My Thoughts on Marvel's Battleworld

So here's something controversial, in May this year, Marvel are going to be destroying all the Marvel Universes and mashing them all together...huh. So if you're not that big of a comic person, here's the rundown, in the Marvel comics, there are multiple universes, and the two main ones are simply referred to as the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe, if you ever read a Marvel comic, they are most likely going to be from one of these two universes. They usually have the same characters but with slight differences, for example, in the Ultimate universe, Spider-Man is black and is a new character named Miles Morales, who over the past couple of years has become quite popular with the fans. And what Marvel are going to be doing is mashing these two universes together permanently, taking the best elements from both universes and putting them together in a brand new continuity, so basically a half-reboot of the Marvel comics, meaning if you've never read a Marvel comic but really want to get into it, this would be a good starting point.

Now this has caused a lot of backlash from fans, simply because they want clarity on what elements will remain, who will be Captain America? Who will be Spider-Man? Is Wolverine still going to be dead? What about female Thor? Ms Marvel? All of these questions and more make people worried about the coming future.

Now personally there are some things that I do seriously care about seeing, mostly Ms Marvel and Miles Morales because they are some of my favourite Marvel characters right now, though considering they are also everyone else's favourite characters, i doubt they wouldn't make the cut. I also want this to mean a return to form for the X-Men because there are so many X-Men comics and it's gotten so complicated that I want things to be simple again, give me one team of X-Men and have Xaviar be in charge of them. Preferably do the same with The Avengers, but that i'm a little more lenient on.

Apart from that, gotta be honest, i'm all for it, a lot of people complain that this means Marvel are going to get rid of a bunch of their newer characters and try and stylize themselves more like the films (Because you know, they haven't been doing that for the past 8 years) and worry that the diverse range of characters that Marvel have begun to introduce over the past few years are gonna be gone...and to that I say bullshit. Like i said, comics like Ms Marvel or Ultimate Spider-Man are some of their best selling comics, why would they abandon them? And it is entirely possible that there can be more than one Spider-Man in a Marvel universe, hell, right now we have 6 Spider-Man on Earth 616, and that's not even including the Spider-Verse arc they're currently going through.

What this is going to do is give Marvel a fresh start to do whatever they want without having to worry about the decades of content beforehand and introduce a lot of new faces into comics, especially considering how fast this fanbase has been growing.

But up until we can tell who's gonna be making it into Battleworld, we can't really make any judgements so...fingers crossed...I guess.

-Danny