Lillith

This ancient sorceress wants only one thing - to see her children,
the Lilin, take over the world. And, the more damage the Lilin do, the more
powerful she becomes.
Comic: Marvel
Lilith, mother of the monstrous Lilin in Marvel Comics
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Protector of the Jewish people
Affiliations: The Golem (partner); formerly allied with Pinkus
Enemies: Pinkus
Known Relatives: None known
Aliases: Unknown
Base of Operations: Israel
First Appearance: The Golem (2003)
Powers/Abilities: Unknown
There are 2 characters with this name. One from the Marvel comic, the other
is the daughter of Dracula.
History: Lilith was kidnapped as a child by the alien Pinkus. He gave her super
powers with his demented experiments and brainwashed her into serving him.
Later, when he clashed with the heroic Golem, Lilith came to realise she should
be helping the hero, not the villain. Since then she has become the Golem's
inseparable partner. She is not however romantically involved with him,
especially as his real identity is still only a child.
Comments: Created by Eli Eshed and Uri Fink. Thanks to Eli Eshed for informing
me of this character's existence, and providing both information and images of
her.
CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with Lilith, Marvel Comic's daughter of
Dracula
Real Name: Lilith (uses the surname Drake purely for legal reasons - see
comments)
Identity/Class: human vampire (atypical);
Legal Status: Lilith has obtained American citizenship with the help of forged
documents
Occupation: Eternal Nemesis to Dracula; Adventurer
Affiliations: Armand, Viktor (and possibly Karl) Benzel, Horace Milton Biggotty
V, Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm), Colossus (Peter Rasputin), Anton Florescu,
Martin Gold, Gretchin, T. J. Novello, Angel O'Hara, Audra Pennington, Kitty
Pryde, Charles Seward, Zombie (Simon Garth)
Enemies: Ace, John Blaze, Dracula, Duff, Della Fiorella, Quincy Harker, Walter
Kallen, Frances Ketch, Hannibal King, Hellphyr?, Tom MacDonald, Maltz, Nobody
Anybody Knows, Martin O'Hara, Roger McGuire, Scarecrow (Ebenezer Laughton),
Charles Seward, "sex crime killer," Siegfried, Spider-Man, Storm (Ororo Munroe),
Jacob Weisenthal, Zombie
Known Relatives: Dracula (father), Zofia (mother, deceased);
Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Elder, paternal grandfather, deceased);
Mircea, Radu the Handsome (paternal uncles, deceased);
Vlad Tepulus (half-brother, deceased), Janus (half-brother)
Frank Drake (descendent of Dracula by Vlad Tepulus);
Maria (father's second wife, deceased). Domini (father's third wife)
Aliases: Lily Drake, Lilith Drake, Angel O'Hara (while possessing her body),
Queen of the Undead
Place of Birth: Castle Dracula (original), Wallachia, Transylvania, Hungaria
Base of Operations: formerly Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York;
formerly Transylvania;
formerly a scientific research facility on the English countryside;
formerly the British Isles;
First Appearance: Giant-Size Chillers I#1 (June, 1974)
Powers/Abilities: Lilith has all of the standard powers of a vampire, to a
higher degree than most, but was unencumbered by most of the standard
limitations. She has enhanced human strength (able to life @ 1100 pounds). She
can mesmerize and control others by catching their gaze for three seconds,
though beings with sufficiently strong wills can resist her to some degree. In
addition, she has a much harder time trying to maintain control over a group of
people. She can transform partially or fully into a bat or mist, she can control
the weather, and she can command animals such as rats, mice, bats, wolves, and
dogs.
Lilith is immune to sunlight and does not fall into a coma-like trance during
daytime hours, and she is not dependent upon sleeping on her native soil. She is
not affected be religious talismans and can even wield them herself against
other vampires. She is immune to garlic. She heals almost instantly from wounds,
and she cannot even be killed by dismemberment. She can be killed by a wooden
stake through the heart or the Montesi formula, but as long as Dracula exists,
her spirit will return. Her spirit can enter the form of an innocent woman who
hates her own father, and she can transform that body into a duplicate of her
own. Lilith can also regain her own body through an elaborate mystical ritual.
Though Lilith is not dependent upon ingesting human blood to survive, she does
savor its taste. By biting a person on the neck and depositing an enzyme in
their system, she makes her victim highly susceptible to her commands. The
victim also develops a perverse erotic fixation on Lilith. In addition, if that
person dies, they would rise again in three days as a vampire, though such
vampires would have the conventional vampiric powers and limitations. Not all of
those bitten in such fashion would be reborn as vampires, but the conditions of
such transformations are uncertain.
Lilith possesses a virtually all-consuming desire to see her father dead, but
she is unable to cause his death directly. Though she can physically strike him,
she would be unable to plunge a stake through his chest. In addition, as long as
Dracula exists, so, too, does Lilith. If Dracula is destroyed, Lilith could meet
her own death, but her spirit would return as soon as Dracula were resurrected.
Height: 6' Weight: 125 lbs. Eyes: Red Hair: Black
History:
(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2 (fb) - BTS) - Sometime between 1451 and 1456, Vlad
Dracula was forced by his father Vlad the Elder into an arranged marriage with a
Hungarian noblewoman, Zofia.
(Tomb of Dracula I#60 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula invited Zofia on a horseback ride
through the Borgo pass towards their castle, but then slapped her to the ground,
telling her how much he despised her. Back in the castle, Dracula locked Zofia
in the closet while he forced himself on a servant woman. When the servant woman
resisted, Dracula slew her with a knife.
(Giant-Size Chillers I#1 (fb)) - Born to Vlad Dracula and Zofia, both Lilith and
her mother were despised by Dracula.
(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)) - Dracula physically forced Zofia to bring the
infant Lilith out on his balcony so she could see why he was known as Vlad the
Impaler.
(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)/Giant-Size Chillers I#1 (fb)) - A year after Dracula
and Zofia's wedding, Dracula's had fulfilled his familiar obligation to the
arranged marriage, and he was free to rid himself of the woman he so despised
(see comments). Dracula battered Zofia, stripped her of her royal standing, and
gave her a single night to leave the Castle with her belongings, and with Lilith.
Dracula intended for Zofia to live out her days as a penniless peasant.
Having no place else to go, Zofia fled to a nearby Gypsy camp and sought out the
wizened elder, Gretchin. In exchange for Zofia's remaining gold pieces, Gretchin
promised to care for Lilith as long as she lived. In defiance of Dracula's
intent, Zofia then plunged a dagger through her heart.
