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American comic book shared universe

Marvel Universe
Diverse characters of the Marvel Universe. Promotional fine art for the 2006–2007 miniseries Civil War past Steve McNiven.
Created past	Marvel Comics
Original piece of work	Marvel Mystery Comics #vii (1940, Golden Age) Fantastic Four #12 (1963, modernistic continuity)
Possessor	Curiosity Entertainment, LLC (The Walt Disney Company)
Impress publications
Novel(s)	Marvel novels
Comics	List of Curiosity Comics publications
Graphic novel(s)	The Official Curiosity Graphic Novel Collection
Films and tv set
Film(s)	Marvel Cinematic Universe X-Men pic series Spider-Human in film Fantastic Four in moving-picture show Blade motion-picture show series List of films based on Curiosity Comics
Brusque picture show(south)	Marvel One-Shots
Idiot box serial	List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television set series Listing of idiot box series based on Curiosity Comics Curiosity Blithe Universe
Television special(s)	Curiosity Studios: Assembling a Universe Curiosity 75 Years: From Lurid to Popular!
Direct-to-video	Marvel Animated Features Direct to video films Marvel Knights Animation
Theatrical presentations
Play(due south)	Curiosity Universe Live!
Musical(s)	Spider-Man: Plow Off the Dark
Games
Video game(southward)	List of video games based on Marvel Comics
Miscellaneous
Toy(s)	Marvel Universe Marvel Select Marvel Legends
Theme park allure(s)	Curiosity Super Hero Island Guardians of the Milky way - Mission: Breakout! Iron Man Experience Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle!
Official website
https://www.curiosity.com/

The Marvel Universe is a fictional shared universe where the stories in almost American comic book titles and other media published past Marvel Comics have place. Super-teams such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and many Curiosity superheroes alive in this universe, including characters such every bit Spider-Human being, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Wolverine, Black Panther, Doc Foreign, Daredevil, Captain Marvel and Deadpool, amongst numerous others. It also contains well-known supervillains such as Doc Doom, Magneto, Ultron, Thanos, Loki, Light-green Goblin, Kang the Conquistador, Reddish Skull, Kingpin, Doctor Octopus and Venom.

The Marvel Universe is farther depicted as existing within a "multiverse" consisting of thousands of separate universes, all of which are the creations of Curiosity Comics and all of which are, in a sense, "Marvel universes". In this context, "Curiosity Universe" is taken to refer to the mainstream Marvel continuity, which is known every bit Earth-616 or currently as Prime Earth.

History

The fact that some of Timely Comics (the 1930s and forty'south predecessor to Marvel Comics) characters coexisted in the same globe was first established in Marvel Mystery Comics #vii (1940) where Namor was mentioned in Human Torch's story, and vice versa. Later several superheroes (who starred in separate stories in the series upwards to that point) met each other in a group dubbed the All-Winners Team.

Though the concept of a shared universe was non new or unique to comic books in 1961, author/editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in 1 volume would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters' growth and change.^[i] Headline characters in ane title would make cameos or invitee appearances in other books. Fantastic Four #12 is the start crossover comic book in modern Curiosity continuity (beginning meeting of Fantastic 4 and the Hulk). Eventually, many of the leading heroes (Emmet-Human being, Wasp, Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk) assembled into a team known as the Avengers, which debuted in September 1963. This was not the outset fourth dimension that Curiosity's characters had interacted with one another—Namor the Sub-Mariner and the original Homo Torch had been rivals when Marvel was Timely Comics (Marvel Vault), under editor Martin Goodman^[2] — just it was the first time that the comic volume publisher's characters seemed to share a earth.^[3] The Marvel Universe was likewise notable for setting its central titles in New York City; past contrast, many DC heroes live in fictional cities. Care was taken to portray the city and the world as realistically as possible, with the presence of superhumans affecting the common citizens in various means.^[4]

Over fourth dimension, a few Marvel Comics writers lobbied Marvel editors to contain the thought of a Multiverse resembling DC's parallel worlds; this plot device allows one to create several fictional universes which ordinarily do non overlap. What happens on World in the main Marvel Universe would normally non touch what happens on a parallel Earth in another Curiosity-created universe. Nevertheless, writers would have the creative ability to write stories in which people from one such universe would visit this alternative universe.^[v]

In 1982, Marvel published the miniseries Contest of Champions, in which all of the major heroes in being at the time were gathered together to deal with one threat. This was Marvel'due south first miniseries. Each issue contained biographical information on many major costumed characters; these biographies were a precursor to Marvel's series of reference cloth, The Official Handbook of the Curiosity Universe, which followed shortly on the heels of Contest of Champions.^[6]

Concepts

The Marvel Universe is strongly based on the real world. Globe in the Marvel Universe has all the features of the real one: same countries, same personalities (politicians, picture stars, etc.), aforementioned historical events (such as World War II), and and then on; however, it also contains many other fictional elements: countries such as Wakanda and Latveria (very small nations) and organizations like the espionage agency S.H.I.Eastward.L.D. and its enemies, HYDRA and A.I.M. In 2009 Marvel officially described its earth'southward geography in a two-part miniseries, the Marvel Atlas.^[7]

Most chiefly, the Marvel Universe also incorporates examples of nearly all major science fiction and fantasy concepts, with writers calculation more continuously. Aliens, gods, magic, cosmic powers and extremely advanced man-adult engineering all exist prominently in the Curiosity Universe. (A universe incorporating all these types of fantastic elements is adequately rare; another example is the DC Universe.) Monsters also play a more prominent role with east Asian origins of magical incantation, outlandish sorcery and manifesting principle in the Curiosity Universe. One such case is Fin Fang Foom arising from the ashes of tantric magic. Thank you to these actress elements, World in the Curiosity Universe is abode to a large number of superheroes and supervillains, who take gained their powers by any of these means.^{[ commendation needed ]} The general public is so familiar with such concepts that Empire Land Academy has a scholarship for "aliens, dimensional travelers, clones, independent machine intelligences and other students outside the norm",^[8] businesses and residences have superhero property insurance^[ix] ^[x] ^[xi] and bookmakers take bets on their battles' outcomes,^[12] and New York air traffic controllers handle starships landing at local airports.^[xiii]

