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The Goddess, along with her counterpart The Magus, was created while Adam Warlock was briefly in possession of the Infinity Gauntlet; desiring to be a logical god, and not prone to judgment-impairing emotions, Warlock subconsciously expelled both good and evil from his soul, creating the beings The Goddess and The Magus respectively.[citation needed]

Neither stayed inactive, and both resurfaced. The first hint of The Goddess' existence came at the end of the Infinity War crossover, when it was revealed that an unknown woman had stolen the five Cosmic Containment Units in the Magus' possession. Thanos suspected the Goddess' existence and threat to the universe.[citation needed]

When The Goddess made her appearance, reaching out to the heroes of Earth who were of a religious or spiritual persuasion as their would-be savior, she possessed 30 Cosmic Cubes, gathered from a multitude of different realities, which she soon reformed into the enormous structure known as the Cosmic Egg. The Egg afforded the wielder a phenomenal amount of power, although it still fell short of the legendary Infinity Gauntlet, most notably in its lack of control over the soul. She recruited various heroes to join her in her mission to create peace throughout the universe, and created her base on Paradise Omega.[citation needed]

From her base on the newly-reformed Counter-Earth, The Goddess used her Earth heroes and Cosmic Egg to declare holy war on a sinful universe, claiming that she was the chosen servant of the Living Tribunal's Master, or the "Supreme One" (aka the One-Above-All). Despite being the "good" portion of Adam Warlock's soul, she was a creature of extremes, and saw only extreme solutions to the problems she perceived; in this case, she decided at some point that the only way to remove all sin was to remove all sinners by blowing the Universe up. Using heavy telepathic emissions from the Egg, The Goddess slowly removed all crime, hate and war from everywhere across the galaxy, with seemingly the only ones unaffected being Earth's "heretical" heroes, and Uatu the Watcher. She stopped Mister Fantastic, Iron Man, and the Vision from investigating her base on Paradise Omega.[1]

As the heroes plotted against the Goddess, Pip the Troll teleported into Paradise Omega and used the Cosmic Egg to temporarily change the Goddess into salt, although this effort to stop her ended in failure.[citation needed]

Ultimately, it was Thanos of Titan, in conjunction with Warlock and the heretic heroes, who engineered the defeat of The Goddess. Believing she had triggered the celestial armageddon she had worked for, The Goddess was dismayed to learn that Warlock's spirit had communicated with the Egg, sending out an illusion that armageddon had been triggered, a fraction of a second before the real thing. This meant that The Goddess' plans were ruined; since her many universal followers now realized her intent, she could not generate the universal will needed to override the Egg's inbuilt safeguards regarding destruction.[citation needed]

The climax came in a showdown on the spiritual plane between The Goddess, the soul of Adam Warlock (now linked with the Cosmic Egg through his own machinations), Thanos (powered by Adam's Soul Gem, which he had been given for the duration of the conflict), and Professor X (catatonic, but with Thanos able to access his spirit on the astral plane). The Goddess evaded their attacks, but when she returned to the physical plane to utilise the Egg's energies against the heroes, she found that Adam Warlock had beaten her to it, taking control of the Egg long enough to stall her, during which period Thanos used the power of the Soul Gem to take her spirit within, to Soulworld.[2]

Within Soul World, The Goddess met with her counterpart, The Magus; the two made to battle, but it transpired that, as part-souls themselves, not only could they not interact with the other denizens of Soulworld, but they could not even touch each other. As The Magus put it: "Even to each other we are as ghosts."[citation needed]

Over time, The Magus apparently escaped the Soul World. It is unclear at this point if the Goddess has escaped as well, but she has not since made a reappearance.[citation needed]

Attributes

Power Grid[5]
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Powers

The Goddess is an artificially-created being whose body has certain cosmic energy receptive cells.

  • Superhuman Strength: The Goddess possesses superhuman strength that enables her to lift 5 tons.[3]
  • Superhuman Durability: The Goddess possesses superhuman levels of durability.[3]
  • Superhuman Speed[3]
  • Superhuman Agility[3]
  • Superhuman Reflexes[3]
  • Flight: The Goddess could fly at supersonic speed.[3]
  • Cosmic Energy Manipulation: The Goddess could channel cosmic energies.[3]
  • Telepathy: The Goddess was speculated to have telepathic powers.[3]

Abilities

  • Gifted Intellect: She is also an accomplished self-taught philosopher, and a master planner and schemer.[3]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

The Goddess had gathered 30 Cosmic Containment Units (not all were shaped as cubes) from over a dozen realities, which are power objects containing powerful reality-changing energy-beings. She melded these units into the supremely-powerful Cosmic Egg, capable of reality manipulation on a massive scale - galactic at the least, judging by her intentions. Unlike the Infinity Gauntlet, however, the Egg could not affect the soul, and was possessed of inbuilt safeguards concerning massive destruction.

Trivia

  • It has been stated that Goddess does not have irises, though there have been some images of her visibly having an iris. It may be more prudent to say that she has "white over white" eyes.

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