A partially powered Demiurge (aka the Semiurge) holds off Mother's attacks Fully turns into the Demiurge through the power of love As the full-powered Demiurge, he casually removes Mother from existence, who is an extremely powerful matter manipulator, and removes everyone from the pocket dimension into the main universe. 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. There the boys encountered Master Pandemonium who further strengthened their belief that they are the reincarnated souls of the Scarlet Witch's twin sons. William "Billy" Kaplan, also known as Wiccan, is a human mutant and magician. John Kessler was Billy's main nemesis and after receiving a beating that left him sore and bloody, Billy went to his favorite place to calm down -The Avengers Mansion. 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. When Hulkling is hurt during the battle, Billy uses his powers to put the Sons into comas. New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 3 : All Songs Considered Thus the real Hulkling (disguised as the Super-Skrull) was able to stay on Earth. The first and highest aspect of God is described by Plato as the One ( , 'To Hen'), the source, or the Monad. And what about him supposedly rewriting the laws of magic? Prodigy contacts the younger members of the X-Men at the Jean Grey School, and word gets around quickly. Level 3: While Wiccan has the Power of the Demiurge, all of his matches will destroy their row or column. "Billy Kaplan was a normal high school boy until he discovered his power of Electrokinesis and became one of the heroes he admired. During the events of Dark Reign, Billy and the other Young Avengers encounter another group of superpowered teenagers running around using the name "Young Avengers". The group travels to New York to discuss what they should do, but they are found by Ms. Altman, and defeated. Not to mention the fact that he as the demiurge was drawn by America in said Made in a USA comic run before Catalina showed up. The villain was specifically stated to be after the Demiurge abilities and to finally have them at full power when he destroyed one universe and seemingly himself along with it. The Demiurge regretted even its slight imperfection, and as he thought himself the Supreme God, he attempted to remedy this by sending a Messiah. Coat of Arms refused to leave her team, but Enchantress graciously accepted. This sudden outburst of powers worries the Avengers, who think that it may lead to Wiccan having a mental breakdown similar to that of the Scarlet Witch. But until proven otherwise he isn't. Sylvie was later kicked out. 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. The New Avengers wasn't suggesting it was really bad if that is the case. Then within this intellectual triad Iamblichus assigns the third rank to the Demiurge, identifying it with the perfect or Divine nous with the intellectual triad being promoted to a hebdomad (pure intellect). Before the Vision could reveal the identity of the father, a battle erupted between Kree and Skrull forces over the fate of Hulkling. Wiccan (Character) - Comic Vine It's unclear whether or not he uses magic here. His parents openly accepted his sexuality and welcomed Teddy as a member of their family. Attack on the Gnostic doctrine of the making of the universe by a fallen soul, and on their despising of the universe and the heavenly bodies (chs. Outside, Magneto arrives, saying that he wants Billy help to locate his daughter. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks. The team agrees to look for Speed and they use Miss America's interdimensional powers to find him. Plotinus sought to reconcile Aristotle's energeia with Plato's Demiurge,[5] which, as Demiurge and mind (nous), is a critical component in the ontological construct of human consciousness used to explain and clarify substance theory within Platonic realism (also called idealism). (@ultraphoenix), https://twitter.com/spacekicker/status/1364588644032421889. [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. Some readers believed the twins Malachi and Tobias to have been the kidnapped children of the Scarlet Witch and Vision. In refuting the beliefs of the gnostics, Irenaeus stated that "Plato is proved to be more religious than these men, for he allowed that the same God was both just and good, having power over all things, and himself executing judgment. He is a reality warper, according to Loki. She returned to her own team, and swore revenge on the Young Avengers. When the Scarlet Witch used her powers to recreate the world after the House of M event, she inadvertently recreated both William and Thomas as well. That arc was about him being possessed by octopus-cthulu, who basically broke . @demiurgekaplan: the entirety of multiversal demi urges feats come from statements about creating the utopia parallel. Among these heroes were the Young Avengers. Creates a solid energy construct to allow other people to travel on a platform, He can give other people the power of flight. Demiurge. In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the Ideas, but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "the One". [18] So Irenaeus tells[19] of the system of Simon Magus,[20] of the system of Menander,[21] of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and[22] of the system of Carpocrates. 2, it is revealed by Loki that Wiccan is destined to ascend to a god-like reality warper who will rewrite the rules of magic known as the Demiurge. 