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Overview. In Comics Profile. In Comics Full Report. Biography. One of the most mysterious and powerful mutants in existence, the ancient called the Shadow King— sometimes known as Amahl Farouk—has terrorized humanity since the days of early man.
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Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying, all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday. When it does, all that remains... shadow. And I will be its king.
—Shadow King
Prime Marvel Universe
The Shadow King is allegedly a multiversal manifestation of the dark side of human consciousness, spawned by the first nightmare. When the mutant Amahl Farouk lost his father and the market he lived in, the Shadow King appeared to him and promised him that he would never be alone again, Amahl accepted the deal and bonded with the Shadow King. Shortly before World War II, Amahl Farouk worked with Baron von Strucker on a plot to destabilize Britain's political structure, with the intention being Britain allying with Germany in coming war, or at the very least, staying neutral. He first learned of his future enemies, the X-Men and Charles Xavier, and other future history at this time. Shortly after encountering a young Storm, Xavier walked by a restaurant in Cairo when he was suddenly hit with a powerful psychic attack. Realizing the culprit was inside, he confronted Farouk. The two engaged in a fierce battle on the astral plane. Xavier defeated Farouk, whose body slumped over in his chair. But Farouk's evil mind continued to exist on the astral plane, calling itself the Shadow King. (It was also hinted that Farouk was just a body inhabited by the Shadow King). Many years later, the Shadow King sought to attack Xavier, still angry that he had been defeated. He was able to take over the New Mutant Karma due to her own mutant ability of possession making her vulnerable. Farouk possessed Karma for many months, and his eating habits made her grow as corpulent as his last host body. When the New Mutants inadvertently discovered Karma under Farouk's possession, they fought for her freedom and won, forcing the Shadow King out. The Shadow King also chased the de-aged Storm in Cairo. He possessed the body of F.B.I. agent Jacob Reisz as his new permanent host and kept up the search for Ororo. He corrupted the doctor Lian Shen into being his slave and used her and Hounds to hunt the Wind-rider. She was able to escape with the help of Gambit. Meanwhile, Farouk also began manipulating Moira MacTaggert and the inhabitants of her Muir Island facility. This led to Moira and others on Muir adopting more aggressive behavior patterns. Shadow King attempted to compel Val Cooper into executing Mystique for him, and for a time believed she was successful. Eventually, the outside world took notice of Farouk's activities on Muir. Xavier was recently returned from space, and his X-Men were captured on Muir by Shadow King's thralls. Xavier arranged with S.H.I.E.L.D. and X-Factor to make a strike against Shadow King. Farouk believed he had an edge over his foes, since his pawn Val Cooper maneuvered Jacob Reisz into being FBI liaison to the mission. The King was caught off-guard when Cooper was revealed as Mystique in disguise, and his host body was killed. Farouk jumped into Xavier's son, Legion, on Muir Island, but the X-Men defeated his other thralls. In the ensuing psychic battle the backlash re-injured Professor X's legs and spine, but Farouk was apparently destroyed once more. Shadow King later caused the Psi-War, tricking Psylocke into causing a massive wave of energy that disrupted psionic powers across the world. However, he stretched himself too thin attempting to link with all the minds on Earth and was defeated by Psylocke in her new shadow astral form when she assaulted his personal psionic nexus. The Shadow King then became trapped in Psylocke's mind and was unable to enter the Astral Plane. When Psylocke perished in combat with the mutant hunter, Vargas, the Shadow King was free again and attempted to attack the X-Men. However, it seemed Rogue's acquired memories were too much for him to handle, and he was defeated once again. The Shadow King later appeared in Britain possessing an alternate reality Charles Xavier and using that reality's X-Men as his Hounds. He was able to bring the Shadow X-Men back to Earth-616 because of the events of M-Day. He and his Shadow X-Men were defeated by New Excalibur and placed in prison. After an attack on a prison transport failed to free him, he attacked the transport's pilot, Sage. She reflected his mental assault, destroying Xavier's psyche. Soon after, he took control of a guard stationed by the body, and had him utter the word "Psylocke." Psylocke visited the unconscious body and the Shadow King revealed himself. The Shadow King could no longer control Psylocke after her resurrection, so he attempted to get revenge on her by having her watch New Excalibur kill her brother. Psylocke caused the Shadow King's host body to have a stroke, flat-lining him and was just about to plunge her psychic sword into the body when she suddenly disappeared in a flash of light.
