History ComicBook / EarthX

In 2019, it was announced that a prequel, ''Marvels X'', will be released.

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%%* OldSuperhero: Obviously.

The story continues in two other mini-series. In ''Universe X'', the resurrected Captain Mar-Vell teams up with Captain America to help wage war with Death herself as the heroes deal with Earth's magnetic axis being shifted. Finally, in ''Paradise X'', Earth's heroes try to hunt down a new Death as was is preparing to brew within the Negative Zone.

Written by Jim Krueger and drawn by John Paul Leon, with ideas from Creator/AlexRoss' sketchpad. It has two sequels, ''Universe X'' and ''Paradise X.''

->-- '''[[Comicbook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]'''

->''"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 Skrull."''

* AbusivePrecursors: The Celestials.

* AndIMustScream: What became of [[spoiler:The Eternals.]]

* BewareTheSuperman: Justified and explained. Also, Beware The General Populace.

* BittersweetEnding

* DeathSeeker: Daredevil.

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

* {{Elseworld}}
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:The Skull.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: Clea. Also Uatu (not so much this as a Face Heel Reveal; he's always been like that).

* HeelFaceTurn: Loki.
* HeroicMime: Black Bolt.

* InteractiveNarrator: Uatu and Aaron Stack.

* LegacyCharacter: The Skull, Ahura Boltagon/Black Bolt II, The Iron Avengers...Really, the place is crawling with them.

* OldSuperhero: Obviously.

* PeoplePuppets: The Skull's shtick.

* PresidentEvil: Norman Osborn.

* RightMakesMight: The above quote.

* ShoutOut: Lots of them, resulting in a great many ironic roles.

* StarSpangledSpandex: Mar-Vell.

* UnreliableNarrator: Uatu.

* WingedHumanoid: Wyatt Wingfoot/Red Wing, Luna, as well as many other unnamed characters.

* HeelFaceTurn: The Absorbing Man. ''Doctor Doom.'' ''Thanos.''
* HeelRealization: The Gargoyle.

* ImAHumanitarian: Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man with himself.

* PuppeteerParasite: The Hydra organism created by Osborn.

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

* TemporalParadox: Apparently, this is how alternate universes are made.
* TimeyWimeyBall

* CaptainErsatz: Hyperion, [[LampshadeHanging referred to repeatedly as a "super man"]] His storyline is meant to be the AlternateCompanyEquivalent of ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', and the expanding Paradise that's devouring the Negative Zone is an affectionate parody of the "white wall" effect in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Jude, the Entropic Man.
* DeadlyDistantFinale
* DeathSeeker: Hyperion. And the patients of the Human Torch hospitals.

* FlatWhat
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Bloodstorm.
* AGodAmI: Mar-Vell.

* InteractiveNarrator: Combining the previous series, this time it's between Aaron and Kyle.
* {{Jerkass}}: Vance Astro, and by extension, the old Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy.

* PinocchioSyndrome: Now transfered to Deathlok.

* PowerPerversionPotential: A brief instance late in the story, after Captain Britain marries Medusa; she of the PrehensileHair.

* YouBastard: "We fought and died and were brought back to life over and over again for your damned comic book need for excitement!"

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->''"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."''

* PettingZooPeople: Black Panther, Wakanda's Ani-Men, Dog-Face of the new X-Men, Ka-Zar and Shanna, and many others of the mutated humanity.

* PuppeteerParasite: The Hydra organism created by Owsborn.

* GenderBender: Thor is a woman due to a curse by Loki, and she is unable to reverse the spell without leaving Earth vulnerable to attack in the meantime.

* PaletteSwap: Costumes in in the afterlife are colored inversely to what they'd be in the world of the living (blue becomes orange, red becomes green, etc).

* FaceHeelTurn: Multiple Man. Nightcrawler. Wong.

* ScrewYouElves: ''"You know what your problem is, Uatu? Your head's too big."''

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Norman Osborn]] dies pretty much the same way [[spoiler:Gwen Stacy]] did. To further twist the knife in, due to Spiders-Man messing with his mind, he sees [[spoiler:Gwen]] pushing him to his death when it's actually the Skull.

* AlternateContinuity: WordOfGod from Marvel is that nothing from this series is canon to the mainstream Frachise/MarvelUniverse.
** RetCanon: [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Except]] [[ComicBook/DarkReign Norman Osborn ruling America]], Osborn taking the "Goblin King" moniker during Superior Spider-man, 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}}''.

* DropTheHammer: Mjolnir is now Thor's hammer hand.

** The 2018 Avengers series opens with confronting Celestials. 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.

* TakeThat: Noticeably inverted since last time. Remember how Wolverine was shown in the first series as a no-good lazy bum who sat around watching TV all day? The Wolverine that appears in this series is from ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'' and is portrayed as being far more dignified and badass than Earth-X's Wolverine (Creator/AlexRoss had been won over by the ''Franchise/XMenFilmSeries'' at this point).

* EpicHail: Black Bolt calls for help and dies in his CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* ABoyAndHisX: Bruce Banner and his diaper-wearing, ape-like Hulk.

* MythologyGag: Far too many to mention.
** But it should be stated that pretty much every character's altered appearance is meant to be a Mythology Gag of some sort. For instance, the fact that half of Namor's body is now on fire is apparently a reference to the original, Golden Age Human Torch. Alex Ross had depicted a fight between Torch and Namor in his ''Marvels'' series.

** RetCanon: [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Except]] [[ComicBook/DarkReign Norman Osborn ruling America]], Osborn taking the "Goblin King" moniker during Superior Spider-man, 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]], 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}}''.

Written by Jim Krueger and drawn by John Paul Leon, with ideas from Alex Ross' sketchpad. It has two sequels, ''Universe X'' and ''Paradise X.''