Within Marvel Comics, most stories take place within 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 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 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 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 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 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.[1] 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 was destroyed as a consequence of the phenomena known as incursions and was eventually reborn as the eighth thanks to Reed Richards.[2] According to him the ultimate fate of the Multiverse is to perish in all-encompassing heat death.[3]
Nature of the Multiverse
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, 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.[4] This, in addition to A.R.M.O.R.'s observation that Lyra arrived from an alternate reality[5] indicates that the topology of the Marvel Multiverse is based on new realities branching off from key nodes of a timeline instead of strictly parallel dimensions.
Other 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.
Pocket universes
Counter-Earth (Heroes Reborn): A pocket dimension where Franklin Richards stored many of Earth's superheroes after the events surrounding the appearance of Onslaught. Doctor Doom saved Counter-Earth from the unstable pocket dimension and placed it in an alternate orbit of Earth-616 on the other side of the Sun.
The Hill: A dangerous pocket dimension used by Mikhail Rasputin after flooding the Morlock tunnels. Rasputin brought all Morlocks to the Hill to raise them in a survival-of-the-fittest mentality. In this dimension, time runs several times faster. While in Earth-616 only one or two years passed, more than 10 years passed in the Hill. Marrow and the other Gene Nation members grew up in this dimension.
The Microverse: Originally, many microverses existed within the Marvel Multiverse until they were made into one Microverse following an unseen conflict between Baron Karza and Thanos. The most commonly visited microverse is the one containing the regions known as Sub-Atomica and the Micronauts' Homeworld.
The Mojoverse: A dimension where all beings are addicted to gladiator-like television programs. Ruled by Mojo and home to Spiral, Longshot and the X-Babies.
Otherplace: Also known as "Limbo" or "demonic Limbo". A magical dimension of demons which was historically ruled by Belasco and primarily featured in the X-Men comic books.
The Void: A pocket dimension that exists inside Shaman's medicine bag.
Soulworld: A pocket dimension that exists inside the Soul Gem.
External realities
Avalon: Also known as Otherworld, this realm is an access point to the entire Marvel Multiverse used by the Captain Britain Corps. Also home to the Celtic gods and King Arthur.
The Darkforce Dimension: This dimension is connected with the characters Cloak, who uses the dimension for teleportation, and Mr. Negative. This dimension also includes, but is not limited to, Spotworld as used by the supervillain the Spot and the Brimstone Dimension as used by the X-Man Nightcrawler.[citation needed]
The Panoptichron: Home base of the reality-hopping Exiles, structurally dissimilar, but functionally similar, to Avalon.
Definitions
The classification system for alternate realities was devised, in part, by Mark Gruenwald.[6]
Universe
A universe is a single dimension, such as Earth-616, the mainstream Marvel Universe.
Reality
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 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 the context of its use.[7]
Multiverse
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.
Megaverse
A Megaverse is a collection of alternate multiverses, which do not necessarily need to have similar natures and universal hierarchies. The term was posited in the 21st century edition of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
Omniverse
According to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes, and building on Mark Gruenwald's original definition of the term,[8] 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 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.
Known alternate universes
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 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 is as yet unstated.
Many official numbers are random or use other numbers as a base, the best example of this is Ultimate Marvel. 1610 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 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 the believed designation of Earth-8107.[9] 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 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 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 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.[10]
The main setting of the Marvel Universe. Reality of the original Marvel Super Heroes and its mainstream continuity. Differences between universes are usually described in comparison with Earth-616.
As of the Secret Wars storyline, it gained the designation of Prime Earth and became known as the eighth incarnation of the Marvel Universe.
During the Reckoning War, it is discovered this Universe is only 10% of what it once was, with the remaining 90% destroyed eons ago during the First War and forgotten.
The events of the Ultimate Spider-Man video game originally took place in this reality until it was subsequently retconned and placed in a different reality.
Home reality of the Ultimates (this universe's counterparts of the Avengers) and Miles Morales.
