Zarrko
Zarrko is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Artur Zarrko was a male human scientist native to Earth in the 23rd century whereby 2262 he was a noted scientist specialised in time travel. By this point, three centuries in the future, mankind had abolished war and destroyed all weapons. Thus, peace and contentment came upon the world with this state of affairs not being something desired by Zarrko. People in this timeline had used their knowledge to help other civilizations whilst Zarrko instead looked for a way of leaving his own. With his knowledge, he came to construct the world's first time machine where he intended to go back in time and find mighty weapons which he would gather to conquer the world. Using a time scope, he found the period in history when nuclear weapons were in active use with Zarrko intending to steal them for his arsenal. As such, he used his time machine to go back to the 20th century in order to acquire them. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86)
In the present day, the Asgardian Thor Odinson was helping the U.S. Military test their new missiles technology in the form of the cobalt bomb. At that moment, Zarrko appeared in his time machine and stole the C-Bomb and escaped into the future before Thor could stop him. Promising to recover the bomb, Thor summoned his father Odin and asks how he might travel into the future. Odin guided him in using his hammer Mjolnir to time travel by tying a fragment of Zarrko's craft that had broken off in the brief battle between Thor and Zarrko whereupon he spun his hammer faster than the speed of light so that its magic will transport him to the future. The spell worked and Thor is sent into the future year of 2262, where he found that Zarrko has used the C-Bomb to take over the future Earth. When Zarrko learnt of Thor's arrival in his time, he sent his newly established guards after Thor. Thor quickly found someone from the future to act as a decoy, putting on a costume like Thor, whilst Odinson dawned a black robe and the two storm Zarrko's citadel. Inside, the fake Thor was captured lulling Zarrko into a false sense of security when he was suddenly ambushed by the real Thor. When Zarrko's weapons fail he fled and sent an army of his robot labourers against Thor where one managed to grab his hammer. Using a water pipe to short circuit the robots, Thor manages to make them drop his hammer before the sixty second time limit would have him change back into Donald Blake. Zarrko meanwhile had escaped in a ship and was planning to drop the C-Bomb on the city, however Thor summons up a storm which causes Zarrko's ship to fly erratically enough for Thor to recover the dropped bomb. When Zarrko's ship crashes, the villain survives but has suffered amnesia and is taken into custody. Praised as a hero, Thor then returns to the present where he returns the C-Bomb back to the military. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86)
With space-time unstable, a group of beings emerged known as the Chronarchists that were time-travellers who used the disruption to make changes in the timeline that were permanent. This saw an early incarnation of Zarrko being trapped by S.H.I.E.L.D. T.I.M.E. division where he warned them of dangers ahead though after these failed to seemingly manifest they began to ignore him. Eventually, it came to pass and he was being consulted on how to resolve this crisis as the Hulk was sent to stop the Chronarchists. (Indestructible Hulk v1 #11) In reality, he was working with one of the Chronarchists named Khotto who was looking to free his partner and also alter the origin of the Hulk to turn him into a weapon that they could use on the timestream. The Hulk eventually came to learn of this where he managed to pull both Khotto and Zarrko into the timestream. In desperation, Zarrko attempted to betray Khotto in order to secure his release but the two time travellers were then taken by a mysterious being that the Tomorrow Man had called master thus ending the crisis created by the Chronoarchists. (Indestructible Hulk v1 #15)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Zarrko was a white male human who had a bald head. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86) Whilst in the custody of T.I.M.E., he came to be known as Prisoner Z. (Indestructible Hulk v1 #11)
It was said that within his heart there was a dark ambition. This was what prevented him from enjoying the peace that existed within his era. Zarrko considered his fellow men to be weak tender-hearted fools which would make it easy to conquer them. He was noted for being an evil dictator who looked to rule over mankind as a tyrant. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86)
Powers and abilities
Zarrko was born an ordinary man with no inherent special abilities though he came to be a talented scientist and inventor by adulthood. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86) He had a deep understanding on the fourth dimension of time to the point that he interacted with it a manner different to other people. (Indestructible Hulk v1 #11)
A weapon he had acquired was the delta-electron gun capable of trapping a person in another dimension. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86)
It was shown that he used the advanced technology of the 23rd century to achieve his goals. This included changing some of the giant robots that served as laborers into being part of his personal army. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86) Among the tools at his disposal was the Servitor that were giant mechanical humanoids that served him. The machine was armed with a power lance and followed his commands faithfully. (Thor v1 #242)
In his era, he came to construct the Earth's first time machine allowing him to travel through the timestream and go into the past. He made use of a time scope that allowed him to view different time periods. (Journey into Mystery v1 #86)
At some point, he led a band of anarchist time travellers called the Chronarchists who altered events across the timestream. (Indestructible Hulk v1 #15)
Notes
- Zarrko was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in Journey into Mystery v1 #86 (November, 1962).
In other media
Television
- In The Marvel Super Heroes, Zarrko appeared in the "Mighty Thor" segments of the animated television series
Appearances
- Journey into Mystery v1: (1962)
- Thor v1:
- Indestructible Hulk v1:
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