Respect Clyde Wyncham , the Marquis of Death

[HyperGod]

This thread(as the title suggests) is going to be dedicated to an oft-forgotten but an extremely ruthless and supremely powerful villain in comic book history of the Fantastic Four , and also the former Master of Dr Doom .

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ORIGINS

This section will be devoted to the backstory behind the Marquis' origins .

As some may know(while others may not) , Clyde Wyncham was originally from another universe , a universe much like our own where super-powered characters only existed in comic books .
However , unbeknownst to most , there existed a powerful mutant in this world(the only mutant to ever exist in this reality) , a mutant with game-changing powers . His name : Clyde Wyncham .

Marvel 1985 # 6
As the proceeding scans show , as a mere boy he once hypnotized his entire town and brought his father from the grave , a dead man walking(no pun intended) :

His mother's shocked and violent reaction to the revelation of her son's true nature apparently resulted in Clyde being institutionalized because of the brain damage he suffered from her attack .

20 years later...
All of a sudden , villainous characters from the fictional world of comic books started appearing out of nowhere on the world .


It is revealed that it was Clyde who summoned them , for the abject purpose of teaching the hospital staff a lesson for taking away his comic books , as he was angry that his stuff was left behind when he was being moved to the new hospital .


After Jerry Goodman(the person who was originally hinted to possess Clyde's mutant reality warping powers in prior issues) confronts Clyde , he is shot to death by Red Skull in an attempt to please his master . However , this visibly disturbs Clyde and in a fit of rage he sends all the villains back home . Since his own world is ill-equipped to handle such a powerful being , Captain America volunteers to take him back to the MU , where scientists are more accustomed with the superhuman phenomena :



Fantastic Four # 568 : The final revelation on how Clyde metamorphosized into the Marquis of Death

Back in the Marvel Universe , Clyde was being held in Area 87 , under a device which Reed Richards built that puts him in a state of pleasant dreams , and thereby prevents his fractured mind from wreaking havoc to reality . However , on a fateful day Reed's adversaries united and attacked the facility , thereby releasing Clyde from his slumber . As a result , like the Marquis' own monologue states , "many dreams died that day" :

Upon awakening and killing all of those antagonists(notable among whom were the Molecule Man and Aron the Rogue Watcher) , Clyde's bloodthirsty instincts were awakened as well , and then went on to become master of space and time , traversing all of reality for a billion years , until he finally became.....the Marquis Of Death .

[HyperGod]

POWERS AND ABILITIES
As has been revealed in the previous post , Clyde Wyncham was the only mutant born in his native reality . His abilities mainly consist of vast , Abstract-level reality-altering powers . As he traveled across reality , he mastered them and acquired tremendous proficiency in their usage , as was witnessed by his ability to dispatch his younger self in combat , albeit getting weakened himself in the process(scans of the battle will come) .

As was shown in previous scans , even as a novice , he had enough power to summon characters from another reality into his own universe , present among whom was Galactus himself :


Here , during that scene when Clyde sent the villains back to the MU , even Galactus was forced to obey :


It is further confirmed that he can summon and control Galactus with relative ease , during his battle with his older self :


In an alternate reality(from Fantastic Four # 563) , the Marquis and his apprentice cause widespread devastation on the Earth , with Marquis extinguishing all of life in the process of dispatching Earth's champions :

Once he is done with the last of the heroes(Johnny Storm who attempted to make a useless last stand) , he proceeds to snuff out this Earth's Sun :


Here , Doom gives hints of the Marquis' power . His coming is such a terrifying prospect that the Earth's very ecosystem is showing pangs of anxiety and panic about his imminent arrival :


In Fantastic Four # 566 , it is revealed that the Marquis killed a Watcher from an alternate universe , off-panel :

As Reed's analysis reveals , this Watcher "was killed by an off-the-scale power source" . Reed wonders why the Marquis would murder the Watcher , to which Susan replies that "maybe he(the Watcher) saw something he shouldn't have" .

As subsequent posts show , it was NOT the Marquis who killed this particular Watcher but his Apprentice . However , the whole point becomes moot when one considers that the Marquis was already powerful enough to kill a Watcher when he was much younger(and far less experienced with his powers) .

Psychic Manipulation/Mindphuckery
Here , the Marquis phucks around with Doom's mind , causing him to think that he won a great battle , when in reality he was just laying on the ground , burning . For those who don't consider this to be a monumental feat , know this : Doom has resisted telepathic probing from Emma Frost , and is completely immune to Purple Man's mind control , even without his mask .