Years later, after Dracula had become a vampire, he slew Arni, the son of
Gretchin, in a savage assault on the gypsies. In retaliation, Gretchin used a
magical spell to transform Lilith into an adult vampire, but without fear of the
sun or crucifix. Gretchin deemed it Lilith's destiny to haunt her father
throughout Eternity, to thwart his plans and to be an everpresent gadfly,
reminding him always of the horror of his deeds. Furthermore, should Lilith ever
die, it was pre-arranged that she would be reborn in the body of another woman
who hated her father, for as long as Dracula's unlife continued.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe#18) - Lilith at first attacked humans
for blood indiscriminately, driven by the vampire's animalistic lusts.
Eventually she learned to control her bloodlust to a large degree, and chose
usually to attack only those humans whom she believed were evil enough to
deserve such a fate.
(Tomb of Dracula I#60 (fb))- During the 20th Century, Lilith interrupted an
attempt by Dracula to feed on a woman in Paris by taking her herself. Lilith
vowed that from that point on, she would feed on her father's victims before he
would be able to. Eventually, the two of them fought in London, and Dracula
shoved her off the top of Big Ben, where she was impaled below on a spike.
(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)) - Resurrected by Gretchin's spell, Lilith continued
to oppose Dracula. However, at some point after this, she and Dracula reconciled
their differences in an uneasy truth, and agreed never to see each other again.
(Tomb of Dracula II#3/4) - Lilith sought a meal and allowed truck driver Horace
Milton Biggotty the Fifth to pick her up. She pitied him after hearing the story
of his pathetic life and heritage, and thought that killing him might be a
blessing. When she discovered that he was transporting blood to a hospital, she
instead chose to knock him out and drink that blood, allowing him to
live--uncertain whether this was actually doing him any favors.
(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)) - Dracula and Lilith met once again at the home of
Quincy Harker on the night that Harker's wife Elizabeth killed herself from fear
of Dracula. That same night Harker took his revenge by killing Lilith.
(Giant-Size Chillers I#1)- After Martin O'Hara struck and killed Ted Hannigan
for marrying his daughter Angel and making her pregnant, Lilith was reborn into
Angel's body, and slew Martin O'Hara. She next set after Quincy Harker for
revenge, using the form of Angel O'Hara to gain entrance to his home, and bit
him in the neck. However, Harker survived.
After feeding on a man named Stephen at a bar in London, Lilith set after her
father, and the two of them recollected their past. Lilith proposed an alliance
with Dracula, but he refused, preferring to continue their quarrel.
(OHotMU#18 (fb) - BTS) - Wearying of the British Isles, Lilith induced Angel to
move to New York's Greenwich Village.
(Vampire Tales#6) - After vamping a pair of muggers, Lilith returned to the form
of Angel O'Hara, and as such she was drawn to Martin Gold, who had just lost his
wife to the crazy "sex crime" killer. Lilith induced Angel to move in with the
traumatized Gold. That night the killer returned and tried to take her out, as
well, but Lilith slew him instead.
(Dracula Lives#10/4) - In a bar in Greenwich Village, Lilith beat up and then
vamped Duff, a Hell's Angel type who had become abusive towards a woman singing
there. Later, when Angel's boyfriend Martin was framed by a drug dealer (Tom
MacDonald), Lilith mesmerized the dealer to confess to the police, then found
his superiors (Ace and others) and defeated them, forcing the ringleader to
confess as well. In the course of the battle she suffered a major head wound,
which left Angel with a severe concussion upon awakening. Angel was taken to a
hospital, where it was revealed to Martin that she was pregnant.
(Dracula Lives#11/3) - Lilith slew a would-be rapist, and Angel explained to
Martin that the baby was her previous husand's. Angel took work at the East
Village Oracle newspaper, taking classified ads. Her first customer was "Nobody
Anybody Knows," who claimed that he would soon kill. Angel had no luck
convincing anyone to take the threat seriously, until the killer showed up and
slew someone at the Oracle. Lilith then took over Angel's form and they pursued
"Nobody" until he leapt to his death, having his face crushed in the process.
(Marvel Preview #12) - Martin Gold was hired to write public relations brochures
for the Kallen Chemical Works, and discovered there that the company's plan to
purify the earth's water would render water incapable of supporting life. After
making the mistake of revealing what he knew to his supposed friend Roger
McGuire, Martin was taken captive by the staff at Kallen. Sensing this danger,
Angel transformed into Lilith, and broke into the Kallen building to rescue
Gold. However, one of Kallen's bodyguards threw her out of the building.
Returning to the offices, Lilith found McGuire, and by biting his neck, forced
him to tell her where Kallen was taking Gold. She found their car and flew in
through its windshield, causing it to plunge off the road and into the river.
Lilith brought Gold home to safety, but Kallen and his men perished.
(Marvel Preview#16/4) - "Death by Disco."
Lilith slew a pair of muggers, while Angel took an assignment on the Disco
Scene. After Angel was accosted by a pair of overzealous "admirers," Lilith took
over her form and knocked one of them flat. Lilith attracted the attention of
disco king T. J. Novello, who intrigued her with his moves and attitude. Lilith
sought to give TJ the dramatic exit to life that he felt he deserved, but he was
instead shot & killed by his jealous girlfriend, Della Fiorelli. Lilith slew
Della's assistants (the same pair who had accosted her before), and she then
mesmerized Della to show her her dance moves, too. Afterwards, Lilith gave Della
the end she had intended for TJ, vamping her.
(Tomb of Dracula I#66)- Having been transformed back into a human, Dracula
sought out Lilith in the hopes of being made back into a vampire by her. As he
was now photographable, Lilith caught sight of a picture of him in the
newspaper, and prepared for his arrival.
(Tomb of Dracula I#67)- Dracula tracked Lilith down the apartment home of Martin
Gold and Angel O'Hara, and Lilith transformed from from Angel to her true form
while in the shower. When he refused to depart, Lilith attacked him, deciding to
take this opportunity to slay him once and for all. Their battle lead them into
a theatre, where a play called "Passion of Dracula" was playing, and the two
continued their fight on stage before the audience. Lilith finally drove Dracula
away by summoning armies of rats and dogs against him, and she vowed that she
would eventually slay him.
