![]() ![]() ![]() He captured nearly all of them, placing them in an hourglass filled with a deadly gas, and sent Power Man after the Vision who defeated Power Man by disguising himself as Power Man and Power Man as himself. He allowed Black Panther to escape so that the Avengers could be contacted so they would be lured to the Lethal Legion members' location, before capturing Black Panther again. He first sent the Man-Ape against them, who captured Black Panther. In his next appearance, the Grim Reaper confronted the Avengers with his original Lethal Legion composed of the Living Laser, Power Man, the Man-Ape and the Swordsman. Taking the "Grim Reaper" name, he became a professional criminal and defeated Hawkeye, Goliath and the Wasp, placing the three Avengers in comas, but was beaten by the Black Panther's surprise appearance. Through his Maggia contacts, he contacted the Tinkerer to provide him with his scythe weapon, which was further enhanced by Ultron with coma-inducing abilities. Learning of his brother's death, Eric was inflamed with guilt and anger. Simon was freed from jail by Baron Heinrich Zemo, induced by an offer of revenge on Iron Man and the Avengers to which Eric's brother was transformed into Wonder Man. Simon embezzled money from the company to invest with Eric, but Simon was caught and jailed. ![]() When Williams Innovations began to fail, partly due to competition with Stark Industries, the desperate Simon turned to Eric's mob ties for help. Eric eventually became a gambler, joined the Maggia and moved to Las Vegas, while Simon took over the family business, Williams Innovations. Eric also became more rebellious, and tried to get Simon to join in his petty thefts. As they grew older, Simon grew studious while Eric was an athlete. Simon felt guilty for not stopping Eric, and resolved to be responsible for Eric from there on. One day Eric was playing with chemicals in the garage, and caused a fire which burned down their house. At the same time, their mother was loving and attentive to Simon, making Eric bitter and jealous. His father even preferred to watch TV lazily, while Eric was torturing the family cat. Eric's father was charged with disciplining him, but was abusive and uncaring. His mother Martha would tell him that he was "born bad", while heaping affection on Simon. 3, #1.Įric Williams, the brother of Simon Williams, was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He has been killed many times, depicted in Web of Spider-Man #46, Dark Reign: Lethal Legion #2, Chaos War: Dead Avengers #3, Uncanny Avengers #5 and #21, and Vision Vol. The Grim Reaper first appeared in The Avengers #52 May (1968), by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. The character will be portrayed in live-action by Demetrius Grosse in the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Grim Reaper ( Eric Williams) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Energy absorption and projection via scythe.Supernatural strength, stamina, and durability.With the setup out of the way, check out our ranking below. Additionally, the weapons of choice for each reaper will play a factor in how they are ranked, especially with the Soul Eater characters. As for how we are ranking these reapers, we're looking at the scale of their abilities first, then the power and skills and lastly, we'll be taking into consideration the strength of the enemies that the reaper has beat. Of course, this isn't always the case, but the fact still stands, death in anime is often personified as someone or something with great power, which is why we decided to rank some of the strongest personifications of death in anime.įor this list, we tried to keep the entries limited to well-known anime and characters, so there may be multiple characters from the same anime, particularly Bleach and Soul Eater, which focus on souls and death. A lot of the time, these anime death personifications are some kind of powerful warrior, a Shonen-anime fighter-type who's ability to reap souls is dependent on their battle ability. In anime, personifications of death are usually unconventional, and even when they fit some aspects of the Grim Reaper or Shinigami (death gods), there still tends to be some curveball thrown into their background, design, abilities or overall character. ![]() There have been countless interpretations of the grim reaper or some equivalent personification of death across all of pop culture it's a concept we love to explore, the idea of death taking shape and facing people in their final moments, and it's one that has taken many forms. ![]()
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