Subterranea (comics)
| Subterranea | |
|---|---|
| Race(s) | Deviant Mutates Ghouls Gortokians Lava Men Lizard Men Molans Moloids Tyrannoids |
| Notable characters |
Mole Man Tyrannus |
| First appearance | Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961) |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Subterraneans | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
(Ghouls) Marvel Mystery Comics #10 (August 1940) (Gortokians) X-Men #41 (February 1968) (Lava Men) Journey into Mystery #97 (October 1963) (Lizard Men) Tales to Astonish #24 (Molans) Avenging Spider-Man #1 (Moloids) Fantastic Four vol. 1, #22 (January 1964) (Tyrannoids) The Incredible Hulk #5 |
| Created by |
(Gortokians) Roy Thomas and Don Heck (Lava Men) Jack Kirby (Moloids) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby |
Subterranea is a fictional realm far beneath the Earth's surface appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Subterranea is a network of massive caves, passages, and tunnels, some large enough to hold cities, that are inhabited by the various races of Subterraneans. The first recorded entrance to Subterranea was found at Monster Island. Subterranea contains water in underground rivers, pools, and lakes. It has high temperatures and no weather and its atmosphere is roughly the same as Earth's surface with fresh air supplied through a passage to the surface world.
In addition to the different races of Subterraneans, the Outcasts live in Subterranea and serve the Mole Man.
Subterranea is a kingdom that was built beneath the surface of the Earth. At one point, it was home to the Deviants. Subterranea did not actually lie at the center of the Earth, but instead consisted of a seemingly planet-wide network of caverns lying miles beneath Earth's surface. Around 20,000 years ago, the priests of the city of Netheria (which was located on Atlantis) foresaw that Atlantis would be attacked by the Deviants who had their empire based in Lemuria. Therefore, the people of Netheria enclosed their city in a dome of an unknown plastic-like substance and excavated and fortified their city's foundations. Consequently when Atlantis sank, Netheria remained intact and its people survived having discovered a means a recycling their air supply. Netheria sank more deeply over the years until it finally came to rest in a huge sub-sea cavern. Afterwards, the Netherians renamed their realm the Netherworld and are now known as Netherworlders.
The Fantastic Four had their first journey into Subterrenea where they discovered that Mole Man and his Moloids reside there. It is also where the Deviant Mutates from Monster Isle make their home.
The immortal Roman scientist/sorcerer Tyrannus also makes his home in Subterranea where he rules over the Moloid offshoots called the Tyrannoids.
During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Mister Sinister has built his own city (based on Victorian-era London) in the Moloids' underground tunnels within Subterranea. The city is inhabited solely by clones of himself and his castle is on the back of a clone of Krakoa. After disposing of a rebel clone, he explains to one of his other clones that he has foreseen that the Phoenix Force would come after Hope Summers, that the Avengers would try to stop it and clash against the X-Men, resulting in the Phoenix Five (consisting of Phoenix Force-possessed versions of Cyclops, Colossus, Emma Frost, Magik, and Namor). He also knows that the Phoenix Five will soon come after him and intends to take the Phoenix energy away from them by using a group of Madelyne Pryor clones. The Phoenix Five leave their teammates behind and track Mister Sinister to Anchorage, Alaska (Cyclops's birthplace) finding out that he built his city in the underground tunnels beneath Anchorage. Mister Sinister then orders his clones to enter into war against the Phoenix Five.
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