{"id":1973,"date":"2022-10-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:47:39","slug":"minor-super-villain-179-the-beast-ruler-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 179: THE BEAST-RULER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Captain Marvel Adventures 003, 1941)<\/p>\n

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The Beast-Ruler’s origin is simple: for reasons of his own, Dr Sivana builds a human out of animal parts – the muscles of a gorilla, the memory of an elephant and yes, the life-force of a thousand beasts – and that creation promptly rebels and runs off with the remaining beasts that have not had their life-forces squeezed out. A real rookie mistake on Sivana’s part if you ask me – this isn’t his first time toying in God’s domain and he should have lab procedures covering such as a rebellious super-powered humanoid.<\/p>\n

Speaking of super-powers, the Beast-Ruler has ’em (and speaking of names, that’s a bad one). He’s got the full suite of enhanced physical abilities, plus he can communicate with animals, a trait that he quickly uses to organize an army of beasts as a prelude to wiping out humanity. A pretty smart move on the part of the animals, honestly, but Captain Marvel ultimately prevails over this force with the help of other<\/i> animals who choose to side with the human race.<\/p>\n

The breakdown of the animal armies is interesting: wild animals are all on the Beast-Ruler’s side, while Captain Marvel has dogs, cats and a selection of domesticated farm animals, but not all<\/i> of them. Sheep are firmly on the side of the Beast-Ruler and the loyalty of pigs and horses seem to be split, with some representation in each army. If we’re honest, most of the pro-humanity animals were fooling themselves, but they manage to distract the more sensible beasts long enough for Captain Marvel to send the Beast-Ruler head first off a waterfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Captain Marvel Adventures 003, 1941) The Beast-Ruler’s origin is simple: for reasons of his own, Dr Sivana builds a human out of animal parts – the muscles of a gorilla, the memory of an elephant and yes, the life-force of a thousand beasts – and that creation promptly rebels and runs off with the remaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1493,1494,475,44,876,175,246,23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-beast-ruler","category-biological-construct","category-captain-marvel","category-dead","category-dr-sivana","category-fawcett-comics","category-humanity-destroyer","category-minor-super-villain","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}