Editing Beyonder (section)

==Powers and abilities==
The Beyonder is an [[Hilbert space|infinite-dimensional]],<ref>''Secret Wars II'' #2 (Aug. 1985). Marvel Comics.</ref> or [[Theory of forms|beyond-dimensional]],<ref name="beyond dimensions"/> entity and was originally portrayed as the most powerful being in the Marvel Comics multiverse, and as the be-all and end-all of the "Beyond Realm",<ref>''Secret Wars II'' #8 (1986). Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.servimg.com/u/f35/19/00/38/35/beyond10.jpg|title=Jim Shooter in an Interview for Secret Wars 2|website=I.servimg.com|access-date=3 November 2018}}</ref> that took human form to better understand the nature of human beings.<ref name="SWII#1"/>

The narration stated that he possessed power millions of times greater than the entire multiverse combined,<ref name="SWII9">''Secret Wars II'' #9 (March 1986). Marvel Comics</ref> and that a regular universe was a drop of water in the ocean compared to the Beyond Realm.<ref name="SWII4">[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140812053848/powerlisting/images/1/15/Stan_Lee_called_beyonder_omnipotent_.jpg ''Secret Wars II'' #4 (Oct. 1985)]. Marvel Comics</ref>

The Beyonder proved capable of destroying, and recreating, the abstract entity known as [[Death (Marvel Comics)|Death]] across the multiverse, although it extremely exerted and weakened him to do so. However, even in this state, he was capable of easily sending a horde of demons back to hell with a wave of his hand.<ref>''Secret Wars II'' #6 (1985). Marvel Comics.</ref>

Despite his power, the Beyonder has shown moments of vulnerability. He was overwhelmed when [[Rachel Summers]] returned the enormous powers that he had bestowed upon her along with the thoughts of the past and present beings in the universe, to the point that he collapsed on the ground,<ref>[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/5/56904/2226158-beyonder_vs_phoenix2.jpg ''Uncanny X-Men'' #203]. Marvel Comics.</ref> and he was apparently slowed down in battle against the [[Molecule Man]].<ref>[http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4813/274235-moleculeman_super.jpg ''Secret Wars II'' #9 (1985)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220114551/http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4813/274235-moleculeman_super.jpg |date=2015-02-20 }}. Marvel Comics.</ref> He also lost part, or all, of his power on various occasions, some of them engineered by himself.<ref name="SWII9"/><ref name="SWII4"/><ref>''Secret Wars'' #10 (Feb. 1985). Marvel Comics.</ref> He also stated that the [[Puma (character)|Puma]]—when in perfect harmony with the Universe—was capable of killing him.<ref>''Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man'' #111. Marvel Comics.</ref> However, on another occasion, after trying to be a superhero by fighting a superpowered biker gang, the Beyonder stated that he limits his powers to keep them more in line with the world around him.<ref>''Dazzler'' #40 (Nov. 1985). Marvel Comics.</ref>

After his creator, [[Jim Shooter]], left Marvel, writer-editor [[Tom DeFalco]] re-tooled the Beyonder, diminishing his power greatly: He was no longer nearly omnipotent, and several of the cosmic beings who were previously established to be below him in power were vastly upgraded in conjunction.<ref name="FF27"/><ref>''The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe'' vol.2 #7 (June 1986). Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>''Fantastic Four'' #319 (1988). Marvel Comics.</ref><ref name="FF23"/>

Nonetheless, the Beyonder retained his reality-warping powers, allowing him to control and manipulate matter, energy, and reality at a cosmic level beyond all but the strongest and most powerful of cosmic entities.

He repelled [[Galactus]] "like a bug",<ref name="SW1">''Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars'' #1. Marvel Comics</ref> and exceeded the collected energy of the latter's World-Ship.<ref>''Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars'' #10. Marvel Comics/</ref> He once destroyed a galaxy on a whim to meet his needs during the first Secret Wars,<ref name="SW1"/> and later created a universe out of his own being.<ref name="FF319" /> When the Molecule Man extracted the Beyonder from Kosmos, their battle took place in more than three spatial dimensions, and threatened to cause vast destruction across the multiverse.<ref name="FF27">''Fantastic Four'' Annual #27 (1994). Marvel Comics/</ref> In Kosmos' 'Maker' incarnation, she was stated as capable of reversing [[Antimatter#Conceptual history|The Crunch]] itself, essentially collapsing the universe.<ref>''Thanos'' #10-12. Marvel Comics/</ref> However, his scale of power was stated to be significantly below the [[Living Tribunal]] and [[Eternity (Marvel Comics)|Eternity]],<ref name="FF319"/> the [[Celestials (comics)|Celestials]],<ref name="FF23">''Fantastic Four'' Annual #23 (1990). Marvel Comics.</ref> or Molecule Man.<ref name="FF27"/>

After The Beyonder was retconned again to be a child of the race of [[Beyonders]],<ref name="NA30"/> and he was later seen fully grown and interacting with an assembly of them,<ref name="DB2"/> his power was presumably upgraded to a similar scale to them, and other Beyonders have together managed to kill the [[Living Tribunal]] and all of the [[Celestial (comics)|Celestials]] in the Marvel multiverse.<ref name="NA30"/> However, it was stated that he is considerably less powerful than the multiversal [[Phoenix Force]].<ref>''Defenders: Beyond'' #3 (September 2022). Marvel Comics.</ref>