OIZYS
Real Name: Oizys
Identity/Class: Olympiangoddess (Post-Hyborianera to modern era)
Occupation: Goddess of misery and depression
Group Membership: Formerly Olympians (Greekgods) (Apate,Artemis, Athena/AthenaParthenos, Dolos, Hermes/HermesDiaktoros, Hypnos,Nyx, Zeus/ZeusPanhellenios, others)
Affiliations: Apate, Dolos, Hypnos, Nyx
Enemies: Avengers (Hawkeye/ClintBarton, Hercules/Heracles, Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff,Spectrum/Monica Rambeau, Vision/"Victor Shade"), Conan, Hulk (BruceBanner), Olympians (Greek gods) (Artemis, Athena/Athena Parthenos,Hermes/Hermes Diaktoros, Zeus/Zeus Panhellenios, others), RocketRaccoon, Voyager(Va Nee Gast)
Known Relatives: Nyx(mother), Erebus (alleged daughter), Aether, Charon,Dolos, Eosphoros,Epahos, Epiales, Epiphron, Eros, Geres, Horcos, Hypnos, Lysimeles,Mache,Momus, Phaethon, Phainon, Phoros, Ponos, Porphyrion, Pyroeis, Somnia,Stilbon, Thanatis/Thanatos (brothers), Ataros(alleged brother), Algea,Amphillogea, Androctasia, Apate, Ate, Atropos, Clotho, Dysnomia, Eleos,Eos-Hemera, Eris, Euphrosyne, Hemera, Hesperides, Hybris, Keres,Lakhesis, Lethe, Limos, Neicea, Nemesis, Oizys, Philots, Pseudea,Sophrosyne, Styx, Thalassa, Usmine (sisters), the Oneiroi (Morpheus, Phantasos, Phobetor) (nephews), Alecto,Hecate, Megaera,Tisiphone(alleged sisters), Ophion (alleged grandfather), Eurynome(alleged grandmother), Ouranous (alleged great-grandfather, deceased),Gaea(alleged great-grandmother), Pak-Man(alleged nephew)
Aliases: Miseria (Roman name)
Base of Operations: Olympus
First Appearance: Avengers: No Road Home#2(April, 2019)
Powers/Abilities: Oizys had the typicalOlympian attributes including superhuman strength, durability, immunityto Earthly diseases and a slowed aging process after reachingadulthood.
As goddess of misery, Oizys could cause her victimsto feel intense feelingsof despair when coiled around them, feelings that would leave thevictim not quite in their right state of mind even after Oizys was nolonger touching them.
Oizys fed off her victims' feelings of despair, griefand misery and could assume a giant, superpowered form after absorbinga sufficient amount of negative feelings. As she fed on negativefeelings, Oizys' power levels would also grow, allowing her to summonforth physical representations of that which her victims grieved aboutand project needle-like darkness projectiles that would force anyonestuck by the needles to see visions of their worst despair. However,Oizys could only maintain her superpowered form so long as her victimscontinued to experience feelings of misery and if they overcame thosefeelings, Oizys would be reduced to her true, tiny form.
She possessed a serpentine form and could utilize herprehensile tail to entrap others.
Height: Variable
Weight: Variable
Eyes: None (see comments)
Hair: None
History: (Greek myth/Avengers: No Road Home#4 (fb))- Nyx bore Oizys as the goddess of misery, woe, distress and suffering.
(Greek myth) - The Greeks barely acknowledged theexistence of the malevolent Oizys, thinking of her and her siblings asmere abstract deities.
(Avengers: No Road Home#4 (fb)) - Born into silentexile, Oizys remained protective of Nyx and her siblings Apate, Dolosand Hypnos as they all shared Nyx's sentence to be exiled until the sunno longer shined.
(Avengers: No Road Home#2 (fb) - BTS) - Oizys becameNyx's most favored offspring.
(Avengers: No Road Home#4 (fb))- Oizys and her family were freed from their exile when a game betweenthe Elders of the Universe Gamesmaster and Challengerremoved the Earth from its orbit around the sun.
(Avengers: No Road Home#2 (fb))- Nyx and her children Oizys, Hypnos, Apate and Dolos burst from theground in Olympus and attacked the Olympian gods. During the battle,Oizys coiled herself around Zeus, forcing the Olympian leader to feelfeelings of intense despair and grief. Affected by Oizys' abilities,Zeus revealed the locations of two of the darkness shard he had oncetaken from Nyx's soul before managing to fight Oizys' influence,forcing Oizys to remove herself from Zeus. After Nyx killed Zeus, Oizystook her place at Nyx's feet and Apate rested her arm atop Oizys.
(Avengers: No Road Home#2) - When the Avengers andtheir allies arrived on Olympus and Nyx began fighting them, Oizyscoiled around Hawkeye, forcing him to feel worthless until Voyagerteleported Hawkeye and the others away from the battle to focus onfinding Nyx's other children, who were seeking Nyx's darkness shards.With the Avengers and their allies gone, Nyx focused her attention onVoyager and had Oizys use her powers on Voyager.
(Avengers: No Road Home#4) - Tracking one of thedarkness shards to Omnipotence City by seeing through Scarlet Witch'seyes, Nyx, Apate, Dolos and Oizys teleported there using Oizys, who wasmanipulating the teleporting Voyager.
