Zarrko
Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is most commonly associated with Thor.
Publication history
Zarrko was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and first appeared in Journey into Mystery #86.Fictional character biography
Zarrko is an evil scientist from the future, born in Old New York of the peaceful 23rd century of an alternate future. Zarrko was once a civil servant, but built a time machine to travel through time and gather weapons. Zarrko steals an experimental cobalt bomb, but comes into conflict with Thor. He is eventually defeated and rendered amnesiac.Loki restores Zarrko's memories, leading him to return to the 20th century with a giant mining robot and coerce Thor into helping him in exchange for not attacking further. When Zarrko and Thor return to the 30th century, Thor works with the ruling World Council to defeat Zarrko.
Zarrko clashes with Kang when he tries to conquer Zarrko's time period. Zarrko enlists the aid of Spider-Man and Iron Man to get inside Kang's base, as Kang had captured the other Avengers. Zarrko sends three devices to the present day to de-evolve that era to pre-industrial times, except for an area containing an American missile base. From there, he plans to steal nuclear weapons and rule the 23rd century. He is stopped by Spider-Man and the Human Torch.
Zarrko later conquers Earth in the 50th century, where he encounters the Time-Twisters. He uses his Servitor robot to enlist the aid of Thor and the Warriors Three to defeat the Time-Twisters. He journeys with them to the "end of time" to thwart the Time-Twisters's birth. When Zarrko returns to the 50th century, he learns that he has been overthrown in his absence.
Sometime later, Zarrko travels to 2591 and tricks Dargo Ktor, the Thor of that era, into accompanying him to the 20th century to battle the second Thor and Beta Ray Bill. Zarrko seeks to use the energy unleashed by the two's hammers to activate his Time Stabilizer device and collapse all the timelines into one. However, he is left adrift in the time-stream.
Zarrko returns disguised as Boris, a manservant to Kristoff Vernard. He is soon exposed, but uses his time machine to cause chaos in the building by bringing in various heroes and villains from the past and the future to battle one another. Zarrko escapes, deciding that all he wanted was a quiet place and food.
In Marvel Now!, Zarrko appears as a prisoner in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody after trying to steal nuclear materials in their possession. When the space-time continuum is broken during Age of Ultron, S.H.I.E.L.D. enlists Zarrko to combat timestream-related threats.