Watcher Contribution

##**Legend**

**SS-1**- Silver Surfer (1968)
**Thor-1**- Thor (1966)
**Av-1**- Avengers (1963)
**Team-Up-1**- Marvel Team Up (1972)
**CM-1**- Captain Marvel (1968)
**SM101**- Spider-Man: 101 Ways to End the Clone Saga
**DP-2**- Deadpool (1997)
**Team-Up-2**- Marvel Team-Up (1997)
**DP-3**- Deadpool (2008)
**MTLG**- Marvel: The Lost Generation
**X-51**- X-51 (1999)
**Thor-2**- Thor (1998)
**Ross**- What If General Ross Had Become the Hulk?
**AF-3**- Alpha Flight (2004)
**GLX-Mas**- GLX-Mas Special
**WI?FF**- What If: Fantastic Four
**UX**- Uncanny X-Men (1981)
**1602FF**- Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four
**Q**- Quasar (1989)
**WI…?**- What If...? (1989)
**Ex**- Excalibur (1988)
**SB**- Starblast (1994)
**SH25**- Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special
**Hulk-2**- Hulk (2008)
**DAv-1**- Dark Avengers (2009)
**Nova-5**- Nova (2013)
**Av-2**- Avengers (1996)
**DP-4**- Deadpool (2013)
**CGR**- Cosmic Ghost Rider (2018)
**DMH**- Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History (2019)
**Symbiote**- Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black
**MAv-2**- Mighty Avengers (2013)
**Trial**- Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher
**Fury-3**- Fury (2023)
**SHJ**- Super Hero's Journey
**WI?**- What If? (1977)
**X-Factor-3**- X-Factor (2006)
**WI?CW**- What If? Civil War
**Eternals-4**- Eternals (2008)
**X-Men-1**- X-Men (1963)
**DPTU-2**- Deadpool Team Up (2009)

##**Strength**

* [Backhands Captain Mar-vell](https://imgur.com/a/x1AEKCc)^(CM-1#37)
* [Beats up two men, leaving their limbs bent in several places](https://imgur.com/a/T93J0Z0)^(WI? #35)

##**Durability**

* [Takes a kick to the head from Captain Mar-vell. Captain Mar-vell throws a piece of machinery at the Watcher's head but it crumples without harming Uatu at all](https://imgur.com/a/x1AEKCc)^(CM-1#37).
* [He’s seemingly blasted unconscious by Nygorn of the Starblasters](https://imgur.com/a/tnDvi1w)^(SB#1)
* [Sits on top of a flaming comet](https://imgur.com/a/6lqms8e)^(WI?#22)
* [Witnesses a universe where Black Bolt is a rock musician and attends a concert, despite the sound damaging the building he’s in](https://imgur.com/a/04EpBMN)^(WI? #35)
* [Floored by a sucker punch from Red Hulk](https://imgur.com/a/EuMN6fz)^(Hulk-2#4)

##**Speed**

* [Teleports away moments before Deathurge’s sai can strike his eyes](https://imgur.com/a/o4dfNK0)^(Q#24)

##**Constructs**

* [Creates a “space trap”, a field of energy that’s designed to corral meteors, although it inadvertently captures Adam Warlock as well](https://imgur.com/a/RMqfz8W)^(Thor-1#165)

##**Transportation**

**Movement**

* [From a base in a distant galaxy, Uatu views the actions of Reed Richards. The Watcher aims at Earth with a device that transports him the “countless lightyears” at speeds that are “faster than a trillion laser beams”](https://imgur.com/a/2MZMX99).^(SHJ)
* [Flies with Reed Richards through the Fourth Dimension to a strange laboratory, then flies him back to the Baxter Building](https://imgur.com/a/wca6rTh)^(SHJ)

