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Sequoia (comics)
Sequoia, Quoi)
Sequoia (AKA Quoi is a Marvel Comics’ character. He is Thanosi, who tried to kill him. Mantis and the Avengers
the son of Mantis and the elder member of the Cotati traveled to Tamal to save him.
contingent which was transplanted from the Kree home At this time in his life, Sequoia was going through
planet Hala to Viet Nam on Earth. a period of adolescent rebellion. Usually referred to as
Quoi for short, he had taken the name "Q". He was cap-
Prophecy tured by the pirate Raptra, but she decided not to deliver
him to the Thanosi. They escaped to a region of space
A prophecy read that one day the perfect human female, called "the Rot", in which space itself was being con-
who would be the Celestial Madonna, would have a union sumed by beings created by Death and the Thanosi. After
with the perfect male plant of the Cotati race, and from a great battle involving the Avengers and Mantis the Rot
their union would spring the perfect child, who would was defeated, and Quoi and Raptra remained in that sec-
be the Celestial Messiah; a being that destined to change tor of space to help its recovery.
the universe. A newborn star appeared in the sky above
Avengers’ Headquarters during the period when Mantis
was an active member of the group, proclaimed that the
Powers and abilities
Celestial Madonna’s time was at hand. Kang the Conquer- Quoi can control life forces, absorbing energy from many
er had set up an automatic monitoring device to alert sources ranging from individual life forms to the uni-
him to this appearance, in hopes of capturing the Madon- verse itself, and channel it at will to heal or for other pur-
na and using the child to advance his quest for power, poses, including offensive energy blasts. His psionic pow-
but did not know which of three human females was The ers are quite formidable, on the level of Thanos. He can
Madonna: Mantis, the Scarlet Witch, or Agatha Harkness. breathe both carbon dioxide and/or oxygen due to his
Once it was revealed that it was Mantis, she mated with human–plant metabolism; he can also survive without ei-
the elder member of the Cotati contingent that had been ther and without food for extended periods of time.
left on Earth along with a group of the Kree-born Priests
of Pama (to protect it from the Star Stalker). Though this
Cotati was a tree, this mating was made possible because
Alternate versions
he took the form of the Avenger known as the Swords- In Reality 90651 the son of Mantis was called Sprout, who
man, who had recently been killed saving her life in bat- was raised on Earth under the protection of the Silver
tle with Kang. Their baby was named Sequoia, after the Surfer.
noblest of Earth trees.
External links
Biography • Marvel Universe Website
Mantis raised Sequoia in hiding in Willimantic, Connecti-
cut for a time, then asked Sequoia’s father to take him
to the Cotati homeworld of Tamal. At the time of Se-
quoia’s puberty, a newborn star once again appeared, sig-
naling the Celestial Messiah. This caught the attention
of a group of Thanos-based artificial beings called the
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