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Unnamed father (deceased);
Unnamed mother (deceased);
Arra (wife; deceased);
Agar (son);
Lavaar (daughter);
Unnamed daughters
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History
Day by day, I prayed to the gods thinking they were watching above us, and not one night have I questioned them, no matter how many losses we've gained. Then I heard whispers across our barren lands until guided me to an oasis, and as I met the holy god which we worshiped, that's when I realized the truth. We're nothing more than termites in their garden that gets trampled right under their boots without them caring, or knowing at all. However, gods are not indomitable above the heavens. Wielding this... curse which they dread... I know they are just as mortal as they see us.
- — Gorr the God Butcher
- — Gorr the God Butcher
Early Years
Gorr was an indigenous inhabitant native to a desolate planet with no name and little access from the rest of the intergalactic community due to prolonged exploitation of its natural resources for the last few millennia, almost every day on the brink of starvation. He was taught to trust in the gods — especially Rapu — but they never answered his prayers, no matter how he was taught to never lose his faith on the divine. At an early age, his mother and father died, leaving Gorr to fend for himself in the harsh environment. As a young adult, Gorr would meet and marry his fellow tribemate Arra, fathering several children with her in the years that followed.
However, most of them died in his later lifetime. Arra was killed during an earthquake, and one by one his children perished during famines and the war which devastated their empires, raided their cities, and divided their tribes to struggle living in the more deserted regions of their planet until he was left with one daughter, Lavaar. When Lavaar was on the brink of death due to thirst and starvation, Gorr sought to ease his suffering and told his daughter that Rapu's grace would grant them a rewarding destination: a lush forest where they would never go thirsty or hungry ever again. Muttering to his father and the rest of the surviving tribe how tired she felt, the weakened Lavaar passed away in Gorr's arms. Gorr mourned for Lavaar as even his own tribe considered leaving him to death with her, until Gorr himself hears an alluring voice beckoning for him from a distance, believing that at least someone had answered his prayers.
The God Butcher
Just as he thought of giving up and starving with his lifeless daughter while his tribe walked away from him, Gorr hears a voice calling out to him in the distance, wherein he discovered an oasis inhabited by Rapu. Rapu and his slaves had killed the latest wielder of the symbiotic weapon which they call All-Black the Necrosword, but the god only made fun of Gorr for his helplessness, refusing to provide any assistance and mocking the very promises Gorr once believed Rapu made about granting eternal reward to his disciples and followers. A betrayed Gorr renounced Rapu, prompting the provoked god grabbed Gorr by the throat, proclaiming that Gorr now had a purpose, to die by his hand. Beaten into a pulp out of Rapu and some of his followers' amusement, Gorr eventually clutched the Necrosword after following the whispers of Null from the symbiotic sword, vengefully beheading the deity as he vowed for the elimination of all gods. Spiritually following the steps of Null's younger years, Gorr embarked on a merciless campaign of slaughter of all gods and goddesses in the universe, even if he felt how the Necrosword was slowly draining his lifeforce from the inside as a consequence of wielding it, the less he takes a god's life.
After taking the will of the Necrosword, Gorr would travel the cosmos through an area of the Darkforce Dimension, nicknamed the "Shadow Realm" and called the "Ginnungagap" or "Yawning Void" by Asgardian culture among other names, and with the assistance of the Black Berserkers — a monstrous amalgamation of Null's creations which Gorr could summon at will with All-Black — slaying any gods he can find, gaining the frightening reputation known as the God Butcher, being intimated or feared by the likes of Zeus among other gods who recalled their past battles against Null the Living Darkness, as well as the surviving Celestials, to which a few were slaughtered by Gorr. The God Butcher despised any god and travelled the cosmos for years to exact his revenge, embarking on a deicidal crusade which recorded with Gorr killing various gods and goddesses of life, lust, fear, war, chaos, genocide, revenge, plagues, earthquakes, blood, wrath, jealousy, death, degradation, and a few gods of poetry and flowers. For even the most advanced of spacecraft built by mortal, such a morbid feat would've taken thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years to achieve but Gorr's astronomical and supernatural ability to access neighboring galaxies through the Shadow Realm took him time that was equivalent to half a decade in Earth's standard years, yet Gorr was not stopping there.
