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Karen Page[]

Paibok[]

Paladin[]

Pandemic[]

Paradigm[]

Paralyzer[]

Paris[]

Benjy Parker[]

Ben Parker[]

Kaine Parker[]

May Parker[]

Richard and Mary Parker[]

Pasco[]

Pathway[]

Pathway (Laura Dean) is a fictional mutant in the publications of Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Alpha Flight #53 (Dec. 1987), and was created by Bill Mantlo and Jim Lee.

Laura Dean's parents were mutant-phobic and decided to abort Laura's twin fetus because it was a mutant. While still a fetus, Laura protected her twin sister by using her mutant abilities to send her to another dimension, dubbed "Liveworld".

Laura grew up withdrawn from the world. In an attempt to cure her, her parents sent her to the New Life Clinic, which was actually run by the insane villain Scramble.^{[volume & issue needed]} Laura managed to escape, but was later caught by Bedlam and forced to become a member of his team of Derangers.^{[volume & issue needed]} During the clash with Alpha Flight, Laura swapped places with her twin, whom she had named Goblyn, in Liveworld.^{[volume & issue needed]}

After Alpha Flight defeated Bedlam, Goblyn and Laura were admitted into Beta Flight under the misbelief that they were the same person.^{[volume & issue needed]} However, this was all sorted out when Alpha Flight travelled to Liveworld and there encountered the Dreamqueen.^{[volume & issue needed]} When they returned to Earth, and Alpha disbanded, Laura and Goblyn went to live with Purple Girl.^{[volume & issue needed]}

They re-joined Beta Flight when Talisman dispatched them on a quest for Northstar, thanks to Laura's ability to open portals to other dimensions.^{[volume & issue needed]} The two stayed on when the team was once again funded by the government and Department H was re-formed.^{[volume & issue needed]} However, both were severely injured when Wild Child went insane and attacked them.^{[volume & issue needed]} Laura sent Goblyn instinctively to Liveworld and had to return with Beta Flight to save her.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Patriot[]

Jeffrey Mace[]

Eli Bradley[]

Rayshaun Lucas[]

Peepers[]

Penance[]

Peregrine[]

Persuasion[]

Perun[]

Pestilence[]

F.R. Crozier[]

Ichisumi[]

Petra[]

Petra is a fictional character appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. Petra first appears in the limited series X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (2006), and was created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Pete Woods. She is one of the "Missing X-Men". The word "petra" means "rocky" in Latin, and "stone" in Greek.

Petra was the first of her family to be born in the United States. Her mother, father and brother emigrated from Denmark while her mother was pregnant with Petra. They lived the typical American life in the suburbs of New York City for most of Petra's childhood. Shortly after her thirteenth birthday, Petra's family was killed by a rockslide while on a camping trip. Unknowingly, Petra used her mutant powers of earth manipulation to avoid getting hurt.

After spending weeks in Child Protective Services, Petra was sent to live in New Jersey in a foster home. She was placed in a home that had five other children that were forced to share the same bedroom. Her foster mother was old and uncaring, and her foster father was too caring, trying to hold and touch Petra all the time. One day on an outing to Central Park, Petra's foster father tried to touch her but sank knee-deep into the ground. It was then that Petra realized that she was a mutant, and she ran away. She found a cave and hid there for days crying, knowing that with her abilities she could have either killed or saved her family.

She camped in Central Park for a couple of years, using her power to manipulate rock caves into shelters to avoid being arrested and sent to juvenile detention centers. When she was sixteen, she discovered another useful aspect of her ability: she could turn coal into diamonds by concentrating hard enough. For a year, she used this aspect of her power to make diamonds of varying sizes to sell to pawn shops so she could buy food and survive.

One day, however, a pawn shop employee said he was going to call the owner of the store, but he really called the police. Running to her rock shelter, the police found Petra before she could hide, and took her into custody after a brief battle. When she awoke, a female guard informed her that she was being released into the custody of a woman, later revealed to be Dr. Moira MacTaggert, who was there to help Petra. This at first frightened Petra because she had never known anyone to try to help her because of her abilities, only hurt her.^[1]

After some time with Dr. MacTaggert, Professor Charles Xavier took Petra and the other children within custody (Sway, Darwin and Vulcan) to rescue the original X-Men team trapped on the mutant island Krakoa.^{[volume & issue needed]} Petra instinctively used her powers to bury Vulcan and Darwin, and then gets incinerated by the volcano creature that was created by Krakoa.^[2]

