| “ | I have many faces. You have known me as Kali, goddess of destruction. As the Keeper of the Greenworld. As the Man of Miracles. My children call me Mother, but I am beyond male and female. There is no greater power than me. |
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| ~ The Mother to Spawn |
Summary
The being known as Mother is the creator of the universe. There is no being greater than she, and her powers appear to be limitless. She is known as Mother to her children, of which there are more than there are numbers, but she is neither male nor female. In fact, she often appears as males if the situation suits her. She has appeared in many forms throughout the ages and can appear differently to different people simultaneously.
Of her countless children, her two greatest disappointments were entrusted with the planet Earth. These two beings, whom we know as God and Satan, have squabbled and fought for ages. Their incessant bickering developed into complete hatred for one another and eventually all-out war. Ordinarily, Mother would have allowed them to continue fighting as they saw fit (as she rarely gets involved with the affairs of her children). These two petty and hateful children, however, despite their never-ending feud managed to create something beautiful and wholly unique in the universe – mankind.
Mankind was created by God to serve his will, but his creation was tainted by his hateful brother Satan. Man was given free will so as to disobey God’s commands. The combined influence of both God and Satan led to the unique creation that is a human being - a creature capable of boundless artistic expression and limitless love, a creature which Mother deemed important enough to protect personally. During Armageddon, she appears to Spawn in the guise of the Man of Miracles, acting as his guide so that he may fulfill his role of stopping the Apocalypse and saving humanity from the forces of her two children. Gaia, ruler of the green world, is also one of her many children.[1]
Powers and Stats
Tier: At least Low 1-C
Name: Kali, The Goddess of Destruction, The Keeper of the Greenworld, The Mother of Existence, The Man of Miracles, The Mother, The Father, God, Mother of Miracles, Mother of Creation, The Greenlady, Mother Earth, Mother Gazer, Mother Nature, Gaea, Gaia, Jesus Christ, Sir Lancelot
Origin: Spawn (Verse)
Gender: Inapplicable (Is beyond male and female[2])
Age: Older than Time itself. Predates all creation.
Classification: Supreme Deity, Mother of all things
Powers and Abilities:
Same as Spawn, Satan and God, including:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Omnipresence[3] and Teleportation (Teleported herself and Spawn to the alleys[4])
- Omniscience, Precognition (Foresaw that the end of mankind was inevitable[2]), and Clairvoyance (Saw all the events during Armageddon[5])
- Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8; unable to die due to being both life and death[6])
- Martial Arts, Weapon Mastery and Bodily Weaponry (Defeated an entire army of demons with her weapons and combat[7] as Kali and fought evenly with Spawn; used her teeth to rip off demons' heads as Kali[7])
- Time Manipulation and Stop (Slowed down time to allow Al to save Wanda[8]. Stopped Zera and Spawn in time[2]; later did the same to God and Satan[2])
- Alternate Future Display (Showed and told Spawn what would happen should the Apocalypse come to pass[7])
- Illusion Creation[8]
- Biological Manipulation (Made God and Satan human[2])
- Soul Manipulation (Took the souls of all that died and placed them into Spawn[2])
- Heat Manipulation (Her blades made Spawn feel as though his limbs were severed by red-hot steel[6])
- Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, and 3. Hasn't displayed the need for food, water, or rest; can breathe in space)
- Mind and Memory Manipulation (Restored God and Satan's memories[2]; made Wanda forget[8] about her twins[8])
- Fate Manipulation (Allowed Cyan to share the same fate with her family[9])
- Extrasensory Perception (Could sense the souls inside of Spawn[6])
- Elemental Manipulation: Fire (Set Judas on fire[9]), Ice (Moved the snow off Wanda's body[3]), Plant (Can manipulate the[10] Greenworld's plants[10]), Poison, Water, and Air Manipulation (Poisoned the air and water to make all life disappear[11])
- Fusionism (Fused with Spawn[12] to become one[12])
- Flight (Shown here[5])
- Shapeshifting (Can take the appearance of many faces[2])
- Healing/Resurrection (Resurrected Spawn from just from his heart[13])
- Creation (Created an infinite number of children comparable to God and Satan[2])
- Regeneration (At least Low-Godly. Far above the likes of Modern Spawn; greater than Hellspawn who are able to return even if their physical form and disembodied soul is ripped out, taken to Hell, and completely disassembled)
- Magic (Hinted that she can do magic[13])
- Explosion Manipulation (Demonstrated here[2])
- Passive Fear and Madness Inducement (Type 3; her and her children's actions made Wanda almost take her own life[2][8]),
- Pocket Reality Manipulation (Supposedly possesses a universe inside of her)
- Power Nullification (Removed Satan and God from their kingdoms[2])
- Dimensional Travel (Left a plane of existence[12] and appeared in a different one[12])
- Forcefield Creation and Blessing Endowment (Protected Cyan[4] and her family[9] with a barrier[9])
- Social Influencing (Appeared as Jesus Christ to teach the way of peace and tolerance[2])
