I decided to mash up in one post the summaries of my to favorite marvel crossover dystopias that are the almost exact opposite
from one another the Age of Apocalypse and the House of M. And to start off
this post I'm going to rank my top ten favorite new character and
reinterpretation of classic X characters from marvel marry mutants in the Age
of Apocalypse .
10: Generation Next is a million times more interesting than 616 Generation
X that they had replaced in this realty. Colossus and Kitty just kicked ass as the leaders of these messed up kids.
9: Spiraling out of Generation Next you have the disgusting looking villains ever, Sugar
man, that being able to escape the Age of Apocalypse to marvel 616 he quietly
became a relevant character lurking in the shadows, over looming in Genosha being
the one responsible of the Mutate program.
8 AOA Sunfire new image is one
of the most interesting reworks in this realty, and this look ended up in Marvel
616 twice, please marvel don't try to use his old costume anymore it looks
dated.
7: The introduction of Morph as
the comic relief for this realty worked and he became a fan favorite, a alternate
version of him ended up as a member of the Exiles.
6: Mr. Creed/Sabertooth and Wild child as
tooth's side kick just was a fantastic idea, I always wondered way Marvel
didn't try harder to pair these guys up more in 616, and I must say that Wild
child as character had tons of potential
but has been very under used in the 616 universe in general. While Mr. Creed
ended up as a main member of the Exiles.
5: AOA Cyclops is a bad ass, even though he lost a eye he's a rebel that
question orders quietly, he had his own agenda, not like the 616 Cyclops that up
untill the 2000's he was just a one dimensional boy scout.
4: Dark Beast is Hank Mc Coy gone wrong and thank fully he ended up in
Marvel 616 to make things miserable for the original Beast, becoming his arch
enemy.
3 Holocaust/Nemesis: What a cool but under used villain, he has such
untapped potential. 
2: Weapon X/Weapon Omega/ Wolverine is one of the coolest Logan incarnations ever,
even though he's a hero he's lost most of his moral code, up better said warped morals, leading him to do some messed up stuff like
bombing his old buds the X-Men and latter becoming the new Apocalypse.
1 Blink a fan favorite that ended up being a star in the Exiles comic,
the crazy thing few people actually remember the first time she appeared in the
Phalanx covenant and seemingly died. Marvel please bring her back in her own
series.
My Top Ten, House of M Characters:
Iron man as usual get a new and super cool armor for each
crossover, and this one looks like something out of Robotech.
HM Hulk, is all covered up in ceremonial aboriginal
makings, and he takes over Australia and becomes a badass head of state.
Liquid Metal Doom
hass formed a pretty evil fantastic four
to protected Latveria.
This realties Winter
Soldier has Captain America's shield but works as an assassin.
The HM Spidy has a really cool costume, but the best thing about him is how the whole story arc just destroys his life.
Age of Apocalypse Summary
In the
aftermath of Legion's quest, Xavier has died and Magnet is left to fulfill his
dream, but things have gone terribly wrong Apocalypse attacks and takes over the
United States and sinks the planet in a global War. Only the strong survive and
homosapiens most be cleaned from the face of the Planet.
Characters:
Heroes: Magneto,
Weapon X, Mr. Creed (Sabertooth), Scarlet Witch, Storm, Jean Grey, Iceman,
Rogue, Colossus, Generation Next, Magik, Cyclops, X-man
Villains:
Apocalypse, Dark Beast, Sugar Man, Gideon, Candra, Havok, Dead man Wade
(Deadpool), Donald Pierce, Hulk, Daredevil, Inhumans, Maximus.
Antagonists: Mr.
Sinister, Imperial Guard, Silver Samurai
Supporting
cast: Human Council, Angel, Destiny, John Proudstar, Star Jammers, Gatway, Tony
Stark, Gwen Stacy, Donald Blake.
Issue
Summary:
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X-men Chronicles 1(XC) Magneto forms his version of
the X-men; Apocalypse makes his first move and attacks the US. But while the
X-men engage his forces, Apocalypse’s son Nemesis attacks their base and kills
Scarlet Witch.
