Garokk

In published Marvel narratives, Garokk's human origin is given as a foreign sailor (dating to early contact eras such as the 15th century) who drank from a sacred cup beneath a statue of the sun-god Garokk and became immortal. Over time his body transformed into a living, organic stone-like substance and he came to be identified with — and worshipped as — the statue-god Garokk. Subsequent tales show him resurrected or re-embodied (for example, Zaladane magically resurrecting Garokk in the body of Kirk Marston), at times assuming the identity of the spirit of the Savage Land or acting as its quasi-divine guardian/agent; other arcs show him taking Terminus' armor or being coerced into servitude by Magneto, demonstrating recurring cycles of transformation, possession, and resurrection in the comic continuity.

Garokk is typically depicted with a gray, rock-like, 'petrified' organic body that resembles a living statue. Storylines also portray him in altered physical states—half-molten/half-crystal after certain transformations, enlarged or reduced in size, and in some accounts depicted changing into or appearing as a being of pure energy during transformations away from his stone form.

Narrative sources attribute to Garokk extraordinary durability and stamina from his petrified body, projection of intense heat, light, and concussive force from his eyes, the creation of dimensional warps/portals with eye-generated energy in some stories, capacity to drain or tap energy sources to replenish himself (animated synopses emphasize attempts to drain Storm's energy), limited telepathic ability allowing him to learn of worshippers' activities through dreams, occasional petrification of others by touch in specific tales, shifts in size and form including energetic states, and effective immortality (he does not age and can be resurrected after bodily destruction). These abilities have been shown to enable large-scale alteration of the Savage Land in various plots (for example, Garokk wearing Terminus armor and devastating the land).