When the X-Men establish Krakoa as a mutant paradise, Petra was among the revived mutants living there, She, Sway, and Vulcan were residing in the Summer House.^[3]

During the "Empyre" storyline, Petra and Sway have a drink with Vulcan at the Summer House on the Moon. After Vulcan defeated his Cotati attackers, Petra and Sway catch up to him.^[4]

Petra was a "terrakinetic" or "geo-morph",^[5] having the ability to psychokinetically manipulate, control, levitate and reshape the classic element of earth—sand, stone, rock, lava, and/or dirt—and could even transform the consistency of earth and rock, such as turning a lump of coal into a diamond.^[6] She also could use this power to cause minor earthquakes and create shapes out of solid rock.

Petra in other media[]

A character with both Petra's striking resemblance and powers appears in the Wolverine and the X-Men animated series: Christy Nord (voiced by Kari Wahlgren). This iteration is the daughter of kinetic energy absorbing mutant Christopher Nord. Like Petra, she has the mutant ability to manipulate the earth and stone. In the episode "Past Discretions", she was seen in flashbacks living with Christopher on a farm near the Canadian border at the age of 6, when her father became Team X's target. Wolverine was sent to capture Nord, only to realize this could make Christy an orphan. Ten years later, Wolverine reappears to which Christy attacks him for apparently being responsible for her being an orphan. However, Christy realizes that Wolverine had saved her and Sabretooth was responsible for her father's apparent demise. In the episode "Stolen Lives", Christy gets abducted by Maverick for Dr. Abraham Cornelius and Professor Thorton, however, she is rescued by Wolverine and Mystique. With Emma Frost's help, Christy reunites with her father.

Mike Peterson[]

Phage[]

Phage is the name used by a symbiote in Marvel Comics. The symbiote, created by David Michelinie and Ron Lim, first appeared in Venom: Lethal Protector #4 (May 1993), and was named in Carnage, U.S.A. #2 (March 2012) after an unrelated character from the Venom: The Hunted comic storyline and Venom: Along Came A Spider toyline.^[7] It was created as one of five symbiote "children" forcefully spawned from the Venom symbiote alongside four other symbiotes: Riot, Agony, Lasher and Scream. Phage primarily sports symbiote spikes.

The Phage symbiote's first host was Carl Mach, a mercenary hired by Carlton Drake's Life Foundation in San Francisco. Mach bonded with Phage in conjunction to Scream (Donna Diego), Agony (Leslie Gesneria), Lasher (Ramon Hernandez) and Riot (Trevor Cole). Phage and his four symbiote "siblings" are defeated by Spider-Man and Venom.^[8] The symbiotes "siblings" later kidnap Eddie Brock out of prison in an attempt to communicate with their alien symbiotes in Chicago. When Brock refused to aid, Mach was killed with a sonic knife after Gesneria; the others were initially mislead into thinking Brock was picking the group off but Donna (having schizophrenia worsened with the Scream symbiote's influence) was the killer.^[9]

The Phage symbiote later merged with three other symbiotes (Riot, Lasher and Agony) into the Hybrid symbiote,^[10] until a military group later separated the four symbiotes for the U.S. Government.

The Phage symbiote's second host was Rico Axelson, a Lieutenant assigned within the Mercury Team special force. With Cletus Kasady loose in Colorado, Axelson trained with Phage for months for specific tasks alongside Riot (Howard Odgen), Lasher (Marcus Simms) and Agony (James Murphy).^[11] However, Axelson and his teammates are killed by Carnage in their secret base.^[12] The four symbiotes bond to Deadpool to fight Carnage, and then bond with Mercury Team's dog (the sole survivor).^[13]

Possessed by Knull, the four symbiotes erupt into a family who keep fighting; the Agony and Riot symbiotes take over the parents while the horrified kids try to escape but the Phage and Lasher symbiotes bond to the kids; the Phage symbiote bonded to the boy Billy. The symbiote family then decide to go to New York and help Carnage's quest.^[14] The symbiote family goes after Dylan Brock and Normie Osborn but are defeated and separated from their respective hosts by the Maker.^[15] The Phage symbiote later fuses with the Riot, Lasher and Agony symbiotes as one symbiote, fighting Andi Benton and were defeated by the Scream symbiote's new host, but the fused symbiote escaped.^[16]

The Phage symbiote's fourth and fifth hosts are Buck Cashman initially and a hunting dog subsequently. Led by the Carnage symbiote, Phage and the other three symbiote enforcers participate in a conspiracy involving the Friends of Humanity only to be defeated by Flash Thompson, Silence and Toxin to which the Phage symbiote is contained in Alchemax's custody.^[17][18][19]

Phage in other media[]

• The Carl Mach incarnation of Phage appears as a boss in Spider-Man and Venom: Separation Anxiety.
• The Carl Mach incarnation of Phage appears as a playable character in Spider-Man Unlimited.

