—Brotherhood of Badoon[source]We are the Brotherhood of Badoon! We come from beyond the furthest star---and from a world so ancient it has no name!
The Badoon were notable for having a gender schism, resulting in two separate societies:
- the Brotherhood of Badoon, ruled by a Brother Royal, lived on the planet Moord and founded the Badoon Empire,[2]
- the Sisterhood of Badoon, ruled by a Queen, resided on the Badoon homeworld of Lotiara[3] (Capella System),[4] also known as "Swampworld"), 42.2 light years from Earth.
Additionally, a third major group, known as the Moord or the Fifth Caste of the Badoon, were Badoon tinkered by the Kree similarly to Earth's Inhumans. Those included Badoon of both genders. Like the other components of the Universal Inhuman, the Fifth Caste was led by a Queen.
Badoon have long been allies of Thanos, enslaving lesser evolved civilizations across the galaxy, who were put to work for Thanos as well as the Badoon's barbaric needs. Slaves were taken to their homeworld and placed under the control of the slave trade council.[5] Aliens were kidnapped from their worlds and put them to work on their prison planet.[6]
History
Origin
The Badoon were older than the Kree and the Skrulls, having evolved from reptilian ancestors.[7] There was a natural hatred between the two genders, and they fought each other in long gender wars. Eventually, the males won, placing the females in captivity. In time, the males developed technology and abandoned Lotiara, returning only when their mating drive made it necessary. The males became conquerors of worlds, while the females became pacifists, content to remain in peace on their homeworld and ignorant of the males' star-spanning empire.[3]
Among the Brotherhood's attempted conquests were the Zen-Whoberis and the extra-dimensional world of Polemachus.[8] They were known to form alliances with the Brood[9] and the Kree.[10] At the time of the Annihilation Wave, the Badoon controlled 37.7% of the Milky Way galaxy.[11] The Badoon had recently warred with the Skrulls and Kree.[10][12]
Moord

The Kree experimented on Badoon to create weapons, changing them into Inhumans. Those experiments involved them consuming one drop of diluted water from the dormant Amphogen, a mutagenic substance able to trigger powers, a process known as Amphogenesis.[13]
Biology
The Badoon were a reptilian species.[14] The male Badoon had almost no hair, while female Badoon were often covered in lengthy fur.[3]
They possess inner eyelids and by watching them twitching could determine what the Badoon was thinking.[1] The Badoon also had green blood.[5]
Reproduction
Being a reptilian race, the Badoon were oviparous and laid eggs,[15] though they also had some mammalian features. Once every sun cycle, the Badoon would be overcome with a madness to propagate and when members of both sexes began to mate they would force on one another, until ending in a stalemate.[3]
After the eggs were laid, the male Badoon would take them for incubation. If males hatched they would remain with the Brotherhood, if females hatched they would be returned to their mothers.[3] Oil of Atlantean origin was shown to be nourishing to their eggs.[15]
Hybrids
The Badoon were able to breed with the female Centaurians.[16] Brother Royale conceived a hybrid daughter with one of his alien slaves.[17]
Alternate Realities
Earth-691
The Brotherhood of Badoon attacked the worlds of the United Federation of Earth in the early 31st century, starting with Centauri-IV in 3006 A.D.[18] and conquering Earth and the solar colonies on Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto in the year 3007 which became known as the Badoon Wars.[19] Earth was liberated in 3015 by the Guardians of the Galaxy and the surviving humans of Earth who had recently been freed from captivity by time-travelling members of the Defenders. The defeated males were then removed from Earth by the Sisterhood of Badoon.[20]
Earth-928
During the attack of insanity brought by Psiclone, the androgynous harlot Cash imagined the Badoon between the races of extraterrestrials who swarmed the streets of Transverse City.[21]
Earth-9223
A future timeline which arose following Magus' defeat in the present. In this timeline,[22] the Badoon were responsible for the extermination of the Zen-Whoberis, leaving Gamora the only survivor.[23]
Earth-9445
When Yondu left his Yaka dagger on Moord in the past of the 21st century, it created a new timeline in which the Badoon discovered this metal and greatly revolutionized their technology. The Badoon searched for more of this metal through space, and a group led by L'Matto came across the Centaurian homeworld which was rich in Yaka metal. The Badoon attacked the Centaurians, and despite the native's best efforts to drive them back the attackers emerged victorious. The Badoon managed to drive the male Centaurians into hiding while capturing the female Centaurians, leading to the rise of the Badoon-Centaurian Hybrids who took over Centauri-IV.[16]

Earth-9997
Even in the Earth-9997 reality the Defenders traveled to the future to aide the Guardians of the Galaxy to defeat the Badoon.[24]
Earth-12041
The Badoon apparently created the Badoon Cylek as a parasitic bioweapon capable of great destruction. One of these creatures somehow landed on Earth's moon where it began causing gravitational effects that led to natural disasters on Earth, until it was destroyed by the Avengers.[25]
A group of Badoon were seen on the Mojo Ensign-Class Warp-Ship's Arena 6C as audience members of "Mojo-Pocalypse."[26]
Earth-21178
Wanting to impress Tella, Rocket Raccoon attempted to steal a ship from a group of Badoon criminals. However, as they confronted him Tella took the ship for herself and flew off, leaving Rocket at the mercy of the thugs.
