Wraith's History
Origins
Born to the Kree scientist Sim-Del and an unnamed mother, the Kree child Zak-Del led a tragic childhood. After his father invented a powerful power source that could "light the entire galaxy", his work was banned by the merchant class of the Kree Empire. Not wishing to be further deterred in his research, Sim-Del took his family to a planet in the Bennazar Rift, where he used his power source to turn the barren planet into a paradise for his family. They lived there for a time until a Kree death squad, led by an unidentified man bearing a signet ring, slaughtered Sim-Del and his wife. Meanwhile, their son Zak-Del was taken by the robot servant and launched into space aboard a protective capsule in order to escape the death squads.
Drifting in space, he was eventually sucked into a wormhole, emerging in the Exoteric Latitude, "the Space of the Nameless." The Nameless were a race of Kree who had, throughout the millennia, also found themselves sucked into this realm. There, their minor wounds had been infected by a race of parasites called the Exolon, who "fed on the immortal souls of living beings." Finding this young boy in their midst, the Nameless plunged a knife into Zak-Del's chest, an opening that the Exolon then exploited, turning the boy into one of the Nameless. The bonding with the Exolon gained him enhanced strength, the ability to heal from any injury, immortality, and the ability to summon the Exolon that made up the black covering of his skin to swarm. In return, the Exolon that he could control had absorbed his soul.
The "estrangement" from their souls drove the Nameless mad, causing them to inflict pain upon themselves. These acts become the only things that allow them to remember who they were. The boy that would become the entity Wraith held onto the murder of his parents, using it to motivate him beyond merely being another one of the Nameless. Eventually he found the leader of the Nameless, and killed him, taking his weapons and ship for himself and leaving the Exoteric Latitude.
Annihilation: Conquest
His quest for vengeance led him back to the Kree galaxy where he ran into the Phalanx invasion. Taken aboard one of their ships, he did something that has never been done before - he made the Phalanx afraid. The Phalanx then attempted to capture him for study, but he fought them off, eventually escaping their custody.
Arriving in the city of Haroun four days later, he surveyed the plight of the Kree citizens, eventually snagging a random citizen and learning of the invasion's full stretch. The man convinced him to seek out the Resistance. Meeting their leader, Ra-Venn, he asked her if she knew the man he sought. She offered to tell him the man's name for his assistance against the Phalanx, but before he could answer, the Phalanx attacked the Resistance's headquarters. Buying the Resistance time to escape, Wraith was captured and brought to the Straits of Mirador.
Thrown into a cell in Mirador, he was confronted by former Kree emperor, Ronan the Accuser, who had been turned into one of the Phalanx's Selects. Also meeting the Super-Skrull there, another entity the Phalanx were attempting to turn into a Select, the man learned more about the Phalanx. Ronan was eventually instructed to break the will of the nameless man. Even after a severe beating, the man refused to speak. Growing enraged, Ronan threw the man over a balcony where he was impaled upon a giant spike. Ripping himself free, the man summoned the Exolon to heal him. Ronan was stunned by this, and referred to the man as "a ghost...a wraith." Hearing this word, the man decided to take Wraith as his name and told Ronan of his origin. Angry over not being able to break him, Ronan equipped the newly-dubbed Wraith with a device that would make him into a Select.
Left to be assimilated, a vision of his father awoke Wraith and reminded him of his purpose, to seek vengeance for his dead parents. Following his father's advice to find allies, Wraith escapes from his binds and wreak havoc on the Phalanx. After freeing the Super-Skrull and Praxagora, Wraith and his allies obtain their equipment and escaped the ship to find the rebel Ra-Venn. Ra-Venn then convinced Wraith that in order to find the man he sought, he'd first need to help them defeat the Phalanx.
