Ransak the Reject

Ransak the Reject
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Eternals #8 (Feb 1977)
Created by	Jack Kirby
In-story information
Species	¾ Deviant, ¼ Inhuman
Team affiliations	Delta Network
Notable aliases	"Sweet Prince"
Abilities	superhuman strength and durability, berserker rages

Ransak the Reject is a fictional superhuman from the Marvel Comics universe. He is a member of the race known as the Deviants. Ransak was created by writer/artist Jack Kirby in 1977. He first appeared in Eternals #8.

Fictional character biography

Ransak is the son of Maelstrom (whose father, Phaeder, was an Inhuman) and Medula. He is shunned and feared by other Deviants because he is not subject to the deformity of their race, his humanlike appearance seeming freakish to them. An outcast, he funneled his rage at his rejection into becoming an expert killer fighting in the gladiatorial arenas that became his home.

In the gladiator arena, he drew the attention of the Eternal Thena, and both he and the Deviant Karkas were given sanctuary in the Eternal city of Olympia. Though the prospect of women who did not think him a hideous freak was comforting to Ransak, his tremendous anger still alienated him from the Eternals. The Eternal samurai Kingo Sunen has attempted to teach him discipline, to little avail.

After the majority of the Eternals left for deep space, Ransak once again turned his attention towards fighting, both in and out of the arena, the Deviants that had shunned him.

Powers and abilities

Ransak has superhuman strength and durability sufficient to battle an Eternal in personal combat. He has a lifetime's experience in gladiatorial combat, and is thus a formidable fighter. He is prone to berserker-like rages during which he can ignore painful injuries and attacks.

Other versions

Earth X

Ransak featured prominently in Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's non-canon Earth X trilogy, as the leader of a guerilla force determined to aid Reed Richards' efforts to burn the Terrigen Mists out of the atmosphere and reverse the mutations plaguing Earth. As when he lived with the Deviants, Ransak was untouched by the deformity that had claimed all those around him, a condition which he considered a deformity in and of itself.