Earth X is a 1999 comic book limited series published by American company Marvel Comics . Earth X was written by Jim Krueger with art by John Paul Leon . Based on Alex Ross ' notes, the series features a dystopian version of the Marvel Universe .
74-485: The series was followed by two sequels, Universe X and Paradise X , and a prequel, Marvels X . The universe of Earth X is designated as Earth-9997 . The Earth X incarnation of Spider-Man made his cinematic debut in the 2023 feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , depicted as a member of Miguel O'Hara 's Spider-Forces. Earth X began in 1997 when Wizard magazine asked Alex Ross to create
148-648: A church advocating mutant dominance of the galaxy and the destruction of Reed's Human Torches. Meanwhile, Mar-Vell is reincarnated as the child of the synthetic Him and Her , though his soul remains in the Realm of the Dead. Captain America becomes the Mar-Vell child's guardian and embarks on a worldwide quest with his new ward to obtain various items in order to deal with Earth's restless mutant population and prepare for an impending war in
222-516: A highly skilled tracker, animal trainer, horseman, motorcyclist, dancer and marksman. He is also an excellent hand-to-hand combatant. Wyatt sometimes rides a gyro-cruiser, provided by the Wakanda Design Group. "Lord Wingfoot" appears in the Marvel 1602 miniseries 1602: Fantastick Four as a rival to John Storm for the hand of Doris Evans. According to Storm the man is a "godless brute". At
296-513: A killing spree. Mephisto then steers Jude to Britain, where Mephisto hopes to find the Siege Perilous , which will allow him to traverse the multiverse. With the help of Merlin , Doctor Strange , Psylocke and the sacrifice of a recently resurrected Meggan , King Britain is able to slay Mephisto with Excalibur . Meanwhile, in Paradise, Reed and a legion of heroes confront Mar-Vell. After Paradise
370-509: A possible dystopian future for Marvel. Ross designed a future where all ordinary humans had gained superpowers, and he examined how some of the most well-known Marvel characters (including Spider-Man , Captain America and the Incredible Hulk ) would manage a world where their superhero powers had now become commonplace. The issue of Wizard that contained the Ross article sold out rapidly. Demand
444-554: A solution to Death's absence. They decide to access the imprisoned Jude the Entropic Man, who can turn others to dust on contact, and synthesize his essence into a chemical to end the suffering of those unable to die. With the chemical complete, Reed, growing suspicious of Mar-Vell's motives, plans to use Pym Particles to slow Paradise's rapid growth within the Negative Zone. Mephisto frees Jude from captivity, convincing him to go on
518-480: A wall around their universe, preventing any further influence from the Celestials. Feeling that his work is not yet complete, Mar-Vell tells the people of Paradise that he is going to the source of Excalibur, which is strongly implied to be the original universe. In 2020 Marvel published Marvels X , a prequel to Earth X written by Krueger. It focuses on the last normal human being on Earth named David as he deals with
592-713: Is a fictional supporting character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . While having no superpowers, he has spent much time in the company of the Fantastic Four due to his friendship with Human Torch , and his relationship with occasional Fantastic Four member She-Hulk . Wingfoot is an excellent athlete, marksman, hand-to-hand fighter, tracker and animal trainer, and has been of timely help in numerous potentially devastating situations. Wyatt Wingfoot first appeared in Fantastic Four #50 (May 1966) and
666-481: Is a single dimension, such as Earth-616 , the mainstream Marvel Universe. A reality is the collection of a universe, where a version of the planet Earth exists, and the various other dimensions associated with it, like Asgard, the Dark Dimension, or the Negative Zone. Universes, where a planet Earth exists, are infinite, and there is (generally) one version of Asgard, one version of the Dark Dimension, one version of
740-586: Is as yet unstated. The numeric designations of these alternate universes have been confirmed by Marvel Comics throughout the years and compiled in 2005's Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes , and in Marvel publications since the release of the Handbook . Many official numbers are random or use other numbers as a base, the best example of this is Ultimate Marvel . 1610
