Beta Ray Bill (Marvel Comics) Character Review
Beta Ray Bill is a fictional Character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Thor (Nov. 1983) and was created by writer-artist Walt Simonson.
Debuting in the Bronze Age of Comic Books,
the character was initially intended to be a surprise as an apparent
monster who unexpectedly proves to be a great hero. As such, Bill
becomes the first being outside of the Marvel Universe's Norse pantheon to be deemed worthy enough to wield Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. After an initial rivalry for possession of the weapon, the alien warrior was granted a war hammer of his own, called Stormbreaker, and the two reconciled as staunch allies. More about Beta Ray Bill (Marvel Comics) Character Review - keep reading !!
Beta Ray Bill has been featured in other Marvel-endorsed products such as animated television series; video games, and merchandise such as action figures and trading cards.
Fictional Character Biography
1980s - Spy organization S.H.I.E.L.D. detected an alien fleet passing through Earth's solar system, with Director Nick Fury
asking Thor to investigate. When Thor finds the advance ship, it scans
Thor and perceives him to be a threat. Unable to stop Thor, the sentient
ship - called Skuttlebutt - revives Beta Ray Bill, who is in suspended animation.
Bill battles Thor to standstill, until the ship reaches Earth's orbit,
where one of the mystical enchantments of Thor's hammer Mjolnir
comes into effect, being that Thor will revert back to his mortal
persona of Donald Blake if separated from the hammer for more than sixty
seconds. Blake is knocked unconscious by Bill, who examines Blake's
cane (Mjolnir's "shell" when Thor is in Blake's form) and on striking
the cane receives Thor's power and costume.
Once Skuttlebutt arrives on Earth, Bill easily defeats an
approaching S.H.I.E.L.D. team and is then transported to Asgard by the
King of the Norse gods, Odin,
who mistakes Bill for Thor. After some initial confusion, Odin returns
Thor to Asgard, and Bill's origin is revealed. Bill's race, the
Korbinites, were almost rendered extinct when their galaxy exploded. The remnants of the Korbonite race fled in a fleet of warships, guarded by a sentient ship called Skuttlebutt and a dedicated champion, Beta Ray Bill. Via Korbonite science, Bill was physically augmented and given the attributes of an indigenous wild beast (a process that killed all of Bill's predecessors). Skuttlebutt
attacked Thor because the ship recognized the Asgardian magic as
similar to that of the previous global threat, and assumed the
Korbonites were being threatened once again.
On discovering that Bill was worthy enough to lift Mjolnir, Odin
proposes a battle to the death in the fiery Asgardian realm of Skartheim
to decide who will wield the hammer. Bill and Thor render each other unconscious,
although Bill's resistance to heat allows him to recover first, and is
deemed the winner, he saves Thor from going over a lava flow, believing
he is too worthy an opponent to die. He tells Thor he saved him as he
did not want so worthy an opponent to die, but he feels he needs the
hammer to protect his people. After Bill reconsiders his claim to the
hammer, Odin creates a compromise by bestowing upon Bill a different
hammer — Stormbreaker — which is equal in power to Mjolnir and was
created by the same Dwarf. Odin also bestows the ability upon Bill to
return to his original Korbinite form by striking Stormbreaker upon the
ground. After learning that the mishap that killed most of Bill's people
was caused by the fire demon Surtur, one of Asgard's most powerful enemies, Bill agrees to join the Asgardians in a war to stop Surtur and his armies.
Bill leads many of Earth's heroes against Surtur's forces on Earth while Thor, Odin, and Thor's adopted brother Loki
confront Surtur in Asgard. Surtur is eventually defeated, but
apparently kills Odin when they both fall through a mystic portal. Bill remains on Earth, aiding the spaceknight Rom against the threat of the alien Dire Wraiths and foes such as Iron Man opponent Titanium Man.
Forming an attachment with the Asgardian goddess Sif, Bill aids Thor against the Dark Elf Kurse in a two-part storyline before returning to his people. Bill eventually returns to battle the Egyptian god Seth and the Juggernaut.
1990s - Bill remains a staunch ally of Thor and Asgard before featuring in a storyline involving a creation of Galactus, Tyrant. Bill also features in the storyline "Blood and Thunder", attempting alongside Adam Warlock, Thanos
and others to deal with the "warrior madness" of Thor in which he is
trying to destroy the universe, although at one point he is struck with
enough force to destroy a planet. Together with Thor, Bill joins with other versions of the Thunder God in the Thor Corps against the entity Demonstaff. and has several cosmic adventures.
