Araki (comics)

In Marvel Comics Araki is the prime minister of the imperial Shi'ar and the Lord Chancellor to the empress, who is currently Lilandra. Araki defended the shi'ar throne against an impending coup, this event cost him his life at the hands of the rebels leader. This was not the end of Araki. Lilandra valued his services to the empire so much that she had him cloned using advanced shi'ar technology, she had his consciousness transferred into his new body.

Following this Araki found himself as somewhat of an easy target as far as enemies of the empire were concerned. Araki was never a fighter and was consequently killed a further four times, each time effectively resurrected again by Lilandra, with his consciousness transferred to a new clone body.

Upon his fifth reincarnation he discovered that Lilandra was possessed by Xavier's unborn twin Cassandra Nova. He intervened before Nova's request to kill the X-men reached the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. The Guardian heard of Araki's betrayal to "Lilandra" and was forced to kill him by Cassandra Nova.

Araki was not dead for long and when Lilandra regained control of her physical body she had him resurrected a sixth time. She considered him a valuable help but this appears to have been a mistake, as Araki betrayed his Empress upon her return to her duties after the Cassandra Nova incident, supporting the ascension of her resurrected brother D'Ken. Araki may have been negatively affected by the many deaths and the process of having his consciousness repeatedly transferred.

References

Information in this Article can be found in The Marvel Encyclopedia - X-men ISBN is 0-7851-1199-9

External links

* [http://www.marvel.com/universe/Araki Bio on Marvel.com]