814-482: Is later revealed in issue #11 of Paradise X that the events shown in the series are not set in an alternative future, but rather an alternative present (the issue reveals that Paradise X is set in 2003, the year of publication). The Paradise X series was never properly concluded, due to editorial interference midway through its publication. Due to dwindling sales, the X and A specials, which were intended to be double-sized issues, were both reduced to 22 pages and
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#1733084461006888-510: Is nearly conquered in the name of the Supreme Intelligence by the arriving souls of the Kree military, Mar-Vell explains to Reed that he (Reed) is to become the new Eternity . Using his new role as Eternity, Reed is able to end the conflict and free the remaining heroes from their Cosmic Cube-induced dream-worlds. Once this is accomplished, Mar-Vell explains to Reed that his plan is to build
962-471: Is revealed to be devouring worlds in order to destroy Celestial embryos growing within them. Galactus kills several Celestials and forces the others to flee. Afterwards, Galactus consumes Earth's Celestial embryo. Galactus prepares to leave, and Reed requests that he remove his helmet. Galactus reluctantly agrees, revealing that he is actually Franklin Richards. Franklin Richards previously convinced himself that he
1036-429: Is the collection of alternate universes that share a universal hierarchy. A large variety of these universes were originated from another due to a major decision on the part of a character. Some can seem to be taking place in the past or future due to differences in how time passes in each universe. Often, new universes are born due to time traveling; another name for these new universes is an "alternate timeline". Earth-616
1110-568: Is the established main universe where the majority of Marvel books take place. The Marvel multiverse is protected from imbalance by the Living Tribunal , a vastly powerful humanoid cosmic entity, who is one for the entire multiverse. It may act to prevent one universe from amassing more power than any of the others or from upsetting the cosmic balance in some way. It is only overseen by the One-Above-All , an omnipotent entity said to have created
1184-495: Is the new incarnation of the X-Men that is led by Cyclops. They were former members of the second Daredevil's circus: The staff of Wizard magazine named Earth X the best comic of 1999 in its 100th issue. Initially, the Earth X storyline was purported as being the future of Earth-616 , but the series often substantially retconned the origins and workings of characters to better suit
1258-522: Is the swapped numbers of 616 with a 0 to differentiate it from the already existing 161. In addition, many universes have also been designated with numbers by fans with various methods for the numbering, such as the birth date of an important Marvel staff member (artist Nelson Ribeiro for the Transformers U.S. Universe, Earth-91274 ) or the spelling of a name with a touch-tone phone ( Animated Silver Surfer Earth-936652, spells out Zenn-La). In 2014, during
1332-642: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes . The numerical designations for these are rarely revealed outside of reference works such as the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 . A.R.M.O.R. and Project Pegasus however seem to possess vast knowledge of other Marvel realities, using the same designations; whether this is simply narrative convenience on behalf of Marvel's authors or an unusual decision by these agencies to use an effectively alien catalog method
1406-601: The Captain Britain Corps . This numerical notation was continued in the series Excalibur and other titles. Each universe of the Multiverse in Marvel also appears to be defended by a Sorcerer Supreme at nearly all times, appointed by the mystic trinity of Vishanti to defend the world against threats primarily magical in nature from within and beyond and bearing the Eye of Agamotto . Later on, many writers would use and reshape
1480-491: The Falcon 's bird partner and wearing his winged harness. Together they battle the multi-minded alien menace 'Hydra' which has taken many people they both know, including She-Hulk , Sam Wilson himself and Sharon Carter . During the " Heroes Reborn " company-wide crossover , an alternate-universe analog of Wingfoot was purportedly a government agent assigned to monitor independent spaceflight and extraterrestrial meetings, but
1554-563: The Molecule Man results in the destruction of the Multiverse, triggering various 'incursions' as Earths crash together and destroy each other, the Beyonders' assault culminating in Doctor Doom stealing the power of the remaining Beyonders and bringing the last of the parallel universes together into a single 'Battleworld'. Doom rules this reality for eight years until key heroes and villains from
