KIPPLE

Real Name: Presumably Kipple (see comments)

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrially-based (originating from Andromeda (see comments); lived on Fautor IV for a time) minotaur

Occupation: God;
    former adventurer

Group Membership: Worshiped by the people of Fautor IV

Affiliations: The people of Fautor IV (at least 40,000 worshipers)

Enemies: Killpower (Julius Mullarkey) and, by association, Motormouth (Harley Davis)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: "Moo-Cow" (taunt from Killpower)

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    formerly a Temple of Kipple IV

First Appearance: Motormouth & Killpower#12/2 (May, 1993)

Powers/Abilities: Kipple was large and powerful, presumably possessing some level of superhuman strength and durability.

    Apparently via a belt device, he can teleport between/across dimensions.

    He has a pair of large horns on top of his head, which he could presumably use for both blunt trauma and for goring others.

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History:
(Motormouth & Killpower#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - A dimension-spanning minotaur from Andromeda, Kipple accidentally teleported into the temple of an unidentified god on the planet Fautor IV. The gullible people of Fautor IV worshipped Kipple as a god, and he lived a life of luxury, enjoying the females of the species and using occasional displays of his mysterious power to keep his followers loyal.

(Motormouth & Killpower#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Dimension-hopping adventurers Motormouth and Killpower arrived on Fautor IV. There Killpower, whose powerful body possessed a child-like but violence-prone mind, earned the wrath of 40,000 dedicated worshipers by telling the high-priest that Kipple was a stupid name for a god, and he mocked a statue of Kipple as being a "'moo' cow."

(Motormouth & Killpower#12/2 - BTS) - As Killpower and Motormouth teleported away again -- seeking to return to Earth for some fish and chips but instead transporting to another planet -- the high-priest called on Kipple to destroy the blasphemers.

Killpower, asking if they were the ones who had dared to mock the mighty Kipple, and Motormouth happily placed the blame on Killpower. Charging Killpower, Kipple asked the "defiler" what had had to say in his defense, and Kipple said, "Moo," as he dodged, grabbed Kipple's horns and drove his face into the ground.

    Killpower then climbed on Kipple's back and grabbed his hair, riding him and telling Motormouth to look at him. Less than amused, Harley told him to "just deck the ?@*!"

    In response, Killpower punched Kipple in the side of the head, stunning him, and then charged his gun, stuck it on one of Kipple's horns and then punched him through another portal (either from Kipple's or his own technology) back to the high priest and his followers.

    As a piece of the gun was missing (presumably intentional or just dumb-luck on Killpower's part), as Kipple emerged back at the Church of Kipple -- where the masses prepared to greet their triumphant master -- the gun exploded, apparently killing Kipple.

    The high-priest announced, "Kipple is dead! All hail his slayer -- the great Killpower!"

Comments: Created by Matthew Hyde and Carlos Pacheco under the Marvel UK imprint.

    Kipple was "dimension-spanning minotaur from Andromeda."

    I would think that would mean that he was from somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy, but perhaps he's from a dimension known as Andromeda.

    We really don't know anything about his origins, and I doubt we ever will...

    Where is Fautor IV?

    I'm presuming that it was somewhere not in the Andromeda Galaxy, as it would have been odd to describe Kipple as being from Andromeda when he went to their world, which was in Andromeda...

    However, as Kipple was specifically dimension-spanning, Fautor IV could be in some other dimension as well.

    As Motormouth and Killpower traveled across space, dimensions and time, it could also be that their encounter with Kipple on Fautor IV took place in the distant past or far future.

    Who was the previous god?

It is unclear whether the people of Fautor IV worshipped a bovine god, and Kipple took advantage of being mistaken for that being.

And/or, perhaps their previous god was named Kipple, and the minotaur just took that name for himself...but the way it was phrased, that upon arriving in the temple, "Kipple thought he had it made for life," makes it seem to me that his real name was indeed Kipple.

Maybe the previous god was not bovine, but after Kipple arrived, the people of Fautor IV abandoned their old god in favor of the one in the presence...and then they made the bovine statues, etc.

   This profile was completed 11/09/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary's celebratory event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Kipple should be distinguished from:

• KIPPER, ISADORE - former informant for Joe Robertson in Philadelphia, killed by Tombstone approximately 20 years ago--Spectacular Spider-Man II#139
• other "Kipple" or minotaur characters, groups, items, events, races or places...

First posted: 09/29/2026
Last updated: 11/09/2025

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

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