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This page covers the Image comicbook hero Spawn also known as The One , Hellspawn , Lt. Colonel Al Simmons , Spawn X , Ken Kurosawa , Ipsissimus . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Created by Todd McFarlane, One of Image's first titles about a man who sold his soul to see a loved one once more and seek vengeance on his murderer.
Origin
Spawn was once a man named Al Simmons, He was highly trained as an assassin and was considered the best. He was a well known soldier who was at his most successful when he saved the President from an attempted assassination. He was promoted to a Higher level of the CIA that dealt with the things the Government had kept secret from the general public. Height:6'1 Weight:400lbs(250kg)
However, Al soon realized that the Government wasn't always right and started questioning if they were truly correct in their actions. This caught the attention of people in high power.
Jason Wynn who had long since been his superior found out about this and knew that Al knew too much. So he hired Chapel who was Al's friend and partner to kill him. In a Blazing Inferno Al Simmons was murdered and his soul was sent to Hell because he had unknowingly killed Innocents in his CIA Days.
Malebolgia
Al made a deal to sell his soul to a Demonic Being known as "Malebolgia" to get to see his Wife Wanda Fitzgerald once again. He was allowed to come back however he came back Five Years later as some kind of Strange Hellspawn with no memory of what he had done. After remembering what he had done, He sought out his Wife.....He found her only to find out that his Wife had moved on and married his best friend, Terry Fitzgerald and had even had a child named Cyan.
Violator's Clown form
It was after this event that his demonic guide the Violator whom appeared as a clown. He revealed to Spawn the purpose of his life and fought him but had his battle interrupted by Malebolgia. Now realizing his purpose he must fight to survive against both the forces of Heaven and Hell.
New Life
Spawn’s early battles were very anti-hero like as he went up against street thugs and gangs. He later brutally killed a pedophile and child murderer named Billy Kincaid. It was this act that brought the detective duo of Sam Burke and Twitch Williams into Spawn's life.
Kincaid
Later he was hunted by the Angel Angela who hunted Spawns for sport.
Angela
It is around this time that Spawn becomes “king” of “Rat City”, a gathering of alleys where bums and the homeless live. There he meets the bum Cogliostro who to Spawn’s surprise knows much about him. Spawn would soon battle the cyborg mob enforcer Overtkill who almost killed Spawn, but he was able to emerge victorious. He was again hunted by Angela and would fight the angelic warrior called the Anti-Spawn a.k.a the Redeemer who was infact Jason Wynn. He was beaten, but after this he would often work with Clown to try and kill Spawn again. He would fight with the The Curse, meet Harry Houdini who taught him about magic and also meet Batman.
Tony Twist
After this Tony Twist sends a reprogrammed Overtkill after Terry blaming him for the recent attacks on the mob and Spawn was forced to reveal his identity while saving his friend. However it was a well-placed shot from Twitch Williams that brought Overtkill down this time. He would later bring back his friend Bobby after he was killed in another fight with Chapel. Spawn would be apart of Angela’s trial and later traveled to the South and had an encounter with the KKK and an abusive father of two boys. When he returned to New York he was attacked by a new Redeemer. This caused his costume to evolve and defeated the Redeemer with it’s new found power. After another encounter with the Curse the suit began to go wild and after saving Terry from cancer sent him to Hell, but Malebogia sent him back with full control of the suit.
Greenworld and Urizen
Due to increasing attacks from Heaven and Hell Spawn began to lose himself to evil, however thanks to the arrival of The Heap he was able to regain his goal. The Heap was an emissary of the Greenworld, a dimensions who’s power was equal to both Heaven and Hell’s and did not care for their war, but wanted to stop the destruction caused by it. They gave new powers to Spawn so he could better understand the world and it’s people.
Urizen
It was around this time that Spawn battled the powerful god Urizen. Spawn once stopped a cult from summoning Urizen, but this time he had been summoned by two gate opener demons named Ab and Zab . Urizen was causing massive destruction to the world and after losing a battle to him, Spawn came back and used his new abilities to use the Earth itself to swallow Urizen and imprison him.
The New King of Hell
After his battle Spawn learns that Malebogia caused Urizen’s release in an attempt to start Armageddon and conquer the forces of Hell due to his army being larger at the time and Spawn and Angela decided to journey to Hell and kill him. During the battle Angel mortally wounds Malebogia, but he kills her with his remaining strength and in anger Spawn takes off his head.
