User blog:Pokemonmewtwos/Post-Secret Wars Expectations

As you all probably know already, Secret Wars is the event that would shake the Marvel Universe to its core and would change the way we look at the Marvel Universe forever by destroying all of its universes in its Multiverse. Since an All-New, All-Different Avengers team has been announced thanks to ADour's recent blog ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS REVEALED!, I was inspired by the blog to write about the things I wanted the new post-Secret Wars universe to have and what it should mean for new readers out there. If's there's an All-New, All-Different Avengers, then there should be an All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe, which is why I decided to make a list of what the new Marvel Universe needs to have. Here it is:

Have an Ascendants comic-book series


If you don't know what the Ascendants are, they first debuted in Avengers World #7 as China's own superhuman team created by the Chinese agency, S.P.E.A.R. (China's counterpart to S.H.I.E.L.D.) to protect China and the rest of the world. Most comic-book series are set in various parts in the United States of America, so why don't we have a comic-book series set in another country where you get to learn cultural differences with everyday life in another country. Just like the Avengers fight crime mostly in the U.S. and Alpha Flight fights crime mostly in Canada, I feel that the Ascendants should have their own comic-book series based on China. Many countries around the world don't get to have a comic-book series going on based on their own countries, but in the U.S.A. and I feel that other countries should be represented in the world of comic books. Oriental Asians also have a pretty bad reputation in the Marvel Universe as they are seen as criminals, assassins, ninjas, and even Also, if there's going to be a new status quo by putting people with different cultural backgrounds such as Miles Morales, who is half-Latino and half-black and Kamala Khan, who is Pakistani-American into the Avengers, who are an American-based team, then there should be a team with a different cultural background distinct from the American culture, and that is the Ascendants. Hey, if the Earth is an Avengers World, then it should be an Ascendants World as well.

A Spider-Themed Version of Batman Incorporated comic-book series


If you don't know Batman Incorporated, it is a global organization funded by Batman in the DC Universe to turn Batman's crime-fighting agenda and ideology into a world-wide presence and sends international vigilantes to act as his representatives to their own country. Spider-Man has been seen as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, superheroes that has influenced people around the globe. Why not take Spider-Man's ideology, that with great power comes great responsibility and have representatives all around the world to make that a world-wide presence? Marvel's Multiverse already has the groundwork and the characters for it to work, such as Paviitr Prabhakar (Spider-Man: India), William "Billy" Braddock (Spider-UK), the multiple Japanese Spider-Men (such as Yu Komori, Spider-Man J, Supaidāman), Kwaku Anansi, the Spider (although he was a villain in the Ultimate Universe) and many more. Spider-Verse almost caused this to work, but it was more of a storyline and a comic-book series based on survival and not of the great power and great responsibility. Imagine this, every country in the world could have its own Spider-Man and a hero to look up to. Like I said above, the Earth should be a Spider-World as well as an Ascendants World as well.

No More M-Day Influenced Comic Books


To be honest, I was not a big fan of the event House of M and especially the Schism event because it divided up mutants and the consequences of the event caused some X-Men to change for the worst (such as Cyclops and Havok). If the Scarlet Witch could wipe out almost the mutant population with three simple words, No more mutants, how come she can't conjure up a spell using her Chaos-magic and say More mutants to bring more mutants. Instead we had to endure stories of nonsense about mutants being killed by Purifiers, the X-Men being in conflict with the Avengers (two times in Avengers vs. X-Men and Avengers & X-Men: AXIS), the excuse of mutant survival and extinction, and it indirectly caused the death of two Avengers (Stature and Vision, although Stature was resurrected with Chaos Magic). See, if Chaos Magic can resurrect Stature, then why can't it solve the mutant extinction problem? Why the heck are we reading all this crap about Scarlet Witch causing M-Day and most mutants blaming her for the extinction of mutantkind and whining about it, when the solution lies with the Scarlet Witch's Chaos Magic? Although Avengers vs. X-Men brought hope for more mutants, it did not help restore bonds between the Avengers and X-Men due to mutants being persecuted and the fact there is still very little mutants left on the globe. I hope that Secret Wars removes some of this baggage and continue on with the original storyline of peaceful co-existence between mutants and humans instead of this M-Day influenced crap.

