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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Atomic Mouse
Minor Spirit

Atomic Mouse

Atomic Mouse is a 1953 American talking-animal superhero created by Al Fago for Charlton Comics. In the comic backstory the mouse Cimota is shrunk by an evil wizard and given U-235 pills by Professor Invento, granting him unspecified superpowers which he uses to fight enemies such as Count Gatto.

Atomic-Man
Greater

Atomic-Man

Atomic-Man is a fictional American comic-book superhero, the transformed scientist Dr. Adam Mann, who gained radiation-based abilities after experimenting with uranium-235 and dedicated himself to preventing the misuse of atomic power and fighting conventional criminals. He appeared in Headline Comics (Prize Comics) in the immediate post‑World War II period.

Atreus
Lesser

Atreus

Atreus is a legendary king of Mycenae in Greek myth, progenitor of the House of Atreus and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Presented as a mortal dynastic figure, his story in the sources revolves around rivalry with his brother Thyestes, contested kingship, and extreme acts of revenge that form part of a multi‑generational cycle of curse and retribution.

Atrocitus
Greater

Atrocitus

Atrocitus is a DC Comics supervillain who founded and leads the Red Lantern Corps, an institutional body that channels rage as an energy source. He is depicted as a vengeance-driven figure who performed blood rituals to forge the first Red power ring(s) and a Red Lantern power battery and who acts as a militant antagonist to the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps.

Attuma
Greater

Attuma

Attuma is a fictional Marvel Comics Atlantean warlord and recurring supervillain, presented as a nomadic leader of a banished Atlantean tribe and a frequent antagonist of Namor the Sub-Mariner and surface-world heroes. First appearing in Fantastic Four #33 (December 1964), he is depicted as physically superior to ordinary Atlanteans and has undergone periods of resurrection and enhancement that expanded his abilities.

Aulë
Ancient

Aulë

Aulë is a divine artisan in J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium, one of the Ainur who entered the created world (Arda) to give it material form. Counted among the Valar, he is the principal craftsman and smith whose office is the shaping and working of the world's substance.

Autolycus
Lesser

Autolycus

Autolycus is a mythic Greek trickster-thief, son most commonly of Hermes, famed for cunning, theft, and the ability to alter the appearance of stolen goods; he is a legendary ancestor and occasional tutor within the heroic age rather than an impersonal spirit or cult deity.

Avandra
Lesser

Avandra

Avandra is a deity-name employed within modern Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gaming and related media. In the supplied sources Avandra appears in player and podcast discourse as a referent for randomness or luck and as a fictional proper name used in campaign material.

Avari (Middle-earth)
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Avari (Middle-earth)

The Avari are identified in the provided sources as a subgroup of Elves in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional legendarium. The supplied materials (Wikipedia and Wikidata entries) classify them as fictional Elven people but contain no extended narrative, descriptive, or ritual detail about them.

Awesome Android
Greater

Awesome Android

A large artificial lifeform from Marvel Comics, created by the Mad Thinker from ape DNA and unstable molecules and animated by a microcomputer and solar power. Initially an obedient, limited‑intelligence instrument, the being later attains sentience in stories and pursues legal recognition as 'Awesome Andy.'

Ayakashi Sisters
Minor Spirit

Ayakashi Sisters

A named group of fictional characters appearing in the Sailor Moon franchise associated with the Black Moon story arc. In the provided sources they are presented as media characters within Naoko Takeuchi's manga/anime continuity rather than as traditional folkloric beings.

Baby Wildebeest
Greater

Baby Wildebeest

Baby Wildebeest is a fictional character from DC Comics' New Teen Titans series: a juvenile, wildebeest-themed created host-body who serves as an adopted child-member of the Teen Titans, noted for great strength and durability. Introduced in 1992, the character was killed during Infinite Crisis and later appeared briefly as a Black Lantern in Blackest Night.

Backstreet Project
Lesser

Backstreet Project

Backstreet Project is a 2000 single-issue American comic book tie‑in that depicts the pop group Backstreet Boys as themselves and, within the story, transformed into a superhero team called the Cyber Crusaders after receiving enchanted amulets from an alien. It functioned as a cross‑media promotional property with tie‑in Burger King action figures, three television commercials, and a short Flash webisode series.