**Teleportation**

* [A cloud forms before Leonard Tippit before it takes the shape of the Watcher](https://imgur.com/a/6J9ykiq)^(Av-1#101)
* [Teleports Thor and Spider-Man from Asgard to Earth, a million miles away, with a wave of his hand](https://imgur.com/a/p4A6MMw)^(Team-Up-1#7)
* [Appears in the Dark Dimension](https://imgur.com/a/LfDQpcl), then [later teleports out of it](https://imgur.com/a/gYwKbjY)^(Av-1#118)
* [Captain Mar-vell attempts to fly away from the Watcher, but as soon as he pauses, Uatu teleports to the hero’s location](https://imgur.com/a/dVTqNh3)^(CM-1#37)
* [Teleports to Asgard’s throne room. Though Heimdall the All-Seeing can feel a strange presence, he cannot detect the Watcher specifically](https://imgur.com/a/JArBrZg).^(Thor-2#37)
* [Teleports Quasar out of his building](https://imgur.com/a/x1LYDyL)^(Q#6)
* [Teleports away moments before Deathurge’s sai can strike his eyes](https://imgur.com/a/o4dfNK0)^(Q#24)
* [Appears in a lab](https://imgur.com/a/C99N3GO) and [leaves when it self-destructs](https://imgur.com/a/827c6IJ)^(Av-1#363)
* [Teleports Deadpool from Wakanda to the Ruler of the Earth](https://imgur.com/a/zvKFMa7)^(DP-4#20)
* [Teleports Nick Fury and Scorpio back to Earth from the moon](https://imgur.com/a/P7sSBvq)^(Fury-3#1)
* [Brings Reed to his lab](https://imgur.com/a/CwByhyV)^(SHJ)
* [Teleports from the Xavier Institute to Central Park](https://imgur.com/a/uRqSgDc)^(UX#473)

**Time Travel**

* [Arrives far in the past to witness Cosmic Ghost Rider’s decision to raise a baby Thanos](https://imgur.com/a/izGe7aD)^(CGR#2)
* [Attempts to travel with a group to the future, but the other Watchers prevent Uatu from traveling forward](https://imgur.com/a/ho325Zq)^(Symbiote#5)

##**Telepathy**

**Visions**

* [Shows Leonard Tippit a possible future where human civilization ends in nuclear holocaust](https://imgur.com/a/KozTiqK)^(Av-1#101)
* [Shows Odin a vision of several possible futures, including one possible future where Thor becomes an authoritarian tyrant](https://imgur.com/a/fU7u0bE)^(Thor-2#37)
* [From the moon, he sends a mental projection that is only seen and heard by Quasar](https://imgur.com/a/dP0rM5y)^(Q#30)
* [Arrives at Captain America’s grave to show Tony Stark visions](https://imgur.com/a/Amf3P9Q) of [alternate universes where the Civil War went down differently](https://imgur.com/a/heX2sz3)^(WI?CW)
* [Shows the X-Men the origins of the First Fallen](https://imgur.com/a/Jff5wPH)^(UX#473)

**Memory Removal**

* [Lays a hand on the Authority’s head and causes him to forget about the existence of both the Watcher and of the Globe of Ultimate Knowledge](https://imgur.com/a/HT9tVkU)^(Team-Up-2#5)
* [Wipes the memories of Ned Leeds and Alistair Smythe, making it so that they forgot ever meeting the Watcher, then does the same to Spider-Man](https://imgur.com/a/n324eeX)^(Symbiote#5)

**Guiding Others**

* [Guides Iron Man’s hand and helps him build a mentality-retrogressor, a device which incapacitates the superpowered Leonard Tippit](https://imgur.com/a/FdmB08r)^(Av-1#101)
* [Possibly influenced a teenager named Hector Espejo](https://imgur.com/a/26CIBx3) and [helped him hack into another universe’s web browser, one where the Fantastic Four were cosmonauts with the USSR](https://imgur.com/a/3BffboW)^(WI?FF)

**Senses**

* [Senses that the Thanos that Squirrel Girl defeated was the real Thanos and not a robot, clone or other kind of simulacrum](https://imgur.com/a/eUSC2OS)^(GLX-Mas)
* [Senses when Living Laser beams through a building in his moon base](https://imgur.com/a/sdx0Atp)^(Q#6)
* [Knows the moment that Quasar returns to his home universe](https://imgur.com/a/nUwwHCv)^(Q#31)

**Other**

* [He grabs Captain Mar-vell and psionically renders him unconscious, along with Rick Jones, whose spirit existed in the Captain’s mind at the time](https://imgur.com/a/NLkMspY)^(CM-1#37)
* [Telepathically sends a message to his future self that he will soon arrive in the future](https://imgur.com/a/ho325Zq)^(Symbiote#5)

##**Watching**

**General**

* [Has watched the universe since before the birth of humankind](https://imgur.com/a/SXcDl0d)^(X-51#12)
* [Has watched the universe since before our sun created the solar system](https://imgur.com/a/oxNHtn2)^(Q#47)
* [Has alarms designed to go off when matters of great cosmic importance or meddling in the timestream are about to happen, and cameras designed to view these events as they happen](https://imgur.com/a/74TtHIl)^(DP-2#11)

