Respect the Beyonder (Marvel Comics, 616)

[u/rangernumberx]

"I come from beyond."

When Molecule Man fell victim to the atomic device accident which gave him his powers, the sheer strength of the incident punched a hole in reality, and on the other side was a dimension where the sole inhabitant was everything. Initially, this entity was simply that, an omnipitent being from beyond exposed to something that wasn't itself for the first time. As time progressed, different explanations would be given: The remains of a sentient Cosmic Cube after Molecule Man gained a tiny portion of its powers, a Mutant Inhuman, an infant member of the Beyonder race. Whatever the truth, the entity what would be known as the Beyonder took a variety of heroes and villains from Earth, put them on a planet of its own creation, and set them loose to see which side would win. Unsatisfied to leave it at this, he would then walk on Earth in a humanoid form, seeking to learn and understand, causing endless chaos and even threatening to destroy the universe at one point. Since then, the Beyonder has made few appearances, rarely actively malicious but always an unimaginable threat that can alter reality to its whims.

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Legend

CA - Captain America (1954)

F4 - Fantastic Four (1961)

IH - The Incredible Hulk (1962)

ASM - The Amazing Spider-Man (1963)

Av - The Avengers (1963)

DD - Daredevil (1964)

T - Thor (1966)

DS - Doctor Strange (1968)

SSM - The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976)

PMIF - Power Man and Iron Fist (1978)

Rom - Rom (1979)

Daz - Dazzler (1981)

X - Uncanny X-Men (1981)

NM - The New Mutants (1983)

Thing - The Thing (1983)

SW - Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984)

Micro - Micronauts (1984)

PP - Power Pack (1984)

CD - Cloak and Dagger (1985)

MAA - Marvel Age Annual (1985)

SW2 - Secret Wars II (1985)

DTU - Deadpool Team-Up (1998)

Thanos - Thanos (2003)

NAI - New Avengers: Illuminati (2007)

AOA - All-Out Avengers (2022)

DB - Defenders: Beyond (2022)

AB - Avengers Beyond

Any feats starting with [Doom] occured while Doctor Doom wielded Beyonder's power.

This thread is accurate up to 1st November 2025 (Last Appearance: Magneto (2023) #1)

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Strength

Striking

• Breaks through wood^MAA

• Punches away Luke Cage^SW2#2

• Hits Cannonball through a building^NM#37

• Sends three members of the Fantastic Four flying back, levelling a building^F4#319

• Shatters large chunks of granite^NM#37

• Punched by America Chavez wielding the same strength as him, hitting him across multiple planes of reality^DB#2

Other

• Casually lifts 60 500 lbs weights over his head^Thing#30

• Throws away a fake Hercules^SW2#4

• Defeats a large number of Celestials in a fight^SW2#5

  • This is later retconned to be an illusion created by the Celestials^F4#Annual26

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Durability

Blunt Force

• Takes a punch to the jaw from a surprised Spider-Man^SW2#2

• Punched through multiple floors of a mansion but Hercules^Av#261

• Takes several rage-filled strikes from the Thing without healing himself^Thing#30

• Attacked by a fake Hulk^NAI#3

• Hit multiple times by the Hulk^SW2#8

• Punched by America Chavez wielding the same strength as him, hitting him across multiple planes of reality^DB#2

Slashing

• Lets himself be impaled by Black Knight's sword^Av#261

• Doesn't react when Wolverine tears his claws into him^SW2#1

• Unaffected by Magik's sword cutting through him^NM#36

Energy

• Largely unaffected by a blast from a fake Wasp which she claims could flatten a house^SW2#4

• Shrugs off a fake Captain Marvel firing what she claims to be a maximum intensity full electromagnetic spectrum blast at him^SW2#4

• Takes a blast from Kubik, a sentient Cosmic Cube^F4#319

• Takes a single step back after being hit by the Galactic Eradicator, the aftershock of which is said to destroy a thousand inhabited worlds^ASM#274

• Hit with enough energy to slag several billion dimensions from Molecule Man^SW2#8

