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The Olympians are a fictional species appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. During the beginning of the s, the exploits of the Asgardians and his evil brother demonstrated that an updating of ancient myths could again win readers. The Olympians are a race of extra-dimensional beings that possess a variety of mystical superhuman abilities that were once worshipped by civilizations centered on or around the MediterraneanAegeanIonianTyrrhenian and Ligurian seas such as Greecethe Roman Empire and parts of Egypt and Turkey as gods from roughly BC until roughly AD. The Olympians are related to every other pantheon of gods that have ever been worshiped on Earth, such as the Asgardians [3] and the Gods of Heliopolis [4] ancient Egypt because Gaeathe spirit that represents life on Earth, was the mother of the first race of gods to appear on Earth. It is believed that the Olympians were born somewhere on Earth but currently reside in another dimension that is adjacent to Earth known as Olympus. One known entrance to this realm is actually located atop Mount Olympus in Greece. Most Olympian gods are identical in appearance to humans and are fully capable of having children with humans, other mystical beings, even extraterrestrials. The Olympians are closer to possessing true immortality than most of Earth's pantheons in that they cease to age upon reaching adulthood, though some reach maturity far faster. For instance, Marvel's depiction of Artemis' birth shows her growing rapidly after birth and helping her mother deliver her brother, Apollo. Olympians are immune to conventional disease, and cannot be killed through conventional means. All Olympians possess superhuman strength with males, typically, being stronger than females. The average male Olympian possesses sufficient superhuman strength to lift about 30 tons while the average Olympian female can lift about 25 tons. Several Olympians exceed these averages by a considerable degree due to naturally possessing greater physical strength, though some can augment their strength further by magical means. The tissues of all Olympians are harder and more resilient than those of a human, granting them superhuman durability, and are roughly 3 times more dense, bolstering their natural strength and resilience. The increased density results in the Olympians being much heavier than most humans, even though they don't appear to be. The average Olympian, both Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon and female, can withstand extreme temperatures and high caliber bullets without sustaining injury. Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon is possible for them to be injured, but the mystical energies of their bodies will enable them to heal with much greater speed and with more finality than humans. The average Olympian can repair injuries that result in severe lacerations and loss of blood within a brief period of time without any scarring. More extensive injuries require a longer healing time. Severe injuries, such as severed limbs, can be magically regenerated if the injured Olympian receives treatment within a short period of time after the injury. A small minority of Olympians possess the ability to fully regenerate missing limbs without external aid from other gods. However, any Olympian can die if a significant portion of his or her bodily molecules are scattered. Still, it's possible for a god of extreme power or several gods working together to resurrect those who are slain, though this must also be done shortly after . The musculature of all Olympians produces considerably fewer fatigue toxins than those of human beings, granting them superhuman stamina in all physical activities. Some Olympians are born with the potential to harvest great amounts of mystical energy for a variety of purposes, including projecting powerful energy blasts, inter-dimensional teleportation, shapeshifting, temporary augmentation of their physical attributes, and granting other Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon abilities to affect beings or objects. Among the most prominent of the Olympians possessing vast energy manipulating abilities are NeptunePluto and . Other Olympians possess special attributes unique to them such as Aphrodite's mystical ability to arouse love and passion in others and transform weapons into objects of peace or Apollo's ability to generate heat and light equal to that of a small sun. