The fact that Dormammu calls this guy master says something.

I like how hes not defined by his power but rather defined by the unquestionable fear he brings everytime tries to make a move.

The creator of Conan, Robert E Howard was actually friends with HP lovecraft and they respected eachothers work so much that they hid easter eggs of eachothers stories in their own works and confirmed that they are both the same universe (Canon)....this means Shuma-Gorath is actually a lovecraftian horror similar to cthulu.

Shuma Gorath is the marvel equivalent of Cthulhu, a cosmic terror. The parallels of Shuma and Lovecraftian lore is definitely there.

"Because Comics" needs to be on a shirt lol

He seems to be a version to Yog- Sothoth from H.P Lovecraft.

Shuma-Gorath is one of my favorite parts of Marvel, as he is one of the very few villains that is "unbeatable". They've done an amazing job not pulling the trigger on some villains and showing their "true power", which helps maintain how powerful they are. Lovecraft and those that followed made it a point that there were things out there too great and terrible to even understand that had form. Sometimes it is just better to keep things like that planted in stone for storytelling as you always feel a bit of despair in knowing something can never be beaten or dealt with.

Rob: "Shuma Gorath is the strongest force for evil in all of existence." The One Below All: "That's Cute."

I think he's simply too powerful. He's one of those we must defeat him now, before he obtains the totality of his power.

Gorath is pretty overpowered, the fact that Mephisto himself is like a "mouse in a temple" compared to his power

_"THE CHAOS DIMENSION!"_ *KO*

I really like your narrative style. I don't read a lot of comic books and you cover a ton of information pretty quickly and concisely without losing your audience in details.

I hope they do him justice in the MCU, phenomenal Dr. Strange villain.

The main reason he was added to the Marvel vs Capcom fighting game roster is because he's a tentacle monster. And the Japanese really love tentacle monsters.

This guy looks like the ungodly love child of starro and cthullu.

How does someone with so many limbs not have enough feats?

It’s also possible it has its roots in hp lovecraft’s work drirectly, since he worked alongside Howard’s during Conan’s first series of printings in weird tales. They both being ‘amateur’ writers at the time, in support of eachother they used a shared mythos; lovecraftian Gods in Conan stories, and similar cross over references in the lovecraft comics

Its crazy how powerful this dude really is but ,I never respected him in MVC2 lol.

"He was put into Marvel Vs Capcom for some reason" * laughs in japanese game development *

Shuma Gorath is absolutely nuts. An extradimensional eldritch tentacle monster who periodically runs with a gang-of-eldritch tentacle monsters who devour universes called the many angled ones and still on his own is insanely evil and powerful.

I've been waiting for this since marvel vs Capcom 2 lmao

Out of all my years of being a marvel fan, I would never thought that shuma gorath would be omega level but after watching this, now i know.

No wonder earth needs a starbrand to protect it. Things like Shuma-Gorath.

Comics gorath: A primordial of chaos, An entity that predates time. A cosmic threat MCU gorath: *Bus throw*

"Waste of flesh!"

* Shuma finally appears in an MCU trailer * The entire audience: "Oh My GoD lOoK iT's EvIl DoCtOr StRaNgE.!.!."

So basically he’s just a lovecraftian deity

Anyone, who's read HP Lovecraft, knows that Shuma Gorath is really an alternate form of one of the Old Gods in that mythos. His true form cannot be realized, because if it is realized, well, the effect would be similar to Cthulhu awakening and make everything go mad.

Finally, Shuma Gorath.......thank you bruh

Beyond Omega Level... *"The Fulcrum"* Beyond Omega Level... *"Elaine Belloc"* Beyond Omega Level... *"The Great Evil Beast"*

Shuma-Gorath has an interesting form of immortality. On the off chance someone gains the power to actually kill him, they will eventually become him. Even if you kill Shuma-Gorath, Shuma-Gorath will live again. It's actually rather terrifying

Isn't Shuma Gorath inspired by the HP Lovecraft Cthulu stuff? Has Marvel done anything else exploring/inspired by the Cuthulu mythos? If so, that could be a cool series of videos.

Shuma was my favorite character to play in the MvsC arcade

Hey Rob, can you do Beyond Omega Level, The Queen Of Nevers. Thanks

Shuma-Gorath The forgotten H.P. Lovecraft God Maybe we can say that he is the Cthulhu of Marvel Comics

I hope whenever Marvel shows Shuma Gorath he does that weird cheeky pose he does in the MvC games

Bet this guy will the villain in doctor strange 2

Finally Shuma-Gorath got a Beyond Omega video. As for the next candidate for Beyond Omega, I would like to see the Dweller in the Darkness.

