Eon (comics)
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Eon is one of the fictional cosmic entities in Marvel Comics' universe. Eon's history stretches back into the universe's infancy, he is the offspring of Eternity and Infinity and the Celestial Axis. He was born eight billion years ago. Charged with protecting the Celestial Axis (the pattern of life energy threading through the universe), and Time, although it often chooses to observe our reality while removed in a dimension called 'The Mists of Time'. Eon's third function is nurturing the evolution of sentient life of the universe and to maintain conditions favorable to life in the universe. This led to Eon searching out and appointing a being to be his champion, the protector of life in the universe, anticipating and conquering major threats to life. The full details of these appointments, including criteria, line of succession, and past champions, have yet to be fully revealed. The first known champion, Glakandar, was appointed 5 billion years ago. At the same time, Eon also created the quantum-bands, weapons that would enable his champions to wield massive amounts of energy. In more recent times, Eon appointed Captain Mar-Vell of the alien race, Kree, to be his champion -- the only one to do so without the quantum-bands. Eon granted Mar-Vell "cosmic awareness" to better combat the champion of Death, Thanos. After Mar-Vell's death, Eon appointed Quasar as his champion, specifically to combat an unknown threat to Eon's self and the universe, who ended up being Maelstrom, who assumed the aspect of Anomaly. Eon was eventually killed by Quasar in an attempt to keep Maelstrom from obtaining cosmic awareness. Eon was succeeded by his daughter Epoch who was born shortly after Eon's death. Epoch is watched over by Quasar.
Eon appares to still exist in some form within another diminsion
[edit] Powers and abilities
The full extent of Eon's powers were unknown. His most famous power was his cosmic awareness which served as a form of omniscience about anything Eon wished to know. Certain information such as concerning cosmic beings was more easily accessed then other information. One description had it as one searching the memory of a giant computer. Eon could also bestow cosmic awareness to the full amount on other beings such as Captain Mar-vell and Quasar.
Eon possessed other abilities, but due to the beings passive nature the full extent is unknown. Other known abilities include the reanimation of dead tissue, the ability to transport itself and others across diminsions, create diminsional portals, levitation and control its size. It also created a pocket diminsion where it created imprints of all the previous protectors.
Its child Epoch demonstrated the ability to fire powerful blasts of energy. A power Eon most likely had.
Oblivion described it as one of the Time beings, and based on its apparences after its death it seems to have had time manipulation powers to an unknown degree.
It was implied that along with its passive nature Eon was bound by certain agreements that may have limited how much it could use its own power to defend itself.
