The Past Master is a villain from Marvel comics and an enemy of the Scarlet Witch.
History[]
Alder Revery was a man who loved the past and hated everything modern like machines or mutants whom he saw as a perversion of humanity created by the nuclear age. He learned old witchcrafts and used them for his goal.
Alder left with the Scarlet Witch and invited her to his house after they drank some wine and told her his extreme thoughts about modernity. Past Master used a mystic force shield against Scarlet Witch. She was unable to fight against it, because her wine had been drugged. Past Master put on his enchanted lens, plucked the spirit of Scarlet Witch from her body, and sent it back into time to merge it with an ancestor of her. Past Master returned to his decadent life, filled with things of the past and a good wine.
Past Master wanted to start the closing measures against Scarlet Witch and called his friend Mr. Hanley to dispose the body of Scarlet Witch, which was still protected by the mystic force shield to find a spell on exorcising unwanted spirit presences. The book puffed up around the Scarlet Witch was sparkling and glowing he dissipated it, because he thought it drew spirits to his house. Past Master left the house to continue his crusade against mutants when the Scarlet Witch returned her body, and she wanted to put a profile on him into the Avengers' computer.
Trivia[]
- Ironically the world's first mutants emerged well before the "nuclear age" - with examples going back to prehistory (such as Apocalypse)
- His motive of anti-modernism is shared with villains such as Turner D Century.