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Kali'kak, also better known as Oblivion, is a major antagonist in the 1993 Milestone Media comic book series, Icon.

He is an alien obsessed with the concept of death and a criminal fugitive originally locked away for massacring hundreds of the Cooperative's species out of homicidal intent. Discovering Earth and death being inevitable for humans, Oblivion takes on killing the entire race until he is satisfied no matter how many are left.

He serves as Icon's archenemy, due to being responsible for sabotaging the latter's interstellar spaceship and the reason he got stranded on Earth in the first place for the last few centuries.

Personality[]

Oblivion is a homicidal and sadistic alien whose obsession with death stems from ultimately disagreeing with his race's longevity that lasts on a millennia, deeming it pointless and wishing to find something to replenish the satisfaction he desired from the deaths of other living beings outside his kindred. Discovering Earth, Oblivion demonstrates his newfound joy and sadistic indulgence on causing as much bloodshed and destruction throughout his rampage, announcing his very determination to wipe out all life on Earth one by one, no matter how long it'll take him. He even has no boundaries threatening to murder a baby, showing his much crueler side.

He is also a formidable but ruthless fighter in terms of sheer brutality. While mostly bloodthirsty, Oblivion is otherwise intelligent through his studies and fascination with death, knowing all forms of how death can occur and take place, as well as being cautiously observant, deducing that Wild Buck isn't Icon.

Biography[]

Background[]

Kali'kak was part of the Cooperative whose society runs on everlasting longevity within its population via the advanced technologies of reconstitution, the act of transferring their recorded mindsets and memories onto regenerative clones once they died or had been killed, with the clones being sentient beings themselves. Unsatisfied and bored over the last thousands of years prolonging his lifeline and the reconstitution, Kali'kak resorts to studying life and death within the Cooperative's populace that began to take a grand effect to his mental well-being, which raise concerns to most of the citizens that he had to be implored by Arnus (prior to becoming Icon) as Kali'kak was sentenced to isolation and rehabilitation under his word, but prior to his clone, Arnus originally deemed the reason was because Kali'kak was incapable of living amongst their kindred due to their longevity.

Enraged by this, Kali'kak escaped from his exile, now far beyond being rehabilitated, begins his plans for revenge on Arnus. Prior to that, Kali'kak committed his first murder on his own therapist during his rehabilitation and during escape, he went onto killing over 350 innocent civilians of the Cooperative and was later charged as a fugitive. Despite that, the victims were brought back via reconstitution and their clones, though it doesn't Kali'kak was off the hook onward, and from there, he renamed himself "Oblivion" after finding his urge to kill. Finding out Arnus took a interstellar spaceship when he was on vacation in the meanwhile, Oblivion sabotages the ship's faster-than-light drive, causing the ship's functions to overload a rupture and released intensely-heated plasma onto itself, endangering the passengers on board. Following this, Arnus got off from his escape pod and finds himself stranded on Earth for the next century of his lifeline, thus blending into human society as "Augustus Freeman" and later the superhero, Icon. The passengers, on the other hand, were quickly relocated within their escape pods and rescued safely by the ship's captain's directions. The incident was later deemed an accident afterwards.

Because of this certain event, many have come to conclude that Arnus was dead when no trace of his remains came up and reconstituted a clone of him taking his place and his original duties. Meanwhile, Oblivion somehow managed to discover Arnus' survival and later residing on a planet called Earth when overhearing the investigation from D'amsi forces, the police force of the Cooperative.

Arriving on Earth[]

Oblivion makes his debut, traveling throughout space upon discovering Icon has survived his assassination attempt and his past inhabitance on Earth, intending to travel to the planet to confirm his curiosity of humanity's incapacity of longevity and that they can die, seeing this as an academic opportunity to learn about death furthermore. Once his spaceship crashed in the middle of the forest, Oblivion slips himself away from his pod and expresses absolute delight on his arrival to finally affirm if death is indeed irreversible. When two joggers came across his damaged spacecraft, Oblivion used his metamorphic powers to create a sharp edge that pierced the two joggers to death, thus relishing in sadistic joy knowing humans are easily killed and he could go on and on again.

Using his metamorphic abilities to disguised himself as Icon but in a pitch black form, Oblivion goes on terrorizing throughout all of Dakota City in his homicidal rampage, attacking civil areas, destroying buildings, and killing innocent people under brutal circumstances, one by one. As he continued his rampage, Oblivion had already reached over killing two-dozen innocent people and attacking the police force, having make a public announcement of "gifting" Planet Earth "oblivion" himself, that is death until there is no one left alive. Invading the workplace of Icon - a law firm - Oblivion breaks through the entrance doors and starts massacring many defense attorneys and lawyers inside - including the co-workers and friends of Icon himself - starting with a woman. However, Darnice - the second Rocket - comes to the rescue and tries to fend off Oblivion, mistaking him for Wild Buck - the second Icon and fellow ally - while Oblivion also mistaken the former as Raquel, the original Rocket. Believing she could reason with him, Oblivion evades her attack and tries attacking from behind, only for the real Wild Buck/Icon to show up.

Mistaking Wild Buck for Icon, despite being his replacement, Oblivion doesn't hesitant to begin fighting and attacking him, grudgingly revealing his past intentions of sabotaging his spaceship that stranded Icon in the first place and never forgotten getting him sent to the Prison Planet for his crimes, and uses this opportunity to kill him on the very planet he remarked as "backwater". Just as Wild Buck was getting the upper-hand at matching Oblivion's strength, the latter soon took quick examination that Wild Buck isn't Icon but share resemblance by aspect, now deciding to kill both him and Darnice. While Wild Buck tries to hold Oblivion off as possible, the latter used his metamorphosis to create a piercing spike for his arm, thus impaling Wild Buck multiple times until they burst out from the broken wall, revealing a bloodied, impaled Wild Buck on the ground as Oblivion arose, much to Darnice's horror. Unsatisfied with wounding Buck, Oblivion let's it off for now before intending to go after Darnice, who escaped, gloating how humans cling to their 'precious lives' as an ephemeral prize until he taunts Darnice that running is useless and that death will find her and everyone around the planet to the bitter end.

