Two guys i would like info on

[zaurial]

the two guys i would like info on are:

modok

and

the living tribunal


thanks for any help i can get!

[Manchine]

The Living Tribunal is above all other forces in the Universe. The Marvel Universe is really a multiverse, a limitless connection of alternate universes connected to the main one. He trancends every single force in every single one, exists on every dimension at the same time in each as well as actually existing in every single universe in the multiverse at the same time. Tthat is he has no "alternate" selves like all other beings in the multiverse, there is only one. He is the only being that "actually" can destroy a universe if he judges it threatens the balance of the others.

Also he has stated his power comes from "on high" and also stated that he represented forces that dwarf the might of the Infinity Gauntlet, which he backed up by being totally uneffected by its power when it destroyed Eternity, Lord Chaos and Master Order away as if they where insects, not to mention he had the power to cancel the Gauntlets effects out with a single snap of the finger and ordered that they never work together again in this universe.

[metzgarob]

beat me too it :(

[Manchine]

George Tarleton was an agent and technician of average intelligence who was employed by the subversive organization known as the Advanced Idea Mechanics, or AIM. Tarleton was chosen at random by AIM’s “scientist supreme” (leader) Lyle Getz to be a subject in an experiment in controlled mutation. Placed against his will in the “alteration chamber,” Tarleton underwent extensive cellular irradiation and physical bio-engineering that trans formed him into a massive-headed being possessing superhuman intelligence and extraordinary psionic powers. Getz intended to have the transformed Tarleton serve as a living computer as well as to employ Tarleton’s new psionic abilities for probing the Cosmic Cube, an object of immense power. Hence, Tarleton was given the code-name of Modoc, which stood for “Mobile Organism Designed Only for Computing.” Enraged by his hideous condition, Tarleton used his new psionic powers to slay Getz and henceforth assumed the acronym “Modok,” the “k” standing for “killing.” Modok then seized control of the entire AIM organization and eliminated all active opposition to him in its ranks.
The international law enforcement agency SHIELD planted its operative Sharon Carter within AIM as a double agent to learn what Modok was and what his weaknesses, if any, were. However, AIM discovered that Carter was serving SHIELD and made her a prisoner aboard the organization’s submarine headquarters. Captain America went there to rescue her but was captured himself. Both he and Carter were sent to Modok, who attempted to kill them. During Captain America’s battle with Modok, other AIM agents, who were opposed to Modok’s rule, fired a volley of shots that wounded Modok. Captain America and Carter escaped the submarine, which Modok then destroyed. However, Modok used his psionic abilities to save himself and reassert his leader ship over AIM.

Not only was Modok continually thwarted in his schemes by the many superpowered adversaries, but also, under his leadership AIM made no scientific breakthroughs comparable to the organization’s earlier creation of the Cosmic Cube and the Super Adaptoid. Instead, AIM had stag nated intellectually and creatively. Moreover, Modok failed to launch an attack on any major nation as leader of AIM.

Hence, dissatisfaction with Modok’s leadership grew increasingly strong and widespread within the organization. Following his defeat by the Yellow Claw, Modok was deposed as leader of AIM. How ever, he soon regained control of AIM’s operations on the West Coast and established a new base in New York City as well. In alliance with Deathbird, then an exile from the Shi’ar Empire, Modok led his AIM forces in an attack on AIM’s East Coast division. Still, a considerable portion of the AIM organization remained outside of Modok’s control. Modok did not realize that the members of AIM whom he believed were securely under his control were secretly conspiring with the other faction of AIM to destroy him.

Modok led his AIM forces in an attack against the rival AIM faction, but, to his surprise, both AIM groups joined forces and attacked him. Modok retreated, soon afterwards fighting AIM forces alongside the Hulk, but finally fled after battling the Hulk himself.

With Modok gone, all of AIM was finally reunited under new leader ship. The new leaders of AIM hired the team of mercenaries known as the Serpent Society to assassinate Modok to prevent him from posing any further threat to them.

Two of the Serpents, Bushmaster and Diamondback, discovered Modok aboard AIM’s abandoned and partially demolished submarine headquarters, interrupting his use of equipment on board to recharge his psycho-motor energies to last him for another year. Though weakened, Modok escaped, ultimately hiding in a warehouse at a shopping mall in Newbury, New Jersey. The Serpent Society tracked him down to the mall, and Captain America went there, too, having learned of the Serpent’s mission. Captain America found the weakened Modok as two of the Serpents, Cottonmouth and Death Adder, were tearing away at his flesh. Modok died even as Captain America was trying to help him.

The Serpent Society delivered Modok’s corpse back to AIM. Although Modok remained brain dead, they repaired the other dam age done to it and kept the rest of the body alive. AIM’s new scientist supreme intended to use Modok as a living computer, but AIM member Yorgon Tykkio sent Modok into battle against Iron Man, guiding him by remote control. Tykkio had altered Modok’s headband so that it could fire plasma blasts and so that Tykkio could transmit his own voice through it. Iron Man succeeded in battling Modok to a standstill, whereupon Tykkio, by remote control, caused Modok’s headband to fire plasma that ignited underground fuel lines, causing an explosion that, finally, annihilated Modok’s body.

[egospark]

And, somewhere between Who's Who and Defender's #8 Vol 2,
MODOK got better. He's head of AIM again, or at least some small faction of AIM and with help of the Headmen, those whacky baddies from the Englehart Defender's run, was able to move AIM's ideas forward. MODOK is apparently a broader thinker now with several kooky idea under his massive brow. Whether or not he remains that way is another question.

[JoFo]

Doesn't Modok also team up with Mandarin at some point? Or was that just for the Iron Man cartoon.