Chitauri Leviathan
He has an army, called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract."
The Chitauri are a fearsome alien race, a bio-mechanically engineered species from several worlds, including their home world of Chitauri Prime. The leviathans are monstrous hybrids, crafted from the genetic material of Acanti and Starsharks, then linked to the Chitauri neural network. These enslaved dragons are implanted with cybernetic and bionic enhancements, grafted with advanced, impenetrable armor, and equipped with chambers to transport Chitauri soldier drones. The leviathans' armor can withstand advanced weaponry from Terra and the farthest corners of the universe. All Chitauri are at least somewhat controlled by a Queen, and the leviathans, at the very bottom of the hierarchy, are completely subjugated to her will.
History
The Chitauri built their unified neural network and leviathans long before Thanos arrived and broke their will. Some speculate that their shapeshifting abilities and reptilian features hint at a common ancestry with the Skrulls, though the Skrulls dismiss this as baseless conjecture. Sometime between when Thanos conceived his son and his first attempt to conquer Terra, he subjugated the Chitauri, and their queen pledged loyalty to him. Thanos has since wielded the genetically and bio-mechanically engineered Leviathans as formidable weapons.
Cold War Era
The Avengers received a warning from Rick Jones' girlfriend that Thanos was coming, just before she fell unconscious. After getting her medical treatment, they checked their contacts and networks, only to learn that Mar-Vell had been battling Thanos' fleet, which was drawing closer to the Sol system. The Avengers boarded a starship they had confiscated from an extraterrestrial criminal and ventured near the sun. There, they discovered Thanos' amassed forces, including many Chitauri leviathans. The Avengers and Mar-Vell engaged the enemy, emerging victorious despite heavy damage to their ship. They soon realized this was a distraction, as Thanos had raided an AIM lab in New York, stealing a cosmic cube. Thanos had departed with the rest of his forces, but the Avengers pursued him.
After he lost the cosmic cube’s power and believing Death had forsaken him, Thanos sought to rebuild his forces and acquire even greater power. He discovered a being resembling Adam Warlock, leading a cult known as the Universal Church of Truth, in search of immense power much like him. Thanos and his forces, including Chitauri leviathans, tracked the Magus to the Zen-Whoberis homeworld just as their quarry departed, with 2,500 of his zealots left behind to attack Adam Warlock. Warlock and Thanos killed the Black Knights of the Universal Church, though it was too late to save the Zen-Whoberis. Thanos learned that a Zen-Whoberis child named Gamora had prevented the Magus from summoning the In-Betweener and turning Adam Warlock into another Magus. Impressed, Thanos decided to take her as his first adopted daughter.
Superhuman Registration Era
Loki convinced Thanos that he could conquer Terra if Thanos provided him with an army. Thanos bestowed upon him a legion of Chitauri, including the formidable leviathans. In return, Thanos demanded the Space Stone. Loki arrived on Midgard through the Tesseract, aiming to steal it from SHIELD and develop a machine to open a wormhole to deep space, allowing the Chitauri forces to invade. Through Loki's mastery of mischief and deception, his plan reached its final stage, and the wormhole opened. A single leviathan emerged, accompanied by Chitauri soldiers on their air skiffs. That solitary leviathan wrought immense destruction, requiring the combined efforts of Hulk and Iron Man to bring it down. Loki summoned an endless stream of leviathans following the death of the first. Hulk, Thor, and Iron Man managed to kill several but the menacing leviathans kept coming. It wasn't until Iron Man redirected a nuclear weapon at the invasion's command ship and Black Widow closed the wormhole that the Avengers could declare victory over Loki and his army.
When Thanos arrived in Nidavellir, he unleashed several Chitauri leviathans and soldiers to lay siege to the Alderson disk around the central neutron star. Once Thanos seized control of Nidavellir, he demanded that the dwarf king forge a Uru-enchanted gauntlet to house the other Infinity Stones. Thanos warned that if the dwarf king refused, he would kill all of his people. The gauntlet was made to ensure the dwarves' survival, but Thanos mercilessly ordered the execution of all the king's subjects and had the dwarf king's hands fused in Uru, so he could never craft weapons or armor again.
Aliases:
- Chitauri Dragons
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