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Only known for its massive and countless tentacles which hold its victims to submission, and shrouded in multiple eyes to deeply stare at what it devours, this malevolent and malefic entity of the living darkness itself, without any doubt, is indeed, the perfect delineation of humanity's ignorance and oblivious insignificance as a race, in this wide ocean of fears and terrors... Thus, patently enough... We are nothing more but a doomed race, not knowing of Null's unholy and fateful arrival.
- — H. P. Lovecraft's Journal of the Damned Divine
- — H. P. Lovecraft's Journal of the Damned Divine
Early Years of Darkness
Null the Living Darkness is a demonic extraterrestrial entity that belongs to the collective negative impulses of a race of powerful, interdimensional-travelling, universal-threatening entities, called the S'raphh, a subspecies of the larger multiversal Great Old Ones. Interestingly enough, these ancient race originally came from the unexplored and undiscovered regions of the cosmos, causing their origins and history to remain enigmatic for eons, ever since they first appeared throughout the depths of the known multiverse. After achieving full consciousness during its developing stages and joining the rest of its fellow S'raphh, it finally unleashed its inherent ravenous craving and undying tendency towards devouring everything and it may find on its way during its lifetime of trekking through interdimensional journey, before shrouding every universe it conquers in absolute darkness, which is the main source of their species' nature and power.
Originally content to slumber in the Abyss which any mature S'raphh could access through the Darkforce Dimension ("living" abyss), Null was disturbed by the arrival of the Celestials began creating universes, and became outraged at their domain of darkness being despoiled and diminished with every glimmer of light which they shined across the once black cosmos. Null and the rest of the S'raphh retaliated by creating a symbiotic blade of living darkness from its newly-cast shadow, disembodying one of them to pieces. The S'raphh used each body parts' divine cosmic energy — including its head — to enhance their power and refine their weaponry, creating a metaphysical connection between the primordial symbiote and the slain cosmic god, giving Null the first taste of its tremendous, cosmic power which they would be harnessing in their following eons of conquest and further battles against multitudes of deities which ruled or simply thrived across the multiverse.
Null's manifestation as a living blade or "sword of the shadows" for the expansive dominion of the S'raphh made of the living darkness would eventually earn him the title of Lord in Black from its greatest enemies — from Celestials to elder gods, who either feared or were intimidated by its presence — as well as those who revered and honored him since the dawn of the universe, such as the Dark Elves (notably Malekith the Accursed and his disciples) and even other god-like beings (notably the "lesser" dark gods) who channeled their powers from any form of darkness such as the Darkforce Dimension or the astral Dark Dimension.
Faded into Obscurity
Though its race's acknowledgement maybe a rarity during the modern world of their most common homeworld, their existence was not that mysterious, even to few of Earth's primitives and its first civilized humans, whose ancient texts and manuscripts have also included their after every 10,414 years of Earth's history, whenever the S'raphh's presence passes by the Solar System.
However, as time passes by within society and as advanced technology had rapidly spread and developed all around the world, most of humanity has forgotten that it ever existed, with most now believing that the existence of the S'raphh was nothing more than a myth and a legend, some even comparing it to Lovecraftian lore, although the truth of it was H. P. Lovecraft himself was the one who was inspired by the last, lost texts of the S'raphh, to which he decided to translate it, along with his secret journals on the S'raphh and many more mysterious races, kept it on his secret compartment, buried deep underground, located outside his former house, which was at Providence, Rhode Island.
Unfortunately, nobody else but the United States government and a few conspiracy theorists on elder god mythology was able to keep this revelation a secret to the rest of the world. During the early 1960s across various similar universes, it was usually various United States presidents which started with John F. Kennedy who decided to have Lovecraft's buried archives secretly collected and have it stored inside the underground bunker of the White House, kept as as a classified item, in case of global emergencies.
