Is the universe so screwed up that it can't even ask the right wizard for help? 
- -- Ian McNee
Appearing in "The Marvel Tarot"
Featured Characters:
Tarot Characters:
- Bone Sword - Ace of Swords
- Serpent Crown - Ace of Cups
- Black Mirror - Ace of Wands
- Ebon Rose - Ace of Pentacles
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) - The Magician (9 out of 10 times)
- Ian McNee - The Magician (1 out of 10 times)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) - The High Priestess (1/3 of the time)
- Agatha Harkness - The High Priestess (1/3 of the time)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) - The High Priestess (1/3 of the time)
- Morgan le Fay - The Empress
- Naga/Nagala (Referenced) - The Emperor (1/2 of the time)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) - The Emperor (1/2 of the time)
- Modred the Mystic - The Hierophant
- Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) - The Lovers
- Devil-Slayer (Eric Simon Payne) - The Chariot
- Golem (Statue) - Strength
- Living Mummy (N'Kantu) - The Hermit
- Margali Szardos, Jimaine Szardos, Destiny (Irene Adler) - Wheel of Fortune
- Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) - Justice (1/2 of the time)
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin) - Justice (1/2 of the time)
- Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm) - The Hanged Man
- Vampire by Night (Nina Price) - Death
- Topaz - Temperance
- Satana - The Devil (1/2 of the time)
- Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom) - The Devil (1/2 of the time)
- Hellcat (Patsy Walker) - The Tower
- Jennifer Kale - The Star
- Dream Weaver (Barbara Robb) - The Moon (1/2 of the time)
- Sleepwalker - The Moon (1/2 of the time)
- Janus/Golden Angel - The Sun
- Cadaver (Cody Fleischer) - Judgement
- Man-Thing (Theodore Sallis) - The World
Other Characters:
- Secret Defenders (Mentioned)
- CG Jung (Referenced)
- Enoch (Referenced)
- Plato (Referenced)
- Paracelsus (Referenced)
- Emanuel Swedenborg (Referenced)
- Oshtur (Mentioned)
- Hoggoth (Referenced)
- Old Ones (Referenced)
- Asteroth (Referenced)
- Azotheroth (Referenced)
- Lloigoroth (Referenced)
- N'Gabthoth (Referenced)
- Slorioth (Referenced)
- Yog-Sothoth (Referenced)
- Gaea (Mentioned)
- Set (Mentioned)
- Chthon (Mentioned)
- Brona the Enchanter (Referenced)
- "Architect who had built the Rainbow Bridge" (Referenced)
- Cyttorak (Referenced)
- Agammon (Referenced)
- Asura (Referenced)
- Seraphim (Referenced)
- Watoomb (Referenced)
- Sorcerers Supreme (Mentioned)
- Agamotto (Mentioned)
- Zhered-Na (Mentioned)
- Saraswati of Akah Ma'at (Mentioned)
- Ayesha (Mentioned)
- Hermes Trismegistus (Mentioned)
- Aged Genghis (Mentioned)
- Zoroaster (Mentioned)
- Salome (Semiramis) (Mentioned)
- King Solomon (Mentioned)
- Balkis of Sheba (Mentioned)
- Triumvirate (Mentioned)
- Thales the Milesian (Mentioned)
- Pythagoras of Samos (Mentioned)
- Empedocles of Agrigentum (Mentioned)
- Pherecydes of Syros (Mentioned)
- Caius of Lacedaemons (Mentioned)
- Zhang Jiao (Mentioned)
- Merlin (Mentioned)
- Ancient One (Yao) (Mentioned)
- Ikonn (Referenced)
- Raggadorr (Referenced)
- Ashake (Mentioned)
- Vishanti (Mentioned)
- Rintrah
- "Elder races" (Elderspawn) (Referenced)
- Set's
- Serpent-Men (Referenced)
- Oshtur's
- Bird-Men of Akah Ma'at (Referenced)
- Chthon's
- N'Garai (Referenced)
- Ape Men (Referenced)
- Man-Bats of Ur-Xanarrh (Referenced)
- Harpies (Referenced)
- Goblins (Referenced)
- Nightgaunts (Referenced) (possibly)
- Wolf Men of Valusia (Referenced)
- Wolf Lords (Referenced)
- HELLhound (Garmr) (Referenced)
- Bloodhound (Lycaon) (Referenced)
- Wolven Warlocks (Referenced)
- Night Beast (Gaueko) (Referenced)
- WolfDemon (Varcolac) (Referenced)
- Wolf Lords (Referenced)
- Set's
- Garm (Referenced)
- Hercules (Referenced)
- Angerboda (Referenced)
- Fenris Wolf (Referenced)
- Midgard Serpent (Referenced)
- Get of Set
- Sligguth (Named only)
- Dragon of the Moon (Named only)
- Phorcys (Named only)
- Ceto (Named only) (Mate to Phorcys)
- Tartessus (Named only)
- Yamata no Orochi (Named only)
- Damballah (Named only)
- Ishiti (Named only)
- Serpent Men (Named only)
- Ophions (Named only)
- Man Serpents (Named only)
- Zirnitra (Named only)
- Sirens (Named only)
- Scylla (Named only)
- Varcolac (Named only) (Mate to Echidna)
