Endless Mike
If you have played the Marvel vs. Capcom games, you have probably at least heard of Shuma - Gorath. However, very few people know much about him outside of the games. This thread has all of his appearances (I think), but if you have one I don't, feel free to post it.
Shuma-Gorath is an extradimensional demon, and a Lord of Chaos.
Millions of years ago, he came to earth to feed upon the fear of primitive humanity:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory1.jpg
He was banished to another dimension by the time - travelling sorceror Sise - Neg. He mentions how even he couldn't kill Shuma-Gorath, because it would start absorbing his power, so the best he could do is banish him:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsiseneg.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsiseneg2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsiseneg3.jpg
For an idea of just how powerful Sise-Neg was, he destroyed and recreated the entire universe, and Shuma-Gorath was the last source of power he needed to absorb to do so (after absorbing the power of Merlin and destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and absorbing the power of their mages)
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg10.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg11.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg12.jpg
Eons later, Shuma - Gorath managed to return to earth, but was trapped inside of a mountain by the young god Crom:
NOTE: The canonicity of these stories involving Conan the Barbarian is questionable, due to Marvel's legal status over the property
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory5.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory7.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory8.jpg
Even though he was trapped, Shuma - Gorath still had power, and summoned a rain of fire to destroy Conan's village:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan3.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan5.jpg
Shuma - Gorath tried to manipulate the sorcerors Vannatar and Kulan Gath to free him:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathcrom.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkulangath.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbooks.jpg
An idea of how powerful Kulan Gath was (he was able to imprison a goddess):
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkulangath1.jpg
Eventually, he hypnotizes a human who stumbled into his cave into reading the spells from his books to free him, along with the spells of Vannatar and Kulan Gath:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathreleased.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathreleased1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathreleased2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbooks1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell5.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbooks2.jpg
However, Shuma-Gorath had tricked the two sorcerors into releasing him, and then easily defeated them:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathvssorcerors.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathvssorcerors1.jpg
Conan found his books, and they protected him from Shuma-Gorath's attack, until he let Crom banish Shuma back to his home dimension:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan7.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbanished.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbanished1.jpg
Shuma-Gorath's next attempt to invade earth (and the 616 universe as a whole) came some 10,000 years later when he employed a number of servants such as
Nightmare:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevsnightmare.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevsnightmare1.jpg
Note that Shuma-Gorath was able to place a spell on Nightmare that prevented him from revealing his master (and Nightmare is a god who rules an entire dimension).
The demon Sligguth and his priestess, Ebora:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsligguth.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory3.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathpowergrant.jpg
Also note how he had granted Sligguth extra power.
N'gabthoth, the "shambler from the deep":
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathngabthoth.jpg
Dagoth, a sea demon:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathdagoth.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathdagoth1.jpg
Kathulos, a living planet (like Ego):
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos3.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos5.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevskathulos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevskathulos1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangedestroyedkathulos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathcosmos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangedestroyedkathulos1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangedestroyedkathulos2.jpg
After destroying Kathulos, Doctor Strange encounters a black hole in space through which Shuma-Gorath speaks to him:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathblackhole.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathpower.jpg
The Living Buddha was another one of Shuma-Gorath's servants (the guy knows how to delegate):
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathlivingbuddha.jpg
Another summary of some of his servants and his power:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathservants.jpg
Shuma-Gorath is an extradimensional demon, and a Lord of Chaos.
Millions of years ago, he came to earth to feed upon the fear of primitive humanity:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory1.jpg
He was banished to another dimension by the time - travelling sorceror Sise - Neg. He mentions how even he couldn't kill Shuma-Gorath, because it would start absorbing his power, so the best he could do is banish him:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsiseneg.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsiseneg2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsiseneg3.jpg
For an idea of just how powerful Sise-Neg was, he destroyed and recreated the entire universe, and Shuma-Gorath was the last source of power he needed to absorb to do so (after absorbing the power of Merlin and destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and absorbing the power of their mages)
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg10.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg11.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/siseneg12.jpg
Eons later, Shuma - Gorath managed to return to earth, but was trapped inside of a mountain by the young god Crom:
NOTE: The canonicity of these stories involving Conan the Barbarian is questionable, due to Marvel's legal status over the property
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory5.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory7.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory8.jpg
Even though he was trapped, Shuma - Gorath still had power, and summoned a rain of fire to destroy Conan's village:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan3.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan5.jpg
Shuma - Gorath tried to manipulate the sorcerors Vannatar and Kulan Gath to free him:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathcrom.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkulangath.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbooks.jpg
An idea of how powerful Kulan Gath was (he was able to imprison a goddess):
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkulangath1.jpg
Eventually, he hypnotizes a human who stumbled into his cave into reading the spells from his books to free him, along with the spells of Vannatar and Kulan Gath:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathreleased.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathreleased1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathreleased2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbooks1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell5.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbooks2.jpg
However, Shuma-Gorath had tricked the two sorcerors into releasing him, and then easily defeated them:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathspell6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathvssorcerors.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathvssorcerors1.jpg
Conan found his books, and they protected him from Shuma-Gorath's attack, until he let Crom banish Shuma back to his home dimension:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathconan7.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbanished.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathbanished1.jpg
Shuma-Gorath's next attempt to invade earth (and the 616 universe as a whole) came some 10,000 years later when he employed a number of servants such as
Nightmare:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevsnightmare.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevsnightmare1.jpg
Note that Shuma-Gorath was able to place a spell on Nightmare that prevented him from revealing his master (and Nightmare is a god who rules an entire dimension).
The demon Sligguth and his priestess, Ebora:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathsligguth.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathhistory3.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathpowergrant.jpg
Also note how he had granted Sligguth extra power.
N'gabthoth, the "shambler from the deep":
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathngabthoth.jpg
Dagoth, a sea demon:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathdagoth.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathdagoth1.jpg
Kathulos, a living planet (like Ego):
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos3.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos4.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos5.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathkathulos6.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevskathulos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangevskathulos1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangedestroyedkathulos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathcosmos.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangedestroyedkathulos1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/strangedestroyedkathulos2.jpg
After destroying Kathulos, Doctor Strange encounters a black hole in space through which Shuma-Gorath speaks to him:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathblackhole.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathpower.jpg
The Living Buddha was another one of Shuma-Gorath's servants (the guy knows how to delegate):
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathlivingbuddha.jpg
Another summary of some of his servants and his power:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Shuma-Gorath/shumagorathservants.jpg