Balder the Brave
Greater

Balder the Brave

Balder the Brave is the Marvel Comics adaptation of the Norse figure Baldr: an Asgardian prince-warrior who serves as a member of Asgard's ruling family, participates in councils of gods, and whose death or wounding has been used as a catalyst in some Marvel storylines (including Ragnarök-style events).

Balin
Minor Spirit

Balin

Balin is identified in the provided sources as a fictional character created by J. R. R. Tolkien, listed as a dwarf in Tolkien's legendarium of Middle-earth. The available references are index-style entries and do not supply in-world narrative details, appearance, abilities, or rituals.

Balrog
Ancient

Balrog

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, a Balrog is a Maiar spirit corrupted into a warlike, fire-associated servant of the Vala Melkor (Morgoth). Balrogs appear as towering, shadowed figures wreathed in fire and wielding fiery whips and weapons; in Tolkien's later conception they are rare, exceptionally powerful beings whose defeat generally required opponents of comparable metaphysical order.

Barahir
Lesser

Barahir

Barahir is a personal name borne by mortal men in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, most notably a First Age hero of the House of Bëor who rescued the Elven-king Finrod and received the Ring of Barahir as an heirloom; the name recurs in later Ages as an ancestral/dynastic name.

Baraka (Mortal Kombat)
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Baraka (Mortal Kombat)

Baraka is a recurring fictional character in the Mortal Kombat franchise portrayed as a Tarkatan warrior and antagonist. First introduced as a playable fighter in Mortal Kombat II, he appears across multiple games and in film adaptations, varying between playable roster member and non-playable opponent depending on the installment.

Barbariccia
Lesser

Barbariccia

Barbariccia is one of the Malebranche devils in Dante Alighieri's Inferno (Canto 22), portrayed as a corporal enforcer and a subordinate commander who supervises other devils in Bolgia Five of the Eighth Circle (the Malebolge). The name is Italian and literally means "curly beard."

Bard the Bowman
Lesser

Bard the Bowman

A fictional human hero from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: an archer and captain of Lake-town who kills the dragon Smaug with the family heirloom "Black Arrow," claims descent from the lords of Dale, and becomes king of the rebuilt Dale.

Barliman Butterbur
Minor Spirit

Barliman Butterbur

Barliman Butterbur is a human resident of Bree in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Source material classifies him simply as a man in Tolkien's legendarium and situates him within Bree-land, the village region where Hobbits and Men live side by side.

Baron Mordo
Greater

Baron Mordo

Baron Karl Amadeus Mordo is a recurring antagonist in Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange stories: a human Transylvanian nobleman and sorcerer trained under the Ancient One who turns to darker means—making deals with extradimensional and infernal powers—to gain magical power and oppose Stephen Strange.

Baron Munchausen
Minor Spirit

Baron Munchausen

A fictional literary persona created by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1785) and popularized in German by Gottfried August Bürger: an aristocratic raconteur whose first-person narratives recount outrageous, impossible adventures as satirical tall tales rather than literal supernatural events.

Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
Greater

Baron Wolfgang von Strucker

Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is a fictional comic-book supervillain published by Marvel Comics, introduced in mid-20th-century comics as a noble-born military officer who becomes the founder and long-time leader of the terrorist organization Hydra. He functions as a recurring human antagonist to S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, and various superhero teams, employing espionage, biotechnology, and lethal force across decades of continuity.

Baron Zemo (tradition)
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Baron Zemo (tradition)

Baron Zemo is a hereditary title in Marvel Comics' fictional universe denoting members of a Zemo barony from Zeulniz, Germany. The title is borne across centuries by human members of a noble family; two holders—Heinrich Zemo and his son Helmut Zemo—are depicted as recurring antagonists of Captain America and the Avengers.

Barrow-wight
Lesser

Barrow-wight

A wraith-like tomb-spirit coined by J. R. R. Tolkien that inhabits burial mounds (barrows). Modeled on Old Norse mound-spirits (haugbúar/draugr), Tolkien's barrow-wights animate or occupy ancient tombs and, in his narrative, can place living intruders under an enchanted sleep and arrange them with grave-goods until relieved by a powerful agent.