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. It was during this time that Iron Lad's future self, Kang the Conqueror arrived to bring Iron Lad back to the future and convince him to accept his destiny. 1. In the show, Wanda gives birth to Billy and his twin brother Tommy after moving to Westview to start a new life with Vision. And how many more times to I have to tell you the visual depiction of interacting with comic panels does not matter? Youre really trying to use a brand new scan that hasnt been explained in a still unfinished story. Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in an unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality. Hes even been mentioned in Strikeforce another recent comic book run with Wiccan himself. Unhappy about this, Billy uses a location spell to find the team, and the real Young Avengers confront the false ones. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll Youre trying to use something that yet to be finished or explained. The "One" is further separated into spheres of intelligence; the first and superior sphere is objects of thought, while the latter sphere is the domain of thought. Dice of the Skrull Kill Krew does the same and he is by all accounts not even particularly powerful. Iron Lad explained he needed help protecting himself from his future self, called Kang. Billy Kaplan on Tumblr - #wiccan Thus their understanding of the Demiurge is similarly flawed in comparison to Platos original intentions. Honestly Wiccan is mostly statements. Issues 1 ,2,3 completely null youre incredibly wrong and incorrect statement. These six, in turn, create another twelve angels "with each one receiving a portion in the heavens". Knocks out multiple people simultaneously, Manipulates water to to knock away a Skrull. Clown move to be jumping the gun so quickly. With the combined focus of Magneto and Speed, he was able to locate the Scarlet Witch, who was presumably dead. Wiccan In Comics Powers, Enemies, History | Marvel Loki's hand is revealed, and Billy is locked in battle with Mother. Plato, as the speaker Timaeus, refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus (28a ff. @j2111: Yeah, I've seen all that before. Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) 4-Star Rarity (Legendary) Heroes, Young Avengers, Team Cap. 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. Like many other heroes, Wiccan and the Young Avengers were granted amnesty following the conclusion of Civil War. On Earth-91172, a world ravaged by the Hulk, Wiccan is a member of the Next Wave of Heroes - the last heroes of earth. These are either hyliko or pneumatiko. The demiurge is also[29] described as having a fiery nature, applying the words of Moses to him: "the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire". This being is considered not only blind, or ignorant of its own origins, but may, in addition, be evil; its name is also found in Judaism as the Angel of Death and in Christian demonology. This is the one in Future State right? Team Affiliations: Young Avengers, New Avengers/AIM (soon). Demiurge (William "Billy" Kaplan, Wiccan) - Superhero Database and our Hence Demiurge never played any part in it's creation. The team confronted the Super-Skrull and freed Hulkling. The team was split up, running rescue missions, relief missions, and interference across Asgard. William Kaplan (Earth-616) | Marvel Database | Fandom A lot of comic books inspired WandaVision, including House Of M and the 1985 The Vision And The Scarlet Witch limited series (by writer Steve Englehart and artist Richard Howell.) [34], The angelic name "Ariel" (Hebrew: 'the lion of God')[35] has also been used to refer to the Demiurge and is called his "perfect" name;[36] in some Gnostic lore, Ariel has been called an ancient or original name for Ialdabaoth. WICCAN | Mighty Avengers The ordering principle is twofold; there is a principle known as the Demiurge, and there is the Soul of the All; the appellation "Zeus" is sometimes applied to the Demiurge and sometimes to the principle conducting the universe. In Young Avengers vol. Robert Reynolds, aka Sentry, descended into the room, prepared to tear the YA apart. [10] In this, he claimed to reveal Plato's true meaning: a doctrine he learned from Platonic tradition that did not appear outside the academy or in Plato's text. Wiccan was featured in the HeroClix figure game. 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. So destroying a universe is his best actual feat not his worst. Magic/Reality-Warping: Billy's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate reality at will, enabling him to tap into the universe's store of magical energies, which he inherited from his spiritual mother the Scarlet Witch. Isn't Raven a magic user? A woman jogger passed by and asked him if he was okay because she saw the boy was bleeding. So what he can one day maybe make a universe in how much time and at what cost? 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. 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. 