Enclave (comics)

Enclave
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Fantastic Four #66 (Sep 1967)
Created by	Stan Lee Jack Kirby
In-story information
Type of organization	Subversive
Leader(s)	Maris Morlak Carlo Zota Wladyslav Shinsky Jerome Hamilton (deceased)

The Enclave is a fictional subversive organization of dictatorially-minded scientists featured in comics published by Marvel Comics. The characters are a part of the Marvel Universe.

Fictional organization history

The organization that would eventually become known as the Enclave was founded by four scientists, each of whom was a world-class scientist in a different area of expertise:

• Dr. Jerome Hamilton, an American medical biologist (now deceased)
• Maris Morlak, a Lithuanian nuclear physicist
• Professor Wladyslav Shinsky, a Polish geneticist
• Carlo Zota, a Spanish electronics technician.

The goal of the organization was to use advanced technology to establish a benevolent world dictatorship under the rule of the scientists. The four scientists successfully faked their own deaths and disappeared from society, founding the Citadel of Science (a.k.a. the "Beehive"; an island in the North Atlantic Ocean) using both their own technology and abandoned Deviant technology they had found. Their operations were initially funded by their own personal fortunes, and they hired mercenaries as additional personnel as needed. The scientists began their advanced scientific research and development, achieving various scientific breakthroughs and creating many advanced inventions. Before long, their level of technology was more highly advanced than most known on Earth.

The scientists' first major accomplishment was the creation of the superhumanly powerful humanoid being they referred to as "Him" (who would one day become known as Adam Warlock). The scientists abducted Alicia Masters to sculpt his likeness. The scientists lost control of Him, who wrecked their citadel. The Fantastic Four discovered the scientists' existence and came to rescue Alicia, and as they battled the scientists Jerome Hamilton was killed as a result.

The scientists were not discouraged by their failure with Him or the death of Hamilton, and so created another superhumanly powerful humanoid they called "Paragon" (who would later become known as Her and Kismet). Although they enlisted Doctor Strange to perform brain surgery on Paragon, they lost control of her as well, and she destroyed the rebuilt citadel. The scientists battled the Hulk, Doctor Strange, and Paragon before she departed.

Taking the name the Enclave, the scientists financed Security College in New York State. The College was actually part of an information-gathering scheme, and the Enclave hired the Monocle to acquire industrial, military, and political information from students. However, the Security College operation was uncovered, and the Monocle was defeated by the Human Torch and Spider-Man and then killed by the Enclave who abandoned the operation. Thanks to their efforts though, the Enclave learned of the Inhumans, and abducted Medusa.

The Enclave made an alliance with Maximus, and successfully infiltrated Attilan as part of an attempt to conquer the Inhumans' Great Refuge. The Enclave attacked the Inhumans, but were betrayed by Maximus and defeated. With Maximus again, they launched an attack on Earth from Attilan in an attempt to foment war between Earth and the Inhumans. This plan failed, and they instead battled the Avengers and Inhumans. Morlak and Zota were captured and imprisoned.

Morlak and Zota were later freed from prison by Shinski. All three were injured in an airplane crash, captured, and hospitalized.

The Enclave later created a female version of Warlock.

Crucible

Crucible is the supervillain identity used by Maris Morlak and Professor Wladyslav Shinsky, two members of the Enclave. Crucible went after Mister Fantastic in a plot to steal his inventive genius and kick-start the Enclave's genetics program. They wore identical suits of power armor, forged by the same monks who forged Doctor Doom's armor, which have the ability to transmute the shape and composition of materials.

Other versions

Ultimate Enclave

In the Ultimate Extinction miniseries, it was revealed that a group of scientists rented a radio telescope, applied their own algorithms to it, and were able to see a 'processional entity' (the creature known as Gah-Lak-Tus, the Ultimate version of Galactus) which would arrive within 20 years. To fight the entity when it arrived, they hired Heather Moon, a contract killer (and the Ultimate version of the Avenger Moondragon), cloned her, and raised the clones to be an army against Gah-Lak-Tus. The clones refer to the scientists as 'the Enclave', but it also operates as the Paragon Corporation.

Other groups called "The Enclave"

There is another, unrelated Enclave in Marvel Comics that first appeared in the pages of Tomb of Dracula vol. 2 #2 in December 1979. This Enclave was an organization of occultists dedicated to the worship of the demon Asmodeus. They were enemies of the Dimensional Man and Dracula. This group was created by Marv Wolfman and Steve Ditko.

Other media

Video games

• The Enclave appears in The Incredible Hulk game. The leaders of Enclave are depicted as scientists in full high-tech body armor each with their own army. Their leaders are referred to as Ceres Leader (voiced by Simbi Kali Williams), Jupiter Leader (voiced by S. Scott Bullock), Minerva Leader (voiced by Courtenay Taylor), and Vulcan Leader (voiced by Dave Wittenberg). Ceres Sector is Enclave's chemical weapon and genetic engineering specialists where they try to eliminate Rick Jones, set up Earthquake Bombs, and unleash Kyklops. Minerva Sector ended up using chemical bombs, mind-control devices, and Bi-Beast in their plans. Jupiter Sector used Earthquake Generators and orbiting laser satellites to attack Hulk. Vulcan sector tried to steal the Hulkbuster armors. After the game, bonus levels involved destroying the remaining Enclave bases and defeating their leaders. After the section's headquarters are demolished, the Enclave leaders will attack in different ways besides using the energy attacks emitted from their high-tech staffs. Vulcan will attack Hulk with orbital satellite lasers, Ceres will attack Hulk with Bi-Beast clones, Minerva will clone herself, and Jupiter will call forth lightning.

External links

• Enclave at Marvel.com
• Enclave at Marvel Wiki
• Enclave at Marvel Appendix
• Enclave at MarvelDirectory.com
• Crucible at marvunapp.com