Deathurge

Deathurge is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a wraith-like superhuman entity who served as the herald and agent of Oblivion. He first appeared in Marvel Two-In-One #71.

Fictional character biography

Deathurge's origins are not known. On multiple occasions he has claimed to embody the impulse for self-destruction that resides within all sentient life, which implies that he is an abstract entity.

Deathurge was first observed in the employ of the villain Maelstrom as an assassin. Deathurge was dispatched to slay the clonal bodies of Maelstrom's three prime minions and was commanded to slay a clonal body of Maelstrom himself. He slew another of Maelstrom's bodies, and encountered Captain Marvel. He attended Maelstrom's resurrection within another cloned body, and was then dismissed from Maelstrom's service. Although Maelstrom sometimes treated Deathurge as if he were a lackey, Deathurge served only at Oblivion's behest, for Oblivion perceived within Maelstrom the potential to drastically tip the scales between existence and non-existence in his favor.