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#17330844610061628-588: The Ultimate Marvel titles, Amazing Spider-Girl , the Marvel Adventures titles or GeNext , though it is possible that the issue of time may be related to their exclusion. This was apparently retconned during the " X-Men: Messiah Complex " storyline, where Forge stated that all mutants in possible future timelines were depowered, not in parallel universes. This, in addition to A.R.M.O.R.'s observation that Lyra arrived from an alternate reality indicates that
1702-572: The Ultimate Nullifier on the entity. With Death destroyed, Mar-Vell constructs a Paradise in the center of the Negative Zone for the dead to inhabit. However, those among the living find themselves unable to die. Meanwhile, X-51 decides that the inhabitants of alternate Earths should be warned about the Celestial embryos he believes are growing within their planets. He spreads the alarm across
1776-670: The "Negative Zone" barrier; he also encountered Prester John . Some time later, alongside the Fantastic Four and the Keewazi tribe, he battled the Tomazooma robot. Wyatt eventually completed his degree and graduated from college to return to the reservation as a teacher. Before returning to his tribe, alongside the Fantastic Four he battled the Miracle Man . Alongside the Fantastic Four and Agatha Harkness , he battled Annihilus . Alongside
1850-545: The Celestials, but are inhibited by a psychological safeguard put in place by the Celestials. The safeguard relates to constructivist philosophy, that essentially states that people are shaped by their environment. The deities and devils within the Marvel universe are species that were modified by Celestials and unwittingly inhibit their own abilities due to the fact that they self-identify as a Marvel deity or devil. These evolved beings hold their sense of identity being reinforced by those that interact with them. Loki realizes that he
1924-653: The Dead to Paradise. Those who enter Paradise consume a piece of the Cosmic Cube , enabling them to create their own, seemingly perfect pocket reality. But as more souls enter Paradise, it begins to expand and consume entire worlds within the Negative Zone , causing Blastaar and Annihilus to attack the Baxter Building in New York. Reed Richards, Bruce Banner , the Beast , and several other brilliant scientists convene to discuss
1998-529: The Graphitti hardcover, Marvel's trade paperback and the sketchbooks. The various volumes include: Accompanying volumes include: The Earth X incarnation of Spider-Man made his cinematic debut in the 2023 feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , depicted as a member of Miguel O'Hara 's Spider-Forces. Multiverse (Marvel Comics) Within Marvel Comics , most stories take place within
2072-561: The Human Torch battle Texas Twister . Alongside the Thing, Ka-Zar , and American Eagle , Wyatt battled Klaw. After the death of Wingfoot's grandfather, the Keewazi chief, the Council of Elders called on Wyatt to accept the position as tribal chieftain. At the same time, the alien known as Terminus came to Oklahoma to devour Earth's resources, and the Fantastic Four arrived for battle. Wyatt met
2146-556: The Human Torch, Wyatt encountered the Hulk and battled Blastaar . Alongside the Fantastic Four, Wyatt battled Doctor Doom . With his tribe, Wyatt was then ensorcelled by the Miracle Man, but was rescued by the Thing and the original Ghost Rider . With his tribe, Wyatt was possessed by the demon Dryminestes, but was restored to normal by the Human Torch and Daimon Hellstrom . Wyatt later helped
2220-517: The Hydra—a parasite collective that mind-controls its host bodies. Osborn grants Tony Stark (one of the last unmutated humans) political asylum in exchange for constructing robotic replicas of the fallen Avengers to battle the Hydra menace. Loki tricked Odin into changing Thor into a female and discovers an elaborate Celestial manipulation on a cosmic scale: ancient humans were modified by the Celestials, given
2294-400: The Keewazi. Wyatt was briefly seen being interviewed on the news show 'Lateline' about his association with the group. Wyatt is referred to as one of Johnny Storm's best friends, along with Peter Parker . The two of them held an intervention for Johnny Storm following his loss of powers and subsequent erratic behavior. Wyatt Wingfoot has no superhuman powers. He is a superb athlete, and
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2368-488: The Marvel Multiverse. As such, there can logically only be one Omniverse, as anything and everything that currently exists, existed in the past, can potentially exist at any time or may exist in the future is a part of it. As stated above, nearly every imprint, timeline and appearances in other media have its own separate universe. Most of these have been cataloged by Marvel Comics in many publications, being most notable
