History
This reality was seemingly similar to Earth-616 up until Magneto decided to wage war on the X-Men and Avengers and killed Charles Xavier. In a moment of panic and anger, Jean Grey's latent abilities, which were suppressed by Xavier, reemerged and she shut down Magneto's mind, however, this led to the creation of Onslaught, a psionic entity made of the two mutants' worst sides. Onslaught possessed Jean and posed as the Phoenix Force, which never came close to Earth, and rallied the X-Men through a progressive mental manipulation into enforcing a brutal stance on the fight for mutantkind, with the secret objective of acquiring more power to ascend into a Cosmic Being by draining the minds of humanity.
However, the Phoenix of another reality noticed Onslaught's threat and summoned the original X-Men of Earth-616 to stop it, they brought the local X-Men back to their senses and fought Onslaught, who immediately started draining humanity's minds, however, Marvel Girl united every mind across the world, intending to stop Onslaught even if it meant the end of the world, but at the last minute, Jean-696 regained her senses and contacted the Phoenix to bring back the young X-Men to their reality, sacrificing herself, the X-Men and the world to stop Onslaught.[1]See Also
- 2 appearance(s) of Earth-696
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Earth-696
- 2 mention(s) of Earth-696
- 19 image(s) of Earth-696
- 20 characters that originate from Earth-696
- 2 teams that originate from Earth-696
- 4 organizations that originate from Earth-696