| Comics | Original |
|---|---|
| Animation | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
| “ | I am from Beyond! Slay your enemies, and all you desire shall be yours! Nothing you dream of is impossible for me to accomplish! | „ |
Summary
The Beyonder is a young member of the ancient race of multiversal engineers known as The Beyonders, and by far its most infamous and well-known one. Having incubated within a specialized "womb-space" created by his progenitors for an unknown amount of time, the Beyonder eventually became aware of existence apart from his own when a pinhole tore through the fabric of reality due to the of the creation of a multiversal demolition tool allowed him to see through into other universes and dimensions. As he was the embodiment of all things in his personal universe, and had never known anything else, this discovery deeply shocked the Beyonder, and seeing the complexity of the lifeforms on the other side, began a series of interactions with them, in the hopes of learning more.
First and foremost among these interactions was the event known as the Secret Wars, in which various villains and heroes from Earth were placed in a makeshift planet of the Beyonder's own making known as Battleworld, in which they would be forced to fight for their own survival to sate the entity's curiosity. When this chain of events was over, the Beyonder then started to interact with the universe more directly, descending from his own reality and into the physical world, in which he quickly found himself overwhelming even the strongest beings on Earth. As he had known nothing else apart from his own reality beforehand, he misinterpreted it as having been all of existence, and himself as the most powerful being of all, dwarfing all other powers by millions of times.
Eventually, the truth of his origins was revealed to him: Not only was he no supreme being, but also a fractured, incomplete entity, a failed Cosmic Cube whose gestation period was cut short by the creation of the Molecule Man, and who thus never developed as it should have. Though he initially refused to accept this truth, the Beyonder ultimately could not deny it, and accepted that he required fixing. His repairing involved speedrunning through several larval stages of evolution, amidst which he would become the female entity Kosmos, and, eventually, mature enough in order to ascend into a fully-fledged Beyonder and join his people in their sanctum above all of reality.
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 1-B | At least High 1-B | High 1-A | High 1-A
Key: Incomplete Cosmic Cube | Ascended Cosmic Cube (Kosmos) | Adult Beyonder | Escaped from the House of Ideas
Name: The Beyonder, The One From Beyond, The One Who Is All, "Frank," Kosmos, The Maker, The Broken One
Origin: Marvel Comics
Gender: Inapplicable (Exists as an energy being with no true gender who can manifest as either sex)
Age: Inapplicable.
Classification: Incomplete Cosmic Cube, Larval ("'Child-Unit") Beyonder | Completed Cosmic Cube, Evolved Form of the Beyonder | Matured Beyonder, Member of the Omega Council, Celestial Servitor
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Immortality (Types 1 and 3)
- Higher-Dimensional Existence (Stated to be an infinite dimensional being[1])
- Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2 and 3)
- True Flight
- Acrobatics (Shown here[2])
- Energy Manipulation
- Aura
- Enhanced Senses (Can perceive levels of activity inaccessible to humans. Heard Tabitha Smith's shouting from Brazil, while she was in New York.[3] Can see through objects[4])
- Light Manipulation (Appeared as a rift of light[5])
- Teleportation and Dimensional Travel (Teleported away from Captain America.[6] Can freely travel to and from The Beyond-Realm,[3] as well as walk across the myriad layers of the universe as casually as he would stroll through a city block[7])
- Regeneration (Low-Godly) and Incorporeality (His true form is that of pure energy[1])
- Astral Projection (Can divide his conscience in half.[8] Followed Captain America with a tendril of his godlike conscience[6])
- Shapeshifting and Transformation (Can shift into physical bodies[6] and revert to his true energy form whenever he wants[1])
- Transmutation (Turned a desk into a bunch of apples[6] and an entire building into gold[1])
- Telekinesis (Created Battleword from pieces of other worlds for his Secret Wars[5])
- Power Bestowal (Embued Stewart Cadwell with power and transformed him into Thundersword.[6] Gave Dazzler half his power[9])
- Soul Manipulation (Peered into Magik's soul and drew out her inner demonic essence[6])
- Extrasensory Perception (Scanned the entire world in an instant and deduced the actions of many/possibly every human[1])
- Invisibility (Turned invisible to hide from Spider-Man's Spider Sense[1])
- Intangibility (Phased through a door[10])
- Telepathy (Read Spider-Man[1] and Hulk's mind[11])
- Cloth Manipulation (Extended the length of his sleeves and trousers. Created shoes from nothing[1])
- Healing (Healed himself after getting attacked by a group of thugs.[1] Restored Kurse back to peak condition[9])
- Retrocognition (Using his godlike senses, he can look into the past.[1] Witnessed Bruce Banner's past being played out in his subconscious[7])
