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Kismet (Marvel Comics)
Kismet (), also known as Paragon, Her, and Ayesha (), is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. Ayesha appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'', portrayed by Elizabeth Debicki. Publication history The character first appeared as Paragon in ''The Incredible Hulk (comic book), The Incredible Hulk'' vol. 2 Annual #6 and was created by Len Wein, David Anthony Kraft, David Kraft, and Herb Trimpe. She first appeared as Her and Kismet in ''Marvel Two-in-One'' #61, while Ayesha first appeared in ''Fantastic Four (comic book), Fantastic Four'' vol. 3 #11. Fictional character biography Originally known as Paragon, Kismet was the second attempt by the Enclave (comics), Enclave to artificially create a super-powerful being in their Citadel of Science "the Beehive" (their first attempt was Him, later known as Adam Warlock). The Encl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , which is the West Semitic word for " ox". Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter A and the Cyrillic letter А. Uses Greek In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced and could be either phonemically long ( ː or short ( . Where there is ambiguity, long and short alpha are sometimes written with a macron and breve today: Ᾱᾱ, Ᾰᾰ. * ὥρα = ὥρᾱ ''hōrā'' "a time" * γλῶσσα = γλῶσσᾰ ''glôssa'' "tongue" In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha simply represent the open front unrounded vowel . In the polytonic orthography of Greek, alpha, like other vowel letters, can occur with several diacritic marks: any of three accent symbols (), and either of two breathing mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |