#infinity gauntlet

[quiltofstars]

"The Infinity Gauntlet", vdB 158 // Curtis Tsai

[bronzemettle]

Billy Batson and Carol Danvers both go by Captain Marvel at one point or another. Does Batson end up deferring to Danvers and going by Shazam instead, or does Danvers take up one of her dozens of old monikers? If Batson goes by Shazam, how does he introduce himself without getting zapped back into Billy form?

Billy's never gone by Shazam in the BronzeRealms. For real, how does that even work? DC does stupid shit sometimes and we all know it.

Okay, with that out of the way let's do a timeline of the name "Captain Marvel" across heroes.

In 1940, the Justice Society of America are fighting off an attempted Kree invasion when they meet and are assisted by a mysterious man who calls himself Captain Marvel, who disappears soon afterwards.

Seeing him in action also seeds thoughts of rebellious inspiration in the mind of a young Kree soldier, who takes on the callsign Mar-Vell when he's promoted to Captain after the failure of his superiors.

In 1967, Mar-Vell goes rogue from the Kree and decides to hide out on earth, seeking out the surviving Justice Society. With their help, she transitions and starts a new identity under the name Wendy Lawson, and debuts shortly later as the superhero Captain Marvel.

In 1977, Lawson retires as Captain Marvel when she accidentally attracts Kree attention to earth again. Carol Danvers takes up the mantle shortly later, after gaining powers herself. At first she isn't comfortably with the legacy and goes by Ms Marvel, but Wendy persists that Carol should be Captain Marvel, so that doesn't last long.

In 1982, Wendy Lawson dies of cancer. The funeral is attended by a majority of the active or retired superheroes at that time.

In 1989, Carol Danvers is forced to flee earth by the rising Augment regimes (Khan Noonien Singh being the most noteworthy) when one of them causes the ecological collapse of multiple Kree star systems and frames her for having caused it, which even she herself believes, as a distraction that will successfully keep her occupied in space for decades to come.

In 2003, Billy Batson is inspired by the comicbooks loosely based on the adventures of Lawson (the same comics also inspire Jean Grey and Kamala Khan) to take on the name Captain Marvel when he gets unrelated superpowers from the wizard Shazam. In following years his adoptive siblings will join him and become known as the Captain Marvel family of heroes in Fawcett City.

In 2006, Billy Batson travels back in time to World War 2 and teams up with the Justice Society of America. He doesn't recognize the pre-transition Mar-Vell as one of the soldiers he fights against. However, working alongside actual soldiers in the Justice Society and seeing what wartime superheroing was like makes him rethink the military moniker "Captain", and afterward he starts going by CM1 instead (taking after his brother going by CM3). The press, despite his protests, will continue to refer to him as Captain Marvel for years to come.

In 2009, Rick Jones briefly goes by Captain Marvel after bonding with Genis-Vell, an unstable clone of the pre-transition soldier Mar-Vell. He retires the same year and encourages Genis to transition as Lawson had. Genis becomes Phyla-Vell and briefly maintains heroics as Captain Marvel, but leaves earth within a few months to try to build a new life and find an identity distant from the homes and legacy of Lawson.

In 2015, Carol Danvers discovers she was framed for space crimes, and why, and returns to earth, only to find the Eugenics War already ended without her back in 1998, with the surviving Augments having fled into space. She joins the New Avengers (this being the aftermath of the Avengers Civil War still).

Monica Rambeau never went by Captain Marvel... at least not in the still-extant timestream. She and multiple other heroes have memories of her serving as Captain Marvel, during the 5 years and 8 months of the aborted timestream in which "The Snap" occured. These five years were "reset" and erased by the Avengers, including Monica herself, in order to bring back the half the universe that Thanos had killed, and Monica chose to not take up the mantle again.

[vertigoartgore]

1991's Infinity Gauntlet Vol.1 #1-4 cover by artist George Pérez (R.I.P.).

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

[intotheweird]

Thanos. Art by George Pérez.

[darkseptor]

Cleaner version of Uzi

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[current-comix]

[rei-ismyname]

X-Men appearances in Infinity Gauntlet

For context, Thanos has just snapped his fingers and killed half the universe. Wolverine in civvies rescues a woman and her child, but does little for morale.

Doctor Strange and Adam Warlock are summoning their army from Earth's heroes. Wolverine in uniform! Cyclops in his X-Factor uniform (creating a continuity issue.) Namor and Wanda aren't X-Men but they're both mutants. Cloak is eventually X-adjacent, though not for a long time.

Cyke lurks in the background while crazy shit happens.

Hulk decides he likes Wolverine because he's a monster. It's cute that he calls him shorty. I miss smoking in comics!

More standing around.

Wolverine stabs Thanos in the chest and gets brutalized for his troubles. Still, pretty impressive vs someone with all 6 Infinity Gems.

Wanda and Cyke go for the mutant double team with long range attacks.

Doesn't work out well for her, and Cyclops yells 'WANDA!' which is cute. Flying boxos finally take advantage of the distraction.

Thanos conjures a block of something around Cyke's head, cutting off his attack and access to oxygen.

It's pretty effective - Cyclops suffocates and dies. Cap is distraught. Thanos is such a dick.

[lospaziobianco]

by Brandon Peterson

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

Official!!!!!! Thanks Russo Bros.. For dropping the ball on this beauty!! 🥰

[kinoritik13]

Armageddon v2 (short edition)

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I've been playing a lot of "Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" and this is my idea of what a "Bionicle Version" would look like. You'd go to the different temples to gather each element, and the Nuva Gauntlet would change color depending on what element you're using.

[vertigoartgore]

1990's Thanos Quest Vol.1 #1-2 painted covers by artist Jim Starlin.

[deebrisbyfish]

Hey, check it out! An EXTRA strip this week in celebration of International Left Hander's Day! As I was drawing this, I actually DID Google real-life left-handed folks and found out that a LOT of Simpsons characters are lefties because the show's creator, Matt Groening is as well. For the strip, I decided to stick with the idea that the first "people" that I thought of were fictional characters, and ran with it for fun. The three names listed here are really the first three names that popped into my mind while writing this. lol

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

This is all I wanted damnit!!