2442-580: The Multiverse in titles such as Exiles , X-Men , and Ultimate Fantastic Four . New universes would also spin out of storylines involving time-traveling characters such as Rachel Summers , Cable , and Bishop , as their actions rendered their home times alternate timelines . The multiverse also plays a role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), with the central and main universe having originally been known as Earth-199999 in external media and Earth-616 in internal media. The concept
2516-609: The Negative Zone, and so on, associated with each. For example, beings like Dormammu and gods like Odin hail from separate dimensions, but they all nevertheless belong to Reality-616, and other realities like the MCU, have different variants of these characters. Note that whether any given specific use of the term " Marvel Universe " refers to the Marvel Multiverse (in general) or to the Reality-616 (in particular) can only be determined by
2590-608: The Realm of the Dead. Arriving at Zero Street, the duo is attacked by the Night People , and Captain America sacrifices his life to save the Mar-Vell child. Mar-Vell reveals that other than creating constructivist safeguards to stop species that they modified from being able to challenge their supremacy, the Celestials also schemed to manipulate causality and fatalism by helping to create beings such as death and Mephisto to distort truth and reality. Mar-Vell also discovered that beings that travel through time actually create new universes in
2664-486: The Skull. The Inhuman Royal Family return from space and contact Reed Richards, hoping to reunite with their people. While trying to find the lost Inhuman nation with Cerebro , Richards discovers Bolt's actions. The Skull's army reaches New York, overtaking it, and Captain America and his allies fall to the Skull's powers. While the Skull is distracted, Captain America kills the child dictator and liberates his followers. Before
2738-599: The Terrigen Mists and restore Earth's human population. With the Celestial embryo gone, the Earth's mass is reduced, causing a shift in orbit and polarity as well as drastic worldwide climate changes. One-fourth of New York's population dies as temperatures plummet. The Tong of Creel, a cult dedicated to reassembling the Absorbing Man, begins killing those who hold his fragments. Under Mephisto 's influence, Pope Immortus founds
2812-418: The Thing returned and She-Hulk left the team, and ended up becoming involved in her adventures as well. He was part of a group of innocent citizens kidnapped by a teleportation beam when S.H.I.E.L.D. went after She-Hulk. They went after the corrupt S.H.I.E.L.D. officer in charge, endangering everyone on board and anyone the helicarrier might crash in to. She-Hulk soon neutralized the threat, and Wyatt survived
2886-544: The ability to control the actions of others and becomes known as Skull. Nearly all of the world's telepaths are killed by the backlash caused by Beckley's power manifestation. Meanwhile, Doctor Doom and Namor the Sub-Mariner fight the Fantastic Four . Doom is killed in an explosion along with Susan Richards . Namor kills Johnny Storm . Franklin Richards responds by cursing Namor, causing one side of his body to burst into flame upon contact with air, forcing Namor back into
2960-589: The ability to develop powers in order to act as a type of anti-bodies, to stop radical elements such as Deviants and alien species from harming the Earth and the Celestial embryo growing within it. Along with Earth, the Celestials modified the native species of many planets harboring Celestial embryos. Species affected by Celestial modification gradually undergo an evolution process where they develop powers either through natural means such as mutants, or unnatural means, as with meta-humans like Spider-Man. Species with Celestial modifications in theory hold enough power to rival
3034-474: The aftermath of the terrigen mist that turns most of the individuals of Earth into super powered beings and freaks. After Mar-Vell killed Death, he reshapes part of the Realm of the Dead into a paradise and selected a group of dead heroes to be its guardians called the Avenging Host where most of its members have angel-like forms. The Fantastic Four no longer exist with the exception of Invisible Woman. This
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3108-454: The believed designation of Earth-8107 . This has created some debate among readers, as some believe that the "Spiders" with numbers that do not match the "original" ones are alternate versions, or if the former numbers should be completely dismissed, despite being official. In the 2015 Secret Wars series, a confrontation with the Beyonders over the fate of the various alternate versions of
