| Nyx | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Avengers: No Road Home #1 (April 2019) |
| Created by | Al Ewing Jim Zub Mark Waid Paco Medina |
| In-story information | |
| Species | Olympian |
| Team affiliations | Olympian Gods |
| Notable aliases | Mother of Night Queen of Night |
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Nyx is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. The character is based on theGreekgoddess of the same name. She first appeared inAvengers: No Road Home #1 (April 2019) and was created byAl Ewing,Jim Zub,Mark Waid, and Paco Medina.
Nyx was created byAl Ewing,Jim Zub,Mark Waid, and Paco Medina, based on theprimordial goddess of darkness of the same name and first appeared inAvengers: No Road Home #1 and making her last appearance inAvengers: No Road Home #10. She's not to be confused with Nox, based on the same goddess, who was revealed to be a usurper.[1]
Nyx was born in thepure emptiness and was one of theOlympians who were once worshiped as gods by the Greeks, as she was worshiped as the Goddess of the Night and the Darkness. At some point, she gave birth to her children Hypnos, Oizys, and the twins Dolos and Apate. Due to her malevolent nature,Zeus imprisoned Nyx in such a manner that she would remain trapped until "the sun was parted from the earth," and hid the Night Shards within her soul in three secret places throughout the Universe.[2]
DuringAvengers: No Surrender, where theElder of the Universe,Grandmaster and theChallenger, fought each other, the Earth was removed from its orbit and it was returned at the end of the game, but its removal ended Nyx's containment. In revenge, she sought out to bring an eternal night throughout the Universe, even on planets with multiple suns and bases contained within suns. She took her revenge on the Olympians and with the help of her children, they killed all of the Olympian gods, including Zeus after retrieving information about her hidden Night Shards.[3] However, Zeus threatened and promised to her that his son,Hercules and the "Avengers of the Wronged" would avenge him.
She was then approached by Hercules,Scarlet Witch,Vision,Hulk,Hawkeye,Rocket Raccoon,Voyager,Monica Rambeau and eventuallyConan. Nyx retrieved her Shards of Night fromNightmare, Lord Librarian, and theHyborian Age, but at the cost of her children's life. After that, with the help of the Cosmic Being, Euphoria, she arrived to her final destination in Long Island, where the One Above All's House of Ideas was. Vision made it through the door entrance of the House of Ideas to stop her from wiping out the existence. During her fight with Vision, he used the powers of the House and with his imagination, constructed many heroes to battle Nyx. She was then killed by Vision by burning her into flames, causing her to be disintegrated.[4]
Sometime later, the global nights that was caused by Knull's and Varnae's invasions revived Nyx and restored her full power, and so she went to Antarctica where its natural darkness let her revive her children. They ambushed Hercules, Thor, and Loki, who sought them out, but they were cast into the Land Without Suns.[5] Zeus was also imprisoned there, and the pair decided to give rise to a race of dark gods to conquer the universe. However, Hercules showed her that the plane was the domain she longed for. Nyx decided to stay there and build worlds, cities, kingdoms, and temples full of people who are lovers, and poets. She disintegrated Apate and Oizys as those worlds would not need the things they represented. She spared Hypnos so he can leave with Thor and Hercules to serve as her eyes and ears of the affairs of Gods and Heroes in the universe.[6]
As an Olympian deity, Nyx possessessupernatural attributes, such as immense strength, durability, speed, and reflexes. She has the ability tofly.[7] Being a night goddess, she can wield thedarkness and shadows in lots of physical ways, including blinding someone or turning into one herself.[8][9][10] Her own nails could be used as claws.[8] She is able to summon a protective shield.[11] Nyx was shown to have teleporting powers.[8] She is also capable of conceivingchildren without a partner, seemingly sired by her strongest feelings at the moment.[8]