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Silver Surfer

Real Name
Norrin Radd
First Appearance
The Fantastic Four (Vol. 1) #48 (March, 1966)
Creators
Jack Kirby
Team Affliations
Heralds of Galactus, United Front, The Defenders, The Order, Star Masters, God Squad, Annihilators
Alias
None
Base of Operations
None (Nomadic)
Powers
Endowed with the Power Cosmic, that allows, among other powers, faster than light speed, matter transmutation and flight
Skills and Abilities
Fighting Experience, Great Intelligence and Wisdom
Tools and Weapons
Board

The Silver Surfer is a superhero in the Marvel Universe and a former herald of Galactus.

Origin[]

In order to protect his planet from the god-like force known as Galactus, Norrin Radd became Galactus' herald, the Silver Surfer, finding planets for him to devour and to warn its inhabitants to leave.  When the Surfer betrayed Galactus to betray the Earth, he was given his freedom at the cost of being trapped on Earth and, later, finding that his home planet was now hidden from him. He became the sentinel of the spaceways, using his power cosmic to help those in need while searching for his home planet.

Biography[]

Norrin Rad[]

Norrin Radd was born on the planet Zenn-La, which was a planet whose technologically-advanced peoples created a utopia that had overcome war, poverty, crime, hunger, poverty, disease and want.  Norrin was born to parents who were both unique in this world: his mother Elmar who found the utopia of Zenn-La to be suffocating to the point that she committed suicide and his father Jartan, who was unusually ambititious for a man from Zenn-La raised Norrin to be intensively intellectual. Later Jartan would commit suicide after being accused of idea theft (but not before fathering another son with a new lover, Ferran, unknown to Norrin).

While most other residents of Zenn-La enjoyed their freedom from want by embracing hedonism, Norrin sought knowledge, education, to achieve more and to improve himself in anyway possible.  He would later meet and fall in love with the woman Shalla Ball and the two became longtime lovers.  In a peaceful but decadent world, Norrin began to hunger for the kind of challenge and adventure that he had read about in books detailing the history of Zenn-La.

The Herald of Galactus[]

Eventually, the world of Zenn-La was approached by Galactus, a god-like being that devours the life energy of worlds, who intended to do the same to Zenn-La.  Norrin was able to persude the planets Council of Elders to give Norrin a space ship confront Galactus in the hopes of finding a way to convince him not to destroy Zenn-La.  When Norrin met with Galactus, he suggested he become his herald, to find worlds for him to devour in exchange for saving Zenn-La.  Galactus agreed, embuing him with some of his cosmic power and transforming him into a silver skinned being with a flying board Galactus dubbed the Silver Surfer.  From then, the Silver Surfer left his homeworld to serve Galactus, seeking out planets that could provide him with the sustainence he needed.

For many years onward (possibly around 100 years), the Surfer traveled the galaxy serving his master by finding him world rich with non-sentient life and learning of the wonders of the universe firsthand.  However, the Surfer found it increasingly difficult for world's to feed on where he would not also devour sentient life.  His hunger for world's overwhelming him, Galactus decided to subtly dim the memories and emotions of the Surfer, making him more willing to take him to worlds with sentient life.

Arrival on Earth[]

Eventually, the Surfer arrived on Earth, gaining the attention of a being known as Uatu, who was part of a race called the Watchers, who watch the cosmos recording its events and history.  Once on Earth, the Surfer warned its people of the coming of Galactus to their world, gaining the attention of the Fantastic Four, a superhero team.  There, the Surfer met Alicia Masters, a friend of the Fantastic Four who believed in the Surfer's nobility and convinced him to try and spare mankind from Galactus.  The Surfer used his powers to try to distract Galactus while the Fantastic Four, under the guidance of the alien known as The Watcher, acquire the Ultimate Nullifier, the most dangerous weapon in the universe.  The Surfer was able to succeed in helping the Four convince Galactus to retreat or face the Nullifer, but as punishment for his betrayal, Galactus cursed the Surfer to be trapped on Earth.