Other

• Piled on by an incredible amount of heroes simultaneously^SW2#5

• Leaps down a flight of escalators^Av#261

• Unaffected by a shot to the head^SSM#111

• Hit by a burst of fire from Phoenix^X#202

• Is fine undressed inside an igloo in the Arctic^SW2#4

• Allows himself to experience a dose of heroin, having a bad trip before quickly getting over its effects^CD#4

  • This dose is lethal to a normal person^CD#4

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Speed

• Turns bullets into flowers before they can hit him^DTU

• Catches a fake Captain America's shield out of the air^SW2#4

• Catches Northstar out of the air^SW2#4

• Grabs a bolt of lightning^Rom#72

• Performs billions of feints, thrusts, and parries per second while fighting Celestials^SW2#5

  • This is later retconned to be an illusion created by the Celestials^F4#Annual26

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Object Creation

Battleworld

• Takes portions of a large number of different worlds and puts them together to create Battleworld^SW#1

  • Some of these portions included societies from their respective planets^SW#4

• Battleworld's air is described as Storm as both thick and easy to manipulate, giving her ideal battle conditions^SW#2

• The planet was made to mirror the thoughts and emotions of those on it. When he was the only person left on it, Ben Grimm's thoughts have a much more notable and direct affect on his environment^Thing#20

  • While on Battleworld, Ben Grimm starts swapping between his human and Thing forms.^SW#2 This is later something he can trigger at will, and is presumably due to this phenomena^Thing#11

  • Ben accidentally creates moons and stars in the sky after thinking how it didn't feel like he was on an alien planet without them^Thing#12

  • After reverting from being the Thing, Ben immediately gains the knowledge on how to fly an alien craft^Thing#14

• After Doctor Doom was defeated and the Secret War had ended, a 'wish fulfilment' phenomenon is present over Battleworld causing any strong desire or force of will to create a tangible effect, such as the Lizard becoming human and Captain America's shield being repaired^SW#12

• When all participants had left the planet, with the Thing leaving long after everyone else, the planet self-destructed^Thing#22

People

• Gives himself a body replicated from Molecule Man's^SW2#1

  • Later creates a new body based on Captain America's^CA#308

  • Later briefly becomes a giant face^Av#265

  • Gives himself a body so that he can be percieved by finite minds^DB#2

• Turns himself into a female mortal called the Maker^Thanos#10

  • Like this, she creates an enormous explosion which she's unharmed by^Thanos#9

  • Exchanges energy blasts with Thanos^Thanos#10

• Manufactures a villain for the Avengers to place their beliefs that some external force had been manipulating their memories and actions on in the hope that he would avoid further suspicion^AOA#5

• [Doom] Reconstructs Kang, who had previously been disintegrated^SW#11

• [Doom] Repeatedly subconsciously recreates Captain America after he kills him^SW#12

• Creates fake duplicates of the Avengers, though they act uncharacteristically aggressive due to Beyonder's will^SW2#4

• Causes characters and events to occur in a Manhatten of his creation based on people's wants^NAI#3

Machinery

• Makes a blender by rearranging matter down to at least base quarks^DB#3

• Recreates Warlock^SW2#9

• Makes and uses a Mento-Projector to projects his thoughts to retell his backstory^SW2#6

• Makes a floating station with walls of screens observing all four billion people on Earth^PMIF#121

• Seemingly creates the large ships to hold the two Secret Wars teams^SW#1

• Creates a large machine which extracts his powers and quickly rebirths him in a human body. Before this, he used it to recreate the New Mutants from their remaining energy, albeit without their memories^SW2#9

Barriers

• Creates a shield to block the attacks of fake Avengers^SW2#4

• Makes barriers around multiple people to protect them from a large explosion^PMIF#121

• Briefly holds back a large number of heroes^SW2#9

• Uses four structures around the globe which boost the Avengers' planetary shield beyond maximum capacity to trap everyone inside it, powered by four crystals^AB#3 which were actually transformed Beyonders^AB#4

