Centurius

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Centurius is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

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Biography

Centurius in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #2.

Noah Black was an African-American man who lived in the modern age where he grew up to be a skilled doctor who specialised in genetics. (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #2) In October, 1928, he attended the International Conference on Genetics in Geneva, Switzerland, where he engaged in discussion with a group including Wladyslav Shinsky and Arnim Zola. (X-Factor Annual v1 #3) In the 1930's, Dr. Noah Black was noted to had been a Nobel Prize winner. (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #2) At some point, he was noted to had been a colleague of Dr. Phineas Horton who he regarded as a true radical thinker. (Thunderbolts v1 #165) Years ago, Dr. Black came to believe that human life would come to evolve from internuclear space. When he revealed this to his colleagues, he was ridiculed for theorizing that every atom was a sub-miniature solar system in itself. Unable to continue his experiments, Black came to the island Valhalla and developed an evolution process using his Evolutionizer. These experiments saw worlds that evolved from a single drop of water evolve in seconds in a process that normally took centuries. The Evolutionizer produced hundreds of life forms from the microcosm, many that are completely alien by Earth standards. Others were not unlike those of prehistoric Earth, the direct antecedents of man. Using his own Evolutionizer, Black kept himself young despite the passage of time. Later on, he created humanoid mutates known as Arms-Men that were subservient to him. In time, he came to hide his base within an astral projection hologram of an active volcano. Black also forbade weaponry on Valhalla, except in the hands of his Arms-Men, who used them for protection against dangerous mutates. Noah Black then paired off his new life forms and began beaming them into space aboard his Automated Rebirth Colonizer (ARC). He designed the ARC such that when it was full, it would begin to orbit the Earth and assail the Earth with an all-consuming rain of radioactive fire for forty days. Centurius saw mankind as already hell-bent on its own destruction. Via this assault, Centurius intended to hasten this event. Exactly one century later, the ARC would land on the uninhabited Earth, which he foresaw as resembling the Garden of Eden. He saw this as a chance to create a new world bereft of mass murder, intimidation, bigotry, hatred, fear, war, and violence. (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #2)

By the modern day, a PDQ Warner's film crew, including actors Brad Carter and Tiffany, set off a film site on Valhalla. Meanwhile, a transport beam from Valhalla Island struck a S.H.I.E.L.D. ship carrying Jimmy Woo and Nick Fury. Woo escaped via an eject seat/personal jet-craft, while Fury's ship was shattered and he was captured by a giant butterfly mutate that brought him before Centurius. As soon as Woo's craft hit the water, a force pulled him to the island, and then an elevator transported him to Centurius' fortress. A thermalic suppression beam transported Fury to Centurius' fortress and he was brought before Centurius, restrained by the Arms-Men. As Fury introduced himself, Woo joined them, and then Centurius revealed his past and that his goal was to save life on Earth. Fury initially offered Centurius the chance to return to society, which might now welcome his theories. Centurius then revealed his genocide plot and insisted that Fury and Woo remain on Valhalla, but while Centurius was distracted, Woo tackled the Arms-Men, and Fury escaped. Boarding a passing railcar, Fury's craft was torn from the air by a tyrannosaur-like creature, and Fury fell into quicksand, but was saved by Brad Carter. Fury convinced PDQ Warner to use their robot giant ape, Kong, to battle the dinosaur, allowing Fury and the others to make it past the reptile and back to Centurius' base. Fury impersonated one of the Arms-Men and was quickly discovered, but Woo then tackled Centurius. Woo was quickly flattened by Centurius, but the mad genius realized that Fury threatened his entire plot. Hoping that his own Evolutionizer could transform him into a superior being to defeat Fury, Centurius leapt into it, but the device's energies instead caused him to complete the evolutionary cycle by turning back into a handful of protoplasmic slime. With Centurius' defeat, his ARC fell out of orbit and crashed on Valhalla, which Fury, Woo, Warner, Carter, Tiffany, and the rest of the film crew barely escaped. (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #2)

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Notes

  • Centurius was created by Jim Steranko with inker Frank Giacoia where he made his first appearance in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #2 (July, 1968).

Appearances

  • Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1: (1968)

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