The White Outburst
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Arriving on the prime reality, Null took shelter on the planet Klyntar in its early stage of life, where it created the Symbiotes in hopes of evolving and succeeding the S'raphh, Null's extinct race
The mysterious cosmic event that would be known in the reality of Earth-61712, and many countless more, as the "White Outburst," which was a paradigm shift that acts as a cosmic trigger, revealed to have been caused by the million-years war between the last of the S'raphh and the Builders, a race of god-like interdimensional beings who were considered to be one of the more evolved members of the race Celestials on a known prime universe throughout the multiverse. As the Builders would gain major assistance in the form of the Celestial Travelers and Gardeners, as well as an alliance of gods and other deities that would eventually form the Sphere of Omnipotence, this great war ended with the victory of the alliance and the success of the Builders' enlightening expansion by seeding more life and amplifying technology on universal voids that were once inhabited by Null's race, which leads to the defeat and eventual extinction of the S'raphh, leaving the only surviving member of the S'raphh — Null itself — to strive for complete survival all on its own.
Unbeknownst to the S'raphh, the "White Outburst" was an intentional event sparked by the Builders by summoning the sentient and divine multiversal cosmic energy source known as the Enigma Force, in which during the million-years war, the Builders have decide to activate their technologically-advanced space stations across the known multiverse, and scans their universes for a race that is about to become cosmically interesting. When it finds one that is doing so, it gives them a blessing, hence the White Outburst, and shepherds, in the shape of four glyphs that are gifted to beings who are compatible with them. With this, the species becomes aware of their power, and either expands responsibly, or devolves into anarchy. The system has stood for millions of years, even when the Builders get distracted being threatened or even challenged by other races, and in this case their war with the S'raphh. Unaware of how much, the powerful, altering, empowering effects of the "White Outburst" were to those who were affected by the consequences of the mysterious event, several of them have unintentionally made it onto the surface of the planet which would eventually become Klyntaria in this reality.
Around 252 million years ago when it reached the younger regions of the prime universe to hide, Null fled from the Celestial Builders after a decisive battle as it made it way landing on the planet, reproducing his antibodies Nullifiers within the deepest crust of Klyntaria in the purpose of succeeding and evolving the S'raphh due to their near-extinction during the war. However, the unstable climate of that planet only gradually changed the genetic of the structure of the newborn, solid-bodied Nullifiers into more amorphous, symbiotic creatures through the process of natural selection in order to survive the never-ending storms by mostly staying dormant underground. Co-existing with its first thriving lifeforms for eons, Knull was able to change the lives of many living organisms, including several countless numbers of its sentient life which was on the verge on building their civilization, either their lives have changed for the better, but mostly for worse of those who fell to his will. Null's long-term impressions and influences on the sentient and technologically-advanced, human-like Klyntarians as well as the texts Null had carved on various landmarks and caves across the planet left an impression and legacy of loyal followers, most especially the morbid scientist and twisted serial killer Knull along with his family, which stemmed from their ancestors who loyally worshipped it as a deity through adopting a series of twisted and bloodlust ideologies of Null's nature when it stayed on their home planet.
In the last years of Knull leading the cult dedicated to the Living Darkness, he assimilated enough wisdom on dark sorcery and sacrificed enough lifeforms that he was able to summon the Living Darkness itself, who fed on the lifeforms which Knull had offered it for several years. Knull's rituals as cult leader slowly awakened Null to unlock and amplify its latent powers such as accessing the realm of the Living Abyss. Knull would even offer himself to be its human host and ease the conversion of the Klyntarian populace into serving Null as he communed to it telepathically, only for their symbiosis to gone awry when Knull's senile body and insane mind to have proven how incompatible he was in his state and age to be Null's host, thus causing Knull's body to be sucked of life and reduced to ash during the bonding attempt with his master. While Null was originally underwhelmed by the outcome of its symbiosis with its greatest disciple, Null would later feel that a few significant fragments of Knull's consciousness have fused within its master's vast hive mind, giving Null the access to Knull's knowledge and teachings in dark magic, with Null concluding that their symbiosis nevertheless came to fruition knowing Knull was the most willing disciple to sacrifice his entire being just to save the Living Darkness. After years of healing, Null eventually left the planet around 5 millions years ago in order to escape the wandering Celestial Travelers as it leaves this universe and continued to venture into millions more as it intends to proliferate its slowly waning species in other planets across neighboring accessible universes.