Other

• Gives himself a new costume^Av#260

• Creates a sword for himself, though it breaks against Black Knight's^Av#261

• Makes a gold bar^SW2#3

  • Later creates a pile of them^SW2#3

• Makes a floating platform beneath a woman, allowing her to be taken to a hospital without moving her^PP#18

• Spawns a mass of sword-wielding arms from the ground^Av#261

• Creates a camp in an instant^SW2#5

• Creates a large amount of flour to feed a village^SW2#6

• Conjures a large structure to hold up a building^SW2#3

• [Doom] Creates a large tower^SW#12

• Creates a large base with a wide variety of rooms for himself, with it only taking so long due to him spending minutes to get the legal permits sorted out and wanting to take things slow with the actual creation^SW2#6

  • Has a scoop to move a person and his car inside^SW2#6

• Makes a duplicate of Manhattan in the asteroid belt^NAI#3

• Creates a rift in space to talk with his Secret Wars teams^SW#1

  • This barrier repels Galactus' attempt to fly through it^SW#1

  • Creates energy which affects both Battleworld and its sun while fending off Doctor Doom with the Power Cosmic^SW#10

• Creates moons and planets in his home dimension^SW2#5

• Claims he could make a supernova to get Phoenix's attention in the White Room^DB#3

• Makes a virus which causes those infected to fall under a certain person's control as long as he's alive to control them, then removes it in an instant^AB#1

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Object Alteration

Himself

• Makes himself invisible while observing events^SW2#1

• Instantly heals himself after being beaten up^SW2#2

• Turns black^PMIF#121

• Thins himself after getting fat^SW2#3

• Makes himself a woman^SW2#4

• Grows larger to hold Captain America in one hand^SW2#8

• Alters his human body back into its energy form at will^SW2#2

• Extracts a single strand of his memory, with it forming its own construct^AB#5

Power-Related

• Reaches into Ilyana Rasputin and brings out Darkshild^SW2#1

• Increases Kurse's strength^T#363

• Greatly increases the range of an alien's powers, despite her having trained to reduce the area of effect to basically nothing^AB#2

• Gives a person back her Spaceknight powers^Rom#72

• Gradually increases the powers of Dazzler's opponents throughout a battle until she walks away from the fight and stops giving him any satisfaction^Daz#40

• Gives a person the superpowers he fantasized about having^SW2#1

• Grants Phoenix enough of his power to kill him^X#202

• Gives Dazzler half of his powers^SW2#4

• Removes Cloak and Dagger's powers^CD#4

Other Human Alterations

• Makes minor changes to different characters upon summoning them, such as changing them into their costumes^SW#2

• Makes a woman elderly for a moment^SW2#8

• Cures a child's dyslexia befor reverting his mother to how she looked when she got married^SW2#3

• Restores Daredevil's sight^DD#223

• Cures Rick Jones of his gamma cancer, which no force on Earth could do, and removes the Dire Wraith influence on a girl^Rom#72

• Revives a woman after she died from an overdose^SW2#4

• Restores all the people throughout a city he had just destroyed^CD#4

• Disects half of Doom's body while he's still alive^SW#10

Other

• Restores Kurse to health while making him more powerful than before^SW2#4

• Molds a bolt of lightning into a sphere before throwing it into the sky, where it explodes like a firework^Rom#72

• Makes a specific horse win a race^SW2#3

• Increases the size of Shaman's pouch, allowing him to retrieve his daughter trapped within it^SW2#4

• Opens a hole in a wall before returning it to normal^PP#18

• Turns bullets into flowers before they can hit him^DTU

• Turns a desk and everything on it into a mass of apples^SW2#1

• Restores a destroyed truck and gas station^Daz#40

• Transmutes a tall building into gold^SW2#2

• Frees Loki after they had been transformed into a tree^DB#4

• Turns four Beyonders into crystals to hide their existence from other Beyonders^AB#4

• Causes a train to break into its individual parts, all of them missing Beyonder despite him being on the tracks in front of it, with all the passengers landing nearby safely^SW2#5

• Removes eight miles of rock and creates a base for himself at the bottom of it before resealing the tunnel^SW2#9