Life on Earth[]

Trapped on Earth, the Surfer was overcome with melancholy, though tried to understand his new home by wandering it.  After a pointless fight with the Thing (over his friendship with Alicia), Surfer thought he had found a friend in Victor von Doom, the ruler of the small nation of Latveria.  However, Doom betrayed him and used his fantastic scientific technology to steal the power cosmic from the Surfer in order to possess it for himself.  Doom was eventually tricked into the barrier designed to keep the Surfer on Earth and as a consequence Doom lost his powers and the Surfer regained them.

Wandering the Earth, the Surfer's view on the beings he sacrificed so much to save became increasingly dim, and his attempt to befriend a fellow outcast, the monstrous Hulk, worked out poorly due to the Hulk's infamous temper. He also came across the sentient supercomputer Quasimodo, created by the evil villain the Mad Thinker, and took pity on it, using his powers to give it humanoid form to facilitate its own agency, only for the Surfer to have to stop it when it proved criminally insane.

Media[]

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, in this film all his power was on his surfboard or at least most of it, and he appears in the cartoon Super Hero Squad Show because of the fame of the film, but he has appeared before before in the animated cartoons of the Fantastic Four.

Powers and Abilities[]

He has the cosmic power gving him:superhuman strength, endurance, and senses and the ability to absorb and manipulate the universe's ambient energy,  has no need for sleep, eating, air and water, can survived hyperspace, stars, black holes and deep space and of course any planet's natural enviroment,can create illusions, black holes,  bolts powerful enough to destory planets, can heal living organism can see in the future,can create interdemensional portals, can phase through solid walls, has silver board that the surfer commands it telephatically nearly indestructible

Powers[]

