Appearing in "What If? the Cosmic Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy Had Been Defeated By Korvac?"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Charlie-27
- Martinex
- Yondu
- Vance Astro
- John Fury
- John Fury Jr
- Whisperer / Immortus (Nathaniel Richards) (Main story and flashback)
- Uatu the Watcher
- "Time-Keepers" (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Korvac
Other Characters:
- Stark Interplanetary (Mentioned)
- Avengers West Coast (Only in flashback)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (Only in flashback)
- U.S. Agent (John Walker) (Only in flashback)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Only in flashback)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams) (Only in flashback)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Only in flashback)
- Fantastic Five (Only in flashback)
- Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Only in flashback)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only in flashback)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in flashback)
- Human Torch (Earth-772) (Only in flashback)
- Invisible Girl (Susan Richards) (Mentioned)
- Franklin Richards (Only in flashback)
- Dr. Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)
- Annihilus (Only in flashback)
- Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast) (Only in flashback)
- Dr. Strange (Stephen Strange) (Only in flashback)
- Thor (Only in flashback)
- Galactus (Appears on screen)
- Howling Commandos (Mentioned)
- Sgt. Fury (Mentioned)
- Human Torch (Mentioned)
- Iceman (Mentioned)
- Irondroid (Bill Hogan) (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-90110
- New York City
- Mars
- Deimos
- Pluto (Mentioned)
- Citadel at the End of Time
Items:
Vehicles:
- Henry Pym
Synopsis for "What If? the Cosmic Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy Had Been Defeated By Korvac?"
At the Citadel at the End of Time, the Time-Keepers revealed to the Watcher that they had interfered in certain realities to preserve their own existence, which was endangered by certain entities known as Nexi; the first involving the yet-unborn Franklin Richards and the second involving the Vision conquering the world and they revealed that the android was the one they sought to erase.
The Time-Keepers planned to use Korvac as a pawn against Vision. When the Cosmic Avengers attempted to pursue a Skrull ship, they were captured and met Korvac, who revealed his plan to control the galaxy and the Ultra-Vision, and his thralls, the Guardians of the Galaxy, rather than Skrulls. The Comics Avengers' ship, the Henry Pym, landed on Deimos, where Korvac attempted to destroy the Ultra-Vision. As a result of Korvac also enthralling the Cosmic Avengers, the Space Commandos led by John Fury, Jr. fought both them and the Guardians before the Whisperer briefly drew his astral form out of his body and warned him what would happen if the Ultra-Vision's attempted destroyer won.
Fury used ultrasound to dispel Korvac's influence over the Cosmic Avengers, who then fought the Guardians before the latter team forgot that they had been hypnotized. Then, they learned that Korvac had destroyed the Ultra-Vision and taken over the computers that he had inhabited. However, the Cosmic Avengers were able to defeat Korvac.
Afterwards, the Time-Keepers planned to eliminate two other Nexi that threatened their existence. After the Guardians and Cosmic Avengers had parted ways, the Whisperer grabbed Irondroid and vanished.
Trivia
- Korvac's name is spelled as "Kovac" on the upper left panel of page 17.