Genius Loci

Genius Loci
Name	Genius Loci
Origin and Status
Reality	Earth-616
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stan Lee
First	Thor #133 (August, 1966)
First	Thor #133 (August, 1966)

A Genius Loci is a location with a mind. A sentient planet, country, island, city, or street.

History

• Ego the Living Planet was a unique case; he originated like any other planet, coalescing over millions of years from cosmic gases and dust. But unlike any other known planets, Ego developed consciousness and intelligence.
  • Id, the Selfish Moon, was sentient like Ego, and used to be his moon.
  • Illa was also the moon of Ego.
  • Super-Ego was a sentient "bio-verse" created by the Stranger.
• Krakoa, the Living Island, whose life had been mutated into a single organism by a nuclear test.
• Kathulos was a sentient planetoid who battled Doctor Strange.
• Cloud, of the Defenders, was a sentient Nebula, an immense cloud of gas, with the ability to assume human form.
• Spragg the Living Hill, was a hill controlling people's minds. She-Hulk fought him, then sent him to space.
• The Chrysler Building became sentient during the events of World War Hulk.
• King Thor for a time assumed the form of a planet orbited by moons of Uru, and became Thor the Thunder World.
• Doom at some point after being defeated by King Thor, somehow returned and became a living planet, calling himself Doom The Living Planet.
• Singularity was a living Pocket Dimension.
• The Venom symbiote used the powers of James Madrox to generate countless copies of itself and used them to create thousands of living planets called Meatgarden Edens.

See Also

• 141 appearance(s) of Genius Loci
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Genius Loci
• 25 minor appearance(s) of Genius Loci
• 3 mention(s) of Genius Loci
• 91 representative(s) of Genius Loci