Red Shift (Marvel)
Red Shift is a male extraterrestrial comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Red Shift was a male extraterrestrial of unknown origins who came to become a Herald of Galactus. (Galactus the Devourer v1 #1) He ad approached Galactus after a change came to the World Devourer where he could only subsist on living life force. As a Herald, Red Shift offered a constant supply of such worlds and went forth to find living worlds for his master. (Galactus the Devourer v1 #3)
He was by his masters side as the World Devourer consumed a technologically advanced world with a lone survivor escaping though they came to die on Earth. (Galactus the Devourer v1 #1) The Silver Surfer went out into space to confront his former master leading to a confrontation with Red Shift. During the fight, Red Shift created a tear into a black hole with the intention of the Silver Surfer to perish within it. Norrin Radd though forced himself and Red Shift into the singularity where he managed to escape whilst the new Herald had seemingly perished. (Galactus the Devourer v1 #2)
However, he managed to survive and returned back to the physical universe where he was present during a time when the cosmos was being invaded by the forces of the Annihilation Wave. (Annihilation: Silver Surfer v1 #2) The three Heralds then joined the forces of the United Front that had been gathered by Nova Richard Rider where they stood their ground on the world of Daedalus 5. During the fight against the Annihilation Wave fleet, Firelord proved instrumental in defeating the enemy's orbital forces leading to the capture of their queen Extirpia though the act left the Herald in a coma-like state. (Annihilation v1 #1) Red Shift and Stardust then went to the surface where the allied forces were attacked by Ravenous and his Seekers that were bolstered by the arrival of the Centurions. (Annihilation v1 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He believed affection made a person vulnerable and worthless with such feelings bringing about the person's ultimate destruction in the end. (Galactus the Devourer v1 #2) The Silver Surfer claimed that Red Shift was a monstrous person. (Galactus the Devourer v1 #3)
Powers and abilities
As a Herald of Galactus, Red Shift was empowered by Galactus with the Power Cosmic making him equal in strength to another Herald. It was said that he travelled in bursts of light. He was also armed with a pair of swords that provided him a number of additional abilities. Red Shift could use them in melee strikes against enemies. The blades were said to enhance his capacity to bend space as he could also use them to cut tears into dimensional rifts allowing him to displace objects through time and space. These dimensional portals were opened through a complex array of powers that involved manipulation of space/time and the electromagnetic energy that bound everything together. He could not only use these gateways for travel but could use them offensively against enemies as well such as creating a portal in front of him to intercept an energy blast then manifest its exit point heading towards another foe. (Galactus the Devourer v1 #2)
Notes
- Red Shift was created by Louise Simonson and Jon J. Muth where he made his first appearance in Galactus the Devourer v1 #1 (September, 1999).
- Artist Jon J. Muth commented on the character, "Beta Ray Bill is a great character, but he had nothing to do with my original character sketches for Red Shift. By the time John Buscema drew Red Shift in the Galactus mini-series, he had changed a lot."
Appearances
- Galactus: The Devourer v1: (1999)
- Annihilation v1:
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