KJ, you amaze me, this thread hasn't even existed but a few moments and you found it.
You are fast girl!
Did you see the surfer on a comic book cover, or on T.V.?
I was buying some gum back in 94 and hit the wrong button and got a Silver Surfer 3-d holograpich sticker by mistake.
I put it on my truck. After awhile, I started to wonder who he was and did some research. I liked his story and found out he was a really powerful dude.
I knew of Silver Surfer since I was about 7. My brother is almost 3 years older than me, and he was heavy into comics back then. He introduced me to the X-Men and comics in general.
I know very little of Silver Surfer, or at least I REMEMBER very little. I know that he's insanely strong. From my old Marvel Universe issues, I think SS could lift something like 100 tons because of his cosmic abilities. I don't remember his real name, or how he came to be the surfer. I understand that Galactus had something to do with it.
I liked SS, but I don't think I ever was really drawn into his storyline. I guess that at the time, I had seen enough of that kind of almost DC-like comics, that when I caught wind of the X-Men, I was mystified and rejected anything that wasn't similar to it in my mind... Looks like I may have missed out on something by not getting more into SS...
Affiliations-- Defenders ; former partner of Mantis ; associate of the Fantastic Four ; former Herald of Galactus
Scale of Operations-- universe-wide
Occupation-- wanderer ; former Herald of Galactus ; former pilot
Powers-- Norrin Radd's body has been totally restructured by Galactus, leaving him covered with a flexible, silvery materaial that could withstand the rigors of travel through space. Galacuts also provided him with a unique star travel device of the same material, resembling an Earth surfboard. Finally, he granted Radd a fraction of his cosmic power. The Surfer can channel this "power cosmic" in a variety of ways, mostly to store, channel, and release any spectrum of energy. He can also use it to heal others and reconstruct matter. The Surfer can perceive any energy source within a planetary radius or within a stellar system. He has no need to eat or breathe and possesses unearthly superhuman strength, endurance, and reflexes.
History-- Norrin Radd was a member of an extremely long-lived race of humanoid aliens called the Zenn-Lavaians, who had achieved virtual utopia, as disease, poverty, war, and all other social ills had been eliminated many generations ago. Radd, unlike the rest of his race, was discontent with their hedonistic lifestyle and believed that his culture had become stagnant without fulfillment in quest, yearning, and struggle.
Years ago, however, the planet-devourer called Galactus came to feed upon Zenn-La, a process that would render the planet barren and lifeless, and Norrin Radd implored with his friend, a scientist and member of the Council of Scientists, to arrange a spacecraft for him so hie could rendezvous with the invading ship in order to discuss peace. Norrin Radd's craft was taken aboard the home vessel of Galactus, who explained to Radd that while he meant the world no malice, he had been searching for a suitable planet for too long to begin anew. Galactus mused that if he had a herald who could scout suitable planets in advance for him, populated worlds such as Zenn-La could be spared. Radd volunteered to serve Galactus permanently as his herald in exchange for Zenn-La's safety. Galactus agreed, and used his cosmic power to transform Norrin Radd into a being capable of serving him. Galactus gave him a new name as the Silver Surfer, and immediately dispatched him to locate a planet for his master after a final farewell to his beloved, Shalla Bal.
Radd served his new master for many years while delighting in the wonders of the universe. As time passed, however, the task of finding suitable planets for Galactus became increasingly difficult. Perturbed that his Herald's moral compunctions were preventing him form performing his primary task, Galactus subtly erased form Radd's mind the knowledge of his humanoid origins.
Galactus had gone for an extended period of time without nourishment when the Surfer neared Earth's solar system. Learning of his imminent arrival, the alien Uatu the Watcher alerted the hero team Fantastic Four to the dire implications of the Surfer's presence. When Galactus landed in New York City amid mass hysteria, the Fantastic Four tried to engage him in battle but were unable to defeat him. The Watcher sent the Human Torch to another galaxy to secure the Ultimate Nullifier, a weapon whose power Galactus feared. During this confrontation, the Surfer landed on the rooftop skylight of a studio rented by Alicia Masters, the blind sculptress and girlfriend of the Fantastic Four member, Thing. Masters attempted to befriend the Surfer , sensing his noble demeanor and his inner loneliness. The Surfer was persuaded to defy Galactus and aid the Earth.
The Torch returned from his mission and presented the Ultimate Nullifier to the leader of the Fantastic Four, Mister Fantastic. Dismayed by the sight of the weapon in human hands and the Silver Surfer's betrayal, Galactus yielded. Before he retreated, the powerful being erected an energy barrier attuned to the Surfer's specific cosmic powers and designed to repulse the Surfer's attempts to leave the outer atmosphere of the Earth. (The barrier affected only the Surfer or a being possessing the Surfer's specific powers, not obstructing the passage of any other person or object.) The Surfer, unable to breach Galactus's barrier, wandered the Earth.
