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Quote1 Your past -- your history -- is darkness and chaos. Whatever your present, Pandemonium's advice is -- embrace it. Quote2
Master Pandemonium[src]

History

Early Life[]

A student of Juilliard School,[3] Martin Preston was a successful Hollywood star, enjoying all the perks his wealth, status and fame brought him. He was contracted with Anvil Studios.[4] and got top billing in B-movies including The Two-Gun Kid meets Dracula.[3] Though in his early fifties, he didn't look a day over forty, contributing to his success and 27-year long career in the silver screen. However, one day, while driving his Jaguar too fast and drinking too much he crashed his car down a ravine.[4]

Master Pandemonium[]

He was approached by the mystical entity, Mephisto, and pleaded for his help. Mephisto called forth a demon, shaping it into Preston's arm, and attached it to his body. Not wanting to stop there, Mephisto severed the rest of his limbs, similarly replacing them with demon-shaped replicas. Preston was ready to get back to acting but discovered a five-pointed star-shaped hole in his chest. Mephisto then lied, claiming he had separated Preston's "soul" into five pieces, scattering them into different places among Earth's dimensions.[5] Actually, Mephisto, who only managed to reconstitute a fraction of himself after being bodily and mentally dispersed by Franklin Richards, still needed to search for five remaining fragments of his being and planned on using Pandemonium as a pawn.[6]

Pandemonium soon clashed with the Avengers West Coast branch and their erstwhile allies, the Rangers, who had just discovered that Ranger member, Shooting Star, was actually a demon. Pandemonium believed that the demon Star would know of the soul fragment he was searching for, but he soon retreated when she was of no help.[4]

Keeping tabs on the Avengers, who were also investigating him, Pandemonium followed the Avengers when, with allies Hellstorm and Hellcat, visited the dimension of the Cat People when trying to help teammate Tigra. The Cat People were actually a type of demon and possessed a soul fragment that Pandemonium needed. They tried to force Tigra to kill Pandemonium in cold blood, but she refused. Pandemonium soon restored the soul fragment to the star in his chest and left for nearby dimensions to continue his search.[7]

Much later, Pandemonium confronted the West Coast Avengers again, claiming that the twin sons of the Scarlet Witch were actually soul fragments transformed into her sons by the Witch's spell/hex combination she used to allow herself to become pregnant. He clashed with the Avengers but managed to destroy the twins to revive part of himself anyway. Agatha Harkness and the original Human Torch somehow retrieved the remaining two soul fragments Pandemonium needed, and once in place, Pandemonium disappeared, to be replaced by Mephisto. The demon revealed the truth of his plot, seemingly destroying Pandemonium while fully reconstituting himself. The Avengers soon escaped from Mephisto's presence.[8]

While searching for the Scarlet Witch, Wiccan and Speed came across Master Pandemonium squatting in the home that she and Vision had shared in Cresskill, New Jersey while raising their twin sons. Pandemonium was shocked that the twins still existed and related to them the story of how Mephisto's reclamation of the twins required that the Scarlet Witch's memory of the twins be erased. He had been in hiding ever since and advised the boys that their past was only darkness and chaos, and they should focus on the present.[9]

Under the Care of Speed[]

Since that first visit and encounter with Master Pandemonium, Tommy frequently returned to the Leonia home he lived in with Wanda Maximoff, Vision, and his brother, to keep an eye on the confused but still mystically powerful Martin, taking up residence in his own room and working a food delivery job with his super speed. Having affectionately nicknamed the demonic man "Master P", he served as caretaker for him, helping him get around, bathe, and watching the actor's old films. Though his boyfriend was a frequent visitor, Preston was unaware the two were dating. [1]

Master Pandemonium remained mystically powerful and grew loyal to Tommy, though he sometimes would say hurtful things to the boy in his confusion. Even so, he was very willing to protect Tommy from mystic threats, convinced the boy had a greater destiny.

Attributes

Power Grid[14]
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Powers

  • Demonically Enhanced Body: Master Pandemonium's four limbs are missing, having been replaced by demons.[10] His body is a portal to Hell, from which he can release countless demons.[11]
    • Demons Summoning: Upon command, he can separate any or all limbs into their demonic beings. He can also call forth hordes of other demons, all following his commands. These minor demons are usually short and spiky in nature, much like goblins and their ilk. They do not seem to possess any special powers or abilities beyond their claws and fangs, and in some cases, wings.[10][11]
    • Superhuman Strength: Pandemonium's demonic limbs are superhumanly strong and grant him Class 10 strength.[11]
    • Shapeshifting: He can alter his own appearance.[11]
    • Dimensional Travel: He can travel between dimensions.[11]
    • Superhuman Durability: Pandemonium's body is immune to most forms of injury.[11]
  • Magic: Pandemonium has knowledge of arcane demon lore and can perform certain rites.[11]
    • Pyrokinesis: Pandemonium can breath magical fire capable of melting even Iron Man's Armor.[12]
    • Energy Projection: Pandemonium can project powerful blasts of concussive energy from his hands.[11] These blasts are powerful enough to topple buildings.[10]
    • Flight: Pandemonium can levitate and move through the air.[10][11]
    • Teleportation: Pandemonium can teleport.[11]

Abilities

  • Occultism: Pandemonium has knowledge of demonic magic.[11]

Weaknesses

  • Dementia: Whether due to his advanced age or demonic corruption, Master Pandemonium eventually became confused to the point he needed help getting around his house and bathing. Speed served as his live-in caretaker.[1] Despite this, he was still considered by Prodigy to be dangerous, and displayed considerable competence with his powers when threatened.

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