Barry Allen
Greater

Barry Allen

Barry Allen is a fictional human superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the second character to bear the Flash mantle. A forensic chemist who gains superhuman speed after a laboratory lightning accident, Barry functions as a science-oriented protagonist whose actions have driven major company-wide storylines and multiverse-level events.

Batgirl
Lesser

Batgirl

Batgirl is a comic-book superheroine identity published by DC Comics, used by multiple human characters as a female counterpart and ally to Batman within the shared Gotham City vigilante continuity. The mantle has been assumed by different women across publication history and has been used to explore themes of gender, disability, and editorial continuity in modern popular culture.

Batman of Zur‑En‑Arrh
Lesser

Batman of Zur‑En‑Arrh

A DC Comics construct with two linked uses: a 1958 Silver Age alien analogue (Tlano) from the planet Zur‑En‑Arrh who models himself on Earth's Batman, and a modern-era psychological contingency persona engineered by Bruce Wayne as a backup identity that is more violent and unhinged than his normal Batman.

Batroc the Leaper
Lesser

Batroc the Leaper

Georges Batroc, known as Batroc the Leaper (French: Batroc le Sauteur), is a fictional human mercenary and recurring antagonist in Marvel Comics. He is portrayed as a peak‑condition savate specialist and acrobat who leads small mercenary teams, accepts contracts, and occasionally allies with heroes when his code of honor dictates.

Batwoman
Lesser

Batwoman

Batwoman is a fictional, non-superpowered costumed vigilante identity appearing in DC Comics and its adaptations. The mantle has been used by multiple female characters (notably Kathy Kane, Kate Kane, and Ryan Wilder) who operate as counterparts and allies to Batman within Gotham City and related media.

Bat‑Mite
Primordial

Bat‑Mite

Bat‑Mite is a small, childlike fifth‑dimensional imp‑like being from DC Comics who idolizes Batman and visits the three‑dimensional world to observe and provoke situations for the hero to resolve. Portrayed primarily as a mischievous, comedic foil rather than a malign folkloric monster, Bat‑Mite possesses near‑omnipotent fifth‑dimensional powers that appear as magic to humans and appears across comics and animated media since 1959.

Beast Boy (Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan)
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Beast Boy (Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan)

Beast Boy is a fictional superhero from DC Comics (first appearance Doom Patrol #99, November 1965), a human named Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan who acquired the ability to transform into any animal after an experimental medical procedure. He is portrayed as a youthful team member of Doom Patrol and Teen Titans, often providing comic relief while coping with deep personal trauma.

Beauty (Once Upon a Time)
Minor Spirit

Beauty (Once Upon a Time)

A television-episode–centred portrayal of Belle (the 'Beauty' archetype) from Once Upon a Time (Season 7, Episode 4). The episode follows Belle's life with Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold, her understanding of a prophecy that interprets 'sunset' as her death, her peaceful passing after years at the Edge of Realms, and a later vision of her spirit seen by a comatose Weaver.

Bebop and Rocksteady
Lesser

Bebop and Rocksteady

Bebop and Rocksteady are a paired antagonistic duo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise: two humanoid mutants—commonly a warthog (Bebop) and a rhinoceros (Rocksteady)—created to serve as Shredder's muscle. They function narratively as physically imposing but often incompetent henchmen whose loyalties and brute force drive many episodic conflicts.

Bedwyr (Bedivere)
Minor Spirit

Bedwyr (Bedivere)

Bedwyr (Welsh; Anglicized Bedivere) is a named heroic figure in early Welsh poetry and later medieval Arthurian romances. Presented in the sources as a human warrior and courtier — famed as the one‑handed great warrior Bedwyr Bedrydant in Welsh texts and later as a Knight of the Round Table and Arthur's marshal who, in English versions, returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.

