S'ym
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S'ym is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe, a demon who served as a frequent enemy and sometimes supporting character in The Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants.
S'ym is a "tip-of-the-hat" to Cerebus the Aardvark and his creator, Dave Sim. S'ym always referred to himself in the third person (e.g. "S'ym thinks this is a bad idea"), a trait shared by Cerebus. S'ym also has the same purple-grey coloration of Cerebus, and looks vaguely like Cerebus, only taller, more muscular, and with a horn. And, of course, "S'ym" is pronounced identically to "Sim".
[edit] Character biography
S'ym was a minion of Belasco when Belasco was ruler of the demonic dimension called Limbo. Due to being caught in several teleportation discs the X-Men were transported to Limbo. While there S'ym battled the X-Men, who were also trying to rescue Illyana Rasputin, who had also entered Limbo. S'ym killed an alternate version of Illyana's brother Colossus.
Belasco was driven from Limbo by Illyana, who had succeeded in becoming the dimension's new ruler. Despite the succession of his former master, S'ym made several attempts at challenging Illyana's newfound title. At each turn Illyana defeated S'ym, leaving S'ym to agree to serve Illyana whenever she visited Limbo. Finding a potential way to finally defeat Illyana, S'ym allied himself with the extraterrestrial Magus (who infected S'ym with a techno-organic virus). That attempt and a subsequent rebellion failed. S'ym then became a minion of the demon N'astirh, aiding him in unleashing a demon invasion of New York City during the Inferno storyline. S'ym was defeated when Illyana sent most of the Inferno invaders back to Limbo.
S'ym remained in Limbo, while plotting a new invasion of Earth. He planned on using the Nexus of All Realities to invade Earth, but was stopped by his former master Belasco, who manipulated the mutant Cable to fight and stop S'ym.
When S'ym reappeared he served Belasco again, who had retaken control over Limbo. He was defeated by Nightcrawler, whose girlfriend, Amanda Sefton, took over Limbo. S'ym allied himself with the Archenemy, a powerful magical entity. S'ym disguised himself as Duke Bleys and became one of Sefton's most trusted advisors. As Bleys, S'ym tricked Sefton into allying herself with many other demon lords and merging their various realms and dimensions into a single bastion against the Archenemy. S'ym then revealed his true identity and revealed that the single, united realm was a much easier target for the Archenemy than the countless dimensions he was fighting before. Sefton and her army managed to slay the Archenemy and undid the merging of realms.
[edit] Powers and abilities
S'ym possesses great superhuman strength which was shown to have easily snapped off one of Wolverine's claws without any effort. This strength level makes him nearly invulnerable. Illyana Rasputin's Soulsword is one of the few weapons that can kill him. When infected by the techno-organic virus, S'ym can repair himself and reform from a single molecule, should he be destroyed.
