Respect Gladiator

Respect Kallark, Gladiator, Majestor of the Shi'ar Empire

Kallark, known as Gladiator is one of the few living members of the Strontian race. The Strontians were a powerful race who valued honor, duty, and loyalty and their loyalty was to the Shi'ar Empire.

For many years Kallark would serve the Shi'ar Empire as the Praetor of their Imperial Guard, the intergalactic enforcers or Shi'ar law.

Following the War of Kings, which resulted in the deaths of Lilandra and Vulcan, both former rulers of the Shi'ar, Kallark was chosen by the Shi'ar to be promoted to the position of Majestor, ruler of the Shi'ar Empire. He currently maintains this position.

Kallark is a loyal being and possess powerful self-confidence and an unyielding will.

• He was one of the few Strontians to undergo and survive the "Gladiator process", a process by which a few chosen Strontians' powers would be enhanced to "Gladiator-level" to serve the Shi'ar.

He is not one to take lightly in battle. His vastly powerful physical abilities make him a formidable foe to nearly any one in or around his tier. And he can be quite ruthless.

• Official Bio

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Powers and Abilities

• Superhuman Strength
• Superhuman Speed/Reflexes
• Superhuman Durability/Invulnerability
• Superhuman Stamina
• Flight
• Heat Vision
• Super Breath
• Super Senses
• --Hyper-Vision (Telescopic)/Microscopic Vision
• --Super Hearing
• Skilled soldier and leader

Notable Vulnerabilities:

• An unknown/unnamed type of radiation

• Vulnerability to magic ---> However, Kallark can nullify this weakness through an increase in self-confidence/belief.

• Mental attacks/intrusions ---> However, Kallark can overcome mental assaults if he becomes aware of them.

• Wavering confidence: Gladiator's power can fluctuate depending on his confidence. A wavering confidence could leave him weakened and vulnerable to enemies/attacks that would usually pose less of a threat. ---> However, it is typically difficult to make Gladiator doubt himself, and he can usually quickly overcome any self-doubt or any attempt at making him doubt his power. Him losing confidence rarely happens.

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Strength

• Breaks free of Quasar's constructs.

• While being possessed by Adam Magus, he breaks free of Quasar's construct again.

• Snaps Hyperion's neck. Hyperion was virtually as physically powerful as Gladiator. Gladiator snapping Hyperion's neck is confirmed in the next issue of where it happens.

• Easily rips away and throws a portion of a building.

• Easily deals with and chokes out Drax the Destroyer. He lets Drax know that he was toying with him.

• Rips apart a Kree Sentry.

• Gladiator can thudner-clap, creating shock waves that blow things away.

• Easily rips away and lifts a large portion of a ship.

• Lifts and throws a large boulder.

• Carries a large city-sized ship.

• Easily lifts and drops a bus on Ben Grimm.

• Lifts the Baxter Building.

Striking

• Destroys a planet.

• Hits Wonder Man hard enough that Wonder Man states that if he didn't roll with the punch his head would've been knocked clean off.

• Punches Ben Grimm clean through several cars and then launches Ben across a few blocks into the Baxter Building.

• Overpowers Nova Prime (Malik Tarcel) and some Nova Corpsman.

• Pummels Wonder Man into the core of a planet.

• Kicks Thor's Mjolnir across a city.

• Easily slams Ms. Marvel away.

• KO's Vulcan with two punches.

• KO's Black Bolt, albeit Black Bolt was stunned from a sonic attack first. Black Bolt in the aftermath.

• KO's Carol Danvers as Binary with a punch. He also no sold her energy attack.

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Durability

• Withstands and contains an explosion that Reed Richards describes as comparable to a nova capable of annihilating half a solar system.

• Flies through a red giant star and is unfazed.

• Unfazed by Johnny Storm's flames.

• Unfazed by Johnny Storm's full nova blast.

• Withstands strikes from Thor wielding Mjolnir.

• Easily withstands attacks from Angela, Drax, and Groot, then launches Drax at the others, easily toppling them.

• Unfazed by a bull-rush from Nova (Richard Rider).

• Remains unfazed when a truck crashes into him.

• Colossus slams Gladiator with a stone pillar but Kal is completely unfazed.

• Withstands a psionic blast from Jean Grey.

• Survives having Black Bolt whisper in his ear. Gladiator is briefly stunned but quickly recovers and returns back to fighting.

• Survives a blast to the face from Tyrant's eye-beams, and manages to remain standing, though he taken down when Tyrant punches him. A similar blast from Tyrant KO'd the Surfer.

• A magical blast from Mjolnir wielded by Eric Masterson ricochets off Gladiator's chest.

• Withstands a blast of energy from Thor wielding Mjolnir.

• Completely unfazed by Vulcan's attack.

• Takes a blast to the face from the Phoenix Blade. The Phoenix Blade contains a tiny portion of the Phoenix Force's power.

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Speed

• Fights Hyperion within the span of nanoseconds.

• Gladiator accelerates his speed enough to be able to interact with the Fantastic Four when they traveled to the future.

