Respect Korvac, the clockwork god!

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Bentley
Welcome to the Korvac Respect thread

Who is this Korvac?

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Korvac: The clockwork god, the enemy... One of the most epic enemies of the Avengers, and not very well known in this forums... Lets make something about that shall we?


This character has a history full of retcons, alternate realities, time-travel and resurrections. So he is mostly your everyday marvel villain, only this one, works in a cosmic scale. I would argue that to fully understand the deal with Korvac you have to look at his several versions independently, and draw your conclusions, I'll provide the scans here, explain them and present the character to the best of my abilities, hopefully in a way that it will make simple to all of you to look into browse his feats.

When pertinent, I will explain why I put feats together even if they are not from the exact same version of Korvac.

I'm going to divide this thread in the following parts:


I:- Korvac Battles.

- Battle feats in Korvac base form.
- Battle feats in Alternate base form.

II:- Michael Battles.

-Battle feats in Michael form.
- Battle feats of the Ancestors.

III:- Power level.

-Power feats in Michael form.

IV:- Other Powers.

-Miscellaneous Powers.

V:- Tech.

-Korvac's machines.

VI:- Alternate reality.

- Alternate Michael battle feats (What If #32)
- Alternate Michael miscellaneous feats.

VII:- Other versions.

- Other Korvacs.



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Before going into the feats lets begin with some story:

"Michael Korvac was a computer technician born on the Blue Area of the Moon of an alternate Earth in the year 2997. Due to events surrounding his birth, Michael's father was killed and he was raised by his mother to have a hateful and vengeful attitude. When the Sol System and its colonies were conquered by the alien Brotherhood of Badoon,Korvac became a collaborator and traitor to the human race. Caught asleep at a machine while working, the Badoon grafted Korvac's upper body to a machine, effectively making him a cyborg."

That's what I'm calling his "base form".

"Korvac discovers the space station of the cosmic entity Galactus. Attempting to download the knowledge of Galactus from the station into his own system, Korvac is imbued with the Power Cosmic and becomes a god-like being. Korvac then recreates himself as a perfect humanoid form, and posing as a human called Michael, travels to Earth with the intent of reshaping it into a utopia."

That's what I'm calling the Michael form, when he takes part in the well known Korvac Saga.

This Korvac still prevailed into the less known storyline "Korvac Quest", where his powers passed into several hosts before being passed to Korvac again and later returned to Galactus. From the different hosts that used his power, I have the "ancestors feats", those ones however, are part of the same powers Korvac had during the Korvac saga, so they aren't really from a different character.

There are two what ifs in which Korvac appeared -one of them, the very well known What if #32 where he takes over the world-, and also two different versions of Korvac that appeared later. The two versions are to be mentioned -they appear in "canon continuity", but they are difficult to gauge compared with the base form and the Michael form that are more documented.

I post a little bio for Korvac:


http://img340.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacbio2px0.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacbio3ww2.jpg
http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacbio4zi6.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacbio5fe4.jpg


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And now we can get to the good stuff.

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Bentley
I:- Korvac Battle Feats


In his very first showing, Korvac is called by the Grandmaster to face the defenders. Guess who is Korvac meant to fight? No other than Dr. Strange. In this battle things are getting destroyed all around them and Korvac manages to block every offensive Strange can muster before falling.

Against Dr. Strange:

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2945/korvacagstrange2xl2.th.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/7886/korvacagstrange3vr8.th.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9879/korvacagstrange4tm3.th.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/531/korvacagstrange5gu1.th.jpg

But actually, Korvac pretended just to be defeated to analize the Power Cosmic:


http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacstorykx9.jpg
http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacstory2km8.jpg


Stalemating Doctor Strange? Not a bad feat for Korvac's weakest incarnation.

Korvac in his base form posesses a very powerful hypnotic beam. Here it causes Thor and Starhawk to fight each other, and none of them can get free:

http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachypnoticbeamnr9.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachypnoticbeam2pr8.jpg
http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachypnoticbeam4cm8.jpg
http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacteleportmi0.jpg

At the end of the battle not only he teleports away, but actually he goes to the 20th century where he will become the Enemy, Michael.

However, in a divergent time-line where he is sent into an alternate future he gets to face Ultra-Vision, after he decided to control the fate of humanity by extending his influence -shown in another what if-.

Against Ultra-Vision:

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/4541/korvacagultravisionwl5.th.jpg
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3892/korvacagultravision2yx4.th.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3783/korvacagultravision3rj8.th.jpg

Not a bad feat, considering this Vision is to control the entire terran empire. Korvac and his computing skills are more than enough to overcome him in the cyber space.

This same computing skills will suffice to analize Galactus ship and gain the Power Cosmic.


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Bentley
I:- Michael Battle Feats


http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/6674/korvacmenacingnh8.jpg


After gaining the Power Cosmic from Galactus, Korvac became night invincible.