First numbered in Marvel Encyclopedia: Fantastic Four.
In this world, mutants are the results of the genetic modifications done by this world's version of Weapon X who were attempting to produce a supersoldier.
The setting for the rebooted Ultimate Universe which spun out from the events of the miniseries Ultimate Invasion (2023) by Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch. This continuity serves as the setting for the eponymous Ultimate Universe #1 one-shot, as well as the new iterations of Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Black Panther, The Ultimates, and future books under the relaunched Ultimate imprint.
An alternate continuity from the main Marvel Universe visited by the original Ultimate Universe's Reed Richards / Maker, who begins reshaping its history since 1963 as he sees fit using an Immortus Engine, a time-alteration device created by that world's Howard Stark.
Among the diversions in continuity between this world, Earth-616 and the original Earth-1610 universe, include:
Peter Parker is not immediately bitten by the radioactive spider that comes into contact with him during the science demonstration, thus not receiving powers at any point as a high school student. He instead becomes Spider-Man upon reaching adulthood and following his marriage to Mary Jane Watson, with whom he conceived two children.
The Maker manages to successfully delay the spacecraft launch that would've engulfed the Fantastic Four with cosmic rays and bestowed them their respective powers, with Reed Richards instead becoming Earth-6160's Doctor Doom; Susan Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm are implied to be dead as indicated by the Maker's memory logs of this universe.
Loki serves as the King of Asgard, with both his brother Thor and Lady Sif remaining subservient to him.
Howard Stark and Obidiah Stane are business partners, with Stark also operating as the Iron Man of Earth-6160, while his son Tony oversees Stark Industries and later adopts the identity of Iron Lad to differentiate himself from his father.
Bruce Banner / Hulk is an enlightened being, leading a movement of monks consisting of Sunfire, Viper and Silver Samurai representing the Harada-Yoshida alliance.
This universe's Ultimates lineup comprises Iron Lad, Thor, Captain America, Lady Sif and Reed Richards / Doctor Doom.
Peter Parker's uncle Ben Parker was slain by Walter Hardy, otherwise known as the Cat Burglar, and the father of jewelry thief and occasional ally & love interest, Felicia Hardy / Black Cat.
In this reality, Jackson Brice / Montana dons the costumed identity of the Shocker, the leader of the Enforcers and operator of the criminal-populated pub called the Big Sky Lounge.
As opposed to the civilian identity of the Molten Man belonging to Mark Raxton as in other continuities, this universe's iteration of the character is Mark Allan, the biological brother of Midtown High student Elizabeth "Liz" Allan.
In this reality, Raymond Warren operates as Jackal and was the one who developed the serum that he used to turn Aleksei Sytsevich into Rhino (similar to the formula in Ultimate Spider-Man) and the genetically altered spiders.
In this reality, Peter Parker was Gwen's best friend, who injected himself with Curt Connors' formula to become the Lizard, and was later killed by the after-effects of the serum, with Spider-Woman being publicly blamed for his demise.
Captain America is Samantha Wilson and Falcon is a clone of her called Sam 13.
First referenced in Excalibur #44 (November 1991).
The series contained two segments: one 30 minute episode of The New Fred and Barney Show and two 11 minute episodes of The Thing.
Despite the show's title, both segments remained separate and did not crossover with one another. The characters of Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, and Thing were only featured together during the opening title sequence and in brief bumpers between segments.
This version of the Thing is the only animated incarnation of the character that Ben Grimm can transform into the Thing and back to his human form.
He is also the only animated incarnation of the Thing to not be a member of the Fantastic Four.
The Larval Universe is the home reality of Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham and various intelligent, talking, anthropomorphic funny animal parodies of the Marvel characters.
First numbered in Marvel Encyclopedia: Fantastic Four. However, in Spider-Verse, Spider-Ham is said to be from Earth-25.