**Significant Events**

* [Observes a planet in the Microverse, one led by the tyrant Tim Boo Ba, for ages and witnesses as it’s flooded](https://imgur.com/a/Ko5WoZ7)^(SS-1#4)
* [Witnesses the plight of a criminal in the year 2061](https://imgur.com/a/WIb7Owt) imprisoned [on the planet Jupiter](https://imgur.com/a/2OctCP8)^(SS-1#5)
* [He’s there at the fight between Phoenix and Galactus](https://imgur.com/a/1Vfri4Z) to [observe](https://imgur.com/a/2RYDywZ)^(Ex#25)
* [Saw Quasar coming before he arrived](https://imgur.com/a/Ncw05PY)^(Q#47)
* [From the moon, he watches Nova in Los Angeles](https://imgur.com/a/I9k8pad)^(Nova-5#7)
* [Watches on as](https://imgur.com/a/PJmHWKk)^(DMH#2) Cosmic Ghost Rider [messes with history](https://imgur.com/a/CyL4Pi5)^(DMH#3)
* [Invisibly watches Ben Urich as the reporter imagines a story where Daredevil saved Nuke’s life](https://imgur.com/a/DtsibwF)^(WI…?#48)

**Limits**

* [Cannot bear to witness the attempted execution of Captain Mar-vell by protronic disintegration](https://imgur.com/a/l9sv4Rv)^(CM-1#38)
* [His gaze cannot penetrate a monolith of Celestial-origin](https://imgur.com/a/HvD5P9Y)^(X-51#12)
* [Claims to be unable to see into the mind or hearts of humans](https://imgur.com/a/kefgmIN)^(WI?#21)

**Watching Other Universes**

* [The Watcher owns several view portals with which to see into alternate universes, some with extremely divergent histories compared to his native universe](https://imgur.com/a/jcfq0Nv)^(WI?#1)
* [Although he may appear to occupy the same space as the universes he watches, the Watcher is intangible and imperceivable to the people within these universes](https://imgur.com/a/Xp1PAZq)^(WI?#24)
* [Appears among the stars over Asgard while watching a universe where the Avengers fought against Odin](https://imgur.com/a/EKc7PkV)^(WI?#25)
* [Appears to Matt Murdock as he grieves at Elektra’s grave](https://imgur.com/a/OYFHUnc) and [tells him about a universe where she was not killed](https://imgur.com/a/Nx6TxQt)^(WI?#34)
* [Stands on clouds while watching in on an alternate universe](https://imgur.com/a/bSjnH33)^(WI…?#10)
* [Uatu sometimes appears in the universes he monitors as semi-transparent forms](https://imgur.com/a/s29HCMA)^(WI…?#45)
* [While watching a world where General Ross became the Hulk instead of Bruce Banner, Uatu stands in the center of the gamma bomb detonation but takes no damage](https://imgur.com/a/LtiubVB), seemingly [invisible and intangible to those around him](https://imgur.com/a/7vPhCtF)^(Ross)
* [Looks into Earth-1218, a world where Marvel is a superhero comic company](https://imgur.com/a/0jbf0hS), from his [multiversal view-portal](https://imgur.com/a/ixZ3JcC)^(SM101)
* [Appears to the residents of Earth-311 as a giant](https://imgur.com/a/W4Fx4Ff), and [is later seen observing the alternate Earth through a trinket that fits in his hand](https://imgur.com/a/FkuUIi4)^(1602FF#5)
* [The Living Laser flies into the Watcher's inter-universal view portal and ends up in a different universe](https://imgur.com/a/MFw9nxB)^(Q#6)
 * [Living Laser specifically ended up in an alternate Earth where the original X-Men died on their first mission](https://imgur.com/a/ARrvC3i)^(WI…?#9), designated [Earth-105709](https://imgur.com/a/DBQW6sQ)^(Q#30)
* [Programs his inter-universal view portal to shut down if any attempts to travel through it](https://imgur.com/a/HAb8ZBE)^(Q#31)
* [Uatu and Doctor Strange run into each other while watching an alternate dimension](https://imgur.com/a/N88FiNe)^(X-Factor-3#24)

##**Other Abilities**

**Size Changing**

* [Once appeared giant compared to the moon](https://imgur.com/a/dSuowlF)^(AF-3#11)
* [Appears giant, towering over the X-Mansion](https://imgur.com/a/067wy3t)^(UX#472)
* [Appears as a giant compared to Thunderbolts Tower](https://imgur.com/a/JSb4XYZ)^(DAv-1 176)