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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It is initially regarded as an unlimited of power of alien origins, and later revealed to contain the Space Stone, one of the Stones sought by . The Cube was also a plot device in a story that introduced the character of the Super-Adaptoid in 82—84 Oct. The Cube was also featured in a one-off story in 40 being found and briefly wielded by . The creation of a second Cube was shown in Super- Villain Team-Up 16—17 May and Junebut this Cube was initially powerless and did not gain any reality-altering ability until years after its creation. A major element was added to the Cube's origin—that each is in fact an evolving sentient being—in Annual 7 This story revealed that the villain the had ties to the Cube and introduced a new character. A third Cosmic Cube was created during the "Taking A. This unstable Cube has not been seen since it was sealed in a containment chamber at the conclusion of the storyline. The previously powerless second Cosmic Cube finally gained an ability to alter reality in Captain America vol. The second Cube's power reappeared in a storyline in Captain America vol. Doom uses a time machine to get the Cube from the ocean floor, into which it had dropped during a battle between the and Captain America. The Cube also shows up in Captain America vol. Aleksander Lukin wants the Cube and is willing to trade the Red Skull for it. The Red Skull claims he does not have it, but has spies out looking for it. Five years later, the Skull is in New York City and is in possession of it. The Skull transfers his mind into the body of Lukin through the powers of the Cube. A fragment of a Cube empowered a new character that featured in a single storyline in Marvel Team-Up vol. A new Cosmic Cube was revealed in Avengers Assemble 5 July ; it was revealed to be a working facsimile with more limited powers than the 'real thing'. The Cosmic Cubes are actually containment devices created by various civilizations throughout the at various times. These matrices—which may or may not actually be shaped like a Cube—are suffused with reality-warping energies of unknown composition that comes from the realm of the Beyonders. Unknown to almost everyone in the Marvel Universe, including its creators, the nature of the mysterious energies are such that, after a sufficient but undefined period of time, the matrix will become self-aware and evolve into an independent, free-willed being still possessed of the original Cube's tremendous powers; the new being's overall personality is psychically imprinted with the beliefs, desires, and personalities of those who wielded it as a Cube for example, the Shaper of Worlds, wielded for a long time by an insane and warlike Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon Emperor, immediately destroyed a large portion of the galaxy that it was located in once it became sentient. On Earth, the Cosmic Cube containment matrix was developed and created by an evil society of para-military scientists known as A. Master villain and former Nazi the Red Skull obtains the device after taking control of the mind Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon the A. Although apparently now all-powerful, the Skull became overconfident and was tricked and defeated by the hero Captain Americawho pretended to surrender and ask to be the Skull's slave, then knocked the Cube away, causing it to fall into the ocean. The found it, but threw it away, not realizing its true value. The Cube was eventually found apparently having reformed by Thanos [8] who, like the Red Skull, wishes to control the universe this also attracts the amorous attention of the cosmic entity Death. Although opposed by superhero team the Avengers and the alien warrior Captain Mar- VellThanos becomes supreme when he wills the Cube to make him a part of—and therefore in control of—everything. Thanos discards the Cube, believing it to be drained of power, and is then stripped of the power by the dying superhero named Mar-Vellwho shatters the Cube and restores the universe. Brought to research installation Project: Pegasusthe Cube was stolen by villain and cult Victoriusand is used to create the being Jude the Entropic Man. Both are neutralized when in simultaneous contact with the Cube and the swamp monster the Man Thing. Planning to transfer his consciousness into the completed Cube, the Hate-Monger secretly arranged for a distraction in the form of a strike team from the spy organization S. However, the Red Skull was aware of his plans and had kept secret the fact that the Cube project had succeeded only in creating a perfect prison, but had failed to capture the mysterious, omnidimensional x-element which gives the Cubes their reality-warping power. As a result, the Hate-Monger's mind was left trapped in a powerless Cube in the Red Skull's possession. During a battle to stop A. The Super- Adaptoid uses its abilities to "copy" Kubik's abilities and banishes the entity, intent on creating a race in its own image. The Adaptoid, however, is tricked into shutting down by Captain America. Kubik returns and then removes the sliver of the original Cosmic Cube from the Adaptoid that gave the robot its abilities. Kubik also battles the renegade entity the Beyonderand reveals to the entity and former villain the Molecule Man that they are in fact both parts of an incomplete Cube officially retconning the 's powers as shown in Secret Wars in the processand convinces them to merge their powers. This forms a new Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon called Kosmoswho becomes the