Big Crunch
The Big Crunch is the terminal collapse of a cosmological cycle, the final contraction of all matter, energy, and spacetime into a singular state that precedes the next Big Bang of the Universe (the Seventh Cosmos). In the Multiverse it is treated both as a physical endpoint and as a metaphysical locus at the end of time that can be reached or observed through extraordinary means.[1][2]
Within a small pantheon of abstract beings that embody the universe's birth and death phases, the Big Crunch is personified by Gravitation, while the Big Bang and the Big Freeze are personified by Explosion and Entropy, respectively.[3] The Fulcrum has stated it had been searching "since the Big Crunch", showing cyclic endpoints and the broader hierarchy of cosmic principles.[4]
Notable Events:
Galan of Taa was the last survivor of the Sixth Cosmos. As that universe reached its terminal collapse, Galan merged with the sentience of his dying reality and survived the transition into the next cycle within the Incubator, emerging after a new Big Bang as Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds.[5][6][7]
The sequence creation and collapse repeated from the First Cosmos (the First Firmament), a single proto-universe[8]; the Second Cosmos, the first true Multiverse[8]; followed by the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Cosmos as subsequent rebuilds.[9]
Durok the Demolisher was banished by the Silver Surfer to moments before the Big Crunch, leaving him at the universe’s end.[2] During the events of Ragnarok, Loki retrieved Durok from that endpoint; Durok later fell in battle against Thor.[10]
Jubilee's future self became Abscissa under Mojo at the Big Crunch. When the present Jubilee rejected Mojo's offer to serve him at that same endpoint, Abscissa ceased to exist.[1]
An alternate Blastaar survived to the end of time. On the authority of the People of the End of All Things, he was condemned to die at the Big Bang as retribution for his slaughters across millennia, underscoring the judicial use of both endpoints in cosmological narratives.[11]
(See Also: Big Bang, Universe, Entropy (Big Freeze), Explosion (Big Bang personification), Gravitation, Fulcrum)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wolverine (Vol. 2) #52–53
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thor #191–193
- ↑ Starbrand & Nightmask #3
- ↑ Eternals (Vol. 4) #9
- ↑ Thor #168 ; origin retold in 169
- ↑ Defenders (Vol. 6) #1
- ↑ Silver Surfer (Vol. 8) #10
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ultimates 2 (Vol. 2) #6
- ↑ Ultimates 2 (Vol. 2) #7–9
- ↑ Thor (Vol. 2) #82
- ↑ Fantastic Four (Vol. 4) #6