Supreme Journey
Supreme Malignance
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Through Darkforce, Null's momentary connection with Carnage granted the the discovery of each other's existence, granting the latter to acquire a deadlier set of skills and a plethora of cosmic knowledge about the Creator of the Symbiotes
Years later after the life-changing effects of the White Outburst event, or simply just the White Event among to some other races across the galaxy who came into experiencing it, most of Earth's humanity from this reality ended up using their new special powers and abilities towards either the side of heroism and the greater good, or the side of selfishness and evil. Null began to weaken as it no longer found a world it could conquer without having to face technologically-advanced inhabitants that defend their home, right until a symbiotic being known as Carnage — a representative of the Klyntar — had conjured Darkforce energy from his Earth in order to communicate and connect with their arcane creator, Null itself. As their magical connection was a two-way exchange of giving and receiving millions of information, Null learned the existence of its great creation on the other Earth, Null planned to travel between universes to reclaim the power of its Symbiotes, although such amount of light energy would require it strong enough to jumpstart its power to travel across universes faster than light speed.
After periods of concentrating and searching for the necessary fuel, Null finally sensed a large presence of dark energy from the last White Outburst that has recently occurred on this universe years ago, the lonely Null has finally changed its intergalactic journey by going straight and forward towards the direction of the dark energy source, which was now located on this reality' Earth, an energy sufficient for Null to travel to other worlds, especially the Earth where its greatest creations, the Symbiotes, are last located. Little did everyone on Earth else knew that the first largest and one of the most dangerous threats that they would ever encounter, was already on its way towards them, raging and craving for the hunger and destruction, and nothing else would ever dare to stand on its way.
The government team project known as the Squadron Supreme has already been scrapped and the first secret incarnation of the team was disbanded by the current president of the United States of America, believing that each and every superhero would be better on their own without them having to be involved with the government's classified agendas, but due to the unexpected arrival of the Null, the "Living Darkness," the authorities had no other choice but to reassemble the superhero team for the sake of defending the world and preventing the planet from the most dangerous of threats, no single hero could ever handle in defeating.
While the entire creature itself was still outside the Earth's orbit, the Null asexually reproduced and spawned a countless swarm of its offsprings and biological vessels, known as the Nullifiers, which are the descendants of the symbiotic Klyntar, which Null hadn't acknowledged its existence until Carnage was able communicate with it through Darkforce. As a result, the Squadron Supreme was immediately alerted by their swift arrival towards the Earth's atmosphere, causing for the heroes to charge off against the hostile creatures in order to prevent them from ever reaching the planet's surface, especially the most populated cities such as Squadron City and New Troy City.
Expecting the arrival of the Nullifier swarm up ahead the skies, the Squadron rallied in defense of New Troy, but quickly concluded they would be overwhelmed as wave after wave of Nullifiers have descended. The rest of the Squadron Supreme kept their ground to hold off the invasion and evacuated civilians while Hyperion and Doctor Spectrum themselves pursued Null while it was still in orbit. Hyperion tried to beat it into submission, however, Spectrum finds another alternative in order to stop the invasion of the Living Darkness from ever commencing on Earth.
Though Hyperion's beatings on the creature manages to ultimately stop the Nullifiers' attack on Earth with the help of the Squadron Supreme, it only made the state of the Null itself even worse than before. Sensing the energy from the White Outburst's effects, it was revealed that the most powerful source of dark energy was located at Emil Burbank's headquarters, where his secret laboratory was also located, safely containing the last amount of the White Outburst's mysterious energy, something that Null had recognized as the planet to be flourishing with life. After sensing the Outburst's energy, the last surviving Nullifier immediately escapes from the clutches of the Squadron as it swiftly flew towards the Burbank International headquarters.
