OMEGA

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Presumably alternate reality;
    possibly an angel

Occupation: Would-be protector of humanity

Group Membership:"Ultravengers";
    presumably some incarnation of the Avengers or Ultraforce in his reality

Affiliations: Unidentified woman

Enemies: Cypher, Destiny, Oracle, Pandora, Slime;
    Nemesis;

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed

First Appearance: Ultraforce/Avengers#1 (Fall 1995)

Powers/Abilities: Unrevealed.

    He can apparently release energy blasts from some or all portions of his body

    Powerfully built, he is likely strong and athletic, although whether he has superhuman physical abilities and combat or other skills is unrevealed.

    At least in initial designs, Omega wielded a sword of fire and used energy projection discs.

History:
(The Stan Lee Story) - Omega was a fallen angel sent to Earth to redeem himself after failing to protect another world from its own destruction due to greed and corruption.

    On Earth he faced opposition from the powerful psychic and cult leader Oracle and his henchmen Slime, Cypher, Destiny and Pandora.

(Ultraforce/Avengers#1) - In Reality-93060 the entity Nemesis, a being with the combined powers of all seven the Infinity Gem (notably including the Ego Gem; nowadays everyone's calling them Infinity Stones, but they were Infinity Gems at that time) created a "brief sketch of a working universe" a few thousand miles across on the Godwheel, a vast disc-like realm. Since Nemesis was at the time in the middle of an encounter with Earth-616's Avengers and Earth-93060's Ultraforce, the construct she generated combined elements from both realities, including a team of Avengers whose members were a mix of 616's Avengers and 93060's Ultraforce. However, the construct proved extremely unstable, and soon collapsed catastrophically, destroying the Godwheel. Teleporting away in panic, Nemesis survived but was temporarily stunned. Her teleportation wave inadvertently also saved the heroes -- Ultraforce and both Avengers teams -- and deposited them all back on Ultraforce's native Earth. Rightly fearing that when she recovered, Nemesis might destroy Reality-93060 by overwriting it with another new creation, the three groups combined forces to locate and stop her.

   The sketch's collapse had also weakened the walls between realities, drawing variant Avengers and Ultraforce members -- including Omega -- from across a wide range of realities to Earth-93060. All somehow sensing the threat that Nemesis posed, they were drawn to her, finding her in the middle of Manhattan gathering her energies in preparation for overwriting 93060. The heroes attacked, but their uncoordinated efforts did little to phase her, and she began slaughtering her foes, literally ripping them apart with the Infinity Gems to produce raw material for the new reality she intended to create.

    Within seconds she slew everyone except for her original foes, the 616 Avengers and 93060 Ultraforce members. Renewing their attacks, this time as an organized and coordinated force, they managed to momentarily hurt her, and though she swiftly rallied and blasted them away, the distraction provided Black Knight-616 time to sneak up behind Nemesis. Striking with his new Ebony Blade, he shattered the link between the Gems, destroying Nemesis. The energy Nemesis had been gathering exploded out across all of Reality-93060, wiping out the heroes and then the entire timeline; however, since these had been energies Nemesis had been gathering to generate a new reality, they then reset and recreated 93060 almost identically to how it had been, while simultaneously returning most of the 616 heroes, barring Black Knight, to that reality. Having been at the eye of the storm, both groups of heroes vaguely recalled that something apocalyptic had happened and then been averted, but not the details of the encounter.

(Ultraforce Infinity#1) - The sketch universe was recreated as the New World, a partial planet within Reality-93060; most of the sketch Avengers were reborn identical to how they had been prior to the original sketch universe's collapse, and with no memories of what had happened on Earth-93060. However, the team now called itself Ultraforce.

(Ultraforce/Avengers#1 - BTS) - Whether or not the other heroes from across the Multiverse who Nemesis had slain prior to the final explosion were also safely returned to their respective homes remains unrevealed, ...

(Secret Wars#2) - although there is some circumstantial evidence that at least one did.

Comments: Created by Stan Lee, Kurt Busiek and Rob McCallum.

    As revealed in The Stan Lee Story by Roy Thomas, in 1995 Stan Lee and a handful of Marvel writers and artists began working on a new line of comic books, intended to be released under the imprint title of Excelsior Comics. It was to be Stan's own small group of titles outside of regular Marvel continuity. One of the four initial titles was to be Omega by Kurt Busiek and Rob McCallum. Unfortunately, after considerable work had been done on the Excelsior line, Marvel decided not to go ahead with it, and canceled all four titles.
    As a result Omega's cameo in Ultraforce/Avengers#1 marks his only comic appearance, and that issue plus The Stan Lee Story, which showed a few sample pencil pages (here and here) from his issues, as well as the Excelsior article from Comic Book Creators#33, remain the only places he's ever appeared, at least to date.

