Beelzebub (Earth-616)

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Beelzebub
Name	Beelzebub
Aliases	The Devil, Satan, Jean Tarot's construct: Belial, Crooked Serpent, the Father of Lies, the Angel of the Bottomless Pit, the Enslaver of Men
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Hell-Lords
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Bald
Unusual Features	Horns, fangs, wings, tail
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Demon; Fallen angel
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Base of Operations	Hell Formerly Heaven
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Larry Lieber
First	Journey Into Unknown Worlds #19 (March, 1953)
First	Journey Into Unknown Worlds #19 (March, 1953)

History

Origin and early years

Beelzebub was an Angel living in Heaven.

According to unconfirmed sources, Beelzebub became a fallen angel, cast out of Heaven, possibly for participating in Lucifer's rebellion.

He became a Hell-Lord.

Identity confusion

The identity of Beelzebub was often attributed to other entities, or usurped by them:

• Some cultures believed the entity now known as the Bete Noir was a demonic being such as Beelzebub, Mephistopheles or Satan.
• His name was also usurped by Neyaphem (demonic-looking mutant) Azazel, and by Mephisto.
• As the allegedly sole dark master over the souls of men, the god-thing known as Malik Tous was also known under others identities, including Satan, Ahriman and Beelzebub.

Beelzebub also became known as Satan and the Devil.

Modern days

According to Mephisto, Beelzebub often mocked him for not "getting" Hitler.

Charlie Hagarth was able to collect information about an apocryphal book, the Book of Satan, from various sources: "an obscure mention of it in hieroglyphics... a word in sanskrit there... a hint of it in Icelandic bardic poetry". In that book was the Hymn to Beelzebub, a sentence meant to enslave the Devil to do the speaker's biding.

In order to protect himself, Beelzebub infiltrated the expedition as "Jean", to move the Book each time Hagarth was closing in. Ultimately, as he tried to remove the book from the tomb of Assadmaian, in Iraq, Beelzebub was forced to reveal himself to Hagart and devoured him, before looking for a new place to hide the book of Satan.

When summoning Mephisto, Doom invoked his name along with Satan's, Baphomet's and Thog's.

At some point, he built an ice road through Hell, but the road started to melt fast.

Notes

"Beelzebub"

• Shortly after her resurrection, Tarot created a psionic construct of Beelzebub (also called Belial, Crooked Serpent, the Father of Lies, the Angel of the Bottomless Pit, the Enslaver of Men) to fight the New Mutants and recover Cypher.