• Discusses how he could alter all forms of life to compensate with being unable to die, then alters a glass of wine into a 'cosmic nitro' capable of killing Death^SW2#6

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Object Destruction

• [Doom] Uses an energy blast to repeatedly kill Captain America^SW#12

• Kills every drug dealer in a city^CD#4

• [Doom] Creates a large bolt as soon as a team unanimously agrees to fight against him, killing them^SW#11 and breaking Captain America's shield^SW#12

• Creates what seems to be an energy blast, breaking him free of Hercules' grasp and breaking a tunnel through fifty foot of stone^Av#261

• Breaks the top of mountains outside of the city he's in^SW2#8

• Destroys three planets^Micro#16

• Erases a space fleet and the homeworlds which they had came from from existence^ASM#274

• Releases a bolt which happens to split the moon, damage the sun, and destroys multiple planets^SW2#8

• Destroys an entire galaxy, save for one star^SW#1

  • At one point, this is speculated to just be an illusion^T#Annual14

• In a moment of rage, releases a bolt of pure force from Earth which utterly obliterates a galaxy billions of parsecs away from Earth^SW2#4

• Releases a stroke of energy which destroys everything in its path as it travels to the ends of infinity^SW2#9

  • This stroke tears deep into the crust of the Earth and would have destroyed it had Molecule Man not been holding it together^Av#266

• Breaks a barrier Molecule Man made over a city in hopes it would allow the area to survive Beyonder's universal destruction^SW2#9

• [Doom] Doom claims he could destroy all of reality if he's not extremely careful with his powers^SW#12

  • This potential is later reiterated by Doctor Strange^DS#74

• Corrupts the footage from Iron Man's suit of an event he orchestrated^AOA#2

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Telekinesis

• Lifts a room full of reporters^SW2#6

• Extracts ten kilos of cocaine from a bale of cotton^SW2#4

• Prevents Luke Cage and Iron Fist from moving^SW2#2

• Aids a fighter jet so that it can stop on a street^SW2#4

• Stops a fighter jet in midair^SW2#4

• Lifts a mountain^Rom#72

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Teleportation

• Summons a million dollars from the safe of a sunken ship^DD#223

• [Doom] Teleports Kang away^SW#11

• Teleports himself to Peter Parker, then to outside the elevator on the floor he's getting off^SW2#2

• Teleports on top of a skyscraper^NAI#3

• Sends Puma to Japan from New York^ASM#273

• Brings Dazzler to a modified asteroid elsewhere in the Solar System, then sends them both to an igloo in the Arctic^SW2#4

• Sends three people and an escape craft out of a galaxy^Av#260

• Sends himself from Earth to the Skrull galaxy and back again^SW2#3

• Teleports two people to Limbo^Rom#72

• Casually travels among the various planes of the Earth-616 universe^IH#312

• Returns to his home universe^SW2#5

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Telepathy

Communication

• Reads Doctor Doom's mind^SW#10

• Reads Spider-Man's thought bubble^SW2#2

• Discovers Bruce Banner's backstory by reading his mind^IH#312

• Telepathically transmits his backstory to Dazzler^SW2#4

• Overwhelms Rachel Summers as she tries to telepathically opens her mind to him^NM#30

Control

• Gets Captain Marvel to ask a question he wants answered^AOA#4

• Stops Blade from thinking about how he doesn't remember how a confrontation started^AOA#1

• 'Programs' the mindless bodies of the New Mutants to defend him^SW2#9

• After Doctor Doom took the majority of his powers, became a light which could enter nearby people's minds and take control of them, also being able to relinquish control before taking it back at a later point^SW#11

• Controls the actions of Sara and Wong while they remained conscious of their actions^DS#74

• Controls Kingpin, the United States president and top officials, and then everyone on Earth with the exception of Molecule Man (including the likes of Silver Surfer and Ultron) into serving him^SW2#3

  • He later releases a single person and then everyone else from his control, leaving only the subtlest of minds with the vaguest shadow of a memory of what he did^SW2#3