(Tomb of Dracula II#5) - Lilith observed from a distance as Dracula destroyed
his Brides and other vampire servants in a fit of rage. Seeing that this would
make the perfect chance for her to attack her father, she decided that she must
first free herself from her human component, Angel O'Hara. She sought out Viktor
Benzel, the descendent of Gretchin (who had created Lilith). The two had an
affair, and then Viktor performed an arcane ritual involving the dismemberment
of Lilith that successfully separated the two. Lilith then confronted Dracula in
his Castle and fought him in a brutal battle. Thinking Lilith might need help,
Viktor entered the castle, but Dracula then slew him. Lilith then swore to end
Dracula's life once and for all, but Dracula challenged her by handing her a
spike and mallet, and baring his chest before. Lilith leapt at the chance, but
was mortified to learn that she could not physically slay Dracula. Gretchin's
curse had made her his eternal nemesis, not his killer. Dracula mocked her as he
vanished into mist.
(Tomb of Dracula II#6/2) - Lilith spent her rage against Dracula by trashing her
own apartment. Thinking that Viktor's brother, Karl, might have the means with
which she could slay Dracula, she headed out to meet him. Her car broke down in
a small villa and she stayed there while it was repaired. While there she was
recognized as a vampire and suspected in a series of grisly murders, which
turned out to be the work Siegfried, a local gardener, who had been killing
those who had trampled upon his violets. After solving the mystery, Lilith left
the town behind.
(Uncanny X-Men Annual#6) - When Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde's parents filed for a
divorce, the young X-Man was so upset that she briefly hated her parents with
all of her heart. Since she hated her father, she was a suitable host for Lilith,
who possessed her and used her in a plot against her father, who was in the
process of turning another X-Man, Storm, into his slave. Quickly seducing and
biting (but not vamping) Colossus, Lilith/Kitty confronted Storm in Pendarrow
Hill, where she had been sent by Dracula to obtain a copy of the Montesi formula
(a spell to obliterate vampires). Going so far as to shoot Storm in the shoulder
with an arrow, Lilith/Kitty obtained the book herself.
Lilith and Colossus then confronted Dracula in his manor off the coast of
Cornwall, where the X-Men had arrived to fight him as well. She began reading
the formula, which would have killed Dracula, but cost Kitty her soul.
Nightcrawler interrupted the spell, and Dracula then recognized Lilith's
presence. Lilith insisted that the X-Men slay Dracula or she would never release
Kitty, but Rachel van Helsing speared Dracula through the heart. The mansion,
kept in existence by Dracula's magic then collapsed before the final rites could
be performed to permanently slay Dracula. Nonetheless, Lilith thanked the X-Men
for their "assistance," returned Kitty to them, and vanished into the wind.
(Dr. Strange II#62)- While staying in a villa in southern France, Lilith was
slain by the effects of the Montesi Formula spell being cast by Dr. Strange.
Having already sensed that her father had died, Lilith died with a smile.
(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#3 (fb)) - With Dracula resurrected by other means,
Lilith, his eternal nemesis, was restored as well.
(Ghost Rider III#84 (fb) - BTS) - Lilith, who had always enjoyed drinking blood
but had not required it as normal vampires do, began to develop a new, almost
uncontrollable thirst for blood. Fearing that this bloodlust would distract her
from her mission against her father, Lilith sought out a man who could help her
control the bloodlust: Jericho Drumm, aka Brother Voodoo. Drumm used some of
Lilith's own blood to cast a spell that would allow him to control her hunger,
and in return, she would help him rid the world of the undead, if that were
possible.
(Ghost Rider III#82) - Brother Voodoo sensed the presence of a zombie awakened
by the Scarecrow and informed Lilith that they had a new mission.
(Ghost Rider III#83) - Voodoo and Lilith located six corpses stolen from the
Cypress Hill Cemetery and found the seventh corpse, Barbara Ketch, reanimated by
the Scarecrow, who then sent a murder of crows after them. In response, Lilith
summoned an army of rats to fight the crows.
(Ghost Rider III#84) - With the Scarecrow distracted by a battle against Dan
Ketch/Ghost Rider and John Blaze, the crows dispersed. However, the bloodshed of
the animals' fight unleashed Lilith's bloodlust and Voodoo was forced to command
her to stop when she attacked him for more blood. Lilith then tracked down the
Scarecrow and sent a plague of bats against him. However, she also saw John
Blaze as having defiled the dead, and attacked him as well.
(Ghost Rider III#85) - Lilith overpowered Blaze and went forth to drink his
blood. Frances Ketch (Dan's adoptive mother) tried and failed to stop Lilith,
who sent her bats to torment Frances while she went after John again. Blaze
recovered and stabbed Lilith in the leg with a hellfire-charged knife. Though
pained by this, Lilith knocked away Blaze's knife and then put the bite on him.
Voodoo arrived and forced her to stop drinking his blood. Cursing Voodoo that he
would someday push her too far, Lilith changed into a bat and flew off.
(Spider-Man Unlimited #20)- Having obtained the Amulet of Damballah, Lilith took
control of Simon Garth, the Zombie, and sent him around New York to bring people
to her so that she could feed on them and transform them into her vampire
servants.
At this time, Lilith had become obsessed with the notion of finding herself a
male vampire to serve as her own general. She first sought out Morbius, and
stole files from Simon Stroud which lead her to Morbius' friend Dr. Jacob
Weisenthal, who was trying to find a cure for Morbius. She slew him, and
continued her search for Morbius. Happening to encounter Spider-Man, she assumed
the guise of "Lily Drake", Now Magazine reporter, and convinced him that Morbius
was behind the recent disappearances in New York, hoping Spider-Man would draw
Morbius out of hiding.
At the Club Jugular, a club for vampire wannabes, Lilith encountered Peter
Parker, who was continuing his own search for Morbius. Before they had a chance
to speak, they were interrupted by Hannibal King, who had been hired by Donna
Garth to find her father's body. As King and Lilith fought, Parker switched to
his Spider-Man identity, but mistakenly fought King, giving Lilith a chance to
attack Spider-Man from behind and hurl him away. Lilith decided to make King her
general, but when Spider-Man returned, she fled, leaving King behind.
Spider-Man and King formed an alliance against Lilith, but Spider-Man was soon
captured by the Zombie, and brought to Lilith. When King located Lilith's base,
he too was taken captive, and Lilith made her proposal to him that he become her
general. King pretended to go along with her, only so that he could snatch the
Amulet of Damballah from her. He then ordered the Zombie to free Spider-Man, and
the three of them destroyed her vampires by letting sunlight into her base.
Lilith fled, intending to find another ally.
(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#3 (fb)) - Lilith traveled to the original Castle
Dracula and ransacked the place out of frustration. Realizing that she couldn't
slay Dracula directly, she decided to attempt aid via scientific means. She
robbed the castle of its priceless treasures, sold them to Audra Pennington, and
used the money to finance her plot. She hired Dr. Charles Seward to create a
virus that would slay Dracula.
