Literary and Fictional Supernatural Beings

717 documented Literary and Fictional supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 329 lesser and 185 greater in power tier.

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3-D Man
Lesser

3-D Man

3-D Man is a Marvel Comics superhero identity associated with a 1950s-era origin in which the body of Chuck Chandler can materialize in three-dimensional existence when activated by his brother Hal via a pair of glasses. The mantle was later assumed by Delroy Garrett (formerly Triathlon) in modern continuity.

5 Ronin
Minor Spirit

5 Ronin

5 Ronin is a 2011 Marvel Comics five-issue limited series that reimagines five Marvel superhero archetypes as rōnin (masterless samurai) in a fictionalized post‑Sekigahara feudal Japan. The work places Wolverine, Hulk, Punisher, Psylocke, and Deadpool analogues into period roles to explore displacement, revenge, and identity in an era of political upheaval.

A Elbereth Gilthoniel
Lesser

A Elbereth Gilthoniel

An Elvish hymn in Sindarin addressed to Elbereth (Varda) from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. Presented in The Lord of the Rings and later musical and dramatic adaptations, the hymn functions as devotional poetic language that evokes Elvish reverence for the star-kindler rather than an independent supernatural agent.

A.R.G.U.S.
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A.R.G.U.S.

A.R.G.U.S. is a fictional clandestine United States government agency in the DC Comics universe that investigates, contains, and manages superhuman, meta-human, and supernatural incidents and assets. Introduced in The New 52 continuity, it functions as an institutional actor providing intelligence, logistical support, covert task forces (notably Task Force X / the Suicide Squad), and a dedicated magic division across comics and media adaptations.

Abin Sur
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Abin Sur

Abin Sur is a fictional extraterrestrial Green Lantern from the planet Ungara in DC Comics. A former history professor turned Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814, he discovered and investigated a prophecy tied to the "Blackest Night," died wounded on Earth and chose Hal Jordan as his ring-successor, and was later reanimated as a Black Lantern in the Blackest Night storyline.

Absolute Green Lantern (tradition)
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Absolute Green Lantern (tradition)

A modern comic-book reinterpretation in DC's Absolute Universe in which a giant green lantern-shaped vessel appears above Evergreen, Nevada, generates an impenetrable green dome, judges townspeople and sends the judged into the Lantern to await further adjudication in OA (Omega‑Alpha). The story reframes Green Lantern mythos as cosmic/religious horror with an "Enlightenment Spectrum" of flames (Qard, Rao, Sur, Aur) stewarded by Oans such as Abin Sur.

Absorbing Man
Greater

Absorbing Man

A fictional Marvel Comics character (Carl "Crusher" Creel) whose body acquires the physical properties of materials or energies he touches. Debuting in Journey into Mystery #114 (March 1965), created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, he is presented as a mortal supervillain/occasional antihero who challenges heroes such as Thor, Hulk, Spider-Man, and the Avengers.

Ace West
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Ace West

Ace West (Wallace Daniel "Ace" West) is a contemporary American comic-book character in DC Comics continuity, a young speedster who channels the metaphysical Speed Force and occupies legacy-hero roles such as Kid Flash and Ace. Introduced in New 52-era stories as a biracial reinterpretation of Wally West and later retconned in DC Rebirth as a distinct Wallace West, son of Daniel West (Reverse-Flash), he appears across present-day and alternate/future timelines and participates in team and sacrifice narratives tied to the Speed Force.

Acheron
Ancient

Acheron

Acheron is a mythological river of the Ancient Greek Underworld, portrayed in classical literature as a boundary or entrance to Hades across which the dead are conveyed. It is also a real river in Epirus whose landscape and nearby cult sites (notably a Necromanteion) were mapped onto the literary river; later Western authors use Acheron metonymically for Hell or the infernal realm.

Achilles and Patroclus
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Achilles and Patroclus

A central heroic dyad in the Homeric Trojan War tradition: two mortal Greek warriors whose close bond—portrayed as deep companionship in the Iliad—drives key events of the epic when Patroclus' death provokes Achilles' rage, return to battle, and the slaying of Hector.

Acoetes
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Acoetes

Acoetes is a proper name applied to multiple mortal figures in classical Greco‑Roman mythic narratives. Most famously, an Acoetes is a fisherman who recognizes and testifies to the divinity of Bacchus/Dionysus and recounts how blasphemous sailors were transformed into dolphins; other bearers of the name appear as a Trojan genealogical figure (father of Laocoön), an aged former squire of Evander, and a frightened soldier in Statius' Thebaid.

Adam X the X-Treme
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Adam X the X-Treme

A fictional Shi'ar–human mutant hybrid from Marvel Comics, created in the 1990s X-Men milieu. Portrayed as a genetically engineered offspring tying the Summers mutant bloodline to Shi'ar royalty, he appears in Earth- and Shi'ar-centered storylines and exhibits both Shi'ar physiology and a mutant heat/blood ability.

Adite
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Adite

Adite (Ancient Greek: Ἀδίτη, Aditē) is one of the fifty Danaïdes, daughters of Danaus, who—excepting Hypermnestra—killed their husbands on their wedding night. In classical-derived accounts she is punished in Tartarus, condemned to carry water in a leaky vessel to fill a bottomless tub for eternity.

Adrastus
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Adrastus

Adrastus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος or Ἄδρηστος) is a legendary king of Argos in the Greek mythic-historical tradition, best known as the leader of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and as a figure tied to oracular counsel, dynastic marriages, and local hero cults.

Aedesia
Greater

Aedesia

Aedesia is a proper name attested in the supplied sources with three distinct referents: a fifth‑century Neoplatonic woman philosopher of Alexandria, a modern botanical genus (Aedesia O.Hoffm.) native to parts of West and Central Tropical Africa, and a reused toponym/moon name in a speculative fiction setting. None of the provided materials portray Aedesia as a supernatural being or attribute spiritlike powers to the name.

Aegisthus
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Aegisthus

Aegisthus (Greek Αἴγισθος, Aigisthos) is a mortal member of the House of Atreus in Greek myth who, born of incestuous circumstances and raised by shepherds and a goat, participates in dynastic murder and usurpation — notably the slaying of Atreus in some accounts and the conspiracy (with Clytemnestra) that results in Agamemnon's death — and is later killed by Orestes, an episode that figures in narratives about inherited guilt, vengeance, and the transition from private retribution to public justice.

Aepytus
Minor Spirit

Aepytus

Aepytus (Ancient Greek: Αἴπυτος, Aíputos/Aípytos, lit. 'steep, high, lofty') is a personal name in Greek myth borne by several legendary kings tied to Arcadian and Heraclid genealogies. The figures named Aepytus function as ancestral/dynastic nodes in literary genealogies and later literary receptions rather than as supernatural beings.

Aerdrie Faenya
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Aerdrie Faenya

Aerdrie Faenya is attested in the supplied sources as a named fictional deity from the Dungeons & Dragons game setting. The provided materials record the name and classification but give no canonical details about appearance, domains, rites, or myths.

Aergia
Lesser

Aergia

Aergia (Ancient Greek: Ἀεργία) is the personification/goddess of sloth, idleness, indolence and laziness in Greco-Roman mythic thought. She appears in literary sources as a named personified quality and as an attendant or guardian in the household of Sleep (Hypnos/Somnus); Roman equivalents include Socordia and Ignavia.

Agamemnon
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Agamemnon

Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae (or Argos), head of the House of Atreus, and commander of the Achaean forces at Troy in Greek epic and tragedy. His story links dynastic guilt, ritual obligation, and political authority, culminating in the sacrifice-at-Aulis episode and his murder on return from Troy followed by juridical atonement in the Oresteia.

Agatha Harkness
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Agatha Harkness

Agatha Harkness is a fictional Marvel Comics character portrayed as a long-lived, powerful witch who has acted as governess, tutor, and leader within witch communities in Marvel continuity; she is best known as a mentor to Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) and for ties to New Salem and the Salem's Seven.

Agents of Atlas
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Agents of Atlas

Agents of Atlas is a fictional superhero team published by Marvel Comics, retroactively presented as a 1950s era group of operatives and reconstituted in modern storylines; the roster mixes human, nonhuman, mythic and technological characters and has served as an operative body connected to the Atlas Foundation.

Aglovale
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Aglovale

Aglovale (also Agloval, Aglovan, Aglovaus, Acglavael) is a human knight of Arthurian romance, presented as the eldest legitimate son of King Pellinore and a Knight of the Round Table in the Vulgate/Post‑Vulgate cycles, Malory, and later adaptations. He brings his long‑lost brother Perceval to Camelot, takes part in military actions (including slaying Agrippa in one account), and his death is related in varying ways across traditions (accidental at Gawain's hand, deliberate murder by Orkney kin, or killed during Lancelot's rescue of Guinevere).

