| “ | I AM THE ONE ABOVE ALL. |
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| “ | I AM THE ONE BELOW ALL. |
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Summary
| “ | With these hands I build. |
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The One Above All is the ostensible Supreme Being of Marvel Comics, being the creator of the whole multiverse and the realms outside of it, responsible for setting in place both existence and the clockwork machinery that keeps it afloat. As the entity's name suggests, it resides above and beyond all that exists. As such, its direct appearances in the stories are few and far between. It was first introduced briefly by Uatu The Watcher as a truly all-powerful being "whose only weapon is Love," and later on, was scantly referred to as the mysterious master of The Living Tribunal, from whom the latter derives authority. Its first appearance would only come much later when the Fantastic Four entered the plane of Heaven and encountered "God," who appeared as comics writer Jack Kirby and helped the team by bringing Ben Grimm back to life.
However, just as every light casts a shadow, and every mirror holds a reflection, so, too, does The One Above All have its own shadow: The One Below All is the primal shadow of creation, the other face of God His creations can't bear to look upon. While The One Above All is the highest personification of goodness and compassion, The One Below All is an infinite abyss of hatred and malice, holding nothing but disgust for all of creation and wishing to destroy all life in it so it may be alone in the dark emptiness that remains. Unlike its light counterpart, The One Below All is merely a counterweight used to balance the expanding nature of existence; it remains barred from directly interacting with the lesser worlds, needing hosts and vessels to exact its will upon them.
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 1-A
Name: The One Above All, "Excelso Prae Omnibus Allis", God, The Almighty, The Divine Creator, The Great Love, Tetragrammaton, The Cosmic Mind, The Supreme Will, The Fulcrum, The One Below All, Satan, The Breaker of Worlds, The Devil, The Breaker-Apart, The Counterweight, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and numerous other names and aliases.
Origin: Marvel Comics
Gender: Inapplicable (Perceived as both male and female, as it is, in fact, all things)
Age: Inapplicable
Classification: Supreme God / Devil, Fundamental Creative / Destructive Force, Author(s) of Marvel Comics, Gestalt Entity
Powers and Abilities: Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2), Abstract Existence (Type 1), Acausality (Type 5; Transcends the White-Hot Room, the source of the "fire of becoming"[1] that enables the turning of all things[2]), Creation, Space-Time Manipulation, Plot Manipulation (The One Above All is the author of Marvel Comics itself,[3][4][5] with their House of Ideas being where infinite stories are born[6]), Reality Warping (Created the very concept of "reality"[7] in the form of Eternity. Through the House of Ideas, Nyx could remake the whole of creation in her image,[6] and Gorgon was planning to use the tip of their pencil to rewrite all of existence[4]), Immortality (Type 5), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; Every being, action, particle and concept exists in a perfect equilibrium that serves The One Above All.[8] Commands the archetypal realms that stand in-between the House of Ideas and the omniverse, which are stated to be the primal concepts that precede and ultimately become become reality[9][10]), Fire Manipulation (The fire of the Phoenix Force is stated to be power that ultimately belongs to The One Above All,[11] being the manifestation of their creative energies and the light that births all stories), Possession and Corruption (The One Below All can take lesser beings as its host-personalities, whereupon it starts wearing their souls "like masks on a stage,"[12] simultaneously independent of and at one with it[13]), Radiation Manipulation (All gamma radiation, in its most primal and abstract form that is neither particle nor wave, is an emanation of The One Below All[13]), Existence Erasure (Can erase things from the comic using the eraser on the back of his pencils.[3] The Phoenix Force's "omni-fire" threatened to erase Loki from the Tree of Life entirely[1]), Resurrection, 4th Wall Awareness, Nonexistent Physiology (Nature 2; Aspect 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; Stands in the highest level of the World of Action, several levels of unmanifestation prior to, and above, the whole concept of existence.[14] The realm of The One Above All is "everything and nothing" simultaneously.