Kamran is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by G. Willow Wilson and Takeshi Miyazawa and first appeared in Ms. Marvel (vol. 3) #13 (March 2015).
Kamran is a young Pakistani American who discovers his Inhuman heritage after being exposed to the Terrigen Mists which grants him bio-luminescent abilities. After moving from Houston to Jersey City, Kamran is reintroduced to Kamala Khan whose parents are friends with his, and the two quickly bond over their shared interests. After witnessing Kamala change into her alter ego, Ms. Marvel, Kamran reveals his secret to her, which makes her smitten with him.[1] Kamran offers Kamala a ride to school, but instead of taking her to school, he kidnaps her and takes her to his boss, the Inhuman crime boss Lineage who hopes to recruit Ms. Marvel into his gang.[2] Ms. Marvel fights off Kamran and Lineage and escape from them.[3] Desperate to prove himself to Lineage, Kamran kidnaps Kamala's brother Aamir and exposes him to stolen Terrigen Mists which awaken Aamir's Inhuman powers.[4] Aamir doesn't go into a cocoon as those exposed to the Mists usually do, yet despite this, Aamir gains the ability to generate psychic force fields which he uses to overpower Kamran.[5]
Sometime later, Kamran approaches Ms. Marvel, apologizing for his actions, and attempts to reconcile with her. They are interrupted by Shang-Chi, who reveals that Kamran had stolen the mystical Eyes of the Dragon from the Five Weapons Society and was planning on using them to steal Ms. Marvel's life force to empower Lineage. Ms. Marvel, Shang-Chi, and the Five Weapons Society apprehend Kamran and recover the Eyes.[6]
Kamran and Lineage capture Ms. Marvel while she is on a field trip in New Orleans and use her as bait to lure Photon, but the two villains are defeated by the heroines and taken to the authorities.[7]
Kamran's entire body emits brilliant blue-white energy. Using the energy stored within his body, Kamran can channel that energy by expelling it as a discharge or transferring the energy into an object causing it to glow and then explode.
Kamran appears in Ms. Marvel (2022), portrayed by Rish Shah.[8] This version is a Jinn, a member of the Clandestine, and the son of the group's leader Najma.
Kangaroo the Conqueror is an anthropomorphic kangaroo and animal version of Kang the Conqueror from Earth-8311.
Kaorak is a living landmass, created from a powerful magic spell cast by Apocalypse (character) using the ideas of the four elements (earth, air, fire and water). Apocalypse intended to do this ritual with the Four Original Horsemen, but none of them had yet reached the level of enlightenment that he needs for this, so instead, he recruited his familiar dæmon Orc to represent Air, Apocalypse bonded Sunfire (comics) with Redroot to represent Earth, he released Vulcan (Marvel Comics) from his prison to represent Fire and Apocalypse himself representing Water. He then used Storm (Marvel Comics) as a focal point for magic and life itself to give life to the barren land of the Autumn Continent.[9]
Karn is a member of the Inheritors from the Spider-Verse storyline who wanders the Multiverse to slay Spider Totems. He first appeared in The Superior Spider-Man #32 (September 2014),[10] and was created by Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage, and Giuseppe Camuncoli.
During the hunt against Master Weaver, he hesitates to deliver the finishing blow, leading to the death of his mother. As a result, he is condemned to wear a mask by his father Solus, and exiled to hunt Spider Totems to earn his place back in the family.[11]
The time-displaced Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius's mind in Peter Parker's body) later discovered Karn. Assembling an army of Spider-Men, the Superior Spider-Man and his team ambushed Karn while hunting the Spider-Man of Earth-2818, but despite Karn continuing to gain the upper hand, the Spider-Men only escaped when two of Karn's estranged siblings showed up and began fighting.[11] Karn later joins the Spider-Men in their fight against the Inheritors.[12]
Karn realizes that Master Weaver is his future self. He establishes a new team of multiversal spider-heroes called the Warriors of the Great Web, consisting of Mayday Parker, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man India, and Spider-Gwen.
During the "Electroverse saga", an alliance of counterparts of Max Dillon invades Loomworld, damaging the great web while forcing the Web-Warriors to retreat to Earth-803. Karn and an alternate version of Doctor Octopus managed to fix the Web, but tangle it at the same time, causing the Web Warriors to become split between realities. Karn's reconnection of Earth-803 into the web also causes an earthquake that frees the Electros caught by the Web-Warriors.[13]
During the Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy storyline, Karn welcomes Kaine Parker, but soon realizes that he no longer has the powers of the Other and is now dying from a Carrion virus, and cannot go back to his Earth lest someone catch it. Karn shows Kaine many realities with zombie apocalypses caused by this disease, and Kaine decides to visit these realities to find a way to stop it. Kaine tries to keep himself hidden from the Web Warriors while researching, but is caught by Spider-Gwen.[14]
During the "Spider-Geddon" storyline, each of the Spider-Men and Master Weaver has been keeping an eye on Earth-3145 by sending different Spider-Bots to check on them, discovering that while alive, the Inheritors have gotten malnourished from lack of spider life-forces. Unknown to the Spider-Men and apparently to Master Weaver himself, the Inheritors are collecting the heads of the Spider-Bots with Jennix stating that they now have the resources they need.[15] When Spider-UK and Master Weaver get alerted to an Inheritor Cloning Engine on Earth-616, the two of them figure out what is happening. On Earth-3145, Jennix has put the Spider-Bot heads to good use by harvesting their transmitters. As they are unable to send a kill signal to the Inheritor Cloning Engine, Spider-UK advises Master Weaver to call the Web Warriors. When Master Weaver states that nobody can fight the Inheritors and win, Spider-UK states that they'll die trying to keep another world from being destroyed.[16] Karn is then confronted by Verna for having sided with the Web Warriors as they fight to the death. After Karn stabs Verna, she still feeds on him as he is now a Spider-Totem.[17] When Karn's dead body is found by Spider-Nor-Man, it is devoured by Spiders-Man of Earth-11580.[18]
Like the rest of the Inheritors, Karn can drain the life force from other beings through physical contact. Depending on the power of the individual he drains, his powers and vitality can increase substantially. He also has superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and durability. He has a staff that emits a unique energy signature capable of vaporizing people.[volume & issue needed]
As Master Weaver, Karn threads the Web of Life and Destiny, gaining dominion over various realities. He can open portals at his command or alter realities.
