Darkforce is the name given to a negative energy that is the counterpart to the Lightforce, drawn from a dimension nicknamed the "Darkforce Dimension", and may have some form of sentience.^[1] Some mutates, mutants and Inhumans can tap into this energy naturally,^[2][3][4][5] while normal Humans may learn to call it up magically^[6][7][8][9] or even technologically such as Smuggler.^[10] Aliens could also gain access to the Darkforce, as seen with Black Light, Nightside, X'iv and others.^{[11][12][13][14]} Like other negative energies, Darkforce is easy to learn but hard to control. Darkforce can have a bewildering variety of effects, and its users can control differing aspects of it, so some time passed before it became apparent that all these phenomena had a single source.^[15]

The Darkforce dimension has no formal name, few known inhabitants, and no known points of reference. Its most obvious (and perhaps only) characteristic is darkness: not simply an empty place that has no light but a medium that absorbs light. This "dark matter" may only be what humans can perceive of an alien universe. Normal light sources are practically useless, and magical sources have limited range and power. The same absorption applies to heat and even life essence. Those who enter the Darkforce dimension without protection feel coldness and, in time, lethargy. Prolonged exposure to Darkforce in our dimension can have the same effects.^[16] It could nullify its counterpart, the Lightforce,^[17][18] and even trained people's chi.^[19]

Those who can access Darkforce typically summon the dark matter of the Darkforce dimension. It appears in this dimension as darkness, but with varying consistencies.^[20] A weak field of Darkforce looks like a dark mist or shadow and can become camouflage, intimidation, or a smokescreen.^[21][22] A medium field behaves like a thick liquid and can impede or encase an opponent.^[23][4] A strong field, for most purposes, acts like a solid that can form shapes or carry things.^[24] It can be used to store objects and individuals,^[25] and render people intangible.^[26]

Others use Darkforce indirectly to teleport.^[25] They open a portal around themselves into the Darkforce dimension and open another portal out that appears in a different location.^[27][6] The process is instantaneous, so they do not physically move through the Darkforce dimension.^[28]

Darkforce users could sense each other's presence, people's fear,^[29] and a possible psychic link as shown between Cloak and Dagger.^[30] They and the Darkforce dimension's inhabitants were in constant need to feed on lifeforce and light.^{[22][27][6][25][31]} It can corrupt people, its own users and even Lightforce users. It could be used to manipulate others' minds and cast illusions.^[32] Mister Negative could use the Darkforce to take control of people. Despite this, Cloak could use the Darkforce heal people, as shown when he healed a mortally wounded woman.^[33]

A disturbance in the Darkforce dimension at one point changed its properties relative to our dimension. Generally, this change has increased the powers of Darkforce users.^[34] The Darkforce also resonated with Knull's Living Abyss.^[30]

Alternate Realities

Earth-3470

The evil god of darkness Chernobog was the source of the Darkforce in this reality.^[35]

Earth-199999

The Darkforce, also known as Zero Matter, was a form of energy from the Dark Dimension which began appearing on Earth as a result of the chaos caused from World War II.^[36] Isodyne Energy rediscovered the Darkforce in the aftermath of a atomic bomb explosion. The company experimented with it, until an explosion occurred,^[37] infusing Jason Wilkes to become invisible and intangible.^[38] Whitney Frost, with the assistance of Joseph Manfredi and Vernon Masters, attempted to harness the Darkforce from its dimension on several occasions, but was stopped by Peggy Carter and Howard Stark.^[39]

Dr. Abner Croit began experimenting with the Darkforce in an attempt to harness its power. In this attempt, he experimented upon Marcus Daniels, granting him control over the Darkforce.^[40] Russian Inhuman General Androvich had displayed the ability to manipulate the Darkforce.^[41]

Roxxon discovered a mixture of Darkforce and Lightforce beneath New Orleans and build an oil rig and a vast pipe network to harness it. However, one day the oil rig exploded, emitting a shock wave that gave Ty Johnson, Brigid O'Reilly and Andre Deschaine their powers.^[42][43]

Earth-904913

Mandarin's Nightbringer ring could manipulate the Darkforce.^[44]

• Appearances of Darkforce
• Minor Appearances of Darkforce
• Mentions of Darkforce
• Images of Darkforce
• Known Users of Darkforce

The Destiny Force is the name of a mysterious and near-limitless energy source that is said to be inherent in all humanity. It is said to be a powerful energy that is not consciously accessed by human beings and often requires outside activation such as with the cases of Leonard Tippit^[1] and Rick Jones.^[2]

The Destiny Force has been shown to allow users to access a myriad of abilities such as teleportation of matter, potent energy blasts, molecular disruption, time manipulation, mind control on a massive scale, size alteration, molecular reconstruction, augmentation of physical attributes, and self-healing. The human that has shown the most versatility with this power is Rick Jones and his descendants.^[3]

The children of the Future Foundation surmised that certain individuals touched by different metaphysical abstracts unconsciously tap into the Destiny Force to fuel their own capabilities. This includes people like Gamma Mutates, Cosmic Radiates, Ionic Enhanciles, Super-Soldier Serum takers, Annihilus' Cosmic Control Rod, and Pym Particle users. Each and every differing empowerment process feeds back into the same source through a multi-axis graph detailing their originator.^[4]

Alluded to by Uatu the Watcher and ruminated upon by Scott Lang. But yet to've been contemplated upon to understand the source of which powers originate until Onome and Bentley put it all together.^[5]

The current owners of the Destiny Force are Rick Jones, Leonard Tippit, Jonz Rickard, and Thanatos.

