FATHER BERNET

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-45828/"Earth-Razorline") demon

Occupation: Demon;
   posed as priest

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Ectokid (Dexter Mungo)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unidentified hospital, New Orleans

 

First Appearance: Ectokid#2 (October 1993)

Powers/Abilities: Father Bernet was a shapeshifting demon. His daimon form had a gigantic mouth filled with huge gangs and a long, almost prehensile tongue. He had sharp claws on his hands, and his head was mounted on a long, flexible neck. Given he returned to human form after death, that might have been his true/original form.

 

Height: (human disguise) 5'8" (by guesstimation) ; (true form) 10' (by estimation).
Weight: (human disguise) unrevealed; (true form) unrevealed
Eyes: (human disguise) Black; (true form) green
Hair: (human disguise) Black; (true form) none

 

History:
(Ectokid#2 (fb) - BTS) - Father Bernet was a daimon (demon) posing as a human priest working at a New Orleans hospital.

 

(Ectokid#2) - Father Bernet approached Dexter Mungo, who had just finished visiting his mother, Josephine Mungo, a long term psychiatric resident at the facility, and falsely informed the boy that there was a problem with his mother that they needed to discuss. He used this pretext to lure Dexter into the elevator, supposedly to go to Bernet's office, but really to get his victim down to the isolated basement. Dexter had recently learned that the occult was real and gained the ability to see supernatural things with his right eye, and so had begun using an eyepatch to cover that eye most of the time. Suspicious upon exiting into the darkened floor, he switched the patch to use his right eye and turned to see Bernet's true, monstrous form looming over him.

 

  Announcing that Dexter was his, the daimon snatched up his target and licked the boy's cheek to savor the taste. Dexter responded by biting Bernet's pointy nose, and the monster dropped him in pain. This gained Dexter only a momentary reprieve, as Bernet grabbed him again, but he did so by the stairs leading down towards the furnace room, and so overbalanced, dropping both of them down the stairs. Both recovered quickly, but when Bernet again charged Dexter, the boy pulled a knife from his boot and stabbed Bernet in the shoulder, then retreated over towards the furnace hatch. He waited for Bernet to again charge at him, then swiftly opened the hatch and used a shovel to throw burning coals into Bernet's face.

 

   Bernet's human-looking corpse, its face burned down almost to the skull, was found a few hours later by Ice and Tom Augustine, two brothers who were tracking Dexter.

 

Comments: Created by James Robinson, Steve Skroce and Bob Dvorak.

 

   Given how briefly he appeared, it's unclear whether Father Bernet generally targeted people visiting relatives at the hospital, or was drawn to Dexter Mungo specifically. It's possible that both held true to some degree - maybe he generally hunted there, but Dexter's supernatural abilities made him look especially tasty too. He knew Dexter's surname, which might mean the boy was a specific target, but might simply be because he knew the surname of Dexter's mother, who Dexter was visiting, especially as when he said "Mr. Mungo?" it was a question, not a statement on his part. You'd think if Bernet was just picking victims from the same location eventually the cops might notice, but maybe he shifted hunting grounds every so often. Was Bernet a complete fabrication or did the daimon assume the identities of some of its victims?

 

   This profile was completed on 08/24/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent Ectokid.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Father Bernet has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Ectokid#2, p2-3, pan1 (main image)
Ectokid#2, p15, pan2 (human form)
Ectokid#2, p16, pan1 (looming over Dexter, giving a sense of his true height)
Ectokid#2, p17, pan4 (lifting Dexter, clearest view of his body)
Ectokid#2, p19, pan5 (face being burned by fiery coal)
Ectokid#2, p21, pan1 (human-looking corpse)

Appearances:
Ectokid#2 (October 1993) - James Robinson (writer), Steve Skroce (pencils), Bob Dvorak (inks), Marc McLaurin (editor), Clive Barker (creator)

First Posted: 09/19/2026
Last updated: 08/24/2026

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