You need to read the story again. Forcibly teleports Loki to the Young Avengers, Teleports a car in front of an asteroid so it crashes, Transports Hulkling's "mom" to the 616 from a completely different universe, Locates Bucky Barnes and teleports his teammates to him, Teleports people in close proximity to him. Back at the Avengers Mansion, Billy was eager to begin Sylvie's training, but she seemed more interested in getting closer to Billy, whom she appeared to be attracted to, causing Billy a degree of discomfort. The law of necessary procession and the eternity of the universe (ch.3). When Norman Osborn invaded Asgard with his army of superpowered beings and H.A.M.M.E.R. He has received some form of training from Loki during his time in the Young Avengers, so he may take less time to cast his spells and have better control. Teddy assisted Billy by posing as him while he and Speed went on a search for the Scarlet Witch to learn more about their past. Shards: The Shards are the fragments of Primordial beings and are slightly stronger than any Demiurge. During a trap laid by Iron Man and the pro-registration heroes, in which they planned to immediately take out the resistance's teleporters - Cloak & Wiccan - Wiccan was captured and sent to the N-Zone prison for his involvement with the underground Avengers. Wiccan and the Young Avengers fought alongside the New Avengers to end the conflict. After a dangerous and adventure-filled trip through the multiverse, the team ventures to Mother's dimension to rescue Teddy. While still trying to decide how to continue their activities while staying under the radar of the New Avengers, Hulkling was kidnapped by the Super-Skrull. The word demiurge is an English word derived from demiurgus, a Latinised form of the Greek or dmiurgs. Acts as a safeguard while the Scarlet Witch and Doom try to access the Earth's Life Force, which is what gave HoM Wanda her powers. You will notice in the following scans that it takes him around 2-3 chants for the spell to fully activate. A partially powered Demiurge (aka the Semiurge) holds off Mother's attacks, Fully turns into the Demiurge through the power of love. A bit desperate too. Unkindness has fewer feats and it took her a whole longer to destroy the multiverse. While being attacked, Billy's powers manifested for the first time. (ch. The absurdities of the Gnostic doctrine of the fall of "Wisdom" (Sophia) and of the generation and activities of the Demiurge, maker of the visible universe (chs. Timaeus describes the Demiurge as unreservedly benevolent, and so it desires a world as good as possible. Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) 4-Star Rarity (Legendary) Heroes, Young Avengers, Team Cap. But the devil, as being a spirit of wickedness, is able to recognise the higher spiritual world, of which his maker the Demiurge, who is only animal, has no real knowledge. She returned to her own team, and swore revenge on the Young Avengers. He avoided Kessler at all costs until one day he saw Kessler had found a new victim. Honestly Wiccan is mostly statements. He seems to be steadily losing ground, until Teddy appears to him. hansfenton123 The demiurge is also described as a creator in the Platonic (c.31090 BC) and Middle Platonic (c.90 BCAD 300) philosophical traditions. The user is able to perform/cast a rare variety of magic spells and feats that manipulates reality itself to various degrees. Sam Wilson and his newly Inverted Avengers shrunk all the gathered heroes down using Pym particles extracted from the Wasp (presumably against her will) and trapped them all in one of Hank Pym's microscopic ant farms, thereby taking care of the "liability". The first and highest aspect of God is described by Plato as the One ( , 'To Hen'), the source, or the Monad. Clown move to be jumping the gun so quickly. After three months in exile, Wiccan and the team are approached by the former X-Man and mutant Prodigy, who tells them that Speed, Wiccan's twin brother, was kidnapped by a mysterious figure wearing a Patriot uniform. The is no utopia parallel. Following an analysis by Scholem this etymology no longer enjoyed any notable support. Being raised in a normal home in New York with his loving mother, Rebecca Kaplan, father, Jeff Kaplan, and two brothers, Billy had the average problems for a gay teenager. For relatively simple spells, such as his shields, lightning, and conjuring, he doesn't chant the spell (on panel at least). Hence the title of Plotinus' refutation: "Against Those That Affirm the Creator of the Kosmos and the Kosmos Itself to be Evil" (generally quoted as "Against the Gnostics"). But Yaldabaoth, the Demiurge, with the material world, will be cast into the lower depths. The first name is Yaltabaoth, the second is Saklas ["fool"], and the third is Samael ["blind god"]. writes, "There is a direct link between ancient Gnosticism and Catharism. The true believer in Christ entered into God's kingdom, the unbeliever remained forever the slave of the Demiurge.