(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#1) - Under Lilith's direction, Seward unleashed his
virus, injecting a vampire, Maltz, that Lilith had captured. Seward then
released Maltz on a human woman, and they found that the virus had had the
successful effect, as the vampire found himself physically nauseated and utterly
unable to swallow the blood. However, the virus had the unanticipated side of
effect of causing a rapidly progressive purpura hemorrhagica (a disorder
involving uncontrollable bleeding through the skin and every body orifice),
which culminated in a rotting death. The virus was highly transmissible, and the
woman unwittingly spread the virus to her family in Littlepool.
(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#2-BTS) - Lilith sent her agent, Anton Florescu, to
shoot Dracula with a dart containing the virus. Dracula then confronted Florescu,
who broke his own neck to avoid being forced to give Dracula information.
Meanwhile, the virus spread through the town of Littlepool, which was placed
under medical quarantine. Dracula began to feel a powerful hunger, and then he
encountered Maltz, who told Dracula of a danger against all vampires and of the
significance of the plague, but Maltz perished before he could explain the
situation. In Littlepool, Dracula encountered Seward, who was mortified at the
unwanted human side effects of his virus. Seward explained to Dracula what was
going on, and that only he might develop a means for a cure. Dracula directed
Seward to take him to his employer.
(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#3) - Seward brought Dracula to the scientific
research facility in which Lilith was operating, and Dracula slew Lilith's
servant, Armand. Lilith, who explained how she had accomplished what she had.
However, Seward then broke free from Lilith's control and tried to inject her
with the virus as well. Surprised, Lilith swatted Seward away, breaking his neck
and killing him in the process. Enraged at Lilith for destroying his one means
of salvation, Dracula attacked her. However, he was rapidly aging and weakening
from the effects of the virus, and Lilith smashed him to the ground. Dracula
surprised her and stuck a piece of wood through her chest and then drove that
stake into a wall.
Realizing that Seward had used his own blood in the creation of the virus and
that he had been the only one immune to it, Dracula drank blood from Seward's
corpse. Lilith laughed at Dracula for how low he had sunken, but the process did
cure him of the virus and restore him to full power. Dracula then blew up
Lilith's laboratory (with her still in it), and then created a powerful storm
that wiped Littlepool from the face of the Earth, eradicating the virus in the
process.
Afterwards, Lilith confronted Dracula again. Each of them claimed victory:
Dracula for defeating Lilith's plans, and Lilith for having driven Dracula to
the depths that she had, and because she knew that he would lose respect from
the other vampires for those actions. The two parted, and Lilith felt that
Dracula's downfall was on the horizon, and so she planned to move on to other
pursuits.
(Witches#1) - Lilith was presumably one of the magical beings on Earth assaulted
by the Hellphyr.
Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan.
Both Giant-Size Chillers#1 and Tomb of Dracula II#5 tell the story that Vlad the
Elder died a year after Dracula and Zofia's marriage. However, the detailed
history of Dracula from Tomb of Dracula II#2, which is reaffirmed in the
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, states that Vlad the Elder (and his
eldest son, Mircea) was killed by his own advisors (led by John Hunyadi) for his
support of Turkey while Dracula was a prisoner of Murad II. Dracula was not
married until after being freed and becoming the Voivode (ruler) of Wallachia.
So, there is a breakdown somewhere.
It makes sense to me that Dracula would not have inherited the castle and the
rule until after his father's death, so it seems more likely that Vlad the Elder
was already dead when the marriage took place. Dracula's arranged marriage can
be explained as part of a familial and/or political agreement, and the length of
the agreement was for one year. Dracula may have been referring to the vow as
his last ties to his father when he told Zofia that his father had died, or he
was just misquoted.
The issue is not detailed/clarified, as Lilith's entry in the OHotMU still
described her parents' marriage as it was told in GS Chillers, but the above
explanation seems to make the most sense to me. Anyone else have any light to
shed?
Lilith appeared in Tomb of Dracula I#28 as a hallucination created by Dr. Sun.
She also appeared as a personal hallucination to Dracula in Tomb of Dracula I#60
and 68.
According to some sources (somewhere in the Official Handbook of the Marvel
Universe I'm told), Lilith is not her birth name, but rather the name she was
given after she had become a vampire, using as her namesake Lilith, the original
demonqueen. However, there are several examples of both Dracula and Zofia
calling her Lilith as an infant.
Thanks to AJ Lewis and Will U for pointing out that I had mistakenly listed Bebe
Newmar as the actress who played Lilith from Cheers.
You are obviously confusing her with Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman in the
old "Batman" TV series of the 60s.
Profile by Snood and Prime Eternal.
CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:
Lilith, Mother of Demons, mother of the Lilin, @ Ghost Rider III#28
SOMEONE told me that Dracula's daughter was renamed when she became a vampire,
and was named after the original demonqueen.
Lilith of Cheers, played by Bebe Neuwirth. The character is/was a pale-skinned
harpy of a woman, likely named after the original demonqueen
Lilitu, the female werewolf, from the story The House of Arabu, @ Conan the
Barbarian#38
Charles Seward is the great-grandson of Dr. John Seward, who hunted Dracula in
the 19th Century alongside Johnathon Harker and and Abraham van Helsing, @
Dracula Lives#11/3
REAL NAME: Kiskillilla (her Sumerian name)
IDENTITY/CLASS: Demon/Vampire/Goddess
OCCUPATION: Succubus, former Goddess of the Underworld, former Storm Demon
AFFILIATION: Mother of the Lilin (Sumerian: Lilim), former member of the
Anunnaki (Mesopotamian Gods); Centurious, Zarathos; possibly Asmodeus
ENEMIES: The Blood, Darkhold Redeemers, Hellphyr, Jennifer Kale, Satana, Topaz
Midnight Sons (Blade, John Blaze, Frank Drake, Dr. Strange, Ghost Rider/Dan
Ketch/Noble Kale, Hannibal King, Morbius, Vengeance),
Nightstalkers (Blade, Frank Drake, Hannibal King)
KNOWN RELATIVES: Aehr (possible father), Lillu, Ardat, Irdu (sisters),
the Lilin (Bad Timing, Bloodthirst, Carver, Creed, Dark Legion, Doc, Fang,
Girth, Infinks, Meatmarket, Nakota, Outcast, Parasite, Pilgrim, Pixil, Short
Circuit, Sister Nil, Skinner, Skitter, Spitfire--(all children),
Blackout (grandson or more distant relative),
child (fathered by Zarathos))
ALIASES: Lilitu (Babylonian Name), The Vampire Goddess, Mother of Demons, Mother
of the Lilin
BASE of OPERATIONS: Currently unknown;
formerly the Shadowside Dimension;
formerly within the Leviathan;
formerly pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis
FIRST APPEARANCE: Ghost Rider III#28 (August, 1992)
POWERS: Lilith possesses the conventional powers of the Mesopotamian Gods plus
several occult powers derived from her degeneration into a demon. She has
superhuman strength (potentially Class 25), stamina and resistance to injury.
