ALIOTH ALIOTH
Real Name: Alioth
Identity/Class: Extra-temporal entity
Occupation: Master of timespan prior to that ruled by Kang, would-be master of all time
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Kang the Conqueror (manipulated Alioth)
Enemies: Congress of Realities, Council of Cross-Time Kangs, the Delubric Consortium, Kang, Revelation, Tempus, Terminatrix, and the Time Variance Authority
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Alioth the Usurper
Base of Operations: Limbo, on the outskirts of the empires of Kang, the Congress of Realities
First Appearance: Avengers: Terminatrix Objective#1 (September, 1993)
Powers/Abilities: Alioth possesses immense power. It is a primordial force, capable of causing massive temporal disturbance and devastation across an entire dimension. It is powerful enough to shatter the defenses of the city of Chronopolis. It exists in the form of an enormous cloud which destroys all it touches. It travels slowly and can extend pseudopodia to attack specific beings or locations. It grows in size and power by absorbing into its mass the bodies of time travelers.
Alioth is a trans-temporal entity, existing across many divergent realities. Once it occupies a time event, it spreads out to engulf the adjacent possibilities as well. It will initially fill the portion of Limbo above that time period, but will then engulf the time period itself. Alioth also negates temporal energy, so that it is impossible to travel through it to a time before it exists. Any attempt to travel through it will usually result in the absorption of the traveler.
History: (Avengers: Terminatrix Objective#1, 3-4) - Next to nothing is known about Alioth. It claims to be the supreme time being of the time-span prior to Kang's (approximately 2000bc-6000ad), stretching back to the dawn of life on Earth. It claims to be the first being to free itself from the timestream, presumably meaning to travel into Limbo, or to another time period.
Kang has claimed
that it has only been though his efforts that Alioth has not
taken over all time periods. Kang somehow managed to form a
barrier to prevent Alioth from entering his portion of Limbo.
Kang was rendered comatose in a battle with the Avengers and
Fantastic Four (I believe this was the Citizen Kang saga). With
Kang's defeat, his lover, Ravonna, aka the Terminatrix, used an
image inducer to assume his form and took over his rule of
Chronopolis. She began to explore the realm of Limbo and upon
encountering a barrier, she blasted a hole in it to learn what
was on the other side. This allowed Alioth to escape. She fled
before its power, but Alioth soon traveled to and attacked the
city of Chronopolis.
The Terminatrix, acting on assistance from her alternate future self, Revelation, revived Kang and informed him of Alioth's attack. Alioth invaded the Chamber of the Council of Cross-Time Kangs, slaying all present. Kang attempted to stop him, but was forced to flee to avoid his own absorption. Kang, along with the Terminatrix and Revelation, convinced the Avengers of Alioth's threat to their reality, gave them a Chrono Key, and sent them to battle Alioth. None of the Avengers power presented any threat to Alioth, so Thor activated the Chrono Key, which then assumed its true form, that of Tempus.
Tempus, initially the size of a hand-held figurine, absorbed the energy of the dead Council members and rapidly grew to enormous proportions. Having prevented Alioth from absorbing their energy, Tempus then attacked Alioth directly. Tempus continued to grow, feeding off of Alioth's own temporal energies until it reached reality wide proportions, creating the time barrier between Alioth's realm and Kang's. This barrier spread across the timestream, and is the same barrier originally encountered by the Terminatrix.
(Avengers Forever#9 (fb)) - "Later" after his return from his second stint as Rama-Tut, Kang decided to take action against the other chronal rulers. He manipulated events to set the various organizations against each other. As part of this, Kang weakned Tempus slightly, allowing Alioth to break through into the realm of the Time Variance Authority, throwing them into turmoil.
Comments: Created by Mark Gruenwald and Mike Gustovich.
Kang later claimed (during Avengers Forever#9), to have deliberately engineered Terminatrix's release of Alioth in order to rid himself of the Council of Cross-Time Kangs.
Omar Karindu notes: "This character takes its name from a star in the tail of the constellation Ursa Major. It derives from an Arabic word meaning "fat tail of a sheep," which has got to be huimiliating whenver Kang brings it up."
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Avengers: Terminatrix Objective#3, p22 (Alioth main image)
#1, p3 (Alioth and Terminatrix)
Appearances:
Avengers: Terminatrix Objective#1 (September, 1993) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Mike Gustovich (pencils), Don Hudson, Bud LaRosa (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Avengers: Terminatrix Objective#3-4 (November-December, 1993) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Mike Gustovich (pencils), Don Hudson, Bud LaRosa & Dell Barras (#4) (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Avenger Forever#9 (August, 1999) - Kurt Busiek & Roger Stern (writer), Carlos Pacheco (pencils), Jesus Merino (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Last updated: 08/31/06
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