| Supreme Intelligence | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Fantastic Four #65 (August 1967)[1] |
| Created by | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Supremor |
| Species | Kreeartificial intelligence |
| Team affiliations | Kree Empire Starforce |
| Notable aliases | Multitude |
| Abilities | Telepathy Telekinesis Cosmic awareness Precognition andPostcognition Ability to alter reality Energy and matter manipulation Ability to create up to three androids |
TheSupreme Intelligence is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics, anartificial intelligence that rules the alien race known as theKree.
It made its film debut inCaptain Marvel (2019), set in theMarvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), portrayed byAnnette Bening. It appeared in its true form in the filmThe Marvels (2023).
The Supreme Intelligence, also known as The Supremor, first appears inFantastic Four #65 (Aug 1967) and was created byStan Lee andJack Kirby.[2] It was introduced as a supercomputer that consisted of the greatest minds of the Kree people for the last million years, and figured as their leader. The Kree built the Supremor after theSkrulls built their own superweapon, theCosmic Cube. Its main purpose is to further the development of the Kree at any cost.[3][4]
The Supreme Intelligence was initially a supporting character in the first run ofCaptain Marvel, featuring the originalMar-Vell.[5]
The Supremor's first major role was in theKree–Skrull War, where it helpedMar-Vell andRick Jones unlock the power of the Destiny Force.[6][3]
It made appearances as a supporting character and antagonist in the third volume ofSilver Surfer and the first run ofMs. Marvel.[7]
It returned as the main antagonist for the 19-partcrossover event calledOperation: Galactic Storm, also known as theKree/Shi'ar War. Which features theKree,Shi'ar,Avengers andQuasar, in which the Avengers intervened in an intergalactic war between the alien Kree and Shi'ar empires. The event introduced theStarforce team, who was created by The Supremor.[8][9]
After presumed killed inOperation: Galactic Storm, The Supreme Intelligence reemerged in theImperial Guard mini and later fully reformed on the blue side of the moon in the Live Kree or Die! story arc. Supremor had transmitted itself to a satellite, which was recovered by its Skrull agents. It was taken in custody by the Avengers andS.H.I.E.L.D. It next appeared in thelimited seriesAvengers Forever, where it assisted the Avengers, who were caught up in a battle across time betweenKang the Conqueror andImmortus.[10]It was later also involved as one of the major players in theMaximum Security crossover, in it the Intergalactic Council want to turn Earth in a prison planet.[10][11]
The Supreme Intelligence next appeared in the crossover storylineAnnihilation andAnnihilation: Conquest, it was supplanted by House Fiyero and who drove his greatest supporterRonan into exile. Only the Kree were hit by the Annihilation Wave. Ronan lead a coup against the merchant house, slaughtering them and taking control of the empire. The Supremor was lobotomized however and put out of it misery.[12][13]
In theFF andFantastic Four ongoing, Ronan realized the Kree needed a leader superior to him, and decided to resurrect The Supreme Intelligence by using two alternate-reality Reed Richardses, which were absorbed in the new Supreme Intelligence. It immediately set about trying to destroy the Earth and the Inhumans. They eventually ceased hostilities.[13] It next appeared in the third volume of theGuardians of the Galaxy, where it was a member of the galactic council together withGladiator of the Shi’ar,Frigga of Asgard, the queen of the Brood,Annihilus of the Negative Zone and Y-Gaaar of the Badoon.[14][13]
During theInfinity, the Kree were attacked by the Builders. The Supremor surrendered and refused to rebel even after the Builder in charge of Hala was destroyed by the Avengers. This resulted in Ronan and his accusers to attack it. The Kree alongside the Avengers defeated the Builders. Supremor accepted Ronan and his Accusers back into the fold without any known punishment.[15][13]
The Supreme Intelligence's final appearance was duringThe Black Vortex storyline. When the Kree find an ancient weapon of mass power on their homeworld Hala, it attracts various groups there, andMr. Knife destroy the planet along with the Supreme Intelligence.[16][13]
The Supreme Intelligence, also known by the honorific title Supremor, was created more than a million years ago on the planet Kree-Lar by the extraterrestrial race known as theKree to help them create aCosmic Cube like their enemies theSkrulls had once created. The Supreme Intelligence is composed of the brains of the greatest Kree minds (namely the Kree'sthinkers,generals,philosophers,scientists, and so on) that were removed upon their deaths andassimilated by the computer, adding their knowledge and experience to its own.
Eventually, the Supreme Intelligence developed a mind of its own and refused to create the Cosmic Cube knowing the dangers that could be wrought by an evolved Cosmic Cube, which was what had destroyed massive parts of the Skrull Empire.
Despite this, it was allowed to continue to exist to serve the Kree with its wisdom. Its influence eventually grew to the point where it replaced the Kree government as Ruler of the Kree Empire, although it has occasionally been subsequently deposed for periods of time. Most of the Kree are fanatically devoted to it, and its worship is an organized religion.
