Cal-Horra, also known as the Lost One, is a cosmic being created by the Celestials and the progenitor of the Beyonders.[3]
History
Cal-Horra was once a beautiful being created by the Celestials[3] during the time of the First Cosmos.[2] He went on to create the Beyonders and imbued them with a fraction of his power. The Beyonders stole the rest of his power and then trapped him in a moon outside the Multiverse.[2] The Beyonders then erased the Lost One from their history and claimed that the Celestials had created them directly.[1][4]
Recently, a single flaw in his prison allowed him to escape. Since the Beyonders could not use his own power against him, they sent warriors to fight him in their stead, which he defeated. The Lost One recruited Tiamok Rath of Kharradun and the Black Order to aid him in his quest of vengeance against the Beyonders.[2]
Sensing the Beyonder, the Lost One came to Earth but was blocked by a shield powered by four crystals, secretly four Beyonders in a crystalline form provided by the Beyonder. The shield mysteriously went down, allowing the Lost One to enter; however, it was a ploy by the Beyonder to trap the Lost One on Earth as a new prison. The crystals were teleported outside and the shield was reinstalled. Taking off his helmet to reveal his now-hideous face, the Lost One confronted the Beyonder at the edge of the shield, who was soon punished by the other Beyonders for attacking his own kind and was sent down to Earth.[5]
The Lost One proceeded to ravage New York City while Tiamok found the now-powerless Beyonder. The other Beyonders had erased his memory of how to disable the shield, but the Beyonder had extracted it beforehand and went to reclaim his memory to bargain. Cal-Horra deactivated the shield, absorbed the four Beyonders powering it, and dissipated the Beyonder. The Avengers used the Lost One's Celestial weakness to fight him and threatened him with Celestial weaponry. The Lost One agreed to restore New York and the lives he had taken, bade farewell to Tiamok, and left to continue his hunt.[6]Attributes
Powers
As the purported original possessor of the Beyonders' power,[2] the Lost One is an unfathomably powerful entity. For reference, three Beyonders are enough to slay almost every notable cosmic entity, including the Living Tribunal, in all realities of the Multiverse simultaneously.[7] Cal-Horra states that his powers were given to him by the Celestials.[6]
- Connection to the Beyonders: He can sense Beyonders that manifest in the universe. He can also siphon energy from them without their notice and hide beings from them.[2]
- Immense Strength and Durability: The Lost One "wears" a physical body that he fashioned himself to be able to swim in suns, fly through black holes, and smash moons with his fist. However, he became trapped in this body after the Beyonders had stolen his power.[6] Also, this body is subjected to decay.[1]
- Multiversal Travel: The Lost One can travel through different universes.[2]
- Immortality: The Lost One is immortal and cannot be killed. The Lost One is impervious to his own power, including when used by Beyonders.[2]
- Power Bestowal: The Lost One can bestow other people his power.[2][6]
- Resurrection: The Lost One can bring people back to life.[6]
- Reality Alteration: After absorbing the power of four Beyonders he displayed the ability to alter reality with a thought.[6]
- Near-Omnipotence: Given the fact that the Beyonder and the Beyonders all possess part of The Lost One's power and are all Nigh-Omnipotent, and that all this power naturally belongs to the Lost One, then should he regain all of his lost power, he would become a being of unfathomable capabilities far beyond comprehension.
Weaknesses
- The Celestials specifically designed Cal-Horra to be unable to hurt them. Other beings can challenge him by coating themselves with Celestial "blood."[6]
- The Beyonders stole his power through unknown means.[2]
Notes
- According to Derek Landy, the writer of All-Out Avengers and Avengers Beyond, the origin of the Beyonders from Defenders: Beyond #2 is still true, except that the Beyonder omits the detail that the Celestials had created the Lost One first, who then created the Beyonders.[8][9]
Trivia
- Cal-Horra's innate inability to rise against Celestials is similar to the Eternals' first principle.[10][11]
See Also
- 5 appearance(s) of Cal-Horra (First Cosmos)
- 1 mention(s) of Cal-Horra (First Cosmos)
- 4 image(s) of Cal-Horra (First Cosmos)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about Cal-Horra (First Cosmos)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Avengers Beyond #4
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Avengers Beyond #1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Avengers Beyond #4–5
- ↑ Defenders: Beyond #2
- ↑ Avengers Beyond #3–4
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Avengers Beyond #5
- ↑ New Avengers (Vol. 3) #30
- ↑ Landy, Derek (2 April 2023) Derek Landy on Twitter: "Hopefully we haven't retconned anything — we've added one single element to the mix that the Beyonders have done their best to erase from existence: the fact that there was a mid-point between the Celestials and the Beyonders." Twitter. Retrieved on 3 April 2023.
- ↑ Eternals (Vol. 3) #6
- ↑ A.X.E.: Judgment Day #5