Lady Hellbender had claimed a ritual mask belonging to the Badoon.[27]
Earth-21443
After Kang's Biomechanoids infected the Avengers Mountain, they used its powers to break time. This resulted in the Brotherhood of Badoon to arrive from the future on Earth where they fought against the Avengers wearing Mech suits.[28]
Earth-44131
Thanks to the progress made in this universe, the Badoon became part of an Alliance of Unity Across the Stars which also included the Kree, the Skrulls, the Shi'ar and the people of Earth, all of whom worked closely together, sharing ideas, mutual respect and strong pacts. The Badoon were annihilated when Doctor Doom from Earth-616 arrived and, unable to admit that it was his own flaws that kept him from achieving the utopia that his reformed counterpart had helped create, used an Ultimate Nullifier to destroy all life in this reality.[29]
Earth-92131
A representative of the Badoon was consulted by Majestrix Lilandra of the Shi'ar Empire on the fate of Dark Phoenix.[30]
Earth-93068
The Badoon of this reality decided to invade Earth at last. Mutantkind and humanity united to repel the invaders, and many heroes were lost, including Professor X and Nick Fury. However, the tide turned when a team was sent in a recon mission in the Badoon Throneworld, where they were immediately attacked by the Badoon, but Wolverine, Cyclops and many others distracted the Badoon, allowing the rest of the team to come back to Earth and win the war.[31]
Earth-93112
The Badoon Master Ecallaw was one of the last survivors of the Intergalactic Alliance destroyed by the Magus. He was best known as the mentor of the superhero Maxam.[32]
Earth-199999
The Badoon were a primitive species that lived in various worlds. Following the destruction of the Bifrost, the Badoon seized the opportunity to war between their clans, erupting in a civil war. Heimdall observed this event, but he and his fellow Asgardians were unable to intervene.[33]
Earth-610102
Galactus' daughter, Galacta, considered the Badoon to be quite gamy but after eating them they left no aftertaste.[34]
Earth-669116
When most of the universe was destroyed by the Fault, the Badoon enslaved the Celestials inside the Celestials Cage around the Star in order to power what little was left of the universe.[35]
Earth-TRN909
After Annihilus claimed a new source of energy from New Kral, the Badoon were wiped out alongside other races by the Annihilation Wave.[36]
Earth-TRN1515
Star-Lord mentioned to Luna Snow that she was adored by the Badoon living on Lotiara. The Thing feared that Black Panther's Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda could garner the wrong attention from the Badoon.[37]
Moira VII.1
As Mister Sinister corrupted the Quiet Council of Krakoa, mutantkind left Earth in the following century and destroyed any interstellar competition. This included the Badoon which joined the Compact alongside the Shi'ar, the Skrulls and the Chitauri to fight the mutant threat but their forces proved to be not enough.[38]
Unknown Realities
Reality destroyed by the Fault
The Badoon were fighting the Guardians of the Galaxy when his reality was destroyed by a event that caused the Fault to destroy most of their universe and Starkhawk started to travel back in time to prevent the problem.[39]
Conquered by Kang
In a timeline, the Badoon were conquered by Kang.[40]
Doom interfered with the Reckoning War
The Badoon were killed by a time-travelling Doctor Doom who was trying to save Valeria Richards from being lost in time.[41]Powers and Abilities
Powers
Durability: The Badoon were very durable, being simply stunned by attacks that would usually kill a normal Skrull.[43]
Superhuman Strength: The females were naturally more stronger than their male counterparts.[3]Abilities
The male Badoon were more cunning and sly than the females.[3]
The Badoon had their own form of martial arts, with one technique being called Badoon Spine-Buster which could deliver a devastating injury.[44]Weaknesses
Habitat
Habitat
Gravity
Atmosphere
Population
Miscellaneous
Type of Government
Level of Technology
According to Reed Richards, the Badoon were a "Type II civilization",[49] presumably according to the Kardashev scale.
