Kurrgo
Kurrgo is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Kurrgo was an extraterrestrial male who came to be the master of the planet Xanth. Xanthan technology was a thousand years more advanced than Earth's, but they had only two spaceships as they had never cared for space travel. A runaway asteroid was going to inevitably collide with Xanth, destroying its civilization. The Xanthans' only two spaceships were insufficient to transport its five billion inhabitants. For that reason, Kurrgo sent to his robot to Earth to capture the Fantastic Four and bring them to Xanth as prisoners. In order to solve their problem, Reed Richards created a reducing gas with which he miniaturized the entire Xanthan population. This allowed all five billion Xanthans to fit in one spaceship and fly to another world together. Kurrgo tried to withhold the enlarging gas hoping to rule as a giant over the rest of his miniature race. As his planet crumbled around him, Kurggo refused to let go of the container and thus missed his opportunity to escape with the rest of his people. Ironically, the enlarging gas had been a fake. Richards had only told the Xanthans that the enlarging gas existed to get them to consent to his plan. Once they reached their new home, they would all be the same size relative to each other anyway. (Fantastic Four v1 #7) However, Kurggo's loyal robot saved him and led him to a hidden spaceship, in which he fled from the destruction of Xanth. Kurrgo traveled in search of his subjects. When he found them, they had settled on a new planet called New Xanth and had constructed sufficient weaponry to drive off Kurrgo and his robot. Insulted, Kurrgo decided to take revenge on his people. Kurrgo went to Earth planning to use the Thing as his servant and force him to help him overcome the Xanthans. To his astonishment, he discovered that a stronger being existed: the Hulk. When Kurrgo tried to enlist the Hulk for his aims, he was stopped by the Leader, who also had plans to use to the powerful Hulk in his schemes. In order to decide who would manipulate the Hulk, both decided to organize a battle between them, with each acting as a champion for each respective villain. The winner would get to use both the Hulk and the Thing for his aims, as well as the scientific knowledge of the loser. The Leader chose the Hulk and Kurrgo chose the Thing. They teleported the Hulk and Thing to a ghost town in southwest America. The Thing was tricked into believing a bomb was planted at the other end of the city that would blow up the entire planet. The Hulk mistakenly blamed the Thing for his teleportation and attacked the Thing. Kurrgo secretly beamed energy to the Thing and increased his strength. After the Thing managed to destroy the bomb he discovered it was a fake and the battle ended unresolved. The Hulk and the Thing were brought aboard Kurrgo's ship, where the Thing figured out that Kurggo had been enhancing his strength. The Leader claimed victory by default. Kurggo was unable to accept defeat and sent his robot against the Leader, but before it reached him the robot was struck by the Thing and the Hulk. The impact of the robot against the ship's control panel caused the ship overload and explode. The Hulk and the Thing jumped off before the explosion where it was believed that Kurrgo had died in the explosion with his plans of revenge having died with him. (Marvel Feature v1 #11)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He was also referred to as the Master of Planet X. (Fantastic Four v1 #7)
Part of his reasoning to save his people was so that he could remain their master. In fact, he had dreams of maintaining absolute power and did not have the best wishes of his people at heart. (Fantastic Four v1 #7)
He considered himself to be a rational civilised man that found the concept of inter-personal combat to be ridiculous. Instead, he preferred to manipulate others into such roles. (Marvel Feature v1 #11)
Powers and abilities
Kurrgo's people were said to be a far older race than humanity and considered superior to Earthlings. They were said to be far more wiser and their technology was a thousand years more advanced than that of the humans. They had developed anti-gravity technology and learnt the secrets of star travel. (Fantastic Four v1 #7)
Through his equipment, he could monitor events on distant worlds with ease. (Fantastic Four v1 #7)
His civilization had created a weapon called a hostility ray that provoked intense feelings of anger in other living beings. It generated subsonic vibrations that could cause people to turn against their own and fight one another. (Fantastic Four v1 #7)
Another device he used as an inter-spatial teleportational mechanism capable of transporting people from one location to another. (Marvel Feature v1 #11)
He made use of robots with him having his own personal attendants that he directed for particular actions. It was constructed of the strongest substance in the universe and able to easily take the superhuman blows of the Thing without suffering any damage. Similarly, the robots own strength was so great as to easily throw aside such superhuman foes. These robots could be equipped with various devices such as an atomic scanner that could be used to find particular targets. One of these robots could also carry portable self-contained monitors that allowed them to show events across a planet. (Fantastic Four v1 #7) The robot was also capable of transmitting constant streams of cosmic radiation capable of empowering those that used such energy. (Marvel Feature v1 #11)
He came to be the master of his world that was called Planet X which was located light-years away from the planet Earth. Due to his people never caring for space travel, they had only a handful of space ships which prevented them from engaging in a mass evacuation of their world. (Fantastic Four v1 #7)
Notes
- Kurrgo was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in Fantastic Four v1 #7 (October, 1962).
Alternate Versions
- In Marvel Age Fantastic Four v1 #7 (2004), an alternate version of Kurrgo appeared in the Marvel Age reality that was set on Earth-50302 in the Multiverse. Kurrgo shared a similar history to his Prime Marvel Universe counterpart. He was the master of the planet Xanth which was going to be destroyed by an asteroid, the fragments of which destroyed most of their spacefleet, leaving only two ships. Kurrgo sent to his robot to Earth to bring the Fantastic Four to help them. In order to solve their problem, Reed Richards reconfigured their teleportation equipment to miniaturize the entire Xanthan population. This allowed all Xanthans to fit in one spaceship and fly to another world together. Richards took the Xartans to a new planet had only told the Xanthans that the he had reconfigured the teleportation device to restore them. Once they reached their new home, they would all remain shrunken.
In other media
Television
- In Fantastic Four, Kurrgo appeared in the setting of the 1967 animated television series adaptation where he was voiced by actor Don Messick. Kurrgo was the ruler of Planet X where he treated his people as slaves. When another planet was on the verge of colliding with Planet X, Kurrgo kidnapped the Fantastic Four and made their leader Mister Fantastic come up with a way to rescue his subjects. So, Mister Fantastic created a gas that would shrink the inhabitants of Planet X so they could all fit on the only two available ships. Mister Fantastic managed to trick Kurrgo into remaining on Planet X while he, his team, and Planet X's inhabitants flee.
Appearances
- Fantastic Four v1: (1962)
- Marvel Feature v1:
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