Maveth

Maveth
Name	Maveth
Location Details
Reality	Earth-199999
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen
First	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S3E01 (September 29, 2015)
First	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S3E01 (September 29, 2015)

History

Maveth (Hebrew: מָוֶת; "Death") was an alien planet where the Inhuman Alveus was sent into exile. When he arrived, the planet had a thriving civilization, that even started to worship him as a god, but through Alveus' actions, the civilization collapsed and died, and the entire planet became a barren wasteland.

Alveus' human followers attempted to engineer his return, and periodically sent him a human sacrifice to serve as Alveus' new host body.

The sacrifices continued in modern times as Gideon Malick, leader of the cult of followers, used his wealth and connections to create the Distant Star Pathfinder project, to send astronauts to Maveth under the pretenses of studying the planet.

Will Daniels, one of the astronauts sent during the expedition, managed to avoid Alveus and survived alone on Maveth from 2001 to 2015. Was in this when S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Jemma Simmons was accidentally transported to to Maveth and stranded there.

As Simmons and Daniels met, they were able to devise a way to find the portal back to Earth. However, Alveus ambushed them, and despite Simmons returned to Earth, Alveus killed Daniels and took possession of his body.

Malick then discovered what happened, and ordered to capture Simmons in order to force her to return to the planet and bring Alveus back. Leo Fitz offered himself to go to Maveth instead, with the only goal of bringing back Daniels while avoiding Alveus. Malick also sent a team of Hydra agents led by Grant Ward through the portal to ensure the success of the mission.

Unbeknownst to them, S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Phil Coulson also jumped through the portal, in order to rescue his agent and exact revenge on Ward for killing Rosalind Price.

As Alveus met Fitz, still in Daniels' body, he pretended to be Daniels in order to escape with him through the portal. Alveus killed the Hydra agents while Coulson confronted and ultimately killed Ward. Fitz discovered that Daniels was actually Alveus, and seeing he could not kill him, he destroyed Daniels' body with a flare gun.

As Fitz and Coulson returned to Earth through the portal, Alveus took Ward's corpse as his new host body, and managed to return to Earth as well.

Alternate Universes

Earth-616

Maveth in Earth-616

Maveth was once home to a civilization that dedicated itself to warfare. This eventually led to its own destruction when they weaponized a fragment of the Pheonix Force and the emperor of Maveth built two bombs using it. The first bomb's detonation scortched the surface of the planet, vitrifying it into a wasteland and killing all the planet's inhabitants within a generation. The second bomb was buried within his tomb, where it would rest for thousands of years. Maveth's location became lost, but at some point, Thanos took Gamora here when she was young.

When Gamora submitted to the Black Vortex, a Celestial artifact that awakens immense cosmic powers, she gained cosmic awareness and the Phoenix Force within the bomb called out to her, though Gamora ignored it at the time. Eventually, Gamora arrived to Maveth along with Kitty Pryde, but they were followed by the Chitauri. To prevent the Phoenix Force bomb from falling into the Chitauri's hands, Kitty Pryde detonated the second bomb, wiping out the invading Chitauri and incinerating Maveth once again.

Notes

• Maveth is an invention of the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show. It was later brought over to the comics as an unrelated, dead planet, as many aspects from the show are incompatible with the comics' Hive (a monster created by Hydra in a lab) and the comics' Hydra has a different history (it began as the Brotherhood of the Spear, inspired by the Spear of Imhotep).

See Also

• 11 appearance(s) of Maveth
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Maveth
• 12 mention(s) of Maveth
• 4 image(s) of Maveth