Insufficiently, petty time passes in the Curiosity Universe compared to the real world, attributable to the serial nature of storytelling, with the stories of certain issues picking up mere seconds afterward the conclusion of the previous one, while a whole month has passed by in "real-time". Marvel's major heroes were created in the 1960s, but the amount of time that has passed between then and at present within the universe itself has (after a prolonged period of being identified equally well-nigh 10 years in the mid-to-tardily 1990s) most recently been identified as 13 years.^[xiv] Consequently, the settings of some events which were gimmicky when written have to be updated every few years to "make sense" in this floating timeline. Thus, the events of previous stories are considered to have happened inside a certain number of years earlier the publishing date of the electric current effect. For case, Spider-Man's high school graduation was published in Astonishing Spider-Homo #28 (September 1965), his college graduation in Amazing Spider-Man #185 (October 1978), and his loftier school reunion in Marvel Knights Spider-Man #7 (December 2004). Because of the floating timeline, where stories refer to real-life historic events, these references are later on ignored or rewritten to arrange current sensibilities; for example, the origin of Iron Human was inverse in a 2004 storyline to refer to the War on Terror in Afghanistan,^[15] whereas the original Iron Human stories had referred to the Vietnam State of war in Vietnam; similarly, The Punisher'southward backstory has besides been changed besides.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}

Curiosity Comics itself exists equally a company inside the Marvel Universe, and versions of people such as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby have appeared in some of the stories, whereas characters similar Steve Rogers, (Captain America's alter ego), accept worked for Marvel.^{[ volume & issue needed ]} The Curiosity of this reality publishes comics that conform the bodily adventures of the superheroes (except for details not known to the public, like their secret identities); many of these are licensed with the permission of the heroes themselves, who customarily donate their share of profits to clemency. Additionally, the DC Comics Universe is likewise said to exist in the Curiosity Universe equally ane of the many alternative universes. The opposite may besides be said concerning the DC Universe. This is one method of explaining the various crossover stories co-published past the two companies.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}

Pop culture characters such as Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster exist in the Marvel Universe. This is usually justified equally a second-manus account of events as told to credited authors Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, although the general public continues to believe them to be fictional. Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbaric, Red Sonja, Kull the Conqueror, and Solomon Kane too have real-life existences in the Marvel Universe. The Hyborian Era of Conan and Kull is considered part of Earth-616 pre-recorded history. However, they rarely encounter mod Marvel superhero characters. This is most likely possible due to the uncertain legal status of Howard's works earlier 2006 when they became public domain. Every bit of 2019, Conan the Barbarian, as well every bit Kull the Conquistador and Solomon Kane, have been firmly integrated, thanks to Marvel regaining the publishing rights to the characters. Other licensed works that have been incorporated into the Marvel Universe include Godzilla, the Transformers, the moving picture 2001: A Space Odyssey (in the graphic symbol of Machine Man), Rom the Spaceknight, the Micronauts, and the Shogun Warriors. In most cases, such material is either restricted from employ after the license expires or the characters redesigned or renamed to avert copyright infringement.^{[ volume & event needed ]}

Costumed superheroes and supervillains

Within the fictional history of the Marvel Universe, the tradition of using costumed hole-and-corner identities to fight or commit evil had long existed, but information technology came into prominence during the days of the American "Wild West" with heroes such as Carter Slade/the Phantom Rider. During the 20th century, the tradition was reinvigorated by Steve Rogers/Captain America and the Invaders in the 1940s, who fought for the Allies of World War Two.

Unlike the DC Universe, few of Marvel'southward Gilded Historic period characters have risen to prominence in modern publications; Captain America is i exception, and to a bottom extent, his contemporary, Namor the Sub-Mariner, primarily because both of these characters were reintroduced to readers and the Curiosity Universe during the 1960s.^{[ citation needed ]}

Marvel's most prominent heroes were created during the Silver Age of Comic Books in the 1960s to early on 1970s, including Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Tony Stark/Iron Homo, Thor, Bruce Imprint/the Blob, Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Ant-Man and the Wasp (Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne), Natasha Romanoff/the Black Widow, Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Pietro Maxmioff/Quicksilver, Wanda Maximoff/the Scarlet Witch, the Vision, Simon Williams/Wonder Human being, Hercules, Kevin Plunder/Ka-Zar, Groot, Nick Fury, T'Challa/the Blackness Panther, Mar-Vell (the first Captain Marvel), Ballad Danvers (also known as the beginning Ms. Curiosity, Binary, Warbird, and the electric current Captain Marvel), Sam Wilson/the Falcon, Dane Whitman/the Black Knight, Norrin Radd/the Silver Surfer, Jane Foster (likewise known equally the 2nd Thor), Warren Worthington III/the Angel-Archangel, Hank McCoy/the Beast, Scott Summers/Cyclops, Robert "Bobby" Drake/the Iceman, Jean Grey (too known as Marvel Daughter and Phoenix), Charles Xavier/Professor X, Lorna Dane/Polaris, Alex Summers/Havok, Sean Cassidy/the Banshee, Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Susan Storm/the Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/the Homo Torch, Ben Grimm/the Thing, Brunnhilde/the Valkyrie, the Inhumans (composed of Blackagar Boltagon, Medusalith Amaquelin-Boltagon, Crystalia Amaquelin-Boltagon/Crystal, Gorgon, Karnak Mandel-Azur/Karnak the Shatterer, Triton and Lockjaw) and Alexi Shostakov/the Red Guardian.

