The Beyonder is a tall, skinny, and sharp looking individual, who is presented in the form of an African-American man with blue quaffed hair, blue eye-liner, and blue lips. He wears a white suit with a black symbol on his chest, black neck guard, and what appear to be black boots. His hands and arms give the impression that he might be wearing black gloves that are morphing into his skin.
Powers and abilities[]
The Beyonder has the power to warp reality to his every whim. He can also fly and exhibits super strength and durability.
This version created Battleworld out of other worlds as part of his experiment. In "Beyond", he recreates Avengers Tower for the Avengers and New Avengers before informing them of Battleworld. In "Underworld", the Beyonder manipulates Loki to sow chaos and splits the Hulk and Bruce Banner apart before sending the two to Battleworld. In "The Citadel", the Beyonder tasks Ares, Absorbing Man, Crimson Widow, and MODOK with bringing Iron Man and Captain America to him. While his enforcers fight the latter, the Beyonder tries to convince the former to be a part of his experiment. In reality, he manipulates Iron Man and Captain America to fight each other. However, he failed to anticipate their subterfuge until they escape with his information. Enraged, the Beyonder takes his anger out on his enforcers except for Ares. In "The Wastelands", the Beyonder has Ares and an army of Ghost Riders hunt down the two Avengers groups for attempting to undo Battleworld, eventually resulting in Thunderstrike personally defeating him.
In Check Yourself, he narrates LOS-307's origin story offscreen.
The Beyonder, he makes his first physical appearance arriving at Earth to study humans. He later reveals that he studied humans to see if they are worthy of existing, and threatens to destroy all of humanity if Lunella does not win the science fair. After Lunella and Eduardo's project breaks, he briefly destroys Earth and humanity before it turns out to be an illusion as he chose not to destroy humanity as he liked Lunella and Eduardo's project. He then leaves, promising his return.
Coney Island, Baby!, he comes to Coney Island to study human food, and later fear after seeing Lunella's stress. After multiple attempts, he learns Lunella's true fear of losing her loved ones. He then kidnaps Mimi and hides her in the Coney Island funhouse altering the park, giving her 10 minutes to find her or else she will disappear forever. After Lunella conquers her fear in the funhouse, Beyonder congratulates her and returns Mimi before leaving.
Trivia[]
The Beyonder is voiced and modeled by Laurence Fishburne, who had previously portrayed Bill Foster in Ant-Man and the Wasp and did the voice of Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Ironically, Fishburne also produces the tv series.
For his depiction in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, his characterization and appearance were inspired by Fishburne himself, along with series composer Raphael Saadiq, Jack Skellington, Mok Swagger from Rock & Rule, and David Bowie.[1]
The Moon Girl version of the Beyonder is similar to Q from the Star Trek franchise; Both characters are near-omnipotent beings capable of altering reality who mess with the heroes for fun and often test whether humanity is deserving of existing or not.
The Beyonder also narrates the background of the characters in the show.
