Orrgo
Orrgo is a comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Orrgo
Orrgo arrived on Earth from outer space and landed in a remote mountainous region. He utilized hypnotic mental powers to exert control over the entire human population, placing the world's inhabitants into a state of total paralysis or trance. He then moved through various major cities, including London, Paris, and New York, where he dismantled military defenses and destroyed various monuments and buildings using telekinetic force and heat beams emitted from his eyes. He gathered a large portion of the Earth's military equipment and melted it down into a single pile to demonstrate his dominance. After establishing global control, he returned to his original landing site to rest. While he was in a state of hibernation, a local circus performer named Jo-Jo used a trained gorilla to attack the sleeping extraterrestrial. The gorilla struck Orrgo repeatedly, leading to his physical expiration. Following his death, the mental grip he held over the human race was instantly severed, and his body was left in the mountains as the world returned to its normal state. (Strange Tales v1 #75)
S.T.A.K.E.
Through unknown means, Orrgo was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. and placed in the Howling Commandos Monster Force. (Nick Fury's Howling Commandos v1 #6)
Later on, he came to join another incarnation of the Howling Commandos led by Dum-Dum Dugan. Due to Orrgo's enormous size, he did serve as a field member of the team but instead as technical support and communications. (Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #1)
The monster later came to go through the files of Dr. Paul Kraye who discovered this intrusion. He alerted Maria Hill claiming that Orrgo went rogue and Orrgo was imprisoned at Pleasant Hill, where he was turned into a dog by Kobik. This led the Life Model Decoy of Dum Dum Dugan into finding Pleasant Hill and leading the Howling Commandos there in order to rescue Orrgo. Orrgo is rescued as the group is transported back to S.T.A.K.E. HQ by Kobik. Once back at S.T.A.K.E. HQ, Orrgo detects that Paul Kraye has released all the inmates there. (Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #6)
Orrgo was with the Howling Commandos at the time when they helped Old Man Logan rescue Jubilee from Dracula. (Old Man Logan v2 #15)
He came to be among the monsters that helped to fight the Leviathon Tide. (Monsters Unleashed v2 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Orrgo was a male member of an unidentified extraterrestrial race who possessed a non-human, monstrous facial structure and orange-hued skin. His face was dominated by two large, circular white eyes with no visible pupils and a wide, lipless mouth filled with numerous small, pointed teeth. He lacked a traditional nose and ears, instead featuring deep furrows and wrinkled textures across his cranium. He possessed a massive, rotund body type with an oversized, barrel-shaped torso that appeared disproportionately large compared to his limbs. His arms and legs were short and thick, ending in large hands with four blunt fingers and wide, flat feet. His physical form was covered in a lumpy, rock-like hide that gave him a rugged and uneven texture. He wore no traditional clothing or costume, appearing completely nude without any visible biological ornamentation or technological accessories. (Strange Tales v1 #75)
It was revealed that he had a son named Zrrgo who resided amongst the monster community of Earth. (Deadpool v8 #1)
Powers and abilities
Orrgo demonstrated a diverse array of extraterrestrial and psionic abilities during his initial appearance. He exhibited the capacity for instantaneous teleportation, moving himself across billions of miles of space in under a minute to reach Earth. He possessed vast mental powers, most notably the ability to hypnotize the entire human population simultaneously, rendering them subservient to his will. His telekinetic skills were shown when he levitated entire cities, military vehicles, and people into the air, and he animated inanimate objects, such as trees, to act as his personal warriors. Orrgo also displayed molecular reconstruction abilities, which he used to physically reconfigure objects at a subatomic level, such as melting heavy weaponry and transforming aircraft into giant birds. He exhibited cryokinesis by encasing the city of Washington D.C. in a massive block of ice and used powerful heat beams from his eyes to incinerate structural monuments. Physically, he showed superhuman strength by easily dismantling military defenses and possessed a degree of superhuman breath capable of knocking humans off their feet. (Strange Tales v1 #75)
Notes
- Orrgo was created by Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in Strange Tales v1 #90 (November, 1961).
Alternate Versions
- In Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four v1 #35 (2008), an alternate version of Orrgo appeared in the Marvel Adventures reality that was designated as Earth-20051 in the Multiverse. Orrgo came to earth to conqor it, but was driven off by the Thing. A week later he gained diplomatic immunity and returned earth reformed and was invited to be a judge in Thomas Zircon's beauty pagent. The Fantastic Four were also invited as judges and Orrgo and the Thing argued back and forth wit during the judging. A.I.M. attempted to find Orrgo's technology but were confronted by the Fantastic Four and ultimately Orrgo used his powers to make all the agents quit A.I.M.. This left Chili Storm as the winner of the pageant and she chose Orrgo to go on a date with.
- In Heroes Reborn v2 #6 (2021), an alternate version of Orrgo appeared in the new Heroes Reborn reality that was designated as Earth-21798 in the Multiverse. This version was noted to had fought Power Princess who killed him and mounted his decapitated head on a wall as a trophy.
In other media
Video games
- In Marvel Avengers Academy, Orrgo appeared in the setting of the mobile video game. Orrgo was a member of the alien race Mentelleronites. Orrgo was constantly being picked on by members of his race due to his short-comings, to prove his worth Orrgo set out to space to conquer other planets. Orrgo ended up on Earth where yet again he was not able to accomplish his goals, and prove his worth, Orrgo stayed on Earth with the intent of still conquering it one day. Orrgo was one of the many monsters who were mind controlled by Fin Fang Foom, Foom wanted revenge after being trapped in the timefog, so he used the monsters to launch a globe wide attack on Earth. Orrgo accompanied Foom when he went to attack the Avengers. Using the mental powers characteristic of his race, Orrgo was able to break off Fin Fang Foom control. Instead of getting revenge on the dragon, Orrgo decided to ignore him and go back to his plan of conquering Earth on his own. Orrgo would then attack the Avengers himself, he tried to intimidate the heroes by telling them all the achievements of his past, but the Avengers ended up beating up the monster into submission. Nick Fury who had told him to submit to them already, took this opportunity invite him to be part of S.H.I.E.L.D., an offer that the surprised Orrgo ended up accepting. Orrgo later joined S.H.I.E.L.D. supernatural division S.T.A.K.E. as a member of the Howling Commandos. When Baron Strucker attacked the Howling Commandos base Orrgo and his teammates were caught by surprised and captured, the Baron used a portal to the Nexus of All Realities to summon zombie counterparts of former Hydra leaders to help him achieve that. The Avengers came to their assist and freed the Commandos who then defeated Strucker and his minions.
Appearances
- Strange Tales v1: (1961)
- Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1:
- Monsters Unleashed v2:
- Deadpool v8:
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