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In this new form, his first battle is against Starhawk, the strongest member of the Guardians of the Galaxy:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2538/korvacvsstarhawkka6.th.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5621/korvacvsstarhawk2kl9.th.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4567/korvacvsstarhawk3bc7.th.jpg
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4532/korvacvsstarhawk4bq9.th.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/127/korvacvsstarhawk5dg6.th.jpg
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/9918/korvacvsstarhawk6zd2.th.jpg

As you see, they fight in "every plan of existance", meaning the physical, the spiritual and the psychic. Just as Odin did when he was "igniting dead Galaxies".

After facing this heavy hitter, he gets to face the Avengers and pretty much destroys them:


http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacagavengers2wn6.jpg
http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacagavengers3aq6.jpg
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http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacagavengers6je3.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacagavengers7gl1.jpg
http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacagavengers8tr1.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacagavengers9mz4.jpg
http://img93.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacagavengers10rb0.jpg


And Korvac didn't even want to kill them to begin with. He pretty much destroys himself in the end of the battle. Also, notice how Captain Marvel says Korvac can slow time around him.

Korvac is returned to life by the Grandmaster to face the Silver Surfer:

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/568/korvacagsurferpn1.th.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4043/korvacagsurfer2fm5.th.jpg
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/6295/korvacagsurfer3cm9.th.jpg

Shots a planet shattering blast casually, and strips the Surfer from his silver glaze. Pretty badass.


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Bentley

Bentley
II:- Power Level

Feats that about power

Simply destroying some robots:

http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacfattydestroyyg1.jpg


Destroys the Guardians base that is in orbit:

http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacdestroyssateliteej3.jpg

Destroying the Collector, one of the Elders of the Universe:

http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccollectorem4.jpg
http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccollector2es9.jpg
http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccollector3ce3.jpg

Korvac is powerful enough to shield himself from Eternity and others:

http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachidingpx7.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachiding2up1.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachiding3yx5.jpg
http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachiding4zg2.jpg


Korvac considers himself to be a threat big enough to cause an alliance between sky-fathers, trouble Eternity and the Watcher:

http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccoalitionzo2.jpg

And note how he is sorry for the destruction that will be caused, not of being defeated.


Sending Surfer w/Quantum Bands a psychic bolt that "opened his mind like a ripe fruit", the Surfer stops on his tracks but this wasn't even meant as a mind attack (an Ancestor):

http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacpsychicboltmx3.jpg


Man, I'll surely bring this guy cocoa if he asked!

Next section should make a good impression to, check it!

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Bentley
IV:- Miscellaneous feats

Michael powers are capable of several things beside destroying.

A transmutation feat:

http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacfattytransmutatioax3.jpg


Korvac hides his powers from the avengers, even from Captain Marvel and his cosmic senses:


http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kovacnodetectionmj7.jpg


Korvac has a long history resurrecting characters, a skill that not even Cosmic Power uses show often.

Reconstructs a building and resurrects some kids:

http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacrestorekidsub7.jpg
http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacrestorekids2ty6.jpg

Korvac resurrects the Avengers:

http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacrestorelifeid4.jpg


Remakes Starhawk:

http://img392.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacremakingstarhawkfq4.jpg

However he alters him to make him unable to detect his existence, proving that Korvac can change those he resurrects.

Here Korvac's powers are used to create a paradise:

http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacparadisent9.jpg
http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacparadise2yz9.jpg

Also his powers are used to keep an old person young:

http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvackeepyoungfo8.jpg


He fuses his soul with Marina (totally sexing her up), they share every detail of their lives:


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Korvac detects that the UN is used against him and creates a gene imprint of the fly to save his powers and send him to his ancestors. Great feat.

http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacnullifierqd0.jpg
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Korvac's power is carried by a gene imprint that can be sent through time to people of Korvac's family, which can be sent off in time again if needed to keep Korvac's essence out of danger:

http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacgeneimprintdp9.jpg

Detects someone using the Power Cosmic:

http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccosmicdetectiondq9.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccosmicdetection2ye6.jpg


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And while this Korvac has power in spades, his former self could also do many things through tech.

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V:- Tech feats

Korvac has tech at his disposition, such as time probes capable of taking people with them:

http://img184.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvactimeprobelk6.jpg

A machine that can turn a sun into a nova:

http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacsyphonbeamgd6.jpg


Korvac left a chip with all the information about him before leaving to the 20th century:

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvackorvacchipbc7.jpg


Uses tech to teleport Thor away:

http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacbrfthorbr5.jpg

And proyects him into outer space:

http://img265.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacbfrtospaceng6.jpg


His alternate self in the Ultra-Vision dimension also displayed his already known hypnotic beam. Here, against the cosmic avengers:

http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvachypnoticbeamavjn5.jpg

Here the Guardians are under his control:

http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccontrolsguardiansyh8.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccontrolsguardianswy0.jpg


After defeating Ultra Vision, he can control every machine in the human empire:

http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccontrolsmachinesmm4.jpg


This without counting being able to analize the Power Cosmic in both, the Grandmaster and Galactus ship of course, nor the other things shown in battle.


