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The comics are a series of AlternateUniverse comics, sharing the thematic sense of following possible ending to various Marvel properties, varying anywhere from grim to optimistic.
!!Titles
[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFourTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/IronManTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/MarvelTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/SpiderGirlTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/WolverineTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/XMenTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/CaptainMarvelTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/DeadpoolTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/DoctorStrangeTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesTheEnd''
* ''ComicBook/VenomTheEnd''
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!!''The End'' provides examples of:
* AfterTheEnd:
** In ''Hulk: The End'', the Hulk is the last man on Earth, having survived for more than two centuries after nuclear war wiped out mankind.
** In ''Captain Marvel: The End'', the Earth that Carol finds has been completely devastated.
** ''Miles Morales: The End'' is set decades after giant germs ravaged the Earth and killed most of humanity. An elderly Miles protects the safe haven of Brooklyn as its Mayor.
** ''Punisher: The End'' features WorldWarIII turning nuclear.
* ApocalypseHow:
** Class 1-2 in ''Miles Morales: The End'' as the germs have killed most of humanity, but several safe communities such as Brooklyn remain.
** Class 4 in ''Hulk: The End''. Humans nuked themselves off the planet. There's still other life though, including the predatory cockroaches.
** Class 5 in ''The Punisher: The End''. Nuclear war killed ''all'' visible life outside of the specially made bunker.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: In ''X-Men: The End'', an OlderAndWiser Kitty Pryde (not the best ass-kicker in the ComicBook/XMen, but still a good one) becomes President of the United States.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: In ''Venom: The End'', the LemonyNarrator makes a joke about "God forbid the world ever had to do without [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]]], eh?" as they narrate how his {{Artificial Intelligence}}s were among the many to survive into the twilight days of biological life. At first, this sounds like SelfDeprecation on Marvel's part... until the end of the story, when it is revealed that [[spoiler:the narrator is an A.I. descended from Stark, and thus they were actually describing themselves]].
* CloningGambit: In ''X-Men: The End'', it's revealed that Sinister once created a clone from his original, baseline human DNA as part of a plan to take down Apocalypse (he needed a body without Apocalypse's genetic meddling). He spliced in some DNA from Cyclops, believing that the Summers genes would ensure awesome superpowers. He was right; the clone would grow up to be, ironically enough, [[spoiler:Gambit]].
* DeathIsCheap: In ''Marvel: The End'', Thanos discovers that the universe is unraveling because of all the heroes coming back from death. He specifically blames things on Wonder Man, who was arguably the first resurrection in the Marvel Universe. Thanos then unmakes and remakes the universe, and states, "This time, dead is dead." Quite {{iron|y}}ic in that Thanos himself has died some of the most times of any character, as he is literally in a relationship with Death.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: ''Iron Man: The End'' is one of the only comics in the line NOT to involve [[TheHeroDies the death of the hero]] or [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]. Instead, it features an aging Tony Stark giving the mantle of Iron Man to one of his employees, and after defeating the Ultra-Dynamo (an upgraded Crimson Dynamo), Tony lets his successor take over as the new Iron Man, and retires to be with his wife Bethany Cabe.
* GainaxEnding: After seventeen issues of wrapping up forty years' worth of loose ends and providing a conclusive ending to the story of the ComicBook/XMen in a big battle royale, ''X-Men: The End'' randomly ends with several X-Men [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence gaining godhood]] without any forewarning. Oh, and Kitty Pryde becoming President of the U.S. and giving a speech to the surviving X-Men, but this one ''is'' foreshadowed, with her narration having been present from the start.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: ''Venom: The End'' has Venom's biological HiveMind vs. the artificial super-intelligences (or [[LemonyNarrator "Team Biolife vs. Team Godmind"]]). Both sides are trying to preserve life, but one wants to do it by way of cloning and reproducing previous life, and the other wants to digitize everything. This also counts as BlueAndOrangeMorality for both sides.
* LemonyNarrator: ''Venom: The End'' is narrated by a glib being who is prone to {{Technobabble}} and presenting the events of the story in a sillier, more exaggerated way. This person is revealed to be [[spoiler:a [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]-descended artificial intelligence]].
* NarratorAllAlong: ''Venom: The End'' ends by revealing that the story was being narrated by [[spoiler:the leader of the [[ComicBook/IronMan Stark]]-based artificial intelligences]], explaining the {{Technobabble}} and [[LemonyNarrator sarcasm-heavy narration]].
* PhlebotinumOverload: {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Marvel: The End'' when Thanos finds that the only way to win is to absorb the Heart of the Universe. It's noted and warned that this might happen, but he actually does manage to control it (although he gives it up later).
* PeopleFarms: ''Venom: The End'' depicts a far-off future in which Venom, with access to the genetic abilities of everyone they ever bonded with (which through time travel is ''everything that has ever lived''), builds "Meat Gardens" out of entire planets to birth armies of genetically engineered superhumans in his HopelessWar against machines for the fate of the universe.
* SelfDeprecation: ''Deadpool: The End'' has MultipleEndings. One of them is the [[FunWithAcronyms Distinguished Competition]] ending, a TakeThat toward Creator/DCComics and their overly serious movies. Deadpool comments that the whole {{Deconstruction}} fad is getting old... but he himself is dressed just like Penance, [[AudienceAlienatingEra a much-reviled example of Marvel trying to reboot Speedball of all people into some grimdark edgelord]].
* TimeAbyss: In ''Venom: The End'', the Venom symbiote survives for ''trillions of years'', long after all other bio-life has been wiped out by the [[ArtificialIntelligence Godminds]].
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