Candra (Marvel)
Candra is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Candra
She followed Clan LaBeau as they approached the home of Ozymandias with the thieves looking for information about the Old Kingdom. After dealing with Ozymandias, Candra then had her followers go through the records he had collected and prepare a teleportation spell for her use. (Gambit v3 #14)
Candra then had to answer for her duplicitous quest and had to stand before her immortal brethren. Thus, the Externals gathered and Candra had to answer to them for her schemes. (Gambit v3 #14)
Return
Though her physical body was destroyed, her psyche had managed to survive with her power where from her sisters she learnt to draw strength from death. With this, she managed to pull her body back together with this process being hastened through the tributes given by the Assassin's Guild. (Scarlet Spider v2 #19)
To protect herself, she had her amulet hidden within Saturnyne's palace in Otherworld to prevent it from being taken by Apocalype. (Excalibur v4 #12)
Whilst in Otherworld, Gambit came to find Candra's amulet and stole it where her astral self attempted to convince LeBeau to not reveal her existence to En Sabah Nur. At this time, her physical body received the summons to reach the External Caldera on Krakoa in order to gather amongst the other High Lords. Once there, Apocalypse revealed that he had need of them and stated that he required them to sacrifice their life essences in order to make a gateway into another world as part of a ritual. The other Externals opposed this leading to a battle but Selene and Gideon sided with Apocalypse whose ritual turned the bodies of the fallen into power sources for the External Gate. However, Apocalypse came to sense that the gateway was incomplete and that this was because Candra's life force was not within her body. Despite his reservations over working with Apocalypse, Gambit decided to part with the gem thus forcing Candra back into her body where her energies then empowered the gate. (Excalibur v4 #12)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She was once referred to as Candra of the Floating Spires. (Gambit v3 #14) One of the titles she came to be known by was the Red Death. (Scarlet Spider v2 #19)
Candra believed En Sabah Nur to be a fool due to his goals as she wanted people to serve her rather than destroy them. (Gambit v3 #14)
Despite her lengthy lifespan, Candra had little time to waste on regrets. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #7)
Powers and abilities
She was noted to be capable of generating a telekinetic field to crush her foes. (Rogue v1 #4) Her powerful telekinetic abilities were noted to be strong enough to grind bones to dust. (Gambit v3 #14) Such was her power that she was able to collapse an entire building with her telekinesis alone. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #7)
As an External, she could not die and even the death of her physical form did not mean the destruction of her psyche. She came to learn from her sisters how to draw strength from death and re-build her body even after its destruction. (Scarlet Spider v2 #19)
Notes
- Candra was created by Howard Mackie and Lee Weeks where she made her first appearance in Gambit v1 #1 (December, 1993).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In X-Men, a character based on Candra appeared in the setting of the 1990s animated television series in the episode "X-Ternally Yours". Known as the X-Ternal, this version was a black dark haired woman who was the benefactor of both the Thieves and Assassins Guilds with both offering the tithe to her for her power.
Appearances
- Gambit v1: (1993)
- Gambit v3:
- Rogue v1:
- X-Men Unlimited v1:
- Scarlet Spider v2:
- Cable:
- Mr. and Mrs. X v1:
- Excalibur v4: (2020)
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