Mammon
After killing him he finds that the throne of Hell is rightfully his and it is offered to him by the demon Mammon however he refuses the offer, but after deliberating with his teacher Cog he decided to turn Hell into a new paradise, but Cog reveals that he is Cain the man who killed his brother in envy and the first murder and man to go to Hell. His true goal has been to take over Hell and uses Hellspawn to do it. He betrayed Spawn and took the throne for himself, but gave Spawn the gift of his human form back.
Wandering
After returning he meets a young wiccan named Nyx. With her help he regain his suit, but has lost his much of his power due to still being human without the suit. However Mammon tricks and betrays Nyx and takes her control over Spawns union with his suit and removes all of his memories of the past. With no memory he wanders the Earth and during his wandering releases a group of angels who are called the Forgotten and take no sides in the war between Heaven and Hell. He discovers that Mammon is a member of the Fallen who was sent to Hell and his power is much greater than Malebogia’s.
Armageddon
Spawn regains his memories thanks to the power of the Green World. His suit also evolves once more and now it seems one with his body. He is then captured and tortured to Mammon so he can understand the secrets inside him. After his heart was removed earlier by the Disciple it has become a boy named Chris who along with Sam Burke and Twitch Williams rescues Spawn from Mammon. Signs of Armageddon begin to appear and Spawn begins looking for a way to stop it. Spawn discovers that Wanda’s twin children are responsible and he stops them from killing their entire family, but is unable to destroy them. Zera reveals that Jake is God and Katie is Satan.
Spawn discovers that the Mother removed them of their powers and positions and sent them to Earth due to their hatred of each other and constant fighting. She tells him he cannot stop Armageddon, but he has the potential to be elevated to the power of a God and preserve the human race.
Spawn during Armageddon
He has to eat a piece of Forbidden Fruit from the Garden of Eden to gain such power. She tells Spawn he most prove himself first and has to fight against the The Disciple. It is revealed that there are twelve disciples, each one representing Jesus’s disciples. His power is also weakened as a demon is never to enter the Garden and it has taken the form of a counter staring at 9.9.9.9. However with guidance from Cyan he defeats all the Disciples except for the last Judas who Cyan tells him not to kill. He then stabs him in the heart, but the Mother gives Spawn a piece of the fruit and resurrect him. He gains a more angelic form and greater power.
He returns to Earth finding it destroyed by the four Horsemen and all the humans dead and Angels and Demons in their place waiting to fight in the final battle. After defeating Zera he finds dead warriors of Heaven and one of them is Granny Blake having been betrayed by her faith. Spawn then battles the forces of Satan and God. He uses all the power given to him by the Mother to destroy the forces of Heaven and Hell and even all humanity. He has stopped Armageddon by taking away their armies; he is then killed by the two who then fight alone on Earth.
New World
However Spawn comes back and resurrects everyone with the knowledge of what happened. He left God and Satan to fight in their own little world and closed the doors to Heaven, Hell and Earth. He asked to be turned into a human again by the mother, but later ask to once again become a Hellspawn.
The New Clown
After a series of odd murders Spawn finds that the Clown has come back possessing the body of man named Barney Saunders. It was revealed that Saunders was having an affair with a woman named Wilma Barbera and got trapped in a garbage chute when he was trying to hide from her husband. He was there for sometime until Spawn destroyed and remade the world. He was rescued by Clown so he could use his body for himself. He then brought out the dark urges inside the tenants of an apartment building and used this to form a doorway to Hell to bring back his brother’s. However before he could form a portal Wilma showed up and his love for her allowed Saunders to take back control. He then intended to close the portal by going through it, but he took Wilma with him due being angry over her leaving him in the chute.
Zera reappeared only her head survived and she was suspended in a jar. Spawn was summoned by a Voodoo priestess named Mambo Suzanne. Zera was attempting to take over Nyx’s body and fight Spawn, but she was killed when Suzanne used their fighting as a distraction and through her head into the streets where it was eaten by demon dogs. Nyx was freed and her and Spawn became friends again.
Spawn later found that Ab and Zab had started a hell house where demons called sin eaters would create illusions of people’s greatest sins and feed of their guilt. After killing most of the sin eaters he found that a minister being fed on was his brother Richard and he allowed him to hallucinate to learn about his past.