15). During her marriage to the Vision, the Scarlet Witch used her reality-altering powers to create twin boys Willaim and . Defends against Lucy in the Sky, a strong energy projector, His shield protected him from a giant Skrull with the powers of Giant Man enough so he doesn't die, His most recent self can tank the likes of the Wrecker with his crowbar. Wiccan, Speed, and Hulkling team up with Xavin and the Runaways to defeat the Super-Skrulls that are sent to assassinate Hulkling. Christ, in reality, is the Son of the Good God. THE STORY ISNT FINISHED as I keep saying. During this time, the Super-Skrull stated his belief that Billy and Tommy's similarities in appearance and powers indicated that they were the twin sons of the Scarlet Witch and the Vision. 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. @j2111: It's a twitter post by Kieron Gillen look it up yourself. 1). A hundred years? Raven as the unkindness absorbed infinite planes, timelines, multiverse, gods etc Point blank, "the author confirmed on Twitter that the transformation lightning of the Wizard couldn't even harm the Unkindness, it's basically unstoppable and it's implied that Adam needs to travel back in time to prevent Raven from getting these powers. Wanda vs Wiccan powers comparison question : r/Marvel - reddit Unable to allow another to suffer Kessler's abuse in his place, he confronted Kessler. Special circumstance here as Hulkling was in mortal danger so he was angry. and apparently if he can't hear himself chanting the spell, it won't cast. In Pistis Sophia, Yaldabaoth has already sunk from his high estate and resides in Chaos, where, with his forty-nine demons, he tortures wicked souls in boiling rivers of pitch, and with other punishments (pp. Billy experiments with some names, adopting the name Demiurge, but later reverts back to Wiccan. The latest Tweets from Billy Kaplan (@Wiccan_Demiurge). In the Apocryphon of John, Yaldabaoth is also known as both Sakla and Samael. (Kick Duck Dancing) 16:52 GG - Petrivka 19:49 Daniel Christian ft. Kolly Dee - Slava Ukraine 23:19 Andrew StetS feat. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/6Y934v-iG3NRpVANkwhqbJlExL9r9BuVDNqdz2XRNSEnmIMffLzVNOolz-NaFFXB9FKrzqUThvKZK_DX_eR5-74KBCLwCD8WVZWNPL3NGgba1NKocwdrWzk-kHtsYnxisKM_Zkg06Q=s1600. [40], According to Marcion, the title God was given to the Demiurge, who was to be sharply distinguished from the higher Good God. Wiccan appears in 645 issues. When it is employed by other Gnostics either it is not used in a technical sense, or its use has been borrowed from Valentinus. Transforms himself into the Scarlet Witch, Conjures up clothes in order to look like a prison guard, Gives Kid Loki a teenage body, making Loki even stronger, Undoes the Enchantress' transformation spell. Sometime later, Billy is targeted by the Vridai, a race of shapeshifters expelled from their home during War of the Realms. 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. The second principle is organization in its reflection of the nonsentient force or dynamis, also called the one or the Monad. He also has power over all realities and all possible worlds. The Demiurge, having received a portion of power from his mother, sets about a work of creation in unconscious imitation of the superior Pleromatic realm: He frames the seven heavens, as well as all material and animal things, according to forms furnished by his mother; working, however, blindly and ignorant even of the existence of the mother who is the source of all his energy. He avoided Kessler at all costs until one day he saw Kessler had found a new victim. His origin make it possible that Wiccan is both a mage and mutant. 257, 382). Loki convinces Wiccan to temporarily give him some of his powers, and Wiccan agrees, seeing no other choice. 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. 1618).". He looks at all of reality beneath his feet, Returns to his main body from infinite realities, Scan this QR code to download the app now. At the consummation of all things, all light will return to the Pleroma. Billy Kaplan on Tumblr The is no utopia parallel. Respect William "Billy" Kaplan, aka Wiccan. 22022: "Short statement of the doctrine of the three hypostasis, the One, Intellect and Soul; there cannot be more or fewer than these three. So don't act like I'm the one lacking information here. By stating an intent and focusing on the outcome. Depending on the system, they may be considered either uncreated and eternal or the product of some other entity. Theyre was never a recton that changed how the utopian parallel was created cause according to these recent America comics which still say and show that the demiurge I.e William Kaplan (Wiccan). The Valentinian Heracleon[46] interpreted the devil as the principle of evil, that of hyle (matter). A confrontation with the villain Mr. Hyde led to Wiccan's discovery that Patriot had been abusing Mutant Growth Hormone. Wiccan was created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung. The majority of scholars tend[51] to understand Plotinus' opponents as being a Gnostic sectcertainly (specifically Sethian), several such groups were present in Alexandria and elsewhere about the Mediterranean during Plotinus' lifetime. @j2111: @imquentin: And since all those nonsensical statements we've seen this lame deus ex machina in actual effect in New Avengers. While Billy agrees to be tested, the Young Avengers help his to escape from Avengers Tower. Later, the Neoplatonist Iamblichus changed the role of the "One", effectively altering the role of the Demiurge as second cause or dyad, which was one of the reasons that Iamblichus and his teacher Porphyry came into conflict. Wiccan and