Ravenous (Earth-616)

Ravenous
Name	Ravenous
Affiliation and Relationships
Group Affiliation	Formerly Annihilation Wave, Seekers
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	6′7″ (2.01 m)
Weight	975 lbs (442.25 kg)
Eyes	Eyeballs: Red Irises: No Visible
Hair	No Hair At All
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Arthrosian
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Negative Zone
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Occupation	Conqueror
Education	Unknown
Base of Operations	Kree-Lar of the Kree Empire Formerly the Negative Zone
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Keith Giffen, Renato Arlem
First	Annihilation: Silver Surfer #1 (April, 2006)
First	Annihilation: Silver Surfer #1 (April, 2006)

History

Annihilation

Little is known of Ravenous. He first appeared as part of the Annihilation Wave led by Annihilus as the leader of the Seekers, beings whose sole purpose was to seek out those who possessed the Power Cosmic, such as the Heralds of Galactus, and capture them. Ravenous first appeared attempting to capture the Air-Walker, but rejected him upon discovering he was an android. He battled the Silver Surfer several times in attempts to capture him, but was each time defeated. It is rumored he gained his name by consuming the flesh of one of his defeated foes. He battled alongside the Annihilation Wave for the remainder of the war.

Following the end of the war, Ravenous became the default leader of the remaining Annihilation Wave forces. As part of the treaty ending hostilities, the entire Annihilation Wave was ceded a number of territories formerly belonging to the Kree, among them the former Kree capital of Kree-Lar where Ravenous oversaw the birth of a new Annihilus.

Shortly afterwards the Phalanx launched an invasion of the Kree galaxy under the command of Ultron. Ronan the Accuser and others came to Hala looking for a way to stop the Phalanx invasion. They tricked their way into the Kree throne room where they easily overpowered Ravenous and Ronan activated thousands of Kree Sentries hidden under the palace. At the request of Ravenous, Ronan used them to destroy the attacking Phalanx before sending them to liberate Kree space.

War of Kings

When the Shi'ar Empire attacked Ravenous and the remaining Wave in an effort to wrestle the Ceded Territories from him, his forces managed to resist but Vulcan sent the Strontian to assassinate him. Despite his valiant resistance he was quickly overpowered, but was saved at the last moment by Nova. The Strontian eventually overpowered him and Nova seconds before Nova Prime arrived on the scene with reinforcements and defeated the Praetorian Guard, taking Ravenous in custody.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

• Energy Absorption: Much if not all of Ravenous' power came from his ability to channel the "Essence" or "Opposing Force", which he claimed was the Negative Zone's equivalent to the Power Cosmic. After being cut off from the Negative Zone, he was forced to absorb energy from other sources. He was deemed a Category 1 threat by the Nova Corps and stated to have a "universal" threat level.
  • Superhuman Strength: The Essence grants him vast superhuman strength and allows him to engage and hold his own against the likes of Silver Surfer in physical combat. Despite his great physical strength he is not on the level of beings like the Strontian.
  • Superhuman Durability: The Essence grants him incredible durability and even the Silver Surfer himself had to use his full power to make him bleed. Most energy blasts, including the ones from Ronan the Accuser's Universal Weapon and the Super-Skrull's flames, simply bounce off his skin without causing any damage. He was able to survive multiple blows from the Strontian with only moderate injuries and a blast of her heat vision with minor burns.
  • Self Sustenance: The Essence grants him the ability to exist in space without any sort of equipment.
  • Energy Projection: Ravenous can project blasts of energy capable of damaging even the likes of Air-Walker and Ronan the Accuser.

Abilities

• Master Strategist
• Master Combatant: Ravenous is an extremely skilled unarmed combatant.

Weaknesses

• Power Loss: Ravenous' ability to channel the Essence was not innate, but channeled from beasts called Currs which were used to hunt down the Heralds. If the Curr was destroyed it would regenerate in short time, but during that time a Seeker's powers would be severely diminished if not gone entirely. Without a Curr, he needs to absorb energy from other sources.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

• Plasma Blaster

Transportation

• Star-Sleds

See Also

• 21 appearance(s) of Ravenous (Earth-616)
• 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Ravenous (Earth-616)
• 2 minor appearance(s) of Ravenous (Earth-616)
• 5 mention(s) of Ravenous (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Ravenous (Earth-616)
• 8 image(s) of Ravenous (Earth-616)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Ravenous (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Ravenous on Marvel.com