- "I'm from way, way beyond time and space!"
- ―The Beyonder[src]
The Beyonder is a character in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. A mercurial and omniscient entity, the Beyonder is a comedic trickster who knows little about humans.[2]
History[]
Origin[]
The Beyonder is a member of an extraordinarily powerful species from beyond time and space. He is tasked to study planets and their population, eradicating them if he deems them unnecessary. When he was sent to Earth, the Beyonder sought the smartest person on the planet, Lunella Lafayette, to help him understand humanity.[3]
Meeting Lunella[]
After observing Lunella from behind the scenes, he reveals himself to her, Devil Dinosaur, and Casey Calderon but she interrupts him before he could explain his job. While venting about Eduardo, Lunella accidentally convinces the Beyonder to erase humanity. Lunella protests and the Beyonder promises to spare them if she wins an upcoming science fair with Eduardo, her "useless" partner. At the fair, the Beyonder turns Lunella's project into pickles for doing it without Eduardo, forcing her and Eduardo come up with a last-minute project together. It fails and the Beyonder makes Lunella believe he has erased humanity; however, he then reveals it was an illusion he was doing to mess with her. He explains that watching Lunella and Eduardo both contribute to create something satisfied him. The Beyonder then leaves, but affirms that he is going to continue watching humanity.[3]
Appearance[]
Physical appearance[]
The Beyonder is a shapeshifter. His main appearance is that of a tall, slender man with black and orange skin. He has turquoise hair, turquoise lips, and blue eyeshadow with no pupils or irises. He has black streaks on his chin that resemble facial hair.
Clothing[]
The Beyonder wears a tight-fitted white, black, and light blue suit, and black boots.
Personality[]
- "Funky? Yes. Wizard? No."
- ―The Beyonder[src]
The Beyonder is curious and mischievous, but also an impish and self-centered trickster. All-knowing and all-powerful, Beyonder is brilliant when it comes to the makeup of matter and the universe, but he is clueless about humans.[2]
The Beyonder is flamboyant and lively, enjoying musical numbers, but he is also extremely dangerous. As a higher being, he has no qualms about endangering or ending the lives of lower lifeforms, even eradicating entire planets that do not meet his standards. However, he is willing to spare certain exceptional individuals, such as Lunella Lafayette for her intellect. The Beyonder gets offended by the term "wizard" as he believes it undersells him.[3]
Powers[]
- Nigh-Omnipotence: The Beyonder describes himself as all-powerful. He can erase planets on a whim.[3]
- Matter Manipulation: The Beyonder can manipulate, conjure, and modify matter.[3]
- Reality Manipulation: The Beyonder can change scientific laws, decolorizing the world and removing concepts like gravity.[3]
- Biological Manipulation: The Beyonder can gift Devil Dinosaur muscles and turn him into a baby.[3]
- Media Manipulation: The Beyonder can get Selena Gomez to follow Casey on social media.[3]
- Shapeshifting: The Beyonder can change his appearance, including mimicking other people and their voices. He can separate and reform his body, and dematerialize and rematerialize at will.[3]
- Teleporation: The Beyonder can teleport and open portals.[3]
- Flight: The Beyonder can fly and levitate. Additionally, he can survive in space.[3]
- Telepathy: The Beyonder can communicate with people telepathically.[3]
- Nigh-Omniscience: The Beyonder describes himself as all-knowing. However, just because he knows everything, that doesn't mean he automatically understands what he knows.[3]
- It is unknown if The Beyonder will be the future main antagonist of the series after Maris Morlack, but Steve Loter did confirm that he will play a much larger role in Season 2.
Sightings[]
Season 1
- 102. "The Borough Bully" (voice only)
- 103. "Run the Rink" (voice only)
- 104. "Check Yourself" (voice only)
- 105. "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" (voice only)
- 106. "The Beyonder" (debut)
- 110. "Moon Girl's Day Off"
- 111. "Like Mother, Like Moon Girl"
- 112. "Today, I Am a Woman"
- 114. "Coney Island, Baby!"
- 116. "OMG Issue #2"
Season 2[]
- 201. "The Great Beyond-er!"
- 207."Wish-Tar"
Trivia[]
- In the comics, the Beyonder is an all-powerful cosmic being from beyond the multiverse. For his "Secret Wars," he created the planet Battleworld, where he had many heroes and villains fight to see which side would triumph. Afterwards, he visited the Earth and gave himself a human body to study humanity in person. Frustrated by his experience, the Beyonder contemplated about erasing the multiverse, but was stopped by the Earth's heroes.
- The idea to use the Beyonder for the show came from Kevin Feige.[4]
- The Beyonder is inspired by his voice actor, Laurence Fishburne, along with Raphael Saadiq, Jack Skellington, Mok from Rock And Rule, and David Bowie.[5]
- The Beyonder is the one who narrates the backstories of villains in each episode.
References[]
- ↑ DTV "Cast announcement". (Tweet) Twitter.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Holub, Christian (February 7, 2022). "Take a first look at the cast of Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur cartoon". Entertainment Weekly.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Halima Lucas (writer) and Ben Juwono, Samantha Suyi Lee (directors) (February 25, 2023). "The Beyonder". Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Season 1. Episode 6. Disney Channel.
- ↑ Jackson, Destiny "‘Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ Bosses Discuss Bringing The First Black Female Superhero Animated Series To Life: “It’s Black Girl Magic”". Deadline.
- ↑ Loter, Steve "#MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur fun fact.". Twitter.