3182-495: The context of its use. A multiverse is the collection of alternate universes, with a similar nature and a universal hierarchy. The Marvel Multiverse contains the universe that holds Reality-616, most of the What If ? universes, as well as the vast number of the alternate Marvel Universe Earths. A Megaverse is a collection of alternate multiverses, which do not necessarily need to have similar natures and universal hierarchies. The term
3256-427: The crash of the helicarrier. Alongside the Fantastic Four, Wyatt then battled Doctor Doom (actually Kristoff). Alongside the Fantastic Four, Wyatt later investigated a temporal zone surrounding Central City, California. Wyatt then attended the wedding of Johnny Storm and Alicia Masters (actually Lyja in disguise). Wyatt later became engaged to She-Hulk; alongside her, he battled Carlton Beatrice, and then broke off
3330-464: The discovery and destruction of each Celestial embryo, X-51 takes his Heralds to his Earth, where he will aid each in achieving his or her wishes. In Mar-Vell's Paradise, the High Evolutionary 's equipment transforms the souls of Black Bolt, Captain America, Daredevil (Matt Murdock), Dr. Doom, Giant-Man , Phoenix , and Tony Stark into the Avenging Host, charged with ushering souls from the Realm of
3404-462: The end of the series, when Mistress Evans has thrown them both over for William Shakespeare , Storm and Wingfoot resolve their differences over a drink. In one alternate future, Wyatt has married She-Hulk and they have had a child called Jessie. She joins the Avengers to help defeat Ultron. In the alternate future of Earth X , Wyatt has become Captain America 's new partner Redwing , named after
3478-591: The engagement. Wyatt later accompanied Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil back to the Savage Land . Wyatt joined She-Hulk for some adventures in her own series. There, like many of the cast members, he became aware of his own reality as a fictional being. Wingfoot eventually returned to his tribe when they discovered large oil deposits under their land. He helped broker a deal between the United States government and
3552-514: The entire Marvel Multiverse. According to the origin mythology, at the beginning there was only one universe, The First Firmament, but due to actions of Celestials existing there, it diverged. Then, the Multiverse went through several incarnations and eventually the Big Bang caused the existence of the Seventh Cosmos, where most well-known heroes originated. The seventh iteration of the Multiverse
3626-715: The fictional Marvel Universe , which in turn is part of a larger multiverse . Starting with the Captain Britain story in The Daredevils #7, the main continuity in which most Marvel storylines take place was designated Earth-616 , and the Multiverse was established as being protected by Merlyn . Each universe has a Captain Britain designated to protect its version of the British Isles. These protectors are collectively known as
3700-535: The foursome's new member She-Hulk , and he helped the team battle Terminus. Wingfoot postponed his investiture as chief of the Keewazi, and followed the Fantastic Four instead, returning to New York with Mister Fantastic and She-Hulk. Alongside the Fantastic Four, he journeyed to an alternate Earth, and helped battle the Warlord. He soon began an intimate relationship with She-Hulk, and helped her confront magazine publisher T.J. Vance. He continued this relationship after
3774-427: The heroes can celebrate, the Celestials arrive on Earth to germinate the embryo. As the Celestials prepare to attack New York, Loki arrives with a host of Asgardians found in the afterlife and announces he's not bad because he formed the Avengers. Stark sacrifices himself while trying to hold off the arriving Celestials. Black Bolt is killed after using his voice to travel across the universe and call for Galactus , who
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#17330844610063848-498: The intended ending was never used. Writer Jim Krueger expressed dismay at the loss of pages and not being able to use the original ending. In the intended ending, Captain America, suspecting Captain Marvel's treachery, would have killed Marvel just as Marvel put the energy wall around the universe to keep out the Celestials and Elders. At this final moment, having ascended to the throne of Paradise, Captain America would have realized that Marvel's intentions were good: "Cap would have sat on
3922-549: The life of his human creator—to the Moon to act as Earth's new Watcher. X-51 gets increasingly annoyed at Uatu's assurance of the heroes' defeat. After killing Red Skull , Captain America quits the Avengers , considering himself unfit for the team. Shortly afterward, Reed Richards constructs a worldwide network of vibranium power centers to solve the looming energy crisis, but the experiment fails when one of Reed's scientists falls into
