In the Marvel universe, there are countless well-known heroes and villains who take their cues from other superheroes and supervillains. The video game series’ frontiers are always growing, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the most current installment, will be no exception. So far, it appears that the creators are regularly releasing more potent and beautiful Marvel heroes.
The game’s supervillain cast expanded during the Summer Game Fest in 2022, and a fresh trailer offered Marvel fans a little preview of what to anticipate from the videogame. More remarkably, the trailer offers potential players their first look at some of the enemies they will face.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ main adversary appears to be the evil being known as Lilith. Despite being less well-known than the Mad Titan Thanos, this villain is exclusively to blame for the development of all Midnight Suns. This is due to a vision that Ghost Rider had of Lilith, the Mother of All Demons, coming back to life and posing a significant threat.
The Midnight Suns teaser describes Lilith as a frightening monster who can corrupt and transform other Marvel Legends into twisted, perverted, and demonic entities to serve her purposes. Lilith’s skills and capacity to turn heroes into “Fallen” versions of themselves make her an Omega-level threat.
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Who Is Lilith?
Before the publication of Midnight Suns, Lilith was the nefarious Mother of Demons from Marvel, who had been from the beginning of time. Despite making an appearance in issue 28 of Ghost Rider by Andy Kubert and Howard Mackie in 1992, Lilith’s origins are unknown. She was elderly when life first appeared on Earth, according to Roland Boschi, Ed Brisson, VC’s Joe Caramagna, and Dan Brown’s Spirits of Ghost Rider: Mother of Demons.
The legends surrounding her are similar to those found in Christian mythology: First love of Adam, Lilith, lived a comfortable life on Earth. Because of Lilith’s dominance over Hell, God was furious, and His army of angels annihilated Lilith’s demonic offspring, the Lilin. After Lilith was exiled to Hell, Adam was given Eve, a human woman. It was not until Mephisto, the Lord of Hell, turned Adam and Eve into monsters that humanity as we know it came to an end. Lilith was Lucifer’s wife and supposedly a member of the Heavenly Host, according to numerous stories.
She helped lead the assault on Heaven and was thrown down into Hell with Pazuzu, Lucifer, and Asmodeus. Despite the fact that Lilith and Mephisto had several children, the Lord of Lies eventually grew tired of her and expelled her from Hell. Even this narrative might not be accurate because according to another myth, Adam was enticed by Lilith and gave birth to a child they called Mazikim.
Lilith grew interwoven with mankind over the years, emerging as a deity in certain times and a witch in others. It’s unclear what she wanted to achieve during this period. Some claim the Mother of Demons battled against the first Order of the Midnight Sons, while others think she was one of the first members of the malevolent Darkhold, helping to create the planet’s first vampires.
Lilith has now become a formidable foe for Marvel’s magic wielders and monster hunters in current times. Lilith was released from her imprisonment inside the giant Leviathan in the 1992 Rise of the Midnight Sons and worked to create a rift that would swarm Earth with demons. Blade, Ghost Rider, Morbius, and other heroes banded together and defeated Lilith and her henchmen.
Lilith would later team up with other villains like Zarathos and Centurious before being imprisoned within a mysterious world. Lilith has partnered up with Count Dracula and joined the Vampire Nation to take over all of Britain. Lilith assisted in the establishment of a lunar vampire base, but Captain Britain’s efforts disrupted Dracula’s scheme. The vampire legion was destroyed, Dracula was slaughtered, and Lilith was sent to Hell, where she collaborated with Mephisto.
Lilith is a terrifying force of evil, with superhuman speed and strength, the capability to teleport, enormous knowledge of witchcraft and arcane powers, immortality, and the capacity to call and produce legions of Lilin progeny. Few superheroes would’ve been able to confront her and come out alive.
Earth is lucky that Lilith has focused her efforts on tiny invasions and demonic alliances rather than wielding her entire strength. Lilith cannot be identified as a single entity, she is a deity, a witch, a demon and an angel. She has lived from the beginning of time and will also most likely survive the age of humans.