**Offense**

* [Blasts energy beams at Captain Mar-vell, one of which throws him back when it connects](https://imgur.com/a/gN2nLbK)^(CM-1#37)
* [Generates an omnidirectional blast of energy to throw back the otherwise incorporeal Mister E](https://imgur.com/a/G3kODRp)^(Symbiote#5)

**Other**

* [Opens Leonard Tippit’s mind and grants him full use of the powers that lie dormant within him](https://imgur.com/a/DuLhSxW)^(Av-1#101)
* [Telekinetically lifts a pen and writes with it](https://imgur.com/a/uffHJdM)^(DP-3#24)
* [Allows Nova to see through his eyes and identify an armada of ships far out in space](https://imgur.com/a/wc9sqAA)^(Nova-5#3)
* [During Galactus’s first visit to Earth, Uata subtly altered probability, making it so that the Silver Surfer landed in Alicia Masters’ apartment so that he would begin to appreciate human life](https://imgur.com/a/mMyrOKp)^(Trial)
* [Stops time for all beings in an area aside from Reed Richards](https://imgur.com/a/X3X8ffa)^(SHJ)
* [When Kang the Conqueror attempts to use a machine to siphon the information out of Uatu’s mind, the Watcher begins siphoning the information out of Kang’s onboard AI instead. This results in a freak accident where Uatu sees into the future shortly before Kang's spacecraft explodes](https://imgur.com/a/ya0OMXf).^(Symbiote#1)
* [Jean Grey does not detect the Watcher’s presence when performing a psi-scan of the Blue Area of the Moon](https://imgur.com/a/bP6Ozoj)^(X-Men-1#137)

##**’Inability’ to Interfere**

**Following His Rule**

* [Stays out of the fight between Phoenix and Galactus](https://imgur.com/a/1Vfri4Z) and [merely observes](https://imgur.com/a/2RYDywZ)^(Ex#25)
* [He’s unable to act even though he has knowledge that great catastrophe is about to befall Earth](https://imgur.com/a/tYnrILw)^(SB#1)
* [When Red Hulk nears a black hole, Uatu does nothing](https://imgur.com/a/HLExyzX)^(Hulk-2#26) and [lets him fall in](https://imgur.com/a/5JzVkjn)^(Hulk-2#27)

**Permitted Loopholes**

* [Shows up and just kind of stares at Blue Marvel until he takes the hint and starts scanning for emergencies to respond to](https://imgur.com/a/CbrDmU0)^(MAv-2#2)
* [He decides that allowing humanity to know about the Zodiac Doors would cause more interference than his own action, so he teleports Nick Fury and Scorpio back to Earth](https://imgur.com/a/P7sSBvq)^(Fury-3#1)

**Clearly Bending The Rules**

* [Refuses to help Quasar find his Quantum Bands and leaves the room, but leaves a viewscreen monitor on that shows Quasar exactly where they are](https://imgur.com/a/8189Mik)^(Q#47)
* [The authorities of the timestream, a group called the Timekeepers, threaten to confiscate Uatu’s interdimensional viewer if he does not take responsibility and capture the illegitimate copies of the Living Laser that populate the multiverse. Despite the threat, Uatu cannot act on this mission and employs Quasar to act in his stead](https://imgur.com/a/YlfJdwO).^(Q#30)

**Explicitly Breaking His Oath**

* [Grants Leonard Tippit powers so that he may kill the five people whose children will one day trigger a nuclear holocaust that ends human civilization](https://imgur.com/a/1b8uGba). However, [this turns out to be a ruse and Tippit would be the one to trigger the apocalypse. By having him go on a killing spree, the Watcher makes it so that the Avengers would assemble and stop him, which is what the Watcher wanted to happen all along](https://imgur.com/a/4VyxNH2).^(Av-1#101)
* [Arrives to prevent Cosmic Ghost Rider from saving Frank Castle’s family, explaining that it’s an anchor point in cosmic stability and needs to happen](https://imgur.com/a/94foLRN)^(DMH#5)
* [According to Tiamut the Celestial, Uatu has intervened in the affairs of humanity on 337 occasions](https://imgur.com/a/f6XMxjO)^(Eternals-4#5)

