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Quote1 Unhand me! I cannot bear physical contact with primitive beings! Quote2
Vuk[src]

History

Vuk was a member of the D'bari alien race. At around 500 BC, his spaceship crash landed on Earth, imbedding itself at the bottom of the sea. Being unable to free it, Vuk searched for help, but the humans feared and attacked him so he used his Ray Gun to turn the attackers to stone. This event would cause Vuk to be mistaken as the legendary Medusa.[2]

Vuk (Earth-616) from Avengers Vol 1 4 0001

Vuk in his human disguise

In the modern age, Vuk asked Namor for help and in return he had to turn the Avengers to stone while at a press conference. Vuk managed to petrify Iron Man, Giant-Man, Thor and Wasp, but Captain America was not turned to stone, and with the help of Rick Jones, he tracked down the alien. Once he had confronted the alien he offered the Avengers help in returning to restore them back from being stone. Once restored the Avengers took him to his spaceship at the bottom of the sea and Thor helped bring the ship up far enough for him to make repairs. After his repairs were done he departed Earth in what seemed like an underwater earthquake which separated the Avengers from the foe they were fighting at that point - Namor and his forces. Namor believed that the Avengers had been destroyed and left.[2]

Vuk joined a group of Xartans in Dandesh IV where he learned about the destruction of his homeworld's sun by the Phoenix Force in Jean Grey's form and has sought revenge on Jean Grey for the mass destruction of his planet and people. The Xartans shapeshifted into Vuk's D'bari form in order to escape the Skrulls who were enraged over the Xartans copying them. Rocket Raccoon arrived to the planet and witnessed one of the Xartans' true form, causing Vuk and the other Xartans to go after him.[3] Razorback and Taryn O'Connell attempted to rescue Rocket but by the time they arrived Vuk and the Xartans had just turned him into stone before capturing them.[4]

Coming to her friends' aid She-Hulk allowed herself to be captured and be imprisoned alongside Razorback and O'Connell.[5] Razorback was able to figure out that all but one of the "D'bari" were imposters but before he could tell She-Hulk Vuk petrified him. Vuk then attempted to intimidate her and ask her why she and her friends were here but seeing that she wouldn't budge he threatened to turn her to stone if she didn't answer after 15 minutes. While he was away, She-Hulk met another inmate, a Ovoid, and sought to use his abilities to telepathically communicate with Louise Mason who was being held in a nearby Skrulls ship.[4]

This resulted in the two switching bodies, and in She-Hulk's body Louise was able to break her allies out. Meanwhile the Skrulls were able to see that the D'bari were actually Xartans and attempted to beam their outpost down. Not wanting to lose his new family, Vuk overloaded his gun, causing the entire planet and everyone in it, including himself, the Xartans and the Skrulls to turn to stone for 100 hours. She-Hulk and her allies had managed to escape and later on retrieved both Razorback and Rocket.[3]

Vuk later found himself in Prison World where the Collector found him, and because he was one of the few remaining D'bari, decided to imprison him and make him part of his collection. There feeling lonely Vuk gave birth to a son who he named Bzztl. When Wolverine arrived to Prison World, Vuk attacked him due to being part of the team that included his people's killer. The world's cloaking system was accidentally disabled by Wolverine, allowing Galactus to notice it and consume it. Bzztl was able to escape, but Vuk's fate was unknown.[6]

When Earth became a intergalactic prison, Vuk joined the Borderers in attacking the X-Men, personally going after Jean Grey. Although he was able to see that this Jean was different from the one who killed his people Vuk remained determined to kill her in return. In a desperate situation, Jean used her powers to make Vuk believe he had actually killed her, making him overwhelmingly happy.[1]

Vuk would eventually find other surviving D'bari and settled on a new planet where he was venerated as a hero for killing Jean Grey. Unfortunately for him, the illusion faded with time and the truth was revealed that being Jean had tricked him. This led to Vuk being shunned and exiled from his people. Vuk disgraced decided to go to Earth and properly fullfil his revenge this time. He arrived during the celebration of the birth of Captain Britain and his wife Meggan's daughter, and sought to kill Rachel Grey, believing her to be Jean despite her not even knowing him. Captain Britain's daughter, Maggie, was able to convince Vuk to abandon his quest for revenge after revealing to him a alternate reality in which the D'bari and their planet were never destroyed and where he and his fellow survivors could relocate to.[7]

Attributes

Power Grid[9]
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Powers

Starhammer possesses standard D'bari strength without armor. Like all D'bari, he is extremely long-lived (measuring his life span in centuries rather than years). He can reproduce sexually and asexually by budding, but the latter only every thousand years.

Abilities

Technologically advanced

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Starhammer's armor magnifies his strength, lifting at least 10 tons. The Starhammer armor has psionic shields and is immune to most physical attacks. It can presumably be used in outer space due to its sealed environment.

Weapons

  • Starhammer employs a variety of weapons, including an energy club and an incineration gun.
  • Petrifactor (formerly): He previously used the Petrifactor, which fired a blast that turned its target to stone for 100 Earth hours, as well as returning petrified targets to normal with a second exposure. Overloading the gun's power pack caused a single energy burst that affected everything within 100,000 miles.

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