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VI:- Alternate Reality

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Feats are in chronological order since Korvac boosted himself during the arch. Feel free to point out any errors.

Korvac is also famous for the What If #32, where Marina decides to help him face the Avengers and he decides to simply win -this before the UN retcon-. This winning is done rather easily:


Defeat Avengers:

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6967/korvaconeshottingavnk4.jpg

He seals his universe from outer dimensions, time-travelers and ejects Dr. Strange, Surfer and Phoenix from reality:

http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacsealingyg5.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacsealing2ct0.jpg

He is capable of understanding a Celestial:

http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvaccelestialtelepathxr4.jpg


Resurrects the avengers, changing their minds:

http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacrevivingavengersnh4.jpg

(All this feats without absorbing cosmics)

A group of cosmics decides to face him and he fights them in sucessive battles while absorbing the powers of others.

Here, he is faced by the Grandmaster:

http://img340.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacgrandmasterzt8.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacgrandmaster2gf8.jpg


Absorbs the HE:

http://img249.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacabsorbshedo3.jpg


Korvac absorbs the Gardener:

http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacabsorbsgardenerva9.jpg
http://img413.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacabsorbsgardener2gm2.jpg


Battle against the Stranger after absorbing HE and the Gardener:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8155/korvacvsstranger2iq1.th.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6848/korvacvsstranger3hc5.th.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/93/korvacvsstranger4mp1.th.jpg
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9665/korvacvsstranger5yj8.th.jpg


Korvac protects earth from a super-nova:

http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacsupernovaht6.jpg
http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacsupernova2qs5.jpg


Against the Universe:


http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacaguniversero3.jpg
http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacaguniverse2ey4.jpg
http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacusingnullfierlu1.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacusingnullifier2wc3.jpg


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Also this happens to be one of the best What Ifs that I have read, because of the lack of lucky coincidences and a very cool plot. I fully recommend to read this one after the Korvac Saga.

Bentley
VII:- Other Korvacs

Yet another version of Korvac fights the Guardians. This one, is created by a chip that possessed information about the original Korvac and used the mainframe of the Guardians to recreate him:

Battle against the Guardians of the Galaxy:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5615/korvacagnewguardians2lm1.th.jpg
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4374/korvacagnewguardians3xl5.th.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4716/korvacagnewguardians4de8.th.jpg
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/1781/korvacagnewguardians5jg0.th.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8386/korvacagnewguardians6fy8.th.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8749/korvacagnewguardians7ro6.th.jpg
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2452/korvacagnewguardians8zk6.th.jpg

Fighting both Hollywood and an herald.


Against Phoenix:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5369/korvacagphoenix2nl8.th.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9849/korvacagphoenix3zu4.th.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5739/korvacagphoenix4gv7.th.jpg

Phoenix after defeating this Korvac -who never left the 31 century, so he didn't have the power of Galactus- is left to sent him into another dimension.

The last version of Korvac we see is faced by the Cosmic Red Skull and Captain America, although its not sure if it comes from the Korvac fought in the scans above or an alternate one.


He is capable of shape-shifting:

http://img353.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacshapeshifting2er4.jpg


He is capable of making proyections of divergent timelines:

http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacshowsfutureze3.jpg


Defending against the Cosmic Red Skull:

http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacshieldspm6.jpg


Here, Korvac absorbs the energy from the dead Cosmic Red Skull, proving that Korvac has this skill even in main continuity:

http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvacabsorbscosmicskjx0.jpg

Once with that power, he is able to rewind time and to make Captain America remember it -or not to-:

http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korvactimerewindhu7.jpg


And this is it for now, thanks a lot for reading this and your time. RESPECT KORVAC!

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Red Hulk
Well done. thumb up

Bentley
Thanks!

The divisions were kind of hard to come up with. There are just many Korvacs.

Branlor Swift
Starhawk sensed that the universe would be wiped out in a few hours by Korvac:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/comic/14.jpg

Korvac has enough power to end the universe, and the Watcher seemed to agree:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/comic/19.jpg

The universe is rent asunder, and mends itself into a new configuration as the real Korvac is born again. The Baby then effortlessly dispatches his father who also had Korvac's power:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/comic/20.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/comic/21.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/comic/22.jpg

The entire timeline hangs in the balance:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/comic/26.jpg

Apparently Korvac can destroy an entire universe.

Endless Mike
Some of the scans don't work... also wasn't it Death that shielded the Earth from the supernova?

curryman
Well done!

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