Gog is a fictional

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appearing in

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s published by

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. The character has appeared in ''

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'' and ''

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Publication history

Created by writer

Roy Thomas Roy William Thomas Jr."Roy Thomas Checklist" ''Alter Ego'' vol. 3, #50 (July 2005) p. 16 (born November 22, 1940) is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibl ...

and

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, the character first appears in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #103.

Fictional character biography

While traveling through the

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finds a crashed spaceship in

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and ventures inside. There, he finds the juvenile Gog and another member of his species, who died during the crash landing of the spaceship. Deciding to save the young Gog from his sinking ship, Kraven takes him with him and decides to raise him as a pet; much to Kraven's surprise, Gog rapidly grows to a gigantic size only days after being found. Kraven, realizing how useful Gog can be, decides to use him in a plot to conquer the Savage Land. After kidnapping the visiting

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from a camp in the Savage Land, Kraven and Gog battle the heroes Ka-Zar and

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. While Ka-Zar deals with Kraven, Spider-Man defeats Gog by luring him into a patch of quicksand, which he then sinks to the bottom of. Gog would later be saved from dying in the quicksand by the Plunderer. Having Gog (who created a device that allowed him to speak English) act as his servant, the Plunderer uses him in a plot to try to steal the super-soldier serum in

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. Followed to New York by Ka-Zar, Gog and the Plunderer battle him before Gog, using his teleportation bracelets, escapes, first to the

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, then the

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and finally, to another dimension. Gog is later found by

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and the

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, who induct the creature into their group as the sixth and final member. Whilst engaged in battle with several heroes, Gog is beaten in combat by the hero

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and shrunken by

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, who sends him back to the dimension the Sinister Six found him in. Gog later appeared on

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when

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and Magik appeared to look for a mutant girl named Bo. Gog was among the monsters that attacked the three until Magik teleported herself, Shadowcat, and Bo to the

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. Gog reappeared in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' with underwriter

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detailing his new origin as an alien pet and voyage to Earth as Kraven's bodyguard.

Powers and abilities

Gog possesses superhuman strength. He also wears bracelets that are capable of granting him interdimensional teleportation.

In film

In 2014,

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were in progress of developing a spin-off film to the 2012 film ''

'' featuring the

, with

Drew Goddard Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American filmmaker. He began his career writing episodes for the television shows ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'', ''Alias'', and ''Lost''. After moving into screenwriting in fi ...

attached to write and direct. Due to the hacking of Sony's database in 2014 and massive confidential leaks, information regarding the ''Sinister Six'' revealed Gog was considered to appear in the movie in an early draft of the script.

References

External links

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