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Hellspawns possess a vast array of abilities thanks to their living suits, which are composed of the hellish energy known as necroplasm. Among their many powers are super-strength, flight, weapon manifestation, telepathy, energy projection, regeneration, necromancy, and more. A group of the more powerful and benevolent Hellspawns have even joined together to become the anti-hero team, the Scorched to defend the world from the forces of Heaven and Hell. These are the most powerful, iconic, and three-dimensional versions of Spawn in Image Comics.
10) Plague Spawn
When Malebolgia sought to create foot soldiers for his war against Heaven, Plague Spawn was born. A prototype of Hellspawns, Plague Spawn, was birthed from the merging of two skulls — one belonging to a white demon and the other to a black angel. The result of was a rabid, nearly unstoppable monster that conquered Hell and slaughtered angels and demons alike before Malebolgia eventually succeeded in imprisoning Plague Spawn. Pieces of him were then used to create the living symbiotic suits all other Hellspawn wear. However, a massive rift in the space-time continuum allowed Plague Spawn to escape his prison, enabling him to effortlessly defeat the planet-conquering Omega Spawn. Loyal to none and feared by all, the Plague Spawn was the blueprint for all future Hellspawns.
9) Mandarin Spawn
Long ago, during the Southern Sung Dynasty in China, Chenglei was a deformed peasant who was sold to a corrupt governor to be tortured for entertainment. Upon his death, Chenglei made a deal with the demon Malebolgia and came back as the powerful Mandarin Spawn. In his new form, Mandarin Spawn slaughtered legions in revenge, but left the governor to spend eternity in a cage, unable to die. In the modern day, Mandarin Spawn made an army of demons to take over the world but was thwarted by the Scorched. He would eventually seek redemption by pledging his blade to Al Simmons to help protect humanity from the forces of Hell.
8) Monolith
The hulking Hellspawn known as Monolith expanded the Spawn Universe to the stars. Monolith, the first alien Hellspawn introduced, comes from a homeworld that was ravaged by interplanetary monsters known as Planet Eaters. As one of the last of his people, Monolith was forced to serve the villain Omega Spawn. Monolith reluctantly aided Omega Spawn in his crusade to conquer humanity, leading him to battle the numerous heroic Hellspawns of Earth. His physical strength is practically unmatched, demonstrated by his effortlessly defeating Al Simmons. However, sick of being Omega Spawn’s lapdog, Monolith betrayed his master and helped Earth’s Hellspawns defeat the villain. Since then, the towering alien has been a galactic anti-hero and a periodic member of the Scorched.
7) Omega Spawn
One of the first and most powerful Hellspawns, Omega Spawn is a gigantic intergalactic tyrant from the future who seeks to remake the universe in his nightmarish image. Long ago, Omega Spawn’s overwhelming power allowed him to nearly overthrow Malebogia and dominate both Hell and Earth. Eventually, Omega Spawn would see Earth as unworthy of his attention, and set his sights on taking over the universe. Over the centuries, Omega Spawn has destroyed and conquered countless worlds. When a space-time rift dragged Omega Spawn back to Earth in the modern day, he set his sights on conquering the planet until he could resume his cosmic crusade. Brimming with destructive necroplasm energy, Omega Spawn is one of Al Simmon’s most powerful foes.
6) Deviant
In the year 2107, a new Hellspawn emerged who combined cyberpunk technology with hellish sorcery to fight for the people of the dystopian Rat City. Peter Cairnn was a World War III soldier who, after losing his legs to a bomb, was outfitted with cybernetic prosthetics and nanites throughout his body. However, the bomb was of Hellspawn origins and charged with necroplasm. The resulting necroplasm energy infused itself with Peter’s nanites, giving him the powers of a Hellspawn. With his newfound powers, Peter became the vigilante known as the Deviant, battling against the corrupt, zealous Pharmatech Solutions (P.T.S.), an evil corporation that wants to learn how to replicate and weaponize his powers for their own sinister ends.
