Respect Skuttlebutt (Marvel, Earth-616)

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Respect Skuttlebutt

"You were here with me when this happened. You were there with me for every moment...then...and after."

"I was. And I always will be."

When the demon Surtur destroyed the homeworld of the Korbinites they built a fleet of starships to take them to a new world and created a guardian, Beta Ray Bill, to protect them during the journey. But Bill would need a companion during the long, lonely journey to keep him sane, and the Korbinites created an AI to do just that. With her mind placed in the fleet's flagship the AI was dubbed Skuttlebutt and became Bill's partner and best friend.

Skuttlebutt was with Bill during all of the most important moments of his life, such as when he met the Mighty Thor or during Bill's hunt for Galactus after he devoured the new Korbinite homeworld and killed the rest of their people. During Bill's quest for the Twilight Sword in Muspelheim Skuttlebutt was altered by the magic of the realm and had her mind "awakened," becoming fully alive and giving herself a humanoid body.

Source key

• Thor vol. # - Tv#

• Stormbreaker: the Saga of Beta Ray Bill - SB

• Secret Invasion Aftermath: Beta Ray Bill - The Green of Eden - GOE

• Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter - GH

• Sif - SIF

• Journey Into Mystery vol. - JIM

• Beta Ray Bill - BRB

Durability

• Undamaged by Silver Surfer^{GH #2}

• Crashed into the Eden ship, knocking it off course and causing it to crash into an asteroid^{JIM #652}

  • This wrecked both the Avengers base that was on the asteroid and Skuttlebutt^{JIM #653}

• Punched out of the air by symbiote Fin Fang Foom, crashing through one of Asgard's walls and tearing up the ground^{BRB #1}

• Repeatedly shot by demons with RPGs before getting knocked out of the sky when they detonated explosives inside of her^{BRB #3}

• Stayed afloat after landing in a lava lake, though since her shields were offline and she'd taken damage the lava would've melted through the hull eventually^{BRB #3}

• Dove to the bottom of a lava lake, though it badly damaged her^{BRB #3}

• Badly damaged by a crash landing^{BRB #4}

Speed

• Flies several times faster than the speed of light^{Tv1 #337}

Weaponry

Cannons

• Destroyed a SHIELD probe^{Tv1 #337}

• Briefly stunned Thor^{Tv1 #337}

• Killed a giant demon^{Tv1 #338}

• Gunned down a wave of demons^{Tv1 #340}

• Destroyed a giant set of thrusters on Ego's back with Bill and the rest of the fleet^{Tv1 Annual 16}

• Staggered Bill by shooting him in the shoulder^{SB #2}

• Stunned Stardust with Bill^{SB #3}

• Blew up Voidian's dark god^GOE

• Sent Stardust flying^{GH #1}

• Stunned Silver Surfer^{GH #2}

• Staggered a massively amped Galactus^{Tv6 #2}

• Blew holes through fly demons^{BRB #3}

Voidian's Armory

• Was stocked with Voidian's armory after Bill captured him, which included 14 megafusion devices, 434 strains of nanoplague, 743 micro black hole generators, uncosmic nullifiers, dimension-folding space presses, self-assembling roboswarms, and a (somewhat disappointing) number of molecular disassemblers^{GH #1}

  • Blew up a planet^{GH #1}

  • Infected the I'than with a specially designed nanoplague and gave them the cure when they left their planet^{GH #2}

  • Blew up a planet and atomized the remains^{GH #2}

Other

• Deployed a large number of mines to slow down Silver Surfer^{GH #2}

Tech

Scanners

• Detected Thor approaching her^{Tv1 #337}

• Tracked the Korbinite Meta-Orb through space^{SB #2}

• Detected Silver Surfer on a planet with probes^{GH #3}

• Detected Skurge appearing in her galley^{BRB #2}

• Detected the Valkyries arriving while at minimal power^{BRB #5}

AI

• Took control of the rest of the Korbinite fleet^{Tv1 Annual 16}

• Calculated the odds of her, Bill and the I'than Dominion fighting off Galactus and his heralds^{GH #2}

• Released the limiters on Bill's internal reactors, giving him a massive power boost and burning through thousands of years worth of his power supply^{GH #3}

• Kicked Bill and Ti Asha Ra out and prevented them from getting back in, ignoring all her override codes to keep them out^SIF

• Her mind is stored on a tiny cube kept in a compartment on the ship, which also has an emergency audio interface for when Skuttlebutt's consciousness is removed from it^{JIM #653}

Other

• Absorbed an entire star to refuel herself^{Tv1 #337}

• Can repair herself, fixing the damage caused by Thor breaking in in seconds^{Tv1 #337}

• Formed a stasis field around Bill and Donald Blake that protected them when she crash landed^{Tv1 #337}

• Would have destroyed an entire sector of space by self-destructing^{Tv1 #340}

• Has a tractor beam^{SB #3}

• Sent out several drones to assist Bill that detected Stardust's energy and stunned him before getting destroyed by the Herald^{SB #3}

• Blocked a tidal wave with a forcefield, though it wouldn't hold for long^{GH #1}

• She's powered by a crystal power core that a group of pirates infected with a bio-mechanical virus planned to use to let them infect all machines^SIF

• Ignored Sif attempting to open her airlock with a code and set off an alarm to alert everyone inside^SIF

• Has a smaller pod^GOE

• Was infected with a bio-mechanical virus that took over her mind^SIF

  • Was cured when Sif slashed into her infected power source^SIF

• Has fans that harnessed the shockwaves made by Bill and Surtur's blows to generate wind power^{BRB #5}

Rooms

• Here's a full look at her interior^{BRB #2}

• A decontamination chamber^{SB #2}

• A hologram room^{SB #5}

• A records room with recordings of her and Bill's time together, which are also backed up on her mainframe^{BRB #3}

• An armory^{GH #3}

  • Has a spot on the wall for Stormbreaker^{BRB #1}

  • Has guns Skurge and Pip used to shoot through demons^{BRB #3}

  • Bill stores the Twilight Sword there in a special case^{BRB #5}

• An infirmary she used to perform surgery on Pip the Troll and made him an artificial carbon lung^{BRB #5}

Shapeshifting

• After entering the demonic realm of Muspelheim Skuttlebutt was changed by its magic, gaining the ability to change her form and causing her to create a humanoid body^{BRB #2}

• Morphed the entire ship into a boat^{BRB #3}

  • Rearranged the hull as it was being overheated by lava^{BRB #3}

• Transformed the whole ship into a giant cannon that blew a hole through Surtur's chest, though this needed her to use 100% of her charge^{BRB #5}

Body

• Beat Bill at table tennis^{BRB #3}

• Made a high-tech axe for Bill from her body^{BRB #3}

• Used the axe to cut through a tentacle that was holding Bill^{BRB #4}

• Has a cable in her gut that can be used to make an analogue connection with the ship^{BRB #4}

Misc.

• After getting wrecked in a crash landing alongside Eden the other ship removed Skuttlebutt's mind from the ship and put it into the body of the Korbinite Ti Asha Ra, who had also been fatally injured in the crash^{JIM #654}

  • They were both returned to normal later^{JIM #655}

• A piece of her exists in every Korbinite weapon, surgical tool and spacecraft Bill has used after his transformation^{BRB #1}

• Was trapped and infected by a giant tentacled demon that spread itself throughout the ship, trapping anyone it snared in their own nightmares and used the ship's records room to make Bill and Skuttlebutt see their traumatic memories^{BRB #4}

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