Agnarr Geirröðsson
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Agnarr Geirröðsson

Agnarr Geirröðsson is a mortal prince attested only in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál; he aids Odin (disguised as Grímnir) during Geirröðr's torture and, after Odin reveals himself and King Geirröðr dies, Agnarr succeeds as king.

Agolant
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Agolant

Agolant is a literary Saracen king who appears as a recurring antagonist in medieval and Renaissance epic cycles (Matter of France). He functions as a human royal opponent to Charlemagne and his peers, supplying martial episodes, genealogical connections, and the transfer of legendary arms and horses in chansons de geste and later Italian romances.

Agravain
Minor Spirit

Agravain

Agravain is a literary knight of Arthurian romance cycles: one of the sons of King Lot of Orkney, a member of the Round Table, and a recurring figure in French and English medieval prose and verse. He is portrayed as a skilled but morally problematic courtly knight whose jealousy, malice, and intra-familial violence drive key narrative conflicts (notably the slaying of Lamorak and the exposure of Guinevere).

Agrestes
Lesser

Agrestes

Agrestes is a legendary pagan king of Camelot appearing in accounts of the 13th‑century Arthurian Vulgate Cycle. Presented as a human antagonist to the Christian mission associated with Joseph of Arimathea (or his son Josephus), his violent persecution of converts is followed by madness, self‑destruction, and the subsequent consolidation of Christianity in Camelot.

Ahab
Lesser

Ahab

Ahab (Hebrew: אַחְאָב, ʾAḥʾāḇ) is principally the historical/biblical seventh king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, son and successor of Omri, remembered in Hebrew scripture and later rabbinic literature for political activity, promotion of Baal worship, and confrontation with prophets. The name is also reused in later literature (notably Herman Melville's Captain Ahab), but the supplied sources treat these as distinct human figures rather than supernatural beings.

Ahoshta
Lesser

Ahoshta

Ahoshta is a fictional Calormene nobleman in C. S. Lewis's The Horse and His Boy storyline, chiefly known as the intended husband of Aravis and as a named figure mentioned in Calormene court discussions. He is portrayed as a mortal member of Calormene aristocracy rather than a supernatural being.

Ainur
Primordial

Ainur

The Ainur are the immortal spiritual intelligences created by Eru Ilúvatar before the physical Creation in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. Through the Music of the Ainur (Ainulindalë) their themes were given being as the universe (Eä); some of the Ainur entered that world and became its guardians, the Valar and the Maiar.

Airboy
Minor Spirit

Airboy

Airboy is a Golden Age American comic-book aviator hero (David 'Davy' Nelson II) who debuted in 1942. Portrayed as a youthful pilot-inventor who inherits a prototype flapping-wing airplane called Birdie, he starred in wartime and postwar serialized adventure stories rather than functioning as a supernatural being.

Ajak
Greater

Ajak

Ajak is a fictional character created by Jack Kirby who first appeared in The Eternals #2 (1976). Within Marvel Comics continuity Ajak is a member of the near-immortal race called the Eternals, serves as a mediator/communicator with the cosmic Celestials, and has exhibited cosmic and molecular-level abilities across multiple eras and media adaptations (including the MCU film Eternals).

Akuma Shogun
Minor Spirit

Akuma Shogun

Akuma Shogun is a fictional Choujin (superpowered character) from the Japanese manga/anime franchise Kinnikuman created by Yudetamago. He appears as part of the franchise's ensemble of superpowered wrestlers and is represented in fan merchandise and collectible figures.

Al-Haddar
Minor Spirit

Al-Haddar

Al-Haddar is documented in the provided sources primarily as (a) an impact crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus named after a character from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, and (b) as a personal or author name appearing on Arabic devotional manuscript titles. The sources do not present Al-Haddar as a supernatural being within any folkloric cosmology.

Albanactus
Lesser

Albanactus

Albanactus is a legendary eponymous founder-king in medieval pseudo-historical chronicles (not a supernatural being). In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s narrative he is the youngest son of Brutus who receives Alba/Albany as his share, rules briefly, and is killed by Humber, king of the Huns; the figure serves as a medieval reverse-etiology to explain the name of the land and to support later political claims.

