Blastaar

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caption=Blastaar
Art by Kieron Dwyer
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Blastaar
real_name=Blastaar
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Fantastic Four" #62 (May 1967)
creators=Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
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aliases=Living Bomb-Burst
powers=Superhuman strength, durability and endurance
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Blastaar, sometimes called the Living Bomb-Burst, is a Marvel Comics supervillain. Blastaar is an opponent of the Fantastic Four and lives in the Negative Zone. Blastaar is an enemy of Annihilus, another Fantastic Four villain.

Fictional character biography

Blastaar is a member of an alien race known as the Baluurians, of the planet Baluur in the Negative Zone (in Sector 56-D, as charted by Reed Richards). He ruled the Baluurians as their monarch ruthlessly until his subjects rebelled and rose against him. Blastaar was deposed as monarch, and became a Negative Zone outlaw. Blastaar was locked up in a special containment suit and set adrift in outer space in the Negative Zone. When he broke loose he sighted Reed Richards, who had been trapped in the Negative Zone as well and followed him and Triton back to Earth. He fought with the Sandman and Reed Richard's group of superheroes, the Fantastic Four ["Fantastic Four" #62] but was driven back to the Negative Zone by Mister Fantastic. ["Fantastic Four" #63]

Over the following years Blastaar would repeatedly return to Earth to attempt to conquer it and fight the Fantastic Four many times, as well as the Avengers, Thor and other superheroes.

Blastaar went into a coma at one point, but was revived by Professor Paxton Pentacost and became an unwilling servant of Pentacost. Blastaar was forced to battle the Human Torch and the Hulk. He was defeated and imprisoned in adamantium and sunk into the Atlantic Ocean. ["Marvel Team-Up" #18] Blastaar was later freed from his adamantium prison, and battled the Inhumans. ["Inhumans" #1]

Blastaar later made his first alliance with Annihilus, another conqueror living in the Negative Zone. Blastaar utilized the Super-Adaptoid in an attempt to regain the throne of Baluur. He was opposed by his wife Nyglar, who summoned the Thing and the Avengers to thwart Blastaar and his allies. ["Marvel Two-in-One" #75] Blastaar later did regain the throne of Baluur and started to conquer Negative Zone, only opposed by Annihilus. Blastaar led a fleet of warships to conquer Earth, and captured Reed Richards. Blastaar freed Annihilus in an attempt to prevent the Fantastic Four from thwarting his conquest of Earth. ["Fantastic Four" #289] Blastaar and Annihilus battled, however. Blastaar was betrayed by his subordinate, Tanjaar, and paralyzed. ["Fantastic Four" #290]

Blastaar was later discovered in the Negative Zone by the Eternals. He overthrew the Eternals, but was then defeated by the Avengers and remanded to custody of the Eternals. ["Avengers" #310]

Annihilus and Blastaar have teamed up at times, but usually they are fierce enemies. Blastaar's son Burstaar has helped his father, but has his own ambitions and allied himself with the Kree.

Annihilation

Blastaar was seen with the Spaceknights, aiding Nova's attempt to assassinate Annihilus. [in "Annihilation" #5]

Blastaar also appeared in the opening pages of "Annihilation: Conquest" #1. Blastaar is seen leading a group of Kree soldiers against the Phalanx, but the group is defeated and Blastaar is captured. The Phalanx interrogates Blastaar, and continue to torture him until he apparently dies when he doesn't say a word. This death appears to be simply a hibernation that Blastaar can reverse, which he has used to fool the Phalanx temporarily.

Future

It's been declared at the Marvel Catalog, that on Guardians of the Galaxy#8, Blastarr has become the new King of the Negative Zone. [ [http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=10530 Guardians of the Galaxy#8, Marvel Catalog] ]

Powers and abilities

Blastarr has superhuman strength and endurance, and is incredibly durable and resistant to injury; conventional weapons and even ballistic missiles could have no effect on him. His superhuman constitution can withstand extreme variations in temperature and pressure. He is virtually tireless. He can live without nourishment for several weeks and survive in the vacuum of space by inducing himself into a state of hibernation.

He is capable of self propelled flight at escape velocity. He can project blasts of highly concussive kinetic force from his hands. He can channel the same concussive force to give him flight by propelling himself through the air like a rocket, and can maintain this thrust almost indefinitely. His energy blasts can temporarily disrupt the molecular integrity of the Eternals.

He is also highly trained in the arts of warfare of and by his race and has access to advanced technology from his home world such as starships and powerful plasma-based weapons. Most often, however, he only uses his powers without augmentation.

Other media

Television

* Blastaar has appeared in the 1967 "Fantastic Four" series.

* He also appeared in the 1978 "Fantastic Four" TV series.

* Blastaar made a cameo appearance on the "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends" episode "Attack of the Arachnoid".

* Blastaar appeared in the 1994 "Fantastic Four" TV series voiced by Ron Friedman. In the episode "Behold the Negative Zone," he fought with Annihilus.

Video games

Blastaar appeared in the 2005 "Fantastic Four" video game voiced by Bob Joles. Here he appears to be from Earth and is discovered locked in the Vault — a prison for super-beings. He escapes during a power failure in the prison, but is subsequently defeated by Mister Fantastic and the Thing.

References

External links

* [http://marvel.com/universe/Blastaar Blastaar on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki]
* [http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2006/09/for-love-of-blastaar.html A blog on Blastaar]