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I have noticed all the great villians of x-men got their own thread and i was wondering why not shadow king. So i have decided to make a Shadow King thread. most likely it would die in the first day but atleaast i made 1 thread and its about my fav villian. or most ppl are gonna start bashing SK cuz everyone thinks he sucks ass.

another

and last i got

SHADOW KING

Real Name: Amahl Farouk
Universe/Timeline: Marvel Universe
Current Status: --
Aliases: Jacob Reisz, Ananasi

Nationality: Egyptian
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #117

Powers and Abilities:
exists as an entity of pure psychic energy, feeds off the negative emotions found in human souls with his telepathic powers, direct massive psionic energy into the physical plane to reform matter

oh thanks for that in depth biography. jury.

SHADOW KING

Affiliations: X-villain , former head of the Gladiators
Scale of Operations: astral plane / worldwide, formerly Muir Island , formerly Madripoor , formerly Cairo, Egypt

Powers: Amahl Farouk was a mutant with a phenomenally strong talent for telepathy. He could perform nearly any telepathic feat and block any telepathic challenge. In particular, Farouk's extpertise was in the manipulation of the astral plane.

Since his physical death, Farouk exists entirely as a creature of the astral plane. He is normally unable to take control of a host body, but he can do so under certain circumstances, such as in the case of the mutant Karma, whose mental powers allowed him to possess her. Otherwise, he may subliminally affect victims and exert limited mental control.

History: Several years ago, as a young man, the mutant telepath Charles Xavier visited Cairo, Egypt, where his wallet was stolen by the child Ororo, who would later join Xavier's X-Men team as Storm. Xavier used his psionic powers to stop Ororo and took his wallet back. Suddenly Xavier himself was struck by a bolt of psionic energy. Recovering, he realized that the source of the psychic attack lay within a nearby tavern.

Within the bar Xavier met Amahl Farouk, the crimelord of Cairo, who was himself a mutant with vast tele-pathic powers. Farouk had sensed the presence of another powerful telepath and had struck him with the psionic bolt as a warning to leave the area his domain, the so-called Thieves' Quarters of Cairo. Xavier and Farouk sat at different tables in the bar and communicated solely through telepathy. Farouk asked Xavier to join him in his criminal activities. Xavier sensing Farouk's evil and depravity, refused. Contending that mutants like themselves had a responsibility to use their superhu-man abilities for the benefit of others, Xavier vowed to bring Farouk to justice for his crimes. Xavier's and Farouk's astral forms then began a battle which ended when the former defeated his foe with a powerful bolt of psychic force. Xavier's astral form rejoined his body, and he left the bar. When Farouk's physical body died, however, he shifted his astral form to another plane. Weakened by the intensity of his duel with the crimelord, Xavier did not notice that Farouk's consciousness had thus escaped. Farouk wanted vengeance on Xavier but believed him too pow-erful to challenge safely.

Years later, however, Farouk became aware of Xi'an Coy Minh, alias Karma, a member of Xavier's new team of young superpowered heroes, the New Mutants, who had the psionic ability to take psychic possession of another person. Kar-ma disappeared on a mission with the New Mutants after the explosion of a hideout belonging to their foe the Viper. The other New Mutants believed Karma to be dead. How-ever, Farouk had turned Karma's own power against her and taken psychic possession of her body. Inhabiting Karma's physical form, Farouk resumed his criminal career on a worldwide scale. Now that he once more had a corporeal body, Farouk was able to indulge his physi-cal appetites. In his original body, Farouk had been an overweight man, but over the months that he possessed Karma's body, as if to compensate for the years he spent as a disembodied spirit, Farouk became so gluttonous that Karma's body grew grotesquely obese.

Farouk came to control the Gladia-tors, a large group of superhuman mutants who illegally engaged in blood sports for the entertainment of paying customers. Farouk used holographic images of the Gladia-tors' former leader, Alexander Flynn, to convince all but his inner circle in the operation that Flynn was still in control of their activities. Farouk had two of the New Mutants, Magma and Sunspot, abducted and forced them to fight at his secret arena. A team of heroes, which included their team-mates Cannonball and Magik, tried to rescue them. Farouk captured Shadowcat, one of the heroes who had recognized Karma, and put her under his control. When she broke free, the group caused such an uproar that the police invaded the secret complex and shut it down. The New Mutants and their allies caught Farouk and recognized Kar-ma but, still in Karma's body, Farouk got away.

