What are Elder Gods Marvel?

The Elder Gods are incredibly powerful ethereal beings with vast cosmic powers, who are the survivors of the first wave of entities that were spawned by the Demiurge
Demiurge
In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge (/ˈdɛmi. ɜːrdʒ/) is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. The Gnostics adopted the term demiurge.
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visiting Earth soon after its formation, 4 billion years ago.
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Is Thor an Elder God?

Thor is the blood-son of Odin, All-Father of the Asgardians, and Jord, who was also known as Gaea, the earth-goddess who was one of the Elder Gods.
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Who are the six Elder Gods?

THE TITANES (Titans) were six elder gods named Kronos (Cronus), Koios (Coeus), Krios (Crius), Iapetos (Iapetus), Hyperion and Okeanos (Oceanus), sons of Ouranos (Uranus, Sky) and Gaia (Gaea, Earth), who ruled the cosmos before the Olympians came to power.
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Who is the most powerful Elder God in Marvel?

Odin (Anthony Hopkins) is most likely the most powerful Asgardian. The King of Asgard wields the Odinpower, also known as the Odin Force. This is how he can bestow powers on the other gods and take them away in the case of Thor.
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What were the Elder Gods known as?

Nowadays, they are remembered as the gods in just about every ancient race, including Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Aztec, and many others. The Great Old Ones refer to the Elder Gods as the "Pain Lords".
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Are Elder Gods good?

Whilst initially depicted by Lovecraft as little different to the other deities of the setting, they have been retroactively portrayed as the adversaries to such entities as the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones, and are usually depicted as “good” beings.
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Who created Elder Gods?

The Elder Gods were created by August Derleth as a new classification within the Cthulhu Mythos. Marvel's Elder Gods were then created by Roy Thomas, and were inspired by Greek mythology (Gaia), Egyptian mythology (Set and Atum), as well as the Cthulhu Mythos (Chthon) some of them being close to the Great Old Ones.
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Is Scarlet Witch God?

Scarlet Witch has always been considered one of Marvel's most powerful heroes. Now, though, she wields the power of an Elder God - meaning she dwarfs any other being on this dimension in power, including the Sorcerer Supreme.
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Are Elder Gods stronger than gods?

Elder Gods are powerful beings that may or may not have Outer God lineage - Dagon, Bast, Nodens, etc The greek gods, etc. Great Ones are the weakest of the "deities" and reside almost exclusively in the Dreamlands.
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Who can defeat one above all?

The One-Above-All can be beaten by the living manifestation of Marvel.
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Is Shang Tsung a god?

Shang Tsung (尚宗) is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. A powerful, soul stealing sorcerer, Shang Tsung is a celebrated villain of the series and serves as the host for the traditional Mortal Kombat tournament. He serves as a major antagonist to the series.
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Is Shao Kahn an Elder God?

That is why Shao Kahn is so powerful throughout the games and even Raiden himself needed Elder God's assistance to slay him in MK9. If Shao Kahn merged Earthrealm with Outworld,he flat out said,that "today I become the ELDER GOD!",which means he would be as powerful as Elder Gods if Raiden didn't stop him.
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Is Lord Raiden an Elder God?

Raiden is the eternal God of Thunder, protector of Earthrealm, and arguably one of the most powerful characters in all of Mortal Kombat. After the second defeat of Shinnok, he ascended to the status of Elder God.
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Are Eternals stronger than Thor?

In the MCU, the Eternals collectively are stronger than Thor, however individually they are weaker barring Ikaris and Gilgamesh. In the comics Thor is stronger than all of Eternals and slightly stronger than Ikaris. If the Eternals form a Uni-Mind, then they would be more powerful than him.
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Is Thor half god?

Since the Marvel movies have emphasized Thor and his close, loving relationship with his mother Frigga (Rene Russo), most fans will probably be shocked to learn that the god of thunder is not Frigga's son. In fact, Thor is only half Asgardian.
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Can a Titan be a God?

A 'god' is synonymous to a 'deity'; the Titans and Titanesses were gods, they were members of the second order of divine beings - after Gaia and Uranus, and the other primordial deities.
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Is a titan higher than a God?

Who is Stronger, Titans or Gods? The gods, also known as the Olympians, are stronger than the Titans. Even though in Greek mythology, the Titans are said to be a gigantic race that is powerful who gave birth to the gods or the Olympians, the Olympians still overthrew the Titans.
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Who is the strongest Great Old One?

Azathoth is technically "God", and additionally the "Blind Idiot God" who is absolutely mindless and unconscious but is omnipotent and the most powerful being of all. He created all of existence as part of his dream and is not even aware of it.
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Is Wanda Omega level?

Wanda is also a class 5 mutant, as stated by Iron Man and an Omega level mutant.
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Why did Wanda turn evil?

Doctor Strange 2's main villain turned out to be Wanda Maximoff, who went full evil in her quest to reunite with her children after losing them in WandaVision. She has been tapping into chaos magic using the Darkhold.
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Is Phoenix a nexus being?

The Phoenix Force is a creation of the universe that was born of the void between states of being. It is the nexus of all psionic energy of the past, present, and future in all realities of the multiverse, the Guardian of Creation and of the dangerously powerful M'Kraan Crystal.
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Are Elder Gods Multiversal?

The Elder Gods are incredibly powerful ethereal beings with vast cosmic powers, predating Earth & even, for some of them, the Multiverse itself.
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Is Cthulhu evil or good?

He is a Great Old One. He is the great-grandson of the greatest evil in all of the Universe, though he himself is not evil. Cthulhu transcends morality. He is instead the priest of the dormant Old Gods, who can only return upon the proper alignment of the stars.
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How many gods are in Marvel?

Ghost Rider's existence in that show suggests the existence of another demon in the MCU, who might be the same as the Satanic Marduk Helstrom of Helstrom. If one adds those five questionable beings to the 31 beings explicitly identified as gods, then the MCU has 36 alleged deities.
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