Resurrect Ben Reilly


Ben Reilly is one of my favorite characters from the Spider-Man mythos and I want to see him come back in a fresh new Marvel Universe. Although writers have suggested that they would resurrect Ben Reilly, they haven't done it since his death, however there are some storylines where they made them as though Ben Reilly really resurrected from the dead, but it turned out as an impostor (Kraven the Hunter, for example). Before I read Spider-Verse, when I saw the Bagley Variant cover for Scarlet Spiders #1, I was excited to the fact that Ben Reilly was alive and then when I read Spider-Verse, it turned out to be an alternate version of him when he didn't die at the hands of the Green Goblin, which pretty much disappointed me. Another thing that disappointed me was that the Earth-94 version of him died as well. The guy has been dead for over 20 years since Spider-Man #75, it's time to bring him back after inactivity in the Marvel Universe.

No One More Day Crap


Marvel recently revealed the existence of a version of Peter Parker on Battleworld that hasn’t made the deal with Mephisto yet. This could be where we finally undo all that nonsense, and have Peter and MJ be brought back together, possibly having Mayday, and hell, Pete could even pass the role of Spider-Man down to Miles, though he’d likely be able to come out of retirement from time to time to help him out. A lot of people have been angry with One More Day and espically Brand New Day, including me because despite Spider-Man being a good guy, he made a literal deal with the Devil and indirectly killed/wiped out his daughter just to save Aunt May when nobody else could (c'mon Tony Stark has a solution to everything, even with a gunshot). This would make a lot of Spider-Man fans, including me very satisfied.

Character Histories Merged
One thing I want to happen is that characters that exist on both Earth-616 and Earth-1610 will have their histories and elements of their personalities merged together. For example, there’ll only be one Nick Fury, and he’ll be the one that physically resembles Samuel L. Jackson because the movies do still dictate and depict a lot of what happens in the comics, unless they plan on revealing him to be Nick Fury, Jr. in the movies.

No More Superior Iron Man


This has nothing to do with not liking Superior Iron Man. This is something to with not liking a lot of what’s been done with the character for years now, starting with the Civil War event. I’m more than a bit concerned about the fact that Captain America: Civil War is going to being based of that story, and ultimately, it comes down to one point: Tony Stark should not be a villain. Now, they could maybe do something neat where we get the old Tony back and Superior Iron Man becomes his own evil character or counterpart spun off from him, but there has to be a good Tony we could all relate to that isn’t held down by the Superhuman Registration Act or having Captain America’s mind wiped. I want the real Tony Stark back.

Most of the 33 Cancelled Titles Come Back
I was reading XD1's blog about 33 Marvel Titles Cancelled For Secret Wars and I was hoping most of them have a future in the new Marvel Universe, including Amazing Spider-Man, All-New X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, Spider-Man & The X-Men, Spider-Man 2099, Avengers, and Avengers World. I felt that these titles had shaped the Marvel Universe dramatically and hoping that Marvel doesn't cancel any of these titles and would incorporate characters from Earth-1610 or maybe even more into these titles (especially Miles Morales in Amazing Spider-Man with Peter Parker).

Don't New-52 the Marvel Universe
I'm sorry to offend any New-52 lovers, but in my opinion, the New 52 sucked because there was no familiarity with the new incarnations of the characters that we come to know and love, some of the costume redesigns were the worst, constant continuity errors, not really good titles (except Batman), and there were constant title cancellations. If they reboot the entire universe, erase origin stories, and start from scratch, I would be so mad because a lot of people are familiar with the previous origin stories and if they just rebooted it to appeal to new readers, it would lead to disaster. DC's currently losing in sales to Marvel due to its New 52 imprint and I don't want Marvel to share the same fate as DC.

So, that's my hopes and dreams for the new Marvel Universe coming out after Secret Wars ends. What do you think of these suggestions? Are they good or do they need improvement? Do you have any expectations for the post-Secret Wars Universe? Leave suggestions in the comments below!