Unaware that Karma was pos-sessed by Farouk, the entire New Mutants team tracked her to Madripoor. There Farouk took control of a portion of the team while others escaped to Cairo, where Farouk had taken his new con-quests. There they joined forces with Storm and learned the truth that Karma was being pos-sessed by Farouk. Farouk planned to use his control of Storm to force her to kill Xavier and planned leave Karma's body eventually and take over someone else, leaving her to pay for his crimes.

Finally, two of the New Mutants freed Storm and the others from his mental control. The heroes attacked Farouk, who fled Karma's body only to take over that of Cypher's instead. Karma was now once more herself and wanted vengeance on Farouk. Her astral form battled his and forced him to flee to another plane, freeing Cypher.

Later, Farouk returned, calling himself the Shadow King and plaguing the life of Storm, who had been reduced to a child by the villain Nanny. With the help of her new ally, Gambit, Storm escaped his machinations.

Farouk soon turned his attention to the mind of doctor Moria MacTaggart, leader of the research facility on Muir Island. Gradually, he influenced her behavior and began to take control of the entire island, which included many of the associates of the X-men (which were defunct at the time) and wounded mutants from the so-called "Mutant Massacre". Farouk also reinstated his gladiator-like arena where the mutants could fight amongst themselves. During this time, Farouk possessed Xaveir's son Legion, using him to kill the mutant Destiny. He also possessed former X-men Polaris, using her as a nexus for the negative emotions of others in order to increase his own power. The X-men eventually reformed and investigated the strange happenings on Muir Island. They ousted Farouk with the help of Professor Xavier after the X-men Psylocke broke Farouk's link to Polaris.

Farouk later resurfaced in Storm's village from her time Africa, taking the form of Anasasi, the legendary spider-trickster of Africa. When the X-men investigated, he tricked Psylocke into creating a psychic shockwave that disrupted the entire astral plane, effectively cutting the world`s telepaths off from their power. However, Psylocke tricked Farouk in return, causing him to overextend himself by tapping into every mind on the planet. While thus distracted, Psylocke mentally tapped into him and psychically shut him down. Psylocke claimed that as long as she did not use her telepathy, Farouk would remain contained by her telepathic powers.

Note: This information belongs to Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Universe, therefore used without permission.

now that is great jury.

ok now this thread is dead. i think paola you should close this thread.

actually der's no reason to close dis thread

if it's destined to die ... so be it ... but this will not be closed as long as de posts are intended for Shadow King alone. I mean the character not the KMC member.

ok. so anyone else besides me think SK is a cool character.

no

psylcokes fans are not allowed in here.

well if i said that then no one would come.

no one is coming either way tongue

ok well its up to me to keep this thread alive. most likely i will end up talking to my self.

u do that anyway *spark lighter* burning thread time MAUAAHAHAHAHHA *goes over to the walls and throws a bottle of alcohole at it breaking it, sparks lighter and smiles with a grin "bye bye" throws lighter at the wall and crosses arms laughing while the place burns down* fuuuuuuuuuuun

pyro is the most shittest character in x history i was glad that he died HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

at least PYRO has FANS unlike this shadow king

So how's Shadow King?