Age Of Apocalypse One Shot: Story how Wolvy meets Mariko and battles
Silver Samurai for the first time.
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XC 2 X-men battle the Wolverine (he isn't Logan) a heavy hitter from
Apoc’s ranks, but we see in this issue that there is some internal conflict
among Mags team.
Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: Magneto’s X-men go to the Moon to rescue Sunfire, and are confronted by Maximus and his genetically altered Inhumans.
Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: Magneto’s X-men go to the Moon to rescue Sunfire, and are confronted by Maximus and his genetically altered Inhumans.
Age Of Apocalypse One Shot: Story about how Tooth befriends Wild
Child, and escape prison.
Age Of Apocalypse One Shot: Colossus tiered of endless battle is
offered by Magneto to become the teacher of the next generation of Young Mutants.
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X-men Alpha Bishop the only survivor from Earth 616
is confronted by Onus and his force, Magneto’s X-men saves Bishops life. Bishop
reveals what really happened in the past with Xavier to the X-men and that
there reality is wrong and most be corrected.
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Astonishing X-men (AX) 1 Mags put a plan into
motion to fix realty and end Apocalypse.
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Amazing X-men (AMX) 1 Storms team heads to aid the
exodus of humans to Europe.
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Generation Next (GN) 1 Colossus and his young
students receive the mission to find Magik.
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Weapon X (WX) 1Wolvy and Jean head to Europe to
meet up with the Human Council.
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Factor-X (FX) 1 Cyclops has his doubts about his role
with Apocalypse and Sinister goes rogue.
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X-man (XM) 1 Forge finds a errant mutant called
Nathan Grey, and he’s freaking powerful.
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Caliber-X (CX) 1 Nightcrawler to Avalon to find
Destiny.
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GE 2 Gambit and his team find themselves with the
Shi’ar’s Imperial Guard and get saved by the Star Jammers.
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CX 2 Nightcrawler discovers that Mystic’s terrible
secret.
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XM 2 Forge starts training X-man.
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FX 2 Cyclops helps Polaris escape Dark Beast’s lab.
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WX 2 Wolvy battles Donald Pierce and also part ways
with Jean Grey.
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AX 2 Mr. Creed battles Holocaust.
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GE 3 Gambit and crew actually steals the M’Kraan
Crystal.
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XM 3 Sinister kills Forge.
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FX 3 Jean Grey is captured by Dark Beast, we
discover more about how Wolvy lost his hand and Cyclops loses his eye. Cyclops
rebels and liberates Jean.
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AX 3 X-men’s battle against the Infinities rages
on.
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AMX 3 Apocalypse attack preemptively Mags and
Captures him.
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CX Apoc’s force attack Avalon, Juggernaut dies,
Crawler defeats Wade.
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WX 3 Wolvy finds the man he’s looking for Gateway;
he’s going to help the human surprise attack Apocalypse.
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Universe X 1-2 Human council tries to broker a deal
with Mikhail the fourth horseman of Apoc, but everything goes south and all
hell breaks loose.
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WX 4 The Human Council start the invasion, Wolvy
got to make sure Donald Pierce doesn’t get in the way.
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GE 4 Strong Guy Betrays Gambit and steals the crystal
for Apocalypse.
GN 4 Colossus and the Gen next kids are able to rescue Magik from the Sugar
man. But Colossus sacrifices his whole team to do this. XM 4 X-man discovers more about his origin and battles Mr. Sinister.
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AX 4 Blink battles Holocaust in a final showdown,
but he gets away.
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FX 4 Cyclops is a wanted man; Cyclops battles Havok
and defeats him.
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CX 4 Shadow King Attacks Avalon Nightcrawler and
his crew defeat him but Doug Ramsey is killed.
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AMX 4 We discover Multiple Man is where they get
Apocalypse cannon fodder. Banshee defeats Abyss. X-Teams unite to start the
final assault on Apocalypse.
