Appearing in "What If the Avengers Had Lost the Evolutionary War?"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Abomination
- Absorbing Man
- American Eagle
- West Coast Avengers
- Mantis
- Wonder Man
- Scarlet Witch
- Hawkeye (Death)
- Vision
- Banshee
- Beast (Death)
- Black Panther
- The Captain (Death)
- Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau)
- Cloak
- Dagger
- Daredevil (Death)
- Darkstar
- Doc Samson
- Doctor Doom
- Doctor Druid (Death)
- Doctor Octopus
- Doctor Strange (Death)
- Electro
- Falcon (Death)
- Fantastic Four
- Firestar
- Frankenstein's Monster
- Freedom Force
- Goliath (Erik Josten)
- Hellcat
- Hercules (Death)
- Hulk
- Ikaris
- Inhumans
- Iron Man
- Juggernaut
- Karkas
- Klaw
- Leader
- Magneto
- Man-Thing
- Mayhem
- Molecule Man
- New Mutants
- Nightcrawler
- Owl
- Phoenix (Rachel Summers)
- Power-Man
- Power Pack
- Polaris
- Puma
- Punisher
- Rhino
- Sabretooth
- Sandman
- Sasquatch
- Shadowcat
- She-Hulk
- Spider-Man
- Sub-Mariner
- Sunfire
- Talisman (Death)
- Thena
- Thor
- Tigra
- Volcana
- Whirlwind
- Yellowjacket (Death)
- X-Factor
- X-Men
Antagonists:
- High Evolutionary
- Dormammu (Death)
- Nova (Death)
- Silver Surfer (Death)
- Galactus (Death)
Other Characters:
- Death
- Eternity
- Entity
- Celestials
- Skybreaker
- Squadron Supreme (Only in flashback)
- Hyperion (Mark Milton) (Only in flashback)
- Power Princess (Only in flashback)
- Whizzer (Stanley Stewart) (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Sprectrumm (Joseph Ledger) (Only in flashback)
- American Eagle (James Dore Jr.) (Only in flashback)
- Moonglow (Arcanna Jones) (Only in flashback)
- Nuke (Albert Gaines) (Only in flashback)
- Fantastic Five (Only in flashback)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only in flashback)
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Only in flashback)
- Invisible Woman (Sue Storm) (Only in flashback)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in flashback)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in flashback)
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Locations:
Items:
- Captain's Vibranium Shield Vibranium
- Falcon's Wings
- Hawkeye's Bowand Trick Arrows
- Cyclops' Visor
- Iron Man Armor MK VIII
- Doctor Octopus' Tentacles
- Sonic Disruptor
- Cloak of Levitation and Eye of Agamotto
- Mjolnir
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "What If the Avengers Had Lost the Evolutionary War?"
In this story, the High Evolutionary's genetic bomb exploded. As a result, both normal humans and mutants were altered. The mutant's powers grew greatly, the normal humans developed bigger heads with advanced minds and those artificially altered were changed in various ways (Spider-Man, for example, grew six arms). Due to the evolution, the evolved humans made peace with the mutants and with each other across the globe.
The mutants and mutated, now called "Godlike Ones" by the changed humans, elect Wolverine as a leader and decide that they can not live alongside humanity any more, immediately leaving for space together inside a shimmering aura. Thor, unchanged by the bomb, decides to return to Asgard.
While the mutants travel around the galaxy, the Inhumans and the Uni-Mind join them. The Shi'ar, the Kree and the Skrull create a vast armada to stop them, and are swiftly destroyed.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, decades have passed and some heroes are already dead. The missing Daredevil returns, after being in hibernation all those years and is welcomed by humans and the Vision. In space, the Godlike Ones destroy Galactus. Back on Earth, humans are evolved further, and are using their powers to regenerate Earth. Vision, being the last of the heroes alive and unable to keep living, sucides by imploding himself. In space, the Godlike Ones absorb the omnipotent entities of Death and Eternity.
The Celestials come to Earth and judge it unworthy, but the evolved humans join their minds together and kill the Celestial called Arishem, and the Eternals leave. Afterwards, their minds become one and become one with the Earth itself.
Meanwhile, the Godlike Ones create a tear in reality and access another, blank, universe, and create a Big Bang that gives birth to that universe. Death and Eternity separate, and the essence of the former heroes now are part of one or another.
The departure of those entities, however, affects the universe they left, which implodes upon itself. Earth, now a living, self-contained planet protected by the united minds of mankind, survives, awaiting for the rebirth of the universe.