[28]. 6). How is it likely that shes not lying when the demiurge is still a thing everywhere else? The Superhero Database Classification number, or SHDB Class, is a number that represents the overall 'power' of a character. Kat Farrell of the Daily Bugle was at the scene, dubbing them the "Young Avengers" and after reporting to J. Jonah Jameson of the Daily Bugle he decided to put Jessica Jones on the assignment of finding out who they were. The latest Tweets from Billy Kaplan (@Wiccan_Demiurge). [8] This self-reflection of the indeterminate vitality was referred to by Plotinus as the "Demiurge" or creator. (Kick Duck Dancing) 16:52 GG - Petrivka 19:49 Daniel Christian ft. Kolly Dee - Slava Ukraine 23:19 Andrew StetS feat. The group travels to New York to discuss what they should do, but they are found by Ms. Altman, and defeated. I want to know about that, Who would win between this wiccan and Mr Mxyzptlk cause raven is more powerful than him and Perpetua. 1012). Superhero Class. Team Affiliations: Young Avengers, New Avengers/AIM (soon). The Demiurge regretted even its slight imperfection, and as he thought himself the Supreme God, he attempted to remedy this by sending a Messiah. In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge (/dmi.rd/) is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. Unable to allow another to suffer Kessler's abuse in his place, he confronted Kessler. Tanks eye beams from Sentry, and comes out unscathed. In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, which have many affinities with the doctrine of Valentinus, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but still more prominent is their chief, "Yaldabaoth" (also known as "Yaltabaoth" or "Ialdabaoth"). Unable to control them, he electrocuted Kessler, nearly killing him. Soncesvit - Bulawa (Aerofoil Remix) 25:59 The Faino - Arkan Recognizing the Runaways under attack by registration agents on a monitoring screen, the Young Avengers set out to assist them and convince them to join the anti-registration side. The Demiurge will rewrite the rules of magic and all the implications of that decision will echo forward and backward across all realities. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll The only other thing he ever did was wipe out a dimensional parasite, that is at best as powerful as any other entity ruling their own dimension like Mephisto or the like, but likely considerable weaker. We've seen it done by far lesser characters. As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. Wiccan's magic is similar to his mother's, the Scarlet Witch. Coat of Arms refused to leave her team, but Enchantress graciously accepted. Wiccan doesn't have sufficient control over his powers to fully utilize the Demiurge's powers. You just said yourself the universe he destroyed was fixed by time travel, so not beyond time or reality or time travel would not affect it. Turner, "Gnosticism and Platonism", in Wallis & Bregman. But until proven otherwise he isn't. Dark Reign During the events of Dark Reign, Billy and the other. Teleports an entire prisoner van to a secure SHIELD location. Of course, their threats were played off and ignored. The Young Avengers later encountered both Kate Bishop and the daughter of the late Ant Man (Scott Lang), Cassie Lang. In order to test if his feelings are genuine, the two agree to temporarily break up. Level 2: While Wiccan has Mystical Destiny, he will transform into the Demiurge if you have at least 8 AP in all colors. Thus, in such systems, the Demiurge acts as a solution to (or, at least possibly, the problem or cause that gives rise to) the problem of evil.