Amatsu-Mikaboshi (Earth-616)

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Contents 1 History 1.1 Ares: God of War 1.2 Secret Invasion 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 2.2 Abilities 3 Links 3.1 Discover and Discuss

History

Billions of years ago, the Shinto gods Izanagi and Izanami ventured into a formless world that was dominated by a dark, primordial void where the ancient force of nature known as Amatsu-Mikaboshi existed and reigned alone. The divine couple began to populate the world with living creatures as well as lesser Amatsu-Kami who later came to be worshipped as gods by the inhabitants of Japan, which enraged Mikaboshi. His attempts to topple the fledgling Amatsu-Kami pantheon were foiled, and Mikaboshi was force to descend to the netherworld of Yomi, where he remained for centuries.

The Warriors Three were put on trial for accidentally killing a giant who had shape-shifted into an aquatic beast. AQs punishment they were sentenced to retrieve several difficult items from various pantheons and return them to the father of the dead giant. This included the sword Grasscutter from the Japanese land of the dead guarded by Mikaboshi.

Ares: God of War

Taking advantage of the chaos left by the fall of Asgard and the Norse pantheon, Mikaboshi planned to extend his influence by capturing Olympus and crushing the Olympian gods. With the Olympians defeated, Mikaboshi hoped to con all the other pantheons into surrendering. To this end, Mikaboshi laid siege to Olympus, which was very close to succeeding. Ares, still bitter about the treatment he received from the other Olympians, refused to raise a finger to help them. Desperate for his aid and wishing to goad Ares into action, Zeus had Alexander kidnapped and brought to Olympus where he was placed under the care of Achilles and his Myrmidons.

With Mikaboshi in utter control of the battle, Hermes went to Earth to fetch an enraged Ares in an attempt to get him to speak with Zeus, but Ares' only concern was his son. Relenting, Hermes transported them both to Achilles' stronghold where they keped Alexander, only to find the fortress destroyed and Alexander missing.

While Achilles was away, Mikaboshi's forces managed to destroy the Myrmidon fortress and steal Alexander away to his own stronghold in the eastern lands. Mikaboshi slowly began to warp Alexander's mind in an attempt to turn him against his father by revealing the brutal history and patricides committed by the Greek gods. Mikaboshi hoped to turn Alex into the new god of war, one that could be used against the Greek gods and, more importantly, Ares himself.

Finding out his son is in the hands of Olympus' enemies, a furious Ares begrudgingly agreed to join in the fighting, but only to rescue his son. 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 Fransico to assemble a team of gods from Earth. Mikaboshi was chosin 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'Gurt. In route to Srull space through the dream realm they battled Nightmare, Mikaboshi was key in winning the battle due to being able to make dupes of himself.

Upon arriving in Skrull space the God Squad had to battle their way through conquered pantheons of gods on the way to Kly'Bn and Sl'Gurt’s thrones. Mikaboshi attacked Sl'Gurt after she destroyed Atum, both took shape of the same creatures during battle, eventually both took the form of each other. Mikaboshi killed Sl'Gurt being left by Hercules, Snowbird, and Cho who thought Mikaboshi was killed left leaving Mikaboshi to take command of the conquered pantheons. Mikaboshi is said by Fred 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." ^[1]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

superhuman strength, resistance to injury, demonic mystical powers, shapeshifting, bone manipulation

Abilities

Mikaboshi possessed the conventional abilties of one of the Kami, the order of Japanese deities, such as superhuman strength, speed, durability, recuperative abilities and longevity, able to lift (press) at least thirty tons under optimal conditions, as well as high ability to wield some form of potent Japanese dark magic. Like the Asgardians, the Japanese gods are extremely long-lived but not immortal like the Olympians; they tend to age at an extremely slow rate upon reaching adulthood; they are three times denser than normal human beings. Mikaboshi possesses vast supernatural power, which is apparently inherent within him. He can use this magical energy for a variety of effects, among which are his ability to alter his form and shape; he also often taken on a female form to appear harmless. He is otherwise almost always represented as a being of black, shadowy energy with a mask for a face. He can reshape his limbs into razor-sharp blades, and assume the form of a fire-breathing serpent. He also often employs 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, such as creating "shadow copies" capable of avoiding detection by high-level dark magical entities such as Nightmare. His power is of such extent that he can control numerous minor demons and manipulate animate the corpses of the deceased en masse at will; even the Kami themselves appeared wary and fearful of Mikaboshi, considered their primal foe among themselves. Mikaboshi was able to slay even formidable alien deities having destroyed the Demogorge (an entity who devored the Elder Gods themselves) with relatively little effort.

As a demonic entity, Mikaboshi also has several powers enabling him to capture and detain the astral bodies (sheaths of the soul) of recently deceased human beings. Mikaboshi does not have jurisdiction over all of humanity's deceased. 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.

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