TYNDALE

Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Negative Zone) humanoid (race unidentified; likely this one?)

Occupation: Apparently a physician, medic, or scientist of some sort...or possibly a priest

Group Membership: Unrevealed; while he was not a hereditary member of the Puritans of Pilgrims Rock (Kenneth Tennyson/Hellscout, Jacob (surname presumably Tennyson); aka Pandorans), he appears to have been adopted into their community 

Affiliations: Gornkai, Hellscout (Kenneth Tennyson),
    He attempted to help the Counter-Earth (Franklin Richards-created) replicated form of Cynthia von Doom

Enemies: Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom);
    presumably Annihilus, N-Explorers (Trapster (Peter Petruski), Travers, Travis, Vasquez);
    presumably indirectly Gideon Trust (Colonel, Janus, other), 

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Brother Tyndale

Base of Operations: Pilgrims Rock (see comments), Negative Zone

First Appearance: Doom: The Emperor Returns#3 (March, 2002)

Powers/Abilities: Tyndale has unspecified medical and analytical abilities.

    He possesses any abilities and/or limitations inherent in native race.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'6" to 5'10"; he wasn't shown directly next to the 6' tall Hellscout, but he appeared to be at least a couple inches shorter than him)
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 140-180 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (likely blue)
Hair: None
Skin: Blue

History:
(Doom: The Emperor Returns#3 - BTS) - As an immense creature assaulted and apparently prepared to destroy Dr. Doom's ship, Doom jettisoned a pod containing a lifeform (the Counter-Earth replicated form of Cynthia von Doom).

(Doom: The Emperor Returns#3 (fb) - BTS) - Considering the being in the pod to be a soul in need, Hellscout and Gornkai brought it back to Pilgrims Rock.

(Doom: The Emperor Returns#3) - Examining the pod, Tyndale asked Hellscout "Wouldst thou bring evil to our very doorstep?" When Hellscout replied that he saw a soul in need, Tyndale countered "This poor woman liveth not as thou livest. There is something unnatural about her. A spell or incantation holds her thus."

    Tyndale continued that while Hellscout was Pilgrim Rock's colony's protector, he had brought this mystery to them, and Hellscout told him that he and Gornkai had done what they thought best. Further examining the dome, Tyndale noted that it was certainly humanoid, and that this sentient hovered just above death, perfectly preserved and ageless. 

    They were interrupted by the arrival and questions of Jacob and then by the arrival of Doom himself, who demanded the return of his "mother."

    Tyndale stood back and watched as Hellscout confronted Doom.

Comments: Created by Chuck Dixon, Leonardo Manco, Klaus Janson & John Stanisci.

    An alien amongst the Puritans? What the what?

• When I reviewed the issues for Hellscout's profile, I skipped over the Negative Zone events not including him or Pilgrims Rock, specifically. 
• When I came back and reviewed the issues more thoroughly for the Pilgrims Rock profile, I came across a few interesting races/beings I'd missed out on, and I profiled this one alien race slaughtered by the N-Explorers.
• But, it wasn't until I started anticipating the profile on Tyndale the same day I published it that I realized that he was almost certainly a member of the same alien race. 
• Tyndale's appearance matches that race, with the exception of one panel that seems to show him four fingers and a thumb. Tyndale is only in a few images, but most are more consistent with three fingers and a thumb.
• Looking at the image showing the four fingers, it looks more to me that that is Hellscout's hand, even though the speech balloons pointing to it seem to be coming from Tyndale. 
• If you examine the position in the images above, you see Hellscout is standing on the right of "Cynthia von Doom."
  
• If Tyndale was intended to be a member of that race, then the question is whether he came to Pilgrims Rock before or after the N-Explorers slaughtered his people for their power generators. 
• The fact that Tyndale spoke in "olde English" might argue that he had been there for some time, but he may have been a quick learner and just assimilated the language as it was spoken/taught to him.
• The fact that no one in Pilgrims Rock noted that energy release to be from Tyndale's planet would argue against him having been there for some time, but it's also a retcon presence, as Tyndale first appeared after Fantastic Four I#41.
• I personally like the idea that Tyndale was a survivor of the N-Explorers assault on his world and that Hellscout subsequently brought him to Pilgrims Rock.
• However, there's no information to support when or how Tyndale arrived on Pilgrims Rock.
• If Tyndale was not intended to be a member of that race, it is an amazing coincidence of skin color and those Star Wars-homaging head tentacles from issues a few months apart.

    When first referenced in Fantastic Four I#41, their base was called "the Pilgrims Rock." Later in the same issue, it was called "Pilgrim's Rock."
    In Doom: The Emperor Returns#3, it was called "Pilgrim Rock."
    Singular possessive doesn't make much sense. Singular non-possessive seems awkward. I think either Pilgrims Rock (plural, non-possessive) or Pilgrims' Rock (plural possessive) make the most sense.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Tyndale should be distinguished from:

• TYNDALL - Weirdworld, elf--Marvel Premiere#38
• TYNDAR - Anachronauts, Trojan warrior @ 1250 B.C., immersed in river Styx. Invulnerable--Fantastic Four Annual#25
• Other "Tynd" characters...

Appearances:
Doom: The Emperor Returns#3 (March, 2002) - Chuck Dixon (writer), Leonardo Manco (artist), Klaus Janson & John Stanisci (inkers), Andrew Lis, Jeff Youngquist, & Mark Sumerak (assistant editors), Bobbie Chase & Tom Brevoort (editors)

First posted: 04/11/2022
Last updated: 04/12/2022

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