Now, we’ve talked an awful lot about obscure heroes, so I thought this week it would be a nice idea to take a step back and talk about an obscure villain. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a villain so obscure, he doesn’t even have a physical body, Onslaught.

If you’re familiar with the X-Men, you may noticed the similarities between Onslaught’s design and Magneto‘s. For you see, Onslaught was made from the consciousness of Magneto! And Professor X! After a battle between the X-Men and Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants, their consciousnesses were essentially copied and merged into one, creating a psionic creature more powerful than Professor X and with the knowledge of both Mutant leaders.

Onslaught is one of the heavy-hitters in the Marvel Universe, with supreme telepathic and telekinetic capabilities. While his storylines are rather few, and his personality rather dull, the stories he does take part in are rather intriguing. One of my personal favorites is the AXIS event, where all the heroes and villains have their morality flipped after and altercation with Onslaught.

Onslaught may not have the most compelling stories, and even be involved in a few weird ones (don’t get me started on how he revealed to Jean Grey that Professor X had been in love with her the time), give him the attention he deserves and he could become a rather interesting character down the line.