Soon as Darnice brings Raquel the bad news of Wild Buck's wounds and defeat, Oblivion followed the former back to the latter's department on the moment she tried to connect Icon for help, catching her there when he realizes she was about to do just that. In return, Oblivion states he has a "message" he'd like to send to his enemy with Raquel's own screams, unaware the globe managed to reach out to Arnus within Planet Taldega from afar. With Darnice gone on shock, Raquel deals with Oblivion, blasting him onto a wall before she checked on the former's mental condition, meanwhile, Oblivion rises up and shown his impervious resistance to Rocket's attacks, deducing Darnice as a "poser" and deeming Raquel as the real "Rocket". He begins offering her "the sweet gift oblivion", using his metamorphosis to turn himself into an anvil-like weapon aiming to hit Raquel single-handedly, throwing her off her apartment and roughly landing on the ground, mocking her and other humans as "fragile creatures". Waking up Raquel, taunting that she'd rather sleep throughout her own "execution", Oblivion shifts his own arm into a spiked blade, intending to kill her in front of the public. Luckily, Rocket uses the full force of her own abilities to break herself free from Oblivion's restraint and begins to unleash a powerful blast right at him, causing his body to dissipate and reduce to liquid.

Seemingly thought to be easily defeated, Oblivion sorts his remains and regenerates himself, sarcastically "thanking" Rocket for "killing" him before shifting his hand into a hammer, nearly bashing Rocket and begins to generate as much power within himself. Soon as he did, he caused a massive explosion that caught nearly a majority of the city's populated area as Rocket braced for impact. Hovering above her, Rocket tried to reason with Oblivion's actions but the latter refused otherwise, saying that her kindred wished to live while he desires only for them slaughtered nonetheless, firing energy blasts at her. In a strategic attempt to outdo Oblivion, he finds himself nearly ran over by Rocket in a taxi cab, using his energy blasts to intensify the car's heated radiation to melt her to death before she crashed into him. Surviving the fallout, Oblivion grabs the beat-up Rocket and prepares to kill her instantly, suggesting himself to suffocate her to death through her nose and mouth, then lists down on swearing to kill everyone she ever loved out of spite; from her friends, her family, and her baby son. To his surprise, Icon comes out from a portal to confront Oblivion in person.

When Icon demand that he surrender, Oblivion remains defiant and boasts about humanity being yet to be conquered by death, calling their lives "brief and fragile" where he shifts his hand into a spiraled blade to launch at the civilians until Icon swept his attack off. With the two beginning to fight each other, Oblivion continued mocking humanity's existence and begins pummeling Icon, taunting that without the reconstitution, he could die easily without it. Dodging Icon's powerful attack, Oblivion uses his metamorphosis to begin restraining his enemy with his tentacles in an attempt to suffocate him. Icon tries flying above to get him off before landing into a billboard and dropping on the ground, which Oblivion let's go of restraining him, saying that while he's obsessed with death, he has yet to understand it before "teaching" it to Icon, killing him this time until Rocket launches a brick at him, dissipating his head and was reduced to ooze once more.

Defeat[]

Once Icon reveals that Oblivion's regeneration comes from his nano-assemblers, the latter flies into a fling of fury, use his metamorphic abilities to shift as many spikes aimed at Icon for one final time. Unfortunately for him, Icon uses his energetic abilities to overcharge the nano-assemblers inside Oblivion's body, despite his refusal to admit defeat and determination to wipe out all life by himself, until Icon was able to revert the alien back to his powerless state and original form. Defeating him at last, Icon restrains him with a forcefield until the D'asmi officers arrived to take Oblivion into custody for his crimes.

Eventually, Oblivion is held back at Prison Planet once more where he makes due time for his crimes in isolation. Despite this, Wild Buck, who was hospitalized after Oblivion impaled him several times, was placed under a come for the time being. Sadly, Buck wasn't able to make it and eventually passes away overnight with a grieving Darnice.

Gallery[]

Oblivion traveling throughout space upon getting news of Icon's survival.

Oblivion's first human kills and expressing full glee on confirming inevitable death.

Oblivion's announced introduction and declaration on wiping out all life on Earth.

Oblivion breaking into an attorney building.

Oblivion rampaging through the office, attempting to kill a woman firsthand.

Oblivion impales Wild Buck several times from the wall.

Oblivion rising above the wounded Wild Buck.

Oblivion threatening Raquel and Darnice to deliver a message for Icon.

Oblivion upon overwhelming Rocket, proving his formidable dominance.

Oblivion waking Rocket up before attempting to execute her.

A demonstration of Oblivion's regenerative capabilities.

Oblivion in the past, killing 350 of the Cooperative's civilians.

Oblivion refusing to be reasoned with, taunting Rocket's efforts.

Oblivion strangling Rocket, as well as threatening her friends, family, and baby son.

Oblivion mocking and about to kill a group of bystanders.

Oblivion's furious breakdown, trying to kill Icon for the final time.

Oblivion's defeat.

Trivia[]

• He was created by Dwayne McDuffie and Mark Bright.

External Links[]

• Oblivion on the DC Wiki
• Oblivion on the Pure Evil Wiki