The heroic speedster Blur, followed by the rest of the Squadron, manages to catch up with the Nullifier on time after reaching the top floor of the building, however, the Nullifier was too alerted about their presence, it manages to knock all the heroes down, including the Blur, one by one, before proceeding to enter Burbank's secret lab. Unbeknownst to the Squadron who have just recently arrived the headquarters, Burbank himself was already inside his laboratory at the time. Burbank was already aware about the arrival of Null on the planet's orbit, and yet, even he was surprised about the unexpected infiltration of the Nullifier on his lab where it carelessly and rapidly destroys the entire laboratory in the process, searching for the mysterious white energy source.
Burbank tried to get the safe container inside the lab that currently stored the powerful energy, but it was to late for him, as the last Nullifier finally grasps the container, ruthlessly breaking it, releasing the white energy in the process. Unfortunately, the Nullifier itself was immediately disintegrated as the energy transforms into a massive beam of light that ascended into the heavens, reaching the planet's orbit. Now that Null itself was able to reach the beam of light, the large, weakened entity heads directly straight towards it in order to absorb the energy being released by the beam. As Null kept on absorbing the white energy, it makes it even more stronger, however, the longer it absorbs the energy from the beam, it only dragged the creature more and more further towards the light, like a black hole. Unaware of what the creature has been up to, both Hyperion and Spectrum tried to stop from speeding towards the light, and despite all their best efforts of escaping, Null was too fast and too powerful.
Return to Prime Reality
As a result, Null, along with on it who were Hyperion and Spectrum, vanishes into space as they enter the white beam of light. Meanwhile on the surface of the Earth, the rest of the Squadron to see that the beam itself began to slowly increase in size and diameter. The Blur tried to reverse the effects of the light by running around the light beyond the speed of light, in reverse in order to unravel it.
As he run so fast, his teammates tried to get back, just in case, but it was too late. The Blur's unmeasured powerful speed had unexpectedly taken himself and his entire team towards the beam of light, and similar to Null, Hyperion, and Doctor Spectrum, they also vanished into nothingness, although this time, the light finally fades into thin air, thanks to the Blur's counteracting actions, which unbeknownst to him, actually worked afterwards. Due to the mysterious effects caused by the White Outburst's beam of light, Null the Living Darkness and the Squadron Supreme were suddenly transported to a location, so seemingly familiar, and yet so different at the same time. As the heroes have finally awoken from their unconscious condition, Null was nowhere to be found anywhere, along with finding themselves lying on the roof of a skyscraper. As they awoken, the heroes were so confused to see how much the environment of "New Troy" they're currently around, felt like they were during the "19th century," instead of being in the 21st century.
Siege of Knowhere
It was revealed that the white outburst only weakened Null to an extent, as the white energy had outbalanced its powers as Null was truly a living conduit of darkness, hence its name, since the white energy would've consumed it to be one with the light rather than harness it. Remembering this reality to be the birthplace of its offsprings across different galaxies, Null, intended to convert its light energy into its own true source of powers that was dark energy. The presence of Null the Living Darkness was finally found by the Guardians of the Galaxy, who saw the enormous whale-like entity roam around the depths of space across the Andromeda Galaxy, still looking for more resources to feed on, more specifically, energy, lots and lots of energy. As the cosmic heroes followed the enormous entity towards where it was specially going, it finally led them to a very familiar location they once went to: Knowhere. Seeing the enormous entity started suddenly acting all hostile towards the ancient Celestial head turned mining colony — the same one Null had used to amplify its cosmic power in its younger years, the Guardians were obligated to make an immediate action by advancing to the place itself even before the monster gets their to decimate it, to warn all the citizens and help the people evacuate Knowhere if things get even worse.
