Marvel just introduced a unique variant of the Avengers and promptly wiped them out at the hands of a new huge threat to the multiverse.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/Hulk #1, available now.
The Atlantis of the Marvel Universe has long been a source of serious conflict for the world’s heroes, with frequent battles against the surface world playing out over the years. But there’s at least one reality that was able to avoid all that. However, that world didn’t stick around the Marvel Multiverse for long.
In “The Tower At The Center Of Everything” from Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/Hulk #1 by Jason Aaron, Iban Coello, Brian Reber, and Cory Petit, a new multiversal version of the Avengers were introduced from a world where Atlantis and the surface world made peace, only for Marvel’s newest threat to wipe them out in the blink of an eye.
At the end of time, Avengers from across the Multiverse have been transformed into Deathloks to contend with all sorts of threats to the multiverse, serving as the best and final line of defense in all of creation. One of them ends up assigned to a new crisis brewing on Earth-10222 — a near idyllic world where life was radically changed when Atlantis never sunk beneath the ocean. Instead, the Atlanteans prospered alongside humanity, leading to massive advancements for both species and the continued respect of the natural world.
In the relative present-day, the world is protected by the Atlantean Avengers. Led by their version of Captain America, who appears to also be the Namor of this world. His teammates include aquatic variants of Iron Man, and She-Hulk, as well as an Atlantean equivalent to Thor and a blue-skinned Atlantean or a version of Phyla-Vell who has seemingly also taken the position of Sorceror Supreme on this world judging by her attire. The team supposedly has few defeats to their name, given their moniker of being almighty. It’s an interesting concept for a new take on the Avengers, especially in light of recent events in the core Marvel Universe of Earth-616.
On Earth-616, Atlantis has always had a troubled relationship with the surface world, and Namor the Sub-Mariner has fought both to defend and conquer the surface world. Recently, Namor made his full intention to claim the surface world for his own, uniting his Defenders of the Deep and facing off with the current Avengers on multiple occasions. It’s interesting to consider a world where those battles never had to be fought because Namor and Atlantis have always naturally been on the side of humanity. However, it appears even powerful warriors of this realm are nothing compared to the newest threat sweeping through the multiverse.
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When a Deathlok arrives on Earth-10222, he doesn’t find an ocean-filled world of peace and heroes. Instead, he finds a wasteland, bereft of life and filled with nothing but ruins. Deathlok’s attempts to discover what happened to this world are prevented from completion. It turns out this world was decimated by Chronal Aftershocks — caused by some unknown Temporal Cataclysm. As a result, the timeline was radically altered — with the very concepts of Avengers and Atlantis wiped out a million years earlier in the timeline.
But before Deathlok can relocate to that period to try and solve the crisis, he’s destroyed by a Ghost Rider bomb — seemingly thrown by the multiversal Masters of Evil. It’s a shame too, as the Atlantean Avengers may have been a strong force for good in the multiverse if they hadn’t been seemingly prevented from ever existing in the first place. They may have made strong allies in the inevitable battles to come against these Masters of Evil and could have made for some potentially fun allies going forward. But instead, they’ve fallen to an unexpected and sudden defeat that means they never even technically existed.
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