- Time Manipulation (Can take people from various points of the time stream and transport them into the present, as well as return them to the same point.[1] Stated he could reverse time.[12] Transported Johnny Storm to the past[13])
- Paralysis Inducement (Held back Iron Fist with "some kind of force."[1] Paralyzed the Hulk[11])
- Portal Creation (Opened a portal to his realm[14])
- Creation (Created a block of gold.[14] Manifested a sofa out of thin air[15])
- Possession (Took over Dazzler's body[12])
- Biological Manipulation (Cured people of the flu, as well as a little boy's dyslexia.[14] Can cure cancer[4])
- Body Control (Burned off excess fat by reducing it to energy[14])
- Mind Manipulation and Animal / Plant / Water / Disease / Matter Manipulation (Subjected the whole world to his will with just a thought, including plants, animals, water, rocks, bacteria, viruses, as well as every molecule, atom and substance of particle[14])
- Empathic Manipulation (Altered Dazzler's mind to make her love him[2])
- Information Analysis and Cosmic Awareness (Scanned the desires of every living creature in the world. Looked into Dazzler's soul to find out more about her[9])
- Stealth Manipulation / Mastery (Turned a plane invisible to radar.[9] Can mask his presence from both human and superhuman senses[11])
- Resurrection (Brought Sharon back to life. Revived Dazzler[9])
- Image Projection (Projected images of various people in the air. Projected images of his past into Dazzler by looking at her[9])
- Weapon Creation (Turned Stewart Cadwell's shazam award into a sword[6])
- Size Manipulation (Increased the size of Shaman's pouch before shrinking it down again[9])
- Space-Time Manipulation (Released a bolt of pure force which slashed through space and time.[9] Comprises the space of the Beyond-Realm as well,[15])
- Memory Manipulation (Erased Dazzler's memories of being in his control[9])
- Explosion Manipulation (Exploded a train piece by piece[3])
- Duplication (Stated he could create an exact copy of Dazzler[3])
- Plasma Manipulation (Created a star[3])
- Danmaku (Blasted the X-Men away with an omni-directional blast of energy[3])
- Air Manipulation (Created a breathable, life-supporting environment in space.[3] Can create tornadoes with his energy[11])
- Durability Negation (Ignores durability with practically most of his attacks. Can release bolts of force that slice open space-time.[9] Can attack on countless planes of existence other than physical[3])
- Age Manipulation (Aged Tabitha Smith into her 20's[3])
- Power Nullification (Removed Tabita Smith's mutant powers[3])
- Gravity Manipulation (Disrupted gravity with his presence upon his arrival on Earth, causing chunks of rock to begin levitating and disrupting the radiowaves in the area[6])
- Deconstruction (Reed Richards stated The Beyonder could atomize everyone with "the flick of an eyelash."[3] Deconstructed his helicopter)
- Technological Manipulation (Likely created the Mento-Projector, which he used to show Dave the events he experienced.[16] Created 160 million monitor screens covering 12 people each, capturing 4 billion people on camera[17])
- Reality Warping, Law Manipulation and Physics Manipulation (The Beyonder stated that reality isn't real to him, with everything existing the way it does because he wills it so, and his imagination being virtually indistinguishable from reality. He could change the fundamental flow of existence, make granite into a squeezably soft rock, or make cows have wings and fly.[15] Mephisto said that The Beyonder could make idlest imaginings a reality with a wave of his hand, turning all of existence inside out[18])
- Vibration Manipulation (Created an earthquake throughout the city[11])
- Attack Reflection (Deflected Magneto's power beam towards the X-Men[11])
- Magnetism Manipulation (Repelled Magneto by duplicating his own magnetic field[11])
- BFR (Can force beings away from their bodies and into phantom form[11])
- Existence Erasure (Erased a vast space armada, the coalition of over 30,000 advanced galactic civilizations, with a shrug[19])
- Non-Physical Interaction (Can interact with abstract/conceptual entities[16])
- Energy Absorption (Absorbed energy from the sole remains of The New Mutants[15])
- Spatial Manipulation (His conflicting inner turmoil caused the very fabric of reality to passively bend around him[19])
- Forcefield Creation (Created a barrier around the space-station like constructs he used to trap the heroes and villains[5])
- Fusionism and Elemental Manipulation (Embodied an elemental form as he merged his essence with that of every man, woman and child on Earth. Manipulated the elements[4])
- Weather Manipulation (Cleared a storm[4])
- Life-Force Absorption (Extracted the stolen life-forces of Cindy Adam's parents[4])
- Power Mimicry and Darkness Manipulation (Copied Cloak and Dagger's powers to bind them in light and darkness respectively[20])
- Homing Attack (Sent an explosive energy force to seek out and exterminate every drug dealer in the area[20])
- Earth Manipulation (Caused rocky cave walls to melt[21])
- Likely Nigh-Omniscience (Although he claimed to be fully omniscient, he did not know of the Marvel Multiverse beforehand and had to learn everything by experience[7])
- Omnipresence
Resistance to:
- Mind Manipulation (Doctor Doom with his powers could negate Xavier's telepathy with his mere aura[22])
All previous powers and abilities on much greater scales.