[14]. Among these heroes were the Young Avengers. I have and we still dont know if shes even telling the truth considering theyre are factors that still arent explained that were established in Americas solo run in 2017-2019. The battle culminated with Iron Lad killing Kang which altered the past and present. @j2111: Yeah, I've seen all that before. It's literally all from the same run. Also America: Made in the USA(2021). This vilification of the creator was held to be inimical to Christianity by the early fathers of the church. The team is quickly defeated even after the team of Initiative recruits arrive. The Demiurge who created the elder gods is not even the same entity, as the writer who came up with this nonsense for Wiccan confirmed, the great old ones that pic talks about appear to be the many-angled-ones, who are not even the same as earths elder gods created by the demiurge and again get over the fact that it shows him with comic panels, that has happened with lesser characters, what he actually does in that scan is wipe out one being from another dimension mostly powered by Billys standard powers and transport a bunch of fodder back through the portal they were right next to. With that Osborn took his leave, and left the team alone. In Young Avengers vol. When he does, multiple fights break out between the various groups trying to capture the Scarlet Witch. This article is about philosophical concept of a Universal Fashioner. He was supposed to have been safely locked away, guarded by the Avengers, but when a recently inverted group of Avengers (Sam Wilson, Scarlet Witch, Luke Cage, Wasp, Medusa, and Thor) went to check on him, they found that he'd escaped. His powers thus far have manifested on a localized scale in a variety of ways through the upper limit of his powers has yet to be seen. When his powers first manifested, he nearly killed someone. 1). I get how powerful wiccan is i really do but LMAO WHAT THE HELL IS HOMEBOI DOING TO THE UNKINDNESS, @yungbaby: Shes the ultimate villain of the DC multiverse, it happened during the future state event. So what he can one day maybe make a universe in how much time and at what cost? "For, in sum, a part of their doctrine comes from Plato; all the novelties through which they seek to establish a philosophy of their own have been picked up outside of the truth." Plotinus argues of the disconnect or great barrier that is created between the nous or mind's noumenon (see Heraclitus) and the material world (phenomenon) by believing the material world is evil. In that series, Wanda and Vision conceive twin sons. Demiurge Prime Marvel Universe (Earth-616) Others Others Billy Kaplan Moridun Year 20XX destroyed by Moridun (Earth-16364) Categories Categories: Disambiguation Pages Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. At first, it was presumed that Billy was just an electrokinetic mutant with strong sorcery abilities. The mountain represents the Devil, or his world, since the Devil was one part of the whole of matter, but the world is the total mountain of evil, a deserted dwelling place of beasts, to which all who lived before the law and all Gentiles render worship. "[47], Catharism apparently inherited their idea of Satan as the creator of the evil world from Gnosticism. Character During the AXIS event, following the Inversion of several heroes and villains on the island of Genosha, the Red Skull was held captive in the Avengers Tower. The Valentinian Heracleon[46] interpreted the devil as the principle of evil, that of hyle (matter). They are rescued by Noh-Varr and Kate Bishop, and the team flees to Central Park in order to avoid bringing too many people into the spell. All realities mean omniverse. They insanely overrated wiccan. And what else has the oh so overhyped Demiurge done? The team continued to fight crime on the streets, including busting dealers of Mutant Growth Hormone, which granted superpowers to ordinary humans. He briefly achieves this form, and is able to view the past, present and future, as well as freely alter the universe. Ridiculous arrogance of the Gnostics who refuse to acknowledge the hierarchy of created gods and spirits and say that they alone are sons of God and superior to the heavens (ch. Wiccan ( William " Billy " Kaplan-Altman [1]) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Through magic, he is strong enough to clobber Loki. Demiurge. 78). Armstrong alluding to Gnosticism being a Hellenic philosophical heresy of sorts, which later engaged Christianity and Neoplatonism.[53][54]. This is the one in Future State right? However the utopian parallel was still created by the demiurge. The team defeat the creature, but Wiccan's spell is still in tact. Hippolytus claims that Simon used a similar description.