pupil of Kubik. The character the Magus —an evil version of anti-hero Adam Warlock —acquires five Cosmic Cubes from neighboring universes, with each appearing in a different geometric form. The Magus uses mechanical aids to manipulate the Cubes, as their combined presence would quickly cause permanent brain damage. The character uses the Cubes to create evil doppelgangers of almost all of the Marvel heroes and then alters the universe, but is tricked and defeated when acquiring the Infinity Gauntletas the Reality Gem is revealed to be a fake, thus creating a gap in his powers. Although the Magus is defeated, Warlock's "good side"—the female Goddess —also appears and wishes to purge the universe of all evil. To do this, she collects 30 containment units, with each storing the power of a Cosmic Cube, and merges Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by- issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon into a "Cosmic Egg". Despite the fact that the Egg can fulfill the Goddess' wishes—although, unlike the Infinity Gauntlet, it has no power over the soul—the character is defeated by Warlock and Thanos. During this time, the two questioned about the origins of the Cubes in exchange for giving a Cube to Mephisto, but they were able to cheat the deal by giving Mephisto a drained Cube, as he never specified that the Cube had to still be functional. A third Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon Cube was created by an Adaptoid-controlled faction of A. This Cube was unstable and its reality-warping ability began to leak out onto the surrounding island, creating Cube constructs of anyone that was in the thoughts of nearby people. An Avengers team attempted to stop the Cube and the dying Captain America was willing to sacrifice himself to do so. In the end, it was an Adaptoid who had been accompanying Captain America and had been impressed by his heroic nature who ended the threat by willingly transforming itself into a non-sentient containment chamber for the Cube's energies. The second Cube was eventually recovered by the KubeKult, fanatical followers of the Hate-Monger, who spied upon the A. Adaptoids and discovered how to power it. Fearing how the Hate- Monger would punish him for his betrayal, the Red Skull allied himself with then-rogue S. Reluctantly working together, the trio invaded a KubeKult base to steal the erratically functioning Cube, but the Red Skull seized it and willed Captain America to be drawn inside it into an artificial reality during World War II, where Captain America and were on a mission to kill Hitler. The Red Skull believed that he would be able to wield the Cube's power only if Captain America killed Hitler's consciousness within the Cube. However, the Bucky within the Cube actually a projection of Captain America's own mind revealed what was really going on and Captain America was able to will himself out of the Cube. Appearing before the Skull, Captain America threw his in such a way that it first severed the Skull's arm, causing him to drop the Cube, and then struck and shattered the Cube itself, causing an explosion that seemingly destroyed both itself and the Red Skull. Months later, the Red Skull reappears, now Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon the Cube's power internalized within his body. He was approached by the time-traveler actually the disguised cosmic entity Korvacwho told him that the reason he had failed to completely control the Cube's power in the past was because his knowledge of the universe was incomplete. At the suggestion of "Kang", the Skull willed the starship of to travel to Earth so he could drain it of the needed information. At the same time, now disguised as the appeared to Captain America and Sharon Carter and managed to convince them that the only way to prevent the Skull from becoming unstoppable was for Captain America to kill him during a brief moment of vulnerability. Captain America did so, but as the Skull died, his body released the Cube energy, which flowed into "Uatu", who revealed his true identity and used his increased power to return to his alternate 31st century Earth to conquer it. However, Captain America followed him and fought him repeatedly, with Korvac rebooting the 31st century reality each time Captain America disturbed his perfectly ordered machine world. Eventually, Captain America managed to convince Korvac that the reason he was able to achieve anything at all against Korvac was due to there being too much humanity left within Korvac when he acquired the Cube's power. Accordingly, Korvac transported himself and Captain America Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon to just before the Skull died, but this time Captain America did not strike the fatal blow. Vulnerable to the Skull's power, Korvac teleported himself, Captain America and Carter aboard the starship, but the Skull soon found him and scattered Korvac across six dimensions. Soon afterwards, the Skull was tricked by Captain America into entering an anti-matter energy beam within the starship's engine