She has vast knowledge of magical lore and the ability to tap into and
manipulate the dark forces of the universe. She can also summon her children
from other dimensions by giving birth to their energies in new bodies in the
Earth's dimension. Moreover, the more children she "births," the stronger and
more powerful she becomes.
Height: 6' 0" Weight: 140 lbs. Hair: Black Eyes: Greenish-yellow
HISTORY: (Mesopotamian Myth/Jewish Legend) Very little is actually known about
Lilith and what few facts that have been passed down about her are actually
speculatory and often contradictory.
She has often been referred to as the daughter of darkness, suggesting she may
be the daughter of Aehr (Aer), the ancient god of darkness.
.She attempted to tempt Adam, the first man in Judeo-Christian theology. In
fact, it was claimed she was created with Adam to be his wife, but she refused
to be subservient to him. This contradiction may be an invention or
mistranslation of Jewish tales repeated over thousands of years as a parable
against wives.
Lilith fathered a number of children, the Lilin, possibly by the demon Asmodeus
or via multiple sources. The vast majority of her children were slain, possibly
by the Judeo-Christian God.
During the Sumerian Empire, Lilith lived in the desert beyond the Euphrates
River from where she abducted unbaptised children.
In later Hebrew Legend, Lilith was subsequently destroyed by Senoy, Sansenoy and
Semangol, three servants of God, who scattered her remains across Earth to never
come together again.
BTS - She lived in Atlantis and survived its destruction, in the Great
Cataclysm, @ 18, 500 BC. However, at some point, Atlantean sorcerers imprisoned
her within the belly of "a leviathan."
(Monsters Unleashed #1/7 (BTS))- Lilith was invoked by Makkador to bring the
human Brian Morgan into his dimension to serve him against the Overseers.
(Ghost Rider III#28) - Possibly only as part of a vision of the future, the
disembodied spirit of Dan Ketch encountered and is assaulted by Lilith.
(Spirits of Vengeance#1) - In Northern Greenland, Lilith emerged from the belly
of "an ancient leviathan" in which she had dwelled for an unknown period of
time. She killed the two scientist explorers who had witnessed her rebirth. She
then used the entrails of her former prison as a medium to view the future and
saw her children, the Lilin, defeated at the hands of Ghost Rider and Blaze.
Lilith summoned Pilgrim to her aside and followed him through a portal in space
to regather her remaining children to her side. They enlisted Creed, as well as
Blackout, who is a more distant descendent, and Lilith sent them to attack GR
and Blaze. Blaze killed Creed, and the other two fled back to Lilith, to gather
more to their side before again challenging the Midnight Sons.
(Morbius#1) - Lilith, Pilgrim, and Blackout recruited Fang and Nakota at a
Manhattan Gothic Club, in which she found an interest in Speed Metal music. She
sent Fang to kill Morbius, which he attempted to do by adding his own poison
blood to an elixir being used in an attempt to cure Morbius. The mixture did not
kill Morbius, but instead mutated him into a more supernatural being.
(SoV#2) - Via Nakota, Lilith observed from a distance the battle between Steel
Wind and Ghost Rider and Blaze. From this, she first learned of the existence of
Centurious.
(GR30-BTS) - Apparently after an alliance with Lilith, Nightmare assaulted Dan
Ketch/Ghost Rider. Lilith and the Lilin appeared in Nightmare's illusions.
(Darkhold#1) - DeGuzman was contacted by the demonqueen Lilith. He contracted
with a ninja assassin named Li and his agents to assassinate Victoria Montesi to
prevent her from interfering with his plans for the Darkhold. Li's assassins
failed to kill Montesi, but instead crippled her best friends and lover, Nash
Salvato. After this first failure, the Lilin Doc reshaped the assassins,
increasing their strength and speed. The enhanced assassins were fought off and
destroyed with the aid of Ghost Rider and John Blaze. Lilith observed this
battle, but fled after being shot in the arm by Blaze. Nakota was left behind.
(SoV#3) - Lilith re-recruited Skinner and sent him after Ghost Rider and Blaze.
(Nightstalkers#1) - Meatmarket made Lilith a "quilt" from the skin of his
victims, showing the faces of the nine who would be her foes (Blade, John Blaze,
Sam Buchanon, Frank Drake, Ghost Rider/Ketch, Louise Hastings, Hannibal King,
Victoria Montesi, Morbius). Lilith posed as a client for Borderline
investigations and duped the Nightstalkers into attacking Ghost Rider and Blaze.
Lilith attempted to bait Dr. Strange into pitting his sorcery against hers, but
he refused, knowing that such a conflict would weaken the dimensional walls and
allow more of her Lilin to return to Earth. Lilith left after Blade decapitated
Meatmarket, taking him away to repair him.
(GR31) - Lilith used the carcass of the leviathan in which she had been buried
to restore Meatmarket, with the aid of Doc. Lilith then had Pilgrim open a
portal through her own body, through which she planned to return the rest of the
Lilin to Earth. The "nine" arrived to stop her. Lilith pulled the
then-disembodied spirit of Dan Ketch (go read the issues!) through the portal,
making it reborn as one of her Lilin. As the Ketch/Lilin battled them, Lilith
attempted to transform the rest of the "nine" into Lilin as well. As they fought
back against her, she was forced to resorb power from her other Lilin. Ghost
Rider managed to grab her and force her own head into the portal in her chest,
causing a massive explosion that seemingly destroyed her and the Lilin. However,
after the "nine" left, Lilith revived and drained the life of Nakota, the last
surviving Lilin to replenish herself.
(GR32-BTS) - Dr. Strange removed the Lilin-taint from Ketch and restored him to
true-life, remerging him with Ghost Rider in the process.
(SoV#13) - Due to the events of the "Midnight Massacre", the "nine" have fallen
somewhat and have succumbed to varying degrees of corruption. A fat and happy
Lilith spoke with her children from across the dimensional gulf, deciding that
it is time for a gathering.