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- Comics
- 1989
- 1989, July
- Copper-Age
- What If? Vol 2
- Tom DeFalco/Editor-in-Chief
- Keith Pollard/Cover Artist
- Roy Thomas/Writer
- Ron Wilson/Penciler
- Mike Gustovich/Inker
- Tom Vincent/Colourist
- Michael Heisler/Letterer
- Craig Anderson/Editor
- Uatu (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Emil Blonsky (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Carl Creel (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Jason Strongbow (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Avengers West Coast (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Mantis (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Simon Williams (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Wanda Maximoff (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Clinton Barton (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Vision (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Sean Cassidy (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Henry McCoy (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- T'Challa (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Steven Rogers (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Monica Rambeau (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Tyrone Johnson (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Tandy Bowen (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Matthew Murdock (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Laynia Petrovna (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Leonard Samson (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Victor von Doom (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Anthony Druid (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Otto Octavius (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Stephen Strange (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Maxwell Dillon (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Samuel Wilson (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Fantastic Four (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Jonathan Storm (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Susan Storm (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Reed Richards (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Sharon Ventura (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Benjamin Grimm (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Angelica Jones (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Frankenstein's Monster (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Freedom Force (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Frederick Dukes (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Irene Adler (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Raven Darkholme (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- St. John Allerdyce (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Erik Josten (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Patricia Walker (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Hercules (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Bruce Banner (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Ikaris (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Inhumans (Inhomo supremis)/Appearances
- Blackagar Boltagon (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Crystalia Amaquelin (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Gorgon Petragon (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Leonus (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Luna Maximoff (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Medusalith Amaquelin (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Pietro Maximoff (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Stallior (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Timberius (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Triton (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Anthony Stark (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Cain Marko (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Karkas (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Ulysses Klaw (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Samuel Sterns (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Max Eisenhardt (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Theodore Sallis (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Brigid O'Reilly (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Owen Reece (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- New Mutants (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Samuel Guthrie (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Rahne Sinclair (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Xi'an Coy Manh (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Roberto Da Costa (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Warlock (Technarch) (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Kurt Wagner (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Leland Owlsley (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Rachel Summers (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Luke Cage (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Power Pack (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Jack Power (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Katherine Power (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Julie Power (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Alexander Power (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Franklin Richards (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Lorna Dane (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Thomas Fireheart (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Frank Castle (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Aleksei Sytsevich (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Victor Creed (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- William Baker (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Walter Langkowski (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Katherine Pryde (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Jennifer Walters (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Peter Parker (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Namor McKenzie (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Shiro Yoshida (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Elizabeth Twoyoungmen (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Azura (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Thor Odinson (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Greer Grant (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Marsha Rosenberg (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- David Cannon (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Rita DeMara (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- X-Factor (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Warren Worthington III (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Scott Summers (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Robert Drake (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Jean Grey (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- X-Men (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Piotr Rasputin (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Alexander Summers (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Longshot (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Ororo Munroe (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- James Howlett (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Alison Blaire (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Rogue (Anna Marie) (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Elizabeth Braddock (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Herbert Wyndham (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Dormammu (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Frankie Raye (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Norrin Radd (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Galan (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Death (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Eternity (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Entity (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Celestials (Race)/Appearances
- Arishem (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Gammenon (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Ziran (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Hargen (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Aireo (Earth-89721)/Appearances
- Squadron Supreme (Earth-712)/Appearances
- Mark Milton (Earth-712)/Appearances
- Zarda Shelton (Earth-712)/Appearances
- Stanley Stewart (Earth-712)/Appearances
- Joseph Ledger (Earth-712)/Appearances
- James Dore Jr. (Earth-712)/Appearances
- Arcanna Jones (Earth-712)/Appearances
- Albert Gaines (Earth-712)/Appearances
- Fantastic Five (Earth-772)/Appearances
- Peter Parker (Earth-772)/Appearances
- Reed Richards (Earth-772)/Appearances
- Susan Storm (Earth-772)/Appearances
- Jonathan Storm (Earth-772)/Appearances
- Benjamin Grimm (Earth-772)/Appearances
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- Homo mermanus/Appearances
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- Bifrost/Appearances
- Captain America's Shield/Appearances
- Vibranium/Appearances
- Falcon's Wings/Appearances
- Hawkeye's Bow/Appearances
- Trick Arrows/Appearances
- Cyclops' Visor/Appearances
- Iron Man Armor Model 9/Appearances
- Doctor Octopus' Tentacles/Appearances
- Sonic Disruptor/Appearances
- Cloak of Levitation/Appearances
- Eye of Agamotto/Appearances
- Mjolnir/Appearances
- Silver Surfer's Surfboard/Appearances
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