    From the Comic Book Creators#33 Excelsior article:

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Kurt Busiek didn't have the scripts anywhere easily accessible, but was kind enough to share:

I honestly don't remember much about it. The character had a mysterious background -- the series was meant to make you wonder if he was some sort of fallen angel without ever confirming it, and he had vague but great power. Think the Silver Surfer but wearing an outfit with leather straps. The bad guys were all demonic (but again, no confirmation), and they were out to corrupt Omega. And there was a woman who found Omega when he fell to Earth, and helped him out, who was going to be a love interest, but at this late date I can't remember if she was a doctor or a medical student or maybe even a retail clerk. 

 It was not a character who made you think, "Oh, this'll have a long run." More like a low-rent Silver Surfer retread, although with very striking art by Rob McCallum. And we never got far enough for me to do anything that was my own idea with him -- I wrote maybe an issue and a half, and it was all setting up what Stan wanted established. Sorry for not remembering much. I think there was a fight in a mall.

Kurt discussed Excelsior and the experience of working with Stan further in Comic Book Creators#33. Check it out if you want to know more.

    Omega originally had a sub-profile in the "Ultravengers" profile, published 6/30/2023 as part of the celebration of the 30^th Anniversary of the Ultraverse. I've borrowed a lot of the text for the events in the Ultraverse/Avengers story for the history in this one, but be certain to check out the comments of the Ultravengers profile for a much more detailed discussion of what was involved in the making of this group.

    This profile was completed 09/28/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Omega should be distinguished from:

• OMEGA the UNKNOWN (X3Z) - Protar-created predecessor to James-Michael--Omega the Unknown#1
• OMEGA the UNKNOWN (James-Michael Starling) - successor to X3Z--The Darkhold: Omega#1
  
• OMEGA the UNKNOWN of Reality-7190 - created by the Omegas and sent to watch over Alex Island--Omega: The Unknown#1
  
• OMEGA - android created by Maximus to lead an alpha Primitive revolt, later taken over by Ultron-7--Fantastic Four I#131
• OMEGA - alias briefly used by the Man-Beast--Thor I#134
• OMEGA of the Thanosi - merged with DNA of Galactus, destroyed by explosion of fissionable planet--Infinity Abyss#6
• OMEGA (Michael Pointer) - later Weapon Omega; formerly merged with depowered mutant energies as the Collective; mutant with ability to absorb mutant energy--New Avengers I#16
• OMEGA the ONE-MAN ARMY - merged form of Scramble (Lionel Jeffries) & Roger Bochs--Alpha Flight I#48
• The alien OMEGA race created by the Celestials to colonize the Second Cosmos--Defenders IV#10
• OMEGA-20 (Eugene Omega-20) of Earth-700 - cyborg citizen of Tranquility City, lover of Cassandra Locke; underwent radical genetic alteration for life in deep space, assisted Alexander Locke in locating Cassandra's evidence of Skrull treachery--Marvel: The Lost Generation I#7
• OMEGA 32 - research project, controlled by the Commission, involved with Roxxon's hard air project, involved killing all superhumans who are saturated with nanotechnology--Thunderbolts I#35
• OMEGA BASE of Earth-61024 - SHIELD base attacked by the Masters of Evil--Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
• OMEGA BLACK - clone creation of the Omega Clan--Uncanny X-Force I#25
• OMEGA CLAN - a secret organization that created clones of Omega Red, created by the White Sky & hired by Daken's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to battle X-Force--Uncanny X-Force I#25
• OMEGA COMPOUND - a biochemical weapon used by David Ferrari to destroy AIM base as last resort to prevent it from launching a gene altering chemical in the Middle East, later sought by AIM--Captain America III#35
• OMEGA CONFEDERATION - group formed by the Confederation of Planets to hire Deadpool Corps to fight pirates and bandits--Deadpool Corps#6Omega Core - space settlement, associated with Kyln--Thanos#7
• OMEGA FLIGHT - former Gamma & Beta Flight members manipulated by Jerry Jaxon into attacking Alpha Flight--Alpha Flight I#11
• OMEGA FLIGHT - group formed by the Master of the World to battle Alpha Flight--Alpha Flight I#110
• OMEGA FLIGHT - Canadian government-backed heroic team formed to stop US superhumans fleeing into Canada--Civil War I#7
• OMEGA GANG - created by Quintavius Quire, Xavier School, out to avenge mutant attacks, used Kick, kidnapped Xavier and started a riot at the Institute--New X-Men#135
• OMEGA MACHINE - a device created by the Dark Beast and Norman Osborn to drain a mutant's power--Uncanny X-Men I#513
• OMEGA PRIME SENTINELS - a sub-category of mutant-hunting Sentinels - including Karima Shapandar - alias Omega Sentinel--X-Men Unlimited#27
• OMEGA RAY - alternate identity of extradimensional demon and Beta Ray Bill foe Asteroth--Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill#3
• OMEGA RED (Arkady Rossovitch) - Russian mutant, Wolverine foe--X-Men II#4
• OMEGA RED - clone creation of the Omega Clan--Uncanny X-Force#25
• OMEGA Sentinel (Karima Shapandar) - X-Men ally converted to Omega Prime Sentinel after being captured by Bastion--X-Men Unlimited I#27
• OMEGA SKRULL of Reality-982 - cyborg Skrull, would be destroyer of worlds--Spider-Girl I#46
• OMEGA STONE - power item, part of the Lifestone Tree, and more specifically part of stone discovered on Kree-Lar thousands of years ago which was broken into Alpha + Omega stones - used to power smaller stones - which mutated the original guardians of the galaxy--Marvel Team-Up I#16
• OMEGA TEAM - MI-6 team led by Stone - sought to prove selves as best team in MI-6 - taken out in invasion of Hellfire Base--Master of Kung Fu II#2
• OMEGA TEAM of Earth-93060 - team of three ultra-assassins payed to kill Hardcase--Hardcase#3
• OMEGATRON - magic/science construct - Defenders foe--Marvel Feature I#1
• OMEGA WHITE - clone creation of the Omega Clan--Uncanny X-Force I#25
• KID OMEGA (Quintavius Quire) - omega level mutant telepath, Xavier Institute student, former leader of the Omega Gang-X-Men II#122
• PARADISE OMEGA - the Goddess' headquarters in space - created from debris of Counter-Earth and later destroyed by Thanos--Infinity Crusade#1
• PRESTER OMEGA of Earth-11127- guardian of the Concordance Engine--Defenders IV#2
• WEAPON OMEGA  - an identity used by Kyle Gibney (Wild Child) of Omega Flight--Alpha Flight I#102