Unfortunately for the Guardians, the assumption they nervously expected did come true, and by the time they arrived at Knowhere, the place itself was already in chaos and ruins as Null had already sent its Nullifiers to the middle of the city. Despite this, however, the Guardians still did their very best to defend the surviving people, including the Collector, though after seeing that they were slowly being outnumbered by the Nullifiers, along with the Null who was now extremely close to arriving, the heroes warn the people to use all the spacecrafts they have to evacuate the entire place to safety. However, no matter how they tried to fasten the ongoing process, each second seemed to run out, and sadly, they could only watch in horror as they witness the nightmarish arrival of Null. In the midst of crisis, the Guardians gave all their best shots at the malevolent behemoth, though none seemed to prevail.
That is, until Rocket Raccoon reluctantly but recklessly uses one of the spacecrafts, and directed it towards Null's head, severely weakening it, buying time for the people of Knowhere to evacuate. Rocket seemingly perished during the explosion, much to his teammates' distress at first, especially for Groot. Thankfully, Rocket was revealed to be alive, showing that he was saved by a heroic individual whom the Guardians had never met, revealed to be Earth-61712's Hyperion. Immediately afterwards, Hyperion excessively exerted his godly might to drag Null out of Knowhere and its orbit, averting the destruction of Knowhere from the monster's hunger. In the aftermath of Null's failed attack, the overthrown mighty creature unintentionally sensed another, more powerful energy source coming from a hundred light years from Knowhere. Sensing the strong scent of the energy source, Null used his natural power of interdimensional travel to access the jump points to fast travel across the universe, jumping between different planets to find which one of it was the source of the strong energy.
Incursion on Skrullos
Null then proceeds to engage to enter the interstellar stargates, in which the travel itself took more than until it was able to locate its destination, arriving at the of home of one of the most notorious empires throughout the galaxy, Skrullos. Unbeknownst even for the mighty entity itself, its desperate hunger towards cosmic energy had shrouded it from becoming slightly wary, without even knowing that whatever or whoever might be there to help its people, was already prepared to face its wrath, and were courageous enough to do whatever it takes to protect their world. In the arrival of Null on Skrullos, he never unexpected to see the whole planet's orbit was protected by a electromagnetic forcefield, blocking it from entering so easily, all thanks to the planet's remarkably-advanced technology, combined and supported by the powerful constructs released by energy of Doctor's Spectrum's Power Prism.
Apparently experiencing some difficulties at first, a weakened Null apparently renounces its objective in consuming the planet, without the people even realizing that Null had used its telepathic ability and somehow bypass the forcefield, controlling a Skrull soldier's mind where he unknowingly disable the field's control system, subsequently giving Null the greater advantage to effortlessly break the unbreakable construct of the Power Prism. As Null enters the Skrullos' atmosphere, the Skrull Empire had no other choice but to ignore Spectrum's hopeful solutions and instead, they decided to use their "Star Killer" weapons against the creature, little knowing that it would endanger the whole planet, even if they would get to kill Null.
Still ignoring Spectrum's pleas, the arrogant and egotistical Skrull prince and general, Dezan, was coerced by Null to command his men to fire the weapons otherwise, recklessly shooting at Null, only for the latter to absorb the energy releases by the weapon, satisfying its hunger in the meantime, and even worse, it releases a far more deadly blast towards the surface of the planet, causing few earth-shattering tremors across several different cities on the planet, costing the lives of hundreds of thousands as the structures have devastatingly collapsed above them. However, Spectrum was able to use his Power Prism to snap the thralls of Null before the planet would've completely crumble. In response to Null's failure to consume Skrullos, Spectrum used all his strategy and his might to blast Null away from the planet as far as possible only using his ultimate Power Prism.
Illusion of Ultimate Power
Null faced its final enemies in the form of the alliance between the Avengers and the Squadron Supreme
As a willing act of sacrifice, he then leads Null towards the nearest star of the system using what Hyperion had once taught him about gravitational pull during their earliest days in the Squadron Supreme. Null was drawn into the sun and was going to get killed with Ledger himself, only to be outpowered by the last second action of the Null to get both itself and Ledger out of the area using its interdimensional travel, unintentionally travelling them across the other parts of prime universe, with the hero not knowing where the creature would eventually lead them to next. As the two travel across the universe at light speed, Ledger continues to use this situation as an advantage by fighting the powerful but confused creature with his great power summoned by the Power Prism. Despite being fazed off reality during their, Null impulsively released a large swarm of his Nullifiers to defend it from Ledger.