  • Cosmic Empowerment / Transcendent Mortal Energy Entity Physiology: Currently, the Silver Surfer is one of the most powerful beings in the universe, and the most powerful of the Heralds of Galactus. He was deemed to be an Alpha Plus by the Galadorian Spaceknight Ikon, and potentially a universal-level threat by the Nova Corps. The Surfer has also eventually been recognized to normally hold back and not manifest his full power.
    • Supernatural Condition
      • Superhuman Strength: The Surfer possesses enormous superhuman strength. Though the exact magnitude remains vague, the Surfer has often been shown to fight evenly with people who can lift far in excess of 100 tons. He can also channel the build-up of energy within himself to increase his strength to incalculable levels. He managed to pulverize diamonds with no effort, stopped a charging Rhino, and when in a weak state he even managed to overcome and defeat the Abomination with little effort. The Surfer also forcefully redirected a starship's path and launched it into the outer solar system, and it was stated that it would continue on its straight-line path for centuries. He escaped from Quasar's construct, broke out of a planet that Michael Korvac formed by using nearby asteroids, physically subjugated a dwarf star thrown on him by an enhanced Deadpool and easily redirected it into outer space, and using his speed and strength, the Surfer shattered through several Vibranium walls that exploded on contact to save Nova. When he was extremely weakened, he still managed to pull the Galactus Incubator out of the young living planet Ego, and then throw it a few light-years away, and throw Stormbreaker out of a black hole. The Surfer's potential strength was once said to rival the Hulk's limitless rage-enhanced strength.
      • Invulnerability: The Silver Surfer's entire body is sheathed in a silvery, impervious metallic coating, his "silver skin", is near indestructible, and impenetrable, under normal conditions, making him essentially invulnerable and is almost totally indestructible. Among things that include simple blunt force, like withstanding a punch from She-Hulk without flinching back when the She-Hulk's power level was still just class 75, and not far above class 100 as it is today. The Silver Surfer can withstand even the most extreme conditions, like the crushing pressures of a black hole. He is immune to temperature extremes and most radiation, and can survive in vacuum environments such as outer space and hyperspace. He withstood the extreme cold in the North Pole, as well in the Himalayas, the extreme heat and thermal radiation of atmospheric entry, can fly very close and into the stars without being affected by extreme heat and solar radiation, and can even take supernovas unharmed. Moreover, he was able to travel and live outer space without being affected in a single manner by cosmic radiations.
      • Superhuman Speed: Prior to his upgrade, the Silver Surfer was one of the fastest beings in the universe, but he was greatly outmatched by the Runner of the Elders of the Universe. Currently, he is faster than Beta Ray Bill and Nova. The Silver Surfer can travel at speeds faster than light. He can enter Hyperspace when he exceeds the speed of light, although he is also able to accelerate and achieve faster than light speeds without accessing hyperspace. For example of his speed, Dracula's hurricane wasn't enough to knock him off balance or slow him down, he has used his speed to easily destroy Warships, traveled light years in just 1 second, quickly traveled half a million light years, left Earth and traversed half the galaxy in search of food for Galactus to consume in mere seconds, in just moments, the Surfer flew out of a galaxy, and in a few minutes the Surfer traveled from Earth to halfway across the universe following a call echoing through creation. His speed has been described as “distorting space-time, flying from one side of the universe to the other.” Finally, his mind and body can be used at these speeds as well, making the Surfer extremely reactive and agile. The Surfer has searched the entire planet for Namor in less time than it took for Doctor Strange to finish a sentence, visited and analysed every planet in numerous galaxies in a matter of hours.
      • Superhuman Agility: Silver Surfer has greater agility, balance, dexterity, flexibility, equilibrium and bodily coordination than that of an Olympic-level athlete. But Silver Surfer rarely shows this ability. While flying, he easily dodges bullets and anti-aircraft missiles from military planes, dodges Kree blaster fire, dodged Cyborg Superman's laser beams at point-blank range, and even managed to coordinate his body to avoid a barrage of laser beams coming from several spacecraft simultaneously.
      • Superhuman Stamina: The Surfer's highly enhanced musculature generates no fatigue toxins, body stress, or even sweat, granting him inexhaustible physical stamina, which allows him to fight other beings for prolonged periods of time before tiring, if he even gets tired.
      • Superhuman Reflexes: Silver Surfer can react and dodge objects traveling at Hight speed, much quicker than any normal human. When he was attacked by the Human Torch, the Surfer was able to successfully dodge his attack, as he was able to easily dodge and counter all of the Lunatik's strikes, and effortlessly dodge the Hulk's blow and a rock thrown at him. He is also able to dodge meteors and a lightning bolt, just as he has several times reacted in the space of a microsecond, and even in the range of a nanosecond. The Surfer was even able to analyze a situation in a microsecond and to act much faster than that.
      • Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite his invulnerability, Silver Surfer can be injured, but can heal and regenerate immediately using the Power Cosmic. He healed immediately after being eaten by eagles (Silver Surfer does it intentionally to experience "life and death ..."), fixed his severed hand, restored his arm after being cut off, upon the return of half of his cosmic essence, was instantly healed and at maximum power, and healed from being cut up multiple times when the Cosmic Power was being restored to him. He has managed to fully recover from complete atomic destruction during his battle with Uni-Lord. He can exist without his body; and turn into air and/or snow and can reform himself.
      • Enhanced Hearing
      • Enhanced Stealth
      • Astrobatics
      • Vacuum Adaptation
