The Dark Lord , wielder of the One Ring to rule them all , and the loss leader of a massiveorc armya.k.a . Sauronis one oftheLord of the Ringsfilms and books’most iconic villains . Funny enough , Marvel Comics has its own version . Though , Marvel ’s Sauron is a little unlike .

J. R. R. Tolkien’sfantasy rule book trilogy has garnered a lot of attention over the years - especially because of Peter Jackson ’s movie as well as the video gamesMiddle Earth : Shadow of MordorandMiddle Earth : Shadow of Warthat explore the traditional knowledge of Tolkien ’s subaltern populace be intimate as Middle Earth . Tolkien ’s book trilogy revolves around the main character Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee as they journey to the land of Mordor to destruct the One Ring to rule them all andstop Sauron- the Dark Lord from enslave all of Middle Earth . But Marvel ’s Sauron is quite dissimilar from Tolkien ’s - though he is still a force to be reckon with as he possess the power of life - immersion and can take mutant powers .

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Although Jason Aaron , Nick Bradshaw , Walden Wong , Laura Martin , and Joe Caramagna ’s comicWolverine & the ten - Men # 31doesn’t go into Karl Lykos a.k.a . Sauron ’s backstory regarding being bite by a cave - habitation pteranodon , being given superhuman ability , and becoming a humanoid pteranodon after absorbing the life - zip of a mutant for the first time - it does plunk into his beloved for science . In the comedian , one of the students of Jean Grey ’s School for Higher Learning named Quintavius Quire a.k.a Kid Omega is contribute to Hellfire Academy - a school day build to make powerfulevil mutants . On his first mean solar day , he meets his first - period instructor who just so happen to beX - Men ’s Mystiqueand chance upon that if he does n’t ascertain his oral fissure … he ’s going to terminate up stagnant . Then , he see his second - period class and meets his science instructor - Sauron . Luckily , for Kid Omega ’s sake , Marvel ’s Sauron is not nearly as powerful as Tolkien ’s .

During class , the self - predicate Sauron tells the pupil that by the end of the semester , they will cognise how to tack together and explode Vasco da Gamma bombs , plan of attack gorillas with cosmic rays , and even make their own race of mutated individuals . While inform the students on what they will be learning over the course of study of the rest of the semester , a mutant list Snot disrupt his lecture because he ’s unsure if he ’s in the right year . Immediately after Snot asks if he ’s in the right course , Sauron call on the carpet him for interrupting and being tardy . Then , to show the rest of the category what happens when one interrupts his lecture , Sauron commence to drain the biography - energy from Snot and tells the class to read chapter one on , " Newton ’s Three Laws of Mass Destruction . " Thus , showing the class why he ’s the supreme ruler of the schoolroom and reference Tolkien ’s Dark Lord .

Although Marvel’sSauronis not as potent as Tolkien ’s , he still packs a punch . But if he was more muscular and truly shared alike attributes of Tolkien ’s Dark Lord , then maybe he would have become a more well - roll in the hay Marvel villain .

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