Who Is The Beyonder? Marvel's Most Powerful Villain Explained
LongtimeMarvel Comics fans may be familiar with the villain known as the Beyonder. In 1984, Marvel Comics launched Secret Wars, the company's first event that incorporated all of its properties. At such a grand scale, regular villains were not enough. Marvel needed a threat so big that it could unite all of its characters, heroes and villains alike, and so the Beyonder was born.
Introduced as an unfathomable being from another dimension, one that was beyond the regular Marvel Universe, the Beyonder was simply omnipotent, and he could play with the lives of even the most powerful characters, including Galactus, as if they were toys in his hands. Recently, Marvel announced the return of the Beyonder as the antagonist in a new Defenders: Beyond series from Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez, releasing in June 2022. As such, the origins and history of the Beyonder as Marvel's most powerful villain have never been more apt for revisiting.
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Originally, the Beyonder was the supreme being of another reality, dragged into the Marvel Multiverse by a failed scientific experiment that transformed Owen Reece into the Molecule Man. Once there, he began to observe this strange and fascinating universe, and in turn, his own nature changed. He was curious about how mortals experienced desire, something that he previously lacked, and wanted to make an experiment of his own. During Secret Wars, he kidnapped a large group of superheroes and supervillains and transported them to a planet he created, called Battleworld, where the two factions would battle, with the promise to grant any wish to the victors. In this way, the Beyonder would observe if the strongest drive for mankind was
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