Powers
Immortality: Like all Elders Champion has been bared from Death's realm
Invulnerabilities: Class 1000 resistance vs Heat, Cold, Electricity, Radiation Toxins and Diseases
Power Primordial: Shift-Z
- Life Support
- Plant Control
- Grow Plants
- Matter transformation: form environmental conditions for plant life.
Talents
Botany, Biology, Geology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronavigation
Contacts
Other Elders of the Universe
History
Like all those of his fellow Elders of the Universe, the Gardener's origin is lost in antiquity. What is known is that he among the oldest living beings in the universe, having been a member of one of the first of the universe's races to become sentient in the wake of the Big Bang. Virtually immortal, the Gardener devoted his life to the creation of natural beauty by sowing the seeds of plants, flowers, and trees upon barren or devastated worlds. The number of worlds he has turned into fertile planet-wide gardens over the eons is countless. He amassed a knowledge of botany second to none and collected billions of different seeds in his travels. Using his advanced cultivation techniques, he could cover a barren Earth-sized planet with lush vegetation in the space of a year.
In recent millennia, the Gardener acquired one of the Infinity Gems, then believed a Soul-Gem, an alien artifact that enabled its possessor to manipulate the fabric of time and channel cosmic energy. The Gardener employed it to stimulate the growth of his seeds beyond their normal rate and to traverse space without a starship. One of the first known uses was when the Gardener used his Gem's power to combat the Stranger, another powerful extraterrestrial possessing an Infinity Gem. Believing that he "corrupted" the gem by its use as a weapon, the Gardener abandoned it. Later, the Gardener replaced his Gem with the one once worn by the golden Earth-being Adam Warlock. Warlock's frequent employment of the gem as a weapon does not matter to the Gardener as long as he himself has not used it in that way.
Upon being contacted by the other Elders of the Universe, the Gardener agreed to partake in aggressive activity against the alien being Galactus and then the universe itself in order to recreate reality. The plan was foiled by Galactus' former Herald, Silver Surfer, and his ally, Mantis. The Gardener returned to his life as a gardener until confronted by the villain Thanos. Thanos challenged the Gardener for the Gem, taking it and killing the Gardener in the process.
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