All previous powers and abilities on much greater scales,
- Abstract Existence (Type 1; Beyonders exist as "embodiments" of the Beyond,[23] and lie on a level more primal than the Superflow, a conceptual realm of pure information,[24] "where metaphor and reality meet, signifier and signified become one,"[25] with the planes of the Mystery being stated to be the primal concepts that precede and ultimately become the omniverse[26][27])
- Avatar Creation (Beyonders are capable of acting through manifestations of themselves,[28] described as solid forms acting as vessels for their non-physical essences. A "Debaser-unit" Beyonder was able to send in the "smallest part" of itself into the omniverse in order to possess and act through Jason Quantrell, comparing its usage of him to a mouse cursor[29])
- Information Manipulation and Plot Manipulation (After absorbing the Beyonders' power, Molecule Man remarked that he could now alter the base information of reality, as well as the narrative of existence itself[30])
- Transduality (Type 3; As they are beyond the omniverse, Beyonders transcend the In-Betweener, an inner function of Eternity that personifies the barrier and division between dichotomies,[31][32] being "a concept of concepts"[33] and "walking the path between all worlds, all concepts,"[34] simultaneously the union of all polarities and something that stands exempt from them)
- Nonexistent Physiology (Nature 2, Aspect 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; As residents of the Outside, Beyonders are completely above even the concept of existence[35] and of reality[36] as a whole,[37] with their realm being described as an "incomprehensibly featureless level"[38] and existing in an even more primordial state than the "pure, perfect nothing" of the Far Shore)
- Acausality (Type 4; Beyonders transcend the very temporal/historical/"true"-event structure of the universe,[23] though they are still constrained by their own personal timeline[39])
- Precognition and Clairvoyance (Though Beyonders are linear beings, incapable of truly knowing what will be for existence at large, they can still predict the future of the omniverse,[40] with the Un-Beyond, the dark reflection of their realm, being described as a point from which the Onyx King can see all the different forks and branches of the timestream,[41] observing the set of all futures, but having no inherent knowledge of which future will come to be)
- Adaptation (While in physical vessels, Beyonders are malleable and capable of freely changing their shapes,[28] with Hank Pym describing them as "universally adaptative" creatures[42])
- Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1)
- Self-Power Modification
- Immortality (Type 5; As they are beyond the omniverse, Beyonders abide in a state of featureless nonexistence in which there is no life or death,[43] and as such nothing dies[44])
- Large Size (Type 11)
- Causality Manipulation (The Beyonders created the Concordance Engines, which are machines whose function is to harvest whole events from individual realities and recontextualize hem into the framework of others.[45]). In addition to the above, they also hold all the powers of the Cosmic Cubes, as those are simply Beyonders in larval stages of their development[40]
Attack Potency: High Hyperverse level (Stated to be an infinite-dimensional being[1] that existed as the entirety of his own, endless universe.[14][15][40] Cosmic Cubes in general are stated to be omni-dimensional structures,[46] as such extending over all spatial dimensions, of which[47] there is[48] an infinite number[49][50]) | At least High Hyperverse level (Merged with the part of his energy that was locked away within Molecule Man, thus evolving into a perfect Cosmic Cube. Equal to the likes of Kubik, who previously easily stomped the Beyonder and nearly crushed the entire Beyond-Realm with his bare hands.[51] Upon reaching a level of power equal to Kubik and Kosmos, Molecule Man described himself as "transacting on power levels unimaginable" to the Beyonder, and operating on on infinities beyond his narrow perception[52]) | High Outerverse level (Having completed his own reparation, he eventually ascended beyond the multiverse and joined the rest of The Beyonders in the Engine Room of Creation, above and beyond all of existence[40]) | High Outerverse level (Liberated himself from the bindings of the The One Above All entirely by escaping the House of Ideas,[53] attaining a state of "freedom" from Marvel Comics itself which Blue Marvel likened to Buddhahood)
Speed: Infinite (Time and distance are stated to hold no meaning to him[6]), can make himself Omnipresent (Comprises the Beyond-Realm, being able to disincorporate to fill the void and become a whole universe once more[3]) | Infinite (Immensely above her previous self) | Immeasurable
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: High Hyperverse level | At least High Hyperverse level | High Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Durability: High Hyperverse level | High Hyperverse level | High Outerverse level | High Outerverse level
Stamina: Infinite
Range: High Hyperversal | High Hyperversal | High Outerversal | High Outerversal
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Holds a great degree of cosmic awareness that bestows him with an innate understanding of the universe around him and its inner workings, though he at first was childlike and ignorant regarding most aspects of earthly existence, having to learn everything through experience.