[30]. Plato, as the speaker Timaeus, refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus (28a ff. [28][43] In this most common form of Gnosticism the Demiurge had an inferior though not intrinsically evil function in the universe as the head of the animal, or psychic world. Iron Lad explained he needed help protecting himself from his future self, called Kang. Of note here is that while Plotinus' student Porphyry names Christianity specifically in Porphyry's own works, and Plotinus is to have been a known associate of the Christian Origen, none of Plotinus' works mention Christ or Christianitywhereas Plotinus specifically addresses his target in the Enneads as the Gnostics. 1. Billy Kaplan, also known by his superhero alias Wiccan and formerly Asgardian, is a super-powered warlock and the reincarnated son of the Scarlet Witch. The Ophites held that he and his demons constantly oppose and thwart the human race, as it was on their account the devil was cast down into this world. Wiccan discovered that he and the newest recruit, a youth with super speed by the name of Tommy Shepard, were identical in appearance. Soon after, Billy married his longtime boyfriend, Hulking, however, their new life is briefly interrupted when Hulking takes his rightful place as the king of a Kree and Skrull alliance. Not to mention she proves that she can inhibit America's powers by dosing her with a counter serum. The members are Quentin Quire, Patriot, Lightspeed, Speedball and Sophie, Mindee and Esme Cuckoo. Billy explained to the woman what had happened and was shocked to see the woman was none other than Scarlet Witch. Doctor Strange has also claimed that Wiccan has the potential to be the next Sorcerer Supreme. Philo had inferred from the expression "Let us make man" of the Book of Genesis that God had used other beings as assistants in the creation of man, and he explains in this way why man is capable of vice as well as virtue, ascribing the origin of the latter to God, of the former to his helpers in the work of creation.[17]. The earliest Gnostic sects ascribe the work of creation to angels, some of them using the same passage in Genesis. she absorbed the realms of nightmare and dream . They started off by helping out the community, such as saving people from a burning building. It's also not in English like normal. Robert Reynolds, aka Sentry, descended into the room, prepared to tear the YA apart. The utopian parallel was said to be created by and I quote the very breath of demiurge stated by America herself multiple times. Iron Lad had found Teddy Altman (Hulkling), Elijah Bradley (Patriot) and now Billy Kaplan (as "Asgardian") who all three agreed to help him, despite their lack of experience. His analysis showed the unattested Aramaic term to have been fabulated and attested only in a single corrupted text from 1859, with its claimed translation having been transposed from an the reading of an earlier etymology whose explanation seemingly equated 'darkness' and 'chaos' when translating an unattested supposed plural form of Hebrew: , romanized:bhu. I don't know why people saying he is multiversel, etc. Since that night, Billy's father never did. Billy appears in the WandaVision TV series on Disney+, portrayed by Baylen Bielitz as a 5-year old and Julian Hillard as a 10-year-old. He has received some form of training from Loki during his time in the Young Avengers. It's not fair. He also is vitally important in Avengers: Children's Crusade (which is more or less an unofficial volume of . Psalm 82 begins, "God stands in the assembly of El [LXX: assembly of gods], in the midst of the gods he renders judgment",[16] indicating a plurality of gods, although it does not indicate that these gods were co-actors in creation. In this future, he is the Sorcerer Supreme. The impossible son of a witch and a synthezoid, Billy Kaplan was always going to be powerful, but Young Avengers - from writer Kieron Gillen and mainstay artist Jamie Mckelvie - revealed that Wiccan is actually the Demiurge, a force of life and magic who, when he comes of age, will redefine the rules of magic and become functionally omnipotent. Billy was impressed with the magical capabilities of Sylvie Lushton, aka Enchantress. Of the entire team of YA Lite, only Enchantress and Coat of Arms (who had been tested by her old acquaintance, Tommy, aka Speed) were asked to join the Young Avengers. The main character refers to the Demiurge as the entity who "fashioned and shaped" the material world. [40], According to Marcion, the title God was given to the Demiurge, who was to be sharply distinguished from the higher Good God. Prodigy contacts the younger members of the X-Men at the Jean Grey School, and word gets around quickly. 