Uranos the Undying
Uranos the Undying is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Uranos
The war was ended by the betrayal of the Eternal Druig, Uranos' own grandson. With the war lost Uranos' followers created a patchwork clone of him, who they treated as the real one and followed him into space to begin a colony on the planet Uranus, leaving the original Uranos to be captured by his brothers. He was forced to protect his own mind-scape against the Eternals for a century before he became the first of the Eternals to be imprisoned within the Exclusion because of the failsafe he imposed upon the Machine. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1)
He existed there for over half a million years, untouched by the later shifts of Eternal society, never being killed or resurrected even during events like Sprite's infamy or the mass suicide of the Eternals. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1)
When his great-nephew Thanos became Prime Eternal, he visited his great-uncle in the Exclusion on Druig's suggestion. Uranos told Thanos his story. Seeing potential in Thanos, Uranos decided to gift him his imprint-key to his armories, giving Thanos the ability to destroy the Machine. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1)
Afterwards, Druig usurped Thanos as Prime Eternal and discovered that Mutants were very similar to Deviants. (Eternals v5 #12) He attempted to exterminate them by obliterating the mutant island Krakoa. To his surprise, he was stopped by the Eternals' second principle to protect the Machine so he sought Uranos' aid. (A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment v1 #1) While the other Eternals under Druig's command launched an attack on Krakoa, Druig freed Uranos for a single hour to wreck havoc on Krakoa's sister nation, Arakko. (A.X.E.: Judgment Day v1 #1) Uranos unleashed his machines on the red planet, confronted both Legion and the Great Ring of Arakko, and left victorious. Unfortunately, he did not check if he had truly killed the Great Ring and most of them survived the encounter, even Magneto whose heart was ripped out. (X-Men: Red v2 #5) While back in the Exclusion, Druig unleashed him once again to prevent himself from losing the title of Prime Eternal. However, Uranos decided to ravage the Earth instead. Iron Man went to Arakko and delivered Magneto and Storm to Uranos. As they unleashed their rage on Uranos, Iron Man hacked his machines and turned them against him. (A.X.E.: Judgment Day v1 #4) Although Uranos was defeated, he was not killed because his death would destroy the Machine, and ergo Earth. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1) He was imprisoned again but was given Druig as a cellmate, whom he happily used as a toy. Meanwhile, Storm was given the key to unleash Uranos for an hour by Zuras as an apology for Druig's actions as the Prime Eternal. (A.X.E.: Judgment Day Omega v1 #1)
The Night Seats had been safeguarding the trigger to unleash Uranos and Syzya of the Smoke went to retrieve it. The Eternals had designed the trigger so that it could only be pulled with full understanding of what it would mean: total genocide. The trigger also allowed Uranos to communicate with the person holding it. Unwilling to pull the trigger herself, Syzya passed it to Storm, who refused to use it. When Jon Ironfire told Storm that she was not strong enough to do it, she destroyed the trigger to prevent its use. (X-Men: Red v2 #17)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He gained his unique features from his actions; his hands were stained blue following his genocide of Lemuria while the cracks in his face came from resisting the physical and mental torture by his peers trying to strip the failsafe from him. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1) His ties to the Machine led to him also being known as the Eternal Mechanist. (Legion of X v1 #6) He also came to be known as Uranos of the Underworld, as Uranos the Undying, and as the Dungeon Where All Lights Fail. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1)
As one of the original Eternals, Uranos was one of the Patriarchs who were charged over one of the dynasties descended from him. (Eternals: The Heretic #1)
Vexed by the Eternals' third principle to correct excess deviation, he proposed a final solution: Eliminate all non-Eternal life. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1)
As a result of his crimes, he came to be the first Eternal to ever be excluded. (Eternals v5 #1) As Uranos has set up a failsafe that his death or his mind being wiped would result in the destruction of the Earth, the Eternals are forced to keep him locked up. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1)
Uranos had two brothers in his fellow Patriarchs that were Oceanus and Kronos. (Eternals: The Heretic #1)
Thanos came to consider Uranos to be his honorary grandfather despite his descent from the dynastic line of Kronos. (Eternals: The Heretic #1)
Powers and abilities
As an Eternal, he was born to be virtually immortal having lived for 1 million years. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1) As a Patriarch, Uranos was one of the most powerful of the Eternals. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1) As such, he was noted for being far more powerful than most Omega-level mutants. (X-Men: Red v2 #5)
Uranos was able to survive several minutes of intense damage without suffering major damage. (A.X.E.: Judgment Day v1 #4)
He had the ability to shoot lasers from his eyes and release an energy blast from his chest that was able to obliterate most of Lemuria. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1) He was also capable of firing energy from his hands. (Legion of X v1 #6)
This arsenal was said to be capable of destroying the Machine that was Earth. As part of his failsafe, he had installed a system that if was ever mindwiped or killed than the weapons would be triggered to self-destruct thus destroying the Machine and the planet as well. (Eternals: The Heretic v1 #1) It was said that even 0.003% of this armoury was enough to kill 11,553 super-powered beings in just 30 seconds. (X-Men: Red v2 #5) The strength of these weapons were said to be even capable of overcoming Uranos's own durability. (A.X.E.: Judgment Day v1 #4)
Notes
- Uranos was created by Jim Starlin where he made his first appearance in What If? v1 #24 (September, 1980).
- In an interview on CBR, Kieron Gillen commented, "I've looked at the history of the Eternals and the early ones who did really awful things were locked in an Eternal prison. They've been considered too dangerous. Uranos is almost a Satan figure in Eternal history. He's someone who wanted to wipe out everyone on Earth."
Appearances
- What If? v1: (1980)
- Eternals: The Heretic v1:
- Eternals v5:
- A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment v1:
- X-Men: Red v2:
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