Alfie O'Meagan

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Alfie O'Meagan
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Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Marvel Comics Presents #25 (August 1989)
Created by	Larry Hama
In story information
Abilities	Psychokinesis, telepathy, unspecified psychic ability to warp reality

Alfie O’Meagan is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He was the main villain in Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja written by Larry Hama. His first appearance was in Marvel Comics Presents in 1988.

The name "Alfie O'Meagan" can be recognized as a pun on Alpha and Omega. The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet were used in the King James translation of the Bible as an identification of the Judeo-Christian God as the beginning and the end. That and the secular English idiom's use of the phrase to denote "the beginning and end" provide a clue to the time-twisting resolution to the Nth Man saga.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Alfie O'Meagan (his adopted name) is first portrayed a child, with various psychic abilities including clairvoyance and precognition. He calls his visions the "could-be's" and can somehow allow others to see them as well, especially his only childhood friend John Doe. As Alphie grows older, his powers vastly increase, giving him abilities such as mind control, teleportation, and telekinesis which can re-arrange molecules on a massive scale.

Alfie is troubled by nightmares as a child, and his strange behavior and the odd events which occur around him cause him to be victimized by both orphanage bullies, and the drunk and abusive man who runs the orphanage. While comic books serve as a means of escape, eventually he realizes that his powers can be used for revenge against his tormentors.

Alfie eventually uses his psychic powers to stop all the world's nuclear weapons from working. This has the unexpected side-effect of triggering a conventional war between the USSR and the USA, which ultimately becomes World War III.

[edit] Other versions

The Excalibur team of superheroes ran into Alfie O'Meagan in his alternate reality in Excalibur #27.