Proxima Midnight

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Proxima Midnight in Infinity v1 #5.

Proxima Midnight is a female comic extraterrestrial supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Proxima Midnight

She gathered with the other members of the Cull Obsidian onboard Thanos's ship above Titan. It was there that Thanos commanded his Generals to attack Earth whilst he himself went to claim the tribute. Splitting their forces, Proxima Midnight struck against the underwater kingdom of Atlantis. While in pitched battle with the motley crew stand in for Earth's protectors, Midnight managed to incapacitate the group's leader, Spectrum by lancing her with a fatal anti-photon charge, crippling her light form, then proceeding to pummel Cage into the ground with force and fury. Assured of her own victory, Proxima would soon find resistance in the local civilian bystanders who kept chanting the words 'Avengers Assemble', when she made a move towards them in an irate rage she was stopped by a roused Cage who fought her to a standstill. Just as Thanos projected towards her location in Times Square, voicing his disappointment in her failings as Ebony Maw proceeded with his own particular end game Incensed she gets in one last sucker punch On Luke before departing. Finding Atlantis in rubble and Namor devastated, Proxima deduced that Namor did not have the gem in his possession. She made clear her intentions to kill him and destroy Atlantis to Namor, and offered to spare him and his nation in exchange for the location of the gem. Namor pledged her his and Atlantis' allegiance and told her that she could find the gem in Wakanda. (New Avengers v3 #9)

Proxima Midnight later attacked Manhattan where she was confronted by the newly formed Mighty Avengers. She was able to defeat their most powerful members including Monica Rambeau and Luke Cage but the civilians came to cheer for their heroes thus giving them inspiration to fight back. This placed her on the defensive and the Mad Titan Thanos was disappointed in Proxima's inability to reduce the city to dust. She was then reassigned elsewhere despite her objections where she vowed that if the heroes survived what Ebony Maw had planned for them then she would get her revenge against them for this defeat. After departing, Maw through his manipulation of Doctor Strange came to unleash the demon Shuma-Gorath on the city and its heroes. (Mighty Avengers v2 #2)

After her fellow Black Order member Black Dwarf failed to break Wakanda, Proxima, Corvus Glaive and Thanos himself departed for Wakanda, defeating its defenders and breaching their city wall. They narrowed down the potential location of the gem to the Necropolis, the secret base of the Illuminati. (New Avengers v3 #11) When Ebony Maw located Thanos' son, Thane, in Greenland, the Black Order departed to said country. (Infinity v1 #5) Meanwhile, Proxima sent Kaldera to take care of the new Nova under Thanos' orders. (Nova v5 #8) When she failed her mission, Proxima sent her to the Midnight Sphere, where she would be tortured as a punishment. (Nova v5 #9) When the Avengers arrived in Greenland in order to defeat Thanos, Proxima Midnight was trapped by Thane in an amber construct along with Thanos, which left them in a state of 'living death'. The two were then taken to the Necropolis and left imprisoned there. (Infinity v1 #6)

Proxima along with Thanos and Corvus, who had regenerated in the amber construct, were freed from their prison by Namor, who had had a falling out with the Illuminati for destroying an Earth during an incursion, for the purpose of saving universes from the incursions as the Illuminati had resolved to rather die than kill the Earths, and joined his Cabal to destroy an Earth during other incursion and spare both universes. (New Avengers v3 #23) Eight months after the formation of the Cabal, the Cabal had found some degree of legitimacy on Earth. The world stood by and allowed the Cabal to raze Wakanda, and claim the ruins as their base of operations. The Cabal continued to protect the universe by destroying colliding Earths, but Namor had grown weary and disgusted with the Cabal's habit of engaging in wholesale slaughter of the colliding Earth's population, as opposed to simply planting the bomb and leaving. (New Avengers v3 #24)

