| “ | Mackaboy... koff koff You're the only person on Khalighoul who can say... Who can say spit... He was too tough for the Teknophage! | „ |
| ~ Teknophage after spitting Mackaboy out. |
Mr. Henry Phage, also known as the Teknophage is the main antagonist of the Tekno Comix universe. He is an ancient 65-million-year-old bipedal snake demon resembling a dinosaur, and psychopathic despot of Khaligoul. he is hellbent on taking over the Earth and other worlds and turn the cosmos into a personal hunting ground for him to devour as many souls as possible.
He is the main antagonist of Mr. Hero: Newmatic Man along with being the villain protagonist of the comic series of the same name, such as Neil Gaiman's Teknophage and Neil Gaiman's Phage: Shadow Death. He serves as the archenemy of Mr. Hero.
He is created by Neil Gaiman.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Despite the fact his parents tried to devour him and his siblings, he has shown to be evil even when he gained sapience. Having not just devoured the corpse of his parents but later killed his siblings and ate their souls when he gained power. He has also shown to have full moral agency, developing a humanlike personality and intelligence, but choose to use it to commit horrible acts of torture and depravity. Subverting any potential redeeming qualities he is given, disgusted by the mere thought of befriending humans and rejecting any attempts at redemption.
- Despite having comedic moments, such as when he was devouring a helpless victim and getting a stomachache because of it, his claims are taken completely seriously. Never once, he is played for laughs, and any comedic moment only highlights his sheer depravity.
- Despite claiming he is doing what's best for his "employees", putting up a business-like manner and has shown times of being merciful, he is merely putting up a facade. Being only pragmatic and trying to gain publicity and is okay slaughtering his own minions and citizens on a drop of a hat.
Tekno Comix[]
- When his parents finished killing each other for food, he and his siblings gorged on their carcass long before gaining sapience and power. When he did gain those things, his first instinct was devouring the souls of both his siblings.
- After slaughtering his way through Khalighoul, he would accidentally end up on another world known as Avalon where he continues eating the souls of the animal kingdoms there.
- He would travel to other worlds, where upon he discovered ancient Earth and became the infamous snake of the Garden of Eden. Giving a magical crystal to two evolved apes (one male and the other female) to see what they would do with it.
- He would build his own empire, including the massive "Phage City", a gargantuan tower capable of holding thousands of humans. There, he forms a caste system where the rich live prosperous while the lower class lived as slaves.
- Returning to Avalon where it soon evolved into a more primitive culture and farming, he manipulated its people with his charms giving them gifts and technology to form a civilization. Particularly, he gave them weapons of mass destruction so they can wage war and annihilation upon each other. This is when he began his campaign of harvesting worlds, using Phage City to tear down entire cities as civilians are crushed beneath its tank threads. He would send soldiers to gather any survivors up for enslavement.
- Humans in his empire will be various, many for deplorable fates:
- The creation of his "Vatmen": Slaves will get blinded by having their eyeballs ripped off by Teknopage's machines, and thrown into a giant vat of acid, where their souls are harvested for Teknophage to either eat or get stored into a robot body stripped of their free will so they will be blindly loyal to Phage.
- Millions are sold to slavery, many condemned to hard back breaking labor or auctioning off to what is heavily implied to be sex slaves.
- Possibly the worse of them all is Phage's twisted "Asylum": essentially Hell designed by Phage himself where he experiments on the human psyche: their will power, mentality, and determination for Phage to test on for his sick curiosity and sadism. Whether it be permanently keeping their eyes open, trapping them in eternal darkness for 300 years, or trapping them in deprivation tanks for weeks. One case has a man trapped in a small room full of knives, where he is stuck trying to grab onto them for years.
- Phage also butchers humans by the dozen to test their physical limitations as well. From crushing their bones one by one, burning them alive, pumping their stomachs full of fluids until they die, cutting their heads off or throwing them into a grinder.
- Having down these crimes all over Avalon and Khaligoul to the point both worlds are rendered a wasteland because of him. Any humans who aren't part of Phage City as either his slaves or citizens are to be hunted down and exterminated. He also doesn't stick to both of them worlds, but thousands of them across the multiverse thanks to his "Wheel of Worlds", an interdimensional gateway he designed. Through this, Phage would build up civilizations and their population just to tear them down along with their planet, as he harvests their inhabitants.
- One of the sickest things he does, is harvesting people as food for his citizens. Taking up the raw material from his vats so many will unknowingly indulge in cannibalism, which he plans to inform them one day just for fun as their face will twist in horror and disgust.
- He runs televised death games for his citizens to watch on a daily basis, along with murdering the families of rebels for dissenting, and ripping the heads of his servants who fail him.
- Regularly devours humans, letting them sit, alive and aware, in his stomach as he slowly digests them. To make his prey tastier for him to devour, he makes "preparations" via breaking them completely, corrupting them before he eats them.
- He is also not a man of his word, having once killed a rebel once he was no longer useful to him in becoming a spy for him, and cheerfully revealed he lied to a heroine after he forced her to rebuke her own friends. Even kills a duo of human traffickers as "payment" for delivering him a little girl for him to eat, simply mad he was tricked the girl was a doll decoy after being rescued by her friends.
- After sentencing one of his subordinates and his family (consisting of his wife and two children) to slavery, he realized how sadistic the more dominating wife is and recruits her for that. He has her feeds the rebels' entire families to monsters as they're forced to watch, then has them all tortured to death on live television. He informs the woman that, should she fail him, he will devour her children and force her to watch as he does so.
- He would kidnap people from various alternate worlds he hasn't invaded yet for the sole purpose of testing how "heroic" they are and how their planet operates. As to him, heroic souls are tastier once their spirits are completely broken. Any hero that particularly taste good to him are skinned alive, consume their bodies, and stuff them so he can store them as trophies.
- Once, a psychic woman who claims to know him came to the Teknophage to inform him how the two were once close until she left him upon realizing she was becoming a monster. She wiped any memories of her from Teknophage's mind fearing he will never forgive her for her betrayal due to his twisted care for her. Saying that the Teknophage is secretly lonely inside, and wanted companionship, which completely disgusted the Teknophage on the mere thought he would ever desire or form any sort of companionship with someone lower than himself. He plans to kill her, only stopping himself from doing so knowing how powerful she is.
- He tries numerous times to invade the Earth and conquer it, sending out spies and ideas to dull the intelligence of their inhabitants such has daytime television and soap operas so he can prepare his arrival and subject to his tyranny.
- When he is confronted by a fellow dimension hopping dinosaur after hopping to a prehistoric world. He tries to kill said dinosaur and challenge him to a duel when the dinosaur rejects the Teknophage in his deal of handing over the planet. When realizing the world, they are in is slowly reverting them to a more reptilian mindset, the Teknophage contemplated to live a simpler lifestyle as a normal dinosaur. But he quickly rejected this notion, his own ego and desire for power overcoming whatever attempts to quit committing anymore atrocities.
- Desires to devour all the souls in the cosmos, turning it into a buffet to forever gorge in meat and the souls of his victims on his sadistic whim.
Trivia[]
- He is the only villain in Tekno Comix to count as Pure Evil.