Thread:ADour/@comment-4300738-20150313030134/@comment-1458758-20150313065023

There's been a couple of cases where a retcon, or something similar, has caused Marvel to create a secondary character out of nowhere, but those are normally explained somehow.

For example, originally the Phoenix didn't exist, that was just Jean Grey's top tier psychic power, but after Jean died, they retconned big time that the Phoenix Jean was a cosmic entity that took her form, and revived the 'original' Jean.

Similarly so, I believe they explained the runs of Captain America after the end of the Second World War as being various other men, normally minor heroes from acquired properties as having taken over the mantle until Steve was 'revived' in the modern era.

There was one example where in Uncanny Avengers, several characters lived out their lives in an alternate future and then got mind ported back to the present, with their future self then being synced to their younger body, resulting in an alternate dimension self being counted as seperate before essentially becoming the primary continuity of the character.

But for two seperate, seemingly the same characters who are not explained, I'm just not getting anything. It does sound familiar, like I've read something like that, but I'm just not remembering anyone in particular.