Phantazia[]

Phantom Eagle[]

Phantom Reporter[]

Phantom Rider[]

Carter Slade[]

Jamie Jacobs[]

Lincoln Slade[]

Reno Jones[]

Hamilton Slade[]

J. T. Slade[]

Jaime Slade[]

Phaser[]

Phastos[]

Phat[]

Chester Phillips[]

Further reading Chester Phillips at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

Chester Phillips is a World War II general in the Marvel Universe. The character, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appeared in Tales of Suspense #63 (March 1965).

Within the context of the stories, General Chester Phillips is one of the army officers overseeing subject selection for Project: Rebirth. He takes a personal interest in Steve Rogers as the best candidate for the first test.^[20] Both he and Abraham Erskine refuse to allow General Maxfield Saunders to have Clinton McIntyre receive the first full treatment. When Saunders steals the serum and apparently kills McIntyre, Phillips has the body shipped away and Saunders arrested.^[21]

Chester Phillips in other media[]

• Chester Phillips has been adapted for appearances in The Marvel Super Heroes
• Chester Phillips appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
• The character has also been adapted for Captain America: The First Avenger where he is a colonel and portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones.^[22] The same character was mentioned during the follow-up Marvel One-Shot, Agent Carter, as well as in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Phillips, Howard Stark and Peggy Carter founded S.H.I.E.L.D. after the S.S.R. was able to defeat HYDRA.
• Chester Phillips appears in What If...? In the episode "What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?", Chester Phillips was present at the demonstration of the Super-Soldier Serum until he is shot by Heinz Kruger. His death causes John Flynn to become the new leader of the S.S.R.

Phobos[]

Phoenix Force[]

Phone Ranger[]

Photon[]

Monica Rambeau[]

Genis-Vell[]

Piecemeal[]

Gilbert Benson[]

Cyborg[]

Piecemeal was a cyborg created in a secret Amazon laboratory by a scientific team supervised by the Red Skull. Piecemeal was assembled from a combination of human and animal corpses and high-tech weaponry for the purpose of being the ultimate killing machine. Before the Red Skull could fully program Piecemeal's mind, the Hulk attacked the laboratory, but Piecemeal escaped in the confusion. The mindless Piecemeal wandered through the Amazon before stowing away on a cargo plane en route to Scotland. A retired Pantheon member residing on Loch Ness later summoned the Hulk when Piecemeal began attacking tourists and draining their minds. Piecemeal battled the Hulk – during which he revealed his ability to duplicate the Hulk's appearance and powers – and was apparently killed.^[23]

Alexander Goodwin Pierce[]

Donald Pierce[]

Piledriver[]

Pink Pearl[]

Pinky Pinkerton[]

Pip the Troll[]

Pipeline[]

Piper[]

Piranha[]

Pisces[]

Noah Perricone[]

Life Model Decoy[]

Second Life Model Decoy[]

Female Life Model Decoy[]

Ecliptic[]

Thanos' Pisces[]

Pixie[]

Plague[]

Plague was originally a member of the Morlocks before joining the Horsemen of Apocalypse.

Plantman[]

Plunderer[]

Pluto[]

Pod[]

Poison[]

Poison (Cecilia Cardinale) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Cynthia Martin. Poison first appeared in Web of Spider-Man Annual #4 (1988).