45). Wiccan and Hulkling from this reality, also known as Earth A, came to Earth-616 as tourists, and for some reason they registered in the Initiative. Billy of the Young Avengers, son of the Scarlet Witch and brother to Speed and that's pretty cool, also I'm gay. Like many other heroes, Wiccan and the Young Avengers were granted amnesty following the conclusion of Civil War. At full maturity, a Demiurge is stronger than any Nephalem, including one sired by an Arch-angel/demon and can use their unique powers to kill them with ease except not when one is using its true potential. Wiccan continued as a member of the Young Avengers (now including Tommy as "Speed") until the events of Civil War and the Superhero Registration Act forced the team to go underground as part of Captain America's anti-registration team of superheroes. @j2111: It's a twitter post by Kieron Gillen look it up yourself. Unwillingly, Wiccan's spell to bring back Hulkling's mother has brought back the parents of multiple heroes, including Ms. America's. The ending panel for issue 3 is, Chavez "sister" revealing more people like her and America created by replicating America's mom's experiments. In Battle of the Atom, a future version of the X-Men was depicted operating out of the Jean Grey School. Isn't Raven a magic user? Sylvie revealed to them that she was not actually from Asgard, but that she woke up one morning with powers. The Demiurge of Neoplatonism is the Nous (mind of God), and is one of the three ordering principles: Before Numenius of Apamea and Plotinus' Enneads, no Platonic works ontologically clarified the Demiurge from the allegory in Plato's Timaeus. In the Apocryphon of John c.AD 120180, the demiurge arrogantly declares that he has made the world by himself: Now the archon ["ruler"] who is weak has three names. For he said, 'I am God and there is no other God beside me,' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come. @stahlflamme: is this demiurge( wiccan) isn't the same old demiurge? [28], Opinions on the devil, and his relationship to the Demiurge, varied. The true Platonic other-worldliness, which love and venerates the material universe in all its goodness and beauty as the most perfect possible image of the intelligible, contracted at length with the false, Gnostic, other-worldliness which hates and despises the material universe and its beauties (chs. One night, Billy was angry at his father for no good reason, and yelled at him, telling him never to read to him again. He has the power to rewrite and shape reality to his will. As the Demiurge, Billy is destined to "rewrite the laws of magic" in the universe, meaning that he is a being of power on a massive scale. As he writes in his commentary on John 4:21. He joined Ultron in attacking the Avengers. This link to Judeo-Christian tradition leads to a further comparison with Satan. But what he (demiurge) showed or said is less than what raven did in the future state (destroyed: the new genesis, speed force wall, hell). That night, however, the woman attacks Wiccan's parents. The dyad is energeia emanated by the one that is then the work, process or activity called nous, Demiurge, mind, consciousness that organizes the indeterminate vitality into the experience called the material world, universe, cosmos. One Gnostic mythos describes the declination of aspects of the divine into human form. Both Jarvis and the Hulk tried to sway them from taking such measures, but they refused, and unwittingly unleashed Kluh - the Hulk's Hulk. He should curb here. It has been demonstrated that without the ability to hear his own words, the spell cannot be cast, though other uses of his powers have been done seemingly effortlessly and without words. Vision confirmed the story of the twins. Once Scarlet Witch had heard the full story of his troubles at school, she told him that next time he was threatened the best thing to do would be to stand up to Kessler. At the consummation of all things, all light will return to the Pleroma. It is possible to interrupt the cast, and apparently if he can't hear himself chanting the spell, it won't cast. The Young Avengers were lured into a trap set by the Young Masters, who were waiting with Osborn's Dark Avengers to take down the YA. Sylvie was later kicked out. He IS omniversal. 