Isaac Newton (Marvel)
Isaac Newton is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Isaac Newton
He considered numbers his first prison and was distracted after having an apple fall on his head while sitting under a tree. This led to him being beaten by his step-father after failing to save a sheep from being attacked by a wolf. He was later bullied at school due to his academic pursuits. (Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme v1 #5)
Whilst at home, he was visited by a carriage that took him to Rome where he was shown the secret Immortal City where he was inducted into the Brotherhood of the Shield alongside other candidates by Galileo Galilei. From then, he came to learn about his predecessors secret efforts at expanding science and defending the world against threats such as Galactus. In this time, his mentor Galileo told him that he would not find the answers he was looking for within the cities libraries but rather he had to go out into the world to seek them out. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3)
In 1625, he came to travel to the Deviant city of Ashomia where he allowed himself to be captured. Whilst there, the Deviant ruler came to examine his DNA and found it to be interesting. This saw him forcing a mating between Newton and a Deviant woman named Morda who became pregnant with his child. For a time, he lived among their kind but only because he sought to steal their secret knowledge that was contained within their holy book with this being claimed in the name of the Brotherhood. He had this knowledge permanently written in his skin after which he burnt down the city and escaped. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3) Meanwhile, Morda had given birth to a human-looking infant around 1630 before Newton fled. She was blamed for his treasonous acts and confronted by a mob. In order to save her child, Leonid, she gave him to the Forever Man. The child was taken through time and was given to Nikola Tesla, the Night Machine, who raised him as his own. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v2 #1)
During his era, he became the noted Sorcerer Supreme with him being declared the greatest magical practitioner during a time when the Ancient One was presumed dead. As a result, he defended Earth from magical entities though he came to see himself imprisoned in this role. It was during this time that he learnt of the 'Word of God' and became fixated on learning its secrets. During an encounter in the Dark Dimension, he fought Doctor Doom who was from the future and also encountered both Doctor Strange as well as Clea. In reality, he had sought out Jowath of the Never Hills but the magical being was mortally wounded by Doctor Doom and died thus taking the secret of the 'Word of God' with him. Sir Newton lost hope in learning it even when he acquired the damaged head of a Doombot in the belief it could have recorded the words but he did not succeed. Instead, he devoted himself back to the Silent Truth of numbers and of destiny. (Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme v1 #5)
He was left to rot within prison when he was approached by a time travelling Merlin who was seeking allies against a threat known as the Forgotten and was looking for Sorcerer Supremes from all points in time. (Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme v1 #5)
As leader of the Brotherhood, Newton began to murder his intellectual rivals. He poisoned John Flamsteed at a dinner party, stabbed Robert Hooke in an alley, drowned Blaise Pascal in formalin, and strangled John Locke. He left an apple as his calling card at the scene of every murder. Gottfried Liebniz began an investigation and determined Newton was the culprit, and he knew he would be next. In 1707, Newton travelled to Hannover to confront Liebniz and, after a brief conversation where Liebniz called him a hypocrite, bludgeoned him to death using a copy of the Principia. He left an apple before returning to England. In 1806, three men broke into the Immortal City in hopes of finding Nostradamus. They succeeded but before they could free him and ask him questions, Newton's Brotherhood of the Shield intervened and killed two of the men. While one escaped he was mortally wounded but was able to deliver a message to Michelangelo stating 'he perseveres'. (S.H.I.E.L.D.: Infinity v1 #1)
In circa 1951, Nikola Tesla resurfaced after disappearing for nearly a decade. In addition, the Brotherhood of the Shield had learned that Newton's biological son, Leonid, whom he had abandoned over three centuries ago in Ashomia, was still alive. Newton dispatched Shield agents Nathaniel Richards and Howard Stark to track down Tesla and retrieve both his inventions and Leonid, whom Tesla had been raising. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #6) In 1953, Richards and Stark intercepted a teenage Leonid in New York City and took him to the Immortal City beneath Rome. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3) Leonid was brought before Newton and the Shield High Council, who revealed the truth about the organization and asked him to join. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #1) Leonid trained under Newton for the next three years, with Newton having a keen interest in him. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #4) During this time, Newton continued exploiting and torturing Nostradamus for prophecies. In 1956, Nostradamus revealed that 'The sounds of war echo in the sky: Soon the son of eternity returns: Soon the child of the stars is born: Fate or free will, the mechanism reveals'. Suddenly, Newton was alerted by the return of Leonardo da Vinci, a former Patriarch of the Shield, who had been found by Leonid. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3) Leonardo showed the Brotherhood the Human Machine. In disbelief that Leonardo was still alive, as he had visited his tomb Newton conversed with Leonardo privately and confirmed his authenticity. Leonardo later warned Leonid about Newton's 'Truth' and told him about Nostradamus in Newton's dungeon, whom Leonid soon freed, before going to the Sun to retrieve the Star Child from there. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #4)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As a young boy, he felt that he had a divine calling and that he had a part in significant events in history. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3)
According to him, numbers were his first prison that gave him order and structure with the certainty that they provided consuming him. It was this same certainty that became a prison for him but he came to desire not to be caged with the numbers eventually revealing to him the hidden world of magic. It was this path that led to him becoming Sorcerer Supreme but he came to feel that this role was also a prison for himself and wondered if there was anything truly free from being preordained. He came to believe that the 'Word of God' was powerful enough to set him free from fate. Newton believed that he could use them to make himself free to make his mark on the world and become God. (Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme v1 #5)
After his induction into the Brotherhood, he came under the tutelage of its reigning master Galileo who was noted for his understanding nature. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3)
As a leader of the Brotherhood, it was noted that he preferred his colleagues to refer to him as 'master' instead of 'brother'. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3)
Powers and abilities
Within the Brotherhood, Newton came to follow the path of a sorcerer and learnt many secrets of the universe. From the Deviants, he came to learn the Hidden Arts that was knowledge concealed from man which was not science but something sideways, alien and devout. Knowledge from the Deviant's holy book came to be inscribed onto his skin where the Hidden Arts were believed to be the second part of the Five-Fold Understanding. The third part he came to learn was the Secret Alchemy that he gained through his capture of Nostradamus. From this clarity, he gain understanding of the divine structure for ultimate deduction with this being the Quiet Math. It was through this that he gained the final understanding which was the Silent Truth. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3)
Using the Elixir of Life, Newton was noted to had become virtually immortal. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #4)
With his magic, he could summon mystical creatures to do his bidding. (Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme v1 #5)
Newton can discharge beams of energy or create protective force fields, usually from his scepter but he can fire energy from his magic third eye. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v2 #6)
It was noted that he was the reigning Sorcerer Supreme of his time. (Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #1)
The Word of God was a power that had absolute power which could create or destroy. (Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme v1 #5)
He came to be a member of the Brotherhood of the Shield where over the years he came to usurp control of the secret society and became its master. (S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #3)
Notes
- Isaac Newton was created by Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver where he made his first appearance in S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #1 (June, 2010).
- The character was based on the real world Isaac Newton.
Alternate Versions
- In Secret Empire v1 #0 (2017), an alternate version of Isaac Newton appeared in the reality altered by the Cosmic Cube Kobik that was designated as Earth-61311 in the Multiverse. Isaac Newton visited Ashomia in the past and burned it down after stealing the 'Hidden Arts'. Newton later used the abandoned Ashomia to birth Hydra from the Spear; Ashomia became 'the source of all Hydra's power' and Newton became the 'Father' of Hydra. Newton was also responsible for making Daniel Whitehall the Kraken.
Appearances
- S.H.I.E.L.D. v1: (2010)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. v2:
- Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme v1:
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