Pryde began talking about the future and the fall of Hitler Lilibet attacked Farouk, disabling him enough for Pryde to disrupt his nervous system (stunning them both and giving Summers time to regain control of herself). Logan ambushed Farouk, von Strucker and Geist, but Farouk had Summers and the servants attack him. Farouk possessed the house's servants and sent them and Phoenix in pursuit. Lilibet escaped, fleeing to Holyrood House. Phoenix unleashed her power on Farouk, but she was subdued and possessed. Farouk transformed into the Shadow King and tried to force Pryde and Kinross to fight, but they were saved by a young Logan. He began dispersing energy, killing all the Nazi soldiers von Strucker accused him of treason and tried to shoot him. The demons entered Farouk's body, overpowering him. Farouk took control of Kinross and tried to kill them both, but Pryde used her phasing powers to disrupt Kinross's nervous system and knock him out.Īlthough Farouk was going to sacrifice Kinross to demons in return for a spell which would annihilate the English monarchy, he was interrupted by Kitty and his crystal knife shattered. Pryde surprised Farouk by calling him "Shadow King", enabling her to escape. When Shadowcat tried to reach Summers telepathically, she found Farouk in control. Farouk kidnapped the heir to the throne, Lilibet, and fled to Edinburgh.
The Shadow King quickly possessed Rachel Summers and, as Shadowcat escaped, allied herself with Alasdhair Kinross. Von Strucker began to doubt Farouk's abilities. When Farouk conducted a mystical ceremony, he accidentally brought back Phoenix Force host Rachel Summers and her teammate Shadowcat (also known as Kitty Pryde).
Von Strucker and Geist planned to dethrone King Edward of England and replace him with a fascist ruler sympathetic to Hitler. The Shadow King was known as Amahl Farouk in 1931, working for two of Adolf Hitler's special agents ( Wolfgang von Strucker and Geist).
As Farouk, the Shadow King originally confronted Professor X (inspiring him to form the X-Men). When Amahl Farouk's powers developed he could psychically control those around him, and merged with the Shadow King. įor many years, the Shadow King's primary human manifestation was Amahl Farouk. He claims to be a multiversal manifestation of the dark side of the human consciousnesses, spawned by the first nightmare, and has since been feeding on the shadows in their souls, transferring from host to host since the dawn of humanity. All that is known is that he was living in Morocco until the 1800s before taking Farouk as a host. As a side effect of its greed, hedonism and lack of self-control, the Shadow King's long-term telepathic hosts are often morbidly obese. X-Treme X-Men and X-Men: True Friends reveal the Shadow King to be an entity of the astral plane which has existed since the dawn of humanity, an ethereal demon preferring to enslave the bodies of telepaths and psychics and use their capabilities to enslave others. ( March 2015)Ĭreated by writer Chris Claremont and illustrator/co-writer John Byrne, the character the Shadow King first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #117 (January 1979) as the telepathic mutant Amahl Farouk.
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The character has appeared in various adaptations of X-Men stories, including X-Men: The Animated Series and Wolverine and the X-Men.įarouk made his live-action debut in the television series Legion, portrayed by Aubrey Plaza and Navid Negahban, where he was the show's primary antagonist. Later writers established Farouk as only the modern incarnation of an ancient evil entity that has been around since the dawn of humanity, who became one with Farouk when he grew older. As originally introduced, Farouk was a human mutant from Egypt who used his vast telepathic abilities for evil, taking the alias Shadow King. His nemesis is the X-Men's leader, Professor X, while he also figures into the backstory of the X-Man Storm. The character is particularly associated with the X-Men family of comics. The Shadow King ( Amahl Farouk) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. 4, 1 (June 2017)īrotherhood of Mutants Jacob Reisz, Ananasi, Lenny, Benny, Cypher, Karma Shadow King, variant cover art of Astonishing X-Men vol.
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