94. Annihilus

Once upon a time, an advanced humanoid species was planting seeds with life spores. A meteor hit one of their ships and hurled it into the planet Arthros. Generations later, one of the spores evolved into an insect-like creature, which somehow was extremely intelligent and found a knowledge transference helmet to get even smarter. Thus is the story behind Annihilus. This same old story again?

Since he came from humble beginnings being a seed spore and all, Annihilus turned out to be somewhat paranoid about his survival and set out to destroy anything he saw as a threat - aka everyone. With help of the power of flight, an insectoid exoskeleton with armor that can withstand blasts from even Galactus, super strength and a guard of 100 aliens by his side it wasn't so hard.

Annihilus' most important tool though and the one which leads to much strife, since he won't share, is his Cosmic Control Rod. With it he can manipulate cosmic energy to change the molecular structure of matter and project gigantic amounts of destructive energy.

Annihilus wouldn't let the Fantastic Four borrow the Rod when Sue Storm had cosmic ray-related pregnancy complications. They just stole it. Annihilus even abducted the Richards' son Franklin to tap into his powers to further his own. Reed Richards had to shut down his own son's brain for a while just to protect the Earth's Solar System. Oh, and he would have killed Thor once if Odin hadn't intervened.