I'm 2 spooky, wooo edgy
Introduction
D'Spayre is a shameless edgelord, and that's why I love the essence of the character: he's some spooky demon that essentially yells at people to kill themselves cuz life is pain, and he needs to feed on their depression. His very name is a bad pun.
He's also quite powerful when he's actually written seriously, and his capabilities to strip the will of even the strongest of individuals is to be commended.
Cosmic Cube Amp
D'Spayre doesn't use the Cube, but rather feeds on the collective emotions of the nation using the Cube to amplify it. (Avengers-Invaders #7)
Scan 1/2- Traps Strange, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and multiple other heroes using his powers, while also using the body of Aarkus, the orginal Vision (Avengers-Invaders #7)
Database Stuff
Stats and stuff (Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Horror 2005)
Durability
At high amounts of despair, D'Spayre would become immune to physical strikes. This is the opposite when high amounts of positive emotions are about. (Excailbur #35)
No sells a optic blast. (Uncanny X-Men #144)
No sells a strike from Spider-Man, who compares his jaw to the Thing. (Marvel Team-Up #68)
Scan 1/2- No sells dozens of Scarlet Spider strikes. (Web of Spider-Man #128)
Takes a attack from Dweller-In-Darkness. (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #39)
Scan 1/2- Takes blows from Phoenix Rachel Grey while laughing, and overpowers her. (Excalibur #35)
Fear Projection
Scan 1/2/3- After tricking Dweller and Nightmare into driving the planet to despair with their powers, he gains enough strength to scare both of them away easily. (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #40)
Scan 1/2- Drives hundreds of people into madding hate for each other and stuff. (Excalibur #77)
D'Spayre gets his powers from the Dweller in Darkness, a Fear Lord, who also created him. (Doctor Strange #32)
D'Spayre's fear bolt dispels Strange's illusions and needed his cloak to protect him from it. Strange even then was spooked out by the blast. (Doctor Strange #55)
Forces some dude to kill himself using his powers. (Uncanny X-Men #144)
His words are so convincing that Strange can't allow himself to hear them lest he let the dude go (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #40)
Scan 1/2- Hits Cable with illusions from his past, knocking him down to the floor with them. (Cable #13)
Scan 1/2/3- Influences Strange into almost killing himself using his words alone (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #40)
Scan 1/2- Makes Cable and some chick look differently to each other. (Cable #13)
Scan 1/2/3- Makes Strange think he's a mental patent and he's actually crazy all along. (Doctor Strange #55)
Scan 1/2/3- D'Spayre then goes into trying to convince Strange that he is a fictional character, making him think all of his life was a play, then tries to make him think he's just imagining everything and only he exists, and that he should.....take his life, shocker
Strange admits that he came massively close to actually doing this (but he was also effected cuz he lost a loved one, big cry
Manages to encapture Strange after he was moping around. (A-X #9)
Scan 1/2- Scares Man-Thing so badly that he burns away. He does this two times over. (Marvel Team-Up #68)
Stomps Man-Thing again with his powers. (Uncanny X-Men #144)
Terrified Strange with a single touch. (Doctor Strange #55)
Scan 1/2/3- Traps Cyclops inside multiple illusions of his worst fears. (Uncanny X-Men #144)
Scan 4- He gets so scared that he smashes through a window in a attempt to murder himself
Scan 1/2- Traps Rachel Grey in a fear illusion, which leaves her mentally drained and downed. (Excailbur #35)
Scan 1- Turns Black Cat against Spider-Man by making a bunch of spooky illusions. (Web of Spider-Man #128)
Scan 2- Peter in turn was also effected by this power, leaving him a wreck.
Scan 1/2- Shatters Spider-Man's psyche with a single touch, leaving him openly weeping (Marvel Team-Up #68)
Scan 3- Peter gets a second wind, but D'Spayre blasts him with a bolt of fear and he drops again.
Scan 1/2/3- Hits Thing with tons of illusions and stuff, feeding on every bad memory he has and literally burying him inside his own worst memories. (Fantastic Four- Grimm Noir #1)
Magical Power
As a Fear Lord, D'Spayre is a being measured on a cosmic scale. (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #31)
Battles a disciple of Zhered-Na (a chick who fought Dweller-In-Darkness and survived) for centuries. (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #33)
Scan 1/2- Covers Juggernaut in molten steel, which actually hurts him. (Juggernaut #1)
Scan 1/2- Creates a psychic bomb which destroys the mind of the person who had it, as well as effecting Rachel Grey. (Excailbur #35)
Drags Cloak and Dagger into one of his disused dimensions. (Cloak and Dagger #19)
Scan 1/2- Drains enough life energy out of Juggernaut to kill the average person. (Juggernaut #1)
Scan 3/4- As Juggernaut was directly connected to the power of Cyttorak, D'Spayre was able to feed on his power directly, with apparently enough of it to manipulate the fabric of the very universe itself.
Scan 1- Overpowers and takes control of Cloak's Darkform. (Cloak and Dagger #19)
Scan 2- It was eventually revealed that D'Spayre gave Cloak and Dagger their Light and Darkforms, making them unstable on purpose.
Dispels Nightmare's constructs while within his dimension. (The Incredible Hulk #360)
Turns Hulk back into Bruce using his power, splitting his mind while within Nightmare's dimension. (The Incredible Hulk #360)
Scan 1/2- Disguises himself as Wong. (Fantastic Four- Grimm Noir #1)
Strength
Hits Cable with a blow that knocks him down, and uses his powers to feed on Cable's very soul. (Cable #13)
Hits hard enough to knock Thing back with a punch. Thing gets up tho cuz he's T H I N G (Fantastic Four- Grimm Noir #1)
Tower Generation
Creates a mile long tower that drains the will and energy out of sorcerers. (Marvel Team-Up #68)
Turns a normal house into another dark tower, one which causes those around it to be drowned in their worse fears inside illusions. (Uncanny X-Men #144)
Conclusion
D'Spayre is really spooky, and even I'm a bit creeped out by his face
He can really scare people as well, which is cool. His magic is impressive, and his mastery of fear is very much unrivalled. Decent.
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