J'son (Marvel)
J'son is a male extraterrestrial comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
J'son
When J'son's ship crash lands on Earth, he is taken in by Meredith Quill. The two form a relationship while J'son makes repairs to his ship. Eventually, J'son is forced to leave to return home and fight in a war. He leaves, not knowing Meredith is pregnant with Peter Quill.
Years later, J'son is revealed to be the King of the Spartax planetary system. J'son joined other members of the Galactic Council to declare the Earth off-limits to extraterrestrial interaction. Once his son defended Earth from a Badoon attack, J'son sent Spartoi soldiers to capture him and his team called the Guardians of the Galaxy. However, the Guardians managed to escape and flee.
In an attempt to finally get rid of the Guardians and make his son join him, all of the Guardians were separately dealt with by the Spartoi and its allies. However, they didn't count with the Guardians' ally Captain Marvel, who saved Peter Quill from J'son and the Spartoi Empire. As he was escaping, Quill discredited J'son to the whole empire revealing him as a heartless murderer. The entire Spartoi Empire rebelled against J'son, who was forced to flee.
He came to assemble a hatchet crew of criminals and mercenaries that were known as the Slaughter Lords. (Legendary Star-Lord v1 #5)
After Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde decided to steal the Black Vortex from J'son with the sole purpose to annoy him, Mister Knife sent the Slaughter Lords to hunt them down and recover the Vortex. After numerous failed attempts to recover the Vortex, Mister Knife managed to get his hands on it. As part of a deal with Thane, he submitted to the Black Vortex and used his cosmically enhanced power to encase the entirety of Spartax in his amber construct. The trapped Spartax was later traded to the Brood by Mister Knife, in exchange for taking advantage of their expansion and acquiring one planet for every ten worlds they conquered ever since.
At a moment when Captain Marvel retrieved the Black Vortex, she was cornered by Thane and J'son, who demanded she give them the Vortex back. When Thane tried to use his powers to encase Carol in amber, she used the Black Vortex as a shield and deflected the attack towards J'son.
J'son remained encased in the amber construct floating through Spartax's orbit, until he was found by the Collector, who was too late to recover the Vortex, but settled for adding J'son to his collection. J'son's amber construct imprisonment was later recovered by his daughter Victoria and brought back to Spartax.
Overview
Personality and attributes
After being deposed, he came to adopt a masked identity as the intergalactic crime lord called Mr. Knife. (Legendary Star-Lord v1 #6)
He had another child with this being a daughter named Victoria who came to be the Commander of the Spartax Royal Guard. (Legendary Star-Lord v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
After losing the throne, he came to operate as an intergalactic crime lord and assembled a mercenary team of followers called the Slaughter Lords. This consisted of the Snark Nux Vomico, the exiled Centaurian Delphinia, the winged Shi'ar hunter Misa, the Badoon Czar Doon, the shapeshifting Skrull Raksor and Father Diablo from Planet X. (Legendary Star-Lord v1 #5)
Notes
- J'son was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne where he made his first appearance in Marvel Preview v1 #11 (June, 1977).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Guardians of the Galaxy, J'son appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Jonathan Frakes.
Appearances
- Marvel Preview v1: (1977)
- Guardians of the Galaxy:
- Infinity:
- Legendary Star-Lord v1:
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