Psyklop

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Psyklop
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Psyklop's first appearance in Avengers #88.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Avengers #88 (May 1971)
Created by Harlan Ellison
Roy Thomas
Sal Buscema
Jim Mooney
In-story information
Team affiliationsDark Gods
AbilitiesGenius-level intellect
Energy projection
Hypnosis
Enhanced strength, speed, agility, durability, and endurance
Powerful claws and fangs
Double-jointed limbs

Psyklop is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created in combination by Harlan Ellison, Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema and Jim Mooney, the character first appeared in Avengers #88. [1]

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Fictional character biography

Psyklop is the last survivor of a prehistoric, insectoid species. They dominated the Earth before falling out of favor with the Dark Gods they worshipped and being placed in hibernation. [2] [3]

Eons later, the Dark Gods awaken Psyklop and task him with finding a power source for them. In exchange, the rest of his species would be awoken and allowed to conquer the Earth. After covertly organizing a voodoo-based cult in New Orleans, Psyklop discovers that the Hulk possesses the power he needs to energize the Dark Gods and captures him for study. In the process, he shrinks the Hulk to a microscopic size, transporting him to the Microverse. Psyklop also battles the Avengers when they arrive to rescue Hulk, erasing their memories and returning them to New York. [4] [3] [5]

Psyklop later finds Hulk in the sub-atomic planet K'ai, where he had met and fallen in love with Princess Jarella. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] He shrinks himself to capture him, but is defeated, taken away by the Dark Gods, and abandoned on K'ai with no means of returning to his normal size. [12] [13]

While on K'ai, Psyklop creates a giant drill to cause catastrophic earthquakes on K'ai, only stopping if its inhabitants agreed to worship him. He also captures the spirits of those killed by the earthquakes, planning on give them to the Dark Gods. [14] Psyklop hypnotizes Hulk when he arrives to stop him, but is ultimately defeated by him and consumed by the captured spirits. [15]

Powers and abilities

Psyklop is an inventive genius and has mastery of the advanced technology of his race. Psyklop has access to advanced technology, including a hand-held ray-blaster firing beams of concussive force, sonic displacer beams, Spasm-rays (able to disrupt the nervous systems of his victims) and teleporters. He wears body armor of unknown materials. Psyklop has also employed giant Lemurian slug creatures, teleportation rays, shrinking rays, giant robots, planetary view-scanners, a dreadnought-drill (capable of producing planet-wide earthquakes), and an essence-urn (capable of storing the life-forces of living beings).

Psyklop has a single compound eye, like all members of his race. He can fire energy blasts from his eye, and his eye allows him to instantaneously hypnotize a victim through beams of light from his single eye.

Psyklop has enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, and durability, and is an average hand-to-hand combatant. He has sharpened canine teeth, and clawed and double-jointed limbs.

In other media

An illusory Psyklop appears in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "The Prison Plot". [16]

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