Weaknesses: As an infinite being, the Beyonder is incapable of adapting to the act of perceiving reality from a finite perspective, and attempting to do so (Or forcing this state upon him) drives him to insanity | Same as before | Although he is beyond the concept of time, he, like other Beyonders, is still limited to his own higher notion of a sequential chronology, and is ultimately powerless against beings who can manage to travel through it | None notable
Note: While the Beyonder's existence is often divided between "pre-retcon" and "post-retcon" in relation to the original Secret Wars, this is not entirely accurate. The events of Secret Wars I and II were not removed from canon, what changed was the Beyonder's relationship with the other cosmic entities. Rather than surpassing all of them, for example, it was revealed that the abstracts wanted to help the Beyonder mature into awareness, and so they used manifestations to appear weaker than him. As a result, a good amount of statements and showings pertaining to the Beyonder in Secret Wars (Such as him being an infinite-dimensional entity, as well as the majority of the abilities displayed during his tenure on Earth) are still usable, as they are not directly relevant to his previous characterization and were as such not affected by the retcon, and trying to maintain the division would only necessitate a "pre-retcon" key for every cosmic being.
Notable Matchups
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Notable Losses:
Inconclusive Matches:
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #2; 1985
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Thing; Vol 1; #30; 1985
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #5 ; 1985
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Rom; Vol 1; #72; 1985
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars; Vol 1; #1; 1984
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #1; 1985
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Incredible Hulk; Vol 1; #312; 1985
- ↑ Daredevil; Vol 1; #223; 1985
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #4; 1985
- ↑ Doctor Strange; Vol 2; #74; 1985
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #8; 1985
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Dazzler; Vol 1; #40; 1985
- ↑ Fantastic Four; Vol 1; #285; 1985
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #3; 1985
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #9; 1985
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #6; 1985
- ↑ Power Man and Iron Fist; Vol 1; #121; 1985
- ↑ Secret Wars II; Vol 1; #7; 1985
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 The Amazing Spider-Man; Vol 1; #274; 1985
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Cloak and Dagger; Vol 2; #4; 1985
- ↑ The Avengers; Vol 1; #265; 1985
- ↑ Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) #11
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #6
- ↑ Ultimates², #9
- ↑ Ultimates² #2
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Kushala #4
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Kushala #6
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 New Avengers Vol. 3 #32
- ↑ Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #7
- ↑ Ultimates #7
- ↑ Doctor Strange Vol. 2 #26
- ↑ Secret Wars II #06
- ↑ Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #17
- ↑ Doctor Strange Vol. 2 #27
- ↑ Ultimates #11
- ↑ Ultimates², #6
- ↑ Ultimates² Back Cover
- ↑ Fantastic Four Annual #23
- ↑ New Avengers Vol. 3 #33
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 "Defenders: Beyond #5"
- ↑ Venom Vol. 5 #18
- ↑ New Avengers Vol. 3 #30
- ↑ Ultimates #5
- ↑ Ultimates² #100
- ↑ Defenders Vol. 4 #11
- ↑ "Marvel Super-Villain Team-Up #17"
- ↑ "Children of the Voyager #3"
- ↑ "Children of the Voyager, #4"
- ↑ "Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #51"
- ↑ "Fantastic Four Unlimited #3"
- ↑ "Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #319"
- ↑ Fantastic Four Annual #27
- ↑ Defenders: Beyond #5
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