Albert
Lesser

Albert

Albert is a human attendant and butler associated with Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld fiction. He appears in the novels' material and related media (notably voiced in the game Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?), functioning as a domestic companion within Death's household rather than as a metaphysical entity in his own right.

Alberto Falcone
Lesser

Alberto Falcone

Alberto Falcone is a fictional human antagonist from DC Comics, a member of Gotham's Falcone crime family who, in the comics, is revealed as the Holiday Killer. He operates as a mobster whose actions, psychological profile, and familial ambitions drive major plotlines in Batman stories such as The Long Halloween and Dark Victory.

Alcestis
Lesser

Alcestis

Alcestis (Ancient Greek: Ἄλκηστις, Álkēstis) is a mortal princess of Greek myth famed for voluntarily dying in place of her husband Admetus and being temporarily returned from the underworld through Heracles’ intervention. Her story highlights conjugal devotion, substitutive death, and the need for purification after contact with chthonic powers.

Aleksander Lukin
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Aleksander Lukin

Aleksander Lukin is a fictional Marvel Comics character: a Soviet/Russian military officer–turned–oligarch who becomes the human host for the Red Skull's consciousness after a transfer using the Cosmic Cube. He functions in stories as a political operator, vessel for an intrusive mind, and a focus of occult resurrection.

Alexander Luthor Jr.
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Alexander Luthor Jr.

A fictional DC Comics character from the multiverse: the son of Earth‑Three Lex Luthor and Lois Lane whose exposure to the Anti‑Monitor's antimatter wave grants him accelerated aging and powers tied to matter/antimatter and reality‑scale engineering. He functions as a survivor, manipulator, and instigator in major crossover storylines (Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Blackest Night).

Alexandra DeWitt
Minor Spirit

Alexandra DeWitt

Alexandra DeWitt is a fictional human character appearing in DC Comics; an ordinary newspaper photographer whose violent death in Green Lantern vol. 3 functions as a narrative catalyst and later in-universe manifestations (ring projections, alternate versions, Black Lantern reanimation) use her image to affect the hero Kyle Rayner.

Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Minor Spirit

Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Alice is the fictional little girl protagonist of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Portrayed as a curious child who follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, she serves as the reader's point of entry into the dreamlike realm of Wonderland and is not described in the provided sources as a supernatural being.

Alicia Masters
Minor Spirit

Alicia Masters

Alicia Masters is a fictional, non-superpowered human character from Marvel Comics, introduced in The Fantastic Four #8 (November 1962). A blind sculptor and empathetic confidante, she serves as a recurring supporting figure for the Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer, and has been a romantic interest of Ben Grimm (the Thing).

Alinda of the Loch
Minor Spirit

Alinda of the Loch

A literary character from a modern children's fantasy novel (published 2009) that blends Sleeping Beauty motifs with the Loch Ness legend; Alinda is presented as the daughter of Queen Aurora who falls under a 500-year enchanted sleep guarded by a young dragon called Nessie.

Alisanos
Lesser

Alisanos

Alisanos is a theonym attested in two Gallo‑Roman votive inscriptions from the Côte-d'Or (near Dijon) and interpreted by Celticists as a localized landscape divinity (possibly 'of the rock' or of certain trees). Separately, the name has been repurposed in modern fantasy literature as a sentient, predatory deepwood; the two usages are distinct in origin and evidence.

All-Flash
Minor Spirit

All-Flash

All-Flash (originally All-Flash Quarterly) is a Golden Age American comic-book magazine series published 1941–1947 that served as the first solo magazine vehicle for Jay Garrick, the original Flash. The title is a commercial/branding name later used as an English lexical phrase in unrelated technical and web contexts.

All-Winners Squad
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All-Winners Squad

A fictional Golden Age superhero team published by Timely Comics (later Marvel) that operated in-universe in the immediate post–World War II period; assembled prominent costumed heroes of the publisher into a collective that appeared in two 1946–1947 comics stories and was later reused in reprints and retroactive continuity.

Allerleirauh
Minor Spirit

Allerleirauh

Allerleirauh is the eponymous heroine of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale (Grimm no. 65; ATU 510B) who flees an enforced-marriage crisis by disguising herself in a mantle of many furs, takes menial service in another court, and later reveals her identity through three magnificent dresses and token objects to secure recognition and marriage.