(GR41) - Lilith is prepared to give birth to her brood once again, but is unable
to birth the children without assistance. She called out to any of the Lilin
remaining on Earth. Outcast answered Lilith's call and tore her belly asunder,
allowing the Lilin to be reborn anew. Blackout, in particular, is dramatically
increased in power by being reborn through Lilith. Lilith sends Blackout, aided
by Pilgrim, to wipe out the "nine" while they were weakened from recent events.
Lilith's call was heard by Centurious who thought she might aid him in his quest
for the Medallion of Power, and he traveled to Greenland to meet with her and
propose an alliance. The Ghost Rider overpowered Blackout and Pilgrim, but
Centurious then appeared and abducted Dan Ketch's mother, Francis.
(SoV#14) - Lilith sent the Lilin, alongside Steel Wind, to attack the Quentin
Carnival--allies of John Blaze. She watched as Centurious had Carver torture
Francis Ketch for information, and watched again as Centurious captured John
Blaze.
(Morbius#13, [14], 15) - Through Nakota's eyes, Lilith observed Morbius utilize
the Darkhold's Page of Resurrection in an effort to revive his dead lover,
Martine Bancroft. The spell allowed the Lilin Parasite to reanimate Martine's
form. By this means, as well as Morbius' possession by Bloodthirst, Lilith hoped
to turn Morbius to her side. Lilith allowed Morbius to remain part of the
"nine", so that he could weaken their number from within.
(GR42) - Lilith observed as Carver went to work on John Blaze in an effort to
obtain his portion of the Medallion. After Ghost Rider arrived and rescued
Blaze, she traveled with Centurious and his agents to Cypress Hills Cemetery
where they planned to take the Medallions form both Ghost Rider and Blaze.
(SoV#15) - Lilith observed as Centurious tapped into the power of Ghost Rider's
chain.
(GR43) - Lilith, alongside Centurious, Blackout, and Outcast, confronted Blaze,
Ghost Rider, Caretaker, and Vengeance in the catacombs beneath Cypress Hills
Cemetery. In the course of the battle, Zarathos was released from Centurious'
form.
(SoV#16) - The heroes fled from Zarathos, and Lilith abandoned Centurious in
favor of Zarathos. Lilith summoned Pilgrim and Nakota to her side, and she took
advantage of Zarathos' temporary partial memory loss to pose as a mother figure
to him. Centurious attacked Lilith, hoping to punish her for her betrayal, but
Zarathos banished him from their sight. The heroes returned to the fight, and by
accessing the energies of the Medallion(s) of Power, succeed in driving back
Zarathos, Lilith, and the Lilin. A portal opened up, and the demons were pulled
into the Shadowside dimension, although the heroes believed them to have been
killed.
(Nightstalk#14) - The Lilin burst forth from the now open portal to the
Shadowside, attacking the now fully gathered "nine." Frank Drake, Blade, Louise
Hastings, Jinx, and Modred investigated the fog issuing forth from the portal
and were confronted by Lilith.
(GR44) - Alongside Zarathos and a large number of Lilin, Lilith returned through
the portal back into Cypress Hills Cemetery. She sent the Lilin to spread the
mist across Earth, and its magical energies would enable her to rule Earth more
easily, with Zarathos at her side. The assault of the Lilin and Zarathos on the
"nine" was temporarily halted by Dr. Strange, who formed a mystic shield between
them and then teleported them to safety.
(Marvel Comic Presents#143) - Strange's teleportation spell was disrupted by
Pilgrim, and Ghost Rider, Blaze, and Zarathos were teleported to Girth and
Skitter, who attacked them. Pilgrim then brought himself, Lilith, and Zarathos
to the battle, but the heroes escaped into another of Strange's dimensional
portals, and Blaze blasted Pilgrim to prevent a similar occurrence.
(Darkhold#15) - Lilith, her Lilin, and Zarathos ambush the Darkhold Redeemers in
their New Hope mansion. By combining their powers via a spell of magnification,
Modred and Jinx dispelled the Lilin. Zarathos threw up a shield that defended
them for the moment, but Jinx heard misinformation from Frank Drake that Modred
had killed Louise Hastings, and turned against him, neutralizing both of them.
Drake prepared to face off against the two arch-demons, but was then ambushed
from behind by Morbius, still under control of Bloodthirst--the real killer of
Louise.
(Morb#16) - Morbius returned to Dr. Strange's Sanctum, and his Lilin possessed
presence allowed the rest of the Lilin to break through Strange's barriers and
assault those present. Lilith arrived via Pilgrim, and attempted to convince the
heroes to surrender the Amulet of Power, and she would leave them with their
lives. Again, Strange refused to battle Lilith directly for fear of the damage
that could be done to the dimensional walls. Strange helped Morbius bring
Bloodthirst back under his control, but the rest of the "nine" still distrusted
and attacked him.
(MCP#144/2) - Lilith convinced Zarathos to conserve his strength and leave with
her while the Lilin finished off the nine. Pilgrim teleported the three of them
away.
(Dr.Strange: Sorcerer Supreme#60) - Strange reformed the shields around his
sanctum and forced the Lilin out. However, in an effort to purge the demon taint
from his sanctum, he was forced to destroy it. Lilith and a number of her Lilin
were waiting on the outside to start the battle anew.
(SoV#17) - Lilith left her Lilin to continue the fight, while she and Zarathos
consummated their relationship in a mausoleum within Cypress Hills Cemetery.
Afterwards, Ghost Rider, Vengeance, and Blaze arrived to confront them, and
Lilith told Zarathos "Fight with the knowledge that, no matter what the outcome,
your lien will be continued. This I promise."
Zarathos was temporarily defeated by the heroes, and Lilith and her Lilin were
re-banished back to the Shadowside dimension.
(Midnight Sons Unlimited#4) - After Zarathos was defeated/banished/turned to
stone by the nine (now known as the Midnight Sons), Lilith appeared in the
cemetery by the abandoned statue. She vowed to leave behind her old children,
the Lilin, in order to be a devoted mother to the new offspring she and Zarathos
had fashioned. She predicted that it would grow swift and strong and steeped in
tales of its father's greatness.
(Witches#1) - Lilith was one of the many magic users on Earth assaulted by the
Hellphyr.
(Witches#2) - Lilith observed as Dr. Strange attempted to prepare Jennifer Kale,
Satana, and Topaz to confront the Hellphyr. She then birthed another Lilin and
sent it to "welcome those tramps to the neighborhood." Dr. Strange confronted
Lilith in her realm, and Lilith mocked him, showing the Lilin about to assault
the trio.