Shadow king is ok.

its cuz SK isnt seen most of the times.

and plus he is a psychic and their are a tons of psychics.

and coz people cant really care about SK

why would anyone care about pyro???

its obivouse that people do coz hes got tones of fans, and hes the only one of his kind in Xmen

i hate his mutant powers they are so bad.

at least they are not the bloody SAME as other so called mutants

shadow king has one of kind powers.

exists as an entity of pure psychic energy, feeds off the negative emotions found in human souls with his telepathic powers, direct massive psionic energy into the physical plane to reform matter

and no one has those kind of powers.

rember the line that magneto said to pyro- your a god amongst insects something like that cant remeber well shadow king would be god amongst humans and mutants.

does it look like i care? nooooooooooooooo i have burnt this thread already so im done

ok it seems like that you have acknowledge that shadow king can defeat pyro.

it seems i couldnt give a flying f*ck about SK and pyro fight and i couldnt care if SK can beat pyro what i care about is that i dont care getting the picture

man i thought you would defend your mutant but it looks like you took the easy way out by saying you dont care.

umm i say i dont care because i dont duuuuuh

and wtf MY mutant? :s omg dude u so dont get this forum i have pyro as my sig coz i am a fan of his doesnt mean that I am him or that i dont have any other xmen that i am a fan of jeezus maybe u should have stayed banned

maybe i should .

anywayz why did you have to start this.

because I kruffing can

i am just still trying to wonder why doesnt anyone think hes an ok mutant. i guess they think he is too powerful. and no one likes powerful mutants.

probably because no one know about him and who cares u like him so thats all that matters who cares if he doesnt have fans deal with it

i know i should.

besides he doesn't look good

well i cant say anything.

yeah hes ugly

maybe ugly people like other ugly people then, maybe thats why you like him no?

well he doesnt look cooler as a human that fat ass why doesnt he do some exercise. see this is the only thing i dislike about shadow king.

no one caaaares

well this thread was jsut for me to talk to myself so why the hell you still posting here why dont you find a pyro thread and post in thier for god sake.

and this is a thread for SK fans ok.

a thread to talk to yourself oh thats smart

No. This thread is for the CHARACTER Shadow King ... NOT for the KMC member Shadow_King

well most likely i would talk to myself cuz as flame boy pointed out no one a shadow king fan and most ppl would be bashing the character.

he just said this thread was for him to talk to himself

nvm flame boy.

ok maybe i should'nt have said this thread was made for me to talk to my self that was my fault but like jury said this thread is for shadow king and you (flame boy) has no respect for SK so i would like it for you to stop bashing SK ok.

its a char, what you going to cry over it?

i dunno???

And everybody is entitled to his OPINION, right? You cannot force everyone to admire that character if they don't want it to.

And you cannot stop everyone to visit this thread and comment to the topic concerned.

yea true.

I don't like Shadow King ... he doesn't have any unique powers.

i wish aatleast one person could shadow king is cool. but like you flame boy and cajun point out SK dont have unique powers. i've always managed to be a fan of characters which ppl hate.

I missed everything....

well... kofmaster.... if you don't like a character... please.... don't post on a thread dedicated to him ok?

paola just coz ye a mod now doesnt mean u have to call me kofmaster i mean u know my name

ok this is turning ugly.

no me and paola have known each other for a long time we are not fighting

yo is it spelled astro plains or astral plains

astral, I believe

ok thanx.

Shadow King --->

what i am not embaras (sp)

i thought Sk was strong in AOA cuz if you read the excalibur issue where SK drove all the mutants on avalon insane and most of them all died.

why wasent SK in X-men Evolution.

you really wanted him in Evolution?

yea.

what for?

cuz he was in x-men TAS so he should have been in evolution and plus SK would be the strongest villian in evo.

oh yeah sure...

did you see al the villians in evo they dont even match up agianst SK except Apocalypse. maybe magneto. but the rest give me a break.

but Evo was a show for kids where evil, even Shadow King, will ever EVER win....

probably they would have show him weaker than the rest of the villians

oh ok try to make yourself feel better by saying he would be weaker when you no that SK could take on the Brother Hood of evil.

can he?

well he coulde easily defeat pyro avalanche blob toad quicksilver colossaus mystique gambit. maybe he could defeat magneto i dunno.

isnt the shadow king the guy who lives in another dimension or something?? How did he get there and what are his powers???

dunno

yea right jury you know.