In the long run, Gorr and his vengeful vendetta would also gained cult-like alliances from different communities across the galaxy in the long run, as he would even gain the trust of the Exolon-fused Kree mercenary Zak-Del into becoming his right-hand man due to how he reminded Gorr of his eldest son. No matter how much he was often praised and given such entitled names such as Gorr the Enlightened, Gorr still despised being revered as a god himself that he would end up killing several of his so-called "followers" out of spite the moment their faith towards him ever ignited. One of the first and most powerful challengers he faced was Malekith the Accursed, the former lord of the Dark Elves who wanted to claim All-Black the Necrosword to continue his crusade of reverting the universe to a state of complete darkness, the "Ginnungagap," something that Gorr was acquainted with. While the lord of the Dark Elves had bested Gorr in combat thanks to Malekith's various range of arcane sorcery, Gorr took the advantage of letting Malekith bond with the Necrosword, long enough for the Accursed to feel the presence of the Shadow Realm, abyss which he and his race had originated from. However, Gorr's rage against divine-like beings only provoked the hive mind of the All-Black, subsequently driving the injured Malekith insane as the darkness completely consumed him to his death.
Having discovered the God Butcher's presence on more common populaces across the galaxy, the disciples of an ancient yet persisting cult which served Null that was founded by the late Klyntarian scientist and disciple Knull would come in contact with Gorr and unveil to him more about the true source of his powers that Gorr was given the title called the Seed of Null. Due to his appearance while morphing into his original battle armor resembling Knull's physique and silhouette, some followers would call him the Second Coming of Knull, a false and romanticized proclamation about Gorr which rendered him furious towards this radical faction of his fellowship, as it hypocritically negated what he strived to do with such a deadly power in his hands, begrudgingly protesting that he was nothing like the powerful beings he slew or the insane followers who would die for them.
Unfortunately for Gorr, he would later come to face the more painful side effects of his symbiosis with All-Black, discovering that the symbiote has only stored eons of knowledge, but also the memories and fragments of consciousness both innocent and powerful sentient lifeforms which Null also slew and absorbed in its lifetime. These symbiote codices refer to both the trace amounts of living abyss left in the bodies of symbiote hosts and the metaphysical records of the personalities, memories, and any unique powers those hosts possessed stored within the All-Back's Hive-Mind, and one of the most menacing "codices" happened to belong to the late Knull himself, who began to haunt Gorr and tried to take over his body from time to time, with Knull wanting to restore the true power and legacy that was left by his former god and master. While Gorr could suppress the codices' influence since he had a fairly strong willpower — fueled by his rage and vengeance against the gods who abandoned his family and people — Knull and other codices who wanted control over the All-Black would sense how fragile Gorr sometime feels, planning to incapacitate the resentful host when he is in his most emotionally vulnerable state.
Unleashing the Godbomb
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As the ruthless God Butcher, Gorr's original battle armor uncannily resembles the Living Darkness' loyal late disciple, Knull
Around the spring of 2026, Gorr's interstellar conquest brought him to accessing and infiltrating various realms across the galaxy that were built or considered temples or sanctuaries to gods and goddesses. His murderous crusade eventually led him to the planet Indigarr, wherein he slaughtered their oppressive pantheon called the Sky Lords of Indigarr, until he let the last goddess of the Indigarrians escape after knowing she was once close with the Asgardian pantheon. Reaching Earth, the Indigarrian goddess had bumped into the demigod warrior turned superhero-like figure Hercules, to which the injured goddess had warned him about the God Butcher, and asked for the help of Asgard's incumbent king, Thor Odinson. Gorr ventured to the town of New Asgard on Earth where he tracked down the Indigarrian goddess and Hercules, having confronted now King Thor Odinson, the Mighty Thor that was Dr. Jane Foster, and their allies including the Asgardian chief warrior Valkyrie.
Hercules' escape led Gorr following Thor's group to the Sphere of Omnipotence, a city of divinity that was ran by a council of the greatest gods and goddesses in existence. wherein Thor tried to warn Zeus and pleaded to protect the more helpless gods who were still facing Gorr in their respective worlds. The disagreement of the council of divine to help Thor's group led to confrontation, only for the God Butcher himself along with his loyal lieutenants and the Black Berserkers to raid their city as he fearlessly faced and brutally slaughtered the mightiest of deities in existence with the Necrosword before finally being intervened by a group consisting of veteran symbiote Venom — with his longtime host Eddie Brock — among other allies outside Asgard who helped Thor with stopping Gorr's massacre. In their following confrontation in the Shadow Realm wherein Gorr used several harvested cosmic power-filled organs of various gods which he slayed to build a universal-class weapon on the moon-shaped celestial. The sentient celestial body turned out to be Id, the son of the late Ego the Living Planet, whom Gorr had once faced in his later years as the God Butcher and was able to trap within the Shadow Realm using All-Black.