Sometime later, Wraith was sent on a mission on Kree world Rei-Uaj to capture a Phalanx scientist, brutally killing nine Kree civilians in the process. At the rebels' headquarters, Ra-Venn furiously chastised Wraith for his actions, though Wraith pointed out the Kree willingly aligned themselves with the Phalanx and are enemies by association. Wraith clarified that he was only fulfilling the deal they made and expected that she return his efforts in equal measure when finding his family's killer. Ra-Venn then informed Wraith that she researched the signet ring of the killers and explained it belonged to a secret society made up of to Kree military aristocracy that sanctioned threats to the empire, but the society was been disbanded long ago. As Wraith listened to the rebels receiving information about a large-scale attack by the Phalanx in two hours Kirvati Pass, Wraith remarked the the rebels stands no chance of beating, but the rebels decided to intercept the Phalanx fleet. Wratih, Super-Skrull, and Paraxgora was tasked to disable the super weapon before it is deployed. They breached the flagship led by Ronan and Wraith tried to use the Exolon on the Phalanx, only to discovered that they invented ways to counteract Wraith's abilities. While Super-Skull and Paraxgora fought the Phalanx, Wraith went ahead and discovered the super weapon is a Phalanx-infected Supreme Intelligence.
Supreme Intelligence revealed to Wraith that invoked Sim-Del's spirit to lure Wraith to him and summoned Sim-Del in front of Wraith as proof. While Wraith was enraged that by Supreme Intelligence and Sim-Del for their ruse, Sim-Del told his son that he and his Exolon parasites were the only things that can destroy the Phalanx for good and encouraged Wraith to be a hero to the infected people. Wraith was then ambushed by Ronan and fought him off as the weapon deployed, causing the Supreme Intelligence's soul to fire. Choosing to honor his father's wishes, Wraith absorbed the Supreme Intelligence's soul into him. Wraith's actions created a intense fear backlash from the Phalanx fleet, paralyzing all ships within range and deactivating the devices that holds the Selects enslaved Select. A free and shame-ridden Ronan begged Wraith to kill him, but Wraith stated the Kree Empire needs a leader. Although Ronan attempted to provoke Wraith to kill him, Wraith easily disarmed him and told him to seek redemption. Two day later, Wraith and Ronan reunited with Ra-Venn and the rebels, but Wraith did not reveal that to anyone that he had the Supreme Intelligence's soul in him or Ronan's plea to die. However, Wraith accepted his role of a beacon of hope for the people as he kept his distance from his allies.
Upon Ronan's suggestion, Wraith and their allies traveled to Kree-Lar to get help from Ravenous. When Super-Skrull voiced that Ravenous and his Annihilation Wave were likely going to kill the group since they are enemy to Ronan and the Kree, Wraith demanded Ronan to explained his plans to the rest of them, but Ronan stated he won't in order to prevented the Phalanx from probing their minds if they are capture. When Ronan told the others to trust him, Wraith remarked that their association was unavoidable due the circumstances they were forced into, expressing his dislike of the situation. As their ship entered Kree-Lar space system, they were shot down and sent flying towards the surface.[5] While the ship was destroyed, Wraith and his allies survive the crash and quickly found the Phalanx fighting against the Annihilation Wave. When group joined the fray, Super-Skrull yelled at Wraith to end the battle quickly using his Exolon like Ronan ordered. While Wraith compiled and used the Exolon to paralyzed the Phalanx, he stressed he never agreed to support Ronan, only to help him in exchange for aid in finding his parents' killer. After encountering drones of Annihilation Wave, the drones recognized Wraith as the "anathema" to the Phalanx invaders. Wraith stood silent as Ronan bargained to explained Wraith's abilities to the drones if they took them to see Ravenous.[6] Inside the palace, Wraith watched Ronan attempt to negotiated with Ravenous. When Ravenous stepped closer to the group, Ravenous was able to tell that Wraith was not a ordinary Kree and was "living, yet not alive". With Ronan's approval, Wraith summoned his Exolon parasites and quickly subdued Ravenous with his whip. Using Ravenous as a hostage to prevent the drones from attacking, Ronan revealed a secret passage underneath the throne.