It was revealed that Mammon knew Al when he was younger under the name Mr. Malefick. He taught Al to kill small animals in hopes of turning him into a killer and his servant and got Richard to do drugs. Only their brother Marc wasn’t influenced by Mammon. Later Richard stabbed his drug dealer named Weasel while high and called his brothers for help, but Al finishes him of instead of being implicated in crime and Mammon hides the body.
Nyx and Spawn then kill the last sin eater and Spawn discovers that Richard cannot remember his parents due to a spell placed by Mammon and Spawn goes to find out about them. He finds their home under a spell placed by Mammon keeping them there for years. His mother is not shocked by his form, but his father is. It was revealed his mother planned with Mammon to create a hellspawn stronger than the others, but his father was grief stricken that he couldn’t stop her. He is then given a journal by his father that his mother prevented him from seeing. It revealed that his ancestor came across a hell spawn in the past known as the Gunslinger Spawn.
Meanwhile Richard is seen giving Ab and Zab some porn and food as they have been trapped in their home by Nyx. He is then seen fallowing Mammon into Hell.
Manga Spawn
Ken Kurosawa was a thug-for-hire who took jobs to make money for medicine for his sick sister Mariko. But one night while going home for his sister's birthday but was killed when a bomb planted in his car killed him and sent him to hell. Seven years later he wakes up to find himself changed and revived as a Hell Spawn in New York. The Violator arrives and tell him to follow him and listen to his instructions. Minutes later the Violator takes him back to California where he finds out he died and his sister is well, and an up-and-coming actress. Happy to see her no longer ill the violator tells him to be prepared as he sees a demon entering her room. He rushes in to save her and learns of his new abilities.
Powers He has all the powers a Hell Spawn would have but prefers to use martial arts.
Spawn's Power
Necroplasm
Raw Nercoplasm
The source of Spawn’s power comes from necroplasm. It is the necroplasm which gives him his strength and durability. Each Hellspawn is given 9999 units of necroplasm and when that is gone they go straight back to Hell. Spawn’s main weapon however is his symbiotic suit. His suit is called Leetha of the 7th House of K or K7-Leetha.
The Power of a Hellspawn
The suit is connected to his central nervous system which allows him to control all parts of the suit, but at times the suit has protected him even if he is unconscious. He uses the suit to create his chains, spikes and to animate his cape to attack his foes, even cutting and dismembering limbs. The costume feeds of the necroplasm in Spawn’s body however the suit can also feed off evil from humans, certain animals such as insects, bats, etc and even from different parts of the city itself. Spawn’s power is only truly limited by imagination and his units of necroplasm. However due to Spawn retaining his military training he often uses firearms instead his powers.
Unique
The Costume
Spawn also has unique powers that other Hellspawn do not have. He can detect when someone is in danger or has been killed and he can feel negative emotions such as pain, hatred and misery. It was recently revealed that Spawn’s body contained a number of olst souls. Twitch Williams estimated that their may have been near 6,000 souls in his body. He was able to summon those souls as Hellspawns anytime he needed thanks to the help from a young Hellspawn named Christopher who escaped thanks to his heart being removed early in a battle. However these souls have currently moved on, put Spawn still has their knowledge and experiences.
Divine Powers
Spawn had been given great power due to the help of the Greenworld and the Mother. He was given the power to control the Earth itself after his battle with Urizen and used this power to swallow him whole in the Earth. After giving him a piece of fruit from the Tree of Life the Mother gave Spawn godlike power. He used these new powers to ingulf an army of Hellspawn in the Earth and send them back to Hell. He also used this power to destroy all of Hell and Heavens forces and the reconstructed all of Earth and it’s people and trapped God and Satan in their own realm to fight
Powers and Abilities
Spawn's powers include him having super strenght and durability and is capable of healing his wounds using his magic.The true source of power is the necroplasm.Sometimes will use his natural powers all his or his maigc abilities in combat.Since Spawn has little weaknesses he always finds good way to use his powers in various ways like his abilty to heal others as well as hisself and to ressurect the dead,and firing blasts of necroplasm,another power that spawn likes to use is teleportation.Spawn has the ability to sense danger and is also able to to shape shift and transform into anyting,and can feed off enrgy from dark things if it's people wolves or bats. Spawn also has full control over his chains and can peform a chain technique that allows them to circle all around him so that they can protect him.Spawn has another power that allows him make enrgy shields using the concept of thought.Spawn is also good with weapons and fire arms due to his great military training,and also knows martial arts techniques.