It's not 100% clear what's going on in these images, but there's an unidentified woman, some rocks or something apparently being dropped on Omega, and then presumably Slime is the big guy punching Omega while shooting slime out of left eye. Omega apparently unleashed an energy blast that knocks Slime away from him. --The Stan Lee Story

Looks like mostly a montage image, with Pandora and presumably the imps or evils that she controls around her.      The bigger guy may be Slime.      In the center of the image are tiny full body images of Omega and his lady friend, partially blocked by whatever that stretchy guy is.      At the bottom left is a head profiles of Omega and his lady friend.      Bottom right appears to be Oracle's henchmen looking down on Omega and his lady friend. --The Stan Lee Story

EXCELSIOR! Excerpts taken from The Stan Lee Story, pg. 367 & 370, with the logo on pg. 369 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Also from the American Comic Book Chronicles:     images: (without ads) Ultraforce/Avengers#1, p35, pan1 (Omega in the Ultravengers) The Stan Lee Story, p? (unused art from Omega#1 depicting Omega and unidentified) Comic Book Creator#33, pg. 5 (Omega full picture) & dystopia discussion American Comic Book Chronicles article Appearances: Ultraforce/Avengers#1 (Fall 1995) - Warren Ellis (story and dialog), George Perez (artist and storyteller), Paul Neary & Art Thibert (inks), Ken Branch, Dennis Jensen, Karl Kesel, George Perez, Robin Riggs, John Statema & Al Vey (additional inks), Hank Kanalz (editor) The Stan Lee Story (November, 2018) - by Roy Thomas, pg. 367 - introduction to Excelsior     pg. 368 (page with Slime) - Kurt Busiek (writer), Rob McCallum (penciler), Andrew Pepoy (inker)     pg. 369 (page with Pandora, as well as fullish image of Omega and his lady friend, plus a profile picture of both Omega and the lady) art by Rob McCallum (penciler), Andrew Pepoy (inker)     pg. 370 - fate of Excelsior Comic Book Creator#33: Stan's Excelsior Comics (Winter, 2024) - John B. Cooke (editor), John Morrow Publisher, TwoMorrows Publishing

First posted: 09/23/2026
Last updated: 10/26/2025

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