Ulysses Bloodstone (Earth-9997)

Ulysses Bloodstone was an early human, born thousands of years ago. At the dawn of mankind, Ulysses had a chance to kill Mephisto, a Deviant who believed himself to be the Devil. Ulysses failed, and Mephisto would go on to cause untold mayhem.^[1]

Ulysses' subsequent history largely mirrors that of his Earth-616 counterpart. He would spend milennia as a monster hunter before ultimately meeting his end. Since his death Ulysses has dwelled in the Realm of the Dead, fighting an endless battle against other deceased superhumans.^[2]

Former supervillain Norman Osborn gained access to Ulyesses' files after his death, and used the knowledge within to create the Hydra parasites, secretly unleashing them upon the Earth under the auspices of an alien invasion, allowing him to unite the United States of America under his own rule.^[3]

Ulysses was recruited by Kree hero Mar-Vell into his army of the dead, seeking to destroy Death and free the souls of the dead. After succeeding, Mar-Vell created Paradise, a new afterlife for the dead to inhabit. Bloodstone was one of the many super-beings that who would be brought to this new afterlife. There he would consume a shard of the Cosmic Cube to create his own ideal paradise.^{[4] [5]}

In Ulysses' ideal world, he succeeded in killing Mephisto at the dawn of time. When Captain America grew to doubt Mar-Vell's intentions, he freed all those trapped in their own worlds. Ulysses gladly left his ideal paradise, grateful for the opportunity to make his dreams a reality and to live again in a world with consequences.^[1]

When the Kree invaded Paradise, Ulysses helped fight them off, with the conflict eventually ended when Mar-Vell revealed that he had allowed much of the chaos to unfold to break the cycle of violence, and that he had created Paradise to ward off the influence of the Celestials and Elders of the Universe.^[6]