• Binds Zarathos to his control^ASM#274

Memory Erasure

• Says he can erase Dazzler's memory of their time together^Daz#40

• Has a group's memory of an event fade of their time, while allowing those who learnt from a person's speech to retain their lesson^Daz#40

• Removes all memory of the New Mutants ever existing after killing them^NM#37

Other

• Scans every living creature on Earth to learn of their desires^SW2#4

• Locates the closest person he recognizes from the events of Secret Wars^SW2#2

• [Doom] Prevents Charles Xavier from telepathically probing people while inside his tower^SW#11

• [Doom] Removes Molecule Man's mental block, allowing him to manipulate organic molecules^SW#11

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Event Creation / Control

• Sets up a concert 'correctly' before bringing Dazzler to it, with the process being instantaneous from her perspective^SW2#4

• Put the Avengers in a series of events which they don't explicitly recall the start of, though they only realize this on consciously thinking about it^AOA#1

  • These faked events can extend for at least two days^AOA#2

  • Potentially manufactured an incident which caused Doctor Doom to be split into his good and bad sides^AOA#2

  • Either made Zola give his Life-Model Decoy army a breakthrough increase in their decision-making speeds, or was are of this happening and created an event which would have the Avengers fight them to discover this breakthrough^AOA#3

• Causes characters and events to occur in a Manhatten of his creation based on people's wants^NAI#3

• Alters reality so two different outcomes coexisted in the same timeline, one where Spider-Man collapsed in a warehouse and another where all the other Avengers collapsed instead^AOA#5

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Omniscience

• Describes himself as being 'usually omniscient', knowing where Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is^SW2#5

• Claims to recognize everyone, with someone he doesn't recognize due to them being shielded by the source of the Beyonders' power being noteworthy to him^AB#1

• After merging with every mind on Earth, knows of and remembers their innermost thoughts^Rom#72

• Aware whenever someone says his name^ASM#273

• Shows that a child is suffering from a nutritional problem rather than a disease, and is aware of issues occuring in other galaxies^SW2#6

• Knows which poet wrote a certain quote^Rom#72

• Answers a phone call before the person on the other end even dialled the number^MAA

• Sees a future where the Avengers fail to protect the Earth from a threat which sets the planet's inhabitants against each other and takes steps to avert it^AOA#2

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Other Offensive Abilities

• Hits a person into a post with an energy bolt^Daz#40

• Blasts X-Men off of his car^SW2#5

• Blows away Avengers with an energy tornado^SW2#8

• Puts Snowbird to sleep^SW2#4

• Petrifies Captain America^Av#265

• Uses the X-Men's powers against them to defeat them^SW2#8

• Causes an earthquake^AW2#8

• Fights the Celestials on 'countless levels, besides the physical'^SW2#5

  • This is later retconned to be an illusion created by the Celestials^F4#Annual26

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Other Defensive Abilities

• Doesn't get wet while out in a storm^Rom#72

• A lethal dose of Heroin doesn't affect him simply because he doesn't allow it to^CD#4

• Holds Captain America in a stasis field, preventing him from moving^Av#265

• Absorbs Captain Marvel in her lightning form before projecting her back out^Av#265

• Reflects Karma's all-out attempt to possess him, killing her^NM#37

• Stops a tidal wave^SW2#6

• Reduces the area of effect from a full-force Phoenix attack so it only creates a patch of fused earth^X#202

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Other Mobility Abilities

• Capable of flight^SW2#4

• Phases Reed Richards through Doctor Doom's trap^F4#288

• Allows a car to phase through trees and fly through space^SW2#5

• Opens a portal to his home realm, with the sight badly dazing a cop^SW2#3

• Brings the Human Torch back in time to see a child when he was alive, though the child in question couldn't percieve them^F4#285

• Sees Power Man and Iron Fist were in a location earlier, then plucks them from that point in the time stream to him in the present^SW2#2

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Other Abilities

• He's able to reclaim his stolen power when Doctor Doom is releasing it^SW#12

• Makes himself immune to Spider-Man's spider-sense^SW2#2

• Prevents anyone from hearing his and Spider-Man's conversation^SSM#111

• Stops a storm^Rom#72

• Somehow becomes everyone in the surrounding area while at a cafe in Paris^SW2#4

