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Amatsu-Mikaboshi is one of the main antagonists from the Marvel Comics.
He is an embodiment of the chaotic nothingness (and an aspect of Oblivion) that existed shortly before the formation of the physical universe as anyone knows it that appears in Marvel Comics. He is an adversary to Hercules and many other heroes across space/time. He is the main villain of the event Chaos War and of the 2008-2015 Incredible Hercules series after usurping the role from Hera after his assault on New Olympus.
Biography[]
Origin[]
Amatsu-Mikaboshi is one of the oldest beings of the Marvel Universe and is an aspect of Oblivion and the rival to Eternity, who was born as part of Oblivion, the cosmic entity of the void preceding the universe. An avatar of that primeval darkness and chaos that preceded the universe, Chaos King is a dark mirror to Eternity, whose creation divested Chaos King of most of his energies and resulted in its inclusion in Shinto cosmology as "Amatsu-Mikaboshi".
According to Shinto cosmology, Amatsu-Mikaboshi was a god who ruled Earth when it was nothing but a formless void of primordial darkness until the elder god known as Gaea-in the form of Izanami-and a young Amatsu-Kami named Izanagi created the islands of Japan from the Void using the divine Jeweled Spear, sending the dark god into an instant rage. The dark deity declared war on Izanami, Izanagi, and their divine children, the Amatsu-Kami-who later came to be worshipped as gods by the humans of Japan-but was finally cast into the netherworld of Yomi, in which he stayed for centuries, gathering an army of Oni and Shinma demons, amongst other monsters.
Warriors Three[]
The Warriors Three were brought to trial for accidentally killing a giant who had shape-shifted into an aquatic beast. A group punishment was levied in which the group had to retrieve several difficult items from various pantheons and return them to the father of the dead giant. Among these items was the sword Grasscutter from Yomi, guarded by Mikaboshi.
Creation of the Ebon Samurai[]
When the Japanese police officer Kioshi Keishicho was killed by the Silver Samurai, ending up in Yomi, Mikaboshi appeared before him and offered to resurrect Kioshi in order to seek revenge. When Kioshi accepted, Mikaboshi bonded him to a shinma demon that manifested as a black suit of samurai armor and a katana capable of cutting through almost anything.
Ares: God of War[]
With the chaos left by the fall of Asgard and the Norse pantheon, Mikaboshi plotted to expand his influence by capturing Olympus and crushing the Olympian gods. With the defeat of the Olympians, Mikaboshi then hoped to compel all the other pantheons into surrender. In furtherance of this, Mikaboshi laid siege to Olympus-and came very close to pulling it off. Smarting from the treatment he had received at the hands of his fellow Olympians, Ares refused to lift a hand. Desperate for his assistance, and in an attempt to prod Ares into action, Zeus ordered Alexander kidnapped and brought to Olympus, where he was entrusted into the care of Achilles and his Myrmidons.
With Mikaboshi having complete control of the war, Hermes took a trip to Earth to fetch an enraged Ares in hopes of trying to get him to speak with Zeus; however, all Ares could think about was his son. Giving in, Hermes brought them both to Achilles' stronghold where they were holding Alexander but showed up to find the fortress had been reduced to ruin and Alexander was nowhere to be seen. In his absence, Mikaboshi and his army of Oni had managed to burn the Myrmidon fortress to the ground and spirit Alexander away to his stronghold out in the eastern lands. From there, Mikaboshi started subtly warping Alexander's mind, hoping to use him as a tool of revenge against his father by telling him about the worse history of the gods and multiple patricides. Mikaboshi sought to make Alex the new god of war-one which might be employed in counter to the Greek gods and, more to the point, Ares himself.
An enraged Ares, upon learning his son was in the hands of enemies of Olympus, only agreed to participate in the fighting so that he might rescue his son. During the battle, Zeus was about to be killed until, using the last of his power, he managed to break the hold Mikaboshi had over Alexander. Alexander used the Grasscutter sword against Mikaboshi and ended the battle. Later, Mikaboshi was then returned to the Japanese land of the dead defeated.
Secret Invasion[]
Athena of the Olympian Pantheon called a meeting of the Pantheons in San Francisco to assemble a team of Gods from Earth, known as the "God Squad". Mikaboshi was chosen by the pantheons of the east along with Hercules, Snowbird, Tecumotzin, and Atum, the God Eater to battle and defeat the Skrull Gods Kly'Bn and Sl'gur't. In route to Skrull space through the dream realm, they battled Nightmare. It was also through this that he managed to help the team in winning the battle by making duplicates of himself.
As they entered into Skrull space, God Squad had to fight their way through the pantheons of gods which had already been conquered on the road which would take them to the thrones of Kly'Bn and Sl'Gurt. Mikaboshi lunged into Sl'gur't when she destroyed Atum; throughout the battle, both took shapes of the same creature until it reached a point where they were taking each other's form. Mikaboshi killed Sl'gur't before being left behind by Hercules, Snowbird, and Amadeus Cho, who believed Mikaboshi was killed, thus leaving him to take command of the conquered pantheons.
