History:
(Avengers I#352) - Grim Reaper pleaded with Lloigoroth to grant him the powers he craved. Lloigoroth appeared in the sky before Grim Reaper by parting the clouds during an unnatural thunderstorm and granted Grim Reaper what he craved because he wanted him to become his left hand of darkness on Earth. Grim Reaper promised Lloigoroth in return a feast of decay and corruption.

(Avengers I#352 - BTS) - Grim Reaper used the power granted to him by Lloigoroth to crash a plane, turn some of the victims into fascimiles of old Avengers enemies and bring the Avengers to a Hell-like realm to kill them.

(Avengers I#354) - Grim Reaper's plan ultimately failed when the Legion of the Unliving turned against him. Lloigoroth burst through the wall of Reaper's extradimensional castle and apparently consumed him for failing to deliver what he had promised. Lloigoroth pulled back and the castle crumbled while an interdimensional vortex pulled the Avengers back to Earth.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#48 - BTS) - Umar invoked the Abyss of Lloigoroth when she saw Clea's ally Flyx, who was actually a disguised Dormammu.

(Hellstorm: Prince of Lies#4) - The Satanist Father Jack Riley invoked Lloigoroth, among others (see comments), in a spell from his "Pocket Grimoire" to summon a demon to protect him from Hellstorm at Kennedy Airport in New York. As a result his niece Kim got possessed by a demon.

SECRET WARS III HAPPENED

(Vision and the Scarlet Witch III#2 (fb) - BTS) - The Valkyries released Grim Reaper from Valhalla to the Outer Dark because of his outstanding debts to the Great Old Ones. Grim Reaper called out to his patron Lloigoroth while drifting through the Outer Dark, but was instead discovered and devoured by Gargantos.

(Vision and the Scarlet Witch III#1 - BTS) - Vision suspected Lloigoroth and the Grim Reaper to be behind the Death's Doors that appeared all over Earth because Scarlet Witch had sensed the Nameless Ones earlier near one of the doors in Lotkill, New Jersey.

(Vision and the Scarlet Witch III#2 - BTS) - Scarle Witch read Grim Reaper's remains to learn what had happened to him since being released by the Valkyrieis. Vision still suspected Lloigoroth to be behind the Death's Doors and Grim Reaper's recent activities.

(Vision and the Scarlet Witch III#5) - After Gargantos got injured during a battle against Scarlet Witch and the Vision within the Outer Dark the Great Old Ones Lloigoroth, N'Gabthoth, Slorioth and Zvilpogghua confronted him. Gargantos considered it a disgrace that they indireclty did the bidding of humans by taking him away, but the Great Old Ones didn't care and dragged him to another dimension.

Comments: Created by Len Kaminski, M.C. Wyman & Tom Palmer.

Lloigoroth resembles a creature in a Lovecraftian tale by Colin Wilson, "The Return of the Lloigor." In that tale, the Lloigor is apparently an agent of the Old Ones (Lovecraft's unspeakable ancient creatures) and appaears as a normal man with mouths on his palms. As Marvel's Elder Gods (Set, Gaea, Chthon et. al.) and the N'Garai are meant to resemble Lovecraftian deities, we can probably figure Lloigoroth is related to one of those groups.
supplemental info by Greg O'Driscoll: Not only is Lloigoroth from a Lovecraftian reference, but so are the other gods he swears by when beseeching Lloigoroth for extra power:
Yog-Sokot aka Yog-Sothoth from "The Dunwich Horror" and other stories
Azotharoth aka Azathoth, the Demon Sultan, the roiling nuclear horror that dwells at the heart universe attended by formless idiot flute players. Mentioned often but never really appearing and only one unfinished fragment of Lovecraft's bears the title "Azathoth".
Nigguraab aka Shub Niggurath the Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young. Mentioned in several stories most particularly "The Whisperer In Darkness". Seen as some sort of Dark Mother breeding monsters and uncleanliness.