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X-men Omega 1 X-teams battle against Apocalypse’s
forces, thanks to Majik and the M’Kraan crystal Bishop travels to the past and
fixes the time line.
Age Of Apocalypse One Shot: Magneto make a deal with Sinister not to
hunt him down and he'll will not tell anyone that he didn't stop the Nuclear
attack.
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
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X-man, Dark Beast, Holocaust, Nightcrawler and
Sugar man end up in Marvel 616.
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Blink and Mr. Creed end up in the Exiles. Also
Morph even though he’s not the same Morph from AOA verse.
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Magneto Kills Apocalypse.
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Wolvy Kills Havok.
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Colossus kill Shadow cat
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Gambit kills Colossus
The Good:
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It’s my favorite X-men Crossover
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Some really cool version of my favorite heroes and
some are cooler than the originals.
·
Introduction of Blink, I know her first appearance
is during the Phalanx cross over, but here is where she leaves her mark.
·
Some super cool X-men line ups.
·
In Universe X you discover what happed to the none
Mutant heroes.
Rating: 10
Age of Apocalypse (II)
The X-men have to hunt down a new menace that his attacking them
from the shadows.
Characters:
Heroes: X-Men, Jean Grey
Villains: Sinister, North Star, Aurora, Puck,
Xorn/Paige Guthrie, Cannonball, Jay Guthrie, Cloak, Dagger, Suaron, Syrin,
Hellions, Morlocks
Supporting Cast: Beak and Magneto's little kid.
Issue Summary:
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AOA 1-6: Kirika is sent to find
Wolverine that has gone into hiding in Canada, after battling Puck she finds
Logan, while Magneto use his X-Men to hunt down
rogue and evil mutants like the Hellions and the Morlocks. Wolvy and
X-23 battle North Star and Aurora in their trek out of Canada.
·
X-Men battle the Guthrie's but it`s a
distration so Page/Xorn take vengence on Magneto for leaving behind in the
Sugar man's pens.
·
The X-Men defeat the Guthrie's
with help of Psylocke
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The Guthrie's where helped by
Sinister, so the X-men set out to find him and discover that Jean Grey is alive
and under his control, the X-men battle Sinister and his Sinister Six and defeat
him
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Jean Grey is alive.
·
Magneto falls from grace,
thanks to the revalation that he made a deal with Sinister during the aftermath
of the fall of Apocalypse, and that he didn't stop the nuclear attack Jean did.
·
Kirika/X-23 seems to be Wolvy's
daughter with Mariko.
·
Quicksilver dies.
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Magneto goes to prison, Jean
becomes the leader of the X-men
The Bad:
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Psylocke just pops out of
nowhere.
·
One of the Sinister Six members
identities isn't revealed but he looks like a fat Havok.
·
On a tomb stone Robert Drake
appears dead but he appear in X-Force as one of the AOA refugees that ends ups
Earth 616.
The Good:
·
Lots of Japanese Mutants, ¿I
wonder why? maybe the writer.
Rating: 9
Uncanny X-Force 19.1: The X-Terminators hatch up a plan to clone the
dead Scarlet Witch to use her as a bomb to end all mutant to save the final
human city, when Weapon Omega/Aoa Wolverine arrives with his Black Legion
and kills Magneto and Rogue. Plan back
fires and Jean Grey with Sabertooth/Mr. Creed lose their powers.
The Good:
·
Origins of the Prophet
Lasting Effects:
·
Jean and Tooth are left
powerless.
Age of Apocalypse 1: X-Terminators Team goes up against Daredevil who is trying to find a man that seems have
come from Earth 616.
The Good:
·
Introduction of Azazel into the
AOA universe.
·
Tooth and Grey dealing with
their lose of power.
·
Introduction of Prophet
(William Stryker), Fiend (Francesca Trask, Zora Risman, Gaydon Creed (Horror
Show) and Goodnight (Donald Pierce).
Age of Apocalypse 2: Sugar man and Beast have broght back Cyclops
from the dead with the celestial life seed. X-Terminators almost don't make out
after the run-in with Cyclops.