Chaos War[]
She had been preparing herself, all these years, in order to fight the great struggle against the primordial darkness that would soon come upon the world, Mikaboshi, and had told Amadeus Cho that Hercules' strength would be useless, but Cho's genius might bring them victory. Afterwards Hera had a vision of Mikaboshi slaying the Shi'ar Gods, Sharra and K'ythri. Amatsu-Mikaboshi rallied a formidable army of enslaved deities. Few had actually joined of their own free will, as with Glory. Soon, they attacked the waiting Old Gods of Zenn-La:. Thrann, the Saint of Science, had said to the other gods of the Zen-Lavians that the First Mover that gave the Universe "orbit, organization, and order" from a void of chaos and nothingness had extrapolated the coming of the Nil Star as the harbinger of the End Times eons of ages before. Mikaboshi finally invaded their Cosmic Plane and destroyed them easily, enslaving them to further bolster his forces. He then began to close in on Earth, during which he killed Impossible Man. Afterwards, he had destroyed Nightmare and claimed his powers, thereby crippling most of Earth's mortal heroes by imprisoning them within their sleep.
Hercules tried to summon Eternity so that he might fight the threat, but the being refused since fighting Mikaboshi would just be him fighting himself, as Mikaboshi is the void against which he is defined; he assured the heroes, however, that they would be in a position to defeat him. Satan and his son Daimon try to defend Hell, but they fall, too, as Mikaboshi devoured the ruler and destroys the Underworld, making Death flee the universe. Allowing him to take control of an army of dead beings. Having enslaved the Olympians, he turned them against the reformed God Squad, even taking down Galactus through Zeus. After Hercules was tricked into piercing the shields which concealed hidden Throne Room of the Council Elite's Celestial Axis, Mikaboshi and his army erupted from Zeus' chest launching a devastating assault on the divine realms of all of Earth's pantheons and destroying most of the gods, even the various Godheads themselves. The Amatsu-Kami tried to confront Mikaboshi, with Amaterasu trying to defeat him as she had done in times past, but neither was a match as he enslaved them and used them to fight against the God Squad. Amatsu-Mikaboshi also made his way for the Inua, causing great fear in the Great Beasts who felt they would be next. He also added new members to his team, including Nekra, Grim Reaper, Miek, and Abomination, the latter to take on Doctor Strange. Mikaboshi then attacked Strange from behind and awoke the Zom within him, commanding him to attack Marlo Chandler because she has a link to Death. He then set Carrion Crow free on the resurrected X-Men in an attempt to recover one of Destiny's diaries, which may or may not hold the secret to defeating Mikaboshi.
Finally, Mikaboshi savored the slow death of his oldest foe, Gaea, she who was the fountainhead of creation in and of herself, the one who birthed the Gods. When the God Squad went on an island in order for the universe to be recreated, Mikaboshi sent Athena to attack her brother who just became a god and was defeated. Hercules and the rest of the heroes took the fight to Mikaboshi; he started consuming all reality into nothingness. Unbeknownst to him, during the fight, Hercules punched him into the Continuum-an infinite pocket dimension created by Amadeus and Galactus, originally designed as a safe place where Earth could be evacuated to-but which had now become Mikaboshi's eternal prison. Still convinced he was the victor, Mikaboshi kept eating everything around him without ever catching on that he was actually just being sealed off from the main reality. Hercules would later sacrifice his godhood to reverse the harm caused by Mikaboshi and restore all of
Appearance[]
At first, he was seemingly little more than a generic god of evil. However, this was all a guise by the real Mikaboshi, who was no mere demon or god but an Abstract who sought to end all things so as to return to his beloved chaos.
He has appeared in Hercules, the Ares mini-series and Secret Invasion, acting as an antagonist in almost every appearance he has appeared in, furthering his guise as a "god of evil".
Amatsu-Mikaboshi would also play a major role as the primary antagonist of the "Chaos War" event, in which he enslaved pantheons of alien deities and demons with the intent of destroying the multiverse, returning it to an endless sea of chaos and nothingness. It was during this event that he shed his guise as a "god of evil" so as to finally reveal his true power to multiple pantheons of gods, since he was no longer holding back he quickly changed from a manipulative entity into an outright destroyer as he quickened his apocalyptic plan to erase the entire existence and give birth to an endless sea of chaos.
Power and Abilities[]
Although he is often mistakenly thought to be one of the Amatsu-Kami, Mikaboshi is a being of living darkness manifested from the primordial abyss. Mikaboshi is less of an entity than a natural force, and having existed as a dark, primordial void which once dominated Earth, and even before that, the Marvel Universe, and even farther back, the realities predating the Marvel Universe itself, in its earliest days, Mikaboshi's true form is elusive. With this, Mikaboshi gained enough energy to discard his "Terran form" and reveal his true self: the Chaos King, who was the embodiment of nothingness and primordial chaos, which balanced the powers of both Eternity and Death in order to threaten the whole Marvel Multiverse and all powered mortals, living or dead, abstract conceptual beings, cosmic entities, and lesser divinities.