Some of the comments about "Lloigoroth" are mixed up. The name Lloigor was invented by August Derleth, who published the "Cthulhu Mythos" stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others after Lovecraft died, as well as writing many of them himself. Derleth's Lloigor was a giant tentacled creature but, when Colin Wilson contributed his story "Return of the Lloigor" to Derleth's collection Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in 1969, he used the name instead to describe a race of invisible and intangible beings who telepathically influenced humanity. A completely different story in that collection, Ramsey Campbell's "Cold Print", featured a demonic entity (named Y'Golonac) who had no face but had hungry mouths in the palms of its hands. This was probably the visual inspiration for Marvel's Lloigoroth. (And Chris Claremont probably derived the name "Y'Garon" from Y'Golonac for one of his Elder Gods.) Confused enough yet?
--Continental Op

Jack Riley's full spell: "Yog-Sokot al Yith Shigguraub Necronomicon De Vermis Mysterius...la Lloigoroth Ftnaghn Nigi Wotanus Eriskigel...R'lyeh Etrigaan Amon Vaalthazor!"
Profiled on the Appendix:

• Yog-Sokot - mentioned before by Grim Reaper when he swore allegiance to Lloigoroth; a reference to the being Yog-Sothoth of H.P. Lovecraft lore
• Yith - a reference to an extraterrestrial species in H.P. Lovecraft stories, first mentioned in The Shadow Out of Time
• Shigguraub - likely a hidden reference to the Outer God Shub-Niggurath, another H.P. Lovecraft creation; first in The Last Test
• Necronomicon - refers to the famous fictional tome in H.P. Lovecraft stories, which was created by Abdul Alhazred; first mentioned in The Hound
• De Vermis Mysteriis - a black magic tome (read the profile)
• Ftnaghn - misspelled version of fhtagn (R'lyehian: waiting) (Marvel actually created a race by that name in Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider I#9, so it could the first in-universe reference to them despite the spelling)
• Nigi - not really sure what this is a reference to
• Wotanus - a likely reference to the Asgardian All-Father Odin, but maybe I am completely wrong
• Ereshkigal - the Mesopotamian goddess
• R'lyeh - sunken island city in the Pacific Ocean from H.P. Lovecraft stories, the place where Cthulhu rests; first mentioned in The Call of Cthulhu
• Etrigaan - a likely reference to the DC character created by Jack Kirby that first appeared in The Demon#1 (August, 1972)
• Amon - maybe a reference to the Egyptian deity Amon Ra
• Vaalthazor - a reference to something for sure, but I don't know what

A creature similar in appearance to Lloigoroth was seen in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#54 (June, 1993). It attacked Doctor Strange during his voyage to Eternity during the Infinity Crusade --Markus Raymond Lloigoroth's sub-profile from Legion of the Unliving was expanded to a full profile. Profile by Omar Karindu & Markus Raymond.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Lloigoroth: The Reaper refers to it as Great Lloigoroth of the Nameless Ones...I've got no idea if this puts him in any connection to:

• NAMELESS ONE - the two-headed leader of the Undying Ones--Sub-Mariner I#22
• NAMELESS ONE - the successor to the above--Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#41
• NAMELESS ONE - a voodoo creature that served Mambo and later Calypso--Daredevil I#243
• NAMELESS ONE - ok, probably not this guy, which was actually Daredevil, under the control of Calypso--Daredevil I#311
• any other character with a similar name

images:
Avengers I#352, p2-3 (main)
Avengers I#354, p18-19 (Lloigoroth punishing Grim Reaper)
Vision and the Scarlet Witch III#5, p11 (with fellow Old Ones)
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#54, p7, pan6 (similar creature)

Appearances:
Avengers I#352 (September, 1992) - Len Kaminski (writer), M.C. Wyman (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Avengers I#354 (October, 1992) - Len Kaminski (writer), M.C. Wyman (pencils), Alexandrov & Ariane (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#48 (December, 1992) - Len Kaminski (writer), Geof Isherwood (pencils), Bob Petrecca, Charles Barnett & Don Hudson (inks), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Hellstorm: Prince of Lies#4 (July, 1993) - Rafael Nives (plot), Len Kaminski (script), Michael Bair (pencils), Peter Gross (inks), Fabian Nicieza (editor)
Vision and the Scarlet Witch III#1-2 (July-August, 2025) - Steve Orlando (writer), Lorenzo Tammetta (artist), Alanna Smith (editor)
Vision and the Scarlet Witch III#5 (November, 2025) - Steve Orlando (writer), Jacopo Camagni (artist), Alanna Smith (editor)

First Posted: 12/08/2001 (as sub-profile)
Last updated: 05/31/2026

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