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Real Name: Tryx
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (mutant sub-race of the Rigellians)
Occupation: Unrevealed;
at least formerly an adventurer;
formerly maintenance work
Group Membership: Rigellian mutant race (Bolaa, Jukka, Gerr)
Affiliations: Avalon and the Caretakers of the Rhunians, Balder Odinson, Silas Grant, Kragonn, Tana Nile, Sif, Thor Odinson
Enemies: Dracus, mainstream Rigellians;
formerly Avalon, Balder Odinson, Silas Grant, Rhunians, Tana Nile, Sif, Thor Odinson
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
last seen in the vicinity of the planet Rhun and its four other "Black
Stars" when they were in the Milky Way Galaxy;
formerly Rigel-3 (aka the Command Planet at the Constellation Rigel)
First Appearance: Thor I#218 (December, 1973)
Powers/Abilities: Like other Rigellian mutants, Tryx is tall, with a disproportionately large head.
He appear to have superhuman and strength and durability of an unspecified degree, perhaps lifting 1-30 tons (strong enough to hold his own against Sif, who can lift around 30 tons).
Tryx wields a large battleaxe-type weapon, which was durable enough to be used against Sif and her enchanted sword.
A strike from Thor's mystic hammer, Mjolnir, knocked Tryx and his allies off their feet, but did not incapacitate them. However, Thor was likely not striking at full force due to unfamiliarity with his opponents' durability.
Like his allies, Tryx was willing to fight for his and his allies lives, but he was apparently otherwise a peaceful being.
Although resenting being treated as outcasts, the Jukka and the other Rigellian mutants apparently accepted their fate.
Jukka and his allies were willing to risk their lives to help those allied with them and/or those whose fates they sympathized with, such as other outcasts.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 7'2" to 7'4" (he looked to be perhaps 12 or more inches taller than the 6'2" Sif)History:
(Thor
I#218 - BTS) - A mutant class of Rigellians were created in their
gene vats, the survivors of a doomed experiment of which nothing else
has been revealed.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe II (Deluxe Edition)#11: Rigellians) - The mutant class were used as workers of unspecified tasks, perhaps maintenance of sewers or other underground repairs out the sight of the mainstream Rigellians.
(Thor I#220 (fb) - BTS) - As outcasts, the Rigellian mutants learned the art of subterfuge.
(Thor I#218 - BTS) - Apparently without females to carry on their species, Tryx, Bolaa, Gerr, and Jukka considered themselves to be the last of their kind.
(Thor I#218 / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe II (Deluxe Edition)#11: Rigellians (see comments) - As the world-destroying Black Stars (led by the Rhunians) approached Rigel-3, the nine billion Rigellians still living on Rigel-3 escaped aboard a fleet of gigantic starships via the plan of the Grand Commissioner.
(Thor I#218 (fb) - BTS) - Jukka saw the Rigellian fleet's navigation charts.
(Thor I#218 - BTS) - The Rigellian mutants were left behind to die.
(Thor I#218 - BTS) - Following an instruction of Odin to investigate a threat to Rigel that would next threaten the worlds of men, the Asgardian Starjammer -- carrying the Asgardians Balder, Sif and Thor, the Rigellian Tana Nile, and Blackworld native Silas Grant -- arrived on Rigel-3.
(Thor
I#218) - When
Rigel initially seemed vacant, Thor commented Odin's prophecy was coming to pass and they they were facing the end of history. As Bolaa, Gerr,
Jukka, and Tryx -- sick with fear and afraid to meet death -- leapt to
assaulted the new arrivals, Tryx corrected Thor, "Not so, intruder! It is not history that falls upon you -- but your deaths!"
As Tryx engaged Sif, he replied to
Silas Grant's comment that their attackers were all around them,
confirming this to be true and advising him to "surrender now, before
the axe of Tryx makes short work of you -- after I defeat this eager
female." Fighting back, Sif corrected him, "If thou can, mutant..."
When the Rigellian mutants continued to fight despite his ordering an end to the conflict, Thor hurled his enchanted hammer, Mjolnir, to strike and knock down at least Tryx, Jukka, and Gerr.
Noting "blondhair" to be a worthy opponent as he struggled to his feet, Tryx contended that they might defeat him with their alien strength, but Jukka interrupted, noting that this was a battle he would rather avoid, to their mutual benefit. Acceding to Thor's demand, Jukka explained the origins and fate of the mutant race.Tryx and the other mutants then gratefully accepted Thor's offer to seek the Colonizers and perhaps learn the meaning of the Black Stars.
(Thor I#218 (fb) - BTS) - Before departing, Tryx and the other mutants gathered spacesuits.
(Thor I#218 - BTS) - After the Starjammer's departure, the Black Stars arrived and destroyed Rigel-3, shattering it with multi-blasts of cosmic energy.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe II (Deluxe Edition)#11: Rigellians) - Virtually all of the mutant worker race were left behind and destroyed along with Rigel-3.
(Thor I#218) - Guided by Jukka's knowledge of Rigellian navigation charts he had glimpsed, the Starjammer caught up to the Rigellian fleet.
When the Colonizer ship nearest them fired on the strange craft approaching (as the Grand Commissioner had ordered that none may impede their journey), Thor flew to the attack, and Tryx and the other Rigellian mutants donned their spacesuits to join him in battle.
(Thor I#218 - BTS) - Soon after Thor's allies joined the battle, the Grand Commissioner ordered an end to hostilities and invited the Asgardians, Tana Nile, and Silas Grant aboard; however, they insisted that the mutants remain aboard the docked Starjammer.