Innocent and trusting, the Surfer later fell victim to the wiles of Doctor Doom, who used his advanced technology to transfer the Surfer's cosmic powers into himself. Now possessing incredible might, Doom wreaked havoc upon the Earth until Mister Fantastic tricked him into attempting to breach Galactus's barrier. Doom's collision with the barrier alerted Galactus, who stripped Doom of the Surfer's powers and restored them to the Surfer.
As he spent more time on Earth, the Surfer decided to bring about a union of all humankind by becoming a dangerous enemy against whom all nations would have to join forces. The Surfer created widespread destruction on Earth until the U.S. Armed Forces used the experimental Sonic Shark missile (based on the "Anti-Cosmic Flying Wing" Mister Fantastic had designed to use against the cosmic-powered Doctor Doom). The Sonic Shark drained away much and perhaps most of the Surfer's cosmic energies. Humbled, the Surfer renounced his attempt to battle mankind. Subsequent exploits of the Silver Surfer, however, have demonstrated that his cosmic powers have since again achieved extraordinarily high levels.
The Surfer continued his exile on Earth, hoping to breach the barrier someday and be reunited with Shalla-Bal. During his wanderings throughout the world, the Silver Surfer allied himself with the Fantastic Four on several occasions, and even joined the fringe heroes Hulk, the Sub-Mariner, and Doctor Strange in forming the loose-knit team known as the Defenders. The Surfer would irregularly adventure alonside the Defenders throughout their existence. His principal antagonist on Earth was the demonic Mephisto, who had continually sought to break the noble Surfer's spirit and enslave him to his will.
In recent years, Mister Fantastic used his technology to aid the Surfer in breaching Galactus's barrier at long last, warning the Surfer that such a feat could be performed only once. The Surfer thus escaped Earth and returned to Zenn-La, only to learn that Galactus had taken his ultimate vengeance for the Surfer's betrayal by devastating Zenn-La. The Silver Surfer returned to Earth, voluntarily accepting entrapment behind the barrier once more, in order to find her. When he did, Mephisto used his powers to transport her beyond the barrier back to Zenn-La. Unable to follow, the Surfer endowed Shalla-Bal with cosmic energy that would restore fertility to Zenn-La's soil.
Later still, the Surfer joined forces with the villainous Molecule Man to save the Earth from destruction through colossal devastation caused by the alien Beyonder.
Shortly after, it was again Mister Fantastic who suggested a successful trick to escape Galactus' barrier: the barrier only blocked the Surfer's transportation, not his body. Reforming his surfboard on the opposite side of the barrier, he was free to adventure in the cosmos once more. His first actions inadvertently led him to discover a plot by the Elders of the Universe to kill Galactus and thus, they believed, create a new universe. The Surfer was aided by the hero Mantis, and together they helped bring about the defeat of the Elders. In gratitude, Galactus agreed to allow the Surfer to freely roam the universe.
His first act was to revisit Zenn-la in the hopes to reunite with Shalla Bal. Unfortunately, Shalla Bal had accepted a leadership position for her people, and believed that she could not share her life with the Surfer any longer. Later, the Surfer and Mantis began a romantic relationship, but the Elders, in retaliation for thwarting their plot, forced the Surfer to choose to save either Mantis or Shalla Bal from a trap they placed the two in. The Surfer was able to save Shalla Bal, but in the process, Mantis was believed killed.
As the Surfer continued to roam the universe, he became involved in a new Kree/Skrull War, and at one point revived the Super-Skrull from a death-like state and later revived the native shape-changing powers in the Skrull empress S'byll. This act would ultimately revive the shape-changing powers of the Skrull race that were previously believed lost. The Silver Surfer was kidnapped by the Kree and absorbed into their Supreme Intelligence. However, when the Surfer escaped, he took with him the so-called Soul Gem, which the Supreme Intelligence was using to keep cohesion among the millions of minds it had previously absorbed. With the Supreme Intelligence thus temporarily incapacitated, the Kree/Skrull War abruptly ended.
The Soul Gem was one of many that were soon collected by the mad Titan, Thanos, and used to make the omnipotent Infinity Gauntlet. The Silver Surfer was among the many heroes that assembled to stop Thanos' plans to kill half the universe, and the Surfer was instrumental in helping the hero Warlock defeat Thanos.
I first heard of him through my Nintendo. My brother originally had the system and games when it first came out and then he gave it to me a few years later after he got another system (Super Nintendo). There was a game called Silver Surfer, and that is how I found out about him. But I played it on few occasions... Super Mario Brothers was a da bomb back then and you just had to play it. Who didn’t? Ya know
All the very last level is, is you have to kill Brain. Then Shredder hops in this laser cannon thingy and you have to fight at this really weird camera angle. It was really hard but I did it. I even have an old photo my mom took of me playing the game, and it just so happened that I was fighting Shredder. So I do have proof
06-15-2004 12:30 AM
KJ, you amaze me, this thread hasn't even existed but a few moments and you found it. 