      • Aerial Adaptation
      • Bio-Metal Mimicry
    • Immortality: Due to his ability to sustain himself, the Silver Surfer is virtually immortal. He is approximately 13.7 billion years old due to having traveled back in time to a previous incarnation of the universe and simply waiting out until the present caught up with him.
    • Flight: Using his board, Silver Surfer can fly through the air and vacuum of space at near-limitless speed. He can fly at supersonic speed, and even faster than light speed. He can also maneuver with great precision in any direction, as well as float in one place. Surfer can fly without his Cosmic Surfboard, projecting cosmic energy through his hands for propulsion, similar to Iron Man's repulsors. Surfer use for the first time to propulse through oil inside the Ego, allowing his to reached the surface. He can fly through the air, at incredible speed, allowing his to take off into atmosphere, and even fly in void.
    • Self-Sustenance: The Silver Surfer does not need to eat or breathe since he absorbs life-maintaining cosmic energy directly through his skin.
    • Soul Absorption Resistance: For example has withstood the Soul Stone, has more than enough spare life force, and not even the stealing tongue of the Wraith Queen mind managed to effect the Silver Surfer, and most impressively he has resisted being absorbed by Mephisto. Mephisto did manage to steal Silver Surfer’s soul once, but the Surfer managed to recover it. The only time Silver Surfer's soul was completely taken away was by Thanos who owned the Infinity Gauntlet and used the Soul Stone. Although the Soul Stone failed to absorb Silver Surfer's soul, although Thanos was later able to use the Soul Stone to remove the souls of the Silver Surfer and Drax the Destroyer after the stone was placed within the gauntlet.
    • Power Absorption Immunity: Due to his cosmic sensibilities, his superhuman abilities can't be absorb. As demonstrated went Rouge's absorbing powers did not affect him.
    • Infrared Undetectability: Surfer do not emanate body heat. This allows him to be invisible for enemies with infrared vision and infrared scans.
    • Cosmic Awareness: His cosmic sense can allow him to comprehend rules of the universe others would find incomprehensible, as well as being able to sense energy concentration anywhere in the universe, sense a human trapped in a falling capsule, read the spark of electrons and surge of chemicals in people, feel the culture of Earth being stolen, and being able to sense that Mephisto was up to something.{ He can also determine the nature of new energy sources, locations, and determine the nature of an energy source and who the beings who created it were. Silver surfer can sense pure consciousness, and sensed Galactus rising 93 million miles away from the sun. Silver Surfer was able to sense the weakness of Gladiator. While in a state of powerlessness, he stated he could've sensed Johnny Storm's death from halfway across the universe. Silver Surfer was able to sense the deaths of billions of beings being killed by Thanos. His Cosmic Awareness can also see as far back as the previous universe as he saw Galactus' origin. He also managed to feel an imbalance in the Power Cosmic, and the High Evolutionary with the Silver Surfer's Power Cosmic was surprised with how much cosmic awareness the Surfer had and how much knowledge he gained so quickly and was able to use the cosmic awareness to find and call out to Galactus' ship across the universe.
      • Cosmic Senses: The Silver Surfer has certain cosmic-energy enhanced perceptions which enable him, through concentration, to become aware of the patterns of energy anywhere in the world. These abilities allow him far-ranging vision (in space he can see people clearly over a light year away), the ability to see subatomic particles, superhuman hearing, the ability to detect fields, traces, and concentrations of pure forms of energy and discern their natures. The Surfer learnt quite a lot of Earth culture due to his cosmic senses, and he also found the greatest ice cream in the universe, felt billions of beings on a planet, and was able to detect new life forms and determine their abilities. Currently the abilities of the Surfer surpass even those of Stardust.
        • Cosmic Sight: Silver Surfer's vision is improved, allowing him to see farther than a normal human. He can change vision between visible spectra, infrared vision, can see signatures / paths of psionic energy, adjusts his vision to continuous brightness, and can see all things up to the “nanoscopic scale”. He can see through illusions, as strong as the Stranger's, a cosmic entity that is of the same class as Galactus. He can see beyond sub-atomic levels. He is able to detect and track Thanos' teleportation path, which is so advanced that the Surfer describes him as a rival to Galactus' level of technology, he can perceive dimensional things that mortals cannot, and can see what's in the universe even if it is billions of light-years away while keeping its clarity perfectly.
        • Danger Sense
        • Cosmic Hearing: Silver Surfer is capable of hearing sounds from a far greater distance than any human. Silver Surfer can know that the person he's talking to is a Skrull in the form of a human just from hearing their heartbeat, and can hear whispers from Earth while on the moon, as well as being able to “hear heartbeats from a light year away”.
      • Long Range Communication: While in space the Surfer was able to speak to Galactus with relative ease while he was at the end of the solar system, showing he could communicate with his master across vast distances, even solar systems away, in the vacuum of space. His board also acts as a long range beacon for Galactus to home in on planets.
      • Empathy
      • Retrocognition
    • Cosmic Energy Manipulation: The Silver Surfer wields "the power cosmic," absorbing and manipulating the universe's ambient cosmic energies, for a a variety of effects. Imbued with the Power Cosmic, the Silver Surfer can manipulates near-limitless cosmic energy, can gather, channel, and manipulate large quantities of Cosmic Energy. Based on cumulative evidence from beings with similar magnitudes of power and his own feats, the Surfer's maximum power output ranges from the casual planetoid/planet and planet level, to the level of a compact star, and plausibly, by employing his ability to channel cosmic energy, and by assimilating another being into himself, to solar system level without getting overloaded (presumably still accounting for a solar system's destruction on his own power). The Silver Surfer has also regularly faced opponents such as Thor and Beta Ray Bill, who destroyed a gigantic star-dwarfing portal as an extreme high-end feat.