Other notable heroes from the Statuary Age and Modern Age from the early-to-mid 1970s to the early 1990s include James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine, Ororo Munroe/Storm, Piotr "Peter" Rasputin/Colossus, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, Luke Muzzle (besides known as Ability-Man), Danny Rand/Fe Fist, Misty Knight, Colleen Wing, Barbara "Bobbi" Morse/Mockingbird, the White Tiger (Hector Ayala), Shang-Chi, Greer Grant Nelson/Tigra, Jessica Drew (besides known every bit Spider-Woman), the Ghost Rider (Johnny Bonfire), Daimon Hellstrom, Satana Hellstrom, Theodore "Ted" Sallis/the Man-Matter, Eric Brooks/Bract the Vampire-Slayer, Michael Morbius/Morbius the Living Vampire, Howard the Duck, Monica Rambeau (also known as Photon, Pulsar, Spectrum and the second Captain Marvel), Moondragon, Drax the Destroyer, Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Frank Castle/the Punisher, Marc Spector/the Moon Knight, the Eternals (composed of Ikaris, Thena, Ajak, Makkari, Kingo, Phastos, Gilgamesh and Sprite), War Car, Nova (Richard Passenger), Adam Warlock, Power Pack, Betsy Braddock, Scott Lang (the 2d Ant-Human being), Felicia Hardy/the Black Cat, Argent Sable, Katherine "Kitty" Pryde (too known every bit Shadowcat, Ariel, Sprite, Star-Lord and the Ruddy Queen), Emma Frost (as well known equally the White Queen), Jennifer Walters/the She-Blob, Tyrone Johnson/Cloak and Tandy Bowen/Dagger, Brian Braddock/Captain Uk, Doreen Light-green/Squirrel Girl, Elektra Natchios, the New Mutants (composed of Illyana Rasputin/Magik, 11'an Coy Minh/Karma, Danielle Moonstar/Delusion, Sam Guthrie/Cannonball, Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane, Doug Ramsey/Zilch, Warlock and others), the New Warriors, David Haller/Legion, John Proudstar/Warpath-Thunderbird, Anna Marie LeBeau/Rogue and Jubilation Lee/Jubilee.

Some of Marvel's more contempo creations from the mid-to-tardily 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, such as Wade Wilson/Deadpool, Remy LeBeau/Gambit, Nathan Summers/Cable, Neena Thurman/Domino, Clarice Fong/Blink, the Thunderbolts, Yelena Belova (also known as the second Black Widow), the Runaways, the modern Guardians of the Milky way, the modern Defenders (based on the Netflix MCU version of the aforementioned name), Laura Kinney/X-23 (a.yard.a. the second Wolverine), Shuri, the Dora Milaje, Daisy Johnson (also known as Convulse), Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Bucky Barnes/the Wintertime Soldier, Maria Loma, Miles Morales (the 2d Spider-Man of the Ultimate Marvel Universe), Hope van Dyne (as well known every bit the Red Queen and the second Wasp), Cassandra Lang (as well known every bit Stature, Stinger, Ant-Girl and Giant-Girl), the Stepford Cuckoos, Amadeus Cho (likewise known as the 2nd Hulk), Kamala Khan (also known as the second Ms. Marvel), Kate Bishop (also known as the third Hawkeye), Lunaella Lafayette/Moon Girl, America Chavez (likewise known as the second Miss America), Robbie Reyes (likewise known as the quaternary Ghost Passenger), Riri Williams/Ironheart and Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy of Earth-65) have go pop characters in their ain right.

Prominent teams of superheroes include the Avengers, the 10-Men, the Fantastic Iv, the Defenders, the Inhumans, S.H.I.E.L.D., the Howling Commandos, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Runaways, the Midnight Sons and the Thunderbolts. All these groups have varying lineups; the Avengers have included Curiosity'south major heroes as members at ane time or another. The X-Men are a team of mutants led by Professor 10 and include many of Marvel'southward virtually pop characters, such as Wolverine and others. The Fantastic Four are viewed as "Marvel'southward Get-go Family" of superheroes, usually consisting of Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Adult female, the Human Torch and the Thing, as well equally siblings Franklin and Valeria Richards. The Defenders were an ad hoc squad normally brought together by Physician Strange which has included the Blob, Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Argent Surfer, while the nigh recent incarnation of the team consists of street-level New York City heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. The Guardians of the Galaxy include Marvel's catholic characters such every bit Adam Warlock, Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon and Groot, but the team has besides introduced other heroes into the roster such as Kitty Pryde, the Silver Surfer, the Thing and Nova. The Inhumans are a regal family consisting of Blackness Bolt, Medusa, Crystal, Gorgon, Triton, Karnak and Lockjaw, who dominion the urban center of Attilan. The Runaways are a group of teenagers and a dinosaur consisting of Alex Wilder, Nico Minoru, Karolina Dean, Chase Stein, Molly Hayes, Gert Yorkes and Old Lace who insubordinate against their evil parents known as the Pride. The Midnight Sons consist of supernatural heroes such as Bract, Ghost Passenger, Moon Knight, Elsa Bloodstone, Hellstrom, the Werewolf and the Man-Thing. The Thunderbolts' original incarnation were supervillains disguised as superheroes consisting of Citizen 5 (a.k.a. Helmut Zemo), MACH-Four (a.grand.a. the Beetle), Songbird (a.g.a. Screaming Mimi), Moonstone (a.yard.a. Meteorite), Techno/the Ogre (a.k.a. the Fixer) and Jolt, while the current incarnation of the team is made upwards of reformed supervillains/anti-heroes working for the regime: Deadpool, the Punisher, the Red Hulk, the Wintertime Soldier and the Ghost. Although teams of supervillains are few and far betwixt, notable examples include the Masters of Evil, the Emissaries of Evil, the Brotherhood of Mutants, the Sinister Six, the Frightful Four, the Lethal Legion, the Legion of the Unliving, the Black Order, the Anything Wave, and the Cabal.

