Who Is Karkas? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Karkas is a Marvel comic book character, with over 93 comic issue appearances. A Deviant who turned sides and became an ally and trusted friend to the Eternals.

Who is Karkas?

Origin Karkas was born to the race of Deviants , an evolutionary offshoot of humanity which is cursed with an unstable genetic code causing random characteristics to crop up with every newborn Deviant child. Karkas was far more monstrously mutated than most Deviants, and was labeled a "mutate." The Deviant priesthood publicly marks for execution all Deviants whom it considers to have varied too greatly in their genetic codes from the rest of their race. Some of these extreme cases, however, are raised to fight as gladiators in the arena before they are sent to their final fate. Karkas quickly developed such size and strength that he was selected to become a gladiator. Although his heavily hided body could resist extremes of punishment, Karkas never had any special inclination to become a fighter. Therefore, he did the minimum required of him as a gladiator to permit his continued existence. In fact, Karkas had a great natural sensitivity emotionally, and was a born philosopher, despite the role of a savage monster that he was forced to play. Creation Karkas was created by Jack Kirby and first appeared in the last pages of Eternals issue 8 from 1977 with his origin story in the issu.

Key facts

Karkas is of other origin and first appeared in "The City of Toads". The character is published by Marvel. With 93 recorded issue appearances, Karkas ranks among the most featured characters in comics.