PRIESTS OF PAMA(of Earth-17383's 26th century)
PRIESTS OF PAMA
(of Earth-17383's 26th century)
Membership: None identified
Purpose: To protect history from contradictions in time
Aliases: None
Affiliations: Infant Nathaniel Richards (Earth-6311), Wasp (Nadia)
Enemies: Kang, Scarlet Centurion (both divergent counterparts of Earth-6311's Nathaniel Richards)
Base of Operations: The Eternal Flame of Pama, Earth-17383
First Appearance: Avengers VI#3 (March, 2017)
History:
(Avengers VI#3 (fb)) - When the
infant Nathaniel Richards of Earth-6311 was plucked from his rightful
place in the timestream by the Avengers' Vision, the infant essentially
became a living time paradox and was placed in the care of the Priests
of Pama. The infant's presence ultimately
granted Earth-17383's Priests of Pama a range of minor temporal
abilities. Over centuries of succeeding generations, the Priests of
Pama began to require time itself for sustenance, prompting the Priests
of Pama to surgically feed off meaningless seconds of time to survive.
(Avengers VI#3) - In Earth-17383's 26th century, the
remaining Priests of Pama rescued Earth-616's present-day Wasp and the
infant Nathaniel Richards of Earth-6311 from the timestream and the
legions from various time periods attempting to destroy the infant.
After hearing the origins of the Priests, Wasp questioned whether they
had become, in effect, Kangs, but the Priests of Pama insisted that
they protected the timestream rather than destroyed it. They then led
Wasp to their Eternal Flame of Pama, which was fueled by time paradoxes,
and suggested that Wasp turn over the infant Nathaniel Richards to them
so that they could sacrifice the infant to the Eternal Flame and remove
his paradoxical existence from the timestream. Wasp immediately
declined, reminding the Priests that even if he was destined to become
Kang, Nathaniel was still just a baby. When the Priests peacefully
tried to explain how the infant Nathaniel had become a living paradox
and the Flame would remove the threat of Kang, Wasp feigned misgivings
and pretended to hand over the infant to the Priests, only to instead
fly away from them. After hiding the infant, Wasp then flew through the
Eternal Flame to aid her Avengers teammates, much to the shock of the
Priests of Pama. Returning moments later by pulling the Avengers back
through the Flame, Wasp revealed that she had pulled the Avengers
through to correct the time paradox that the Avengers had become after
the prime Kang had destroyed their infant selves. With the Avengers'
paradoxes corrected by the Flame, Wasp then confirmed with the Priests
that they fed on time paradoxes as the prime Kang and Scarlet Centurion
erupted from the Flame, only to be attacked by the hungry Priests of
Pama. Leaving Kang and Scarlet Centurion to Priests of Pama, the
Avengers then returned the infant Kang to his proper time period on
Earth-6311.
Comments: Created by Mark Waid and Mike del Mundo.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-17383's Priests of Pama have no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
Avengers VI#3, p13, pan1 (Priests of Pama, main image)
Avengers VI#3, p16, pan1 (Priests of Pama, headshots)
Avengers VI#3, p8, pan4 (Priests of Pama, in the past)
Appearances:
Avengers VI#3 (March, 2017) - Mark Waid (writer), Mike del Mundo (art),
Tom Brevoort (editor)
First Posted: 04/20/2018
Last updated: 04/23/2018
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