This was one of your better post. You usually get something wrong in regards to a character’s power level and history, but this was spot-on.

Hey Rob, can you explain: 1)Trigon 2)Mephisto 3)Shuma-Gorath 4)The Mother of Existence 5)Ego the Living Planet 6)Mogo the Living Planet 7)Mr.Mxyzptlk 8)Bat-Mite 9)Blue Beetle(Jaime Reyes) 10)Unicron 11)Solomon Grundy 12)Etrigan 13)Hellboy 14)Judge Death 15)The Tick 16)The Mask 17)Hawkman & Hawkgirl 18)Primus 19)the Mandarin 20)Steel 21)The Eradicator 22)Cyborg Superman 23)Reptil 24)the Doom Patrol 25)The Key(DC) 26)Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) 27)Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter) 28)Crimson Dynamo (Valetin Shatalov) 29)Kang the Conqueror 30)The Young Avengers 31)Cyttorak

i only meet this character in the fighting game series, i knew by the descriptions in the wikia he is more powerful than dormammu, but i never thought that his true move set was more ambiguous in the comics than what is shown in the game

Crazy how Strange, after centuries of absorbing mystic creatures, was only able to absorb his tentacles

Galactus: Ewww get that away from me *uses Cosmic Power-Bug Spray*

I believe his character is the very essence of H.P. Lovecraft's idea of cosmic horror. A force so vast and incomprehensible that to completely understand him would drive any mere human mind insane. And besides, his designs are obviously lovecraftian. I like that he is this ambiguous force that we will never understand.

Most interesting character ever.. he would be a great villain

I wish Marvel would flesh out more characters like these where not much is known about them, but they could have such amazing stories

I do always love seeing Lovecraft’s Yogsothory. Seeping into popular culture.

His combos in marvel super heros were insane, I liked his theme and stage, it had a stone age vibe to it

My knowledge of Shuma-Gorath is limited to his appearances in the Marvel-licensed Capcom fighting games circa 1995-2000 and Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. Considering Japan's unusual "fascination" with tentacled creatures that spans 200 years (seriously), it's no wonder that he's such a beloved Marvel character for Capcom to use. Nice video.

Shumagorath has been inspired from H.P Lovecraft's cthulu mythos especially from the charecter shub nigorath

I gotta be honest, I don't read comics and I don't understand most of the stuff you talk about but I still watch all your videos lol

FINALLY a Shuma-Gorath video! He’s my favorite Marvel character.

this guy verse the beyonders would be something to see

They rlly doin him like if Thor just aimed for the head

I sure love Shuma-Gorath. He is like my favorite tentacle monster you see in "that" kind of genre. I love him!

You may not know a ton about Shuma, but you sure know more than I do. A lot of the info out there is confusing and/or even more vague than this. This def still helps, mayne. Been hoping for more about Shuma for a while, thx brah. And to all the comments that made you do it xp

In light of this information, the Shummy (that's what his friends call him) that appears in the Marvel vs. Capcom series has to be a significantly less powerful avatar of the real thing, otherwise he would fold Apocalypse or Galactus in half with the flick of a tentacle.

So no mention of HP Lovecraft? Also any elder scrolls fans here?Sheogorath prince of madness lol

this thing was in the after scene of spiderman no way home

Who's here after the Post-credit Spider Man No Way Home? 😆😆🔥

If other people like Dormammu call this guy MASTER, then this guy is a hyperversal to high hyperversal, just by the potential power he has in his true form

Yessssss after years of searching and waiting it just comes to me. I been looking for info in this character since Marvel vs capcom 1

Shuma gorath psionic Powers are so phenomenal that his mere presence traveling the universe destroys galaxies.

Plot twist, that's just his EYE that's able to do those known abilities! He still has the rest of his body that we haven't seen!

If you want to imagine how fully powerful Shuma is, just imagine Nyarlothotep fully unleashed without anything to stop it.

Y'all are gonna be coming here for WandaVison Next week.

Everything begins and ends with Shuma-Gorath

Please do a beyond omega level icon I heard he is older and possibly stronger than superman since he has the abilities of mostly every league member and more that he hasn't used yet

Who is here after the trailer???

