Thread:ADour/@comment-4548390-20160722001850/@comment-4548390-20170226222232

Since I didn't manage to post it in the Ultimates finale thread (it doesn't work to publish it there, for some reason), I'll post it here, hope you don't mind. The Many-Angled One wrote: The Many-Angled One wrote: On my list of suspects are:


 * The Beyonder: Presumably deceased since Annihilation, Beyonder would chain the Multiverse/Omniverse up because it was restored using the stolen power of his entire race, the Beyonders.


 * The Seven Eternities: What if the manifestations of the seven previous iterations of the Multiverse/Omniverse merged together into a single being to change it back to what it was at all costs for not accepting the current status quo?


 * The Multiversal/Omniversal manifestation of Infinity: With the current Living Tribunal being inexperienced, what could stand in her way to become the most powerful cosmic entity there is?

Now I have a new suspect, somewhat similar to the second suspect(s) of my original list of suspects:
 * Nothing: What if the thing Thanos loves the most now is capable of manifestating itself as a cosmic being? Nothing would be the manifestation of all that isn't, Eternity and Infinity's antithesis, powerful enough to chain all that is because Nothing is more powerful than God.

- While I was writing the previous suspect file, a new suspect (or may I say suspects?) came to my mind:
 * Battlerealm's Eternity: We know that Al Ewing wrote the post-Secret Wars Contest of Champions series, we also know that someday Maestro will return in one of the titles he's writing and Ultimates² is the most probable place for it to happen, but what if he's not the only element from that series that may be returning? Enter Battlerealm's Eternity! As I explained (or tried to) in the Contest of Champions' Finale thread, within Battlerealm is contained previously destroyed realities that work idenpendently from the rest of Battlerealm. It basically makes Battlerealm a compact Multiverse. What if the very nature of Battlerealm created a twisted version of Eternity, one that want to spread through the Multiverse/Omniverse the very thing he's made of: war (now you remember that double-page spread from Ultimates² #1 and go see it to say it's possible) ?

Thanks to Ultimates² #4, I have a new new suspect!
 * Beyond Corporation: We don't see Beyond Corporation's Jason Quantrell since, and in said series, Beyond Quantrell said there were others like him, wanting to play, destroy, or do whatever they wanted to do with our reality (actually not our reality, but the Marvel Universe). What if Beyond Corporation returns operating in a large scale than before?

In Ultimates² #4, Simon Rodstvow mentioned a "Dystopian Parallel'", wondering if it existed and whether it would be a place or a state of mind, during his fight against Blue Marvel. That added to an idea I had of how the Eternity War would be gave me this suspect:


 * Demiurge: When the Eternity War was first mentioned, I couldn't help but remember of a panel I saw of Avengers Forever #8 where a Space Phantom revealed that the Time-Keepers gave Immortus the mission of preventing the Scarlet Witch from having children as her status as a Nexus Being meant that her children would be powerful enough to defy the cosmic forces of the universe and its fundamental structures. Said panel contained the image of Scarlet Witch's children fighting against none other than Eternity himself. What if "Dystopian Parallel" exists and is a place? What if its inhabitants went to war against the inhabitants of Utopian Parallel (as seemingly suggested by Rodstvow)? What if Rodstvow is from "Dystopian Parallel" and is working against the Ultimates at the behest of the Cosmic Jailer, who happens to be the creator of both "Dystopian" and Utopian Parallels, the Demiurge? There's also the chance that this Demiurge may actually be a divergent, corrupted version of the Demiurge we know Wiccan will become one day (similar in nature to the Time-Twisters) or a divergent, corrupted version of Speed instead. And I don't know what his motivations would be here, but he's said to change the laws of magic in every universe and time period (past, present, and future), that could certainly lead anyone into conflict against Eternity, right? And since he's said to be doing this in every time period as well, he may have chained Infinity (the personification of time) too.


 * In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the Ideas, but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "the One". In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good; accordingly, the demiurge is malevolent, as linked to the material world.


 * Source: Demiurge on Wikipedia