According to the Firaxis Games team, Lilith was a champion of light who belonged to the Blood race. She is a descendent of the Elder Gods and has fought the powers of evil for thousands of years alongside her sister, Caretaker. In a moment of weakness in the late 17th century, Lilith went ahead and sold her soul to a twisted, demonic Elder God named Chthon. Chthon is so vile that his fellow Gods banished him to another realm thousands of years ago, yet he has never given up hope of returning to Earth.
Lilith is poisoned by Chthon as a result of this wicked agreement, and she succumbs to the darkness. She raises the Lilin, a hideous, demonic army, and declares war on humanity. The only thing standing in her way is a group of warriors known by the name the Midnight Suns, lead by a renowned warrior known as The Hunter.
The crew defeats Lilith and imprisons her for millennia. The Midnight Suns cover her body and spread the pages of Chthon’s wicked grimoire, the Darkhold, around the earth. However, Hydra spent many hundred years tracking down the papers and seeking Lilith’s burial site.
They have only one page left to locate, and with the period of prophecy approaching, they suddenly discover Lilith’s tomb. Dr. Faustus and his Hydra team employ a combination of Darkhold and Gamma research to revive Lilith, but Lilith quickly subjugates the Hydra soldiers and takes control to try to fulfill the prophecy once again.
Although she may not be as well-known as Apocalypse or Thanos, she is an Omega-level danger and perhaps even transcends their might. She is the Lilin’s commander, yet her legion is far more frightening than a swarm of nameless, faceless minions. Lilith’s strength allows her to corrupt even the most strong-willed and powerful individuals and beasts. The Fallen are renowned villains and heroes from all of the Marvel Universe who’ve been corrupted by Lilith and twisted to her will.
With so many abilities at her disposal, Lilith is capable of defeating even the most powerful characters in Marvel’s stable. Lilith launches an attack on the Sanctum Sanctorum of Doctor Strange, aided by the Lilin, Hydra, and The Fallen. Strange, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, and a teenage Scarlet Witch narrowly escape the onslaught, but the Sanctum and its precious relics fall into Lilith’s hands. This serves as the motivation for the heroes to get together, hunt down the current Midnight Suns, and reawaken The Hunter.
Lilith is the Mother of Demons, and she is also The Hunter’s mother. This ancestry provides The Hunter their strength, and although The Hunter would go to any length to destroy Lilith, she sees their connection differently. While Lilith is extremely strong, her revival is simply a prelude to Hydra’s ultimate goal: the summoning of Chthon. Because of the malevolent Elder God’s involvement in the creation of the Darkhold, the sinister text has its own will and distorts anyone under its control – even Lilith – to complete the prophecy and return Chthon to Earth.
Chthon will be allowed to return to Earth if the Darkhold is read at the once-in-a-billion-year astronomical phenomena known as the mysterious midnight sun, according to this prophecy. But what’s the big deal about that? The corrupted Elder God wishes to devour, pollute, and engulf the Earth. However, Lilith must accomplish her own goal of corruption first, giving the Midnight Suns their own period of chance to battle with The Hunter and defeat Chthon before he is even rebuilt.
Lilith’s origins are still shrouded in secrecy. Lilith may have existed as a child before the creation of any great civilization during a period when gods and devils were still shaping the planet, but in Ancient Atlantis she takes her position as a goddess.
Lilith’s abilities over the universe are still identical to those of her position as an Annunaki member, and it is possible that it was here that she invented and devised new and different spells, as she is recognized as the archmother of witchcraft. Maybe even borrowing directly from Chthon’s initial magical creations. Her most heinous magical endeavor seems to be her participation in the formation of the very first Vampire. She may have been the one who taught the old alchemy to the Atlantian sorcerers commanded by Varnae.
When the ancient gods of Atlantis departed from human consciousness, Lilith would emerge again as an Annunaki member. Lilith is perhaps tied to early evil deities, and her parents might have been nobody other than the bad gods Ahriman and Aehr.
