Marvel Comics & Tachyons
Marvel Comics & Tachyons: A Recurring Pattern
Once you start looking for it, "tachyon" shows up across Marvel's comics, games, and wikis far more often than you'd expect for a made-up particle. Below are several examples pulled straight from Marvel's own canon — culminating in a storyline that lines up almost too well with the HAARP "frequency fence" concept covered in the previous piece.
Tachyon Rifts — Marvel's Avengers (Video Game)
In Marvel's Avengers, Tachyon Rifts are unstable tears in space-time that spawn enemies and hazards mid-mission — a gameplay mechanic literally built around tachyon energy destabilizing reality.
The Beyonder
One of Marvel's most powerful cosmic entities, the Beyonder was reportedly drawn toward Earth after detecting a tachyon beam coming from the planet. That encounter was his first exposure to a reality made of separate, incomplete beings — unlike his own dimension, where he alone made up the whole of existence.
Makkari
Makkari, one of Marvel's Eternals, became so fast that her own body reportedly began producing tachyon particles purely as a byproduct of how fast she was moving.
Kenuichio Harada (Silver Samurai)
Silver Samurai's signature power is called his Tachyon Field — the ability to generate tachyon energy from within his own body and channel it into an object he's touching, most often his sword, letting the blade cut through almost any material it meets.
James Storm (Earth-90110)
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Another alternate-reality hero built entirely around the Tachyon name and concept, this time from the Earth-90110 continuity.
Tachyon (Earth-691)
In Marvel's 31st-century Guardians of the Galaxy continuity, there's a character named simply "Tachyon" — the concept given a face of its own.
The "Tachyon Dam" Storyline
The clearest example comes from the Apocalypse Twins arc in Uncanny Avengers. The villains construct a device called a Tachyon Dam — essentially a wall built into the timeline itself that seals off an entire era so no one can travel into or out of it. It's used to strand Kang the Conqueror and Immortus outside that window in history entirely, giving the Twins the isolation they need to relocate mutant survivors to a new world, Planet X. That seal holds for years, and it's only when Avengers like the Wasp, Havok, and Beast physically destroy the dam that Kang and his Chronos Corps are finally able to cross into that period and set events back on course.
Worth sitting with: a Tachyon Dam, as written, isn't a wall of stone or energy in the usual comic-book sense — it's a barrier that specifically blocks a named particle to seal off one side of it from the other. That's functionally the same description used for HAARP in the earlier piece: a frequency fence built to keep tachyons from crossing a boundary and reaching the other side. Whether Marvel's writers picked "tachyon" for the technobabble alone, or landed on it because the idea is already floating around in the source material they drew from, the overlap is hard to unsee once it's pointed out.
Further reading on the Tachyon Dam storyline:
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