##**Equipment**

**Blue Area of the Moon**

* [Some buildings are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside](https://imgur.com/a/pkEbPKt)^(Q#6)
* [Within the crater of the Blue Area of the Moon, an Earth-normal atmosphere exists. Beyond the lip of the crater is the vacuum of space](https://imgur.com/a/bP6Ozoj).^(X-Men-1#137)
 * [Thanks to the breathable atmosphere, Nick Fury can walk around without a spacesuit while there](https://imgur.com/a/luEvf5u)^(Fury-3#1)
* [Wolverine accidentally falls inside a crystal building in the Watcher’s headquarters](https://imgur.com/a/fVcjbRi). Logan is [bounced between several strange settings and time periods before Uatu disables his security measures and dismisses Wolverine from the building](https://imgur.com/a/xUsum14).^(X-Men-1#137)
* [Has machines that read the mental impressions of the time-traveling Dr. Cassandra Locke and which identify key figures in future history](https://imgur.com/a/rEdfvfK)^(MTLG#12)

**Other**

* [Uses a telekinetic blaster to move Adam Warlock’s cocoon into a satellite](https://imgur.com/a/tm0u42Z)^(Thor-1#165)
* [Owns a time-manipulating Dark Crystal](https://imgur.com/a/p4A6MMw) that was [stolen and used by the villain Kryllk to freeze the realms of Earth](https://imgur.com/a/UdZVKOW) and [Asgard in time](https://imgur.com/a/DjqH3cj). Kryllk also [used the Crystal to learn some of the universe’s secrets and was granted powers of magic protection](https://imgur.com/a/AKiTMnd) and [illusory duplication](https://imgur.com/a/2lIXQRg).^(Team-Up-1#7)
* [Uses a gun-like device to make contact with the other Watchers. Shortly after Uatu uses it, two other Watchers teleport to his position](https://imgur.com/a/nfsJ09h)^(CM-1#38)
* [Owns the Globe of Ultimate Knowledge](https://imgur.com/a/gkArIln), which [grants any who hold it access to the universe’s secrets and was going to be used by the Authority to control all that exists](https://imgur.com/a/s0pYoah)^(Team-Up-2#5)
* [Uses the Time Stone to look into the future](https://imgur.com/a/WQigm28)^(DMH#4)
* [Pulls out a giant revolver and points it at Cosmic Ghost Rider, but doesn’t shoot it](https://imgur.com/a/SNWLw2D)^(DMH#5)
* [Produces a small metal wafer and stretches it above his head. In moments, the wafer transforms into the Temple of Justice, a building large enough to house several dozen other Watchers](https://imgur.com/a/LMsADFP).^(CM-1#39)

##**Fourth-Wall Interaction**

* [Shows Reed Richards a vision of another world to inspire within him feelings of wonder and love. This vision is an autobiographical story from the comic’s author, Patrick McDonnell, so the Watcher is showing Reed beyond the fourth wall here](https://imgur.com/a/7DG0MbB).^(SHJ)
* [He claims to communicate with the reader of the comic via telepathy](https://imgur.com/a/kkkEfUv)^(WI?#1)
* [The back pages of *What If?* included a section where Marvel readers could write to the Watcher, who would answer questions regarding the Marvel Universe and its continuity](https://imgur.com/a/UziCqIp)^(WI?#21)
* [When recounting stories, he appears to burst through](https://imgur.com/a/I4XIl6J) or [flip the page of the comic book](https://imgur.com/a/BKkmuHe)^(WI? #35)

##**Other**

* [His giant face appears on the surface of the moon](https://imgur.com/a/OWXEXCo)^(Q#6)
* [Employs an assistant to keep an eye on the lamer What If? universes](https://imgur.com/a/TBStatE)^(SH25)
 * [The Assistant Watcher is also responsible for keeping tabs on matters Uatu promises to stay out of, like watching Deadpool](https://imgur.com/a/5olHQ74)^(DPTU-2 #884)
* [As punishment for his interference, Uatu is arrested by his fellow Watchers and forced to watch a vision of a universe where he had never interfered and chose inaction as he’s supposed to](https://imgur.com/a/49pkmpb). In this world, [the Fantastic Four would each be maimed in their encounter with Galactus, but they would’ve defeated the giant on their own and discovered an energy source that leads to worldwide prosperity in under a year](https://imgur.com/a/MbtMIXx).^(Trial)
* [Communicates with Tiamut the Celestial in Dream Space](https://imgur.com/a/JmjuCqe)^(Eternals-4#7)
* [According to Colonel Miguel Reyes, the Watcher did not leave the moon during the two World Wars](https://imgur.com/a/1d63pYa)^(UX#473)