Polaris[]

Polestar[]

Porcupine[]

Alexander Gentry[]

Roger Gocking[]

Billy Bates[]

Portal[]

Possessor[]

Post[]

Kevin Tremain was a mutant captured and studied by the Mandarin. His first appearance was in X-Men vol 2 #50. On a secret mission, the Six Pack attacked the secret base Tremain was held in. Tremain was mortally injured; Cable tried to save his life, first by using his telekinesis to keep Tremain's body together, and finally by giving him a blood transfusion. Although it seems he survived this trauma, Cable seemed to think Tremain had later died.^[24]

Years later, Tremain resurfaced as Post, the lowest of Onslaught's emissaries. Post had superhuman size, strength, stamina, and sturdiness. He was also a mathematical genius. After being infected with the T-O virus via blood transfusion from Cable, Post became a cyborg, who was also able to generate energy discharges, cloaking fields, biogenetic scanners and teleport himself to remote locations.^[25]

Postman[]

Pepper Potts[]

Poundcakes[]

Malcolm Powder[]

Further reading Malcolm Powder at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original) Malcolm Powder at the Grand Comics Database

Malcolm Powder first appeared in Alias #6 (April 2002), created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos. Powder was a high school student and a fan of Jessica Jones.

He made his first appearance by breaking into Jessica's apartment and answering her phone. Jessica kicked him out. Later, while Jessica was looking for a Rick Jones (not the famous one), Powder showed up again asking for a job as her personal part-time secretary. He was kicked out once again.^[26]

Powder arrived again, this time asking Jessica about the secret identities of Captain America and Daredevil. He asked for a job, and Jessica agreed under the condition that he find information on Mattie Franklin, who was missing.^[27] To Jessica's surprise, Powder showed up with a girl named Laney, who claimed her brother was dating Mattie around the time she disappeared.^[28] He was last seen answering Jessica's phone as her secretary.^[29]

Malcolm Powder in other media[]

Malcolm Joseph Ducasse appeared in the Netflix series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrayed by Eka Darville.

• • Malcolm Ducasse first appears in Jessica Jones.^[30] He is a neighbor who lives just down the hall from Jessica's apartment. In the first season, Jessica first meets him when she saves him from two muggers, a meeting she does not recall because that was also the night that Kilgrave first brought her under his control. It is later revealed that Malcolm was planning on getting into social work, but after Jessica escaped from Kilgrave's control, Kilgrave tracked Malcolm down and ordered him to get addicted to drugs, and made him secretly take pictures of Jessica. When Jessica finds out, she leaves Malcolm handcuffed in her bathroom and forces him to go into withdrawal.^[31] He soon becomes the leader of a support group for Kilgrave's victims,^[32] helps Robyn get closure after Kilgrave kills her brother,^[33] stays by Luke's bedside while he's recovering from a concussion, and after Kilgrave is defeated, begins to work for Jessica as her secretary.^[34]
  • Malcolm appeared in The Defenders. He is introduced popping in to Jessica's apartment while she is invested in a missing persons case, much to Jessica's annoyance, and offers a helpful tip that allows Jessica to track down her mysterious caller's location.^[35] Later on, John Raymond, learning that Jessica is trying to find him, forces his way into Jessica's apartment and holds Malcolm at gunpoint. Malcolm and Jessica try to talk Raymond into going to the police, but Elektra breaks into the apartment and tries to kill Raymond, who shoots himself rather than let her kill him. Elektra flees the scene while Jessica and Malcolm are arrested by Detective Misty Knight.^[36] Misty attempts to interrogate the two for information, but Matt Murdock shows up to bail them out of custody.^[37] Later on, when the Hand begin targeting the heroes' loved ones, Jessica has Trish and Malcolm hide with Colleen Wing, Claire Temple, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson at Misty's precinct.^[38] After the Hand is defeated, Malcolm is last seen helping Jessica fix up her apartment and painting over the bullet holes left from Jessica and Trish's fight with Simpson.^[39]
  • In the second season of Jessica Jones, Malcolm continues to be an associate to Jessica and is constantly taking notes of advice from her, regardless of whether they are intentional or not.^[40] Jessica uses him to track down leads on IGH as well as settle a tenancy dispute with their new building superintendent Oscar Arocho. When Jessica and Trish find an IGH nurse named Inez Green, they task Malcolm with delivering Inez to Jeri Hogarth.^[41] In the midst of the IGH investigation, Malcolm also helps Jeri uncover dirt on her partners who are tried to get her fired. Malcolm later hooks up with Trish and begins a sexual relationship with her,^[42] though this ends when Trish, seeking to get powers like Jessica from Dr. Karl Malus, knocks out, ties up and stuffs Malcolm in the trunk of her car when he tries to bring Dr. Malus in. Then finally, she kidnaps Dr. Malus and threatens to shoot Malcolm if he tries to stop her.^[43] Fed up with Trish and Jessica using him, Malcolm quits and goes to work for rival private investigator Pryce Cheng, who in turn has been retained by Hogarth's new private law firm.^[44]
  • In the third season of Jessica Jones, Malcolm continues to work for Hogarth and is in a relationship with a woman named Zaya Okonjo at a party in his new apartment, although he is disturbed by the methods used to help a baseball player client out of town, a drunk driving incident, resulting in another career-damaging accident for the client.^[45]Malcolm must protect Erik Gelden's sister, Brianna, who must stay away from Gregory P. Salinger, an intellectually formidable, psychopathic serial killer.^[46]Malcolm asks to rejoin Alias Investigations, to which Jessica accepts; assigning him to look into the files of Jace Montero. After breaking up with Zaya, Malcolm begins a relationship with Brianna.^[47]After Trish killed Sallinger in the courthouse elevator, Malcolm decides to help Jessica to demand to stop her, and suggested that she involve the police, but if that happened, the public would find out and chase her out of town. After Malcolm saw the news detailing Trish's savage assault on Demetri Patseras, Jessica leaks to the news Trish's identity of her as the masked vigilante. The next morning, a trucker tells Malcolm that he saw Trish in a silver Lexus, and he was heading east where the old airport was located. Malcolm and Erik stay because Jessica wanted to deal with Trish alone. In the end after Trish was arrested, Malcolm sees Jessica go on a trip and she gives him the keys to Alias Investigations and told him not to screw it up.^[48]