Bekka
Greater

Bekka

Bekka is a fictional New God from Jack Kirby’s Fourth World mythos and later DC Comics continuities. Portrayed as a nigh-immortal warrior and healer, she is notable for a subconscious power that manipulates and amplifies others' emotions and for wielding Fourth World technology such as a Mother Box and, in some stories, a yellow power ring.

Beldgabred
Lesser

Beldgabred

Beldgabred is a legendary king of the Britons attested in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical king lists and repeated in later compilations and summaries. In Geoffrey's account (as summarized in modern sources) he is said to have surpassed other musicians on every instrument and is in some later remarks described as being 'claimed to be the god of minstrels.' His attestation is literary and genealogical rather than independently historical.

Belfaygor
Lesser

Belfaygor

Belfaygor is a fictional baron from Ruth Plumly Thompson's Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) and later Oz character lists. He is a sympathetic, comic nobleman afflicted by a magically accelerated beard growth that complicates his life and adventures in the Quadling Country.

Beli's bane
Minor Spirit

Beli's bane

A kenning-style epithet from the Old Norse poetic corpus, rendered from Old Norse bani Belia (with an adjectival bjart = 'bright' in some transmissions). It functions as 'the slayer (bane) of Beli' within the prophetic catalogue of Ragnarök in Völuspá rather than as a fully independent named being with its own cult or origin story.

Belinus
Lesser

Belinus

Belinus is a legendary king of the Britons as recounted in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae and later summaries: a warrior-king and lawgiver who fights his brother Brennius, unites Britain, campaigns in Gaul and Italy, founds or restores cities (notably Kaerusc/Caerleon), and is cremated atop a great tower at his death. His name is probably derived from the ancient god Belenus according to some modern summaries, but the sources treat him as a human legendary ruler rather than a deity.

Ben Lockwood (Agent Liberty)
Minor Spirit

Ben Lockwood (Agent Liberty)

Ben Lockwood is a fictional human political antagonist in the Arrowverse (primarily Supergirl, Earth-38) who adopts the persona Agent Liberty to lead the anti-alien movement Children of Liberty. He is a former history professor and media host whose influence is rhetorical and organizational rather than supernatural.

Beorn
Lesser

Beorn

A fictional individual in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium: a 'skin-changer' who is a man able to assume the form of a great black bear. He is a solitary chieftain who aids the company in The Hobbit and becomes the ancestor of the Beornings, a people retaining diminished bear-shaping power.

Bereet
Lesser

Bereet

Bereet is a fictional extraterrestrial character from Marvel Comics, a Krylorian techno-artist/filmmaker who produces techno-art films and who in stories documents or dramatizes adventures (notably of the Hulk). She first appeared in The Rampaging Hulk #1 (Jan. 1977) and made her Earth-616 debut in The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #269 (March 1982); she also appears briefly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).

Beren
Lesser

Beren

Beren is a named mortal man and protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium whose questing life and love for the Elf Lúthien form one of the central tales of the Elder Days. His story, treated largely from an Elvish perspective, exemplifies human mortality, courage, and tragic heroism within the wider cosmology of Middle-earth.

Beren and Lúthien
Greater

Beren and Lúthien

Beren and Lúthien are the central protagonists of a foundational First‑Age tale in J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium about the love between a mortal Man (Beren) and an immortal Elf‑maiden (Lúthien), their quest to take a Silmaril from Morgoth’s crown, Beren’s death and unique return, and Lúthien’s choice to become mortal.

Bernadeth
Greater

Bernadeth

Bernadeth is a New God of Apokolips in DC Comics, a long-lived warrior who serves as a leader and enforcer among the Female Furies. She is notorious on Apokolips, wields the fiery Fahren/Faren knife, and has participated in power struggles, betrayals, deaths and resurrections across multiple comic continuities.

Bernadette "Bernie" Rosenthal
Lesser

Bernadette "Bernie" Rosenthal

Bernadette "Bernie" Rosenthal is a fictional human supporting character in Marvel Comics' Captain America stories, introduced in Captain America #247 (April 1980). She is portrayed as a Greenwich Village glassblower turned law student and later lawyer, who serves as a romantic partner to Steve Rogers and as a civilian ally within the series' social milieu.