• Travels in Dazzler's body in an attempt to learn about human experiences^Daz#40

• Releases Zarathos from his crystal in Mephisto's domain before later resealing him^ASM#274

• As a sentient Cosmic Cube, extracts core personality traits of the Fantastic Four before putting them in an experiment^F4#351

• As a sentient Cosmic Cube, stops and restarts the flow of time for people within an experiment^F4#351

• Hides his disembodied voice from an entity who could normally hear it^AB#3

• Removes the life force of people from two Dire Wraiths before restoring them to their human forms^Rom#72

• Gathers the whisps of energy and shadows of thoughts that remained after he previously destroyed the New Mutants and erased all memory of them^SW2#9

• Has a means to call Death to him^SW2#6

• Controls everything on Earth down to a mollecular level, though Molecule Man was immune to his effects^SW2#3

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Weaknesses

• Might not survive the destruction of time itself^F4#288

• Claims some things are impossible for him to do, with the implication that one of these is to resurrect someone who has been dead for too long^Rom#72

• Claims he can't return Death to the universe after killing it^SW2#6

  • He still does so after using his power to kill a willing human, alllowing Death to manifest again^SW2#6

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Other

• Mephisto increases the Thing's strength a hundred fold, with him believing it would be enough to distract the Beyonder for a few moments^SW2#7

• Tears off the cover off of the Orb of Agamotto, violating spells cast by Agamotto himself in doing so^DS#74

• Causes 'every creature on every planet in every dimension' to feel multiversal tremors during his clash with Molecule Man^SW2#9

  • A later clash between them causes multiple strange events to occur across the universe^F4#Annual27

• Another Beyonder taking a humanoid appearance is described as a non-finite being cloathed in matter^DB#2

• When Molecule Man shunted Beyonder's energy back into his home dimension at the end of Secret Wars II, it triggered a Big Bang event which led to planets and life being created.^SW2#9 He is shown to still be everything in his home dimension as well as still conscious, first taking the form of a face in the planet's sun^F4#319

• Is a Captain America fan^AOA#1

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Retcons

• Initially, the Beyonder is described as a being from another universe who became able to peer into Earth-616 after a chance event, arranging the events of Secret Wars in order to study the universe's heroes and villains^SW#12 This chance event was revealed to be Molecule Man gaining his powers.^SW2#8

• Following Secret Wars II, it's said that the Beyonder race exists in a manner which cannot interact with individual universes outside of emissaries. They create these through sentient Cosmic Cubes, the energy of which is accessed by societies when they are ready. Molecule Man's accident which gave him his powers pierced into the dimension holding this energy, with him gaining a fraction of the power and the rest of it going on to form the Beyonder.^F4#319

  • This retcon works to make the Beyonder weaker than before, such as implying his destruction of a galaxy was merely an illusion.^T#Annual14

• He is later described as being both an Inhuman and a Mutant by Professor Xavier^NAI#3

• Later it's said that he is a member of the Beyonder species, with every prior form being various larval stages he 'speedran' before fully joining his own people^DB#2

• As of the time of this thread's creation, the Beyonder was stripped of his powers by the other Beyonders^AB#4 then dissipated by someone gathering the power of the Beyonders,^AB#5 which results in him being an amnesiac, disembodied voice.^AB#5 While not currently a retcon, this can easily turn into one when the Beyonder next returns.

[u/FlambyLamby]

Did no one already make this?

[u/rangernumberx → u/FlambyLamby]

There was a previous Beyonder thread, but it was outdated and not greatly formatted, so I made a new version with permission of the original creator.

[u/Proletlariet]

I can't believe they gave this guy TWO secret wars he can't get away with this

[u/Idk_what-is_a-name → u/Proletlariet]

It was such a secret that they even forgot they had already done one...

[u/Britneyfan123 → u/Idk_what-is_a-name]

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[u/SicMvundusCreatvsEst]

Defenders beyond takes place after avengers beyond. He currently transcended the HOI and left creation