- Law Manipulation (Created laws by which the universe is ordered[2])
- Void Manipulation/Existence Erasure (Threatened to wipe the human race off the face of the Earth[10])
- Sleep Manipulation (Cast a slumber on her children after removing them from their kingdoms[2]; put Wanda to sleep after erasing her memories[8])
- Abstract Existence (Type 1; Is both life and death[6] as well as one with creation[12]) and Nonduality (Type 1; is beyond male and female[2])
- Additional Limbs (As Kali she possesses an extra pair of arms)
- Sealing (Her power allowed Spawn to close the portals that link Heaven and Hell to Earth[12])
- Deconstruction (Threatened to turn Wanda into dust[3])
- BFR (Sent Satan[2] and God[2] back to their domains[2])
- Absorption (Absorbed three of Spawn's opponents in four seconds[3])
- Death Manipulation (Gave a child the "gift of death" as a sacrifice[6])
Resistance to Pain, Metal (Spawn's chains couldn't bind her[6]), Life and Death
Attack Potency: At least Low Complex Multiverse level (Far more powerful than her children; is one with creation, everything that ever was or will be[12], which includes uncountably infinite timelines and higher levels of existence[14], including Heaven and Hell, which the latter is stated to be neither a place or an idea, but rather a state of mind, hidden below the underside of a bottomless pit of despair that can't be climbed, one that transcends all categories of thought, and the former contains Elysium, which touches on all parts of infinite space-time continuums. Created an infinite number of children which are all comparable to God and Satan)
Speed: Omnipresent (Superior to Malebolgia and Mammon; stated to be everywhere[3])
Lifting Strength: Unknown, at least Class Y (Far stronger than Satan), likely far higher
Striking Strength: At least Low Complex Multiverse level
Durability: At least Low Complex Multiverse level, likely far higher
Stamina: Infinite (Greater than Malebolgia who is omnipotent in the 8th Sphere[15])
Range: At least Low Complex Multiversal
Standard Equipment: None notable
- Optional Equipment: Staff (as the Keeper of the Greenworld); Sickles, Spears, Halberds, teeth and an extra pair of arms (as Kali)
Intelligence: Omniscient (Has watched over Spawn[16] long before they met. Upon his arrival to the Greenworld, she recognized his name[10] and knew what his desires were[12] after the White Light as well as his memory[17] of him hitting his wife. Instantly knew Christopher's name and everything about him and his past[13]. Foresaw that the end of mankind was inevitable[2])
Weaknesses: Bound by complex and arbitrary rules that she herself created[2]. Apparently capable of being banished from Earth for ten thousand years[18].
- Made an infinite number of children comparable to Satan and God.
Note:
- Do not attempt to scale the Mother of Existence to 1-B based on the scan from Tom Judge's The Rapture stating there are at least twenty dimensions. The comic was published by Top Cow, which is a different continuity from Image Comics, and is thus not canon to the Spawn series.
Explanations
Despite appearing as The Keeper in Spawn #75, Man of Miracles was first introduced in Spawn #150. This character was similar to a character known as Miracleman (originally Marvelman) created by Mick Anglo in 1954 and revived by Alan Moore in 1982. In Man of Miracles' original appearance, he is named Mike Moran, the same human identity of Miracleman and wears almost the same costume. Todd McFarlane had bought the rights to Eclipse Comics and believed that Miracleman, a character who appeared under that publisher, was part of the deal, but the rights to the character of Miracleman have been much contested and a judge determined that McFarlane did not hold the rights to Miracleman. The two characters of Mother of Existence and Man of Miracles were then combined into one. According to a retcon, they were supposed to always have been the same being. Due to Resurrection and #250 the character and the arcs that feature him were retconned from the series. However, Spawn #297 confirmed that Man of Miracles still exists and in the King Spawn series, Man of Miracles is retconned into being simply Gaia.
Gallery
Others
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Notable Losses:
Inconclusive Matches:
References
- ↑ Spawn Vol 1 #338
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 Spawn Vol 1 #158 (July, 2006)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 King Spawn Vol 1 #9 (April, 2022)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Spawn Vol 1 #160 (September, 2006)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Spawn Vol 1 #157 (June, 2006)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Spawn Vol 1 #156 (May, 2006)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Spawn Vol 1 #155 (April, 2006)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Spawn Vol 1 #159 (August, 2006)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Spawn Vol 1 #161 (October, 2006)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Spawn Vol 1 #75 (August, 1998)
- ↑ Spawn Vol 1 #238 (December, 2013)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Spawn Vol 1 #163 (December, 2006)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Spawn Vol 1 #150 (October, 2005)
- ↑ Curse of the Spawn Vol 1 #12
- ↑ Glory & Angela: Angels in Hell Vol 1 #1 (April, 1996)
- ↑ Spawn Vol 1 #153 (January, 2006)
- ↑ Spawn Vol 1 #164 (January, 2007)
- ↑ Spawn Vol 1 #183 (September, 2008)
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