2000s - Bill also participates in a battle between the heroes of Earth and several alien races such as the Kree, Shi'ar, and Z'Nox. and after several adventures with Thor guest starring in the final storyline, when Thor - determined to end
the perpetual cycle of death and rebirth the Asgardians are trapped in -
brings about Ragnarök (in Norse mythology
this event means the end of Asgard and its gods, as they die in battle
against the armies of evil). Although Bill attempts to aid the
Asgardians, Thor teleports Bill away as it is not his destiny to die in Ragnarök.
Bill visits his people's new homeworld, where he is attacked by his insane predecessor, Alpha Ray, defeating him just as the cosmic entity Galactus and his herald Stardust
arrive. Despite Bill's efforts, Galactus consumes the world and almost
kills him, with Bill drifting in space until recovered by Skuttlebutt.
After finding an orb containing the souls
of many of the Korbinites, Bill revisits a desolate Asgard, and joins
forces with Stardust to battle a new demonic menace named Asteroth.
Although victorious, Bill is mortally wounded, and while near death
is healed by an unknown entity that also claims the remaining souls in
the orb. Placed in the recently-deceased body of a war veteran named Simon Walters (a reference to his creator, Walt Simonson) on Earth, Bill has a brief encounter with the villain Boar and the hero Spider-Man. Bill eventually finds and joins Canadian superhero team Omega Flight against the supervillain team the Wrecking Crew, who release the supernatural Great Beasts. The battle ends with Bill and the Beasts trapped in an alternate dimension.
During the Secret Invasion storyline, Bill is wounded and captured by the alien Skrulls, who bestow his hammer Stormbreaker on a warrior Super-Skrull called the Godkiller.
Thor rescues Bill, although Loki starts a rumor that Bill may be a
Skrull, causing some Asgardians to go against him despite Balder telling
them to stop. Thor throws Mjolnir at Bill, who catches it proving he
really is Bill. After being nursed back to health, the character
retrieves his hammer. Although the Godkiller defeats him, with Thor's
help he tricks the Godkiller, causing Asgard to fall onto it, killing
the Skrull. Thor and Bill then raise the city again.
Bill decides to hunt the cosmic entity Galactus,
to avenge the destruction of the Korbinites' second homeworld, and the
seeming eradication of his species. After a brief confrontation with the
herald, Stardust, Bill is intercepted by the Silver Surfer,
who is puzzled by the Korbinite's apparently futile quest to destroy
Galactus. During a brief battle, Bill explains that while he understands
he cannot hope to destroy Galactus with his power alone, he intends to
destroy Galactus by annihilating any and all worlds Galactus seeks to
feed from, thus starving him to death.
The character's obsession with
stopping Galactus eventually results in him being unable to lift his own
enchanted weapon, an object that can only be wielded by the worthy. Equipped with alien weapons, Bill finds Galactus but discovers the
entity already under attack by another race. In a moment of conscience,
Bill saves Galactus. The grateful entity rewards Bill by creating a
Korbinite mate for him, with Bill also regaining the ability to wield
Stormbreaker.
2010s - When the universe is invaded during The Thanos Imperative storyline, Beta Ray Bill joins Nova's select group to travel across the Fault and into the Cancerverse. Bill is recruited by Cosmo to join the Annihilators, a new super-group intended to replace the fallen Guardians of the Galaxy. Annihilators defend Galador from the Dire Wraiths,
resulting in a peace between the two groups who have been at war for
generations. Later, when trying to end a conflict between warring
factions of the Universal Church of Truth, the Annihilators are transported to a Church base on Earth and come into conflict with the Avengers.
Powers and Abilities (Beta Ray Bill)
Beta Ray Bill's life force and consciousness were transferred by
scientists of his race into the body of an alien carnivorous equine-like
beast that had been bionically restructured into a cyborg. Courtesy of
highly advanced genetic engineering, the character possesses vast
superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, and a highly extended
lifespan. Beta Ray Bill is also a superior hand-to-hand combatant. His
combat prowess is such that he was able to fight Thor, noted as one of the best hand-to-hand fighters in the Marvel Universe, to a standstill.
Beta Ray Bill's weapon, Stormbreaker, also has the same properties as Thor's hammer, Mjolnir,
and includes the ability to transform into a cane when struck upon the
ground and return Bill to his unaltered Korbinite form. Bill also
possesses the advanced and sentient warship Skuttlebutt.
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
Beta Ray Bill appears in the animated DVD film Planet Hulk (fulfiling the role the Silver Surfer held in the original comic) voiced by Paul Dobson. He appears along with Thor battling Kronans and later offers to return the Hulk to Earth..
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