Powderkeg[]

Power Broker[]

Curtiss Jackson[]

Successor[]

Power Man[]

Erik Josten[]

Luke Cage[]

Victor Alvarez[]

Power Princess[]

Power Skrull[]

Powerhouse[]

Rieg Davan[]

Unnamed[]

Predator X[]

Presence[]

Presence is the name of a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

As a younger man, Sergei was a Belarusian nuclear physicist born in Minsk, BSSR. His twin children, Nikolai Krylenko and Laynia Petrovna, were taken from birth by the Soviet government to be trained as soldiers, after their mutant natures manifested.

Sergei eventually became one of the most influential men behind the scenes of the Soviet government. However, despite being a scientific genius, he was also quite mad. He caused a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster in the "Forbidden Zone" using cobalt radiation baths and a nuclear blast, which transformed Tania Belinsky into his super-powered thrall as the second Red Guardian. The nuclear energy transformed Sergei into a superhuman being as well, and he could now generate nuclear energy within his own body for various uses. Sergi began calling himself "The Presence". The Presence and Red Guardian battled the Defenders when they came to find her. The Presence left when she regained her free will and spurned him.^[49] Soon after, the Presence battled a giant mutated amoeba in the "Forbidden Zone", and was then reunited and reconciled with Red Guardian.^[50]

The government now wanted the threat of the Presence eliminated. His own children had been trained by the government as super-powered soldiers and, unaware of their true relationship, were sent to kill him. Alongside the Red Guardian, Presence encountered the Hulk, Professor Phobos, and the Soviet Super-Soldiers in the "Forbidden Zone". Darkstar and Vanguard learned that the Presence was their father and turned against the Soviet regime, and saved the Presence from Phobos. In order to save the Soviet Union from the dangerous, spreading radiation of the so-called Forbidden Zone, an irradiated Soviet wasteland, the Presence and the Red Guardian absorbed all the radiation into themselves and left for outer space, where they claimed they would transform themselves into inert matter.^[51] The twins became agents on their own, fighting for the good of the people, and sometimes working with their father.

The Presence was revealed to be held prisoner with Red Guardian (now calling herself Starlight) on the Stranger's laboratory world.^[52] The pair returned to Earth with the Jack of Hearts. The Presence attempted to kill Eon, but was instead trapped in the "Quantum Zone" dimension by Quasar.^[53] It was revealed in flashback how Maelstrom had persuaded the Presence to attack Eon.^[54] The Presence was eventually rescued from the "Quantum Zone" by Neutron, and teamed with him to seek vengeance on Quasar. The Presence learned of the Soviet Union's collapse, and returned to Russia with the intent to create a "new order".^[55] Later, the Presence sent Starlight to capture the Black Widow and Darkstar.^[56]