Karnilla the Norn Queen is a sorceress and the Queen of Nornheim (one of the Asgardian provinces) within the Marvel Comics Universe. She has been depicted as an enemy of Asgard, an ally of Loki, and love interest of Balder the Brave.
In her debut appearance, Karnilla saves Balder the Brave from being assassinated by Loki; justifying this action by saying that, like everything that existed in Asgard (with the exception of mistletoe) she had promised to protect Balder.[23] She then lends magic to Loki using the Norn stones.[24]
Later, she accidentally grants the supernatural power intended for Loki, to the Wrecker.[25] Then allying with Loki, and tricking Sif into animating the Destroyer.[26] During this plan, she becomes romantically attracted to Balder.[27] She declares her love for Balder, but is spurned.[28] Heartbroken, she pits Balder against the ''Legion of the Lost''.[29] She tries to tempt Balder to renounce his service to Odin,[30] and then capture Balder.[31] She then saves Balder and the Warriors Three from the Thermal Man.[32]
Karnilla casts a spell that wakes Odin in time to defeat Infinity.[33] She succeeds in forcing Balder to renounce Odin and serve her instead, but it's not long before she releases him from her service.[34] With Loki, she creates Durok the Demolisher to battle Thor.[35][36]
Additionally, she allies with Thor against Mangog and Igron.[37] She and Balder then defend Asgard against an assault of animated suits of armor. They then battle the Enchantress and Executioner, but are defeated by Kroda the Duelist.[38] She later battles Loki to save Balder.[39]
After a while, she is rejected again by Balder, who had given up his career as a warrior on returning from the dead.[40] Undaunted, she abducts Balder and his new beloved, Nanna. Karnilla forces Balder to agree to marry her, in order to save Nanna's life.[41] With Loki, she later releases a Snow Giant to battle Thor, but she then betrays Loki and is defeated by him.[42] She then seeks Balder's forgiveness for Nanna's death.[43]
Karnilla reveals the location of the Rose of Purity to the Enchantress.[44] Subsequently, she joins Loki and Tyr in an alliance against Odin.[45] Later, she is petitioned by Balder to join forces with Asgard against Surtur.[46]
Karnilla then schemes to keep Balder with her in Nornheim.[47] However, she eventually comes to regret her actions after realising that she had truly fallen in love with him.[volume & issue needed] She is then captured by Utgard-Loki and the Frost Giants, who torment and humiliate her by cutting her long black hair down to a flat top and forcing her to be their slave.[48] She is returned to Nornheim after being rescued by Balder and Agnar[49]
She later saves Balder from the forces of Seth.[50] Some of her subjects which had been turned to stone are then returned to life, although still stone.[51] Karnilla joins a resistance force against the death-goddess Hela. Her allies include the Warriors Three, the wolf-prince Hrimhari, various troll races and the mortal New Mutants. They accomplish their goal of saving Odin from death at the hands of Hela.[52]
Following the Fear Itself storyline, Karnilla begins to prepare an attack on the now-Earthbound Asgard. Her first assault intends to replace Thor (killed by the Serpent with a wound that created a rift in time and space) with a new thunder god Taranus (really a disguised Ulik), with the memories of all Thor's allies being altered so that they remember Taranus rather than Thor, save for Loki.[53]
Karnilla comes to the defense of Asgard when Hela's armies of the dead threaten it.[54]
Karnilla is a member of the race of superhumans known as Asgardians, giving her superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes. She also possesses additional powers through her manipulation of the forces of magic, including the enchantment of physical and sensory abilities, physical malleability, temporary paralysis or sleep, inter-dimensional teleportation, energy projection and deflection, elemental conversion, and illusion-casting. She can even cast permanent spells interdimensionally with no significant preparation or effort.
Karnilla possesses vast knowledge of magical spells and enchantments of Asgardian origin, granting her skills that have been described as equal to those of Loki,[55][56] or surpassed only by Odin among Asgardians.[57]
In the Ultimate universe version of Asgard, Karnilla is a central member of the royal court. Her favor is sought through light-hearted games of wrestling and sparring.[58]
Vasily Karpov is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America (vol. 5) #5 (March 2005), and was created by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark. He was an officer of Soviet Russia during World War II, as well as the handler of Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier and mentor of Aleksander Lukin and Alexi Shostakov / Red Guardian.[60][61][62][63][64]
Vasily Karpov appears in Captain America: Civil War, portrayed by Gene Farber.[65] This version is a member of Hydra who arranged the assassinations of Howard Stark and Maria Stark in the early 1990s. In 2016, Karpov is interrogated and killed by Helmut Zemo.