    • Cosmic Healing: He can heal living beings (though he cannot raise the dead). He managed to heal a bullet wound, healed Carla from multiple bullet wounds, healed Syrrh from a blaster wound, and healed the massive blaster wound of a creatures. The Silver Surfer managed to heal a Watcher, offered Alicia Masters, a blind woman, a one-touch view of the world, although not permanent, temporarily modified the chemistry of a drug-addicted woman's body to remove drugs from her system, and cured thousands of plagues at the molecular level. Even if Silver Surfer cannot raise people from the dead, he can heal people who are on the verge of death.
    • Size Manipulation: Silver Surfer is able to use the Power Cosmic to manipulate his size. Silver Surfer managed to shrink to sub-atomic size and enter the Microverse, and exit to return to normal size. The Silver Surfer even managed to shrink to such a small size that, to him, atoms were the size of "planets ...then solar system" to escape a black hole. Silver Surfer can change the size of other people and things, for example he managed to bring Metropolis and all its inhabitants back to their normal size.
    • Teleportation: Silver Surfer has displayed the ability to teleport. Silver Surfer also showed that he is able to teleport others, for example he managed to teleport all the ones who were on Sanctuary, while they were inside a black hole.
      • Portal Creation: Silver Surfer can create portals and gates in order to transport to another location. For example, he managed to create a portal, through which they passed "Three Billion Ships" to the new planet which they called “New Newhaven.”
      • Dimensional Travel: Silver Surfer has shown the ability to teleport or travel through dimensions. Silver Surfer managed to enter in Mephisto's Realm - to save Shalla Bal, managed to travel in the dimension of the Other, and even managed to travel in the Singularity (a dimension that literally exist before the universe by flying into a quasar). Also Silver Surfer stated that he can resume his path to any plans of reality and existence he been to before.
    • Intangibility: After reconstituting himself following his "death" battling Knull, the Silver Surfer became intangible. While he is unable to interact with physical objects, he can still affect them with his Power Cosmic and can merge with other living creatures in a manner similar to a symbiote.
      • Phasing: While connected to his board, the Surfer is able to move through solid matter. When being chased by the Human Torch the Surfer phased straight through a skyscraper, coming out the other side intact. He was also able to move through one of Susan Storms' force fields with relative ease. The Surfer can also phase through his own board, as seen when he phased through the bottom of it to look back at Johnny Storm, his feet can remain attached to the board while doing this. The board can also use this phasing ability to absorb projectiles, as seen in the Black Forest when the Surfer used the board to absorb a incoming missile and then expel it's explosive energy harmlessly.
    • Astral Projection: The Surfer can project his astral form outside of his physical body, when in astral form he can perceive and interact with other beings made of spirit, even causing them harm. The Surfer claimed that he could not be harmed in the Astral Plane as it was the source of the Power Cosmic. The Surfer and Mephisto battle in their astral forms.
      • Possession: When Silver Surfer is in astral form he can possess people. He has managed to possess Alicia Masters and give her the power to fight Agatha Harkness (who was possessed by Mephisto).
    • Soul Manipulation: By channeling his cosmic power, Silver Surfer can enter the Astral Plane, which he describes as the source of his power and where he was able to destroy the soul of an enemy. Surfer can ressist he soul from being absorb.
    • Telekinesis: Using his cosmic power, Silver Surfer can lift objects with his mind. His telekinesis allows him to deconstruct weapons and objects, to throw massive space debris at both Aegis and Tenebrous, and surround and hold Millenius with nearby wreckage and send him to the core of a planet.
    • Elemental Manipulation: Thanks to the Power Cosmic, Silver Surfer can manipulate the elements, these include:
      • Pyrokinesis: Generate heat, as well as create and manipulate fire. Silver Surfer can raise the temperature of its flames to the point where it burns hotter than a Nova.
      • Aerokinesis: Generate, control and manipulate air and gases. When Dr. Doom had the powers of Silver Surfer, he managed to create a cyclone with which he attacked Human Torch, and destroyed a certain area of ​​a forest.
      • Hydrokinesis: Generate, control and manipulate water.
      • Cryokinesis: Generate, control and manipulate ice, snow, and cold temperatures. When Dr. Doom had the powers of Silver Surfer, he managed to freeze the Human Torch, temporarily extinguishing its flame, and turning a tropical island into a frozen desert, with very low temperatures and covered in ice and snow "for 24 hours."
      • Chlorokinesis: Generate, control and manipulate plants and vegetation. When Dr. Doom had the powers of the Silver Surfer, he managed to control a tree from a distance to attack the Fantastic Four's ship.
      • Photokinesis: Generate, control and manipulate light. When Silver Surfer and Dawn Greenwood entered a universe cover in dark, and as soon as the darkness began to consume them, Silver Surfer managed to “burn brighter than 10 suns.”
      • Chromatokinesis: Silver Surfer can also change the color of objects, people, etc. For example, in memory of his girlfriend Dawn Greenwood, Silver Surfer changed the color of the Power Cosmic to red with black dots.
      • Gravitikinesis: Silver Surfer can make objects or people heavier or lighter, as well as making things fall apart. His gravity manipulation can also negate gravitational disturbances and has a planetary range.
      • Atmokinesis: Silver Surfer can use the power cosmic to influence and control the weather. When Dr. Doom had the powers of Silver Surfer he managed to create a storm that covered part of New York.
    • Self-Transcendence
    • Powerhouse Alien Physiology
    • Time Arts

