57 Facts About Shadow King

Shadow King is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Shadow King's nemesis is the X-Men's leader, Professor X, while he figures into the backstory of the X-Man Storm.

X-Treme X-Men and X-Men: True Friends reveal the Shadow King to be an entity of the astral plane which has existed since the dawn of humanity, an ethereal demon preferring to enslave the bodies of telepaths and psychics and use their capabilities to enslave others.

Shadow King was known as Amahl Farouk in 1931, working for two of Adolf Hitler's special agents.

The Shadow King quickly possessed Rachel Summers and, as Shadowcat escaped, allied herself with Alasdhair Kinross.

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Shadow King began dispersing energy, killing all the Nazi soldiers; von Strucker accused him of treason and tried to shoot him.

Farouk transformed into the Shadow King and tried to force Pryde and Kinross to fight, but they were saved by a young Logan.

Shadow King unsuccessfully tried to persuade Xavier to join him in his criminal activities; Xavier believed that people with such gifts should use them to better the world.

Shadow King became aware of a young mutant, Karma, a member of Xavier's New Mutants with the psychic ability to possess other beings.

Shadow King used her to control the Gladiators, a group of mutants, by using a holographic image of leader Alexander Flynn.

Shadow King used the Gladiators to abduct Magma and Sunspot, forcing them to fight each other until teammates Cannonball, Shadowcat, Dazzler, and Magik tried to rescue them.

Magik, realizing that Karma was possessed by the Shadow King, released her teammates from Karma's control and Karma from the Shadow King.

Shadow King resurfaced many years later in the body of deceased FBI agent Jacob Reisz when Storm had been sent back to childhood by the Nanny and woke up with amnesia.

On Muir Island, the telepath Legion used Cerebro to look for Storm and the other X-Men when the Shadow King attacked and possessed him; he controlled Moira MacTaggert and Valerie Cooper, after which he sent Valerie Cooper to kill Mystique.

Shadow King's youth gave her less control of her mutant powers, and when he tried to possess her mind she involuntarily hit him with a lightning bolt, but he soon found her with Gambit.

Shadow King compelled her to go to the Savage Land to find Rogue, but she was defeated on arrival by Magneto.

Shadow King needed a nexus between the astral and psionic planes to generate a disturbance which would affect other telepaths.

Jean Grey tried to access the astral plane with Cerebro, but the Shadow King overrode Cerebro's defenses and noticed that Jean had lost her telepathic powers and was helpless.

Shadow King tried to turn her into his Shadow Queen, but Psylocke unaware of who he was, threatened him with her psi-blade but ended using it on Jean instead, returning her to the physical world; however, they could not remember the details of the encounter and his identity was not yet compromised.

The Shadow King sent his slaves to defend the island, and they defeated the invaders.

Shadow King ordered the slaves to hide underground because he was going to use Legion's power to destroy the surface of Muir Island.

Shadow King explains to Psylocke that although he was defeated and thought dead by Charles Xavier at Muir Island, as long as one dark thought exists in man, he can live.

Shadow King went into hibernation, for the lack of a better word.

Shadow King eventually confronts the Shadow King and pretends to be tempted by his offer to become the Shadow Queen to distract him while Storm freed the other X-Men.

Psylocke is intoxicated by the power, but keeps her focus and discovers that the Shadow King has left his nexus, the soul of every person on the Psionic Plane, exposed as his body unravels to reach every mind.

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Psylocke uses her shadows to contain the nexus and the Shadow King is trapped, but only as long as Psylocke focuses her telepathy on him, which means she can never use her powers again or else he will be set free.

Sometime later the Shadow King reached Psylocke's mind when she's forced to use Cerebro to cleansed Logan of the Death persona with a little push from each of Logan's closest friends, but Archangel experienced a metamorphosis of his own from his close contact to Apocalypse's handiwork.

The Shadow King eventually managed to convince Betsy to release him in order to help Warren but before she reaches him, Warren himself mysteriously appears on her mind and stop her from setting him free, sending the Shadow King back to his prison when Betsy disconnected herself from Cerebro.

Shadow King was eventually released from his prison when Psylocke perished in combat with the mutant hunter, Vargas.