She might also have ties to the deity Dagon, also known as Enlil, the child of Sky God Anu; Lilith could have been raised by him and subsequently turned into his concubine, giving her the title Ninlil. When Lilith was not on Earth, she spent her time on the Celestial Dilmun, an asteroid identical to that of the Ancient Sumeria known as Allatum, where she governed the realm of Sheol with her demonic spawn race called the Sebettu. Lilith presided over the underworld as a goddess over the death and resurrection of the living on Earth.
She ruled over desert areas, darkness, thunderstorms, magic, health, and sicknesses. As time passed, she was recognized as a goddess in Sumer, Palestine and Babylon. During this period, she would collaborate with Inanna, the deity of Love and War; while Inanna reveled in the carnage of war, Lilith’s job was to gather fallen souls and transport them to the underworld, where they would await rebirth. Lilith would soon grow resentful of Inanna as she gained the respect of the rest of the gods. Lilith’s work was more essential, yet she was disregarded, therefore the two were continuously at odds.
Lilith, who was always upstaged by Inanna, would lose her patience and cause mayhem in the human world as time passed and she became a recognized goddess in Sumer. She would murder the offspring of couples paired together by Inanna, and she would create ferocious sandstorms that brought death and sickness; these crimes made gods and mortals, alike, dread her. Lilith began to alter together with her image as culture changed due to outside intervention and the arrival of the Akkadians.
She acquired the power of a new identity as people began to dread her powers as a Storm Demon, recognized as Lilitu and Dimme. Lilith, also known as Lilitu and Dimme, was a Deity known as the Child of Anu, but unlike the rest of the gods who only reprimanded mortals for sins against them, Lilith would constantly attack them to ensure they constantly had faith in something greater than themselves, as well as to cement her existence and legacy. She was known as Goddess of Trials and Tribulations, The Terrible One, She Who Erases, Goddess of Fate, and She Who Increases Suffering, among other names.
Later, during the reign of the Babylonians, she assumed the title Ishtar and merged with Innana. While Innana would represent the Deity of Love, Lilith would take on her more deadly qualities as a Warlord full of Bloodlust. In the Marvel Universe, the Descent of Ishtar would’ve been the incident that may have induced Ishtar to detach into individual entities, and when Lilith came back from the underworld, she took on a role similar to the earlier Lilitu, but under the title the Lamashtu and began terrorizing the civilization once more.
As Lamashtu, she would combat her cousin Pazuzu, who would continuously sabotage her attempts to make expectant mothers suffer by promising them his amulet in exchange for safety from her. Lilith, irritated by his meddling, would declare war against him by unleashing winds of death in his area, consuming his worshippers.
Lilith would journey to Greece, where the Olympian deity Zeus would be captivated by her dark and peculiar beauty. Soon after, a passionate affair would ensue, and Lilith would bear him offspring. She quickly rose through the hierarchy of the Greek gods to become Lamia, Goddess of Prophecy.
Some think she always possessed this gift, while others believe Zeus bestowed it on her as a symbol of his love. Unfortunately, history has a habit of repeating itself, and Hera would soon launch a fight against her. Hera had elaborate preparations to imprison Lilith and Zeus’ offspring in another dimension.
Lilith stormed across Ancient Greece once more, ruining all of Hera’s marital unions, seducing men as night fell and having an increasing number of children. This race would be called the Lamiae, and all of them would go on to do what their mother did, and remind Hera of what she had been fighting against.
Lilith survived Atlantis’ Great Cataclysm. A Sumerian god corrupted as a demon, she finally withdraws to the desert far beyond Euphrates, kidnapping unbaptised children and appearing in men’s nightmares, which was the beginning of the myths about the succubus. She ruled mortal nations and bore mighty children, such as the demonic Lilin; among her lovers were the celestial Shemhazai, the fertility deity Attis, the Olympian Zeus, as well as the Judeo-Christian God. Lilith is thought to have given birth to a plethora of various races.