- Nigh-Omnipotence: Mikaboshi possesses huge amounts of supernatural power, apparently originating within him. He has used powers of flight, teleportation, the projection of mystical energy as force blasts, invisibility, matter manipulation, image projection, and the creation of interdimensional nexus points among other feats. His power is so great that he can command hundreds of minor oni and animate and controls corpses en masse with a whim; furthermore, even the Kami themselves seem to show wariness and fear towards Mikaboshi, whom they regard as their primordial antagonist-particularly because he himself has killed many of their pantheon. Mikaboshi even proved capable of killing powerful alien deities; he destroyed the Demogorge, a being who consumed the Elder Gods themselves with relatively little effort, and crippled and killed Skyfathers like Zeus by tearing out his heart in a matter of seconds.
- Dark Magic: Mikaboshi possesses high capability in wielding some sort of powerful Japanese dark magic-a style of sorcery that proves especially potent against the Olympian gods. He can use this mystical energy for a range of effects, including his capability for changing his body form, whereby he can extend limbs and such out of his body. He also often takes on a harmless female form.
- Shadow Copies: Mikaboshi can create "shadow copies" able to avoid high-level dark magical entities like Nightmare if the entities are within the latter's own realm.
- Shapeshifting: Mikaboshi seems to exist as a single gold eye, distinguished by a slit-like iris. The eye was enveloped in an amorphous mass of dark energy, which Mikaboshi could manipulate into tangible objects of nearly any form he could think of, from whip-like tendrils to a humanoid body. He can turn his limbs into razor-sharp blades and transform into a fire-breathing serpent, which the fire from Apollo did not scald him with and could retaliate with a fire powerful enough to enshrine and knock down the Olympian sun god. He's also capable of taking a comet-like form-which his eye becomes the comet's nucleus-and launching himself at incredible speeds.
- Lord of Death: Japanese underworld of the Kami, Mikaboshi also has numerous powers perceiving him to seize and detain the astral bodies-sheaths of the soul-of the newly dead human beings. On at least one occasion, Mikaboshi has been revealed as being able to send a dead mortal's soul back into the world of the living. Mikaboshi does not have authority over all of humanity's dead. It is not yet known what the prerequisite conditions are for him to manipulate a human soul, nor are the precise means by which he accomplishes the feat known. Apparently, these conditions require that the human being in question willingly submit to Mikaboshi's will. It is not yet known how a human being may free himself from bondage to Mikaboshi. Nor is it revealed whether or not Mikaboshi "feeds" on the psychic energies as other demons do. His army contains many netherworld denizens, mostly Shinma and Oni.
- Resurrection Killing: Mikaboshi has the ability to gain control over other life forms by killing them and resurrecting them. He has thus far seized several thousand of the Skrull alien deities and utilizes them to tear through realities and worlds to wipe out the gods of countless other extraterrestrial civilizations, including the Gods of the Shi'ar and the Gods of Zenn-La.
- Power Copying: Killed Nightmare and absorbed his powers. Gods said that everything he destroyed became a part of him. When killed Athena, he absorbed her wisdom using it to destroy the multiverse.
- Superhuman Strength: At least in his main body, Mikaboshi's strength is much lower than that of Zeus or Izanami, being only about that of the average Kami: able to press 20 tons.
- Superhuman Durability: Mikaboshi has a tremendous resistance to physical damage and is immune to most types of diseases.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Mikaboshi has reflexes that are much faster than usual.
- Immortality: Mikaboshi has none of his own yet is unable to die or be killed by ordinary means.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: While Mikaboshi can sustain injury in a fight, he possesses a superhuman healing factor and would only be killed by an injury which could scatter a significant percentage of his body molecules.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Amatsu-Mikaboshi does borrow some inspiration from the Cthulhu Mythos, specifically Nyarlathotep. They were both depicted as omnipotent black creatures with the title Chaos Kings.
- Amatsu-Mikaboshi is merely a name, for that was what the Japanese called him.
- Mikaboshi is based on the Mikaboshi of Japanese mythology and the god of the Japanese race, known as the Yomi. He speaks only in haiku.
- Fred Van Lente explains Mikaboshi as "who some see as the Japanese god of evil, but he really is a being that represents the polar opposite of the core values in the Shinto religion."
- The Defenders, in Defenders (Vol. 6) #5 return to the Third Cosmos and help destroy the primordial manifestation of nothingness, Anti-All, into an infinite number of fragments. Doctor Strange theorizes that the shards of Anti-All's essence spread through the Multiverse, and that, when heroes fight against "the great Nothing" in their respective times, they fight back against Anti-All, entailing that dark entities like the Chaos King were born from Anti-All's fractured essence. How it can relate to the statement that he is an offshoot of Oblivion remains unknown.
External Link[]
- Amatsu Mikaboshi on the Marvel Wiki
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