(Thor I#218 - BTS / Thor: Official Index to the Marvel Universe) - Upon arriving aboard the Rigellian flagship, Thor noted his dislike in forcing his newfound friends to remain behind, and he questioned why they could not join them as free beings among the civil.
The Grand Commissioner explained that the mutants could not come aboard because if his people learned of their presence aboard the woefully-overcrowded flagship, they would rebel. Acknowledging that it was a barbaric custom, the Grand Commissioner noted that these were barbaric times and that the danger of a potential riot was inconceivable.
(Thor I#219) - At least three of the Rigellian mutants (and presumably all four of them) were aboard the Starjammer when Thor and the others returned and noted their goal of confronting the masters of the Black Stars.
As the Starjammer
approached the Black Stars, a massive space scoop carrying the
Rhunians' reluctant giant Knight/Caretaker Avalon was sent towards
them. As Avalon reached for and inadvertently ripped open the bottom of
the wooden ship, his arrival was mistaken for an attack, and the
Asgardians and the Rigellians mutants assaulted him. 
Unharmed by their assaults, the giant Avalon cast off his assailants and then welcomed them as friends and offered to show them the nature of the Black Stars. Although Jukka mistrusted Avalon as seeming "too reasonable" given the circumstances, Thor countered that reason was welcome in the current madness. Avalon then led the group to meet the other Caretakers, who revealed themselves to be artificial servants created by their masters.
Considering that these Caretakers had been cheated of natural life just as they had been cheated by the Colonizers, the Rigellian mutants (notably Jukka and Bolaa) voiced their desire to help fellow outcasts.
(Thor I#219 - BTS) - Thor and Avalon traveled down one of the scoops coming from the world Rhun, and they learned that the Masters of the Black Stars were revealed to be the immense, 2000' tall beings.
(Thor I#220) - Thor attempted to face the Rhunians directly, which seemed doomed to failure.
The Rigellian mutants, however, sneaked out on the space scoop and spied on the immense Rhunians Kragonn and Dracus, although the volume of the giants' raised voices pained them.
Nonetheless, they learned that the giants believed the Black Stars to be the only inhabited planets in the universe and thus reasoned that the minute beings they had encountered must be from one of the other four "Black Star" worlds to whom the Rhunians sent power from worlds they destroyed, although they had not contacted those other worlds in 20,000 years.
(Thor I#220 (fb) - BTS) - Tryx, Jukka, and Bolaa climbed onto Dracus' body and climbed toward his neck, while Gerr accessed Dracus' equipment.
(Thor I#220) - Later, as Dracus spotted the relatively small spot on the ground where the alien "invaders" fought the Rhunians' Protectors (relatively giant to the Asgardians, but still tiny to the Rhunians) and prepared to stomp on them, Tryx, Bolaa, and Jukka combined their efforts and pressed on a nerve in Dracus' neck that temporarily paralyzed him from the neck down and caused him to collapse.
Gerr then used the communication equipment to project his image and voice to communicate with Rhunian leader Kragonn, informing him of Dracus' treachery, the existence of other races in the universe (and the inhabited planets they had been destroying) and their suspicion that the other "Black Star" worlds were no longer inhabited.
After Kragonn confirmed the mutants' suspicion and found the other worlds dead and barren, the mutants explained their suspicions as based on the lack of communication and the apparent lack of technological development/pursuit from those worlds.
No longer needing or wishing to consume other worlds, Kragonn allowed the aliens' tiny ship to depart in peace. Additionally, the Rhunians freed Avalon and the sub-worlders.
Comments: Created by Gerry Conway, John Buscema, and Jim Mooney.
Tryx is recognizable by his
orange/red hair, his lack of a beard, his green shirt, and his
battle-axe-type weapon.
Are they mutants?
Generally, in the Marvel Universe, the term mutants (at least prior to the whole retcon of Earth mutants as a separate species) refers to beings whose genes/chromosomes had some variation during gestation and were born and/or developed differently from the race of there parents.
To me, they are genetically-engineered variants of the Rigellians. I suppose it is just semantics.
So, after saving the day against the vastly powerful Rhunians, the Rigellian mutants were not seen nor heard from again. In Thor#221, there's a flashback where Thor's crew has returned to the Rigellians, who note their appreciation, and then Silas decides to stay with Tana Nile with the Rigellians...but the Rigellian mutants were neither seen nor mentioned.
Did the Rigellian mutants return to the Rigellians and somehow arrange some sort of peace? Doesn't seem likely, as nothing had changed that time with them all just being crowded on the ships.
Did the Rigellians mutants stay with Avalon and the others, whom they had previously considered fellow outcasts? That would be very interesting (and would warrant some sort of follow-up), but there's no story information to support (or refute) it.
Did the Rigellian mutants ask to be dropped off somewhere along the way back to the Rigellian fleet? That would also make sense, but there's no evidence to support (or refute) it.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Tryx should be distinguished from:
Thor:
Asgard's Avenger (June, 2011) - Jeff Christiansen & Mike O'Sullivan
(head writers/coordinators), Stuart Vandal, Markus Raymond, & Mike
Fichera (assistant coordinators), Michael Hoskin, Stuart Vandal, Sean
McQuaid, Markus Raymond, Kevin Garcia, Ronald Byrd, Paul Fairchild, Rob
London, Chris Biggs, Anthony Cotilletta & Gabriel Shechter
(writers), James Emmett
& Joe Hochstein (editorial assistants), Alex Starbuck & Nelson
Ribeiro (assistant editors), Jennifer Grunwald & Mark D. Beazley
(editors, special projects), Jeff Youngquist (editor)
First posted: 10/08/2023
Last updated: 10/08/2023
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