Remained to be hidden and only accessible to Gorr's Black World within the Shadow Realm, the moon-sized weapon was dubbed the Godbomb by Gorr's closest followers, as he used the designs of Shadrak the God of Bombs whom Gorr had enslaved and the technology of Olympian Hephaestus (also known as Vulcan) whom Gorr had teamed up with due to the latter's secret spitefulness against the rest of his pantheon, to kill all gods across space in different dimensions in the universe which could be tracked down and accessed by the now enhanced Bifrost. While Gorr was already reluctant with forging alliances with the Greco-Roman god, Hephaestus' arrogance towards Gorr's followers which costed the untimely demise of Zak-Del only triggered Gorr the impulse to fight and slaughter the traitorous Olympian, but not before the God Butcher had completely learned how to activate Hephaestus' machinery in the Godbomb. During the earlier assault on Omnipotence City, Gorr stole Thor's new war-hammer — the Lightbringer — with the purpose of summoning the Bifrost which, once combined with All-Black the Necrosword, would activate the Godbomb. The ethereal and expensive power of the Godbomb could kill every god-like being across the plane of existence through the faith of their followers as its trigger, as gods would die a slow and agonizing death as the living abyss summoned by All-Black starts to eat its victims from the inside out.
However, the God Butcher was confronted again by a small group of heroes led by Thor and the Mighty Thor thanks to Venom's amplified sense of tracking down Gorr's location through the Darkforce Dimension. Venom tapped into Darkforce due to its clearer and less corrupted connection with other symbiotes ever since Null had perished, revealing he had communed with Zak-Del through his Exolon. Before being slain by Hephaestus, Zak-Del decided to secretly assist Thor and his allies in bringing down the God Butcher by giving Venom the access in reaching the Shadow Realm, realizing that Gorr had unwittingly and essentially become the very thing he always despised. The group of heroes would witness that Gorr faced the very demons lurking within All-Black: Knull and the codices have grown stronger in the Abyss and controlled the All-Black to manifest themselves in symbiote avatars so they could attack and take over Gorr's body. Battling the codex usurpers all by himself, Gorr manages to incinerate most of Knull's consciousness after firing cosmic energy at him with the arm of a Celestial, which Gorr had amputated and harvested to build his god-killing weapon, but Thor and his allies had arrived at the scene to stop the activation of the Godbomb. In the final battle against only Gorr himself, the Mighty Thor was able to use the Mjolnir and channel energy at the Lightbringer, combining their blast to shatter the Necrosword using the Odinforce, destroying the now defused Godbomb and killing the last being of Null, and any of his followers like the spirit of Knull, that were still living as codices within All-Black's hive-mind.
A dying but determined Gorr managed to harness the cosmic power of the Godbomb nonetheless as he wielded the godly Lightbringer, only to be convinced by King Thor and a dying Mighty Thor not to continue his killing spree, but instead helped mold the cosmic power into resurrecting Gorr's children — from his older son Agar to his youngest daughter, Lavaar. Without All-Black the Necrosword to keep him alive, Gorr slowly succumbed to his fatal injuries within the collapsing Godbomb amidst the abyss and hoped to be with his late wife and parents in death, but not before knowing and being reassured that his revived family would be left under the care of the surviving Indigarrian goddess who volunteered to raise them as her own to make up for the treacheries brought by her fellow pantheon on the Indigarrian people, along with Thor and New Asgard who offered their assistance to the Indigarrians and other recovering civilizations post-Gorr's slaughter.
After being severely injured by the God Butcher earlier before he was saved by the Silver Surfer and Thor's group, Galactus used the remaining essence of the Celestials from the ruins of the Godbomb, harnessing it to heal himself as well as bestowing the essence onto his other heralds to restore whole dying planets and biospheres whose conditions were similar to Gorr's barren homeworld. In the long run, it was poetically Gorr's murderous quest that was the final straw in triggering the subsequent significant reformation of the divine's Sphere of Omnipotence by giving more of their focus and lending their services into helping with the renovation of desolate civilizations and improvement on the the quality of life in impoverished communities across the universe, whether they have faith in any god or not.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Gorr currently possesses no superhuman abilities.
