| “ | We are Beyond. Dreamers. Destroyers. All of reality our whim. Who dares stand against us? | „ |
Summary
The Beyonders are a race of omnipotent beings hailing from outside of the Marvel Multiverse entirely, of whose structure they have served as monitors and engineers since time immemorial. Unseen and seemingly unknowable, the Beyonders have for the longest time remained subtle in their dealings with creatures from the inside of the omniverse, their most prominent and well-known deed being the gifting of minute amounts of energy from their universe, incubated within vessels and "womb-spaces" designed as homes for their child-units, the Cosmic Cubes, to have them eventually mature into fully-fledged Beyonders. In the process, they also gave birth to The Beyonder, the most well-known member of their race, whose role in the original Secret Wars had lasting repercussions for Prime Earth.
Eventually, in a failed attempt to stop the coming absolutely corrupt Dominion over all of existence,[1] the Beyonders saw fit to destroy the multiverse, using the Molecule Man as a demolition tool to end all realities in a grand science experiment that, in time, led all universes to collide against each other in the phenomenon known as the Incursions. Although their scheme was so intricate that none could truly thwart it, Doctor Doom ultimately managed to destroy some of the Beyonders and in doing so, let the Molecule Man absorb their powers and then channel a part of them to himself, salvaging what little he could of existence into the pocket reality known as Battleworld, which set up the groundwork for the Seventh Cosmos to be reborn as the Eighth.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 1-A, Varies in physical forms
Name: The Beyonders, The Ivory Kings, The Lords of the White Light, The Omega Angels, The Reality Engineers, The White Lords of Wild Space, The Omega Council, "God"
Origin: Marvel Comics
Gender: Inapplicable
Age: Inapplicable (The Beyonders long predate the Eighth Cosmos, having come to be in the second iteration of the multiverse, prior to several instances of the "time-before-time." Ultimately exist beyond the concept of time altogether)
Classification: Celestial Servitors, Infinite Lifeforms, Engineers of the Multiverse, Omni-Beings
Powers and Abilities: Abstract Existence (Type 1; Exist as "embodiments" of the Beyond,[2] and lie on a level more primal than the Superflow, a conceptual realm of pure information,[3] "where metaphor and reality meet, signifier and signified become one,"[4] with the planes of the Mystery being stated to be the primal concepts that precede and ultimately become the omniverse[5][6]), Avatar Creation & Possession (Capable of acting through manifestations of themselves,[7] 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[8]), Reality Warping (Their realm is stated to be "the Engine Room of creation," from which they modify the multiverse as a whole.[9] They were created for the purpose of maintaining the Second Cosmos and imposing order and structure upon it, having warped the pool of formless chaos that it was into a stable, earth-like landscape[10]), Information Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (After absorbing their power, Molecule Man remarked that he could now alter the base information of reality, as well as the narrative of existence itself[11]), Transduality (Type 3; As they are beyond the omniverse, they transcend the In-Betweener, an inner function of Eternity that personifies the barrier and division between dichotomies,[12][13] being "a concept of concepts"[14] and "walking the path between all worlds, all concepts,"[15] simultaneously the union of all polarities and something that stands exempt from them), Teleportation (Plucked Silver Surfer out of the omniverse and into the Beyond[16]), Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 2, All Aspects; As residents of the Outside, the Beyonders are completely above even the concept of existence[17] and of reality[10] as a whole,[18] with their realm being described as an "incomprehensibly featureless level"[19] and existing in an even more primordial state than the "pure, perfect nothing" of the Far Shore), Acausality (Type 4; Transcend the very temporal/historical/"true"-event structure of the universe,[2] though they are still constrained by their own personal timeline[20]), Precognition & Clairvoyance (Though they are linear beings, incapable of truly knowing what will be for existence at large, they can still predict the future of the omniverse,[9] 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,[21] observing the set of all futures, but having no inherent knowledge of which future will come to be), Power Bestowal (Created the Molecule Man by infusing minute amounts of energy from their realm into the multiverse, with the event taking place simultaneously across all realities[20]), Existence Erasure (Praester Omega erased Nul with a touch,[22] in spite of the latter's nature as a spirit of nothingness[23]), Matter Manipulation (Can create "fleshsuits" of matter with which to clothe themselves in order to replicate finite form.