Alternate Universes
Hellspawn- In this reality Spawn appears as a demon.
Mutations- In this reality Malebolgia never died and instead devoured The Phlebiac Brothers growing even more powerful. He tormented Spawn upon his return with past villains and even made him fight his now Undead body.
Adventures of Spawn- In this reality Spawn is now Spawn-X and he received his powers from an ancient artifact known as the Necro-stone created by the Raven Spawn.
Spawn: Godslayer- A re-imagining of Spawn taking place within a medieval fantasy setting rather than the main Spawn universe.
Spawn/WildC.A.T.S: Devil Days- In this reality, Spawn gained a powerful medallion that gave him god-like powers and caused him to transform Earth into a hellish domain. In this reality, his name was Ipsissimus and he was defeated by the combined might of the WildC.A.T.S from the past and the future as well as Spawn, from before he gained the medallion. Ipsissimus was defeated after he realized the future Zealot was actually Cyan.
The Greenworld
One of spawn's weaknesses is the Greenworld. The Greenworld is a dimension that drains Spawn's powers. Once Spawn is in this dimension all of his past starts to haunt him and starts to make him slow in combat, although Spawn Still knows martial arts. When he is in this world his attacks may not be as strong. Spawn was brought to the Greenworld when he started to gain the upperhand between the battle of him and Violator, Spawn was wounded and sought a way to defeat Violator but would soon find help from the mother who helped him defeat Violator.
The Rebirth
Spawn's most powerful enemy is Urizen. Urizen is a creature who manipulates his opponents powers. When Spawn and Urizen met in battle, Spawn was getting the best of Urizen, he tried to defeat him but was unaware of the powers that Urizen had possessed. Once Spawn found out he struggled of a way to defeat Urizen but would later find his weakness, necroplasmic. Spawn used this to defeat Urizen but after the battle was over he found out that his necroplamic powers were gone.
Spawn's Remaining Powers
After spawn lost his divine powers he still has his other powers...
- ability to slow down time
-ability to freeze time
teleportation
healing
unarmed combat/martial arts
shape shifting
flight
hypnosis
telekinesis
magic
phasing
wall clinging
invisibility
fire control
-dimensional manipulation
The First Mutation
One special power that Spawn has is mutation.Spawn first used this power when he fought the redeemer a anti Spawn from hell that can manipulate enrgy but not powers he also has necroplasmic powers making him a tough foe.This power allows Spawn to mutate into a creature with enhanced strenght this power is similar to shape shifting except he can only evolve to creatures and monsters rather than his opponents.Spawn might use this power when he trying to scare off bad guys or defeat another monster from hell.
The One
Spawn is often known as the one because of his abilities another common reason is because spawn was brought to hell and was leader at one point and would give all other hellspawns orders to defeat their rivals,but Spawn found out that they were evil and then decided that he wanted to leave hell and continue his mission to conquer the world.The ruler was Violator a foe of Spawn and had to fight him in order for him to leave this was the second battle they fought but didnt last long since Spawn had fought him and learned Violator's weaknesses and used them to his advantage.Spawn won the battle then was allowed to leave. Spawn returned to earth very fast due to his speed and teleportation skills after this battle Spawn learned that he had the power to travel to different dimensions.
The First Metamorphosis
After an almost dangerous confrontation with a evil creature known as the Redeemer, Spawns suit mutated and became more advanced. The ususual cape became slighty ripped, and the red glow that had came from the costume was gone, and had evolved to what is now black and white.Spawn used to have boots and gloves but he found out that those had also changed, becoming replaced with spikes. Spawn's suit was more powerful than the original and had also found out that he had a new cape and chains,which were able to shapeshift into different things to confuse his opponents. After finding this out,Spawn used his blade and used it to slash off redeemer's hand. After defeating the redeemer Spawn thought that the battle was over until he meets someone more powerful than the redeemer known as the Freak. Spawn fought with The Freak but was unaware of The Freak's power,the ability to create nightmares which he did to torture Spawn with his past.During the battle a creature appearing to have the original appearance of Spawn, fights other beings and creatures, knocks out spawn. When Spawn woke up the creature tells Spawn that ever since the metamorphosis the suit will feed off souls. After being informed this Spawn later finds himself in New York City.
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