An alternate reality based on Earth-8311, undesignated currently, appeared in the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse alongside a variation of Peter Porker / Spider-Ham.
Peter Porker / Spider-Ham from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was later featured in the short film Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham released in 2019.
Earth-921
Avengers #343 (November 1991)
This Earth was home to Phillip Javert who operated as Swordsman.
An alternate future of Earth-616 set in 2099, with futuristic incarnations of Marvel heroes, villains and teams.
First numbered in Marvel Encyclopedia: Fantastic Four. However, in the Spider-Verse event (Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 3) #14) it's said that Marvel 2099 takes place in the future of Earth-616.
Set in an alternate version of Earth-616 in the late 1990s.
First numbered in Marvel Encyclopedia: Fantastic Four.
Two alternate versions of Mayday Parker appear in the film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. One is depicted as the infant daughter of Peter B. Parker and Mary Jane Watson, while another version has joined Miguel O' Hara's Spider-Forces as Spider-Girl.
Reality of the original Marvel Zombies series, where an outbreak of a zombie virus that came from another alternate Earth turned all of its superheroes and supervillains into cannibalistic, flesh-eating zombies.
As with other worlds in the Marvel Multiverse, there are multiple versions of it. In some instances, the Squadron exists even within other 616-based worlds.
An alternate version of Earth-616 that has progressed in real-time since the conception of the Marvel Universe in 1961, and told from Peter Parker's perspective beginning with his debut as Spider-Man in 1962.
Following the death of Gwen Stacy and his marriage to Mary Jane Watson, the couple conceived children: Son Benjamin Watson-Parker and daughter Claire Watson-Parker
The trauma sustained from the events of "Kraven's Last Hunt" caused Peter and MJ to later separate, with the latter taking their children to raise them in Portland.
By 2019, the majority of pre-existing superhumans have either been killed or self-exiled as a result of the ensuing "Civil War", with Parker remaining as one of the last living senior heroes. Doctor Doom had seized control and rule over the planet, with Parker leading a resistance movement against his authority
Parker gives his life to activate Stark's "Doomsday Machine", an orbital space station constructed with the intent of globally deactivating Doom's various technologies, with the assistance of a fragmented, metaphysical memory of Aunt May, and a reformed Venom symbiote.
Reality where a scientist named Dr. Kimmo Tuolema in 2072 discovers a process which can provide humans with superhuman powers to fight back a ravaging alien invasion that started in 2069.
First numbered in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005.
The setting of Days of Future Past, a dystopic version of the near-distant future where mutants are actively hunted and sent to concentration camps, and whose timeline diverges from Earth-616 in occasion of the assassination of Senator Kelly.
The setting of Old Man Logan where the supervillains united and killed all of the superheroes, then divided up the world into their respective territories.
The film Logan (2017) is greatly inspired by Old Man Logan, but set in its own universe.
This Earth is similar to Earth-807128, but has some differences.
The Old Man Logan from this Earth was displaced on Earth-616 for a while.
Following Old Man Logan killing Red Skull and Hulk, a power vacuum happened in Amerika which led to Doctor Doom taking over Red Skull's territory known as The Presidential Quarter.
The setting of Marvel Noir, a universe in the 1920s–1930s that has few superhumans who developed superpowers. This universe combines elements of film noir and pulp fiction.
An alternate version in which Nazi Germany won World War II, caused by an unknown disturbance in the timestream. Captain America is found and revived by the Nazis, leads an American resistance movement against them, and falls into a time machine which brings him to the mainstream timeline, where he is found by the Avengers.
Earth-1218
Marvel Team-Up #137 (Jan. 1984)
The setting of our reality, in which superheroes and supervillains only exist as fictional characters in mainstream media and popular culture.
Set in the distant future where the intergalactic governing body known as the TOPHAN Galactic Union (TGU) employs soldiers in a mercenary group called the Alien Legion to fight against outside forces across the universe.