- Echidna (Named only)
- Typhon (Named only) (Mate to Echidna)
- Graeae (Named only)
- Gorgons (Named only)
- Angerboda (Named only)
- Chimera (Named only)
- Cerberus (Named only)
- Maralith (Named only)
- Naga (Named only) (Mate to Maralith)
- Nemean Lion (Named only)
- Lernean Hydra (Named only)
- Merro (Named only)
- Llyra (Named only) (Mate to Merro)
- Zmey Gorynych (Named only) (As a single name on the same branch)
- Pressyne (Named only)
- Elynus (Named only) (Mate to Palatyne)
- (Blank branch)
- Bolla (Named only)
- Melior (Named only)
- ? (Named only) (Mate to Melusine)
- Melusine (Named only)
- Palatyne (Named only)
- ? (Named only) (Mate to Palatyne)
- Yith (Named only)
- Nagala (Named only)
- Alan Moore (Referenced)
- Agamemnon (Referenced)
- T'Chombi (Referenced)
- Aram Set (Referenced)
- Phix (Referenced)
- Vlad Dracula Tepes
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Fallen Angels (Referenced)
- Fairies (Referenced)
- N'Garai (Referenced)
- Mutant
- Demons
- Human-Demon Hybrids
- Asgardians
- Elder Gods
- Vampires
- Zombies (Referenced)
- "Elder races" (Elderspawn) (Referenced)
- Serpent-Men (Referenced)
- Bird-Men of Akah Ma'at (Referenced)
- N'Garai (Referenced)
- Ape Men (Referenced)
- Man-Bats of Ur-Xanarrh (Referenced)
- Harpies (Referenced)
- Goblins (Referenced)
- Nightgaunts (Referenced)
- Wolf Men of Valusia (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earth (Mentioned)
- Nag Hammadi Library (Referenced)
- Omaha (Referenced)
- Inner Planes (Referenced)
- Crossroads (Mentioned)
- Astral Plane (Mentioned)
- Avalon (Mentioned)
- Serpent's Sea (Mentioned)
- Flickering Realms (Mentioned)
- Dimension of the N'Garai (Mentioned)
- Brona's Barrier (Referenced)
- Consecution of Colours (Referenced)
- Prismatic Bridge of Asbru (Mentioned)
- Crimson Cosmos (Mentioned)
- Purple Dimension (Mentioned)
- Raggadorr (Mentioned)
- Archipelago of Anguish and Redemption (Referenced)
- Winding Way (Referenced)
- Sephorith (Referenced)
- Dyzzak (The Dungeon Dimension) (Referenced)
- Veils of Valtorr (Referenced)
- Watoomb (Referenced)
- Cloudsea (Referenced)
- Boreas (Referenced)
- Otherplace (Magik's Limbo) (Referenced)
- Splinter Realms/Dark Dimensions (Referenced)
- Nightmare/The Realms of Nightmare (Referenced)
- Celestial Concordance (Referenced)
- Mindscape (Sleepwalker's Realm) (Referenced)/Realm of Dream (Referenced)
- Munnopor (Many Moons of Munipor) (Referenced)
- Cinnibus (Suns of Cinnibus/Sacred Suns of Cinnibu) (Referenced)
- Well Beyond the Worlds (Referenced)
Items:
- First Tarot (First appearance)
- First Book of Enoch (Referenced)
- Eye of Agamotto
- Cloak of Levitation
- Orb of Agamotto (Mentioned)
- Doctor Doom's Armor
- Darkhold
- Cloak's Cloak
- Book of Bark, Briar & Bud (First appearance)
- Dragonfang
- Soulsword
- Mystic Cape of Mercury (Referenced)
- Shadow Cloaks (Referenced)
- Pink Mink (Referenced)
- Hellstrom's Trident
- Cat Suit
Synopsis for "The Marvel Tarot"
Ian McNee looks through the First Tarot Deck, divining who appears on each card, and looking into their origins to see why. He discovered several cards are displaying more than one individual at different times, a sign he feels verifies that the world's magic is broken. In his research, he also traces back the Sorcerer Supreme title to its first earthly bearer, Agamotto.
Notes
- The above characters are listed next to the Tarot card they appear on. The Fool is the only card in the First Tarot Deck that doesn't receive a representative, something that McNee find extremely odd.
- This serves as a sort of handbook, seen from the eyes of Ian McNee, profiling select parts of select characters' lives.
- Rintrah is said to be a "cow-terpillar in a cow-coon" and that "he will come back soon."
- The First Tarot Deck was used by Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) in the Secret Defenders series as a way of figuring out what heroes were right for each mission.
- The appearance of Naga on the Emperor card is seen as a possible reference to Nagala or a possible child of Nagala's, who would be seen as the seventh son of Set, the seven-headed demon, a child who would be known as the Dark Prince and usher in a time of immense power for the dark forces.
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