The origin of Armus is legendary in a Jack Kirby type of manner. The “tar” is the bodily manifestation of all of the unfavorable feelings and psychic impulses of a long-forgotten species of unnamed “Titans” who used superior know-how to actually rid themselves of hate. The Titans then left their world and deserted their sticky, tar-like hatred. Over time — centuries? millennia? — Armus advanced from that hate into an clever being. Armus is, like Changelings, a dwelling liquid and has no inner organs or skeleton. It will probably transfer round and alter its density at will, and likewise clearly possesses superior, terrifying psychic powers. Its powers additionally concerned a far-reaching psychic subject, which was why the Enterprise could not beam Troi to security.
Armus is not harmed by phasers, and, at one level, sucks Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) into its physique. Whereas inside, Riker is seemingly lowered to a liquid state whereby he’s savagely tortured. Armus then reconstitutes Riker and spits him again onto the desert ground of Vagra II. At a conference attended by this writer, Frakes admitted that he truly needed to climb right into a pool of ink-black Metamucil, an disagreeable expertise to say the least. This story, nevertheless, was contradicted by the “FX Journal” which said that Frakes’ stuntman was used for the submersion scene.
As a being of pure anger, Armus did not behave solely logically. It had been alone on Vagra II for God is aware of how lengthy, ready for torture victims to stumble into its path. When victims did seem, nevertheless, Armus did all the things in its energy to frighten them and scare them off. It longed for firm, however solely required that firm with a purpose to alienate them. Briefly, Armus was your common Twitter consumer.