Sui-San is a fictional character

Fictional character

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, a member of the Eternals

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, a race in the Marvel Comics

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 universe

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Publication history

Sui-San first appeared in Captain Marvel

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vol. 1 #29 (November 1973), and was created by Jim Starlin

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. The character also appears in Silver Surfer vol. 3 #84 (September 1993).

Fictional character biography

Sui-San was a Uranian

Uranian (comics)

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/Titanian

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 Eternal and the mother of both Starfox, Thanos

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 and many of the Eternals of Titan. She was the former wife of Mentor

A'lars

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 and the sole survivor of the civil war that occurred on Titan

Titan (Marvel Comics)

In the Marvel Universe, Saturn's moon Titan is the fictional home of the Titanian Eternals. It first appeared in Iron Man #55 and was created by Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich...

. She was vivisected and slain by her son, Thanos in attempt to learn why he was different from the other Eternals.

Sui-San shared the long lifespan of all Eternals, although as she was not on Earth during the cosmic energy experiment that activated the other Eternals' full powers, it is not clear what other Eternal abilities she may have possessed.