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Earth-616 is not yet gone. That will happen in next May's Secret Wars #1.

Since 2012, the Marvel Multiverse has been affected by the incursions, events in which two alternate reality planets Earth collide and both are destroyed along with their universe. The only way to prevent both universes from dying is by destroying one of the planets Earth before they collide, that way, the two universes remain existing, but one of them is now planet Earth-less. However, incursions keep happening and at an even more accelerated rate each time one happens.

The Illuminati (which includes Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, Captain America and Black Panther) were actively working on a way to stop the incursions that affected Earth-616. After reaching the conclusion that they would eventually need to destroy an entire inhabited planet, Captain America got angry because he doesn't approve of that, and he was kicked out and his memories of being an Illuminati erased.

During another event called Original Sin, numerous heroes discovered deep secret related to them. Captain America remembered what the Illuminati were up to, and what had they done to him, so he set out to hunt them down with the Avengers. Cap took this personally, specially against his former best friend Tony Stark.

Even after reaching a truce, the Avengers and the Illuminati still had to face other threats. And in the end, the final incursion will happen. And they will fail to stop it.

The Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe will literally clash in Secret Wars #1, and no universe will survive.

From the ashes of incursions, the remains of numerous alterate realities will become Battleworld.

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