Passing through a dimension (Quantum Zone) that greatly overcharges Ledger's sentient power source, Doctor Spectrum unleashed the true might and power of the overpowered Power Spectrum as he easily obliterate every single Nullifier who attacked him. Null tried to use his ability of illusion casting to implant a dreamlike reality to Ledger's mind, but the overcharged Power Prism was already powerful enough to counteract the entity's psychic attack. As an immediate response, Doctor Spectrum finally entered his state of ultimate power where he would release a powerful blast of energy straight at Null which penetrated through his own core, finally killing the multiversal entity once and for all, or so did Ledger thought.
Out of all the sudden, Ledger opened his eyes in a flash of light, as he sees that his right forearm was severed off by Null's tentacles, realizing that everything that just happened was nothing but a psychic illusion successfully implanted by Null earlier. Ledger then closes his eyes as he accepts his unexpected fate, with his last thoughts still being hopeful and optimistic, secretly knowing that his allies would now find a way to defeat Null, before ultimately getting devoured by the Living Darkness. Unbeknownst to Null, however, Ledger's death was a worthy sacrifice to self-destruct his own Power Prism within the "digestive track" of Null, permanently implanting a powerful series of radiation within the entity and although it was harmless to the latter, Ledger still knew that his teammates and allies would eventually find Null, through the energy surge released by the detonation of the Power Prism, and face the universally-threatening creature once and for all to prevent it from devouring anything on this neighboring reality.
Unfortunately, Ledger's sacrifice also came with an unexpected and terrible price, and that price was the discovery of Null to use the "essence" of the Power Prism to its own advantage, conveniently using it as some sort of biological tracking device in its system to sense and hunt for the greatest of energies on a pangalactic-wide scale across the universe. Using its new adapted and resourceful ability, Null would come across to retrieve and absorb the essence of its last living member of its symbiotic offsprings on a planet called Earth known as the Klyntar, but would also come to sense a new and strange but tempting dark energy within the Terran named Robert Reynolds, the complex superhero known as Sentry.
With Null now craving for this new source of nutrition besides mainly his own creations, the latter set its new mission to devour the mysterious energy within the superhuman the creature has found on Earth. However, it only enraged Null to found out after reading the minds and memories of the heroes, notably Venom and Anti-Venom, revealing that most of the Symbiotes which Null created have already flee from it, prompting the Living Darkness to focus its goal to consume the Void before aiming to chase after its offsprings in the Negative Zone. Still, Null was able to dig deep into several locations on Earth by releasing its Nullifiers, which after copying the genetic codices of every symbiote — save for Anti-Venom due to its intoxicating Lifeforce energy — upgraded Null's ability to replicate its own newer and more parasitic yet slightly imperfect and rushed versions of his "purer" creations, called the Exolon.
Created and dropped on Earth, the purpose of the Exolon was divided into two sects: the ones which search every corner of the globe for traces of dark energy and the other division which delivers the energy for Null to absorb in order to power up with its natural source. A group of Exolon had snatched the supervillain Blackout and drained all of the Darkforce from his body, killing him. In doing so, they were able to possess the superhero Cloak for an amount of time which gave Null sufficient power to find the Void in its exact location, until the process was interrupted by Cloak's partner Dagger who was powered by the opposing Lightforce, which Null could not bear to overcome due to its lethal addiction to the similar White Outburst energy.
Null and Void
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Null battled the Sentry to consume its Void, only for Null to face the entity when the Void agreed merging with Sentry
In the climactic finale of their journey to face Null head-to-head, the Sentry himself, agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and the Squadron Supreme took their stand at the former Project Pegasus headquarters in Wyoming to confront and exile Null out of to prevent it from consuming other universes, including their own. Battling them in the Earth's atmosphere, the heroic alliance forced Null away from the benevolent planet long enough until they were able to convince and awaken the Sentry in joining their final battle.
