Gladiator

Biography:

PROLOGUE – THE EMPIRE THAT MADE GODSBefore their was a Kree and Skrull Empire, one of the oldest and strongest empire's reigned supreme and still continue to — the Shi’ar Empire.Their dominion stretched across galaxies — a vast constellation of power, order, and discipline. The Shi’ar believed themselves chosen by the cosmos to bring structure to chaos. Their architecture glittered like starlight, their technology rivaled the Celestials, and their armies were bound by the Imperial Creed:“Strength is not born. It is proven.”The Shi’ar and the Birth of RomeEons ago, Shi’ar scouts discovered a young, volatile species on a blue planet orbiting a yellow sun — humanity. The Shi’ar saw in them the seeds of their own imperial hunger: ambition, creativity, the thirst to build.They observed in secret, influencing early civilizations. The most successful of these was Rome, whose structure, law, and martial hierarchy mirrored the Shi’ar Empire itself. Roman emperors unknowingly mimicked Shi’ar monarchs; their legions mirrored Shi’ar ranks.But humanity corrupted the ideals they borrowed. Where the Shi’ar sought unity, Rome pursued domination. Where the Shi’ar honored balance, Rome reveled in excess. The atrocities of empire disgusted their unseen architects.In punishment, Shi’ar scientists triggered the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, erasing Pompeii and sending a message:“We made you in our image. You defiled it.”From that day forward, the Shi’ar erased Earth from their archives — a failed experiment, left to burn in its own barbarism.ACT I – THE PRINCE OF STRONTIA
A Legacy of PowerCenturies later, in the Shi’ar homeworld Chandilar, a child was born of legend.
Kubark — son of Kallark, the mighty Gladiator of the Imperial Guard, and Thal’ia, a celebrated commander of the Strontian legions.Strontians, like Kallark, derived their powers from confidence — their will literally fueling their strength. Kallark was the embodiment of that ideal: impervious, fearless, loyal to the Shi’ar cause beyond question.Kubark inherited both his father’s might and his mother’s compassion. From birth, he displayed terrifying potential — lifting starships as a toddler, bending gravity under his will, radiating cosmic heat when angered.By ten, he was already a young commander, dubbed by his father’s soldiers as “Kid Gladiator.” He adored the title, believing it proof that he was destined to surpass his father.The Skrull WarThe Shi’ar were locked in an ancient conflict with the Skrull Empire, whose shapeshifting infiltration tactics had eroded countless worlds. When the Shi’ar uncovered a secret Skrull research station, they learned the enemy was developing a bioweapon designed to target Strontian DNA.Kallark led the charge to destroy it, taking Thal’ia and young Kubark into the field. The battle raged above Tarsis V, a world of red storms and shattered moons. The Skrulls unleashed the virus — a plague of molecular unbinding that dissolved Strontians from within, turning their strength into agony.Thal’ia was among the first infected. Even as her body broke apart, she fought beside Kallark, protecting Kubark until her final breath. Her dying words to her son were soft amid the chaos:“Never let power be your master, my son. Rule it, as you would your grief.”The Fall of a ChildWhen the battle ended, Kubark returned home hollow and trembling. The virus had claimed thousands — entire Strontian legions gone. The Empire mourned its heroes.Kubark’s sorrow curdled into rage. One night, unable to control his emotions, he unleashed his power in a psychic shockwave that leveled an entire Shi’ar city. Hundreds perished.To the Shi’ar, he was no longer a prodigy — he was a threat.The ExileAt eleven years old, Kubark stood before the Majestrix Ardeya, head bowed, his father silent beside him.
The decree was absolute: exile.Kallark — stoic, unyielding — said nothing. His silence was a wound deeper than punishment.
Kubark was sent to the barren planet Draxion, a desolate world plagued by storms and beasts evolved to feed on energy.As the exile ship departed, Kubark looked through the viewport and whispered:“I’ll make you proud one day, Father… or make you fear me.”ACT II – THE EXILE AND THE ASCENT
SurvivalFor three years, Draxion became Kubark’s crucible.
He fought through acid storms, hunted plasma serpents, and built shelters out of the bones of predators. His body hardened, his mind sharpened, and his control grew precise. He learned that his confidence — not rage — powered his strength.To believe was to be invincible.
To doubt was to bleed.He began etching his mother’s words into the rock around him:“Make them kneel at your might son.”By thirteen, Kubark ruled Draxion. He turned exile into empire — taming the storms, slaying the beasts, and forcing the planet itself to yield.Return of the ExileWhen a Shi’ar scout fleet stumbled upon Draxion, they found Kubark waiting — clad in the armor of his fallen enemies, holding the severed head of a Draxion World-Eater.He demanded an audience with the Majestrix.
When he returned to Chandilar, the court gasped — the boy they’d cast out now stood as a conqueror.The Gladiator TrialsKallark watched silently as his son submitted himself to the Gladiator Trials — the brutal rite of passage required to join the Imperial Guard.The trials tested more than strength: they tested conviction, loyalty, mercy. Kubark passed each with ferocity and restraint, balancing the chaos within him.At seventeen, he stood before his father in the final trial — a duel that split the skies of Chandilar with thunderous force. For the first time, Kallark smiled.“The boy I exiled has died,” he said. “Only a Gladiator remains.”That day, Kallark ascended to Emperor. Kubark became the new Gladiator, protector of the Shi’ar Empire — the youngest in its history.ACT III – THE MISSION OF REDEMPTIONThe Emperor’s CommandIn the first act of his reign, Emperor Kallark called his son before the throne.“You have mastered your power,” he said. “Now master your purpose.
