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Name: Pogg Ur-Pogg (see comments)POGG UR-POGG
Real
Name: Pogg Ur-Pogg (see comments)
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (possibly also extradimensional) beast (see comments)
Occupation: Sword for hire
Group Membership: None;
formerly Swordbearers of Arakko
(Annihilation/Genesis, Bei the Blood Moon, Death, Isca the Unbeaten,
Redroot the Forest, Solem, Summoner, War, the White Sword)
Affiliations: Horsemen of Apocalypse (Death,
Famine, Pestilence, War)
Enemies: Amenthi daemons, Swordbearers of
Krakoa (Apocalypse/En Sabah Nur, Cable/Nathan Summers, Captain
Avalon/Brian Braddock, Captain Britain/Betsy Braddock, Cypher/Douglas
Ramsey, Gorgon/Tomi Shishido, Magik/Illyana Rasputina, Storm/Ororo
Munroe, Wolverine/James Howlett), X-Men (Domino/Neena Thurman,
Gwenpool/Gwendolyne Poole, Mirage/Dani Moonstar, numerous others)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Amenth
First Appearance: X of Swords: Stasis (October, 2020)
Powers/Abilities: Pogg Ur-Pogg is a
small being of an unspecified race from Amenth with pointy ears and
three large fingers on each hand. He has no inherent powers of his own
but pilots a massive, presumably organic, suit which gives him immense
strength and durability. From inside, Pogg Ur-Pogg is able to control
and operate the suit as if it was a living creature, able to eat food
for sustenance and displaying agility and dexterity required for
weapon-wielding. The crocodile-like suit also has two additional pairs
of large arms, giving Pogg Ur-Pogg a total of eight limbs to control.
He wields a massive blade also named Pogg Ur-Pogg, which is similar in size and shape to Apocalypse's Scarab.
Height: (true form): 3'0" (by
approximation); (when suited): 12'0" (by approximation)
Weight: (both forms): Unrevealed
Eyes: Yellow
Hair: White
History: (X of Swords: Stasis (fb) - BTS) - Pogg Ur-Pogg and his sword of the same name were mentioned in a prophecy spoken by the Horseman Pestilence as one of the ten swords and swordbearers from the Arakki that would take part in a tournament organized by Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne for their right of passage through Otherworld to Earth, the other side of the tournament being from the mutant nation of Krakoa.
(X of Swords: Stasis) - Pestilence and War approached Pogg Ur-Pogg in his lair on the planet Amenth and brought him a large satchel of gems to buy his services. When Pogg Ur-Pogg demanded more, they offered him an entire new world to plunder in the case of their victory and Pogg Ur-Pogg accepted. He then joined the nine mutants from Arakko in their journey to Otherworld, where the tournament would take place.
(Marauders
I#14) - Before the tournament began, Saturnyne invited her guests
from both sides to a feast in the Starlight Citadel. One of the
White Priests attempted to hand the entrants cards with their
assigned seats but an impatient Pogg Ur-Pogg demanded those in
front of him in the queue to enter step aside or he would knock
them out of his way, and swatted the cards away, announcing that
he would take a seat of his choosing. Later, as he wandered the
banqueting hall picking up and guzzling down entire trays of
entrees in one gulp, his potential opponents Magik and Kraken
sized him up. Magik noted that the "chonky dinosaur" was going to
be a problem, but Kraken noted that every beast had a softness
beyond its armor.
(Marauders
I#15) - During the feast, Cable and Magik of Krakoa were testing
the mutant powers of Isca the Unbeaten of Arakko and, among other
things, had her play a game of pin the tail on Pogg Ur-Pogg, which
Isca won easily.
(Wolverine VIII#7) - Pogg Ur-Pogg's first contest of the tournament was against Magik of Krakoa and took place in the Floating Kingdom of Roma Regina. The contestants clashed their swords just before Saturnyne took their weapons away and declared the contest to be that of arm-wrestling. Due to their physical differences, Pogg Ur-Pogg won the contest in an instant, much to his delight.
(X-Force
VI#14) - After a series of other contests took place, Pogg Ur-Pogg
and Magik were matched together again in the same arena and in
unarmed combat as before. However, Magik had by now learned the
meaning of Pogg's name and thus his secret that he was a smaller
being inside a large suit. When he swallowed her whole, she was
able to take Pogg Ur-Pogg out of his suit, allowing her to defeat
him easily.
