X Review: Kurse

Through the Marvel Multiverse, there is one Kurse ‘standard’, from Earth 616, known initially as Algrim the Strong:

“Algrim’s hatred of Thor was sensed by the incredibly powerful Beyonder who had come to Earth to investigate the nature of desire. Intrigued, the Beyonder decided, as an experiment, to restore Algrim to health, give him vastly greater strength and remodel his armor, and then see what Algrim would do. Somehow sensing that he would find Thor in New York City, Algrim, now transformed into the being called Kurse, passed from Svartalfheim to Earth and began walking across the ocean bottom to get to New York.”

From the Marvel Wikipedia

Thor: The Dark World takes place in Earth-199999. The following is an excerpt from Algrim’s (Kurse’s) entry in the Marvel Wikipedia:

“Algrim was born into the race of dark elves more than five-thousand years before the present day. He served Malekith faithfully when Malekith led their people in a war against the Asgardians at a time when the Nine Realms were due to converge. Malekith’s plans were dashed when the Aether was ripped from the dark elves’ grasp, depriving them of their greatest weapon. Malekith, sacrificed their ships, and most of their race in a bid to hide their escape. This shocked Algrim, but he trusted his lord and followed him into a five-thousand year sleep until the time of the next convergence of realms.”

“When the Nine Realms once again came into alignment, breaches began to appear in the barriers between worlds and the Aether gained a new host to carry it from its confinement. Malekith’s warship detected this change and awoke Algrim and the remains of his people from their long sleep. Algrim then readily accepted his master’s wish for him to become the last of the Kursed, an ancient order of dark elves who had sacrificed themselves to become creatures of raw, bestial power.”

From the Marvel Wikipedia