The character plays a more antagonistic role in the 1985 sequel, Secret Wars II, in which he takes human form to learn about desire but threatens to destroy the multiverse out of increasing frustration.

[6] Created by writer Jim Shooter[2] and artist Mike Zeck, the Beyonder first appeared in Secret Wars #1,[7] as an unseen, apparently nearly omnipotent being.

He reappears in Secret Wars II #1 (July 1985), which was written by Jim Shooter and drawn by Al Milgrom.

After realizing that the desire to protect his eyesight might compromise his integrity and dedication, Daredevil demands that the Beyonder take his sight away again, which he does.

While waiting for the Legion Accursed to arrive, Mephisto tricked Thing into signing a contract that would increase his strength.

The Beyonder is finally defeated by a huge group of superheroes, including the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers, and Spider-Man, after the Molecule Man intervenes and kills him, while he had temporarily transformed into an infant in the midst of a re-birthing process.

The flashback sequence ends with Deadpool chasing him into a portal with a footnote saying "to be continued in Secret Wars III".

[23] When the Molecule Man's lover Volcana leaves him, he becomes angry, extracts the Beyonder from Kosmos, and proceeds to attack him until Kubik intervenes.

After the amnesiac Maker destroys a Shi'ar colony, the Imperial Guard imprison it in the interstellar prison called the Kyln.

Thanos confronts the Maker, and, by refusing to reveal its origins at a critical juncture, manipulates it to psychically shut down its own mind.

[31] Upon reaching the House of Ideas, he decides to break free from and leave the story of The One-Above-All, promising to return on his own terms.

[13] The narration stated that he possessed power millions of times greater than the entire multiverse combined,[36] and that a regular universe was a drop of water in the ocean compared to the Beyond Realm.

[37] The Beyonder proved capable of destroying, and recreating, the abstract entity known as Death across the multiverse, although it extremely exerted and weakened him to do so.

He was overwhelmed when Rachel Summers returned the enormous powers that he had bestowed upon her along with the thoughts of the past and present beings in the universe, to the point that he collapsed on the ground,[39] and he was apparently slowed down in battle against the Molecule Man.

[42] However, on another occasion, after trying to be a superhero by fighting a superpowered biker gang, the Beyonder stated that he limits his powers to keep them more in line with the world around him.

[4] When the Molecule Man extracted the Beyonder from Kosmos, their battle took place in more than three spatial dimensions, and threatened to cause vast destruction across the multiverse.

[53][full citation needed] In Mutant X, the Beyonder allies with Dracula to wage war on Earth's forces and confront the Goblyn Queen.