Aegis (Lady of All Sorrows)
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| Aegis | |
 Interior art from Annihilation: Silver Surfer #3 (2006). Art by Andrea DiVito |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Annihilation: Silver Surfer #3 (Aug. 2006) |
| Created by | Keith Giffen Andrea DiVito |
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| Place of origin | The Crunch[1] |
| Team affiliations | Proemial Gods |
| Notable aliases | Lady of All Sorrows, She of All Sorrows |
| Abilities | vast cosmic abilities, able to fire cosmic blasts from her hands |
Aegis is a fictional character, a comic book cosmic entity published by Marvel Comics and appearing as an enemy of Galactus. Created by writer Keith Giffen and artist Andrea DiVito, the character first appeared in Annihilation: Silver Surfer #3 (Aug. 2006). She is a member of the Proemial Gods and an ally of fellow member, Tenebrous.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Origin and War
Shortly after the Big Bang of the Marvel universe, the Proemial Gods arose from the very universe itself, collectively existing to maintain the cosmic consonance between order and chaos in the universe and to prepare "what exists for what is to come."[2] Individually, each Promeial God became a caretaker of a specific universal mechanism, with Aegis of All Sorrows being tasked with "culling the living universe of divergences and aberrations."[1] Over several millennia, the universe evolves, and life-forms begin to populate the cosmos. As each unique life-form enacts decisions and choices, cosmic consonance as a whole is served. This ultimately renders the Proemial Gods unnecessary. One of the Proemial Gods, Diableri of Chaos, convinces many of his brethren-including Aegis and Tenebrous-to prevent their obsolescence by a plan to remake the universe in his image. Civil war ensues among the Proemial Gods, and eventually Diableri and his allies bring the battle to Galactus. Seeking to preserve cosmic consonance, Galactus judges the Proemial Gods to be corrupted by ambition, and slays Diableri while imprisoning Aegis-along with Tenebrous and the Proemial God Antiphon the Overseer-in the Kyln.[1]
[edit] Annihilation
The events of the Annihilation Wave find the Kyln prison facility compromised, allowing Aegis and Tenebrous to escape. Meanwhile, Thanos of Titan is tasked by Annihilus, the orchestrator of the Annihilation Wave, to discover the secret of the Power Cosmic. Thanos approaches Teneberous and Aegis and forms an alliance with them against their common enemy, Galactus. Aegis, Tenebrous, and Thanos engage and defeat Galactus and the Silver Surfer in battle, delivering them to Annihilus for experimentation.[3]
[edit] Death
After the events of the Annihilation Wave, Aegis and Tenebrous return to the Kyln, discovering the carcass of Antiphon. Galactus, having escaped from containment, seeks to bring a final close to the ambitions of Aegis and Tenebrous. Galactus sends the Silver Surfer ahead to detain them until he arrives. The Silver Surfer engages both Aegis and Tenebrous in battle, and manages to channel the energies of the nearby Crunch, the barrier that separates the universe from the Negative Zone. Overwhelmed by the Crunch energies, Aegis meets her death.[1]
[edit] Powers and abilities
Although the full extent of her powers is unknown, Aegis possesses cosmic abilities similar to that of other Proemial Gods, and has been described as a "possessor of power on par with Galactus."[4] Additionally, she is believed to wield the Power Cosmic[2], though it has never been confirmed on-panel that she possesses the power. Nevertheless, Aegis has displayed concussive force sufficient to incapacitate Galactus,[3] and make instant hyper-jumps throughout the universe[1], and cosmic awareness.