[4] The One Below All is the absence that remains behind in the total lack of God's divinity,[15] being an empty, dead husk as opposed to The One Above All's creatively-aligned nature), Nigh-Omniscience, Information Manipulation, Large Size (Type 11), Multiple Selves (Type 1; The One Above All is a gestalt entity comprising all of the authors, editors, artists and readers of Marvel Comics,[5] with those being individual entities capable of acting and creating independently from each other[16] and simultaneously facets of a single overarching being), Shapeshifting, Transformation (Can shift between their two personas at will[17]), Teleportation, Void Manipulation (Holds full control over the House of Ideas, as well as the several non-existent realms above Eternity, with the very void of nothingness that precedes all of creation being the unconscious, dreamless mind of the Creator[18]), Fusionism, Perception Manipulation, Omnipresence, Death Manipulation, Law Manipulation (Doctor Strange states that The One Above All is the order that fashioned not only the material aspect of existence, but also the laws that govern it.[19] Created the system of weight and counterweight represented by the Sefirot and their corresponding Qlippoth[17]), Healing (Healed Spider-Man's hand), Soul Manipulation, Transduality (Type 3; As The One Above All, it is the pure unity of the divine, where all contending forces exist as one undivided wholeness, even with respect to the lesser planes of the Mystery[15])
Attack Potency: High Outerverse level (Dwells at, and as, the apex of the Sefirot of the World of Action, transcending Eternity, The Beyond, The White-Hot Room and The Abyss, and being the governor of The House of Ideas that acts as the crown of all creation[20] and the source of all that is, was and may yet be, holding everything as an idea or a dream in their mind.[21][18][22] Simultaneously, as The One Below All, it is also the lowest point of all,[15] the infinite abyss that lies underneath creation[23] as its bedrock,[24] encompassing the Qlippoth that serve as the dark reflections of each Sefirot in the Mystery)
Speed: Omnipresent (Partakes in a state of pure unity, with no dichotomy or separation, with everything in existence being a reflection of them,[25] and the lower Sefirot being aspects and extensions of their existence.[26] The Below Place is stated to be everywhere at once, simultaneously an infinite distance away from creation and all around it, being "where everyone has always been,"[27][28] and The One Below All itself is described as a face of creation as a whole, "the one we can't bear to see"[29]), Immeasurable when manifesting a form (Sees all of creation and beyond from a perspective in which it appears as a comicbook, and is able to act on and interact with events from multiple points in the narrative simultaneously[20])
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable (Can pick up his pencil[4])
Striking Strength: High Outerverse level
Durability: High Outerverse level
Stamina: Infinite
Range: High Outerversal
Standard Equipment: The House of Ideas, Pencil, Ink, and Paper
Intelligence: Nigh-Omniscient as the One Above All (As the author and creator of all Marvel Comics, the One Above All has absolute knowledge and awareness of all details regarding it, being the source of all that is, all that was and all that may be, presiding over all possibilities and impossibilities, though there are still some things that elude his grasp, such as the nature of the realms higher than their own), Mindless as the One Below All (The One Below All is little more than a force of raw destruction and "a skin, repeating old lines,"[15] having only chaotic desires, but no true intelligence, and requiring a host-personality to serve as its ego, though it can seemingly manifest "masks" to interact with lesser beings for brief periods[30])
Weaknesses: None notable
Gallery
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Defenders: Beyond #3
- ↑ Defenders: Beyond #2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #511
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Secret Agent Deadpool #6
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Interview with Al Ewing
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Avengers: No Road Home #10
- ↑ Ultimates² Back Cover
- ↑ Eternals Vol. 4 #2
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Kushala #4
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Kushala #6
- ↑ Chaos War: X-Men #2
- ↑ Immortal Hulk #5
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Immortal Hulk #20
- ↑ Ultimates #11
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Immortal Hulk #11
- ↑ Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History #1
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Immortal Hulk #50
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Strange Tales Vol. 4 #2
- ↑ Secret Wars #4 (2015)
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Defenders: Beyond #5
- ↑ Defenders Vol. 6 #4
- ↑ Mighty Thor Annual #2
- ↑ Immortal Hulk #25
- ↑ Immortal She-Hulk
- ↑ Chaos War: Thor #2
- ↑ Immortal Hulk #12
- ↑ Immortal Hulk #10
- ↑ Immortal Hulk #24
- ↑ Immortal Hulk #6
- ↑ Immortal Hulk #9
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