Origin of superhuman powers

Nigh of the superhumans in Marvel'southward Globe owe their powers to the Celestials, cosmic entities who visited Globe millions of years ago and experimented on our prehistoric ancestors (a process they also carried out on several other planets). This resulted in the creation of two hidden races, the godlike Eternals and the genetically unstable Deviants, in improver to giving some humans an "x-gene" in their genes, which sometimes activates naturally, resulting in sometimes superpowered, sometimes disfigured individuals called mutants. Others require other factors (such as radiation) for their powers to come up along. Depending on the genetic profile, individuals who are exposed to dissimilar chemicals or radiation will frequently suffer expiry or injury, while in others it will cause superhuman abilities to manifest. Except for psionic abilities, these powers are usually random; rarely exercise two people have the same set of powers. Information technology is non clear why the Celestials did this, although information technology is known that they continue to observe humanity's evolution. A Marvel serial titled World X explored 1 possible reason for this: that superhumans are meant to protect a Angelic embryo that grows inside Earth against any planetary threats and have washed then for eons. An 10-Men villain that is known every bit Vargas claims to exist a new management in human evolution, as he is born with superpowers even though his genetic profile said he was an ordinary human existence. The bulk of the public is unaware of what may cause superhuman powers.^{[ volume & result needed ]}

Other possible origins for superhuman powers include magic, genetic manipulation and/or bionic implants. Some heroes and villains have no powers at all but depend instead on hand-to-hand gainsay training or avant-garde technological equipment. In the Marvel Universe, engineering science is considerably more than advanced than in the real world; this is due to unique individuals of genius-level intelligence, such equally Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) of the Fantastic Four. However, most of the advanced devices (such as powered armor and expiry rays) are too expensive for the common denizen, and are usually in the hands of government organizations like S.H.I.East.L.D., or powerful criminal organizations like A.I.One thousand. I major company producing these devices is Stark Industries, owned by Tony Stark (Iron Man), but there are others. Advanced engineering science has as well been given to humans past subconscious races, aliens, or time travelers like Kang the Conqueror, who is known to take influenced the robotics industry in the past.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}

In superhumans, the energy required for their superpowers either comes from within using their ain trunk equally a source or, if the demand of energy exceeds what their body is capable to evangelize, comes from another source.

Marvel tries to explain most superpowers and their sources "scientifically", usually through the use of fictional scientific discipline-like concepts, such every bit:

Energy absorption (the battery effect); the cells in the torso take the same role as batteries, being charged with energy that comes from an outer source. This is most often seen in gamma ray-exposed individuals such as the Hulk, who go their powers from this stored energy. The powers volition remain equally long as the energy is present, and can even be increased by filling the "batteries" even more. If the free energy is emptied, the powers will fade abroad.
The Power Primordial is a leftover forcefulness from Big Bang and is controlled past the Elders of the Universe.
The Phoenix Forcefulness is a force of incredible ability. It channels energy from life itself and has been shown to favor mutant telepaths like Jean Grey.
Psionic energy, which is assumed to be an invisible, unknown course of free energy generated past living brains that tin can manipulate other forms of matter and energy. Plain, information technology creates the universal psionic field, which is present everywhere in the universe, but only those with abilities to connect to it can make apply of its free energy.
The Enigma Force is suspected to be connected to the Microverse and is also the source of its counterpart on Earth the Uni-Ability, which transforms an individual into Captain Universe.
Extradimensional space: dimensions that tin can exist tapped to pull mass from them (to add together to objects on Earth) or taken away from those objects and exist stored in those "pocket dimensions" to be retrieved later. This is how characters like the Hulk can grow and shrink with no visible absorption of mass. A type of subatomic particles called Pym particles can be used for these effects (Notation: many behemothic-sized characters take a express ability to manipulate gravity to handle their increased weight). The change in mass can exist in the class of a density alter instead, assuasive a character to go harder or incorporeal. Some characters can seem to "transform" themselves (or others) into unliving substances, or fifty-fifty pure energy, by storing their bodies in extradimensional space and replacing them with bodies made from matter or energy from that dimension, while their souls remain on Globe, controlling their new trunk. Travel into other dimensions can besides be used every bit a way to "teleport" past re-entering the Earth dimension at a different signal.
The Darkforce is an unknown, dark substance from some other dimension (known simply equally the Darkforce Dimension) that tin exist summoned and manipulated in many ways: to create impenetrable darkness, to solidify it in various forms, and (most notably) to blot the "life energy" from living beings (non all users can apply all these effects). The Darkforce can as well be used to travel to and from its abode dimension, but this is unsafe to all except those with Darkforce powers. Some believe that the Darkforce is sentient and sometimes has an evil influence on those who use it. Various heroes and villains have versions of Darkforce powers, including Darkstar, the start Coma, the Shroud, Cloak, the Doorman and Quagmire (of the Squadron Supreme Universe). Cloak seems to exist the prime 'portal' to the Darkforce, withal.
The Lightforce is the opposite of the Darkforce: a form of energy that resembles low-cal and also comes from its dimension, just has healing effects on living beings (except ones made of darkness or the Darkforce). It is unknown if information technology might be sentient. Cloak's partner, Dagger seems to be the Lightforce's chief avatar.
The Power Catholic is a force that can alter reality, assuasive the user to do whatever he or she wants (including bending the laws of physics), just being limited by how much cosmic energy the character tin tap at a time. It seems to be part of the universe itself and is virtually prominently used by Galactus and his heralds.
Magic is a conceptual system that allows individuals to control the natural world by utilizing certain universal energies, whose nature is generally across the scope of science. These energies normally come from different realms or dimensions, which have different backdrop to the chief Universe.^[16] Magic has rules of its ain to follow, which vary with the method of invocation, mainly in the grade of spoken spells (which usually call sure extra-dimensional beings to borrow their power).^[xvi] Information technology appears to be present in everything, fifty-fifty living beings. All humans in the Marvel Universe tin apply magic, but only if properly trained. Nearly people are unaware that magic works. Also, powerful magical beings from other dimensions have created specific, extremely powerful magical spells that they allow to be used (often indiscriminately) by those sorcerers who invoke their names; one example is the trinity of beings chosen the Vishanti, who serve every bit patrons to heroic sorcerers. At whatever given time, there is a magician on Earth whose chore is to protect the universe against extra-dimensional mystical invaders; this sorcerer is known equally the Sorcerer Supreme, an office left empty since the decease of Brother Voodoo, just nigh recently has been reinstated to Doctor Strange.^[17]

