Vuk

Vuk
Real Name	Vuk
Alias(es)	Margaret Smith
Species	D'Bari
Gender	Female (as Margaret)
Status	Unknown (original timeline) Deceased (revised timeline)
Appearances
Movie	X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Actors/Actresses
Portrayed by	Jessica Chastain
Versions
Comics	Marvel Database

"Because of what's inside you? You're afraid of it because you think it makes you bad, evil... all the words you've been taught to keep you in line. Words created a very long time ago by men with very little minds. They can't begin to comprehend what you are. Even your X-Men."

―Vuk to Jean Grey

Vuk was one of the D'Bari who had escaped the destruction of their planet by the Phoenix Force. She and the surviving D'Bari followed the Phoenix Force across the universe to Earth, where Vuk sought to absorb its power from Jean Grey, who had merged with the Phoenix Force in space. Vuk and the D'Bari forces came into conflict with the X-Men and their mutant allies, with whom they battled in a bid to get to Jean. However, Vuk was ultimately destroyed by Jean using the power of the Phoenix Force.

Biography

Early Life

The being which would later be known as Vuk was born tens of years ago, as a member, later the supreme leader of the D'Bari, a race of humanoid beings with the ability of shape-shifting and with high intelligence and psychological warfare skills, which originate from a planet far away from the regions of the Earth.

Fall of Her Home

The unimaginable destructive cosmic entity known as The Phoenix wandered across the universe, and later used its powers to destroy the D'Bari and their planet. However, only Vuk and many few D'Bari survived and escaped, causing Vuk to vow revenge against the Phoenix and vowing to find a new home for her race.

Arrival to Earth

Upon losing her home and nearly all of her people, Vuk led the last surviving D'Bari straight into Earth, the home planet for Humans and Mutants.

From the reason that she and her people are alien beings from an unknown planet, they took forms of humans, with Vuk taking the form of a young tall and white-haired human woman named Margaret.

Personality

To be added

Powers and abilities

• D'Bari Physiology: Vuk is a D'Bari, an extraterrestrial race of humanoids with shape shifting abilities.
  • Superhuman Strength: Like the rest of the D'Bari she too has superhuman strength.
  • Shapeshifting: Vuk has the ability to change her appearance at will. D'Bari can even use their shape shifting to heal themselves to a certain extent.
  • Telekinesis: Vuk has the soft ability to levitate, move, immobilize, and manipulate objects with her mind. It made her able to manipulate people's internal organs.
  • Illusion Casting: Vuk possesses the ability to create strong and believable illusions. She used that power to show Jean Grey the origin of the Phoenix Force.
  • Telepathic Immunity: Vuk's mind cannot be read by telepaths, possibly due to her extraterrestrial physiology.
• Phoenix Force: By briefly absorbing some cosmic energy of the Phoenix Force within Jean Grey, Vuk gained a number of advanced abilities.
  • Regenerative Healing Factor: When Magneto tried to use machine guns in order to kill her, her skin layer began to fall apart, but she was shown to be able to heal it back.
  • Energy Manipulation: Vuk could easily manipulate the lightning projected towards her by Storm and even redirect Cyclops' optic blasts against him.

Weaknesses

• The Phoenix Force: Ironically, her very obsession is also the very thing that kills her. Jean Grey manages to overload her with cosmic power, disintegrating Vuk into mere ashes within moments.

Relationships

Allies

• D'Bari †
  • Jones † - Subordinate

Enemies

• Margaret † - Victim
• John Grey † - Victim
• X-Men
  • Jean Grey - Former Ally turned Enemy and Killer
  • Charles Xavier/Professor X †
  • Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto
  • Hank McCoy/Beast
  • Scott Summers/Cyclops
  • Ororo Munroe/Storm
  • Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler

Trivia

• Simon Kinberg initially debunked reports that Jessica Chastain's character would be named "Smith", but the Dark Phoenix Twitter emoji for Chastain's character was revealed to be #XMenSmith.
• Lilandra, Emma Frost, and Mastermind were cited as influences for Vuk's character in Dark Phoenix.
• In the comics, Vuk is male. While the character took on the form of a woman in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Vuk's sex in alien form was never confirmed.
• Vuk is the first and only female character to be the main antagonist in an X-Men film.

External links

• Vuk on the Marvel Wiki