Early in the career of theFantastic Four, the Supreme Intelligence sentRonan the Accuser to execute them.[17] It later discovered the treachery ofZarek and Ronan, and then honored Kree heroMar-Vell with a new uniform.[18] The Supreme Intelligence was deposed as the leader of the Kree Empire by Ronan.[19] The Supreme Intelligence was revealed to have mentally influenced the humanRick Jones and the U.S. Alien Activities Commission from behind the scenes to regain its power.[20] It stimulated Jones's psionic potential, the evolutionary potential of the human race, otherwise known as the Destiny Force, to end the Earth vicinity campaign in the firstKree-Skrull War. The Supremor revealed that it realized long ago that the Kree were at anevolutionary dead-end. Its main concern became to find a way to jump-start its race's evolution, and its manipulations of Jones and Mar-Vell were part of this process. The Supreme Intelligence then regained leadership of the Kree Empire.[21] Later, it mentally dominated Ronan, and used Ronan as a pawn in battle against Jones and Captain Marvel.[22] It attempted to absorb the minds of Jones and Captain Marvel, and employed the remote control Supremor androids as a housing for its consciousness.[23]
The Supremor understood that the Skrulls lost their ability to shapeshift, and plotted a new campaign for a second Kree-Skrull War.[24] During this war, the Supreme Intelligence acquired the Soul Gem, which the creature used to maintain peaceful balance between its blue and pink Kree components. It used the Soul Gem to absorb the soul of theSilver Surfer.[25] The Silver Surfer's soul escaped from him and removed the Soul Gem, causing the Supreme Intelligence to lose its sanity.[26] Afterwards,Nenora, a Skrull spy in the guise of a high-ranking Kree official, took command of the Kree empire. The war ended with Nenora being exposed as a Skrull.[27] TheContemplator later began restructuring the Supreme Intelligence's scrambled consciousness.[28] It was then taken over by the mind of the Contemplator.[29] It was soon liberated from the Contemplator's control by aCotati wizard, although under the Cotati's influence the Supreme Intelligence appointed the alien "Clumsy Foulup" as the supreme Kree Leader.[30] The Supremor was restored to power a while later.[31]
During the "Operation: Galactic Storm" storyline, the Supremor secretly arranged to have a "Nega-Bomb" detonated in the Kree Galaxy, hoping its energies would reactivate the Kree's genetic potential. But in the process, billions of Kree were killed. This led a group ofAvengers to decide to execute it for genocide, against the wishes of the rest of the team.[32]
Supremor wasn't killed; prior to the death of its host computer, it beamed itself to an awaiting starship hidden from the conflict between the Kree and Shi'ar. This ship later was damaged and found byS.H.I.E.L.D., who captured the small computer Supremor was now residing in. S.H.I.E.L.D. kept the Supreme Intelligence on the Earth's moon for study, as Supremor bided its time.[volume & issue needed]
The Kree Empire fell after the Kree-Shi'ar War, with the Kree Empire placed under the rule of the Shi'ar Imperium ruled by Deathbird. The KreeStarforce were her enforcers, now turned into a branch of the Imperial Guard. The Supremor android on the Star Force acted as the Supreme Intelligence's spy into the workings of the remaining Kree Empire.[volume & issue needed]
The Supreme Intelligence soon escaped after it possessed the minds of some S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists and had its body taken to Manhattan, where it planned to explode another Nega-Bomb, this time in Manhattan. The Supremor witnessed the first Kree mutation when it encountered one of the Kree Imperial Guard Commando who underwent his mutation when he sought to destroy the computer housing the Supreme Intelligence; however, it was this act that freed Supremor, allowing it to return to the depths of space.[volume & issue needed]
Supremor reached the Kree Empire and had a new housing constructed for it, as it soon managed to obtain the Forever Crystal, a very powerful mystical artifact, fromKang the Conqueror,[33] and used it to advance the Kree's evolution, creating a supposedly new race, the Ruul. Through them, it manipulated the Intergalactic Council into turning against the Earth, but its plans were stopped by the Avengers.[34]
Later on the Intelligence got its wish for more genetic stock for the Kree, when some of theInhuman tribes reunited with the regrowing Kree Empire. Combined with the Ruul and the mutated Kree, the Kree Empire would soon rise again after throwing off the shackles of theShi'ar Empire. After the universe was destroyed and recreated byGenis-Vell and Entropy: Son ofEternity, the Kree race was restored to its original form.[volume & issue needed]
As ofAnnihilation #2 it has been declared that the Supreme Intelligence is not in command of the Kree Empire, having been replaced by the merchant House of Fiyero. House Fiyero, in fact, placed the Supreme Intelligence in a state of "living death" and ruled the Kree without its consent. Ronan The Accuser is told by the being's caretakers that it longed for Ronan to return and set the Kree on the correct path against the Annihilation Wave. Realizing that there was nothing to be done to restore the creature to life, Ronan instead shattered the tank and left it to die rather than live in pain, after deposing House Fiyero for their treachery.[35]