Alpha Primitive
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Alpha Primitive

A term used within Marvel Comics' Inhumans setting to denote a category of created or subordinate beings associated with Inhuman society. The available provided source (Wikipedia's Inhumans overview) references the Inhumans generally but does not supply detailed canonical information about Alpha Primitives themselves.

Amadeus Cho
Greater

Amadeus Cho

A fictional Korean American human superhero from Marvel Comics characterized foremost as a super-genius ('hero of the mind') who later assumes a Hulk-like superhuman identity (the Totally Awesome Hulk) and subsequently the mantle Brawn. He operates in modern Marvel continuity, interacting with gods, heroes, and mythic locations.

Amanda Belle Waller
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Amanda Belle Waller

Amanda Belle Waller is a fictional human bureaucrat in DC Comics who operates as a high-level government organizer of covert operations, most notably directing Task Force X / the Suicide Squad. She is depicted as non-powered, politically ruthless, and an expert tactician who manages and weaponizes extranormal actors within the DC Universe.

Amano Jyaku
Lesser

Amano Jyaku

Amano Jyaku is a fictional half‑man, half‑beast Juujinkai warrior from the Urotsukidōji franchise who searches for and seeks to protect the cyclical supreme being called the Choujin (Overfiend) on Earth, and who opposes the Makai (a demon race) in that mission.

Amechania
Minor Spirit

Amechania

Amechania (Ancient Greek: Αμηχανία / Αμηχανίην; also Amekhania, Amakhania; Latin: Amechania) is a personified spirit (daimona) of helplessness, want, or impossibility attested in ancient Greek literary and lexicographic sources. She is cited as a close companion or sister of Penia and Ptocheia and is described in some modern references as virtually identical to Aporia. No cultic practice or iconography is attested in the supplied sources.

America Chavez
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America Chavez

A fictional superhero published by Marvel Comics, America Chavez is a Latina, lesbian character whose signature ability is creating star-shaped portals that allow travel across space and time. Introduced in 2011, she has been depicted as originating from the extra-temporal "Utopian Parallel" in early stories and later retconned as the product of human experimentation; she has headlined solo series and appeared in team books and the MCU film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

American Crusader
Greater

American Crusader

A Golden Age American costumed superhero, Professor Archibald "Archie" Masters gains flight, super-strength, bullet-invulnerability, and electromagnetic-pulse abilities after an 'atom smasher' accident and operates as a patriotic champion in serialized comics; later revivals rework him as a legacy figure subject to suspended animation, cloning, imprisonment, and resurrection for plot purposes.

Amleth
Minor Spirit

Amleth

Amleth (Old Norse: Amlóði; Latinized Amlethus) is a legendary medieval Scandinavian prince and saga-hero best known from Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. He is a human protagonist whose story centers on feigned madness, cunning survival, exile to Britain, marriage, wealth-gathering, and eventual vengeance against his father's murderer; the tale later inspired the character of Shakespeare's Hamlet and numerous adaptations.

Ammut
Ancient

Ammut

Ammut is an ancient Egyptian chimeric creature associated with the Judgment of the Dead; traditionally described as a composite of lion, hippopotamus, and crocodile, she is said to consume the souls or the symbolic heart of those judged unworthy, preventing admission to the afterlife. Modern artistic and speculative retellings recast Ammut as a large scavenging semi‑aquatic animal whose corpse‑consuming habits inspired funerary beliefs.

Anarky
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Anarky

Anarky is a fictional anti‑hero and recurring adversary in DC Comics' Batman mythos, created as a politically driven vigilante figure who embodies and critiques anarchist and anti‑statist ideas. Introduced in Detective Comics #608 (November 1989), the character functions as a vehicle for political and philosophical themes rather than a supernatural being.

Anatoli Knyazev (KGBeast)
Lesser

Anatoli Knyazev (KGBeast)

Anatoli Knyazev, commonly known by the alias KGBeast, is a fictional supervillain created for American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jim Starlin and Jim Aparo, he first appears as an adversary of Batman and figures in the publisher's shared superhero universe and its adaptations.

Ancalagon the Black
Ancient

Ancalagon the Black

A singular, individuated dragon of J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium, bred by the Dark Power Morgoth as a wrought weapon of war. Described as the greatest of the dragons and the first of the winged dragons, Ancalagon appears at the end of the First Age in the War of Wrath where his aerial assault and catastrophic fall shape the close of that age.