Abilities[]

As Norrin Radd, the Surfer was a scientist, a dreamer, and something of a philosopher, skills which he sometimes finds quite useful. Surfer, has shown mastery of Zenn-Lavian 'hypno disciplines' which allow him to hypnotize his enemies long enough to deal with them even when bereft of the Power Cosmic. The Surfer, however, is only an average hand-to-hand combatant, depending almost entirely upon his cosmic powers in battle. During his time on Sakaar in the arena, the savage has proven to be an aggressive hand-to-hand fighter, relying on vicious offensive tactics in the absence of his cosmic power. He has used his cosmic board as a long shield in combat and has adopted both a spiked mace and double-handed sword as his offensive weapons.

Paraphernalia[]

Equipment[]

Cosmic Surfboard: When flying, the Silver Surfer uses a construct which resembles an earthly surfboard. This "board" is made with the same silvery material (The Galactic Glaze) that composes the Surfer's body, thus making the board indestructible. Few forces aside from the power cosmic itself can affect it, and if it is somehow damaged, the Surfer can easily repair it in an instant as well as being able to form additional boards from his body. The board is psionically linked with the Surfer's mind in some unknown fashion, and it follows his commands instantly. It apparently taps cosmic energy in much the same fashion as the Surfer himself, and although the Surfer could theoretically use the power cosmic to fly without his board, the construct enables him to do so without expending any of his own energy. The Surfer generally limits his speed to Mach 10 (ten times the speed of sound) within the outer layers of a planet's atmosphere, can attain 99.99% the speed of light in regular space, and can exceed light-speed within hyperspace. The Silver Surfer is also able to trap living matter into his Surfboard for extended periods of time, or even destroy living matter within the board itself.

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