According to legend, she fought Gilgamesh in 3000 BCE for Inanna’s holy willow tree, which she sought to use to create her royal wedding bed and throne. With the assistance of the Lilin, Lilith faced Solomon, the banisher of demons, almost two millennia later. Lilith then conceived by Solomon after seducing him in the guise of her daughter, the Queen of Sheba.
She returned to Mesopotamia. However by then, early Judaism had emerged, and her history had altered again, and she had become a heavenly entity who was sent out together with Sammael, who was the Devil in mythology. Lilith and Sammael joined forces with her sister Na’amah, but following his expulsion to hell, she saw no potential with him and withdrew to focus on her own ambitions.
Lilith was then forced to become the consort of Adam K’ad-mon and she created the Mazikim with Adam but eventually refused to remain servile, and when he attempted to force himself upon her, she resisted him and soared high into the air and disappeared.
She ascended to heaven, where she enticed the Judeo-Christian God, earning his mystical name, which granted her authority over him, and then they mated. During this time, it is suggested in texts such as the Kabbalah that she recovered her goddess status. Lilith would subsequently be known as The Lash of God, and she would lash at sinners for their terrible deeds.
Lilith would finally tire of his jealous outbursts and rages and abandon him to seek refuge in the Red Sea. She would travel deep into the Red Sea caverns to discover another region of the underworld. Here she met her future husband Asmodeus, and they quickly mated in order to have more Lilin.
But when the Judeo-Christian God discovered she had left him for a demon, he became enraged and dispatched three angels named Semangloph, Senoi and Sansenoi to take her back to Adam and him, but she declined. The self-proclaimed messengers of God massacred the majority of the Mazikim as retribution for her stubbornness. Lilith was devastated and vowed vengeance, swearing that her line would rule and replace his so-called human “creations,” or that she would absorb them so that they became hers.
Lilith: Major Story Arc
She resolved to haunt the religion that tarnished her holy image decades later. She tormented the prophet Elijah and subsequently murdered Job’s sons. When the great Roman Empire crumbled, Lilith emerged to rule over its ruins, her wild creatures devouring the remnants.
Later in history, in the twelfth century in Asia, Lilith would suffer a humiliating defeat when a midwife locked her in a bottle for attempting to take the life of children she would bring into the world. She conceived numerous more Lilin armies after her escape. The famous Joseph Della Reina approached Lilith, attempting to call the Messiah by battling her and her then-husband Asmodeus.
She had groomed him herself, and he turned out to be no match for Lilith, so she transformed him into a black dog using her occult abilities. It’s also likely that Lilith and Mephisto had bad blood because he briefly burnt Asmodeus before being reborn and regaining his domain.
It is unknown if Lilith completed some of these accomplishments in spirit form, as she was trapped beneath the shell of Tiamat or Leviathan by the Atlantean wizards at some time. Even while imprisoned, she has shown to be a formidable and lethal foe.
Lilith could not only go spiritually and astrologically across Earth’s continents, but she could also pass highly dimensional boundaries to planets with very different magical rules. It also appears that many of the residents of the plains called her mythical name and power, enabling her to stay powerful and robust. Unfortunately for her offspring, without their parent physically present, they had no one to protect them, and as a result, they were defeated or exiled into other dimensions. Other Lilin were pushed to blend in with humankind, even marry and procreate with them.
The power of the Lilin’s blood was diluted as a result. Even while imprisoned, Lilith’s legends persisted, bringing her a slew of fans who praise her fiery independence and strength. Those in the pagan and feminist movements, as well as certain mystical cults, have dedicated themselves to her service, allowing her to develop a feeling of Goddess-hood and greater power to channel.
While imprisoned, Lilith would come across Dan Ketch’s disembodied soul, which showed her the prospect of her being set free and the emergence of her children. She would also have visions and fantasies of the present and past, dreams making reference to her children stuck in numerous different dimensions or being brutally murdered by some pseudo-looking skull demon, which drove her next move: find out what had occurred to her children.
So, while still confined in her mystical prison, she entered the region of evil nightmares and met Nightmare there. They would create an alliance, and she would encourage him to visit the dreams of the so-called Ghost Rider. In his nightmarish realm, Nightmare would build the House of Lilin and use it to frighten Ghost Rider and anyone linked to him with projections of their greatest fears.