Reaching the end, the heroes of both worlds were able to banish the Living Darkness into the unknown abyss of the multiverse away, even farther away from the Negative Zone where the Symbiotes freely found their new home, thanks to the Sentry's Void who left finally Reynold's body dragged Null and flew into the modern site of the White Outburst where they intended to send it for the next millions of years until the duel led them to excruciatingly burn and die together as they land on a dying star that was set of to detonate in state of a hypernova, finally releasing his "inner demon," along with his lethal and uncontrollable superpowers for his own good.
With the Void's redemption, most of Null was finally vaporized with the former, becoming one with the very source of light which the last living S'raphh had become addicted to in most of its lifetime. With Null and Void's death, only the remaining active but stray groups of Exolon and either the corpses or dormant bodies of the Nullifiers on Earth were captured and salvaged for researches and studies by both S.H.I.E.L.D. and even the cynical Emil Burbank of Earth-61712, who became situational allies with the Squadron Supreme during this mission, as they went to their home reality. Furthermore in the Negative Zone, the thriving symbiotes in the colonies of New Klyntaria would no longer feel the dark influence and ravenous connection with their creator, thus prompting the Klyntar to be more liberated and independent than they ever were.
Legacy of the Living Darkness
Null's final essence lives on the symbiotic weapon known as All-Black the Necrosword, wielded by the vengeful Gorr
While it was believed that Null was completely vaporized from the Void's explosive blast, a small surviving fragmented chunk of the entity's brain was revealed to have crash-landed on a nearby desolate and dying planet with no name from the rest of the intergalactic community, reforming into a symbiote out of muscle memory — recreating the first weapon it summoned during its earlier years — as it took over the brain and entered into suspended animation in order to survive in the planet's harsh and barren deserts. A native warrior by the name of Kaa, who fled from the planet's ensuing war, stumbled upon Null's severed brain. Hearing the most desperate thoughts of the warrior, the symbiote morphs itself into a sword and gave the warrior its promises of winning the war. While Null's initial promises granted the warrior supreme power to turn the tides of their war to their favor, it slowly corrupted him and binding his life-force to it until he would suddenly turn on his own people with feelings of bloodthirst and fueled vengeance. The very same people he was once allies with still had undying faith towards their god, Rapu, and saw as the symbiote-enhanced warrior as a heretic.
One of the more impoverished indigenous inhabitants, Gorr was the last of his people, spending his days striving to survive on the desert and constantly praying to Rapu for salvation, to no avail as most of their loved ones would die of starvation. Just as he thought of giving up on life, Gorr hears the voice of Null's consciousness calling out to him in the distance, leading to him discovering an oasis wherein Rapu currently rested. Rapu and his closest, enslaved followers had killed the latest wielder of the symbiotic weapon, now dubbed as All-Black the Necrosword, but the god only made fun of Gorr for his helplessness, refusing to provide any assistance and mocking Gorr. Renouncing Rapu, Gorr claimed the Necrosword after following the whispers of Null from the symbiotic sword and vengefully beheading the deity, vowing for the elimination of all gods. Mirroring the steps of Null the Living Darkness in its younger years, Gorr embarked on a merciless campaign of slaughter of all gods and goddesses in the universe, even if he knew how the Necrosword was slowly draining his lifeforce from the inside as a consequence of wielding it.
Gorr would travel the cosmos through an area of the Darkforce Dimension, nicknamed the "Shadow Realm," and with the help of the Black Berserkers — a monstrous amalgamation of Null's creations — slaying any gods he can find, gaining the frightening reputation known as the "God Butcher," being intimated or feared by the likes of Zeus and even the surviving Celestials, to which a few were slaughtered by Gorr. However, Gorr would also gained cult-like alliances from different communities across the galaxy such as the Exolon-fused Kree mercenary Zak-Del becoming his right-hand man, although Gorr despises being revered as a god himself that he would end up killing his so-called "followers" out of spite the moment their faith towards him ever ignited.