Vanguard was ultimately killed in a battle while he and Darkstar were aiding the cosmic hero Quasar. Darkstar blamed Quasar for her brother's death and fled back to Russia. When she encountered her father, Darkstar shared her feelings with him, and the Presence forced Quasar to flee Earth on the threat of killing Quasar's loved ones. Sergei visited his son's memorial and sought to revive him by shifting his atoms to microscopically enter Vanguard's body. There he discovered a trace of Vanguard's mutant energy remained, keeping him faintly alive. The Presence managed to use this energy to resurrect his son, but nearly exhausted his own power, and was cast adrift in the subatomic reality he had entered.^{[volume & issue needed]}

While in subatomic exile, the Presence discovered new aspects of his power and atomic particles, and, when he had sufficiently regenerated, resumed his normal size and returned to the Forbidden Zone. There, he embarked on a plan to unite all of the former Soviet Union by transforming its people into a race of zombie-like radioactive beings living under a communal mind.^[57] He managed to convert several Siberian scientists, Vanguard and the rest of the Winter Guard, and the Avengers, who investigated the disturbance, leaving only Thor and the seemingly-immortal Firebird to stand against him.^[58] As Thor threatened to kill the Presence, Starlight, as the Presence's companion, ultimately offered their surrender and used her own power to revive those who had been transformed and remand herself and the Presence to Russian custody; she didn't share his vision, but their powers meant that they would only ever have each other for company, and so she wished to keep him alive.^[59] In the final struggle of the Kang War, the Presence and Starlight aided in the struggle to destroy Kang the Conqueror's Damocles Base space station,^[60] with Starlight blackmailing the Presence for assistance by threatening to leave him if he attempted anything more than simply doing his job and subsequently returning to his cell.^[61]

In the 2010 Darkstar and Winter Guard limited series, The Presence was apparently destroyed permanently when the Russian superhero Powersurge sacrificed his life to defeat him after he once again tried to conquer Russia after Starlight left him for good to join the People's Protectorate, where she fell in love with his son, Vanguard.^{[volume & issue needed][62][63][64]}

In Deadpool and the Mercs for Money, the Presence is briefly revived by Umbral Dynamics (a corporation secretly led by Caroline Le Fay) by harvesting the power of several superhumans with radiaction-related powers. After a fight with the new Mercs for Money and Deadpool, the Presence is killed again by Negasonic Teenage Warhead who drains out all his power.^[65]

Presence in other media[]

Presence appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.^[66] Captain America, She-Hulk, and Thor encounter him at a Siberian facility where radiation was high. When Captain America gets infected, Presence controls him and the infected workers until She-Hulk and Thor contain the radiation and free the infected. Before being beaten up by She-Hulk even when the Winter Guard arrived, Presence states that they don't know what is coming.

Prester John[]

Pretty Boy[]

Pretty Persuasions[]

Preview[]

Primus[]

Android[]

Alien[]

Explorer[]

Princess Python[]

Prism[]

Proctor[]

Prodigy[]

Ritchie Gilmore[]

David Alleyne[]

Timothy Wilkerson[]

Professor Power[]

Professor Thornton[]

Professor X[]

The Profile[]

Prometheus[]

Olympian[]

Pantheon[]

Protector[]

Protector (Thoral Rul) was the Prime Thoran of Xandar, whose duty was to protect the Xandarian's Living Computers (aka Worldmind). Protector was killed when Nebula's forces wiped out Xandar's population.^[67]

Proteus[]

Protégé[]

Further reading Protégé at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original) Protégé at the Grand Comics Database

Protégé is a cosmic entity from an alternate future of the Marvel Universe.

The character, created by Jim Valentino, first appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy #15 (Aug. 1991) as the childlike ruler of the Universal Church of Truth of the alternate future of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Valentino modeled him after his son Aaron at seven years old.^[68] He is depicted as a superhuman of unlimited potential, with the ability to duplicate not only super-powers, but also the skills of others simply by observing the ability being used; thus, he could acquire the psychokinetic powers of the Guardian Vance Astro as easily as he could the marksmanship ability of Astro's teammate Nikki, by watching them in combat.