Non-human

A degree of paranoid fright confronting mutants exists due to stories of mutants being a species or even a subspecies of humans (Homo superior or Homo sapiens superior) that is evolving and is meant to replace normal humans. This has caused organizations to class to bargain with the problem, who can exist divided into three camps: those who seek peaceful coexistence betwixt mutants and normal humans (the Ten-Men and their affiliated groups), those who seek to control or eliminate humans to give mutants safety or dominance (Magneto and his followers, as well equally other mutants such as Apocalypse), and those who seek to regulate or eliminate mutants in favor of humans. The latter often use the robots known as the Sentinels as weapons. Sure species are regarded as subhuman, like the Morlocks, who lurk beneath New York Urban center and accept been discriminated confronting by the outside earth because of their mutant deformities. The Morlocks accept recently joined the terrorist arrangement Factor Nation.^{[ book & issue needed ]}

In addition to mutants, Eternals, and Deviants, several other intelligent races have existed secretly on Earth. These include the Inhumans, another genetically unstable race (like the Deviants, but in their case, it is due to their utilize of a substance chosen the "Terrigen Mists") that was created by a Kree experiment long ago; the Subterraneans, a race of humanoids adapted to living below the surface, created by the Deviants (some Subterraneans were transformed into the 'Lava Men' past a demon); and Homo mermanus, a humanoid species of water-breathers that alive in Earth's oceans. Almost of these races accept advanced technology but existed hidden from humanity until recent times. More variants of humanity tin be found in the Cruel State (see Places beneath). Most of the Brutal Land races have their origin from a group of primitive ape-men who seems to accept escaped the Celestial experiments and whose influence is present in all modern Man sapiens. Other leftovers from the era when primitive humanoids walked on Earth nonetheless exist, such as the radiation-contradistinct Neanderthal human being known as the Missing Link, an enemy of the Hulk.^[18]

Alien races

The Curiosity Universe also contains hundreds of intelligent conflicting races. Earth has interacted with many of them considering a major "hyperspace warp" happens to exist in the Solar System.

The three major space empires are:

the Kree, who rule the Kree Empire (in the Greater Magellanic Cloud)
the Skrulls, who rule the Skrull Empire (in the Andromeda Galaxy)
the Shi'ar, who rule the Shi'ar Empire (no known real-globe analogue for its milky way, but it might be in the Triangulum Galaxy^[19])

The three are often in direct or indirect conflict, which occasionally involves Earth humans; in detail, the Kree and Skrulls are ancient enemies, and the Kree-Skrull State of war has involved humans on several occasions.

The Skrulls have as well been known to be in a long and consistent war against the Majesdanians, who live on a milky planet named Majesdane.^[20] The state of war between the two had started subsequently ii Majesdanians, Frank and Leslie Dean of the Pride had been kicked out for criminal activities; the two traveled to Earth, where Frank and Leslie stopped the war confronting Earth in exchange for giving the Skrulls the location of Majesdane, which was subconscious behind the corona of a white dwarf. The war had gone on for 16 years minimum; it concluded abruptly after the Skrulls shot a barrage of missiles at Majesdane, who retaliated.^[20]

Some other prominent alien race is the Watchers, immortal and wise beings who watch over the Curiosity Universe and take taken a sacred vow non to arbitrate in events, though the Watcher assigned to Earth, Uatu, has violated this oath on several occasions.

The Elders of the Universe are ancient aliens who accept often had a great affect on many worlds for billions of years, interim alone or as a grouping. A power called the Power Primordial is channeled through them.

Many other races be and have formed an "Intergalactic Council" to have their say on matters that touch on them all, such as interference from Earth humans in their affairs.

Supernatural creatures

Also abundant in the Marvel Universe are legendary creatures such as gods, demons and vampires. The 'gods' of most polytheistic pantheons are powerful, immortal homo-like races residing in other dimensions who visited Earth in ancient times, and became the ground of many legends. Yet, all of these 'gods' share a mutual ancestry and connexion to Earth due to Gaea, the primeval Elder Goddess that infused her life essence into all living things on Earth. Gaea is known by various names and appearances in other cultures and among the various pantheons, but she is the same existence. Every bit a result, she is a member of every polytheistic pantheon of 'gods' worshiped by humans. Too mythological gods, many deities made upward by Marvel writers be as well, such equally the Night Gods, enemies of the Asgardians. The Dark Gods are a race of 'gods' that have been worshiped by extraterrestrial races. Well-known alien races like the Shi'ar and Skrulls besides have beings they worship as 'gods', though trivial has been revealed about them.^{[ volume & upshot needed ]}

Many persons and beings have falsely pretended to be gods or demons during history; in particular, none of the ones challenge to be major figures from Judeo-Christian beliefs have turned out to exist the existent article, although several angels have appeared in contempo years, as well as an apparent true rebellion and expulsion of angels from a higher realm known equally Paradise, proving that some form of Heaven and Hell practice exist in this Universe, seemingly like those in keeping with common existent-earth religious conventionalities. Similarly, demons are evil magical beings who take diplomacy in the matters of the universe. Some of the most powerful are Blackheart, Mephisto, Nightmare, Satannish, Thog the Under-Spawn and Zom. There are likewise powerful benevolent mystical entities such as the Vishanti; or amoral and malevolent entities who are not truly demonic, such every bit Dormammu and the Octessence, or ones heavily drawing upon the mythologies of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Some supernatural beings, entities and homo characters created by Lovecraft and Howard, who were friends and influenced each other'due south work, have been adapted by Marvel and include Abdul Alhazred,^[21] ^[22] ^[23] Conan the Barbarian^[24] Nyarlathotep^[25] and Set.^[26] Some deities or demonic beings that are original characters of Marvel take been heavily influenced by these mythologies, such equally Shuma-Gorath.^[27]