Namor, now willing to turn himself in for his crimes, devised a plan with the Illuminati to destroy the Cabal. A new incursion was on the horizon, one in which the incursive world had been ravaged by the Sidera Maris. Namor would lead the Cabal to said world, activate the anti-matter injector without their knowledge, and leave them to die with said Earth, preventing them from escaping with the use of an A.I.M. platform capable of creating an impenetrable barrier between the two colliding Earths. As the Cabal engaged the Sidera Maris in combat, Namor set his plan in motion. However, he was betrayed by Black Panther and Black Bolt, who pushed him off the platform into the soon-to-be-destroyed Earth. (Avengers v5 #40)

Afterwards, he led his compatriots as they made their way to the territory of the Sinnarian Empire where they first ravaged a peaceful world that swore fealty to its emperor. (Black Order v1 #1)

Overview

Personality and attributes

She was said to be a predator in every sense of the word. (New Avengers v3 #9)

It was said that she was the cruellest of Thanos's Generals with her being greatest warrior in the Mad Titan's army. (New Avengers v3 #9)

Powers and abilities

Such was her durability that she was able to take punches from superhumans such as Luke Cage. (Mighty Avengers v2 #2)

She was noted for being a savage hand-to-hand fighter. (New Avengers v3 #9)

Her weapon of choice was a spear that when thrown transformed into three tracers of black light that never missed their target. These beams were noted for being lethal to most creatures when they struck their foe. (New Avengers v3 #9)

Notes

• Proxima Midnight was created by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato Jr. where she made her first appearance in New Avengers v3 #8 (September, 2013).
• In an interview on CBR, writer Jonathan Hickman commented, "The cruelest of Thanos’ generals. A predator in every sense of the word, Proxima Midnight is the greatest warrior in Thanos’ army."
• Editor Tom Brevoort added, "Proxima Midnight is a warrior, is a fighter, is the best actual combatant within not only Thanos’ lieutenants, but within his whole army. She is literally a warrior princess type in that she’s gotten to where she is through physical prowess and physical ability. Design-wise, she had to come from that. She was designed by Jonathan himself, actually, at the 11th hour. She comes very directly from his imagination in terms of her look and her feel. At a glance, you should look at her and know she’s something of an ass-kicker and will do so bare handedly or with weapon in hand."
• On her weapon, Brevoort further said, "It certainly seems to be a crazy spear gizmo, but it’s comprised of the same metal and the same substance that her arm is either sheathed in or made out of,” said Brevoort. “You can tell that there’s more to it, perhaps, than seems to be apparent on the surface."

In other media

Television

• In Avengers Assemble, Proxima Midnight made an appearance as a antagonist in the episode "New Frontier" where she was voiced by actor Kari Wahlgren.
• In Guardians of the Galaxy, Proxima Midnight made an appearance as an antagonist in the episode "Undercover Angle" where she was voiced by actor Kari Wahlgren.
• In What If...?, Proxima Midnight appeared in the setting of the Disney+ animated television series in the episode "What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?" where she was voiced by actress Carrie Coon.

Films

• In Avengers: Infinity War, Proxima Midnight appeared in the setting of the live-action film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where she was portrayed by actress Carrie Coon. Midnight and the Children of Thanos assisted their father Thanos in finding the Infinity Stones. While attempting to claim the Mind Stone, she and her husband Corvus Glaive attacked Wanda Maximoff and Vision, but were repelled by Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson. During a second attempt, Midnight attempted to kill Maximoff, only to be stopped by Romanoff and Okoye before Maximoff killed Midnight.

Video games

• In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Proxima Midnight appeared as a playable character in the Facebook video game.
• In Marvel: Future Fight, Proxima Midnight was introduced as a playable character in the mobile game.
• In Marvel Contest of Champions, Proxima Midnight appeared as a playable character in the mobile video game.
• In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Proxima Midnight appeared as a boss level antagonist in the setting of the video game where she was voiced again by actress Kari Wahlgren.

Appearances

• New Avengers v3: (2013)
• Mighty Avengers v2:
• Infinity v1:
• Unworthy Thor v1:
• Avengers:
• Black Order v1:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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