POCKET BATTLEFIELD
Classification: Extradimensional (Macroverse) technology
Creator: Unrevealed (presumably someone within the Pink Pantheon)
User/Possessors: Noh-Varr, Pink Pantheon, Space Boy (Noh-Varr clone), Star Splendor
First Appearance: Marvel Boy II#2 (September, 2000)
Powers/Abilities/Functions: The Pocket Battlefield was a pink cube that could expand to an unrevealed size. It possessed nine default environmental modes all with their own self-contained physics. It interfaced with the unconscious senses of the user to compensate the physical distortions which disabled the enemy.
History:
(Marvel Boy II#2 (fb) - BTS) - Star Splendor of the 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt stole the Pocket Battlefield from the Pink Pantheon after the Matter Fax malfunctioned and cloned the entire Macroverse. It was stored in the archive of the Marvel.
(Marvel Boy II#2) - Noh-Varr took the Pocket Battlefield to New York's surface and used it when the Bannermen attacked him. It expanded until the Bannermen were all enveloped. Noh-Varr then entered the Battlefield himself while Plex read to him the Battlefield's manual. With the changed physics inside the Battlefield Noh-Varr was able to beat two of the disoriented Bannermen. The third Bannerman hulked up and Plex called in civilians to surround him. The Bannerman couldn't hurt them and was beaten by them when he transformed back into his human form. Noh-Varr then left the Pocket Battlefield and continued with his message to the leaders of Earth.
(All-New Savage She-Hulk#3) - Captain Marvel (Noh-Varr) utilized the Pocket Battlefield in a fight against Earth-8009's She-Hulk (Lyra). Though she nearly beat him, Lyra got distracted when Wolverine (Daken) entered the Battlefield and Noh-Varr used the toxin in his thumbnail to knock her out. Noh-Varr then shut off the Battlefield again.
(Royals#4) - Noh-Varr used his Pocket Battlefield in the cockpit of the Astarion when the ship was heavily damaged by an attack from Ronan the Accuser. Due to Noh-Varr's Pocket Battlefield the Inhumans' ship crash landed on the devastated planet Hala, but nobody got hurt.
(Royals#5) - Ronan created his own micro-realities with his new cosmic powers to trap Noh-Varr and the Inhumans (Flint, Gorgon, Maximus, Medusa and Swain) and confront them with what they felt guilty for. Noh-Varr countered this Pocket Battlefield-like reality with his own Pocket Battlefield technology by making the physics of his Battlefield incompatible with Ronan's creation until it bursted and he could escape.
(Guardians of the Galaxy VI#1 - BTS) - Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr) mentioned the Pocket Battlefield while introducing himself to the Guardians of the Galaxy.
(Guardians of the Galaxy VI#12) - Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr) activated the Pocket Battlefield to protect himself, Hercules and Rocket from the explosion of their spaceship Bowie at the hands of the Olympians. After landing on Daedalus-5 they left the Battlefield to join the battle against the Olympians.
(Marvel's Voices: Pride II#1) - Noh-Varr and Hercules remained inside a Pocket Battlefield to stay protected against the petrification effect of Supremedusa, a creation of Mer-Linn of the Kree Occult Sciences Division that the Kree had lost control over. They fought her guardians and moved with the Battlefield to Supremedusa's location to end her threat.
(Fantastic Four VI#48) - Oubliette Midas' creation Space Boy used a Pocket Battlefield against the Invisible Woman (Susan Richards) of the Fantastic Four while he fought her in the Baxter Building. He planned to trap her within it for hours and deliver her to Oubliette, but Susan escaped it with the head of a Mindless One, which she used to blast Space Boy.
Comments: Created by Grant Morrison & J.G. Jones.
I'm not 100% sure that the Battlefield came from the Macroverse, but I assume it did because Star Splendor stole it from the Pink Pantheon after an incident in the Macroverse.
And I don't know if it was a unique item or just one of many Pocket Battlefields.
The fun part about Noh-Varr's fight with Lyra was that he kept calling her Bannerwoman, which was clearly a reference to the Bannermen and the fact that Lyra is the Hulk (Bruce Banner)'s daughter.
--Markus Raymond
Thanks to Michael Boyd for pointing out the appearances in the Royals series.
Profile by Markus Raymond.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Pocket Battlefield has no known connections to:
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Marvel Boy II#2, p11, pan4 (main image)
Marvel's Voices: Pride II#1, p11, pan4 (in use)
Appearances:
Marvel Boy II#2 (September, 2000) - Grant Morrison (writer), J.G. Jones (artist), Joe Quesada (editor)
All-New Savage She-Hulk#3 (August, 2009) - Fred Van Lente (writer), Peter Vale & Michael Ryan (pencils), Vicente Cifuentes & Terry Pallot (inks), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Royals#4-5 (August-September, 2017) - Al Ewing (writer), Thony Silas (artist), Wil Moss (editor)
Guardians of the Galaxy VI#1 (March, 2020) - Al Ewing (writer), Juann Cabal (artist), Darren Shan (editor)
Guardians of the Galaxy VI#12 (May, 2021) - Al Ewing (writer), Juann Cabal (artist), Darren Shan (editor)
Marvel's Voices: Pride II#1/2 (August, 2022) - Andrew Wheeler (writer), Britney L. Williams (artist), Sarah Brunstad (editor)
Fantastic Four VI#48 (December, 2022) - David Pepose (writer), Juann Cabal (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
First Posted: 08/03/2007
Last Updated: 01/14/2024
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