Most of the electric current generation of gods have been revealed to be the descendants of the Elder Goddess Gaea. The 2 most featured pantheons are the Asgardians (of whom Thor is a member) and the Olympians (of whom Hercules is a member). The lords of the various pantheons sometimes gather in groups known as either the Council of Godheads or the Council of Skyfathers. The gods were forced to stop meddling with humanity (at to the lowest degree openly) a thousand years agone by the Celestials, and nearly people today believe them to be fictional. Other pantheons have been depicted in the Marvel Universe that is still actively worshiped in the real earth, including those worshiped past the Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, the gods of Hinduism, the Shinto gods and the gods of Zoroastrianism. These deities are rarely depicted, however. I such advent generated a good deal of controversy as the delineation involved a fight between Curiosity's incarnation of Thor and the Hindu god Shiva, a boxing which Shiva lost.^[28] As Shiva is i of the principal deities of Hindu faith, his defeat offended some followers of Hinduism. This battle was retconned later as having been the deity Indra, the Hindu god of thunder, who was posing as Shiva, that met defeat.^[29] To avoid offending the believers of still agile religions, Marvel features such deities as characters in the groundwork or who make very cursory cameo appearances.

Curiosity's depiction of vampires has been heavily influenced past diverse interpretations of popular media, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula. As with many other supernatural creatures, Curiosity entwined the origin of vampires with aspects of the mythologies created past Lovecraft and Howard. They were created by magical rites performed past priests of Atlantis earlier the Bang-up Cataclysm that destroyed much of the globe, with Varnae becoming the first vampire. Marvel would depict vampires as frequent antagonists during the Hyborian Age to Howard characters such every bit Kull and Conan. In recent years, Curiosity's delineation of vampires has altered greatly past creating diverse subspecies of vampires that exist in clans that greatly differ in appearance and conventionalities. All vampires are depicted with varying degrees of superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes and accelerated healing. Many are capable of transforming into animals such as bats or wolves; some can transform into a mist-like substance; some of the most powerful are capable of controlling the weather to a somewhat limited caste. All vampires must ingest blood to maintain their survival and concrete vitality. So long as they practice so regularly, they cease to age and are immune to diseases. They retain the well-known vulnerabilities common to vampires in other media interpretations, including sunlight, garlic, religious icons and weapons made of silver. Vampires tin can be killed by a wooden stake driven through the heart, though they return to life if the stake is removed. Vampires are highly allergic to argent and tin be killed with it. While they normally heal speedily, injuries inflicted by silver weapons heal at a much slower rate if the injuries are not fatal. Vampires tin can also be killed by decapitation or being burned with burn down, with burning them to ashes and then scattering the ashes being the most constructive means of ensuring their demise (scattering the ashes is done so that the vampire cannot be mystically resurrected).

Catholic entities

The cosmic entities are beings of unbelievably great levels of power (the weakest of whom tin destroy unabridged planets) who exist to perform duties that maintain the being of the universe. Most do not intendance at all about "lesser beings" such equally humans, and equally a effect, their acts are recurrently dangerous to mortals. When dire threats threaten the universe, information technology is non uncommon for these beings to get together together to discuss the threat and even act on information technology.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}

Nigh conceptual entities are merely interested in furthering their essential role or to go along the balance with an opposing force. All the same, certain cosmic entities, such equally Galactus, the In-Betweener, the Maelstrom, or the Stranger have demonstrated personality, motivations, or (except for the start one mentioned) even ambitions beyond their functions, only often maintain the perspective that morality is entirely relative, or that destroying civilizations of "bottom" beings is no eviler than if these beings destroyed an anthill. Others such as Uatu the Watcher, Eon, or the Celestials, Ashema and Tiamut are aberrations in the sense of sympathizing with, and occasionally coming to the defence force of, humanity.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}

The Phoenix Forcefulness first received personification in Jean Grey. The Phoenix Forcefulness is composed of the psionic energy from all living beings' past, nowadays, and future, and is an embodiment of rebirth and destructive transformation through "burning away what doesn't work", and helped to restart the universe before the Large Bang.^{[ volume & event needed ]}

'The "Fulcrum" is a comparatively recent addition to the hierarchy, that "all" cosmic entities allegedly serve, of a level of raw power stated to far surpass the might of the Watchers and the Celestials. Unlike most other entities, it is capable of conscience, compassion, and even a sense of sense of humor, and has stated that it wants other cosmic beings to develop such as well. He is a possible manifestation/avatar of the One-To a higher place-All.^{[ volume & consequence needed ]}

The mentioned 1-Higher up-All is believed to be the supreme, omnipotent existence, who solely created the Marvel Multiverse, and possibly acted across.^[30] He besides brought to life the Living Tribunal, an extremely powerful catholic entity, who serves to maintain balance within the Multiverse.^[31]

Cosmology

The Curiosity Universe is function of a Multiverse, with various universes coexisting simultaneously, usually without affecting each other directly.^{[ book & outcome needed ]} At the showtime at that place was only one universe, The Beginning Empyrean, but due to actions of Celestials existing at that place, it diverged.^[32] Then, the Multiverse went through several incarnations and eventually the Large Bang acquired the existence of the Seventh Cosmos, where well-nigh well-known heroes originated. The seventh iteration of the Multiverse was destroyed equally a outcome of the phenomena known as incursions and was eventually reborn as the 8th thanks to Reed Richards.^[33] According to him the ultimate fate of the Multiverse is to perish in extensive heat death.^[34]

Even the Curiosity Multiverse, nevertheless, is only a part of the Omniverse, which consists of all of fiction and reality combined, including all the works that are outside of Marvel's copyright restrictions. Every bit such, there can logically only be one Omniverse, every bit 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.^[35]

Universes/Earths/continuities

The action of most of the Marvel Comics titles takes place in a continuity known as World-616. This continuity exists in a multiverse alongside trillions of culling continuities.^[36] Alternative continuities in the Curiosity Multiverse are generally divers in terms of their differences from Earth-616.