3996-489: The multiverse by recruiting and dispatching Heralds from alternate timelines such as Bloodstorm (Ororo Munroe, Earth-1298), Deathlok (Luther Manning, Earth-7484), Hyperion (Earth-1121), Killraven (Earth-691), Iron Man 2020 (Earth-8410), Spider-Girl (Earth-1122), and Wolverine ( Days of Future Past Earth-811). After banishing the Watchers of Earth-9997 to alternate worlds with the hope that their presence will lead to
4070-508: The mutagenic Terrigen Mists into Earth's atmosphere, seeking to transform humanity into Inhumans so that his people would not suffer persecution. He blinded Uatu the Watcher to prevent him from witnessing his actions, and Black Bolt and the Inhumans leave Earth. Unable to operate his observation equipment, Uatu transports X-51 ( Machine Man )—who has long since given up super-heroics to imitate
4144-699: The ocean. A distraught Reed Richards dons Doom's armor and exiles himself to Castle Doom in Latveria . Soon after, the Absorbing Man absorbs Ultron . The Vision defeats the Absorbing Man with a computer virus . Attempting to isolate the virus by turning to stone, the Absorbing Man is shattered by the Vision after murdering the Avengers. Absorbing Man's pieces are scattered amongst the world's leaders so that he can never be reassembled. Norman Osborn manipulates America into electing him President by using alien DNA to create
4218-511: The other members of the Fantastic Four . He accompanied the Fantastic Four to Wakanda , first met the Black Panther , and helped him and the Fantastic Four against Klaw . Wingfoot also assisted in tracking down a "threat" to frightened citizens, which turned out to be the lost canine of the Inhumans , the teleporting Lockjaw . With the Human Torch, he went on a quest to rescue the Inhumans from
4292-502: The pre-existing Multiverse are discovered and released by Doctor Strange , who had been acting as Doom's 'sheriff' until the discovery of the survivors gave him an alternative. In the heroes' final assault on Doom's fortress, the Molecule Man, who had been the source of Doom's power, transfers Doom's power to Mister Fantastic when Doom acknowledges that Reed would have done a better job as 'God' than he did. Having restored Earth-616 as it
4366-501: The process of doing so and Celestials, acting through others such as Mephisto, encouraged time travel as it created entirely new universes for the Celestial to inhabit and grow in number. When the Tong of Creel finally reassembles the Absorbing Man in New York, he attacks the city's Human Torch. Battling New York's heroes, the Absorbing Man absorbs Manhattan itself, adding its buildings and streets to his being, but Loki and Iron Maiden convince
4440-400: The publication of the " Spider-Verse " storyline, writer Dan Slott posted on Twitter that the numbers that appear in wiki entries and handbooks do not count, only those that are published within "actual" stories do. This was in response to the questions that the different numbers for some Earths appearing in Spider-Verse brought up, such as the Spider-Friends being from Earth-1983 and not
4514-400: The reactor, causing a worldwide explosive chain reaction. The scientist that fell into the reactor became encased within vibranium and discovered that she can manipulate the rare metal, becoming the Iron Maiden. The Terrigen Mists begin mutating Earth's human population, though much of the world blames "Plague X" on Richards' failed experiment. Benny Beckley, the young son of Comet Man , gains
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#17330844610064588-493: The story, to the point where they were no longer reconcilable with their counterparts in the mainstream Marvel Universe. One example is the revelation in Paradise X that Wolverine is not a mutant, but instead one of the few remaining "pure strain humans", free from the genetic manipulations of the Celestials (as well as a descendant of Moon-Boy ). Marvel editors solved these discrepancies by officially declaring that anything stated in Earth X would not be considered canonical . It
4662-407: The throne, completely unworthy of it. And this, this would have been the final testing necessary to make Cap worthy of it". In September 2005, Marvel released a 592-page hardcover deluxe edition of Earth X . This new edition includes 12 issues of the Earth X regular series, the #0 and #X bookends, the #1 / 2 issue (drawn by artist Bill Reinhold) and the Epilogue. It also contains extras pulled from