09:51 Andrew Stets ft. Soncesvit - Gutsul. Billy's issues escalated as he grew older and entered high school where his differences became the source of endless torment and violence. The prophecies are ascribed not to the chief but to the other world-making angels. on 01/09/22 The bad guy possessing Wiccan needed around TWENTY YEARS to destroy ONE universe at which point he was stated to be at full power and it did not go through time or affect another universe, as the storyline had people go back in time to prevent it and it worked. It was other people that had a problem with him. [28][42] And as Achamoth herself was only the daughter of Sopha the last of the thirty Aeons, the Demiurge was distant by many emanations from the Propatr, or Supreme God. And what about him supposedly rewriting the laws of magic? Respect William "Billy" Kaplan, aka Wiccan. So don't act like I'm the one lacking information here. He is blind to all that is spiritual, but he is king over the other two provinces. 588 B. SMT. Especially considering said story isnt even completed and is still running so whos to say Catalina is lying? During this time, Billy attempted to tell his parents that he was a superhero, only to accidentally come out to them. Hes even been mentioned in Strikeforce another recent comic book run with Wiccan himself. In the future, Wiccan will become the Demiurge, a singular multidimensional Messiah, according to Loki. He even held the comic panels in his hands and manipulated what was going to happen in then for gods sakes Im pretty sure he takes this. Wiccan is capable of a variety of feats, including, but not limited to: In House of M, Wanda recreated her sons William and Thomas as the younger members of the Magnus family. His brother Tommy, who was a trained sorcerer, assisted the Avengers and the two fought each other until their father the Vision intercepted and destroyed Ultron, ending the battle. That arc was about him being possessed by octopus-cthulu, who basically broke . Billy scoffed at her advice and told her maybe if he had powers like her he could. People need to get over the fact that they potrayed it as him standing on the comic panels. To this Messiah, however, was actually united with Jesus the Saviour, Who redeemed men. When Loki teleports away, seemingly abandoning the team, Wiccan sees no choice but to kill himself in order to end his spell, but is saved by Loki's return. Cookie Notice The battle was negotiated when the Super-Skrull disguised himself as Hulkling and agreed to spend time with each empire before deciding which to join. [27], He is Demiurge and maker of man, but as a ray of light from above enters the body of man and gives him a soul, Yaldabaoth is filled with envy; he tries to limit man's knowledge by forbidding him the fruit of knowledge in paradise. It was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan", but gradually came to mean "producer", and eventually "creator". Comic Vine users. Plotinus, along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas, was the founder of Neoplatonism. 13:29 CJ Mars - K.D.D. Do you read what you are writing? William "Billy" Kaplan, also known as Wiccan, is a human mutant and magician. The former was dkaios, severely just, the latter agaths, or loving-kind; the former was the "god of this world",[41] the God of the Old Testament, the latter the true God of the New Testament. and our Demiurge Wiccan has more impressive feats. Some readers believed the twins Malachi and Tobias to have been the kidnapped children of the Scarlet Witch and Vision. and apparently if he can't hear himself chanting the spell, it won't cast. Quispel[who?] ). The Latin translation, confirmed by Hippolytus of Rome,[24] makes Irenaeus state that according to Cerinthus (who shows Ebionite influence), creation was made by a power quite separate from the Supreme God and ignorant of him. In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good. Evangeliou, "Plotinus's Anti-Gnostic Polemic and Porphyry's Against the Christians", in Wallis & Bregman, From "Introduction to Against the Gnostics", Plotinus', Armstrong, pp. Knocks out multiple people simultaneously, Manipulates water to to knock away a Skrull. During this battle, Billy revealed his ability to cast spells where he had previously limited himself to lightning projection and flight due to his inexperience. Unhappy about this, Billy uses a location spell to find the team, and the real Young Avengers confront the false ones. In this act of separate creation, she gave birth to the monstrous Demiurge and, being ashamed of her deed, wrapped him in a cloud and created a throne for him within it.
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