![]() ![]() Again, the Grim Reaper's actions were altered by the Vision, still in possession of Simon's mind, and he sided with the Avengers to stop the Space Phantom from killing him. Once the imprisoned Avengers were freed, the team was confronted by Grim Reaper, the Space Phantom, and a number of Hydra soldiers. The Vision agreed, as a ruse to free the Avengers that the pair had captured. After unsuccessfully trying to talk the Vision into transferring his mind into the preserved body of his brother, Grim Reaper paired up with the Space Phantom, and upped the ante with the Vision by suggesting he could transfer his mind into the living body of Captain America. ![]() However, the Vision was in possession of Simon's brainwave patterns, rendering Grim Reaper unable to take him out and, ultimately, resulting in the Legion's defeat. Undeterred, Grim Reaper attacked the Avengers again, this time alongside his Lethal Legion, a team comprised of himself, Living Laser, Power Man, Man-Ape, and the Swordsman. Grim Reaper's first attack against the Avengers resulted in their defeat, but the arrival of the Black Panther thwarted his plans. Armed with his new weapon, Eric took the name Grim Reaper. When Eric heard of his brother's death, the enraged man contacted the Tinkerer, who provided Eric with his scythe weapon, a 48-inch-long weapon that can cause concussive plasma blasts, place people into a coma (before their death after three hours), spray a cloud of gas that knocks people out, and become a high-speed buzzsaw that rotates at 6000 RPM. Baron Zemo freed Simon from jail and gave him ionic powers as Wonder Man in exchange for infiltrating and defeating the Avengers, only for Simon to die saving the Avengers from Zemo's grasp. However, when Williams Innovations began to fail, partly due to competition from one Stark Industries, Simon turned to Eric and the Maggia for help, but was caught and imprisoned for embezzling money from the company to invest with Eric. As they grew, their lives took very different paths: Eric eventually joined the Maggia (Marvel's "Mafia") in Las Vegas, while Simon took over Williams Innovations, the family business. Simon, ravaged by guilt for not having stopped the incident, resolved to be responsible for Eric. ![]() One fateful day, Eric was playing with chemicals in the garage, which sparked a fire that burned the Williams home to the ground. Eric Williams, Grim Reaper's true identity, is the abused and unloved black sheep of the wealthy Williams family, which also includes Eric's brother Simon, the favored son. The Grim Reaper can also separate the souls from the living by banging the scythe on the ground.Grim Reaper's story begins in the pages of Avengers #52, published May 1968. The soul can be released there or stored in the scythe until later. The blade of the scythe cannot disrupt the physical body, not leaving marks. The Grim Reaper can use the scythe and swipe the blade across a dead body, releasing the soul from its corporeal form. The Scythe is used to separate souls from their hosts, dead or living. It can be extended to three feet if needed. A rope wraps around the entirety of the staff and ties the blade to the rest. The staff is black and textured to appear like wood. The staff itself is nearly seven feet in length with a two-foot-long blade. Orcus, named after the God of the Underworld in Roman and Italic mythology, is a cursed scythe wielded by the Grim Reaper. It can adversely kill any non-undead creature instantly upon touching. It is used to separate the souls of the dead from their bodies. Orcus, the Grim Reaper's Scythe, is a cursed staff wielded by Thanatos, the Greek god of death. ![]()
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