History
The shadowy C.E.O.
Avatarr was a member of an unknown alien species with multi-dimensional vision[4] and hallucinogens for blood. At some point in the 21st Century, he took control of the major American corporation, Alchemax,[3] becoming its C.E.O. and establishing a new Board of Directors composed of Vice-Presidents of Alchemax's several divisions and departments.[1][5]
Since he wanted to completely hide his very existence from the public's eye, Avatarr had Alchemax Director-General[6] Anderthorp Henton publicly acting as the corporation's C.E.O.[7]
To find an ultimate resolution to both Alchemax's rival company Stark-Fujikawa and the recently appeared Nueva York hero Spider-Man,[2] Avatarr had Research & Development Vice-President Tyler Stone employing Stark-Fujikawa's warrior known as the Specialist in order to kidnap a girl named Kasey Nash, who had a debt with Alchemax.[8] Then, when the girl accidentally escaped the Alchemax Building, the Specialist was honor bound to recapture her, ending up in a confrontation with Spider-Man, who accidentally killed him with his talons.[9] In fact, Avatarr hoped that Stark-Fujikawa would waste time and resources avenging the Specialist's death, leaving Alchemax free from its largest opponent and from an inconvenient enemy.[2] However, the plan was not successfully since Spider-Man accidentally fell from a skyscraper and lost himself in Downtown.[10]
When the super-hero phenomena resurfaced in 2099 for the first time since the Heroic Age, Avatarr set up a Board Meeting at Alchemax Headquarters where he proceeded to inform his subordinates about a plan to discredit and replace these heroes.[1][5] Seizing upon the Church of Thor movement, Avatarr selected test subjects to undergo nano-reconstruction into Asgardian archetypes such as Thor Odinson,[4][11] Heimdall,[12] Hela,[13] Baldur,[4] and Loki.[14] Those false Gods would use the religion fervor of the Thorites combined with corporate backing to win the people and eliminate the heroes.[4][14][11]
Avatarr's plan failed when a coalition of heroes composed by Doom, Punisher, Ravage and Spider-Man defeated his Aesir, killing several of them and claiming the power of Valhalla, the Aesir's floating city, for themselves.[15][16][14][11][17] Avatarr taunted the heroes ad he departed away, showing the Punisher a vision of his own death in a near future.[17]
Alien appearance
Trivia
- According to Peter David,[19] the CEO of Alchemax was originally supposed to be an aged Peter Parker; hints of this idea were put by David in Spider-Man 2099 #6, the CEO's first shadowy appearance, where the CEO himself admitted he knew the original Spider-Man very well. During an interview, David revealed that he had the opportunity to develop his original plan for Parker as the CEO in the video-game Spider-Man: Edge of Time, in which Peter Parker is actually the CEO of Alchemax in an alternate timeline.[20]
- Instead, in Spider-Man 2099 (Vol. 3), David revealed that in an alternate 2099 AD, the CEO of Alchemax is a Skrull impersonating J. Jonah Jameson.
See Also
- 13 appearance(s) of Avatarr (Earth-928)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Avatarr (Earth-928)
- 8 mention(s) of Avatarr (Earth-928)
- 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Avatarr (Earth-928)
- 7 image(s) of Avatarr (Earth-928)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about Avatarr (Earth-928)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ravage 2099 #11
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Spider-Man 2099 #6
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Doom 2099 #31
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Punisher 2099 #11
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Spider-Man 2099 #13
- ↑ Ravage 2099 #1
- ↑ Ravage 2099 #6
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 #4
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 #5
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 #5–6
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Doom 2099 #14
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 #15
- ↑ Ravage 2099 #14
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 X-Men 2099 #5
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 #16
- ↑ Ravage 2099 #15
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Punisher 2099 #13
- ↑ Doom 2099 #30–31
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 's original writer
- ↑ [1]