Grendel is a vicious, aggressive, bloodthirsty, and dangerous monster who appears in Danish poem Beowulf, as one of the three main antagonists, living in a subterranean cave with his mother, rampaging through the kingdom of Hrothgar. The spirit of Grendel has, in effect, conquered the world. A progenitor Symbiote, Grendel traveled the cosmos devouring entire civilizations until it attacked Earth in the early medieval period, devouring several Norse soldiers before being blasted by Thor's divine lightning and trapped inside a glacier. In 2000, Grendel: Past Prime, a novel written by Greg Rucka with illustrations by Wagner, was published, following the adventures of Grendel-Prime and Susan Veraghen after the assassination of Jupiter I. Knull is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with Venom and Carnage.The character is depicted as an evil deity, who created the weapon known as All-Black the Necrosword and the alien races known as the Klyntar and Exolons. In despair, he throws a world-championship fencing match and becomes romantically involved with Jocasta Rose, a trainer twice his age. Type of Villain Wiggins enlists the aid of Hunter Rose's arch-enemy Argent. The story takes place in between issues 15 and 16, and concerns Captain Wiggins briefly wearing Brian Li Sung's Grendel mask. In 1995, Grendel Cycle was published. As an afterthought, he turns Cross into a vampire servant. Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Type 1), Flight, Spaceflight, Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Elemental Intangibility (His avatar body is fluid in composition), Transformation (Able to form an avatar of Knull from its body mass), Shapeshifting, Body Control, Absorption (Able to absorb other Symbiotes), Fusionism (Able to bond with other Symbiotes and their hosts), The film shows how the events weren't his fault, and were mostly to blame on the greed and aggression of the humans. This was quickly cancelled due to the publisher's financial troubles. Origin Hearing the forging Thor made the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim attacked Thor under the command of Wormwood, leader of the Dark Elves. Comics. As the Progenitor Symbiote, Grendel should have all the powers of Carnage and Venom including Surface Scaling, Enhanced Senses, Elasticity, Weapon Creation, Camouflage, Technology Manipulation, Regeneration (Low-High), Size Manipulation, Reactive Evolution, Mind Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, Duplication, Possession, and Resistance to earthly diseases and poison, Attack Potency: At least Large Building level (Casually overpowered Spider Man and Venom and should be vastly superior to other symbiotes such as Carnage), Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ Reactions and Combat Speed (Comparable to Spider-Man and Venom), Lifting Strength: At least Class M (Far stronger than Venom, a severely weakened version of the Grendel Symbiote bonded to a near dead Cletus Kassidy ripped out Scorn's spine), Striking Strength: At least Large Building Class, Durability: At least Large Building level, Range: Extended melee range, Tens of meters with ranged attacks, Intelligence: Animalistic (When not being controlled by Knull the Grendel Symbiote acts as little more than a bloodthirsty monster bent on causing nothing but destruction), Weaknesses: Electricity, Sonic Attacks, and Heat. Wagner wrote and painted a series of short stories as backups in Grendel Tales, starting in 1994 and collected in 1995. Grendel serves as an antagonist in the first episode of the Wolf Among Us. The mighty Thane warrior Beowulf and his men are eventually called upon and sent to the kingdom. The formerly aloof superpower then allies with Japan and global war results. They were eventually reprinted in the third Grendel Omnibus. Mind Manipulation (Able to infect living things with 'Brain Symbiotes' that place them under his control), Resurrection (Able to reanimate corpses with Brain Symbiotes), Sound Manipulation (Created a symbiote clone able to perfectly impersonate Eddie Brock), Biological Manipulation (Able to control the bodies of those he infects with Brain Symbiotes, turning them into four-armed monsters). It was republished as a ten-issue miniseries, recolored by Jeromy Cox, by Dark Horse in 2003. Tujiro and Thatcher apparently perish in the process. Constance Nebbercracker | Dark Horse re-published Devil's Legacy, recolored by Jeromy Cox, as a 12-issue miniseries in 2000 and a collected edition in 2002. Pellon Cross, head of the mercenary Confederacy Of Police (COP), is hired to provide added security. Brutal Monster. Marvel's Agents of S.W.O.R.D. Zeus | The short piece Devil's Whisper was published in 1989 in A1 Book 4. What happened when he vanished and why he was damaged was not explained until 1996 with the publication of the second Batman/Grendel crossover. The new Grendel's activities draw the attention of the NYPD, in particular Captain Wiggins, whose cybernetic eye acts as a lie detector. It was republished as a seven-issue miniseries, recolored by Matt Hollingsworth, by Dark Horse in 2004. This goes on for the next 12 long and bloody years, with nobody being able to stop Grendel. It was collected by Comico in 1986. America is fragmented into a number of corporate "systems" dominated by a corrupt Catholic Church, now based in "Vatican Ouest" in Colorado and led by Pope Innocent XLII, who is greedily taxing resources to build a huge, ostentatious tower. Grendel is hunted relentlessly by Argent, a several hundred year old Native American man-wolf cursed with a thirst for violence. Finally, Jupiter (now a young man) and Grendel-Prime act against the empire. Each part of the main story is presented as a history text written by Assante's stepdaughter and panels with the characters are presented like archived footage. A trade-paper collection of all 10 issues was published in 2008. Comico Primer #2 (1982) contained the first Grendel story, introducing debonair master-criminal Hunter Rose and his nemesis, Argent the wolf.