Meanwhile, two scientists investigating Northern Greenland would come upon the shed form of Tiamat and continue to investigate the husk, freeing Lilith from her mystical captivity. Lilith did eat the first scientist’s body and soul to restore her vigor. When she was resurrected, she realized the other scientist was among her offspring from a previous life, and his presence assisted in her release. In exchange, she killed him quickly by breaking his neck, regaining his spirit as her child.
However, Lilith’s continuous presence and use of her power to follow her lineage would cause catastrophic dimension weakening, unwittingly releasing Zusommin into Earth 616. She would send forth a mystical call that her offspring would recognize, but only Lilin Pilgrim would respond.
To buy herself further time, Lilith would collect diverse Lilin to diminish the Midnight Sons’ numbers and even try to convince them to commit suicide. In one attempt, she utilized her shape-shifting abilities to conceal herself as a human lady and attempted to pay the Nightstalkers to assassinate Johnny Blaze or Ghost Rider; however, this scheme failed.
With Pilgrim there, they continued their hunt for more of the Lilin, first encountering Creed, who had abandoned his lineage but joined after some persuading from his mother. They would also meet Blackout, a descendant who would later gather Doc, Skinner and Meatmarket.
Lilith would later travel to an alternative nightclub and become deeply infatuated with the style of speedmetal, where she would meet her offspring Fang and Nakota. The Nightstalkers and The Midnight Sons attempted to thwart Lilith and the Lilin. Lilith was able to produce a new kid, Dan Ketch, who, as a Lilin, would fight the heroes.
Lilith’s victory, however, would be fleeting, as her offspring were slaughtered and she was pushed inside her own rebirthing portal. Nakota is the last living Lilin. Lilith would stop and heal in Greenland on the Road to Vengeance, feasting on the flesh of her Lilin offspring. As the pregnancy nears its end and the sacred time approaches, Lilith puts out the song of a Siren to warn one of her own.
Lilith waits, but no one appears, so her song takes on a desperate tone. Outcast comes to his mother’s rescue, allowing the rebirthing to occur and opens her swelling stomach, permitting the resurrection of his fallen brothers. Pilgrim, Blackout, Nakota and Meatmarket were the most devoted of the rebirth’s children. Back in Greenland, a strange guy introduces himself as Centurious, a soulless man and claims to be looking for a partnership with Lilith in order to locate an ancient artifact known by the name “the Medallion of Power”.
Lilith and Centurious intend to catch Dan Ketch or Ghost Rider in order to get a piece of the Medallion of Power by creeping up on them while they are fighting the Rogue Lilin Skinner. Dan and Rider go out to rescue their mother and utilize the medallion’s power to destroy Lilith and everyone else who stands in their way.
Zarathos assaults Centurious, who is about to confront Lilith and the children, and then proceeds to assault Ghost Rider and friends. Vengeance, Blaze, and Rider get together to try to murder Lilith and Centurious with the Medallion of Power, but instead wind up banishing them. The strange thing is that Lilith does not protest her exile because she senses a familiar voice summoning her to the location where the Rider is attempting to send her.
Zarathos was set free and coerced into marrying Lilith, with whom he had a child. Zarathos and the Lilin were exiled to Shadowside, while Lilith stayed, pregnant with Zarathos’ child. Lilith was one among those who had been afflicted by the Hellphyr. When Lilith saw Doctor Strange’s assembly of the Witches, she summoned a Lilin to fight them.
Strange walked by Lilith on his tour to alert mystics of the dangers and warned her that he suspected she was doing something wicked and that she must not pursue his protegees. Despite being warned, Lilith’s newest Lilin ambushed the girls, and Jennifer Kale annihilated her. Doctor Strange was afterwards attacked by Lilith.
Lilith was later confined extra dimensionally by the Faerie King Oberon, along with other villains such as Satannish, Umar, Cyttorak and Merlyn, in the “world” where supernatural evil originated. Merlyn was able to convince MI13 officer Pete Wisdom to unlock the interdimensional link and free them all during the Skrull Invasion.