Find the cure for the Skrull virus. End the war that took your mother.”Kubark accepted the mission. Not for duty — but for closure.The JourneyHis search led him through Kree databanks, Skrull blacksites, and forgotten Celestial ruins. The deeper he dug, the more he discovered disturbing truths: the virus’s molecular design was not purely Skrull — it was hybridized. Some of its components matched ancient Shi’ar biotechnology.Someone within the Empire had helped create it.The trail led to a planet the Shi’ar had abandoned eons ago — the one the Romans once mimicked.
Earth.ACT IV – THE RETURN TO THE FORGOTTEN WORLD
Earth: The Cursed WorldKubark arrived expecting a primitive world lost to its own history — a planet once mimicking the greatness of the Shi’ar and long since rotted into myth.
But the moment his ship, The Imperial Aegis, slipped through the solar system’s haze, he saw it: a world transformed by cosmic scars.The Snap, the Blip, the Emergence of a Celestial, and the resurgence of gods and mutants had all left deep fissures in its energy field. Earth pulsed with uncontrolled life — chaotic, unstable, and yet undeniably powerful.His instruments screamed with interference — energy bursts fluctuating through the planet’s magnetic lines, resonating with the same quantum frequencies once used to harness Shi’ar star-forges.
This planet was no longer the “barbaric seed world” his people had forsaken.
It had become a nexus of cosmic evolution.And hidden beneath its surface, Kubark detected something even more extraordinary — a mineral unlike any known in the Shi’ar archives.
A substance capable of absorbing, redirecting, and amplifying energy signatures, even those akin to the Phoenix Force itself.The readings came from the African continent.A word echoed across intercepted Earth transmissions: Vibranium.Among the HumansKubark cloaked The Imperial Aegis within low orbit, using its stealth hull to remain invisible to all terrestrial detection systems. From there, he watched — not the superhumans of legend, but the silent empire beneath the surface: Wakanda.The Wakandans fascinated him.
They had concealed an empire more advanced than most Shi’ar colonies — using technology derived from a metal that responded almost symbiotically to energy, emotion, and willpower. Vibranium’s lattice structure was self-healing, self-adapting — alive in a way only Celestial alloys had ever been.Kubark observed their capital through cloaked drones, watching how their people wielded vibranium with grace and precision. He saw the Dora Milaje march in formations rivaling Shi’ar guard regiments, their weapons resonating with harmonic frequencies.Their city shimmered with vibranium’s blue glow — a technological heart beating under the shadow of a nation that refused to kneel to any outside power.And in their new ruler — Queen Shuri — Kubark saw something dangerous: adaptation.
Wakandans learned faster than most alien civilizations. Within weeks of an attack, they could rebuild, recalibrate, and retaliate stronger than before.But it wasn’t just Wakanda.Kubark’s scans soon revealed something even more concerning.Two Kingdoms, One MetalHis energy sweeps detected another source of vibranium — deep beneath the oceans.
At first, he believed it was a geological echo, perhaps a meteorite vein that had sunk into the mantle.
But when his sensors mapped the readings, he realized they came from a civilization hidden beneath miles of oceanic pressure.Talokan.The Talokans, descendants of ancient Mesoamerican peoples, had evolved underwater — their physiology and culture shaped by centuries of isolation. Yet their technology was unmistakably advanced.
They wielded vibranium in fluid, organic ways — forging it into architecture, armor, and weaponry that shimmered with bioluminescent hues. Their energy flow resembled the Shi’ar’s own Psionic Crystal Systems, hinting at a potential link between vibranium and psychic amplification.Kubark was transfixed. Two civilizations — one on land, one below the sea — had built entire empires upon the same cosmic metal.
In the right hands, vibranium could stabilize the volatile energy signatures of the Strontian Virus.
In the wrong hands, it could become a weapon capable of splitting worlds.A Calculated ThreatAs Kubark continued his surveillance, he intercepted seismic readings and communications from Wakanda. There had been conflict — a war between Wakanda and Talokan — brief but devastating.He watched, cloaked high above the clouds, as Wakandan airships battled Talokan warriors that rose from the oceans like living storms. He saw how quickly both sides adapted: the Wakandans recalibrated sonic weapons within hours; the Talokans countered with hydrodynamic vibranium shields that bent energy like liquid mirrors.Kubark realized a terrifying truth.If these two kingdoms ever unified — if the might of Talokan’s raw strength combined with the technological intellect of Wakanda — they could rival even the Shi’ar in both energy mastery and planetary defense.
A united Wakanda-Talokan alliance, armed with vibranium and human ingenuity, could one day repel an entire Shi’ar fleet.To the Empire, Earth had always been irrelevant.
To Kubark, it was now a potential threat.The DecisionStanding on the bridge of his ship, Kubark gazed down at the blue-green world, his eyes glowing faintly with cosmic energy.
The path was clear.
If vibranium was indeed a component that could stabilize the virus — or weaponize it further — he needed to find its purest source.That meant locating Talokan and its people and exterminating the Kree and Skrulls once and for all.