(Avengers: No Road Home#5) - Oizys remained by Nyx'sside with the captive Voyager as Nyx acquired the first of her darknessshards. Scarlet Witch soon managed to cast a spell using the lightbeing Spectrum to draw the sigils and the Avengers mounted an attackagainst Nyx with Hercules punching Oizys aside. Retaliating, Oizysattempted to use her powers on Hercules but failed to account for theloss Hercules already felt upon learning that Nyx had murdered hisOlympian god brethren. Easily overcoming Oizys' powers, Herculesgrabbed Oizys in a chokehold and slammed her into the ground. AfterScarlet Witch stole the darkness shard back from Nyx and teleportedaway thanks to Voyager, Nyx turned her attention towards Voyager, whom*oizys resumed control over.
(Avengers: No Road Home#6) - Nyx had Oizys manipulateVoyager into transporting Nyx and her family (unaware that Apate andDolos had been replaced Hercules and Vision) to the Hyborian era, whereOizys and the rest of Nyx's family confronted Scarlet Witch and her newally, Conan the barbarian.
(Avengers: No Road Home#7) -Oizys remained coiled around the captive Voyager as Nyx moved toreacquire the darkness shard, only to watch as Hercules and Vision,whom Nyx had thought destroyed, revealed themselves as Apate and Dolos.When Nyx realized she had actually been tricked by Spectrum intodestroying the true Apate and Dolos, Oizys moved near to Nyx as Nyxcried out in anger. Oizys then stayed by Nyx's side as Nyx had Voyageropen a portal that prevented Spectrum from stopping Nyx's usage of thedarkness shard. After shattering the shard and regaining its power, Nyxordered Oizys to clean up as she left to pursue another shard. Oizysimmediately set to feeding on innocent Hyborian era children's despairand when the Avengers and Conan attempted to stop her, she summoned aphysical illusion of Conan's lover Bêlit to attack Conan.
(Avengers: No Road Home#8) - Coiling herself aroundConan, Oizys watched as the Bêlit illusion stabbed Conan in the chest.After Vision blasted the false Bêlit off of Conan, Conan realized thathe was being manipulated by Oizys and bit Oizys in the snout beforesmashing Oizys into the nearby wall. Announcing that he was notimpressed by Oizys' magics, Conan demanded that Oizys heal him or bekilled but Oizys attempted to feed off Conan's grieving feelings.Empowered by Conan's feelings, Oizys transformed into a flowing, darkform and enveloped the false Bêlit, exploding outward in a blast ofdark needles that hit every hero present. Feeding off the Avengers'despair, Oizys grew to a giant form and continued sticking the Avengerswith darkness needles until Hercules managed to overcome his despair tohelp the other Avengers. No longer feeding Oizys' superpowered form,Hercules saw Oizys' true, tiny form for the first time and stepped onher, killing Oizys with a bloody squish. Voyager was then able to useher previous connection to Oizys to divine Nyx's location andteleported the Avengers to confront Nyx, who was already battlingAvengers allies Hawkeye, Rocket Raccoon and Hulk.
Comments: Adapted into Marvel Comics by AlEwing, Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Paco Medina and Juan Vlasco (and JoshuaJames Show-see comments).
While Al Ewing, Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Paco Medina andJuan Vlasco were the creative team behind adapting Oizys into theMarvel Universe, Joshua James Shaw is credited for her design.
Despite appearing to possess eyes, designer JoshuaJames Shaw mentioned that Oizys did not possess true eyes but rather,just fleshy bumps where her eyes should be.
Thanks to Will U/Thor2000 and Dim I Nticoudis forproviding mythological information on Oizys!
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Oizys has no known connections to:
- any other "Oizys" characters
images: (without ads)
Avengers: No Road Home#7, p19, pan1 (Oizys feeding, main image)
Avengers: No Road Home#2, p5, pan5 (Oizys, headshot)
Avengers: No Road Home#4, p15, pan2 (Oizys as infant)
Avengers: No Road Home#4, p15, pan3 (Oizys with family)
Avengers: No Road Home#2, front cover (Oizys lurching forward)
Avengers: No Road Home#7, p18, pan1 (Oizyscrawling)
Avengers: No Road Home#8, p13, pan2 (Oizys' giant superpowered form)
Avengers: No Road Home#8, p16, pan3 (Oizys' true tiny form)
Appearances:
Avengers: No Road Home#2 (April, 2019) - Al Ewing, Jim Zub, Mark Waid(writers), Paco Medina (inks), Juan Vlasco (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: No Road Home#4 (May, 2019) - Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Al Ewing(writers), Sean Izaakse (art), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: No Road Home#5 (May, 2019) - Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Al Ewing(writers), Sean Izaakse (art), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: No Road Home#6 (May, 2019) - Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Al Ewing(writers), Sean Izaakse (art), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: No Road Home#7 (May, 2019) - Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Al Ewing(writers), Paco Medina (art), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: No Road Home#8 (June, 2019) - Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Al Ewing(writers), Carlo Barberi (art), Tom Brevoort (editor)
First Posted: 10/04/2019
Last updated: 10/04/2019
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