[9] A Beyonder manifested a gigantic hand out of starstuff in order to move the Counter-Earth into their museum of worlds[24]) as well as Shapeshifting & Adaptation (While in physical vessels, they are malleable and capable of freely changing their shapes,[7] with Hank Pym describing them as "universally adaptative" creatures[25]), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), Self-Power Modification, Energy Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation (Capable of making their presence known through tears in reality leading to their realm), Time Manipulation, Flight, Dimensional Travel, Immortality (Type 5; As they are beyond the omniverse, they abide in a state of featureless nonexistence in which there is no life or death,[26] and as such nothing dies[27]), Large Size (Type 11), Causality Manipulation (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.[28]). 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[9], as well as all the powers of God Emperor Doom's usage of their abilities, such as Mastery of Magic on the level of a Sorcerer Supreme (All mainstream magic is a reflection of either the Beyonders or their dark opposite, the King(s) in Black), Resistance to Magic on the level of a Sorcerer Supreme
Attack Potency: Outerverse level (The Beyonders completely transcend the omniverse, being the lords and main residents of Yesod, the first of the higher planes that Eternity describes as lying outside and above his being,[29] in the Mystery beyond the Far Shore,[30][31] with Eternity himself "dwindling into insignificance."[19] from their viewpoint. Stand outside and beyond the continuity of the Marvel Universe itself, considering story and narrative to be "finite" and constraining in comparison to their infinite selves[9]), Varies in physical forms (While in physical vessels, they can freely decide how powerful they are,[8] with a single Beyonder having easily overpowered both Thor and Hyperion and killed Starbrand,[7] while still remaining roughly comparable to them, and a trio of Beyonders earlier on having slaughtered all the Celestials across all realities with some time and effort, before killing all of the Abstracts and then The Living Tribunal[25])
Speed: Immeasurable (Inhabit the Outside, which is wholly above time and space, transcending the very meaning of such concepts,[32][33] as well as beyond Limbo,[34] which itself exists "beyond all concepts of time and space"[35]), Varies in physical forms
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable, Varies in physical forms
Striking Strength: Outerverse level, Varies in physical forms
Durability: Outerverse level, Varies in physical forms
Stamina: Infinite
Range: Outerversal
- Concordance Engines: Celestial machines created by the Beyonders for the purpose of doing maintenance on the omniverse from their sanctum outside of reality. They draw power from the higher realms that lie beyond the Beyond, more specifically from The White Hot Room, thus harnessing the primordial creative fires from which all things are forged. Although the main engine through which the Beyonders do their work is located in Yesod, out of all reality, each universe has smaller versions of it within itself, which act as its heart and soul.
Intelligence: Nigh-Omnsicient (The Beyonders hold an immense amount of understanding regarding the nature of the omniverse and reality as a whole, having acted as researchers and maintainers of Eternity since the time of the Second Cosmos and as such accumulated vast quantities of data throughout the various iterations of creation. Their awareness also extends all across the multiverse, as Doctor Doom needed to base his operations on a version of the same external space from which the Beyonders themselves observe reality in order to escape their sight[20])
Weaknesses: Due to their lofty nature, the Beyonders are used to perceiving reality from an infinite perspective, and being forced to see the world from within finite boundaries drives them to insanity. Furthermore, though they are beyond the concept of time, they still operate within their own sequential "timeline,"[20] and are powerless against those who manage to travel through it.
Notable Matchups
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References
- ↑ Defenders: Beyond, Vol.1, #2 (August 2022)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #6
- ↑ Ultimates², #9
- ↑ Ultimates² #2
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Kushala #4
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Kushala #6
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 New Avengers Vol. 3 #32
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #7
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Defenders: Beyond #02
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ultimates², #6
- ↑ Ultimates #7
- ↑ Doctor Strange Vol. 2 #26
- ↑ Secret Wars II #06
- ↑ Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #17
- ↑ Doctor Strange Vol. 2 #27
- ↑ Defenders Vol. 4 #10
- ↑ Ultimates #11
- ↑ Ultimates² Back Cover
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Fantastic Four Annual #23
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 New Avengers Vol. 3 #33
- ↑ Venom Vol. 5 #18
- ↑ Defenders Vol. 4 #3
- ↑ Defenders Vol. 4 #12
- ↑ Avengers Annual #17
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 New Avengers Vol. 3 #30
- ↑ Ultimates #5
- ↑ Ultimates² #100
- ↑ Defenders Vol. 4 #11
- ↑ Defenders: Beyond #1
- ↑ Avengers Vol. 1 #679
- ↑ Valkyrie: Jane Foster #3
- ↑ Dark Guard #1
- ↑ Dark Guard #2
- ↑ Al Ewing Interview
- ↑ Avengers Vol. 1 #269
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