Hulkling were surprised to discover their Earth-A counterparts signed up for the Initiative and joined the army without their knowledge. Instead, the Young Avengers continued to function as a team, now using Kate Bishop's resources to support them. Plotinus criticizes his opponents for "all the novelties through which they seek to establish a philosophy of their own" which, he declares, "have been picked up outside of the truth";[50] they attempt to conceal rather than admit their indebtedness to ancient philosophy, which they have corrupted by their extraneous and misguided embellishments. Tanks eye beams from Sentry, and comes out unscathed. The Superhero Database Classification number, or SHDB Class, is a number that represents the overall 'power' of a character. There are instances, however, where he doesn't need to chant to cast a spell. Plotinus, "Against the Gnostics". In the Nag Hammadi text On the Origin of the World, the three sons of Yaldabaoth are listed as Yao, Eloai, and Astaphaios.[31]. The performance might range from a nudge to a certain existential state or outcome, to modified every reality in existence. It was other people that had a problem with him. The Cathars held that the creator of the world, Satanael, had usurped the name of God, but that he had subsequently been unmasked and told that he was not really God."[48]. The box set would prove to be one of the last Marvel Legends products produced by ToyBiz before the Marvel license transferred to Hasbro. Wiccan and Hulkling are thrown into a prison outside their dimension, but are rescued by Loki. 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. The Monad emanated the demiurge or Nous (consciousness) from its "indeterminate" vitality due to the monad being so abundant that it overflowed back onto itself, causing self-reflection. Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) | Marvel Puzzle Quest Wiki | Fandom 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. During this time, Billy attempted to tell his parents that he was a superhero, only to accidentally come out to them. Realizing how hard Hulkling's life has been, Wiccan decides to do something to make it up to him, and finds an alterate universe's version of his Hulkling's mother, saving her before her death. To this Messiah, however, was actually united with Jesus the Saviour, Who redeemed men. The false other-worldliness of the Gnostics leads to immorality (ch. Unkindness has fewer feats and it took her a whole longer to destroy the multiverse. He wiped out Mother and nothing else. While patterning himself after Thor in the guise of Asgardian, Billy limited himself entirely to flight and lightning based spells. Plotinus also elucidates the equation of matter with nothing or non-being in The Enneads[9] which more correctly is to express the concept of idealism or that there is not anything or anywhere outside of the "mind" or nous (c.f. The Runaways rebuked their offer, but joined together when Karolina Dean, the Skrull Xavin, Hulkling and Wiccan were captured by agents of a secret alien-observation base called The Cube. 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. The character has been depicted as a member of the Young Avengers, a team of teenage superheroes, as well as the Champions. After Secret Wars, Billy and Hulking joined the new Avengers team that Sunspot built from A.I.M., facing off against The Maker. In this one-shot about the final adventure of the Avengers, Billy Maximoff chose to be a villain, calling himself the Grim Reaper. The ending panel for issue 3 is, Chavez "sister" revealing more people like her and America created by replicating America's mom's experiments. 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. 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 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. Wiccan's force fields have become progressively stronger through his time in comics. @killianduclark: Thats not even remotely debunking anything. As "Asgardian" he limited his abilities to that of flight and lightning projection. The team continued to fight crime on the streets, including busting dealers of Mutant Growth Hormone, which granted superpowers to ordinary humans. His appearance is patterned on that of two prominent Marvel superheroes, Thor and Scarlet Witch, both of whom are members of the Avengers. Turner, "Gnosticism and Platonism", in Wallis & Bregman. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/forums/gen-discussion-1/raven-the-unkindness-respect-thread-2156619/, There's more too by the way I have not 100% updates that thread, Demiurge Wiccan is above time and reality, and the multiverse. In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good. Of note here is the remark concerning the second hypostasis or Creator and third hypostasis or World Soul. He seems to be steadily losing ground, until Teddy appears to him. The Demiurge belongs to the second kind, as he was the offspring of a union of Achamoth with matter. And what else has the oh so overhyped Demiurge done? Billy scoffed at her advice and told her maybe if he had powers like her he could. You can continue to delude yourself Wiccan is universal let alone multiversal. The battle culminated with Iron Lad killing Kang which altered the past and present. However the utopian parallel was still created by the demiurge. 78). Wiccan appears as a playable character in Marvel Future Fight.