No, i don know... So, why won't y'tell him his powers?

i thouht you would know this answer since your a big x-fan.

but yer a more SK fan

yea ok. yes shadow king lived in a different dimesion the astral plains and proffesor X put him their and his powers are: exists as an entity of pure psychic energy, feeds off the negative emotions found in human souls with his telepathic powers, direct massive psionic energy into the physical plane to reform matter

amahl farouk is actually a decently interesting character, if you look into the ramifications of all of his actions. the first 'evil mutant' xavier came across, he was a factor in the decision to begin the X-Men. he also, as noted by jury, possessed karma, which had lasting effects on her personality. and his reappearance in X-Treme X-Men, what with the fight against psylocke and her subsequent loss of her telepathic abilities, he's had numerous lasting effects.

and, there are very few characters who would have sufficient strength to live on as an astral body after 'dying' at the hands of xavier. like him or not, he deserves some credit.


and it's astral PLANE. plain is a flat expanse of land, or an adjective meaning ordinary or without distinction. plane is a two dimensional non-physical concept, or, in spiritual terms, a varying state of living or place of inhabitance. to be alive on the 'astral plane' is to have transcended human existence and survive as a body of pure thought, or psionic, energy. making the transfer, and permanently, is a feat even the majority of the greatest telepaths still alive, in the marvel universe, would be unable to perform.

cool. thanx for posting some information on disappear.

yawn great info

its not that boring.

I'm not telling that.... I'm tired, that's all sleepy

oh ok sure. and i saw this website where it said shadow king populairity and it had -30 is that even possible???? do that many people hate this mutant???

not that he is hated.
maybe he's not.... interesting

whats not intresting.

Shadow King

i dont get it.

Shadow King has not -30 on popularity because he is hated...... if he was hated, that would make him popular.
Shadow King is totally ignored. That's why he's not popular

Is that clear enough?

ok yea. and plus he aint like a regular villian to the x-men he shows himself sometimes but not like a regular villian does.

'cause if he appeared in a comic issue, it probably wouldn't sell whistling1

that isnt funny.

nope..... it's true!!

it aint true in my opinion.

ok

but with SK it would always be him against proffesor X cuz none of the others can take on SK.

of course not!!

what do you mean??

I'm agreeing with you on the "no one but Prof X can get on Shadow King" statement

why didnt you just "Of Course instead of "of course not". also psylocke and jean grey would have to help prof X just to kill SK or just get rid of him.

sorry..... I'll say it again:

OF COURSE!!!

better now?

fine with me.

great

woud the x-men be more stronger if shadow king was a good guy instead of a bad guy.

and also shadow king joined with the x-men when prof first met him.

if the shadow king hadn't been evil, it's greatly possible that the x-men wouldn't have been formed. for him to have been good, and later a part of the x-men, they would've had to meet under different circumstances, and xavier would have had to come across another uber-powerful 'evil mutant.'

the shadow king has many times been a part of x-men history. whether that makes him interesting or not is based on the opinion of whoever's reading the books. historically, the shadow king has not been a deterent in selling comics. if anything, he's drawn in readers who stopped reading the comics sometime in the past, and who were attracted to the familiar face.

popularity ratings on that site are based on character relations, not on public opinion, if i recall. he's got a negative number because he's 'evil' and an opponent of the good guys, not because he doesn't have a fan following.

yea your right disappear. show some respect ppl for SK.

Ha! How Long have you had your title Shadow King?

OMG ANOTHER SHADOW KING. i have had my title since i joined.

If anyone has any pics of the Shadow King they can post or knows a website I would appreciate it.

i made a thread aboot shadow king you know.

OK, SK fans, enjoy

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HOLY SHIT!!!! THAT IS SO KICK ASS AGENTO!!!

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very kick ass agent

THX, I'm glad you like it

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i have never seen this shadow king.

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I've just dicovered him out too

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holy shit this is awesome.... how many more pics can you post.

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this is so unbelievable.

I have a few more

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And the last one, these are all that I could find for now

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that was some unbelievable kiack ass pics.

Glad you like them

why wouldnt I, I am shadow king fan... and its hard to find pics of shadow king.

Well, it's true...

those pics are gonna be used in my next sig.

OK, if you wish