A universe with the powers of its superheroes (also known as Ultras) originating from a flat planet called the Godwheel, with magic civilizations on one side and advanced ones on the other.
First numbered in the comics storyline "Spider-Geddon" (2018) when Superior Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus' mind in a Proto-Clone body) visited this world to recruit its Spider-Man.
This world was created when Morgan le Fay warped reality where it is trapped in the Medieval ages. While Scarlet Witch managed to undo this reality, it still exists in the Multiverse.
Each of the Avengers was transformed into a group called the Queen's Vengeance to match this reality and serve as Morgan le Fay's elite guard.
This was one of the worlds that was conquered by the Multiversal Masters of Evil after they slew this world's version of the Avengers of 1,000,000 BC. Black Skull turned this world into a wasteland and ruled over it until he was defeated by a Multiverse-hopping Ghost Rider, his Deathlok companion, and the local resistance.
An amalgamation of the Marvel and DC universes that occurred during the DC vs. Marvel crossover event.
Characters from both franchises were merged to create new ones (e.g., DC Comics' Batman and Marvel Comics' Wolverine become the Amalgam Comics character Dark Claw).
This film was originally meant to take place in the same reality as the X-Men film series also produced by Fox, crossing over with various characters from the films, but due to its critical and financial failure at the box-office, 20th Century Fox cancelled all plans to continue with the franchise.
This is the only Fantastic Four film set in this reality as the rights to the characters have subsequently reverted to Marvel Studios, with a reboot of the franchise within the Marvel Cinematic Universe being developed.
Additionally the setting of the first Deadpool film directed by Tim Miller, despite the sequel designated as taking place on a different Earth.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Deadpool & Wolverine retroactively places Logan and the prior Deadpool films into this reality, despite both continuities having been designated as different Earths prior to the film's release.
Although this film is part of 20th Century Fox's X-Men film franchise, this film set in an previously unexplored alternate reality compared to the other films in the X-Men film series.
Primary setting for the Broadway musicalSpider-Man: Turn Off The Dark and its characters with music and lyrics written by Bono and The Edge. The plot of the show is inspired by the events of Earth-616 and the Sam Raimi films.
This production is the most expensive Broadway production in history. The production ended in January 2014.
Earth-85481
Heathcliff #1: (April 1985)
The universe containing comic character Heathcliff.
The version of Peter Parker native to this reality was murdered by Kingpin, and subsequently succeeded by Miles Morales as Spider-Man.
An alternate version of Parker, named Peter B. Parker from Earth-616B, was transported to this reality alongside other alternate Spider-People from Earth-65B, Earth-90214B, Earth-14512B and Earth-8311B.
Miles Morales is romantically involved with Gwen Stacy, the Spider-Woman of Earth-65B.
In-universe, this reality is designated "Earth-1610", homaging its similarities to the comics continuity of Earth-1610.
In this reality, Jefferson Davis was killed in action some time ago, while his son Miles Morales was never bitten by a radioactive spider and thus never gained superpowers, as a result of the spider intended for him being transported to Earth-1610B while that world's Alchemax was conducting tests for Wilson Fisk's multiversal "super-collider", prior to the events of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
The spider from Earth-42, codenamed in experiments as "Alchemax-42", eventually found and bit that world's Miles Morales instead, leading to him becoming that universe's new Spider-Man following Peter Parker's demise, and leaving Earth-42 without a Spider-Man to protect New York.
The villains of this Earth seized the opportunity awarded by the absence of a Spider-Man by founding a Sinister Six Cartel and taking control over the city.
As a result of his heroic instincts and drive to help his own family, Earth-42's Miles Morales became more closely involved with Aaron Davis' criminal activities, becoming an antiheroic version of the Prowler, while he and Davis used the money secured from heists against the Cartel to financially support the widowed Rio Morales.[13]
Earth-1610B's Miles Morales accidentally displaces himself in Earth-42 while trying to return to his home reality and ends up being captured by Davis and Morales in Across the Spider-Verse.
