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History
Origin[]
He was a pirate and scavenger, obsessed with dealing with aliens and their technologies. At some point he had intentionally exposed himself to the Cosmic Radiation for five years in order to get superpowers. In result he gained the power to turn anything he touched into solid gold and renamed himself Midas. He established the Midas Foundation and became a multi-trillionaire, but remained behind the scenes as legally he doesn't even existed.[1]
Exposure to the Cosmic Radiation made him sterile, so he had adopted a girl[3] and named her Oubliette Midas after the medieval torture instrument. Midas used physical and emotional torture to raise her as a perfect assassin, completely loyal to him.[6][8] Midas had never told her about the adoption, instead claiming what she was his biological child and what all the pain he caused her was to burn away her weaknesses and transform her into his heir, the true Midas with conquest in her blood.[3] He had also surrounded Oubliette with an outrageous luxury, gifting her a Pocket Dimension when she was 16.[9]
Midas took pleasure in capturing all kinds of aliens and torturing them for information. He then dissected, gutted and catalogued their bodies, before selling the leftovers to the connoisseurs of alien anatomy and patenting the alien technologies.[1] He had also forced Oubliette to participate in all of this even when she was still a young child.[3]
Noh-Varr[]
Midas needed more Cosmic Radiation to complete his mutation. When the scientists of the Midas Foundation discovered the S.O.S. signal from The Marvel alien ship with the engine powered by Cosmic Radiation, Midas had ordered to shoot it down. He then sent teams to the wreck site to disassemble the ship and gather everything useful. The few bits they discovered were immediately patented, and according to Midas would triple his wealth overnight. Noh-Varr was the only member of the ship's crew who survived after the crash. Noh-Varr was captured and delivered to Midas for interrogation, but eventually managed to escape.[1]
Midas then sent his daughter to capture Noh-Varr again, but Noh-Varr managed to convince Oubliette to betray her father.[4]
Midas and his scientists continued to work on The Marvel's engine. Eventually he managed to enter it and was exposed to a large amount of the Cosmic Radiation and further mutated. He had obtained powers similar to those of the original Fantastic Four. However, it had also further aggravated his insanity. Claiming to now having Cosmic Awareness beyond of anything what mere humans could comprehend, he had killed all the scientists and then downloaded all the knowledge from Plex about the Multiverse. Renaming himself the Cosmic Man, he declared what all other forms of life in the universe now became obsolete.[6]
The next moment Midas was attacked by Noh-Varr and Oubliette, together they managed to defeat and seemingly kill him. In truth, Midas ended up in the Dark Dimension where he was hunted down by the Mindless Ones.[6][5]
Original Sin[]
Somehow Midas had managed to return from the Dark Dimension and reunited with Oubliette.[2]
When the Orb contacted Midas to help him steal from the Watcher's citadel, the Exterminatrix accompanied them, and also got ahold of one of the eyes of the Watcher after he was knocked out by Orb.[10] The eye's influence caused numerous Mindless Ones in possession of the Orb to radically change, develop thoughts, and evolve. After one of the Mindless Ones escaped the Orb's lair and committed suicide following a battle against the Avengers, the heroes began investigating the connection between the Mindless Ones' behavior and the death of Uatu, who had died shortly after the assault on his base.[11]
When The Orb, Exterminatrix, and Midas were finally pinned down, she fought numerous heroes until her defeat. The Orb then revealed himself and activated the eye, unleashing the secrets of the Watcher.[12] In the confusion created by the blast, the Exterminatrix and Midas escaped.[2] They then activated a spaceship hidden in a secret location to get back to the Moon and get more from the Watcher's base.[13]
On the Moon, Nick Fury tried to stop Doctor Midas, but he was attacked by the Mindless Ones. After getting rid of the monsters, Fury found Midas absorbing the powers from Uatu's corpse. Fury forced Midas to fully absorb the power of one of Uatu's eyes, it overloaded Midas and he then exploded.[7]
Legacy[]
Before he died, one of Midas' hands was chopped off. Oubliette took it away and escaped. Later on she used the blood from the hand to create special bullets that had the same effect as Doctor Midas' touch, turning anything hit by the bullet into solid gold.[8]
Years later, during the Judgment Day Oubliette infiltrated the Baxter Building to capture Mister Fantastic and a source of Cosmic Radiation. She failed, and instead had finally learned from Invisible Woman about being an adopted instead of biological child of Doctor Midas.[3]Personality
Attributes
Powers
All of Doctor Midas' powers stem from exposure to Cosmic Radiation:
- Gold Transmutation: Doctor Midas had intentionally exposed himself to the Cosmic Radiation for five years and in result gained power to almost instantly transform anything he touched into solid gold,[1] including humans and bodies of water.[13]
He was later exposed to even more Cosmic Radiation from The Marvel's engine and obtained powers similar to those of the original Fantastic Four, calling them the cosmic Water, Fire, Air, and Earth:
- Rock Form and Regeneration: His body was transformed into rock form with blue light seeping out between the cracks. While this form hadn't increased his durability, it made him almost unkillable. Even when he was shot in the head and when a big part of his chest was obliterated, he had regenerated in a matter of seconds.[6]
- Stretching: He was able to elongate his arm and fingers to several meters.[6]
- Fire Generation: His body was sometime shrouded in fire, and he had also attempted to attack Noh-Varr with a fire blast.[6]
- Force Field: He was able to generate force fields around other beings to trap and crush them within.[6]
- Telepathy and Mind Control: He was able to link with lifeforms on a molecular level and read and control their minds.[6]
- Cosmic Awareness: Midas had claimed to now possess the Cosmic Awareness,[6] but given his boastful egocentric personality it could have been an exaggeration.
Abilities
- He is very clever and knows how to take advantage of any situation.
- Alien Languages: He had learned languages of many alien races by torturing the members of these races. He at least knee the languages of the Kree, Badoon, and Skrulls, including subdialects. He could swear in all of these languages.[1]
Weaknesses
- Sterility: Doctor Midas's experiments with Cosmic Radiations seemingly made him sterile and unable to conceive a child.[3]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
See Also
- 12 appearance(s) of Cosmic Man (Midas) (Earth-616)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Cosmic Man (Midas) (Earth-616)
- 6 mention(s) of Cosmic Man (Midas) (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Cosmic Man (Midas) (Earth-616)
- 9 image(s) of Cosmic Man (Midas) (Earth-616)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about Cosmic Man (Midas) (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Marvel Boy (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Original Sin #3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Fantastic Four (Vol. 6) #48
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Marvel Boy (Vol. 2) #4
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #7 ; Noh-Varr's profile
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 Marvel Boy (Vol. 2) #6
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Original Sin #8
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Mighty Thor (Vol. 3) #9
- ↑ Fantastic Four (Vol. 6) #47
- ↑ Original Sin #4
- ↑ Original Sin #1
- ↑ Original Sin #2
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Original Sin #6