Powers
The Shadow King is a multi-universal ethereal entity extending into each reality as a tendril of its larger self, requiring a host body to exist in the material world. Telepathy: Shadow King is a telepath of a very high order to the point he has been stated to be a "true Omega Telepath". According to Storm, with the exception of Charles Xavier, Shadow King is the most powerful telepath on Earth and has easily taken over the minds of strong-willed individuals such as Gentle and Black Panther without their knowledge. He has also shown enough capability to mentally control high class telepaths such as Marvel Girl and Psylocke. •Astral Form: As an astral form he can only be harmed by attacks able to damage such a form, such as psychically or using certain magical weapons. He has demonstrated the ability to live beyond the death of his physical body. •Anchor Host: Shadow King is able to possess other beings while on the astral plane. Although he can influence many individuals telepathically, he typically chooses one host to occupy with his disembodied spirit. This host body effectively becomes Farouk's own. His powers can somehow physically repair damage to the host. Although taking a host gives him more power on the physical plane, it also makes him vulnerable. Killing the Shadow King's host can disperse his astral essence, and it may take months or even years for him to manifest his astral form again.
Weapons
When manifested as a gladiator on the Astral Plane, Shadow King usually appeared armed with Roman weapons.
•It is suggested that the Shadow King, Annihilation, the Adversary, the First Fallen, le Bete Noir, and the Goblin Force are all different aspects of the same thing. Interestingly, several of those are known oppositional entities to the Phoenix Force.
•Because of its greed, hedonism and lack of self-control, the Shadow King's long-term telepathic hosts are often left morbidly obese.
•118 appearance(s) of Shadow King (Multiverse)
•6 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Shadow King (Multiverse)
•14 minor appearance(s) of Shadow King (Multiverse)
•46 mention(s) of Shadow King (Multiverse)
•9 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Shadow King (Multiverse)
•71 image(s) of Shadow King (Multiverse)
References
1.X-Men #117 2.All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #9 3.Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #1 4.New Mutants #6 5.X-Men: Worlds Apart #3 6.X-Men: Worlds Apart #4 7.Uncanny X-Force #8 8.New Mutants (Vol. 4) #14 9.X-Men: True Friends 10.New Mutants #31–34 11.Uncanny X-Men #353 12.Uncanny X-Men #266–267 13.Uncanny X-Men #254 14.Uncanny X-Men #278–280 15.X-Factor #69 16.X-Men (Vol. 2) #77–78 17.X-Treme X-Men 2001 #1 18.New Excalibur #1–8 19.Uncanny X-Force #10 20.Uncanny X-Force #25–34 21.Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #5 22.Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #6 23.Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #11 24.Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #7 25.Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #12 26.New Mutants (Vol. 4) #16 27.New Mutants (Vol. 4) #18–20 28.New Mutants (Vol. 4) #21–24 29.Resurrection of Magneto #3 30.X-Men Forever (Vol. 2) #13 31.X-Man #1 32.Amazing X-Men #2 33.Amazing X-Men #3 34.X-Man #4 35.X-Men Omega #1 36.Mutant X #21 37.New Excalibur #3 38.Ultimate X-Men (Vol. 2) #1 39.X-Men Legends 40.What If...? #32 41.What If...? #33 42.Wastelanders: Star-Lord #1 43.What If...? #46 44.X-Men: The Animated Series S4E16 45.X-Men: The Animated Series S2E03 46.X-Men: The Animated Series S4E11 47.Uncanny X-Force #34 48.X-Men: Worlds Apart #1 49.Nightcrawler (Vol. 4) #8 50.New Mutants #32 51.Uncanny X-Men #266 52.Uncanny X-Men #279–280 53.Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #17 54.New Mutants #31 55.All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #9 56.Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Vol 1 10
The Shadow King (Amahl Farouk) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is particularly associated with the X-Men family of comics. His nemesis is the X-Men's leader, Professor X, while he also figures into the backstory of the X-Man Storm.
Shadow King, conocido en España e Hispanoamérica como Rey Sombra, [1] es un personaje de ficción del Universo Marvel. Shadow King es una entidad de pura energía psíquica que se alimenta de un odio a la humanidad, manifestándose al poseer a los humanos.
24 de may. de 2018 · Let’s look back at some of the most important and memorable moments in the history of Shadow King, otherwise known as Amahl Farouk, from his many comic book appearances… CHARLES VS. AMAHL. The mutant who would become known as the Shadow King, Amahl Farouk, was first seen in UNCANNY X-MEN #117.
When the telepathic mutant Amahl Farouk’s physical body died after facing off against Charles Xavier he became the psionic entity known as The Shadow King.
In the Ultimate Marvel series, Shadow King appears as Storm's lover and the leader of the group of thieves that she and Lady Deathstrike belongs to. Storm sends him into a coma after unintentionally electrocuting him when she used her powers to summon lightning for the first time.
