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Michael Korvac (Earth-691)

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Real Name
Current Alias

Aliases
The Enemy, Kang, Watcher

Identity

Alignment

Affiliation

Relatives
Carina (wife, deceased), Collector (father-in-law), Jaboa Murphy (ancestor)

Universe

Characteristics
Gender

Height
12' " (Variable)

Weight
Variable

Eyes

Hair
Blond, (Variable)

Unusual Features
normally has no lower torso, replaced by a sophisticated flying computer.

Status
Marital Status

Occupation
God, former slave

Creators

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History

Michael Korvac was a computer technician born on the Blue Area of the Moon of an alternate Earth in the year 2997. Due to events surrounding his birth, Michael's father was killed and he was raised by his mother to have a hateful and vengeful attitude. When the Sol System and its colonies were conquered by the alien Brotherhood of Badoon, Korvac became a collaborator and traitor to the human race. Caught asleep at a machine while working, the Badoon grafted Korvac's upper body to a machine, effectively making him a cyborg.

Korvac is then transported through time by the game-playing Grandmaster, who utilizes him as a pawn in battling the hero Doctor Strange and the Defenders. [1] Korvac deliberately loses the fight, so as to be able to discretely scan and analyze the Grandmaster's cosmic power. [2] Gaining several new abilities from this analysis, Korvac then kills his Badoon masters and plans to conquer the cosmos. Korvac recruits a group of aliens called the Minions of Menace and attempts to cause Earth's sun to go nova, but is defeated by the Guardians of the Galaxy and the time-traveling Thunder God Thor. [3] Soon after this defeat Korvac flees across time and space to the Earth-616 mainstream Marvel universe. Upon arrival, Korvac discovers the space station of the cosmic entity Galactus. Attempting to download the knowledge of Galactus from the station into his own system, Korvac is imbued with the Power Cosmic and becomes a god-like being. Korvac then recreates himself as a perfect humanoid form, and posing as a human called Michael, travels to Earth with the intent of reshaping it into a utopia. [4]

Korvac is pursued by the team the Guardians of the Galaxy, who join forces with the superhero team the Avengers in a bid to stop Korvac. Guardian member Starhawk finds Korvac and battles him in secret. Korvac, however, disintegrates Starhawk and then recreates him, but removes from the hero the ability to perceive Korvac in any way so as to avoid future detection. [5] The Elder of the Universe known as the Collector foresees the coming of two beings that would be capable of challenging the Elders (Korvac and Titan Thanos), and remakes his own daughter Carina into a being of incredible power to use as a weapon against them. Although Carina does meet Korvac, the two fall in love and she begins to sympathize with him. The Collector himself is defeated by the Avengers after a failed bid to "collect" and protect them from Korvac, who upon discovering the Collector's plot disintegrates the Elder. [6]

The hero Iron Man eventually tracks Korvac to a residential neighborhood in Forest Hills Gardens, in Queens, New York. The entire Avengers roster, with the heroine Ms. Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy confront Korvac and Carina, who pose as a middle class couple. Korvac's deception is revealed when Starhawk states he cannot see the man called "Michael". Realizing that he has been discovered, and that cosmic entities such as Odin and the Watcher are now aware of his existence, Korvac is forced into battle.

Korvac slays wave after wave of heroes, and is finally caught off guard and weakened by Captain America and then Wonder Man. Although able to kill the heroes, Korvac is weakened further by the combined efforts of Starhawk, Iron Man, the Vision and Thor. Sensing that Carina now doubts him, Korvac commits suicide through an act of will. An angered Carina then attacks the surviving heroes, and is finally slain by Thor. The entire battle is watched by part-time Avenger Moondragon, who realizes that Korvac only wanted to help mankind, with his dying act being to restore the Avengers and Guardians to life. [7]

Years later it is revealed that Korvac discarded his power when near death after sensing that Galactus had activated the weapon the Ultimate Nullifier in retaliation for his previous intrusion. Korvac's power eventually inhabits his father, Jordan, who is then killed in battle with the Guardians. This is the catalyst that drives Korvac as an adult to hate the Guardians. [8]

Korvac is later briefly resurrected in human form by the Grandmaster to battle the Silver Surfer.[9] Another Cube appears in the 31st century: wielded once again by the Red Skull. The villain and Captain America use the Cube against the cosmic entity Korvac, with Korvac being scattered across six dimensions.[10]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Korvac was born in the year 2977. Orginally 1/2 man, 1/2 sophisticated computer. Even before any form of energy absorption, Korvac was able to nearly overwhelm the Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange in direct combat by analyzing the various mystical energies he commanded before he released them and producing a perfect defense based on his computer's analysis. He has at times absorbed the energy of Galactus which gave him "god" like powers. He has been a frequent time traveller.

After downloading information from Galactus' ship and acquiring the Power Cosmic, Korvac was capable of many feats on par with other cosmic entities, such as matter alteration; energy projection; teleportation and manipulation of time and space. In his perfect human form, Korvac retained all his cosmic abilities and could use these to achieve virtually any effect, even having the potential to wipe the universe from existence.

Michael Korvac was a brilliant computer scientist, a master combat strategist, and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant.

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  1. ↑ Giant-Size Defenders #3 (1975)
  2. ↑ Seen in flashback in Thor Annual #6 (1977)
  3. ↑ Thor Annual #6 (1977)
  4. ↑ Seen in flashback in Avengers #175 (Sep. 1978)
  5. ↑ Avengers #168 (Feb. 1978)
  6. ↑ Avengers #168 - 175 (Feb. - Sep. 1978)
  7. ↑ Avengers #176 - 177 (Oct. - Nov. 1978)
  8. ↑ Fantastic Four Annual #24; Thor Annual #16; Silver Surfer Annual #4 and Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1 (all 1991).
  9. ↑ Avengers Annual #16 (1987)
  10. ↑ Captain America vol. 3, #18 (Jun. 1998)
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