Maha Yogi
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- debut:Journey Into Mystery #96 (Sep 1963)
Maha Yogi is a character in the Marvel Universe.
Fictional character biography
This being was apparently born 10,000 years ago in what is now Central Europe. He apparently was a savage that came to possess some portion of the same Bloodgem that Ulysses Bloodstone would later possess, which gave him immortality and eternal youth. He later came to Britain during the time of Camelot, and impersonated the real Merlin while he was away. The Eternal Sersi exposed the impostor, and the real Merlin placed him in suspended animation.origin revealed in Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 #210
The false Merlin was revived in modern times, still posing as Merlin, and battled and was defeated by Thor.Journey into Mystery #96 He later became a professional criminal and took the name Warlock, organizing a band of armored mercenaries. He abducted Marvel Girl, battled the original X-Men, and was rendered comatose by Professor X.X-Men Vol. 1 #30
Later, as the mentalist Maha Yogi, he attempted to create an army of mind-slaves. He fought and was defeated by the Beast and Iceman.X-Men Vol. 1 #47 The Maha Yogi then became the chairman of Merlin Industries. With Mongu, the Maha Yogi plotted world conquest, but was defeated by the Hulk and Doctor Druid. During his encounter with the Hulk, his fragment of the Bloodgem was destroyed and he rapidly aged into helplessness.Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 #210-211 Some time later, the Maha Yogi was revealed to have been created by the Caretakers of Arcturus and to have turned against them.Doctor Strange Vol. 3 #27
Powers and abilities
As a result of mutation induced by the Caretakers of Arcturus, the Maha Yogi had the psionic abilities to control the minds of others, create illusions, project psionic force bolts, levitate objects, teleport himself, create force fields and alter his own appearance. His psionic powers have a limited range.
Thanks to his possession of a fragment of the Bloodstone, the Maha Yogi is virtually immortal, and has a physically malleable body.