Returning to his suit afterwards, Pogg Ur-Pogg was put up against
Magik once more, this time in a Contest of Boulders. With Death
and Isca the Unbeaten at his side, Pogg Ur-Pogg participated in
pushing large round boulders around, ultimately winning that
contest with his teammates. Alongside Redroot the Forest, he also
beat Storm and Captain Avalon in the Labyrinth Escape contest.
Finally, without his suit to assist him, Pogg Ur-Pogg, alongside Death and Bei the Blood Moon, prevailed against Magik and Cypher in the Contest of Letters, a form of spelling bee.
(Excalibur IV#15) - The Arakki side ultimately lost the tournament but Annihilation refused to abide by its rules and unleashed her horde of Amenthi daemons against the Starlight Citadel. Pogg Ur-Pogg found himself in a midst of a chaotic battle against his wishes and cursed the entire ordeal as being stupid.
(X of Swords: Destruction) - As the battle raged on, the Krakoan side was reinforced with the arrival of the X-Men and Pogg Ur-Pogg found himself fighting the mutants Domino (Neena Thurman), Mirage (Dani Moonstar) and Gwenpool (Gwendolyn Poole), among others. The combined forces of Krakoa, the restarted Captain Britain Corps and the Starlight Citadel eventually prevailed over Annihilation's army, which was put in check once more. With no personal stake in the conflict, Pogg Ur-Pogg returned to Amenth and resumed his life as a sword for hire.
Comments: Created by Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz.
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| Armor, rear view |
Real body, with Magik for height comparison | Real body, clear shot of costume |
Pogg Ur-Pogg speaks of himself in third person and, unless interrupted, always in rhyme. The only exception to date is his very first line spoken in X of Swords: Stasis, which does not rhyme properly.
With the revelation that Pogg is the Arakko word for "Sword" and refers
to the organic suit, it is possible that Pogg Ur-Pogg is the alias and
not his true name. The name Pogg Ur-Pogg refers to both the sword itself
and its bearer.
As of this writing, it has not yet been explicitly established within the story whether Amenth is a planet within the regular universe, a separate dimension in Reality-616 or a different reality altogether.
The data page in Cable IV#6 provided the formal names for each contest in tournament and those names are used in the History entry for X-Force VI#14.
This profile was completed 7/22/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20th anniversary 's celebratory event.
Profile by HBK123.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Pogg Ur-Pogg has no known connections to:
images:
(without ads)
X-Force, p1, pan3 (Pogg Ur-Pogg, main image)
X-Force VI#14, p1, pan4 (Pogg Ur-Pogg without his suit)
X
of Swords: Stasis, p14, pan4 (Pogg Ur-Pogg with sword)
X of Swords:
Stasis, p20, pan1 (Pogg Ur-Pogg with the other Swordbearers,
giving a sense of his size)
Wolverine VIII#7, p2, pan2 (Pogg Ur-Pogg fighting Magik)
Marauders
I#14, p6-7 spread (Pogg Ur-Pogg's armored form from the
rear)
X-Force VI#14, p2, pan5 (Real body, with Magik for height comparison)
X-Force VI#14, p2,
pan7 (Real
body, clear shot of costume)
X of Swords: Stasis, between
p20 and 21 of story, pan1 (Pogg Ur-Pogg sword diagram)
Appearances:
X of Swords: Stasis (October, 2020) - Jonathan Hickman & Tini
Howard (writers), Pepe Larraz & Mahmud Asrar (pencils, inks),
Jordan D. White (editor)
Marauders I#14 (November, 2020) - Gerry Duggan & Benjamin
Percy (writers), Stefano Caselli (pencils, inks), Jordan D. White
(editor)
Marauders I#15 (November, 2020) - Gerry Duggan & Benjamin
Percy (writers), Stefano Caselli (pencils, inks), Jordan D. White
(editor)
Wolverine VIII#7 (November, 2020) - Benjamin Percy & Gerry
Duggan (writers), Joshua Cassara (pencils, inks), Mark Basso &
Jordan D. White (editors)
X-Force VI#14 (November, 2020) - Benjamin Percy & Gerry Duggan
(writers), Joshua Cassara (pencils, inks), Mark Basso (editor)
Excalibur IV#15 (November, 2020) - Tini Howard (writer), Mahmud
Asrar & Stefano Caselli (pencils, inks), Jordan D. White
(editor)
X of Swords: Destruction (November, 2020) - - Jonathan Hickman
& Tini Howard (writers), Pepe Larraz (pencils, inks), Jordan
D. White (editor)
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Posted: 09/11/2021
Last updated: 09/09/2021
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