4736-453: The topology of the Marvel Multiverse is based on new realities branching off from key nodes of a timeline instead of strictly parallel dimensions. Not every alternate dimension is an entire independent universe, but instead maintain a parasitic relationship to a parent reality. Others can exist outside the multiversal structure altogether. The classification system for alternate realities was devised, in part, by Mark Gruenwald . A universe
4810-403: The villain to transform himself into vibranium and use his mass to stabilize the planet's fluctuating orbit and polarity. Meanwhile, in the Realm of the Dead, Mar-Vell leads an army of deceased heroes and villains against Thanos and Death . With the artifacts collected by himself and Captain America in his possession, Mar-Vell shows Thanos how Death has manipulated him and convinces Thanos to use
4884-412: Was Galactus, willingly sacrificing his own identity to turn into the destroyer of worlds after realizing that Galactus needed to exist in order to keep the Celestial population in check. This needed to be done after the Fantastic Four killed the original Galactus with the ultimate nullifier. Reed Richards also realizes this fact and makes the heartbreaking decision to not remind Franklin of who he originally
4958-436: Was before the Beyonders' incursions began, Mister Fantastic departs to recreate the multiverse with the company of his restored family. Below is a short, non-comprehensive list of some of the most noteworthy and significant universes in the Marvel Multiverse. Most of these were designated in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe on both physical print and the digital Appendix. Wyatt Wingfoot Wyatt Wingfoot
5032-537: Was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby . The character was inspired by Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe (1887-1953), who was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation . Wyatt, son of "Big Will" Wingfoot — "the greatest Olympic decathlon star this country ever had!", was born on the fictional Keewazi Indian reservation in Oklahoma . He left to attend college at the equally fictional Metro College in New York City . There, Wingfoot became roommates and friends with Johnny Storm . Wyatt has occasional adventures with Storm and
5106-497: Was destroyed as a consequence of the phenomena known as incursions and was eventually reborn as the eighth thanks to Reed Richards. According to him the ultimate fate of the Multiverse is to perish in all-encompassing heat death. According to Forge , mutants living on these alternate Earths have lost their powers due to M-Day , as stated in " Endangered Species "; however, this mass depowering has not been seen in any of Marvel's current alternate reality publications such as Exiles ,
5180-413: Was first introduced in Doctor Strange (2016) before becoming the focal point of the franchise in " The Multiverse Saga " (2021–present). Additionally, the Multiverse has also been explored in the X-Men film series , Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU), and the Spider-Verse franchise , with an emphasis on the latter regarding multiple versions of Spider-Man across different universes. The Multiverse
5254-406: Was for the sake of the universe. X-51 realizes the Watchers' true purpose is to watch over Celestial eggs because one of their numbers failed to stop the birth of Galactus millions of years ago. X-51 destroys Uatu's ears and decides to destroy all Celestial eggs gestating inside the various planets within the universe. Reed converts his vibranium power network into "Human Torches", hoping to burn off
5328-469: Was only the evil son of Odin and a Norse God because when he evolved beyond his mortal form his psyche became a tabula rasa. The first interaction that he had with another in that form were Nordic humans who thought that he was an evil god and thus he became one. Captain America and his partner Redwing learn that the Skull is gathering a mind-controlled army. After Redwing is overcome by the Skull's powers, Captain America retreats and recruits allies to fight
5402-578: Was posited in the 21st century edition of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. According to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes , and building on Mark Gruenwald 's original definition of the term, the Omniverse consists of all of fiction and reality combined, including all the works that are outside of Marvel's copyright restrictions, and therefore also outside
5476-403: Was so extensive that in 1999 (in affiliation with Marvel), they republished the article as the Earth X Sketchbook , which also sold out. Based on this indicator of fan interest, Marvel commissioned Ross to create a full series based on his notes. Earth X is one of a number of planets implanted with a gestating Celestial egg. About ten years after the end of the heroic age, Black Bolt releases
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