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All-Black the Necrosword: Gorr was inherently a mortal humanoid who completely lacked any form of abilities which are considered superhuman. After bonding to "All-Black the Necrosword", a symbiotic weapon which was originally found by a warrior on the severed brain of Null the Living Darkness. Besides gaining feats of superhuman abilities, Gorr can use the living abyss comprising All-Black to create a variety of constructs, such as wings, weapons, armor, and a cloak; though All-Black's preferred form is a sword. Gorr was also capable of creating semi-sentient offshoots of All-Black, dubbed Black Berserkers, to do his bidding.
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Abilities
- Indomitable Will
- Skilled Combatant
- Master Torturer
Strength level
Class 100+
Weaknesses
- Extreme Levels of Heat and Sonics
- Madness of the All-Black
- Symbiotic Dependency
- Slowly Draining Lifeforce
- Symbiote Codex Breakdown
- Madness of the All-Black
Paraphernalia
Equipment: None known.
Transportation:
- Flight
- Shadow Teleportation
- Bifrost via Lightbringer (temporarily)
Weapons:
- All-Black the Necrosword Symbiote (formerly; deceased)
- Godbomb (formerly; destroyed)
- Id the Living Moon (foundation of the Godbomb; deceased)
- Shadrak's Sorcery-Fused Incendiary (formerly; destroyed)
- Eternals' Celestial Communo-Sphere (formerly; destroyed)
- Vulcan's Fiery Forges of Vindication (formerly; destroyed)
- Malekith's Hunting Horn of Faerie (formerly; destroyed)
- Cosmic Essence of the Celestials (formerly)
- Hearts of the Fallen Elder Gods (formerly)
- Thor's Lightbringer (temporarily)
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Marvelous Comics: Thor Vol 2 8
Trivia
- As the God Butcher, Gorr has claimed to have murdered a few million gods and deity-like beings in the span of his crusade (approximately equivalent to almost seven years on Earth). Among these fallen beings which have been named, witnessed, and recorded by various archives were Rapu, Hoarfen, Falligar the Behemoth, Ceyote, Aurelle, Tae and Pennsu, Elder Set, Seth, Perun, Zorr'Kiri, Orchard of the Cosmic Seasons, Aztartae, Elalyth, Faeries of Wendigorge, Chernobog, Indra, Zhu Rong, Tian-Mu, Apolaki, Anagolay, Hargen the Measurer, Designate, Quan Yin, Jemiah the Analyzer, Sky Lords of Indigarr, Eris, Zeus, Hera, and Hephaestus.
- In his later years of war and slaughter, Gorr has only rendered to killing the highest and strongest gods and goddesses in a pantheon or any group of divinity rather than bringing all of them into complete eradication, realizing that taking out the "prime" or "elder" gods for good were enough to weaken and sometimes, even decimate the faith of their followers across worlds.
- In his final year, Gorr has felt the presence of the multiversal Beyonder known as Great Mother among other cosmic beings that he deemed would pose a threat to his home universe due to their godly and threatening presence, even targeting her as one the gods whom he wished to finish off with the Godbomb, only for his weapon to face its destruction at the hands of the Mighty Thor.
- According to the Time Variance Authority, they had to actively strip off the powers of several time-based deities that were slayed by Gorr in order to prevent any means of the God Butcher having the idea to use their abilities to travel through time and kill all of gods that ever existed. It was supposedly one of the busiest and riskiest missions the TVA had done.
- This was a nod to Gorr's Earth-616 counterpart, who used the blood of the Time Gods, whom he slaughtered, and filled the Pools of Forever to travel through time and expand his violent massacre across space-time.
- However, given that Kang the Conqueror was secretly the head of the TVA at the time of Gorr's crusade to slaughter the gods, the bloodbath the God Butcher and the loss of millions of gods had left only given Kang as Alternity (head) the devious opportunity to maintain and strengthen his Sacred Timeline and instill his order in the multiverse.
See Also
- Appearances of Gorr (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Gorr (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Gorr (Earth-61615)
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