• Throwing punches so fast they become a blur. As to why he wasn't effecting Reed here, Gladiator was being tricked and was actually attacking Captain America's shield. Reed projected an image of himself onto Cap to fool Gladiator.

• Blitzes Eric Masterson Thor.

• Blitzes past the Starjammers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, incapacitating them all.

• Blitzes Nova (Richard Rider).

• Blitzes through a Nova Corpsman so fast he splits the Corpsman clean in half from the waist.

• Blitzes and splatters some Shi'ar.

• Moves and attacks Johnny Storm faster than Johnny could react.

• Sees a sniper a city distance across, catches the sniper bullet, and incinerates the sniper with his heat vision.

• Is fast enough to count 10 billion micro-sentinels inside a body.

• After hearing a signal from the Shi'ar, Gladiator flies across many light-years in minutes.

• Reed Richards detects that Gladiator was speeding towards Earth at 100-times the speed of light.

• Gladiator can fly so fast that he can slip into hyper-space, following some fleeing Skrulls. Gladiator had been following these Skrulls from when they entered Shi'ar space until they arrived near Pluto in the Sol system. Shi'ar space is located in an entirely different galaxy than the Milky Way.

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Heat Vision

• His heat vision is described as hot as a star by Rom.

• Gladiator's heat vision is narrated as being hotter than a star.

• Gladiator's heat vision briefly matches Tyrant's, though he does get overpowered, as would be expected.

• Gladiator matches Phoenix-empowered Cyclops in a battle of eye-beam blasts. They remained in this stalemate until Gladiator decided to physically attack.

• Gladiator uses his heat vision to power up a stargate, which he states take an enormous amount of power to do.

• His heat vision easily blows through Smasher's head.

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Super Breath

• Easily blows out Johnny Storm's flames.

• Briefly freezes Wonder Man.

• Drops a water tank on Thor Girl and uses his breath to briefly freeze her in place.

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Enhanced Senses

• Hearing - Hears a Shi'ar signal from light years away.

• Vision - Gladiator's son Kubark uses "x-ray" vision.

• Vision - Sees a sniper from across the city.

• Vision - Sees the Fantastic Four from light-years away.

• Vision - Uses his hyper-vision to see Galactus from light-years away.

• Vision - It's narrated that his vision can see through the densest matter.

• Vision - Uses his micro-vision and is able to count that there were 10 billion micro-sentinels in Jean.

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Miscellaneous

• Mental Strength/Telepathic Resistance - After realizing he was being mentally assaulted, he forced Rachel Summers out. Rachel is an omega level telepath.

• Self-Confidence - Gladiator is completely unfazed by Vulcan's attack simply because he believes himself to be so.

• Self-Confidence - Despite his vulnerability to magic, Kallark fights through the attack and defeats the enemy.

• Self-Confidence - Even when faced with the task of having to kill his mentors, Kallark maintains his confidence and self-belief, thus maintaining his power. The other Strontians fell due to losing the will to have to kill their mentors.

• Misc - Gladiator keeps a bubble construct, which he can use as a temporary transport prison for criminals, in his utility belt.

• Misc - Kallark is a pretty good father.

• Misc - Hype - Gladiator's son states that he's seen Gladiator crack moons with his punches, states that his heat vision burns hotter than the sun, and states that he's seen Gladiator tear apart a black hole with his hands.

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Fights

Gladiator vs Fantastic Four

• Handles them rather easily.

Defeats Colossus.

Gladiator vs Thor - Fight 1

• Gladiator was exhausted from mainting hyper-speed for a while.
• The fight doesn't really go anywhere as it's interrupted by the F4

Defeats Wonder Man.

Gladiator vs Thor (Eric Masterson)

• After dealing with Wonder Man, Kal is attacked by Eric Masterson Thor.
• Gladiator was dominating the physical fight until Masterson used Mjolnir to manipulate Living Lightning and use him to attack Gladiator.

Gladiator vs Nova (Richard Rider)

• Gladiator mostly dominates the physical fight, proving to be faster and stronger than Nova.
• Gladiator is taken down by a combination of his own heat vision used against him and a nova blast, though Nova is also seen to be exhausted.

Gladiator vs Hyperion

• Gladiator and Hyperion are physically equal, their eye blasts are also equal.
• Gladiator and Hyperion are fast enough to fight in the span of nanoseconds.
• Gladiator proves to be a more skilled close-quarters-combatant and manages to break Hyperion's neck.

Gladiator vs Cannonball

• This fight is really only one of the few examples where Gladiator's confidence wavers.
• He hits Cannonball with his most powerful blow, but Cannonball's powerset allows him to redirect the force.
• Gladiator is still able to quickly recover.

Gladiator vs Thor - Fight 2

• Gladiator defeated Thor in the first part of the fight, using his speed and strength to blitz Mjolnir away from Thor and KO Thor.
• Thor Girl intercepts but he briefly incapacitates her with his freeze breath.
• Thor returns and manages to eventually down Gladiator with multiple strikes from Mjolnir, but it's Thor Girl who puts him down for good, using her power of the Designate, which is Skyfather level.

Gladiator vs Uni-Powered Susan Storm

• Despite her vast cosmic power, Gladiator was still unafraid to fight her.