The Inciters are a powerful biomechanical alien menace and villains from Marvel comics. An incredibly powerful bio-technic race of Shi'ar legend, the Inciters were apparently dormant for centuries. Recently, they regathered and plotted, through their collective mind, to destroy much of known space and absorb the slain minds into their race, allowing them to grow more powerful. They feared the Silver Surfer and his power cosmic, so they destroyed his home planet of Zenn-La and absorbed the billions of minds into their form. They then killed all aboard a Shi'ar spaceship and left false evidence that the Surfer was responsible for the planet's destruction so that the Shi'ar would hunt him down for them. They planned to cause three stars to go supernova at once, which would kill much of the kn