They promptly set out to invade Britain, with the first stage being to murder all Skrulls on Avalon, followed by killing all Skrulls there or coming on Britain to pay their due to Wisdom. Lilith soon had become the Vampire Nation’s viscountess after joining Dracula’s ambitions to invade Britain. Her contributions included building the Vampires’ lunar base, supplying it with a radiation barrier, and enlarging the Vampire flagship, The new Serpent’s crown.
When the Vampires eventually attacked Britain, Lilith utilized her abilities to create a barrier that isolated Britain, but she was then challenged in combat by Captain Britain. The New Serpent’s Crown began to disintegrate after Captain Fate died, and was kept together just by Lilith.
Lilith again engaged Captain Britain when he entered the ship to rescue Meggan, whom Dr. Doom had recently given to Dracula. Dracula ordered Lilith to cease fighting and flee so that her shields could continue to protect the few remaining Vampires, who escaped to the Moon palace but were chased by Captain Britain and Meggan, who targeted Lilith until she was banished to Hell.
During the Fight in Hell triggered by Death’s departure, Lilith joined forces with Mephisto to wage a war in Hell with the other demon lords such as Satana, Satannish and Pluto. While her Lilin were effective in defeating Satannish’s Legion, she chastised Mephisto’s Tormented Generals’ efficiency.
What Makes Lilith So Powerful?
Lilith possesses a wide range of abilities, ranging from celestial to demonic to occult. Her first superpower is her holy name, which connects anybody who calls or uses any one of Lilith’s names to the magical realm. Lilith can instantly tune in and listen or see the individual who is using them; similarly, she has the power of a seer in that she can see whoever she concentrates on.
She possesses the authority over death and life, desolation, the darkness and storms as a goddess, and as she is also a goddess of war, therefore she is a superb warrior. In her goddess form, Lilith wore wings and could fly, wielded a mystical sword capable of collecting human souls, and a bow with meteor-headed arrows capable of healing or causing sickness, depending on Lilith’s intention. Her prophecy skills might have been a present from her lover, the Olympian deity Zeus.
Lilith has the ability to give life to many races of beings ranging from human to mutant, mystic to demonic, and she can also resurrect them via rebirth if they die. Another interesting fact is that the greater number of Lilin she gives birth to, the stronger she grows. She even has the power to feast on human souls before rebirthing them like her own. She possesses the capacity to alter realities, allowing her to navigate across them with ease.
This skill also impacts her rebirthing abilities. Lilith is immortal due to her celestial ancestors. Because she is linked to the Annunaki, she has a much denser physique, which allows her to have enormous strength, as well as other enhanced abilities like agility, super hearing, super sight, and super speed. All of these combinations, along with her wizardry, render her invulnerable and allow her to recover at a quick rate, granting her the power of immortality.
She has managed to learn to manipulate darkness itself and can make regions be enclosed in darkness or night, she can also modify the dark force, animate things, use power blasts and can also use extensive necromancy skills. She can teleport and alter her facial features, making her a shape-shifter, along with a myriad of other fantastic abilities. Another gift she inherited from her god times is the capacity to speak any language spoken in the universe.
She is now proficient in mystic tongues as well as those being spoken in demonic dimensions, thanks to her use of witchcraft and link to the demon kingdoms. Lilith is also resistant to all sorts of Hellfire, as she travels all of these hellish dimensions on a regular basis and has developed a tolerance for them.
Conclusion
The new RPG game is based mostly on the Midnight Sons books from the 1990s and is set in the Marvel Universe’s dark, supernatural underbelly. As a result, the major threat is a Marvel villain who is mostly unknown yet extremely dangerous. Lilith, often known as the Mother of All Demons, seems to be a more obscure foe, but it doesn’t diminish her strength. Lilith, a primary source of darkness on Marvel’s Earth, is certain to condemn the heroes who fight her to Hell. Unfortunately, some of them may fall under her influence in the process.