Age of Apocalyse 3: Havok, Emplate, Dead man Wade are also brought back from the dead,
X-Terminators arrive to stop Dark Beast and Sugar man from bring back more
heavy wait mutants.
Age of Apocalypse 4: Goodnight trick Hulk in joining them to attack
the Sugar man laboratory destroying everything, but Prophet bring back Penance
(M) and Colosus.
Lasting Effects:
·
Weapon Omega seeming kills the
Hulk.
The Good:
·
it's sort of explained why
Donald isn't techno organic
Age of Apocalypse 5: Prophet and Jean try to recruit Quintin Quire
but he ends up killing himself.
The Good:
·
We discover how Logan became
the new Apocalyse.
Lasting Effects:
·
Prophet take blood from Quire
Age of Apocalypse 6: Penance is back and becomes a challenge to
Weapon Omega's control, and secretly side with the X-Terminators.
Age of
Apocalypse 7: The Prophet and his team go to Latveria in search of Doom the
only one with information of the Celestials the creator of Apocalypse's death
seed, the Info that can end Weapon Omega reign.
Age of
Apocalypse 8: The Prophet plays Doom and actually out smarts him, and gets the
information he wanted by cutting off his head.
Age of
Apocalypse 9: Jean Grey on the run from Omega's forces, that are hot on her
heals.
Age of
Apocalypse 10: Sugar man creates a pill with the information extrated from Doom
that will stop Weapon Omega, while Jean is confronted by Logan, when Mr. Creed
jumps in but gets his butt kicked.
Age of
Apocalypse 11: Goodnight using Kid Omegas brain traps the Shadow King, Logan's
most dangerous minions. While Jean tricks Logan into taking the death pill.
Age of
Apocalypse 12: Weapon Omega's is gone and the good Logan is back, Penance
becomes the new Ruler.
Age of Apocalypse
13: Fallout from the last issue, Logan hunt down Scott Summer, end of the series
House of M
Scarlet Witch has created a perfect realty where
mutants rule the planet and have a relatively good coexistence with humans, but
this Utopia becomes a complete dystopia when the world’s heroes start to
realize that everything is a lie.
Characters:
Heroes: Photon, Hulk, Scorpion, Inhumans, Namor, Black
Panther, Luke Cage, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Moonknight, Tygra, Misty Knight,
Punisher, Mockingbird, Black Cat, Cloak, White Tiger, Doctor Strange the Thing
Antagonist: Erik Josten, AIM, Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Magneto, Shield, Shang
Chi
Villains: Purple
Man, Hydra, Exodus, Onus, Apocalypse, the Red
Guard, Sabertooth, Nuke, Winter Soldier, Mimic, Willis Stryker, Thunderbird,
Tasmaster, Blob, Avalanch, Boom Boom, Feral, Kingpin Typhoid Mary, Bulleye,
Gladiator, Electra, Doom, Quicksilver
Sporting Cast: The Kree
Issue Summary:
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House of M 1: The Avengers and X-Men head to
Genosha to give a super hero intervention to the Scarlet Witch, by a petition
of Xavier that sustains that her powers are out of control, but when they
arrive Scarlet Witch rebuts realty.
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House of M Civil War 1: After the death of his daughter
Magneto starts to searching the world for mutants like himself, during this
time he allies himself with Apocalypse for a time till they have a falling out.
·
House of M Civil War 2: Magneto has declared war on
humanity tired of mutants being hunted down, here he meets Xavier. Magneto's forces attack Genosha that uses
mutants slave labor.
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House of M Civil War 3: Magneto conquers Genosha
and frees it mutant population, and forges alliances with the Inhumans,
Atlantis and Wakanda, while the US government sends a task force with Mimic,
Winter Soldier and Nuke to kill Magneto, but instead kill Xavier.
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House of M Civil War 4-5: Magneto in retaliation of
Xavier's assination take down the whole US government.
·
Avengers House of M 1: Cage arrives to New York
City after Magneto's take over, Luke seeks revenge against Willis Stryker
and becomes the underground protector of Sapien City taking down most of the crime bosses of NY
city, joining force with Hawkeye, Moonknight, Iron Fist and Tygra .
