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| Real Name: Shanzar | ||||||||
| Also Known As: Dark Hulk | ||||||||
| Place Of Birth: Strange Matter Dimension | ||||||||
| First Appearance: Incredible Hulk Vol.1 #369 (1990) Modern Age Villain | ||||||||
| Known Associates: Wild One | ||||||||
| Group Affiliation: None | ||||||||
| Base Of Operations: Strange Matter Dimension | ||||||||
| Grudges: The Defenders | ||||||||
| Creators: Peter David and Dale Keown | ||||||||
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| Magic: Being the Sorcerer Supreme of the Strange Matter dimension, Shanzar is a formidable mage, possessing great magical abilities including the creation of mystic bonds, shields, and bolts of force or energy. He can use magic to travel by means of flight, levitation, and teleportation within and across dimensions. The latter is accomplished via ebon dimensional gateways. He can also either conjure demons or bond demons to human hosts. Furthermore given his alien nature, his magical spells are highly resistant to conventional magical spells, as it was quite difficult, if not completely impossible, at times for Dr. Strange, the most powerful mage of Earth's dimension, to affect Shanzar's spells. Shanzar is able to possess individuals who, in turn, mimic his physical appearance and characteristics, but there are limitations to this ability. For one, due to his naturally great mass he can only successfully possess superhumanly dense characters. | |||||||
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| For millennia, Shanzar served as Sorcerer Supreme of the Strange Matter dimension, an alternate plane of existence composed entirely of an ultra-dense phase of matter. Growing tired of watching over his dimension's denizens, Shanzar obliterated them to make his life easier. But Shanzar became lonely and soon accessed Earth-616 through a nexus point between the two universes, materialising in an elderly woman's closet in New York City. Pulled into the Strange Matter Dimension, the woman was crushed immediately by it's density; but the astral form of Doctor Strange was drawn to the scene by the localised time-space disruption caused by Shanzar's presence. | ||||
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| Shanzar at Marvel Database | ||||
| Shanzar at Marvel Universe: The Appendix | ||||
| Shanzar at Comic Vine | ||||