Necross

Necross demonstrates how he got his nickname

Necross was an evil wizard who lived in Lower Felda.

History

Necross, also known as "Necross the Mad" or "Necross Ha Ha Ha the Mad", was engaged in a long-standing feud with the people of Theyr, a village on the banks of the Feld River.

After the villagers captured Cerebus, thinking him a "creature of sorcery", the Tarimite priest of the village condemned him and had him taken to Necross' castle, where the aardvark squared off against the wizard. Necross revealed Thrunk, a giant stone statue that he intended to animate one day.

The villagers returned and Necross teleported Thrunk downstairs to frighten them, only for the wizard to be shot by an arrow and killed. Thrunk immediately began to move and talk, having been imbued with Necross' life force. The priest challenged the golem, but was crushed.

Necross-as-Thrunk then realized he was stuck in the only room with a reinforced floor and was, essentially, trapped.

He would re-emerge years later, claiming to be the embodiment of Tarim and briefly supplanted Cerebus as Pope of the Eastern Church. Necross/Thrunk was finally destroyed for good by Cerebus with the use of Adam Weisshaupt's canons.

Appearances

• Cerebus No. 13

As Thrunk

• Cerebus No. 80 through Cerebus No. 82
• Cerebus No. 87 and Cerebus No. 88
• Cerebus No. 196 - cameo

In Other Media

• Necross is voiced by Michael Petranech in The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark (2021).

Dave Sim on Necross

• "As for Necross the (ha ha ha) Mad. He was cut from whole cloth; Exidor from 'Mork and Mindy' (did anybody at *all* watch the second and third seasons?) He was a very bouncy character, which I hadn't realized until I had a few pages done. Much like the Moon Roach would later, he led me to develop almost a completely different style in order to capture the kind of broad gestures and body movements of a real nutbar."