Around the spring of 2026, Gorr's interstellar conquest brought him to various places such as New Asgard on Earth, confronting its two Thor and their allies, and even the Sphere of Omnipotence, a city of divinity wherein Gorr faced and slaughtered the mightiest of deities in existence with the Necrosword before finally being intervened by a group consisting of Hercules, Venom, among other allies who helped Thor with stopping Gorr's massacre. In their following confrontation in the Shadow Realm wherein Gorr built the Celestial-based weapon Godbomb on the moon-shaped celestial known as Id, the son of the late Ego the Living Planet.
Gorr stole Thor's new war-hammer — the Lightbringer — and use the Bifrost in order to activate the Godbomb and kill every god across the plane of existence through the faith of their followers as its trigger. However, the God Butcher was confronted again by a smaller group of heroes led by Thor and the Mighty Thor whom the latter shattered the Necrosword with the Odinforce, destroying the now defused Godbomb and killing the last being of Null in the form of Gorr. Gorr managed to harness the power of the Godbomb nonetheless, only to be convinced by Thor not to continue his killing spree, but further helped the resurrection of his late daughter Lavaar instead using the Godbomb's cosmic energy. Without the Necrosword, Gorr slowly withered in the collapsing Godbomb, but not before knowing and being reassured that his daughter would be left under the care of Thor in New Asgard, as well as his quest triggering the subsequent reformation of the Sphere of Omnipotence by giving their focus and lending their services into helping desolate and impoverished communities across the universe, whether they have faith in any god or not.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
S'raphh Physiology: Null's evolved and mutated form as a S'raphh was solid but immensely durable and strong (at least Class 550+). Null's extraterrestrial physiology allows it to fly, become intangible, teleport through contained interdimensional wormholes, move objects telekinetically, speak telepathically, shape-shift, cast illusions, shrink people, project concussive psychokinetic blasts, reanimate corpses and possess other feats and abilities that was left unrevealed. According to more than 50,000 realities across the known discovered multiverse (including Earth-61615 and Earth-61712), Null is considered to be one of the most powerful evolved form of S'raphh that everyone has ever seen. Its feats, natural powers, and abilities includes the following:
Some of the millions of Nullifiers that developed and hatched from within Null's enormous body, helping it devour worlds and conquer it into absolute darkness
- Multi-Hive Mind
- Mind Control
- Possession
- Environmental Adaptivity
- Darkness Manipulation
- Dimensional Manipulation
- Interdimensional Travel
- Telekinesis
- Holographic Projection
- Illusion Casting
- Dark Divinity Powers
- Dark Divine Manipulation
- Dark Energy Manipulation
- Darkforce Manipulation
- Avatar Creation
- Genetic Replication
- Genetic Manipulation
- Nullifier Creation
- Symbiote Creation
- Exolon Creation
- Telepathy
- Immortality
- Sorcery
- Necromancy
- Siphon Lifeforce
- Size Manipulation
- Flight
- Levitation
- Teleportation
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Abilities
- Super-Genius Intelligence
Strength level
Class 550+
Weaknesses
- Lethal Addiction to the White Outburst
- Relativity of Power Levels in Realities
Paraphernalia
Equipment: None known.
Transportation:
- Flight
- Levitation
Weapons: None known.
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Fantastic Four Vol 1 36
Trivia
- Doctor Spectrum being devoured by Null after being shown a realty-like illusion was a reference to the comic Infinity Countdown Vol 1 5, in which Earth-616 Hank Pym's soul was devoured by Devondra, a cosmic being residing within the Soulworld.
See Also
- Appearances of Null (Marvelous Multiverse)
- Character Gallery: Null (Marvelous Multiverse)
- Quotations by Null (Marvelous Multiverse)
Discover and Discuss
- Search News for: Null the Living Darkness · Null · Null (Marvelous Multiverse)
Links and References
- None.