(important: this details Dire Wraith concepts from Marvel comics, for their current IDW incarnation see: Dire Wraith (IDW) )
The Dire Wraith are a vicious species of alien from Marvel comics that acted as the primary antagonists of the Rom, Space Knight series during the hero's run within Marvel, while the rights to Dire Wraiths and Space Knight would later be lost and later obtained by IDW Marvel still retains rights to their version of the concept, which has a distinct appearance and origin.
History[]
The Dire Wraith were once part of the Skrull race but after many years of forbidden dark magic and degeneracy would split dramatically from them and became their own species, leaving behind the Skrull home-world and seeking conquest in the darkest regions of space and time.
Dire Wraiths are large, monstrous creatures that are greatly feared not just for their great magical power but also for their horrific, lethal parasitism; using their barbed-tongue a Dire Wraith can absorb a person's appearance, personality and even superhuman powers, often causing their victim to rapidly decay into ash in the process.
Dire Wraiths have no care for the suffering of others, indeed many of them enjoy it and seek to spread out and invade other worlds, often with the use of demonic entities which they also worship as part of their long history with black magic.
As well as magic the Dire Wraiths, like many parasitic species, are a strict hierarchy and have Dire Wraith Queens who act as the leaders of their people, the most prominent of these Queens is Volx.