In MvC3, he apparently has an... attraction... to Hsien-Ko from Darkstalkers. Seriously, his win quote against her is _”As a bride to one of the Old Ones, you would be given many dimensions as a dowry.”_ Apparently it’s because he finds the concept of living corpses “quaint”. That, or Capcom is just embracing japanese culture...

Hey man I really dig your channel and that laugh

This character was originally HP Lovecraft’s creation known as shib-niggurath, Robert E Howard and Lovecraft wrote stories for each other worked on each other’s stories and shared characters throughout their literary careers to allow for their literary universe to be expanded there were I believe at least 4 other authors making the group 6 in total and their stories commonly crossed over one another you will find references to things that happen in the Conan series of stories in HP Lovecraft work and examples of the monsters of HP Lovecraft’s work showing up in Conan This is a great example of a shared fictional universe preceding comic books which may be where comic books got the idea Shin-niggurath was part of the Cthulhu mythos

Hi, you are one of those people who have seen the trailer and immediately searched for shuma gorath 🍻

Sees Shuma-Gorath "I wanna take you for a ride🎶"

I’ve been waiting for a Shuma Gorath video since the DLC for UMVC3 came out and I’ve always wanted to know more about him.

Shuma Gorath is basically a Lovecraftian entity, or at least an homage to them, and that's why his full potential is never shown. That's the deal with Lovecraftian gods.

Been waiting for this one

whos here after watching the end credits of spiderman 3

I think you left out some interesting details. Dr. Strange was with Kaluu in the scan saying "Here the demons we know - Mephisto, Satannish - would be like mice in a great temple" (Kaluu was referring to the dimension they were in, possibly alluding to the fact that even those demons would pale in comparison to the scope and raw energy of that dimension) Strange was with Kaluu because at that time he was a dark sorcerer, and kaluu was the evil counterpart to the sorcerer supreme. They were diving deeper and deeper into Shuma's dimensions eventually reaching the dimension right before where he directly resided. Shuma's servent guarding that dimension claims "I am as strong as I wish to be - - as strong as I can imagine!", as well as "I am not even finite!". Remember, this is the same dimension Mephisto and Satannish would be like mice in. Dr. Strange then agree's with him and instead of out powering him he fuses with him to go and finally confront Shuma Gorath. Dr. Strange had so much power at this point he didn't even consider himself Dr. Strange anymore, and as he and Shuma fought they threatened the earth which at this point was "Thousands of planes away". Eventually Strange with the power he absorbed from Shuma's servant, and all the power he gained from being a dark sorcerer managed to absorb and defeat Shuma with his own power. However this wasn't even a true defeat as Dr. Strange would become Shuma by absorbing his powers. Before he could even go back to earth he had to slowly go back through the thousands of planes of existence so he could continue to release power so he wouldn't destroy galaxies by simply being in the Earth 616 reality.

ROB IS KILLIN IT WITH THE OUTRO MUSIC!!!

Yes! I was waiting for this FOR AGES!

I'm so excited leaks just got out that where going to be seeing him in dr strange multiverse of madness

Gotta love the lovecraftian horror being one of the most powerful Dr. Strange foes

I was rewatching the MCU movies, and I thought it would be cool to see a video talking about the differences between the stones' locations in the movies and what those things are in the comics (i.e. the Eye of Agamotto holds the time stone in the movies, what is the original function of the Eye from the comics?)

Finally Rob Thank you for this Shuma-Gorath!!!

The CHAOS DYE-MIN-SHUN!!!! UMVC3

Anybody else here after the first What If episode?

Never heard about Shuma until What-If, but it’s cool to learn a lot about the Dr. Strange Mythos

"Because Comics" LoL

omega LEVEL DOOM SLAYER

Shuma Gorath, some random lawyer, and a guy with a baseball bat. The unbeatable teamup.

Yes!!! I have been mentally bombarding you with the many angled ones for a few weeks, success. Thank you, it makes my night getting away from all the realities.

I was wondering why this name sounded so familiar. Then it hit me. Sheogorath the daedric prince of madness.

Shuma gorath looks like he could be defeated with eye drops, maybe that's why he's evil, his eye is irritated ALL THE TIME.

Finally the video that we have all been waiting for.

Shuma Gorath is an incredible character/being. One of my favorite Beyond Omega Level characters.

Yes! I've been waiting for this for years. Shuma Gorath vs. Zom vs. Mangog jk, lol Shuma would fart and kill those dudes.

Make vids abaut cthulhu mythos explained!! Please!

Thank you for making a video of me, finally.

Shuma-Gorath? Sheogorath? *Skyrim*