Character Profile

Real Name:
Kubark KallarkAge: Twenty-one (Human years)Human Alias: Kubark Lions
(Disclaimer: He does dress like a normal human when on Earth and disguised in his human alias.)Hero Alias: Gladiator (formerly Kid Gladiator)Species:
Strontian (Shi’ar Empire)Homeworld:
StrontiaAffiliations:
The AnnihilatorsShi’ar EmpireYoung Avengers (ally, not member)Status:
Active – Earth-based Liaison & Cosmic DefenderBio (Shortened):
Born to Emperor Kallark (the Gladiator) and the late Commander Thal’ia, Kubark was destined to become the next protector of the Shi’ar Empire. Gifted with immense strength, invulnerability, flight, and energy projection fueled by sheer confidence, he was celebrated as a prodigy—until tragedy struck.During the Shi’ar–Skrull War, a bioweaponized virus annihilated the Strontian legions, including Kubark’s mother. Overcome with grief, the young prince lost control of his powers and accidentally destroyed a Shi’ar city. Deemed unstable, he was exiled at age eleven to the hostile planet Draxion, where he learned to master his strength through discipline and pain.By fifteen, Kubark had conquered Draxion and returned to the Empire hardened and reborn. After enduring the Gladiator Trials, he earned his father’s recognition and the title of Gladiator of the Guard, becoming the youngest warrior to ever do so.As Emperor, Kallark sent his son on a mission to uncover a cure for the deadly Strontian Virus—a journey that led Kubark to Earth, a world the Shi’ar once inspired and later abandoned. There, he discovered humanity’s evolution, the mystery of vibranium, and two secret civilizations—Wakanda and Talokan—whose mastery of the metal could rival the Empire itself.Now torn between duty and morality, Kubark stands at a crossroads: serve the empire that created the weapon that killed his mother, or defend the world his people once condemned.Earth Activities:
In his downtime, Kubark frequents African American communities, offering support and charity work. He feels a kinship there, noting a striking cultural and ancestral resemblance between Strontians and Earth’s African diaspora—a quiet homage to a shared strength and resilience.Personality:
Proud, blunt, cocky, fierce—but evolving. Struggles with rage, trauma, and legacy. Protects what he loves, even if he doesn’t always show it.

Confidence-Dependent Abilities
A unique aspect of Gladiator's powers is their dependence on his self-confidence. The more confident he is, the more potent his abilities become. Conversely, doubt can significantly diminish his powers, making psychological tactics effective against him. Gladiator’s powers—like strength, speed, flight, and invulnerability—are directly tied to his self-confidence. If he believes he will win, his powers operate at their peak. But if he begins to doubt himself or loses confidence, his abilities drastically weaken.This means:Psychological attacks or deception can be more effective than physical ones.Enemies who can undermine his self-belief can essentially “disarm” him.Superhuman Strength: Gladiator's strength is immense, allowing him to perform feats such as shattering planets and contending with formidable opponents like Thor and the Hulk.Superhuman Speed and Flight: He can move and fly at speeds exceeding light, enabling interstellar travel and rapid response in combat situations.Invulnerability: His durability is exceptional, withstanding extreme temperatures, powerful energy blasts, and the vacuum of space.Heat Vision: Gladiator can emit intense beams of heat from his eyes, capable of reaching temperatures hotter than stars.Super Breath: He possesses the ability to exhale with tremendous force, creating gale-force winds, and can also emit freezing breath to immobilize opponents.Enhanced Senses: His vision extends to microscopic levels, and he can hear sounds across vast distances, even light-years away if he truly concentrates.Psionic Resistance: Gladiator has a degree of resistance to telepathic attacks, though powerful telepaths can still affect him.Accelerated Healing and Longevity: He can recover from injuries quickly depending on his confidence.Advanced in Mix Martial Arts Combat

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