He finds himself on an ice planet, where a horned creature dubbed "The Stranger" appears and says, "Come with me, human.

This creature, dubbed "It" by its young protagonists, was responsible for the complete disappearance of the local population during its early settlement, and for hundreds of horrific tragedies and murders ever since.

He returned to 2099, to find Fortune and about 50% of the population of Latveria alive, due to the genetic immunity, though many Latverians had been mutated into humanoid creatures dubbed "mutalocos".

The 2.5 million-year-old creature, dubbed Australopithecus garhi , evidently used stone tools to carve up the animals it killed and had much bigger teeth than its apelike ancestors.

As with the movie, the premise of the series is that a meteor carrying organisms that evolve at a very quick rate crashes into the Arizona Desert; single-celled alien organisms on this meteor quickly evolve into monstrous creatures, dubbed the "Genus".

She leaves him on the beach to be eaten by deadly lobster-like creatures, dubbed "lobstrosities" by Roland.

Considered by comics historians, including Don Markstein, as "America's first ongoing comic book series to fall squarely within the horror genre", the feature, set in New York City circa 1930, starred a guttural, rampaging creature actually dubbed "Frankenstein" (unlike Shelley's nameless original monster).

But now Maxwell enters and invents a "wee creature," later dubbed Maxwell's demon.