Together with Praxagora and Ravenous, Wraith followed Ronan into he underground chamber to find 15,000 Kree Sentries. Using the Exolon, Wraith worked with Praxagora to make the Sentries immune to the Phalanx virus and prevent them from being taking over by them. After finishing making the Sentry army "Phalanx-proof", Wraith quietly observed Ronan sending the Sentries to destroyed the Phalanx and Annihilation Wave drones outside the palace and coercing Ravenous to provided a ship for the group to head to Hala with the Sentry army to end the Phalanx. As they made their way to Hala, Wraith kept an eye on the Sentries to make sure the Plalanx haven't tried to usurp control and was ordered by Ronan to armed the Sentries to they can begin their attack. However, Wraith and the others noticed that other forces were battling the Phalanx on the surface, but Ronan refused to ceased his plans to annihilated Hala with the Phalanx. Suddenly, Ultron, the leader of the Phalanx, possessed Praxagora and had her stunned Wraith, causing the Exolon to dissipated and leave the Kree Sentries vulnerable to the their enemies. Before leaving, Ultron made Praxagora exploded, but Wraith and the rest were protected by Super-Skrull's force field and headed down to the surface to confront Ultron directly. By the time they arrived, the group, Phyla-Vell and Adam Warlock fighting against a giant-size Ultron. Wraith used his Exolon parasites to trapped Ultron in his current body, preventing him to transferring to another one if was destroyed and allowing Phyla-Vell to land a killing blow. In the aftermath, Wraith worked together with Warlock and Tyros to cure the Phalanx-infected people. Afterwards, Wraith continued on his journey to find the people that killed his parents.
The Final Gauntlet
After Gamora killed Thanos, Wraith attended Starfox's meeting to hear Thanos's testament and witnessed a recording of Thanos stating that he uploaded and implanted his consciousness in a new body before his death. Wraith quietly observed Starfox explaining his plans to recruit people to hunt down Thanos's new body and the attendees debating whether to believe Thanos's word, the gathering was attacked by the Black Order. After the Black Order used Knowhere to destroyed The Sanctuary, they opened a hole in the fabric of space, causing Wraith and everyone else to be suck into it. Fortunately, Wraith and many others are saved by Gladiator and the Shi'ar and were taken abroad a Shi'ar Battlecruiser. Starfox told Wraith and the other surviving warrior that they must find Gamora, who was the most likely candidate to be Thanos's new body. Wraith questioned Starfox what was to be done with the Black Order, but Starfox assured him that the Shi'ar were searching for them. This also prompted an intrigued Rider to chat with Wraith, but due to Cosmic Ghost Rider's fiery skull reminding him of the signet ring of his family's killers, Wraith told Cosmic Ghost Rider to keep his distance from him. In order to learn Gamora's location, Nebula stated that the team should track down Richard Rider.
The team was able to locate Rider and ambushed him, wounding him enough to crash land onto a planet and cornered him, demanding him to them Gamora's location. When Rider refused to cooperate, Wraith restrained him with his whip and used his Exolon to inflicted pain on him. Wraith told Rider that he respected him and does not wish true harm on him, as Wraith remember Rider during the Annihilation Wars. However, Wraith explained that he only helping Starfox because he promised to give Wraith intel on Knull, the Exolon God, so Wraith can get rid the Exolons in his body. When Wraith threaten to kill Rider, Gladiator and the others ordered him to stop being so aggressive and let him go, giving Rider the chance to escape. On Nebula's advice, the team agreed to follow Rider, hoping that he will lead them to Gamora. Wraith and the others trailed Rider to Star-Lord's ship, who had already found Gamora and had her on broad. Since Star-Lord and his team refused to hand over Gamora over, the two groups quickly clashed against each other, with Wraith battling Nova. Wraith and the other members of Starfox's team quickly overwhelmed the Guardians and gravely injured Star-Lord among the chaos.
Wraith and the Dark Guardians brought Gamora to Starfox. Starfox then handed Wraith intel on Knull just like he promised. Before Gamora could be killed, Hela and the Black Order appeared and subdued the Dark Guardians. Wraith chose not to fight back as he had what he wanted and no longer saw any need to help the Dark Guardians.
Annihilation - Scourge
When the Sentry begun leading the forces of the Cancerverse to invade the Negative Zone, Mister Fantastic used his Dimensional Anchor to call various heroes, including Wraith, to help in the battle. In the end, Bob Reynolds remerged with the Void, while Nova sacrificed himself in order to defeat the evil forces.