• Appearances of Destiny Force
• Images of Destiny Force

A deus ex machina is a literary device, a way of ending a plot by bringing in an outside element to accomplish what the main characters have been unable to throughout the story.

To qualify as deus ex machina, the means of ending the story (defeating the villain, saving the world, etc.) must have been no more than hinted at during the story, or possibly not mentioned at all. It must be done by a person or element which is outside of the influence of the main characters (although bringing in a main character from another story would count- for example, if the Fantastic Four spent five issues fighting Dr Doom, then on the last page Wolverine arrived and stabbed him), and it must completely resolve the story.

Each iteration of the Multiverse had its own devourer of worlds, being the last survivor of the previous multiverse merged with that universes' essence.

History

In the Fourth Cosmos the Devourer of Worlds was an Archetype of Evil known as the What-Must-Be, who also possessed an Archetype of Good form known as the What-Can-Be, a primal being resembling and forming the template for Galactus. Little is known about him, but he was a being from the Third Cosmos. He was possibly the first devourer of worlds.^[1]

In the Fifth Cosmos there was an unknown devourer of the worlds, the last survivor of the Fourth Cosmos.

In the Sixth Cosmos the devourer of worlds was Moridun, later known as Omnimax, the last survivor of the Fifth Cosmos.^[2] His soul survived on past the destruction of the Sixth Cosmos, with his ghost returning in the eighth cosmos.

In the Seventh Cosmos the devourer of worlds was Galan, later known as Galactus, a humanoid being born on the planet Taa, a paradise-like world whose civilization is said to have been the most advanced of any of the known universe of that time, to the scienceer Taaia. However, the Sixth Cosmos and all its universes were in their final stages of collapse due to the multiversal renewal cycle,^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} being consumed by the Abstract Entity known as the Black Winter.^[9][10]. Galan later became the devourer of worlds in the Eighth Cosmos as well, as that multiverse was a direct continuation of the previous.

In the Ninth Cosmos there are at least two possibilities for the devourer of worlds. The first one, Franklin Richards and Galactus of Earth-616 are the sole survivors of the Eighth Cosmos. Franklin will merge with Galactus's energy and became the devourer of worlds of the ninth cosmos.^[11] On the secod one, it will be Bruce Banner of Earth-TRN781 later known as the Breaker Apart. Unlike previous devourers, Banner was possessed by the cosmic being known as the One Below All. Banner was approached by the Sentience of the Universe, who thought that Bruce Banner was still himself and wanted to merge together in order to become a new being in the next cosmos;^[12] however, the One Below All-possessed Hulk grabbed the Sentience and devoured him, which in turn, begun transforming Banner.^[13]

The process of leaving the space of our universe and entering that of another one, accomplished by physical, psychic, psionic, or magical means. The mechanics of dimension travel are unknown to all but a few.

Ambassadors, official representatives, and heads of state^[1] of a country are sometimes granted with immunity while visiting other countries.

In some occasions, armed forces related diplomacy and leaders' protection, such as Atlantean Royal Guard members Janus and Amir, were covered by the diplomatic immunity.^[2]

Doctor Doom, as ruler of Latveria, often benefits of such immunity (on Earth-616 and in other realities),^[3] and sometimes from the protection of heroes and security agencies to enforce that status.^[4][5]

Diplomatic immunity has also applied to extra-terrestrial representatives such as Ord.^[6]

Diplomatic immunity also applies to embassies, considered their home nation's sovereign soil. Examples includes Wakandan^[7] and Latverian^[8] embassies in New York City.

Diplomatic immunity doesn't apply in every country, and can be granted to non-representative individuals, such as Ian Quinn a wealthy mining philanthropist and the owner of Quinn Worldwide which had diplomatic immunity in Malta.^[9]

As recognised ruler of the country Canaan, Moses Magnum had diplomatic immunity,^[10] but he dared not travel to United States soil in person, lest he could be arrested there.^[11]

The process by which parallel and virtually identical realities diverge in the unfolding of events upon reaching a certain point in time.^[1] At this point of divergence, an event occurs differently in each diverging reality, leading to different chains of causality in the separate realities. Divergence is similar to the "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics, in which an event with two possible outcomes gives rise to two universes, one for each outcome.

DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth and development of all known living organisms and many viruses. DNA and RNA are nucleic acids; alongside proteins and complex carbohydrates. Most DNA molecules consist of two biopolymer strands coiled around each other to form a double helix.

In 1953, Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant chemist was the first person to take X-ray diffraction images of DNA, particularly Photo 51, while at King's College London. This led to the discovery of the DNA double helix at Cambridge University for which James Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize.^[1]

In the Marvel Universe exposure to variant forms of energy can cause mutation in DNA, giving beings superpowers.

Doom's Day is a holiday in Latveria. It is an eclectic holiday that is celebrated whenever the ruler of Latveria, Doctor Doom, declares it. Thus, the exact date is variable. Apparently, the people of Latveria enjoy this holiday despite the fact that Doom has ordered them to.^[1]