The Supreme Intelligence was seen inAnnihilation Conquest where his remains had been retrieved by the Phalanx who are attempting to reactivate him.[volume & issue needed] By reactivating the Supreme Intelligence the Phalanx plan to send a mental echo across space containing a message that will invade the minds of the Kree, turning every Kree in the galaxy into Phalanx at once.[volume & issue needed] This was foiled by the arrival of the beingWraith, who allowed the weapon to activate, and used his Exolon swarm to absorb the soul of Supremor, essentially housing the spirit within himself.[36]
On Earth,Noh-Varr (who was thewarden of theCube at the time) devotes most of his resources into trying to revive the Supreme Intelligence in order to realize his dream of a New Kree Empire.[volume & issue needed]
An alternate reality Supreme Intelligence appears in the form of a holographic message that tells Noh-Varr that the actions of the Skrulls during "Secret Invasion" have left Earth in more danger than ever before and that he is the planet's new protector. The Supreme Intelligence then grants him the power needed to carry out his mission in the form a set of Nega-Bands, more advanced than the ones worn by Captain Marvel. The bands also provide him with a new costume and prevents the Dark Avengers from detecting his presence.[volume & issue needed]
Ronan the Accuser later resurrected the original Supreme Intelligence by melding two alternate realityReed Richards with the Supremor Seed (a small portion of the Supreme Intelligence held dormant in the Accuser's hammer), a plan devised by the Supreme Intelligence himself 300,000 years ago when he calculated his possible defeat and death in the future.[37] He later informs Noh-Varr of the coming of thePhoenix Force to Earth and orders him to help his Avengers teammates intercept the entity. However, he also must contain it at all costs, even if it means eliminating his teammates.[volume & issue needed]
During the "Infinity" storyline, the Supreme Intelligence and Ronan the Accuser appeared as members of the Galactic Council.[38] While initially helpful with the Galactic Council's efforts to halt the march of the Builders, the Intelligence commanded its people to surrender once the Kree homeworld was taken by the Builders. After Ronan and his Accuser Corps fractured away to continue the battle, the Supreme Intelligence gave them blanket amnesty upon the success of the campaign.[39]
During "The Black Vortex" storyline, the Supreme Intelligence learns of the Black Vortex's resurgence and sends Ronan to retrieve it fromBeast,Gamora, andAngel. In retaliation for the Accuser Corps attack, the three cosmic-enhanced characters attacked Hala.[40] The Supreme Intelligence denied Ronan the Accuser's suggestion to use the Black Vortex on them. Though Ronan the Accuser did it anyway and drove off Beast, Gamora, and Angel.[41] The Slaughter Lords led byMister Knife show up with plans to obtain the Black Vortex. As the Slaughter Lords start to destroy Hala, the Supreme Intelligence ordered the Accuser Corps to leave Hala while it stayed behind.[42]
The Inhuman Royal Family's expedition led by Noh-Varr later arrived on Hala. Noh-Varr planted a seed from We-Plex Supreme Intelligence System from Earth-200080 into the Supreme Intelligence's remains, resurrecting the Plex Intelligence as the Extreme Intelligence.[43][44]
The Kree Supreme Intelligence is a vast cybernetic/organic computer system that contains the disembodied, preserved brains of the greatest statesmen and philosophers in Kree history. This aggregation of brains creates acollective intelligence able to use the vast information storage and processing capabilities of the computer system in a creative way. When wishing to interact with it, the Kree address it within its terminal chamber, where a holographic image is projected on a gigantic monitor screen.
The Supreme Intelligence possesses a seemingly immeasurable intellect, with vast knowledge far surpassing that of present-day Earth. It possesses information storage and processing abilities far above that of the human brain and various psychic abilities, including telepathy, telekinesis, and precognition.
Supremor is also capable of manipulating energy and matter, as well as create up to three remotely-controlled android servitors as extensions of itself.
Its power was enhanced when it merged with an inert Cosmic Cube, which now serves as its true housing, kept in a separate room from the organic computer facade it created to fool would-be assassins. Upon assuming its new housing, Supremor was now able to control reality within a limited distance of itself, as well as able to open up portals between dimensions, most notably the Astral Plane and the dimension of Death.
TheMarvel Boy mini-series byGrant Morrison featured an alternate universe version of Supremor who is an ally toNoh-Varr, the last survivor of a Kree ship that crashed to Earth. Known asPlex, this Supreme Intelligence displayedmultiple personalities, with each specializing in specific situations.[citation needed]
The Supreme Intelligence appears in theMarvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) filmCaptain Marvel.[52][53] This version takes the physical form of the individual most respected by whomever is speaking to it. ToCarol Danvers, it takes the form ofWendy Lawson (portrayed byAnnette Bening), though Danvers is initially unaware of who Lawson is due to her amnesia.[54][55] After recovering her memories, Danvers fights the Supreme Intelligence's control and destroys it.
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