Arboreal (Earth-2199)

Arboreal

A creature that looks like a vegetable man of Herculaneum physique, imagine if DC Comics Swamp Thing instead were a two-foot wood vegetable giant with a heavyweight bodybuilder physique equal Colossus of the X-Men if by chance Colossus were an alien plant man and you had an idea of Arboreal. Arboreal originally appeared as an invader who intended to capture humans for scientific experiments.

The character was reformulated in 2006 to be a noble hero. Appeared in the comic crossover of the saga plot "Annihilation: Conquest." He went on to star in his spin-off series, Guardians of the Galaxy joining the eponymous team.

Biography

Arboreal is a humanoid extraterrestrial plant that initially came to Earth looking for humans to capture and study. However, it was apparently destroyed by gamma irradiated termites used by Leslie Evans.

Xemnu, created an Arboreal clone, which was designed to fight the Hulk, was destroyed by he.

Through unknown means, he was later captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. and assigned to its Paranormal Containment Unit, nicknamed Nick Fury's Howling Commandos.

Arboreal played a large role in the "Annihilation: Conquest" saga, at which point he was apparently titled the last remaining member of his race. Arboreal apparently dies if sacrificed to give his team time to escape the battle. However, he survived as a small branch. Over time, he regenerated his body from the branch, grew to its full size, and participated in an assault on the Tower of Babel. When the original plan to place explosives in the Tower failed, Arboreal was forced to overgrow within the Tower, growing to a colossal size and filling a large part of the building. Mantis was able to burn his sap in a way that made he extremely flammable and again Arboreal sacrificed his life for his friends by igniting. The fire resulted in the destruction of the Babel Tower. An Arboreal branch has been held by Rocket Raccoon so that he can regenerate. He then rejoined the Guardians of the Galaxy (or as Arboreal would say "his sidekicks"), and began again under Mantis's care.

During his time with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Arboreal participated in all team missions, containing threats such as the Badoon, Blastaar, the Negative Zone forces, the Shi'ar, The Magus and The Cancerverse. During the battle with Badoon, a growing threat in the galaxy, Arboreal helped the team by destroying a first generation Badoon "Monster", a giant torn apart from the corpses of Badoon's dead enemies. Arboreal then played a key role in the War of Kings, a war between the Shi'ar and The Inhumans / Kree where at the end of the war, Emperor Kree, Black Bolt detonated his ultimate weapon: The Terrigene Bomb. The explosion resulted in a hole in space / time known as "The Falt", a gateway to a universe similar to ours where death did not exist. The first creature to come was a giant squid that instinctively attacked the city of the Inhumans: Attilan. Arboreal came up with the idea of ​​ambushing the creature and with the help of the Prince of Inhumans Maximus using highly advanced quantum science, Arboreal and Maximus developed an experiment that created a creature but unstable reality undid the creature. After this attack, Arboreal fought the Wizard, the Avatar of Life and an agent of the many Cancerverse rulers, where he lost his arm in battle. However, Arboreal then regenerated he very fast. He then accompanied the Guardians to the capital planet of the Universal Church of Truth (UCT), where he helped Moondragon attack UCT and its followers. He then fought alongside the Guardians against Thanos after he made a deal with death. Arboreal then helped the Guardians infiltrate the Cancerverse, taking the place of the Revengers an evil version of the Avengers. Arboreal was present during the final battle between Adam Warlock and Thanos. Arboreal traveled with Talon of the Inhumans shortly after the departure of the Guardians of the Galaxy assisting in reunification and reformulation of the team.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Elemental: Your body is made up of sentient plant matter.

Self Sustenance: The ability to feed, usually from an external power source. In the case of Arboreal, probably through a form of photosynthesis and composting.

Superhuman Strength: The Arboreal Strength level is directly linked to your Earth connection. Occupying its most commonly used body, Arboreal is capable of lifting mass volumes many times larger than its own body weight. With additional power delivered to him by Gaia, his final level of endurance is almost incalculable, relying entirely on Gaia's health.

Elemental Control: Arboreal has complete mastery over all plant life and can command plant matter to do its bidding. Through this power, he is in constant communication with the very essence of the earth, and serves as the elemental plant for all plant life in the universe. Arboreal was also formally the elemental of "all" elements, including Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Mind and Spirit.

Possession: Arboreal can transfer your consciousness to any other body of plant matter. If your physical form happens to be destroyed as long as there is a single vegetable present in the universe, it can transfer its consciousness to it by being reborn infinitely. He can also use this power to "physically possess" bodies of organic creatures made of flesh and blood and transfer their consciousness to them. Thus Arboreal could theoretically dwell in any living body of the universe if he so desired.

Clorokinesis: The ability to commune with plant life and to control their growth and shape. He can summon vines to entangle or entangle opponents, and so on. He has threatened on more than one occasion to cause the microscopic flora within the bodies of his enemies to grow outward and kill them from within.

Bio-Fission: Arboreal can grow multiple copies of itself, but these are only animated plant constructs that do not act without direct orders from Arboreal.

Improved Intellect: Arboreal can improve your mental abilities by growing a giant model of an organic brain, and then attaching the brain to your head. It takes about two hours Arboreal can't move until the brain is disconnected.

Hallucinogenic Illusion: Arboreal can grow tubers in your body; These tubers spew out a hallucinogenic pollen that causes the victim to experience illusions (good and honest people will have relaxing illusions; bad people will have painful and terrible illusions).

Immortality: Theoretically, as long as there is any trace of plant life anywhere in the universe, Arboreal will always have a vehicle through which to harbor your consciousness, making he effectively immortal.

Size Change: Arboreal can grow to gigantic sizes. Theoretically there is no limit to the extent to which he can grow as long as he can lend energy from the plant life of the universe.

Regeneration: Arboreal can regenerate totally destroyed body parts or even the entire body. He is enough that there is only one plant from which your consciousness can create a new body and he will regenerate in moments.

Resurrection: Arboreal houses your conscious mind within a humanoid body made of compacted flora and plant material. At will, he can abandon this form and reside in another form, produced from any plant life anywhere. Even if the body he is currently occupying is destroyed, Arboreal's mind lives in the elemental essence of the embodiment of the collective vital essence of all plant life forms of Universe Marvel called "Cosmic Heart of Gaia", and will reconstruct a newly grown body. Arboreal operated this process for several years before he realized he himself. Eventually, he realized the elemental nature of himself, and instructed himself in the reconstitution of his body.

Skills

Intellect Genius Level: Arboreal is naturally extremely well endowed intellectually possessing a brilliant scientific genius that covers various areas such as: Botany, Physics, Exobiology, Genetics, among countless sciences.

Weaknesses

Vulnerability to Pollution: Pollution is highly dangerous to the plant life that makes up your body and the plant life to which he is connected. By weakening Cosmic Heart of Gaia, an opponent also weakens Arboreal.