ANTI-BEINGANTI-BEING
Real Name: inapplicable
Identity/Class: magical creation; collection of negative energy
Occupation: chaos-bringer
Affiliations: former agent of Mys-Tech;
formerly dwelled alongside the Scavengers
Enemies: Dark Angel (Shevaun Haldane), Death's Head-Minion, Encoders, Web-Spinners, Wyrd Sisters (Braxus, Sapphire, Xena)
Known Relatives: Mys-Tech Techno-Wizards (Algernon Crowe, Bronwen Gryffn, Ranulph Haldane(d), Porlock, Rathcoole, Gudrun Tyburn, Ormond Wychwood) - "parents"
Aliases: none
Base of Operations: "Inner Space"
dimension
formerly an astral plane;
First Appearance: Dark Angel#10 (May, 1993)
Powers/Abilities:
History:
(Dark Angel#10) - From the collective evil of the Mys-Tech Techno-Wizards
millennia of malevolence was spawned the Anti-Being, an entity
born of negativity and nurtured by negativity.
One of the Web-Spinners--prophets who
allegedly weave the fabric of the universe--told Dark Angel of
the creation of the Anti-Being. The Web-Spinner prophesized that
once Mys-Tech's Un-Earth was fully active, the Anti-Being's full
power would be fully unleashed, filling the Earth's atmosphere
with an negativity and hatred which would sweep through whole
cities turning one against another...creating mayhem and
confusion...many would fall into the eternal abyss never to
return.
(Dark Angel#11) - Mys-Tech's Psycho-Warriors
generated an vortex of negativity in the astral waves, which
summoned the Anti-Being to a portal to the material world. The
Anti-Being consumed all of the negativity and then fought off
the Scavengers who attacked him in an effort to gain the energy
for themselves.
Joined by a trio of Scavengers, the Anti-Being
continued its trek towards the portal, where it was ambushed by
Dark Angel and the Wyrd Sisters, daughters of the Web-Spinners.
However, the Anti-Being sensed the negative emotions towards it
from Dark Angel, and it managed to absorb her energy attack to
increase its own power.
(Dark Angel#12) - As the Anti-Being continued to absorb Dark Angel's attack, it began to draw his attacker towards itself so that it could absorb her as well. One of the Wyrd Sisters, Sapphire, hurled her bladed weapon at the Anti-Being which caused its negativity to bleed out into the environment, where the Scavengers fed on it. This allowed Dark Angel time to regroup, and she initiated a new assault, banishing the Anti-Being through her own dimensional portal.
(Dark Angel#13) - As the Mys-Tech Techno-Wizards prepared to amplify their own powers, the collection of negative energy present penetrated into the cosmic void of Inner Space dimension to which Dark Angel had banished the Anti-Being. The negativity allowed the Anti-Being to reform itself.
(Dark Angel#14) - Death's Head absorbed the vast power of a piece of the very fabric of the universe, and Dark Angel banished him extra-dimensionally so that the Mys-Tech Techno-Wizards could not usurp his power. However, she unwittingly sent him Inner Space, where he was confronted by the Anti-Being.
(Dark Angel#15) - The immense power that Death's Head had gained allowed him to overcome the Anti-Being and after defeating it he used his cranial psyphon to assimilate its mind and abilities. However, the Anti-Being managed to maintain its will and forcibly took control of Death's Head's form from within. Death's Head fought back to regain control, but it required every ounce of his concentration.
(Dark Angel#16) - Dark Angel's allies, the
Encoders, managed to draw the Anti-Being back to the fore-front
of Death's Head's mind. With the aid of the Wyrd Sisters, Dark
Angel managed to temporarily stun Death's Head/Anti-Being, and
she then performed a psychic exorcism on Death's Head, which
extracted both the Anti-Being an the fragment of the fabric of
the universe.
Dark Angel again banished the Anti-Being into
the void (presumably Inner Space).
Comments: Created by Bernie Jaye and Dell Barras.
Marvel UK
CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:
Scavengers have no known connection to:
Once human, in life they were abandoned and unloved. In death
they took on the poisonous mantle of hatred which twists and
shapes their very being. They live in the astral realm that was
the site of formation of the Anti-Being and they dwell uneasily
in its shadow. They are parasites, craving the same negative
energy for survival as the Anti-Being himself.
When the Mys-Tech Psycho-Warriors generated a vortex of negativity, a trio of Scavengers sensed it and approached the portal to the plane of reality. However, the Anti-Being absorbed all of the energy, leaving none for the Scavengers. Starving and angry, they attacked the Anti-Being with tooth and blade, but it fought them off with ease. As they fell, one of the Scavengers taunted him, telling him that the Mys-Tech board would reject him.
The three Scavengers accompanied the Anti-Being as it began a trek towards the portal, where he was ambushed by Dark Angel and the Wyrd Sisters. When the Anti-Being was wounded by the Wyrd Sister Sapphire, the Scavengers descended on him. Later, after Dark Angel had banished the Anti-Being through her own dimensional portal, one of the Scavengers attempted to take advantage of her weakness. However, she retained sufficient power to decapitate the Scavenger with a single blast.
Only three Scavengers were seen, and it is not certain whether more exist. One had the form on an infant, another the form of a featureless adult, and the third a baby's head atop the body of a dog.
--Dark Angel#11 (12
Last updated: 09/18/03
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
Non-Marvel Copyright info
All other characters mentioned or pictured are ™ and
© 1941-2099 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. If you
like this stuff, you should check out the real thing!
Please visit The Marvel Official Site at: http://www.marvel.com