That's it , I am done for today , I'll continue tomorrow .

[jakefury]

Nice work. It was a shame that this arc was basically forgotten in FF history.

[Strafe Prower]

Nice Work! I'll add it to the list.

[HyperGod]

@jake and Strafe :

Thanks for the props . I am in the process of digging up more scans , and will soon post them once they are in the proper order .

[HyperGod]

POWERS AND ABILITIES(contd...)

More Mindphuckery
Here(from Fantastic Four # 568) , the Marquis yet again displays his ability to casually toy with the minds of others , by telepathically showing Johnny a view of all the Sue Richards' that the Marquis has murdered across different realities . As one can see from the proceeding scan , this shuts up the smart@$$ from doing all his trash-talking .


Temporal BFR
Here Marquis bfr's Dr Doom into the Pliocene Era , leaving him to be fed to the sharks(again no pun intended) .



Confirmation that Doom was indeed BFRéd :

As the above scan shows , it was the Apprentice(aka the upgraded Doom) who killed the Watcher and not the Marquis(I made a botch in the previous posts which'll soon be rectified) . However , by his own admission , even with all his upgrades , his master's powers remained "far in excess of my own" .

Matter Transmutation/Manipulation
Here Marquis(who is again basically just toying with his prey) transmutes Doom's heart into stone and his blood into acid :


More Summoning power at display
Here , the Marquis effortlessly summoned an army of thousands of alternate Fantastic Fours to battle the mainstream ones . From Fantastic Four # 569 :


In the same issue , he summons high-tier Abstracts like Eternity , Ego and what looks to be Love and Hate , during his battle with his younger self :


Here's the entire battle sequence :

He ultimately defeats his younger self in their "interdimensional workout"(in Reed's words) , however the battle severely taxes him .

[Strafe Prower]

Wonderful additions. Keep it up sir!

[HyperGod]

DOWNFALL

From Fantastic Four # 569 :
With the Marquis having been conveniently weakened due to his battle with his younger self , the FF(who had secretly managed to drain the power of all those 1000s of other alternate FFs summoned by the Marquis , courtesy of Reed and Val) , stage one final onslaught in which Reed instructs Johnny to burn upto "Planck Temperature" , the opposite of absolute zero , temperature at which space-time itsefl would break , thereby disabling the already weakened Marquis' powers . According to the Marquis himself , such a strategy involving Johnny going Planck Temperature(which in modern physics is considered to be the temperature present at the earliest stages of the Big Bang) would have ruptured the multiverse itself , causing him to panic and tell them that they do not understand the forces they toy with , to which Reed gives yet another smart@$$ reply : "Look who's talking" .

As shown in the above scans , Reed and co. could only have sustained such massive power for 23.4 seconds in their bodies , before their having their hearts explode , had they not sent the FF armies back to their home dimensions even as the Marquis was getting depowered . And as the Marquis himself reveals , in his weakened state it would have taken around an army of FFs to beat him , an army which they had(courtesy of the Marquis himself) at their disposal to power-leech .

POST DEFEAT : DEATH OF THE MARQUIS
Once he was defeated , his apprentice came to his aid . However things would only spiral down for the Marquis from here , as the Apprentice would be revealed to be Dr Doom himself , who had not only managed to survive being plunged in the Pliocene Era , but had mastered all sorts of black arts over the course of several millennia . Doom ultimately lands the killing blow on the now powerless , frail Marquis , ending his threat once and for all :

As Doom notes himself however , even after getting all that power upgrade , the Marquis' abilities were still in excess of his own(a point mentioned previously as well in this thread) . Plus , he had to transform himself on a molecule-by-molecule basis to deceive the Marquis of his true identity .


Overall , it took an extended battle with his own future self(who was nearly as powerful as himself) to sufficiently weaken him for a heavily amped FF to take advantage of , and the upgraded Doom had to wait for such an opportunity to arise in which the Marquis' powers were depleted/expended to strike . If any of these variables had been removed , the Marquis would have won the day , like he did in all those alternate Earths he plundered .

So , that's it folks , I am done for now . If I have missed any relevant showings , please do notify me and I'll dig up my FF collection and post the stuff , or better still post it yourself .

[HyperGod]

Sept 23, 2012 23:01:27 GMT -5 Strafe Prower said:

Wonderful additions. Keep it up sir!

Thanks a lot .

[Beyonder]

So he can summon cosmic beings as well?