Continuities likewise Earth-616 include the following (for a complete listing come across Multiverse (Marvel Comics)):

Caption text
Earth		Description
Earth-65		A reality where Gwen Stacy was bitten by the radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker (who became the Lizard in this universe and died) and where Gwen became a superhero. It besides includes variations of other Marvel characters, such every bit a gender-aptitude version of Sam Wilson (known as Samantha Wilson, who became Helm America instead of Steve Rogers).
Earth-295	Age of Apocalypse	An alternating reality ruled past the mutant god Apocalypse.
Globe-311	Curiosity 1602	A reality where Marvel superheroes emerged in the early 1600s.
Earth-615		Sometimes being the same universe as Earth-616, and sometimes not.
Globe-712	Squadron Supreme	The home of 1 version of the Squadron Supreme, a super-squad from another universe and pastiches of DC Comics' the Justice League.
Earth-811	Days of Future Past	A dystopian alternate hereafter where the Sentinels rule North America and take enslaved mutants.
Earth-928	Marvel 2099	A reality showing a possible future for the Marvel Universe in the year 2099. Also designated equally Earth-616 circa 2099
Earth-982	MC2	Another alternate future for the world of the Curiosity Universe and its superheroes and supervillains
World-1218		The setting of the existent world (which is our world), where superheroes, supervillains, and supernatural entities don't exist.
Globe-1226	M.O.D.O.K. (TV serial)	The universe of the animated series M.O.D.O.G.
Earth-1610	Ultimate Marvel	A modern-day re-imagining of Spider-Human, the Ultimates, the Ten-Men, the Fantastic Four and S.H.I.E.Fifty.D., besides as other Curiosity heroes and villains in a new setting. The home reality of Miles Morales, the Maker (a.k.a. Reed Richards), and Jimmy Hudson.
World-2149	Curiosity Zombies	A reality where all the Marvel superheroes and supervillains were turned into cannibalistic flesh-eating zombies.
Globe-2301	Curiosity Mangaverse	A reality containing manga versions of the Marvel Universe characters.
Earth-2447	Spider-Man: Life Story	A reality where Spider-Man and the other Marvel superheroes who debuted in the 1960s aged in existent-time.
Earth-4321		The reality of Marvel Universe: The End
Earth-7642	Earth-Crossover	A universe where Marvel characters co-exist with characters from DC Comics
Earth-8096	Christopher Yost Universe	The reality of TV shows and movies such equally Wolverine and the X-Men, The Avengers: Globe'due south Mightiest Heroes, Hulk Vs., and Thor: Tales of Asgard
World-8101	Marvel Apes	A reality where apes are the dominant species and the superheroes and supervillains are apes themselves
World-8311	Larval Universe	The home reality of Peter Porker (a.k.a. Spider-Ham); a reality where talking animal versions of Curiosity superheroes and supervillains exist.
Globe-9591	Ruins	A reality where "everything that can become wrong will go wrong", where the experiments and other incidents that granted the superheroes and supervillains their powers instead resulted in horrific tragedies and deaths.
Earth-9602	Amalgam Universe	A pocket universe where the Marvel and the DC Universes were combined into one reality.
Earth-9997	World X	An alternate futurity for the Marvel Universe depicting an Globe mutated by the Terrigen Mists. The series was followed by ii other series, Universe X and Paradise X.
World-11326	Age of X	A reality in which a series of anti-mutant events crusade the United States government to chase down all mutants, confining the survivors to Fortress X.
Earth-12041	Marvel Universe on Disney XD	The universe containing Ultimate Spider-Human, Avengers Assemble, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H..
Earth-20051	Marvel Adventures	An all-ages imprint.
World-30847	Marvel vs. Capcom	The reality of the Marvel vs. Capcom games
World-58163	House of M	A reality in which mutants are the ruling form, humans are the oppressed and Magneto and his family dominion Genosha.
Earth-90214	Marvel Noir	A reality home to noir versions of superheroes. Designated as Earth-90214.
Earth-92131		The universe of the 1990s Marvel blithe Television receiver shows, such equally 10-Men: The Animated Series, Spider-Homo: The Animated Series, Fantastic Four, Fe Man, and The Incredible Hulk
Earth-93060	Ultraverse	The abode of the super-team known as Ultraforce and superhumans known equally Ultras.
Earth-96283	Sam Raimi's Spider-Human being trilogy	An alternate reality in which Spider-Man and Doctor Strange (mentioned) are the just two superheroes on Earth.^[37]
Earth-148611	New Universe	An alternate reality where a major ending that is known as the "White Event" caused numerous people to develop superpowers in a world where there are no subconscious races, gods, magic or super-technology. The home reality of Star Make
Earth-199999	Curiosity Cinematic Universe	A shared universe of films and TV shows by Marvel Studios featuring versions of the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Defenders, Agents of Due south.H.I.Due east.50.D. and the Eternals, besides every bit Doctor Strange, the Blackness Panther, Captain Curiosity, Nick Fury, Shang-Chi and many others. Called and designated as World-616 by some of its inhabitants.
Earth-200111	MAX universe	A gritty, realistic, violent universe where traditional superheroes do not exist. Stories include: The Punisher MAX, Born (and its sequel Punisher: The Platoon), Wolverine MAX, Foolkiller MAX, Fury, and Fury: My War Gone By.
Earth-807128	Old Man Logan	Another dystopian alternate future where the supervillains killed all the superheroes and took over the United states (and presumably the world), dividing it among themselves. The domicile reality of the titular Erstwhile Homo Logan, an alternating version of Wolverine
Alterniverse		The reality of some of the What If stories.
Shadowline		A horror imprint separate from the mainstream Marvel continuity.