room, which separated the Cube energy from him. Before the energy dissipated, Captain America and the Skull were each able to use its wish-granting ability to save themselves and Carter from death. A Cosmic Cube was one of the 12 items of power sought by superhero teams the Avengers and the Justice League of America when they competed against each other in a game organized by Krona and the Grandmaster. It was the final item of the quest, found in the Savage Landwhere both teams converged for a full-scale fight, during which Green Lantern Kyle Rayner was able to use the Cube as a substitute power source for his power ring when his usual battery had been stolen and the ring was running out of power. Quicksilver was finally able to gain the Cube, bringing the game to a stalemate, but to make sure Krona lost, Captain America helped Batman to take it, because they were the only ones, aside from the Atomwho knew the true stakes of the game: Krona had forced the Grandmaster to take the Justice League as his representatives, so the League had to win in order to prevent Krona from destroying the Marvel Universe. Batman briefly attempted to use the Cube to end the game — having been filled in on its capabilities by Captain America — before the Grandmaster took it from him to tally up the score. Enraged at his loss, Krona attacked the Grandmaster, who then used the Cube along with all other items of power to temporarily fuse the Marvel and DC Universes and imprison Krona in the intersection, hoping he would be unable to destroy a universe if his own existence were linked to it. The Red Skull has finally created one by using pieces of the previous Cubes, and Aleksander Lukin wants it as much. In the process of being assassinated, the Skull uses the Cube's power to transfer his mind into the body of Lukin for some time. A youth called Curtis Doyle becomes the hero Freedom Ring when he finds a fragment of the original Cube in the form of a ring, which Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon the altering of reality in a very limited area of 15 feet around the wearer. The ring is later Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon by a friend of Doyle, a who had settled on Earth and adopts the name the ''. The powerful entity D'Spayre attempted to enhance his power by using a Cosmic Cube to draw on the grief of the general public in the aftermath of Captain America 's assassination, [25] only for his use of the Cube to have an apparently unintended side-effect when it granted the 'wish' of those who wanted Captain America back by drawing the into the present. He was defeated in a confrontation with the New Avengers when proved immune to his powers due to her deafnessallowing her to take the Cube from him. Anslem's intentions to save his friends, who had died during an assault on a Nazi stronghold, allows the Red Skull of the World War II era to gain enough power to take over Earth. Anslem again regains control of the Cube with super-powered assistance and restores the timeline to what it should have been. Star-Lord used the Cube's last bit of energy for real by subduing the reborn Thanos, rendering it a "cosmic paperweight". The Absorbing Man becomes capable of assimilating the abilities of a fraction of a Cube. He is stopped by criminal mastermind Norman Osbornwho uses a magical sword provided by Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon Asgardian god Loki to neutralize the Absorbing Man's abilities. A new Cosmic Cube is later revealed to have been created by the U. It is stolen by members of the at the behest of Thanos. During the Avengers: Standoff! In the imprint alternate universe title Ultimate Fantastic FourMister Fantastic builds a "cuboid volitional lattice" courtesy of a deliberate, subconscious suggestion from the Ultimate version of the Titan Thanos. But when A. The clash ends when Captain America and seize the Cube simultaneously and nothing appears to happen. But unknown to the heroes, the Cosmic Cube actually acts upon Captain America's desires and returns his deceased sidekick Bucky to life. A version of the Cube can be seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universewhere it is known as the Tesseract. In the film, the Red Skull finds the Tesseract and uses its power to create weapons for Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-by-issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon he is defeated by Captain America and the Tesseract is retrieved by . It is seen again in The Avengerswhere it is stolen by Loki from S. Loki then uses it to create a portal to allow an invading army of to attack the Earth, but they are defeated by the Avengers and the Tesseract is taken back to . Thanos crushes the Cube in his hand, revealing the Space Stone within before placing it in his gauntlet. In the film Captain Marvelset in the yearit is shown that while in government possessionDr. Wendy Lawson tries to use the Tesseract to build a light-speed engine, but while on a test run they crash and an explosion causes to attain cosmic power. Later aboard Dr.