Shadow King maintained constant telepathic contact and control over them and forced them to kill all the heroes of their world.

The Scarlet Witch's Decimation Wave enabled the Shadow King to bring himself and his team to Earth-616 in order to gain revenge on those who had crossed him.

Shadow King tried to kill Captain Britain with the controlled New Excalibur, but was again defeated by Psylocke.

Shadow King reappeared in Wakanda, where he killed a Wakandan priest and framed former New X-Men member Gentle.

Shadow King then controlled Black Panther to confront his longtime enemy, Storm.

The Shadow King intended to break Storm psychologically, forcing her to choose between the X-Men and her husband.

Shadow King struck Cyclops with a bolt of lightning, stopping his heart and forcing the Shadow King to possess Storm.

Shadow King's nexus survived however and when he recuperated he took over a military base's nuclear facility to use its missiles, aiming them at Utopia and New York.

The Shadow King gave a reporter photographs of Warren killing the military, forcing the squad to apprehend their teammate and seek help from Dark Beast.

Shadow King created an illusion of the Professor and Angel to catch Psylocke off-guard, expressing disappointment at the ease of defeating the warrior who caged him.

Shadow King possessed the Pirates except for Bess, who appealed to Nightcrawler for help.

Shadow King was defeated when Bess and Psylocke threw off his mind control and sent Nightcrawler against him armed with Psylocke's psi-blade, which stunned him long enough to be interred again in Omega Black's body.

Shadow King has since been revealed to be imprisoned in the Astral Plane, but still trying to force his way out to the physical world.

Shadow King began targeting psychics to build a web in order to escape the Astral Plane and the first one was Psylocke, who fell prey to him and would have released him if not for the intervention of Rogue, Old Man Logan, Warren, Bishop, Gambit and Fantomex.

Shadow King reveals that he has imprisoned in his realm the astral form of Professor Xavier.

Logan mentions that while the Shadow King is controlling things there are two minds involved in whatever they are in, which is how he figured out the play was fake.

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Also while Amahl Farouk himself has already been seen on Krakoa, it wasn't clear if the Shadow King was still a part of the mutant's life, until a group of young mutants finishes their training and head for the caves on Krakoa, far from their instructors.

The young mutants confront the Shadow King, encouraging Farouk to dissolve his connection with him, restoring his human mind and personality.

Originally presented as a telepathic mutant second only to Professor X, the Shadow King is truly a multi-universal ethereal entity extending into each reality as a tendril of its larger self, spawned by the first nightmare and preying on the bodies of powerful psychics and using them to enslave others all the while feeding off their negative energy and causes them to slowly merge with his own essence.

Shadow King assumes the guise of crime lord Amahl Farouk and encounters Charles Xavier; they wage a psychic battle on the astral plane which kills Farouk's body, forcing his mind to move there.

When Xavier died, the Shadow King became an agent of Apocalypse and appeared as a cloudy face in a bottle in his sanctum.

Shadow King was the first to sense the presence of Nate Grey, forcing Apocalypse to send Domino and her Bounty Hunters to capture or kill him.

Shadow King later attempted to read the mind of Bishop, but Bishop's memory of the original reality was enough to expel the Shadow King from his mind.

Finally, the Shadow King followed Nightcrawler to the sanctuary of Avalon by hiding in the mind of Dead Man Wade.

The casualties caused by the Shadow King's attack were enough to convince Destiny to accompany Nightcrawler and the X-Men on a mission to Apocalypse's stronghold; Following his defeat on Avalon, the Shadow King was next seen reporting to Apocalypse about Domino's failure to capture Nate Grey and inform Apocalypse about the destruction of the Southwest Kingdom by the Eurasian High Council's radioactive bombs.

Shadow King's mind went to another dimension, where he encountered the Brood and others and became the Shadow King.

Once he revealed the circumstances of his transformation into the Shadow King, he attacked the X-Men with his Brood army; however, Storm's willingness to let go of the past allowed her to attack Farouk, but intentionally, and his form disappeared from the plane, implying that he had died in the physical realm.

Shadow King planned on killing the Battlezone's baron, Senator Kelly, but is stopped when X-Force rescues the X-Men.