In improver, multiple continuities are visited in the comic book series What If, What The--?! (formerly Not Brand Echh) and Exiles. The concept of continuity is non the same every bit a "dimension" or a "universe"; for example, characters like Mephisto and Dormammu hail from parallel dimensions and Galactus from the universe that existed before the Big Bang which began the current universe, but they all all the same belong to the Earth-616 continuity (where all the parallel dimensions and alternate universes seem to exist continued to the same chief timeline). A continuity should also non be confused with an imprint; for case, while the titles of some imprints, such as Ultimate Marvel, accept place in a different continuity, some or all publications in other imprints, such as Epic Comics, Marvel MAX, and Marvel Great britain, have place within the Earth-616 continuity.^{[ citation needed ]}

Dimensions

Inside and sometimes between continuities, at that place exist a variety of dimensions, sometimes chosen pocket dimensions, which typically are non depicted as separate continuities, but rather part of one, typically Earth-616. There is a score of such dimensions, ranging from the Earth-like to the alien. Some are magical and others are scientific; some are inhabited and others are not. These include realities like the Microverse, the Darkforce Dimension, Limbo, the Mojoverse, and many more. The Astral Airplane is a dimensional plane that is the source of telekinesis and various other psychic powers. It is a dimension created past the Elder Goddess Oshtur that is sometimes referred to as the "Temple of Oshtur" or the "Realm of the Listen".^[38]

Despite various contradictions, the term dimension is sometimes interchangeable with universe or reality. Every reality of the Marvel Universe has numerous interconnected dimensions, with each dimension differing from those of other realities; for example, the Ultimate Asgard has clearly been shown to be distinct from the Asgard known to Earth-616 characters. Some so-called dimensions, unlike Asgard or the Dark Dimension, are not "pocket dimensions" as they reside completely exterior the boundaries of a specific reality instead of within, technically as a completely separate 1.^[31]

Fourth dimension

One cannot commonly change the Marvel Universe'south history; if a time-traveler should cause an alteration to the established flow of events at some point in the past, a divergent universe will simply "co-operative out" from the existing timeline, and the time-traveler will still render to his or her unaltered original universe. Those realities tin also spawn realities of their own. In that location exist hundreds, probably thousands of such realities. It is unknown why this happens, though a warp known as the Nexus of All Realities exists in a swamp in the Florida Everglades of Earth-616. For the most part, this does not matter, as almost beings are unaware that this occurs, or even that their universes were recently "built-in" from some other. However, individuals and organizations exist that try to monitor or dispense the diverse realities. These include Immortus, the Helm Britain Corps, the Fourth dimension Variance Authorisation, the Timebreakers/Exiles, and Kang the Conqueror'due south forces. It is possible to travel through time without creating a new alternative universe, instead of altering events in the future, just this seems to take devastating and very far-reaching repercussions, as depicted in Curiosity 1602 (it almost destroyed the whole multiverse, including the afterlife).^{[ citation needed ]}

Too, time itself passes much differently within the confines of the Marvel Universe than it does in the real world. Despite diverse characters having appeared inside company publications for decades, few, if any, accept anile to any appreciable degree. For example, the patriotic hero Captain America was created in 1941 but stopped appearing in titles shortly after the end of World State of war II. The character was revived more 20 years later, explained every bit having been frozen in a cake of ice though believed to be dead, to lead Curiosity'due south latest team of superheroes the Avengers. This first Avengers team featured several characters that would go on to be some of the company's most famous and most popular. Although the characters would be portrayed in hundreds and even thousands of adventures over the decades, they have been portrayed as having aged little or not at all.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Naturally, this tendency is purely due to story conveniences (or a somewhat haphazardly shifting patchwork pattern of authors), and mainly that the fictional "continuity" has been maintained and expanded far beyond what Stan Lee and others originally planned or hoped for. Hence, the passing of time was more discernible in the very early years, such equally the graduation of Spider-Man; and what started equally children or teenaged characters, such as Kitty Pryde, Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards, Power Pack, or the New Mutants are all immune to age at wildly shifting rates (in the second instance even astern at times), whereas surrounding characters somewhat dependent on a certain age limit exercise not alter at all. This recurrently creates inherently contradictory effects, equally events are routinely described to have happened several years ago, even in cases when this would mean that some of the involved characters would accept been toddlers. Different approaches also exist regarding assuasive "second-generation" descendants of heroes or villains, total-grown over 18 years after an issue (for example, Hulkling, other members of the Young Avengers, the Runaways, and the Secret Warriors), whereas other books, such as Young Allies utilise the inherent contradiction to debunk similar claims. If a past storyline wherein a direct delineation of a and so-current president or like is referred to in a later era, it tends to become updated appropriately, sometimes with an "in-joke" acknowledgment.^{[ commendation needed ]}

A more recent caption was given past Galactus to the Ultimates, namely that some of import events - for instance, the creation of the Fantastic Iv or the Avengers - have a 'gravity' all their own and warp time around them, causing the timeline to subtly modify to accommodate this.^[39]

Space

While the Curiosity Universe is presumably equally large equally the not-fictional universe comic volume readers inhabit, for all intents and purposes the Local Grouping is the universe; practically all action takes place in it. The Skrull Empire is located in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Kree Empire in the Greater Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite of the Milky way milky way in which World, of grade, is found, and the Shi´ar Empire is located somewhere betwixt them in ane of the smaller galaxies (perhaps the Triangulum Galaxy); oft, these three empires are quoted as the main political powers "in the universe".^[40] Similarly, the Local Grouping seems to be the only afflicted expanse when the Anything Wave cut its bloody swath "beyond the universe".

Role-playing games

Four role-playing games have been prepare in the Marvel Universe:

Marvel Super Heroes (TSR, 1984)
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game (TSR, 1998)
Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game (Marvel Comics, 2003)
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (Margaret Weis Productions, 2012)

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External links

Curiosity Entertainment (official site)
Marvel Chronology Project
[1] (Forums named subsequently Marvel Universe)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Universe