Phastos | |
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![]() Phastos. Art by Mark Texeira. | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | The Eternals (vol. 2) #1 (October 1985) |
Created by | Peter B. Gillis Sal Buscema |
In-story information | |
Species | Eternal |
Notable aliases | Hephaestus Vulcan Ceasefire Phillip Stoss |
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Phastos is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Peter B. Gillis and Sal Buscema, the character first appeared in The Eternals (vol. 2) #1 (October 1985). He is a member of the Eternals, a human offshoot race in the Marvel Universe.
Brian Tyree Henry portrays Phastos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021).
Phastos first appeared in The Eternals (vol. 2) #1 (October 1985), created by writer Peter B. Gillis and artist Sal Buscema.[1]
Phastos's history is very murky. He is a third or fourth generation Eternal who chose to remain on Earth because of his obsessive search for an unidentified item or person.[volume & issue needed] He continues to serve as the master technologist for the Eternal race, and it was his genius which allowed Virako to return from apparent death.[volume & issue needed] Although he despises war, Phastos chose to follow Ikaris into battle against the minions of Apocalypse.[2]
Phastos is shown living under the name Phillip Stoss,[3] before having his real identity revealed to him.[volume & issue needed]
As an Eternal, Phastos has superhuman speed, strength, durability, and is immortal.[4][5][6][7] He can project "Cosmic Energy" in the form of beams from his eyes and hands.[4][8][6] His cosmic energy manipulation allows flight, illusion generation, matter transmutation, and teleportation.[7][9][10]
Phastos carries a special hammer capable of firing bolts of an unknown energy and is a brilliant engineer, technologist and inventor.[11][8][12][13][14]
On Earth-90559 in the year 2115 AD, Phastos and Ajak were shown to have been trapped in the Uni-Mind.[15]
In the unified Marvel 2099 reality of Earth-2099, Phastos was seen as a member of the 2099 version of the Avengers. He was among those who were massacred by the 2099 version of the Masters of Evil. Their deaths were later avenged by the 2099 version of the New Avengers who defeated the Masters of Evil and remanded them to a prison on the planet Wakanda.[16]