(Witches#3) - Sensing Strange's weakness from the presence of the Hellphyr,
Lilith challenged him with a wall of flame, which he easily passed through.
Jennifer Kale destroyed the Lilin.
(Witches#4) - As Strange headed to assist the young witches against the
Hellphyr, Lilith appeared, attacking the weakened mage. Lilith had nearly killed
him and prepared to bite his neck, but when the Hellphyr was destroyed, he
regained his full power, blasting her away. He intended to punish her for her
actions, but she teleported away.
Comments: Adapted by Howard Mackie and Kubert.
I would assume that the Leviathan from which Lilith was released would be the
Leviathan of Hebrew legend, who was also known as Tiamat from Babylonian
mythology. I'd like to see a story detailing how she got there. If this is
indeed Tiamat, I believe it is her only appearance in the MU, although there are
been numerous references.
She could have been imprisoned within Leviathan by the Atlanteans themselves. As
detailed from Thor #401, Atlantean ruins existed on the shores of the Viking's
version of the "New World." Given its hospitable clime, this New World may have
been Iceland, placing it not too far geographically from Greenland, the location
of Lilith's imprisonment. With this in mind, Atlanteans based on this outpost or
other Atlanteans based on nearby Greenland may have placed Lilith within the
monster. On the other hand, maybe the outpost was Lilith's in the first place.
Any way you look at it, this opens up a possible story involving Lilith and
Atlanteans in the "New World."
- Kyle
Lilith's imprisonment by Atlantean sorcerers does not have to precede the Great
Cataclysm. There are numerous instances where groups of Atlanteans survived and
escaped to other parts of the world to continue their existence. Among these are
the Antillans (Conan of the Isles GN), Netheranians (Kala), and the original
inhabitants of Pangea and the Savage Land.
"According to Hebrew tradition Lilith was the first wife of Adam. Where Adam was
created from the dust of the earth, Lilith was flawed from the moment of her
creation because she was fashioned from the filth and uncleanliness of the
earth. However instead of leading Adam into temptation as his second wife, Eve,
did, Lilith was an unfaithful adulteress who consorted with evil spirits, chief
among them the demon of the wilderness Asmodeus. From her couplings with
Asmodeus a hundred demons were born each day, but God commanded all but one be
slain for every brood born."
--off the top of the head of Greg O (Soundss like as good an explanation for the
Lilin as any, to me--Snood)
The origin of the traditional version of Lilith was adapted in Vampire
Tales#4/6.
In Babylonian lore, she was mother of the first vampires. This differs from the
MU story, in which vampires were created by the original Darkholders, who used
the Darkhold (empowered by Chthon) to transform Varnae and a few others into the
first vampires, in the Pre-Cataclysmic Era. Perhaps Lilith's power also entered
into this spell in the MU.
Alternatively, it may be that there are different races of vampires in the MU,
as there are literally dozens in myth/legend:
Compiled from a list of undead creatures in Vampire Tales (with a few additions
based on the MU):
-Asasabonsam: iron teeth, hooks for feet, hhides in trees
-Bajang: form of polecat, male
-Ch'ing Shih: demon that possesses corpses,, prevent decay by feeding on other
corpses or off the living. Chinese legend
-Chupacabra: Mexican bat-like bloodsuckers....if I remember correctly, it
actually translates as "goat-sucker." A variation on these showed up in one of
the Spider-Man novels, I believe.
-Ciuatetes-vampire witches
-Ekkimmu: souls of the dead who can't rest,, they were vampire-like creatures
that hunted and devoured victims--frightening them to death. Assyrian legend.
-Ghoul: female djinn, feed on corpses, killl and eat humans. Arab legend
-Gynosii: Chinese undead, intermediate b/t vampire+zombie--Marvel Comics
Presents#139/2
-Lamia: half-woman, half-snake, stalked chiildren. Greek legend
---Lamia was a Libyan Queen loved by Zeus. Hera cursed her and she retreated to
the desert from which she stole infants from their cribs. She was a lot closer
to Lilith than Hecate was. In later myth, lamia was used as another name for
vampires, particularly in Greece. --Will
-Langsuir: form of owl, female
-Muttaliku: evil ghosts wandering the Earthh. Assyrian legend
-Obayifo: human-like, suck blood of childreen, free astral self, destroy crops
-Penanggalan: a head with a stomach attacheed, they fly and suck the blood of the
young. Southeast Asia, Malay Peninsula
-Rakshasa: spirits which animate corpses, tthey cause excruciating death with a
touch. Hindu legend
-Uttuku: phantoms or ghosts, not evil
There were also strigo, empusa, vrylokas and other assorted nasties. Nosferatu,
however, was invented by Bram Stoker; there are no words in any Balkan language
which come closer. In Yugoslavia, there is a word: nysferatia. It means "tax
man." A nasty creature which sneaks into your house and sticks its fangs in your
wallet once every year! It knows no pity and shows no mercy. And then there is
"paparazzi." Italian vampires.--Will U
And on that, note, in the MU, there are also a few other races of vampires who
differ from the mainstream, including (with further info in the Master List):
Adze
Ancients
Charniputra
Huskies
Jumlin
Nosferatu
Purebloods
Tryks
Yiki Onna
Peter David used the legendary Lilith in a story for DC's Super-Girl.
In addition, Marvel Graphic Novel#20: Greenberg the Vampire, @ 1986, featured
Lilith in her "Night Rider"/Infant Stealer role. This story contains no elements
(short of the existence of vampires and Lilith herself and her children) to
otherwise connect it to the Marvel Universe. In fact, as pointed out by John
McDonagh, the letter page of Dr. Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts (Dr. Strange
(vol2)) #66 states that the story of Greenberg the Vampire did not take place in
the Marvel Universe. This was in answer to a question of whether he was
destroyed by the reading of the Montesi Formula in Dr. Strange II#62
There's nothing within the story to exclude it from Earth-616, but I'll have to
defer to the editorial comment. IF IT WERE IN EARTH-616, since Marvel's time
scale just keeps on a'slidin', I would place 1986 now in the pre-modern era,
which would explain why there weren't super-heroes, etc. Anyway, I still think
it's worthy of a summary.
(MGN#20 (fb)) - Lilith visited the infant Oscar Greenberg, attempting to claim
him for herself. Oscar's mother, Henrietta, whose father was a rabbi, called
upon "Sanvi, Sansanvi, and Semangeleaf" for help, and drove her off.
(MGN#20) <1954> - Lilith visited and seduced the young Oscar Greenberg was by as
he prepared for his own Bar Mitzvah.
