CAPTAIN
PRYDAIN
Real
Name: Lloyd
Thomas
Identity/Class: Extradimensional
(Earth-7580)
human mutate
Occupation: Protector
Group
Membership: The Corps
Affiliations: Presumably
the Corps (Brian Braddock-616,
others)
Enemies: Albion
(Bran Bardic
of Earth-70518); extradimensional
slavers/warlords
Known
Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base
of Operations: Earth-7580
First
Appearance: New
Excalibur#18 (May, 2007)
Powers/Abilities: Captain
Prydain possessed
superhuman strength, sufficient enough to punch the superhumanly strong
and
durable Albion through a stone wall, and flight. He also possessed
superhuman
durability, allowing him to withstand punches from superhumanly strong
opponents.
History:
(Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z HC Vol. 2 (Corps entry) - BTS) -
Captain Prydain of
Earth-7580 was a member of the Corps.
(New
Excalibur#18 (fb)) -
When the extradimensional
warlords who had controlled Earth-70518 were confronted by Albion of
that
Earth, they attempted to flee via their Dimensional Doorway. Once it
was
activated, it located Earth-7580 and the doorway opened but before the
warlords
could flee, Captain Prydain
of Earth-7580 emerged
from the portal via his own Dimensional
Doorway. Suspecting that the warlords had controlled
Earth-70518 for generations,
Captain Prydain dragged them
along until he saw Albion preparing to kill an enemy combatant. Despite
orders
from Prydain to drop
the enemy, Albion savagely
decapitated him, prompting Captain Prydain
to attack.
Shocked to see a face he thought to be Brian Braddock when he punched
Albion's
mask off, Captain Prydain
was defeated by Albion and
placed in cuffs. Albion then opened the portal to Earth-7580 to see
what was on
the other side and ventured into that reality with Prydain
in tow. Back on his home Earth, Captain Prydain
apologized for thinking Albion an enemy and commented how Albion was
the only
one he had ever heard of who chose the Sword over the Amulet when faced
with
Roma and Merlyn. He then explained that he had made a mistake in
attacking
Albion, to which Albion agreed. Albion then decapitated Captain Prydain, commenting that Prydain had
now paid for his mistake. Albion then announced that he and his
comrades would
take Earth-7580 as their own, plotting to strip Roma of her Captains
and Brian
Braddock.
Comments: Created by Chris
Claremont, Scott Eaton,
Staz Johnson, John Dell,
Scott Hanna, Dave Meikis
and Tom Palmer.
In his first and only appearance, Captain Prydain was not identified. It was not until the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z HC Vol. 2 (2008) that he was given the codename of Captain Prydain and the real name of Lloyd Thomas.
Prydain is the Welsh name for
Britain, dating back to medieval times.
This would suggest that the British Isles of Earth-7580 were dominated
by Wales, rather than England, and that the island of Britain might
well
be the island of Prydain in that reality. Since Captain Prydain's
costume includes an identical color scheme and similar layout to the
Union Flag, it is still likely that England, Wales, Scotland and
perhaps
Ireland (part or all) formed a united kingdom as they did in our
world.
---Loki
Captain
Prydain's real name, Lloyd Thomas, is a homage to the writer
Lloyd Alexander, author of the fantasy series The Chronicles of
Prydain,
and a nod to famous Welshmen Gareth Thomas, both an actor (incl. in
Blake's 7, a British sci-fi TV series that was also licensed by Marvel
in the UK) and a rugby
player who share that latter name.
---Loki
Profile
by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Captain Prydain has no
known connections to
- any other of the myriad "Captain
Britain" characters that make up the Corps
images: (without ads)
New Excalibur#18, p16, pan6 (main
image)
New Excalibur#18, p21, pan4 (unmasked)
Appearances:
New Excalibur#18 (May, 2007) - Chris Claremont (writer), Scott Eaton, Staz Johnson (pencils), John
Dell, Scott Hanna, Dave Meikis,
Tom Palmer (inks), Nick Lowe, Andy Schmidt
(editors)
First Posted: 09/07/2013
Last updated 09/22/2013
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