Cultural Traits
The males were militaristic, but the females were pacifists. While the male Badoon were brutal to other races and violent toward their females (and vice versa), the Badoon were gentle and courteous with their pets and beasts of burden.[3] Badoon were a patient race, but their patience had limits.[15] It was a race of hoarders, who gathered objects which they stored in vaults.[17] Badoon had a low opinion of mammals, and believed that mammals were not to be fought but slaughtered.[8] The males among the Badoon enjoyed the hunting and taking of captives, and the fear their victims experienced delighted the Badoon. It was thought of as a sport and enjoyed hunting those foes who gave them a challenge.[14] At least some Badoon show respect towards "any male that can tolerate his female, much less defend her".[43]
Language
Please find some words or sentences in Badoon on this page.
Religion
The Badoon are highly superstitious, and fear both demons and possession.[50] The Badoon had holy sites spread around their world which were all tended by priests, and various holy artifacts such as the Kilzarra.[7]
Some Badoon (including the Centaurian "Badoon Half-Breeds") seemingly believe in so-called Swamp Gods, sometimes evocating them.[51][52][53][54][46]
Among the known Badoon Gods was Voord Bloodeye, God of Beheading, who was killed 500 years ago by Gorr the God Butcher (it is unknown if he was of the Swamp Gods).[55]
Economy
The Brotherhood's currency is the Kreull.[56]Representatives
Notes
- When making the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, James Gunn originally intended to use the Badoon, but because they were introduced in the Silver Surfer Comic Books which were a spinoff of the Fantastic Four Comic Books the cinematic rights were owned by the then-separately 20th Century Fox, and as a result Gunn opted to use the Sakaarans instead.[57]
- However, the Badoon appeared in the Marvel's Thor: The Dark World Prelude #1-2, since Marvel Studios still held the Badoon comic book rights.
See Also
- 144 appearance(s) of Badoon
- 6 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Badoon
- 22 minor appearance(s) of Badoon
- 90 mention(s) of Badoon
- 7 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Badoon
- 2 invocation(s) of Badoon
- 30 image(s) of Badoon
- 30 representative(s) of Badoon
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Avengers Arena #8
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Defenders #28
- ↑ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 3) #10
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 4)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Thanos: The Infinity Revelation #1
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 X-Men Annual #5
- ↑ Contest of Champions II #1–5
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Silver Surfer (Vol. 3) #27
- ↑ Annihilation: Prologue #1
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 3) #2
- ↑ Fantastic Four #577
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Silver Surfer #2
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Sub-Mariner (Vol. 2) #51
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Guardians of the Galaxy #44
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Gamora #1
- ↑ Marvel Presents #4 ; letters page
- ↑ Marvel Super-Heroes #18
- ↑ Marvel Presents #3
- ↑ Ghost Rider 2099 #23
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #4
- ↑ Warlock and the Infinity Watch #11
- ↑ Paradise X #1
- ↑ Marvel's Avengers Assemble S1E14
- ↑ Marvel's Avengers Assemble S1E18
- ↑ Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
- ↑ Avengers Mech Strike #3
- ↑ Doctor Doom #10
- ↑ X-Men: The Animated Series S3E14
- ↑ Weapon X-Men #1
- ↑ Warlock and the Infinity Watch #41
- ↑ Marvel's Thor: The Dark World Prelude #1
- ↑ Galacta: Daughter of Galactus #1
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 2) #16
- ↑ Thanos: The Infinity Finale #1
- ↑ Marvel Rivals
- ↑ Immoral X-Men #2
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 2) #7
- ↑ Avengers: Forever #1
- ↑ Fantastic Four (Vol. 7) #7
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #15
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 She-Hulk (Vol. 2) #25
- ↑ She-Hulk #1
- ↑ Gamora #3
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1
- ↑ Captain Marvel (Vol. 3) #4
- ↑ Giant-Size Defenders #5
- ↑ FF #20
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy #33–45
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy #30
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy #33
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy #45
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy #46
- ↑ Thor: God of Thunder #3
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy #26
- ↑ Holmes, Adam (January 6, 2015) The Marvel Characters James Gunn Wasn't Allowed To Use In Guardians Of The Galaxy CinemaNlsnd. Retrieved on May 2, 2023.