History ComicBook / EarthX

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* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:The Skull starts out as a [[EmoTeen disaffected teen]], but becomes a egomaniac conqueror once he gains superpowers.]]

%%* DeathSeeker: Hyperion. And the patients of the Human Torch hospitals.

%%* WingedHumanoid: Wyatt Wingfoot/Red Wing, Luna, as well as many other unnamed characters, including one who might be Betty Ross. Angel also appears in Universe X.

* OedipusComplex: This story adds an extra layer to Thanos's obsession with Death by revealing that Death had taken on the likeness of his mother.

* SuperCivilServices: The New York City Police Department is composed of superhumans (mostly former superheroes) that maintain law and order in this universe. Older versions of [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]], ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl May Parker]] (as ComicBook/{{Venom}}) and [[ComicBook/{{Iceman}} Bobby Drake]] are part of the NYCPD, all of them using their superpowers in the service of the public law.

* BewareTheSuperman: While most of Earth's populace tries to carry on like normal after getting superpowers, some try to use their newfound powers for selfish purposes.

* TheDogBitesBack: When Toad and Magneto involuntarily exchange powers, the former becomes one of the mightiest mutants on Earth, ousts the latter from control of Sentinel City and makes him his personal court jester, abusing him every chance he had.

%%* PeoplePuppets: The Skull's shtick.

%%* PresidentEvil: Norman Osborn. [[spoiler: Until the Skull takes over.]]

** "Why does Death come on wings? Why not [[Literature/{{Discworld}} as a skeleton?]] Or in [[ComicBook/TheSandman the form of a teenage girl?"]]

* TakeUpMySword: Wyatt Wingfoot uses the deceased [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Falcon]]'s flight harness as Captain America's new partner. He even calls himself Redwing after the Falcon's [[NonHumanSidekick pet bird]].

->''"All these years I thought it was [[ComesGreatResponsibility power that brought responsibility]]. It's not. I was wrong. It's [[TheFettered responsibility that brings power.]] It's knowing what needs to be done that brings strength. And courage. [[PapaWolf That's my daughter]]... And I won't let her remain a mindless slave of the Skull."''

%%* PinocchioSyndrome: Now transferred to Deathlok.

* PinocchioSyndrome: Aaron Stack really wants to be more human.

FlashForward the Franchise/MarvelUniverse circa 1999-or-so 20 years in the future. [[Characters/Avengers90sMembers Aaron Stack, the Machine Man,]] is awakened by a [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Monolith.]][[note]]This is a CallBack to Machine Man's origin story in Creator/JackKirby's ongoing ''2001'' comic series, where a Monolith helped nudge Aaron toward stable self-awareness. The mainstream MCU would end up adopting this series's idea that the Monoliths are tools of the Celestials.[[/note]] The black slab rips away his synthetic skin and human appearance and transports him to a lost city on the moon. There he is greeted by Uatu, TheWatcher, who has been blinded. There, Aaron is told that he is to be the new Watcher, and to release all aspirations to be human.

FlashForward the Franchise/MarvelUniverse circa 1999-or-so 20 years in the future. [[Characters/Avengers90sMembers Aaron Stack, the Machine Man,]] is awakened by a [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Monolith.]][[note]]This was a CallBack to Machine Man's origin story in Creator/JackKirby's ongoing ''2001'' comic series, where a Monolith helped nudge Aaron toward stable self-awareness. The mainstream MCU would end up adopting this series's idea that the Monoliths are tools of the Celestials.[[/note]] The black slab rips away his synthetic skin and human appearance and transports him to a lost city on the moon. There he is greeted by Uatu, TheWatcher, who has been blinded. There, Aaron is told that he is to be the new Watcher, and to release all aspirations to be human.

FlashForward the Franchise/MarvelUniverse circa 1999-or-so 20 years in the future. Aaron Stack, the Machine Man, is awakened by a monolith. The black slab rips away his synthetic skin and human appearance and transports him to a lost city on the moon. There he is greeted by Uatu, TheWatcher, who has been blinded. There, Aaron is told that he is to be the new Watcher, and to release all aspirations to be human.

** RetCanon: Except [[ComicBook/DarkReign Norman Osborn ruling America]], Osborn taking the "Goblin King" moniker during ''Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', the detail about the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' monolith from Machine Man's origin story was a Celestial gizmo[[note]]in the last issue of his 1990's series, the Celestials take him away into space using a monolith[[/note]], the idea of Earth being a cosmic egg gets brought up in Jonathan Hickman's ''SHIELD'', and infecting Earth's population with the Terrigen Mists to turn everyone into Inhumans has been done twice in the Mainstream universe--during ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' and ''ComicBook/{{Inhumanity}}''.
*** There's also the tidbit about Death trying to put together one unified Marvel universe from the discarded moments of all the myriad timelines, [[spoiler: which is what eventually happens at the end of ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'']].
*** The 2018 Avengers series opens with confronting Celestials over their intent for the world. Turns out Earth's mutagenic potential is caused not by a Celestial gestating within it, but a diseased one ''dying'' on it. Earth is pretty much a petri dish intended to develop a vaccine to this infection, which the Eternals were meant to safeguard until it fully developed.
*** A female Thor, [[ComicBook/Thor2014 which eventually came to fruition in the main universe]].
*** Uatu loses his eyes and gains a sucessor [[spoiler: in ''Comicbook/OriginalSin'']].
*** [[ComicBook/ImmortalHulk Death's Realm can't hold the Hulk!]] Who'd have guessed it?
*** The Celestials really did destroy the original universe and create the multiverse. The First Firmament's still pissed about it. (And since these cosmic beings transcend alternate histories, it's possible Mar-Vell woke him up!)

** RetCanon: [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Except]] [[ComicBook/DarkReign Norman Osborn ruling America]], Osborn taking the "Goblin King" moniker during ''Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', the detail about the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' monolith from Machine Man's origin story was a Celestial gizmo[[note]]in the last issue of his 1990's series, the Celestials take him away into space using a monolith[[/note]], the idea of Earth being a cosmic egg gets brought up in Jonathan Hickman's ''SHIELD'', and infecting Earth's population with the Terrigen Mists to turn everyone into Inhumans has been done twice in the Mainstream universe--during ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' and ''ComicBook/{{Inhumanity}}''.