Parker has an on-again, off-again romantic relationship with Mary Jane Watson following the events of the first film, contradicting his decision to leave MJ out of fear for her safety due to his activities as Spider-Man before rekindling their relationship in Spider-Man 2.
Supporting characters in the show also include a combination of original characters such as love interest Indira Daimonji and antagonists Turbo Jet and Cheyenne / Talon, in addition to an assortment of rogues from the comics that did not appear in any of the films, such as Curt Connors becoming the Lizard, as well as the appearances of Wilson Fisk / Kingpin, Silver Sable, Max Dillon / Electro and Kraven the Hunter among others.
The series' first and only season concludes with Parker permanently forfeiting his life as Spider-Man in favor of resuming a normal civilian life, a detail that shares Spider-Man 2's inspiration from the "Spider-Man No More!" storyline, but is contradicted by Parker's reasoning for initially dissociating from the mantle, and his eventual decision in the film to resume his vigilante activities after a change of heart.
Primary setting of the 2007 video game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.
This universe is adjacent to that of Earth-96283, with this Spider-Man sharing the same history as his counterpart, but with a few notable differences.
Main setting for the events of the Hulu streaming series Helstrom
The events in this series were originally intended to take place within the reality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) until it was clarified as set in an adjacent universe by showrunner Paul Zbyszewski.
This Earth shares the normal conventions of the Marvel universe until Loki traps the Avengers in experimental devices called DISKs. Five kids are assigned by the Avengers to carry around the DISKs and use them to bring out the Avengers to fight villains.
Earth-50810
Marvel MegaMorphs: Captain America #1 (August 2005)
Kang the Conqueror is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #19 as Rama-Tut, an adversary of the Fantastic Four, before being reinvented as Kang in The Avengers #8, an adversary of the Avengers. A time-traveler, several alternate versions of Kang have appeared throughout Marvel Comics titles over the years, such as Rama-Tut, Immortus, Scarlet Centurion, Victor Timely, Iron Lad, and Mister Gryphon.
In the fictional Marvel Comics multiverse, Earth-616 is the primary continuity in which most Marvel Comics titles take place.
Marvel 2099 was a Marvel Comics imprint, started in 1992, that was originally about one possible future of the Marvel Universe, but later revealed to be the Earth of the main Marvel continuity in the distant future. It was originally announced by Stan Lee in his "Stan's Soapbox" column as a single series entitled The Marvel World of Tomorrow, which was being developed by Lee and John Byrne. This later changed to a line of books under the banner Marvel 2093 before finally being published as Marvel 2099.
Franklin Benjamin Richards is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is a supporting character in Fantastic Four. He has been portrayed as a child and as a novice superhero.
Captain Universe is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden, the character first appeared in Micronauts #8. Captain Universe is the guardian and protector of Eternity. Rather than a character with a single identity, it is a persona that has merged with several hosts during its publication history.
The Negative Zone is a fictional setting, an antimatter universe appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The location is depicted in various publications from Marvel, most frequently in Fantastic Four and Captain Marvel. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, it first appeared in Fantastic Four #51.
The Time Variance Authority (TVA) is a fictional organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is depicted as a group of timeline monitors tasked with preventing the existence of certain timelines that are deemed too dangerous to the Multiverse.
Morlun is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr., the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #30.
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In most of the DC Comics media, the Multiverse is a "cosmic construct" that is composed of the many fictional universes the stories of DC media take place in. The worlds within the multiverse share a space and fate in common, and its structure has changed several times in the history of DC Comics.
Spider-Man Noir, often referred to as Spider-Noir, Spider-Man, or simply Noir, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Part of the Marvel Noir universe (Earth-90214), this alternate version of Spider-Man is a noir-themed take on the character and emerges in a version of New York during the Great Depression.
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The Maker is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writers Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar and artist Adam Kubert, while his Maker identity was created by Jonathan Hickman.
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