Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26066818-20150831170032

I realize there's probably not a lot of interest in the alternate futures of a 20 year old sub-imprint Marvel is legally restricted from revisiting, but I want to bring this up all the same.

There are two alternate futures for the Ultraverse currently listed as TRN127 and TRN163. Having re-read the post-Black September materials, however, I believe these stories represent FOUR alternate futures, not just two.

The future is first visited in the Phoenix Resurrection comics. After cameoing in Genesis and Revelations, Rose Autumn's origins are dealt with in. This is the future currently dubbed Earth-TRN127. Basically, Rose Autumn (Foxfire) was artificially engineered 50+ years in the future then sent back in time so that her powers could be triggered by an encounter with the Phoenix Force. She spent 17 years growing up in the present of Earth-93060, but was returned to the future of Earth-TRN127 a day after she was born. Foxfire's power helped the Ultras of the future defeat an alien invasion known as the Progeny. Foxfire personally confronted the Progeny ruling caste and they were killed. It's important that an adult version of Prime is among the ragtag band of rebels in this future.

Foxfire then travels back to the present in her own four issue series, inadvertently changing the future she came from. She picked up an insanity virus from the Progeny when she beat them, and infected Ultraforce when she returned to the present. Ultraforce, including Prime, die from the infection and the domino effect leads to a future where the Progeny still rule. This timeline, seen in Ultraforce Vol 2 #8-9 and Ultraverse: Future Shock #1, can no longer be TRN127 because Prime died 50 years earlier due to the insanity virus, and the future war with the Progeny went differently.

"Ultraforce-Insanity Virus Future" then travels sideways in time to the parallel world currently dubbed Earth-TRN163. This is the "original" future of the Ultraverse, where the merger with Marvel Comics and Black September never happened. Specifically, Rune came back to Earth from the Godwheel instead of traveling to the Marvelverse where he acquired the Infinity Gems. The Prime of Earth-TRN163 agreed to join the Ultraforce-IVF for extra power when they went back in time to to save the lives of the present day Prime and Ultraforce and prevent the outbreak of the insanity virus. They succeed.

is therefore told in a framing sequence where Ultraforce-IVF were successful in ending the insanity virus early and preventing the Progeny from every coming to Earth in the first place. The tale is known because Witch Hunter and Warstrike are "multiversal" enough to know how time changed around them.

So in conclusion, Earth-TRN163 remains a separate reality, but Earth-TRN127 is really three separate timelines.


 * 1) The original conquered world where Foxfire defeats the Progeny and frees Earth from their rule.
 * 2) The plague-ridden dystopia created when Foxfire accidentally spread the insanity virus in the past, undoing her own victory.
 * 3) The final idyllic future when the insanity virus is stopped in the past. 