(MGN#20) - Many years later, Oscar Greenburg had become a vampire, but still
"lived" an otherwise normal existence, acting as a horror writer. Lilith
appeared to him in the form of a young, vivacious actress and seduced him. She
sought to use her work to seduce the rest of the world into the fiery lust of
the world she had dwelled in before being brought to the Garden of Eden with
Adam. Lilith fought off and overpowered Greenberg's family and friends,
including a rabbi brought in against her. However, Greenberg drew on the love of
his family and girlfriend and shot Lilith, banishing her from the Earthly plane.
So, I could see this Lilith as being a fragment, or perhaps the weakened astral
self of the true Lilith, who remained trapped within the Leviathan in Greenland.
Even knocking the story out of Earth-616 continuity does not alter this
hypothesis significantly. With her spirit barred from the Earth-616 universe,
she could have sent her astral fragment to another reality, the journey across
the dimensional planes of which affected her somewhat. This might explain her
different powers and appearance.
Or...it's a different character altogether. Take your pick.
Lilith has the potential to be a really cool character, but she didn't impress
me a whole lot in her 1990s--the Age of Hype--appearances, written mostly by
Mackie. I'd love to see Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, J. M. DeMatteis, Alan Moore,
Grant Morrison, Steve Gerber, or someone equally twisted do a story involving
the birth of her child of Zarathos.
She wasn't much different in the witches series, but at least they didn't mess
her up.
For much, much more on the Lilith(s) of myth/legend, check out the Lilith page.
In one story, she was mad at Adam for insisting that she always be on bottom
during sex. She left him and was turned into a demon. She is credited/blamed for
Sudden Infant Death as well as nocturnal emissions in men (she even was listed
as...the Night Rider. No connection to the Phantom Rider(s) or that talking car
show with David Hasslehoff, which the Germans love)
Babylonian Gods rank right up there with Lovecraft's work as one of the most
common sources of demons in the MU: There's Baal, Inanna, Lilith, Marduk,
Ningal, Nergal, Ullikumis, that I can come up with off the top of my head.
I had mentioned previously that I thought these gods may have degenerated into
demons due to millennia without worship. To clarify: I didn't mean that any god
without worship would automatically become a demon after a given period. It just
seemed like one possible motivation/explanation. However, the Mesopotamian Gods
seem to have been particularly susceptible to this phenomenon. They have had the
longest time to...spoil.
Chronologies are NOT my strongsuit, but I think I did ok with this long one. I'm
no quite sure where the Morbius stories fit in prior to the "Siege of Darkness",
so I stuck them somewhere in the "Road to Vengeance", after she had returned to
activity, but before she got too tied up with Centurious, b/c the battle with
Ghost Rider and bunch led directly into the Siege.
Lilith has a profile in the OHotMU Master Edition, from which the top image was
scanned.
Thanks to Will U, the Squid, and Greg O for passing on scads of mythological
history.
Thanks to AJ Lewis and Will U for pointing out that I had mistakenly listed Bebe
Newmar as the actress who played Lilith from Cheers.
You are obviously confusing her with Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman in the
old "Batman" TV series of the 60s.
CLARIFICATIONS:
She should be differentiated from:
Lilith, daughter of Dracula, @ Giant-Size Chillers I#1
SOMEONE told me that Dracula's daughter was renamed when she became a vampire,
and was named after the original demonqueen.
Lilith of Cheers, played by Bebe Neuwirth. The character is/was a pale-skinned
harpy of a woman, likely named after the original demonqueen
Lilitu, the female werewolf, from the story The House of Arabu, @ Conan the
Barbarian#38
Asmodeus, the demon who allegedly fathered many of the Lilin, may or may not be
Asmodeus, the demon from Hell, @ Ghost Rider II#53
Asmodeus, a demonic, amorphous blob worshipped by a cult known as the Enclave, @
Tomb of Dracula Magazine#2
Asmodeus, the demon who granted power to Gregor Smirnoff, the Belonging, and
Dracula, @ Tomb of Dracula III#1
Asmodiar, a demon who battled Merlin and King Arthur, @ Marvel Preview#22
--and is almost certainly not:
Asmodeus, Dr. Charles Benton, former leader of the Sons of Satannish, @ Dr.
Strange I#169, 175
Asmodeus, a green, bat-winged Inhuman, @ Fantastic Four I#117
Asmodeus, a demon-worshipping ally of Morningstar, @ Moon Knight I#29
Asmodeus Jones, a rock singer and pawn of the demon Fashima, of the Six Fingered
Hand, @ Defenders I#96
Azmodeus, the bird-like demon-servant of Master Pandemonium, @ West Coast
Avengers II#4
Blackout, the relative of Lilith and former agent of Deathwatch, @ Ghost Rider
III#2, has no known connection to:
Blackout, Marcus Daniels, one of Baron Helmut Zemo's Masters of Evil, who
manipulated the darkforce, @ Nova I#19
Centurious, the Man without a Soul, @ Ghost Rider II#74, should be distinguished
from:
Centurius, Dr. Noah Black, of the Conspiracy, @ Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD I#2
Leviathan, aka Tiamat, the Mesopotamian Goddess/Dragon, has no known connection
to:
Leviathan, an immense creature created by the Plant-Man, @ Sub-Mariner I#2
Leviathan, an immense, monstrous ship, used to capture other ships for
Hydropolis, @ HULK!#22
Leviathan, aka Gargantua, @ Defenders I#126
Leviathan, an undersea robot, piloted by Irina Tsarova, @ Iron Man I#218
Leviathan, a name for the immense form taken by Marrina just before her apparent
death, @ Avengers I#291
Leviathan, an anarchist who led the Coven, @ Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD III#7
Leviathans, a name referring to the offspring of Marrina, @ Avengers I#293,
Namor Annual#4
Leviathans of the Microverse, immense creatures of Seazone, @ Micronauts I#30
Tiamat, an extra-terrestrial sent to Earth @ 3000 years ago the destroy the
Messiah/S'met'kth, @ Deadpool III#21, 22
Tiamat 2099, an occultechnological demon, @ 2099 Unlimited#14/2
the Nine, a name for the grouping that later evolved into the Midnight Sons, @
Ghost Rider III#28, Nightstalkers#1,
have no known connection to:
the Nine, enemies of the Wolfpack, @ Wolfpack GN
the Nine of Earth-Guardians of the Galaxy, aka Rancor's lieutenants, @ Guardians
of the Galaxy#8
Number Nine, genetically engineered by Skip Ash, @ Daredevil I#271