating around as he is told by Madame Web to look into her eyes, she then paralyzes Spider-Man into an upright posture. [13][12][1], The Beyonder observed Earth for a number of years,[4] drawn to the planet by a tachyon beam,[17] and was fascinated to discover that the beings living within Earth's reality were not each a creation complete unto themselves. She was running away from home because her father had beaten her upon finding out she was a mutant. Because none of the Legion Accursed managed to touch the Beyonder, the Beyondersbane went past it's critical point and melted down, its energy returning eventually to the Beyonder. He started to take over other arenas of power, including the Kingpin's crime syndicate, and then moved on to take over the United States from the president. However, The Beyonder went through several retcons, which significantly reduced his power. Hold together a planet that he made out of remnants of destroyed realities by thought alone. She converted Sam Guthrie before he realized what she was doing, but the others rejected his "gift." Pym demanded that the Stranger stop these experiments and when he declined, it was revealed Pym hadn't killed any of the others and had merely shrunk them down. 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. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment More posts you may like . However, there are cases in the normal world where a weaker object can break a stronger object if it hits it in exactly the right way--for instance it can set up dissonant shock waves that are a counter to the other object's structure, and force it to break itself apart. [5], Every now and then the Beyonders would shunt a modicum of energy to the universe, allowing sentient beings to use them to create Cosmic Cubesa practice they appear to have given up after the admonishments by Eternity and the Living Tribunal regarding the disruptive effect of these actions. True love was when there was a free and limitless exchange of love between both partners; it couldn't be a "business deal" where there were other obligations. [3], The Cube expels the Molecule Man from its form, returning him to Earth, and soon evolves into the cosmic being known as Kosmos. Back in New York, Puma once again found Peter Parker and tried to enroll him in his quest to kill the Beyonder. The One-Above-All's powers and abilities The One-Above-All is Omnipotent (All Powerful), Omniscient (All Knowing), and Omnipresent (Everywhere). Much earlier, the Beyonder had revived Kurse as an experiment, but then had largely forgotten about him. Peter did his best to explain the way the finite length of time we have on earth affects the way we act, and the Beyonder eventually left, saying that he may have talked him out of obliterating existence. These eyes take the form of the Beyonder. In the Marvel Apes universe, the Ape-Beyonder kidnapped the Earth heroes and villains to Battleworld to fight, as in the Earth-616 reality. Meanwhile, the Defenders were in a very difficult battle against the Dragon of the Moon. While his flesh was being peeled away layer by layer, he managed to somehow will his hand to touch his armor (which had been lifted away from him), and activate his "sling," thereby defeating the Beyonder and taking his power. After a fight with the Fantastic Four, he revealed that his mind was actually inhabiting the body of a random stranger, Norm McArthur. He later reappeared at Avengers Mansion. He told the Beyonder to bring back Death, but the Beyonder said that the only way to do it would be if someone agreed to die and become the new Death. Even in this state, however, he was incredibly powerful, having enough strength to at least banish a legion of demons back to Hell in one motion. [18], Subsequently, the Beyonder gave himself a body identical to that of Captain America. Thankfully, with an upcoming Marvel Comic run slated for June, The Beyonder is ready to reintroduce himself to readers. The Illuminati then went through several imaginary situations reflecting what would happen if their inner desires came true. Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spider-Man's First Appearance), Tales of Suspense #39 (Iron Man's First Appearance), Incredible Hulk #181 (Wolverine's First Appearance), Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z, A universe created by the other Beyonders to incubate their young, 14 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Beyonder (Earth-616), 36 minor appearance(s) of Beyonder (Earth-616), 13 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Beyonder (Earth-616), 13 quotation(s) by or about Beyonder (Earth-616). Beyonder transforms into a cloud and both the Beyonder and Spider-Man vanish. Now humans would spend their lives as abstractly as the cosmic forces; they would no longer care about anything, just as Cap and Richards had said earlier about the Beyonder's less dramatic kind of previous care-taking. He realized that he was still far too attached to our world. Within his universe the Beyonder was complete; indeed he was all of his reality. Boom Boom shared a game that she played whenever she got depressed: whenever something bad happened, you got 10 points. One day, the Fantastic Four, with the Thing, She-Thing, Human Torch, and Doctor Doom, showed up in his universe. The Beyonder thus began his own criminal empire, not because of any inherent evil in his nature, but just because that's all he knew about from Vinnie. He appeared in an amalgam form, based on the many heroes that fought on Battleworld. A bag lady saw him do it, and reprimanded him while she simultaneously explained to him how to adjust its tailoring so it would fit better on him. (The Thing was angry at the Beyonder for various events in the past.) When he went to kill him, however, he couldn't go through with it, unable to believe that such an unassuming man was so all-powerful. [21], The tale of the Beyonder continues several years later when it is revealed that, in the distant past, the enigmatic Beyonders created pocket universes holding vast amounts of sentient energy. All these add up to the possibility that this was not the true Beyonder, or was only a ploy by the Beyonder to confuse the heroes for some reason. Finally he released her from his control, at which point she told him how his respect for her had led her to leave the life of the streets and get a real job. Around this time he also started exploring what Marvel was then calling the "multiverse": all the dimensions outside of the normal universe, such as Asgard, Mephisto's realm, the Microverse, the Dark Dimension, and eventually the Crossroads, a nexus of realities.