·
Avenger House of M 2: FBI inspector John Proudstar/Thunderbird
creates a taskforce to take down Cage's crew, but sends Misty Knight to
infiltrate them first. Cage's team and Thunderbird battle leading to the death
of Tygra.
·
Avenger House of M 3: Misty turns on Thunderbird
and joins Cage, Luke starts to join forces with other gangs like the Shang
Chi's Dragons and the Wolves/New Warriors but find that Kingpin will not fall
into line . Cage takes vengeance on Taskmaster for killing Tygra. Thunderbird
makes a deal with Kingpin.
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Avengers House of M 4-5: Kingpin and Thunderbird set
a trap for Cage and his crew, Luke is able to defeat them exposing Thunderbird
heavy handed policing, leading to Magneto to come down hard on John Proudstar.
·
House of M 2: Scarlet Witch has rebutted reality
into a Utopia and Magneto is the leader of the free world ruled by mutants and
Wolverine is the only one that knows that everything is wrong, thank to so many
mind implants Logan remembers what had happened.
·
House of M 3: Wolvy on the run saved by Luke Cage's
crew.
Uncanny X-men 462: The House of M has started and it has wrecked the Multiverse, Captain Britain does his best to stop the Jaspers that has been reborn.
Uncanny X-men 462: The House of M has started and it has wrecked the Multiverse, Captain Britain does his best to stop the Jaspers that has been reborn.
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House of M 4: Wolvy meets Layla Miller who also knows
what happened and has the power to wake people to remember what has happened.
·
Spider-man House of M 1-5: Peter goes totally crazy with the revelation that this realty
isn't real that he actually take up the Green Goblin persona.
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Thunderbolts 11: Erik Josten tries to spark a war
with the Kree, so they can topple Magneto.
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Exiles 69-72:
Exiles new mission is to stop the Proteus that has reborn thanks to the
Scarlet Witch, after battling the Exiles Proteus take Mimic as his new host
body.
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Incredible Hulk 83-86: Hulk joins forces with AIM
to stop human oppression from the Mutant leaders in Australia, but after
defeating Exodus Hulk realizes that AIM has some evil plans that he has to
stop.
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House of M 5: With Layla, Logan and Cage amass army
of Heroes to take down Magneto who they think used Scarlet Witch to create this
reality.
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Fantastic Four House of M 1-3: Doom tries to trap
Magneto in pocket Universe.
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Black Panther 7: Magneto sends Sabertooth to kill
Panther who is becoming a thorn in his side. Panther takes care of him easily,
so Mags sends Apocalypse but with help of Blackbolt, Panther's friend the menace is dealt with.
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House of M 6: Heroes gear up for attack.
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House of M 7: The battle rages on, its reveled to
Doc Strange that Quicksilver is the responsible for the whole mess and Magneto
is pist and kills Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch lashes out with a spell "No
More Mutants".
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House of M 8: Everything is back to normal but most
mutants have lost their power and Scarlet Witch goes into hiding.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Most Mutants are depowered.
·
Wolverine gets his memories
back.
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Hawkeye comes back to life, and takes up the Ronin persona
·
Layla Miller is introduced, she
latter joins X-Factor
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Not everyone remembers what
happened
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Proteus causes all kinds of grief
for the Exiles
The Bad:
The Good:
·
Magneto isn’t necessarily a villain he’s a head
of State that gives him a new dimension.
·
Winter Soldier using Captain Americas Shield.
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Cool see Thunderbird in this crossover.
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It's pretty messed up who Spidy get to have a kid,
be maried Gwen Stacy and his uncle Ben is alive and then be told it a lie.
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The whole plot twist making Quicksilver the
responsible for what happened was just fantastic.
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No More Mutants, priceless.
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Doom mom was alive in this realty and she knows how
to manipulate Victor
Intresting to see a Wolverine driven Crossover that doesn't have him hacking and slashing
Rating: 10