Bertilak (the Green Knight)
Lesser

Bertilak (the Green Knight)

A lordly figure in the Matter of Britain who, in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and related texts, is revealed to be the Green Knight in disguise. He functions as a host and supernatural tester who stages a beheading-game and a day-by-day exchange bargain to examine Sir Gawain's chivalric virtue.

Bestla
Lesser

Bestla

Bestla is a jötunn (giantess) in Old Norse mythic genealogies, attested as the mother of Odin, Vili, and Vé by the giant Borr. She functions primarily as a maternal progenitor in the medieval Icelandic corpus (Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, and skaldic verse), and surviving references to her are sparse and fragmentary.

Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice)
Minor Spirit

Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice)

A fictional character in the 1988 film Beetlejuice who appears in the movie's bureaucratized afterlife. Portrayed by Michael Keaton, he is depicted in-universe as a former caseworker's assistant turned freelance 'bio-exorcist' whom the recently deceased may summon to frighten or remove living occupants.

Betsy Bobbin
Lesser

Betsy Bobbin

Betsy Bobbin is a human child character in L. Frank Baum's Oz books who arrives in Oz (notably by shipwreck with her mule Hank) and becomes a resident guest of Ozma's court, appearing in several canonical Oz volumes and later adaptations.

Betsy Braddock
Greater

Betsy Braddock

A fictional comic-book superheroine published by Marvel Comics, introduced in Captain Britain #8 (1976). Portrayed as a human mutant (born with an X-gene) whose principal abilities are telepathy and telekinesis; she has served as a member of the X-Men, Excalibur and, in recent status quo, assumed the mantle of Captain Britain.

Betty Brant
Minor Spirit

Betty Brant

Betty Brant is a fictional human supporting character in Marvel Comics, introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #4 (1963). She is best known as J. Jonah Jameson's secretary at the Daily Bugle and as an early romantic interest of Peter Parker who later becomes a reporter and marries Ned Leeds.

Betty Clawman
Lesser

Betty Clawman

Betty Clawman is a fictional Aboriginal Australian woman in DC Comics who was selected by the Guardians of the Universe to take part in an experiment in human evolution and to advance the human race; after entering the Dreamtime she becomes a disembodied cosmic-force–aligned metahuman associated with dream influence and Earth‑mother imagery, and appears as a member of the New Guardians and later the Sleeping Soldiers under the alias Dreamer.

Betty Ross
Lesser

Betty Ross

Betty Ross is a fictional human character from Marvel Comics, introduced in The Incredible Hulk #1 (1962). She functions primarily as the Hulk/Bruce Banner's long‑running romantic interest and supporting character and has at times undergone superhuman transformations (e.g., Harpy, Red She‑Hulk) within the Marvel fictional universe.

Beyonder
Ancient

Beyonder

The Beyonder is a Marvel Comics fictional extra‑multiversal sentient energy being described as the conscious manifestation of the 'Beyond‑Realm'. Originally presented as a near‑omnipotent entity who abducted Marvel heroes to Battleworld, later continuity retcons identify it with Cosmic Cube energy or as a child unit of a race called the Beyonders.

Bhartṛhari
Minor Spirit

Bhartṛhari

Bhartṛhari was a classical Indian grammarian, philosopher of language, and poet associated with the Vākyapadīya exposition of Śabdādvaita and the theory of sphoṭa. He is traditionally credited with the Vākyapadīya and with three collections of short poems (Śatakatraya), though modern scholarship often distinguishes the grammarian from the poet.

Bibbo Bibbowski
Minor Spirit

Bibbo Bibbowski

Bibbo Bibbowski is a fictional, non-superpowered human supporting character in DC Comics, best known as a working-class bar owner and staunch admirer and ally of Superman who appears primarily in Metropolis-based stories.

Big Barda
Greater

Big Barda

Big Barda is a fictional superheroine appearing in DC Comics, created by Jack Kirby as part of his Fourth World / New Gods saga. She is a New God born on Apokolips, trained as a warrior at Granny Goodness' orphanage, groomed to lead the Female Furies, and later defects to join and marry Scott Free (Mister Miracle), serving as a hero on Earth and New Genesis.