Within the context of the Marvel Comics universe, Protégé is the deity and leader of Universal Church of Truth to which Replica, a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, belongs. In order to save the lives of her teammates, she offers herself as a playmate to Protégé who is accompanied by .^[69]

Later, Protégé uses its abilities to duplicate the powers of the Living Tribunal, nearly usurping its place in Marvel's cosmology.^[70] When attempts to defeat Protégé fail, The Living Tribunal states that any and all realities rest on Protégé's shoulders. Protégé itself claims to have become the new One-Above-All.^[71] Scathan the Approver, a Celestial, saves all realities by judging against Protégé. The Living Tribunal then absorbed Protégé into itself to prevent him from endangering all realities again.^[72]

Protocide[]

Proton[]

Prowler[]

Hobie Brown[]

Cat Burglar[]

Rick Lawson[]

Aaron Davis[]

Clone[]

Kitty Pryde[]

Madelyne Pryor[]

Psi-Hawk[]

Psycho-Man[]

Psyklop[]

Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)[]

Psylocke (Kwannon)[]

Puck[]

Eugene Milton Judd[]

Zuzha Yu[]

Puff Adder[]

Pulsar[]

First appearance	X-Men #107 (Oct. 1977)
Created by	Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum
Species	Unidentified extraterrestrial race
Teams	Imperial Guard
Abilities	Flight Projection of energy blasts
Aliases	Impulse

Pulsar, originally code-named Impulse, is a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. Created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, the character first appeared in X-Men #107 (Oct. 1977). An energy being in a containment suit, Pulsar is capable of flight and the projection of energy blasts. (Like many original members of the Imperial Guard, Pulsar is the analog of a character from DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes: in his case Wildfire.)^[73]

Impulse was amongst the first of the Imperial Guard encountered by the team of superhuman mutants known as the X-Men who sought to rescue the Princess Lilandra from her insane brother emperor D'Ken. Following the orders of their emperor, the Guard clashed with the X-Men on a nameless Shi'ar Empire planet, and were on the verge of winning when the band of interstellar freebooters known as the Starjammers arrived to turn the tide of battle in the X-Men's favor.^[74] After the battle, Lilandra takes over as Majestrix, and the Guard swears allegiance to her.^[75]

He is with the Guard when they come into conflict with a rogue Space Knight named Pulsar and an alien named Tyreseus. After a large battle which also involves Rom and other Space Knights — which leads to the deaths of four new Guardsman — Pulsar and Tyreseus are defeated.^[76]

Impulse is again part of the mission during Operation: Galactic Storm, an intergalactic war between the Shi'ar and the Kree. The Imperial Guard are integral to the Sh'iar creating a massive super weapon — the "Nega-Bomb" — using Kree artifacts, including the original Captain Marvel's Nega-Bands, which the Guard steals from the dead hero's tomb. This bomb is capable of devastating an area equivalent to that of the Kree Empire (which is supposedly located throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud). Ultimately, the Nega Bomb device is successfully detonated, devastating the Kree Empire, with billions dying instantaneously (98% of the Kree population).^[77] The Shi'ar annex the remnants of the Kree Empire, with Deathbird becoming viceroy of the Kree territories.^[78]

Ronan the Accuser subsequently leads the Kree in a surprise attack against the Shi'ar, using the Inhumans as an army to disrupt the Shi'ar control of the Kree. Appearing over the city of Attilan, Ronan seizes control in a surprise attack and forces the Inhumans and their king, Black Bolt, to obey, or he would destroy their only home and everyone in it. He compels Karnak, Gorgon, and Triton to covertly join the Imperial Guard, while Black Bolt and Medusa attempt the assassination of the Shi'ar ruler Lilandra at a ceremony ratifying an alliance between the Shi'ar and the Spartoi. Black Bolt manages to defeat Ronan in personal combat;^[79] the attempt on Lilandra's life fails because the shapeshifting Imperial Guardsman Hobgoblin dies in her place.^[80]

The character is seemingly killed by Vulcan in the Emperor Vulcan storyline. Vulcan, a powerful mutant intent on conquering the Shi'ar Empire, fights the Guard, killing Cosmo and Smasher (and seemingly Impulse, Neutron, and Titan) before he is defeated by Gladiator, who puts out his left eye.^[81] It turns out that Impulse either survived Vulcan's attack or was replaced by someone from the Subguardian ranks, because he reappears in the War of Kings storyline.^[82] Beginning with the Infinity crossover, the character's name was changed to Pulsar.^[83]

Pulsar has many further adventures with the Imperial Guard, including being involved in the trial of Jean Grey^[84] and the return of Thanos.^[85]

Pulse[]

Puma[]

Punchout[]

Punisher[]

Punisher 2099[]

Puppet Master[]

Purple Man[]

Henry Pym[]

Hope Pym[]

Pyre[]

Pyro[]

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