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Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Then i guess its my job to make you awareThe HOM reality was given a reality designation of Earth-58163. Any warping of reality that results in a change of events from the mainstream reality results in an alternate reality with a unique universal reference.
How can you not be aware of the very clear distinction between the two realities when Wandas reality warp resulted in a different history which the whole saga took place in. Within a reality warp the reality warper determines the properties, they determine how reality plays out within their range of influence. Wanda was shot within her reality warp and she resurrected herself. Given that she has only shown this ability within her reality warp it cannot be assumed that its something she could do if she has not had the chance to apply her powers to herself or her environment. Wandas human reaction time lets her down. Thanos wins.
You do realize that the effects of the Omniversal Chaos Wave persisted throughout all alternate realities even after the HOM reality branched off into its own alternate universe, right?
Wanda gets killed with her inferior reaction time, resurrects immediately (which she demonstrated on-panel), and says "No more Thanos."
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
And how many of those alterations to 616 have been left in place beyond the story arcs they took place in?Following Grant Morrisons run which made mutants a large part of society and took away from the X-mens traditional role and feel as outcasts of society, it was stated HOM was brought in to bring about a lasting change to the mutant status quo. So unlike the majority of these storylines whereby changes to history in 616 have been reversed by their conclusion, these changes were left in place allowing a later story to inform us of how far her spell actually reached when before that conversation between Beast and Dr Strange.
Several. None of them effected changes across the entire Marvel Multiverse simultaneously however.
And you're not seeing my point. HOM Wanda didn't just alter 616 history. She distorted reality across every alternate universe.
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
I never said Beast did surmise that. All that was stated was that the spell affected many worlds and dimensions. It might not have said that 616's connection to alternate universes resulted in the spread of the spell but by that same token it was never explicitly stated that Wanda directly across the entire multiverse.The nature of Marvel reality is that you have the core reality that is 616 and from this main timeline alternates spring off:
These alternates arise usually from artificial intervention. Attempts to change history from its set path. These alternate realities are branches off of a main trunk, what makes them diverge is an altered event. With that in mind, these alternate realities are the same as 616 or should i say are 616 up until this point of divergence. Wanda didnt simply change an event, she changed the properties of 616. She made the x gene inert. With that in mind, any reality that is truly an alternate reality of 616 would have been affected. That goes without question. If a reality isnt affected by such a wide reaching change to the characteristics of 616 then it is not an alternate reality it is a parallel reality. There is a difference, one Marvel has defined:
Alternate Earth
Parallel Earth
An alternate reality can refer to a divergent reality and a parallel reality. A parallel universe is unaffected by alterations to 616 and can have different properties and origins. A divergent universe is the mainstream reality up to its point of divergence. As stated, (with the possible exception of misnamed realities), there are no parallel realities within Marvel.
With that in mind, just to reiterate, a change to the characteristics of 616 is going to affect its divergent realities. If it doesnt, they arent divergent. Parallel universes dont exist in Marvel.
So... Beast never surmised it and it's never hinted on-panel. So... speculation. Not just that... but conjecture derived from handbook entries.
Changes to 616 reality don't change alternate universes across the board simultaneously at the point of divergence. Name me one 616 history-altering adventure that completely distorted every single alternate universe at the same time.
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Legions tamperings destablised the core of creation the M'kraan crystal, resulting in a crystallization wave that was multiversal in affect as stated by Jahf. The story is so well known, surely scans arent necessary?
Surely they are. Just because it was dealing with an artifact that is connected to the Marvel Multiverse, doesn't mean
Age of Apocalypse altered history across every single alternate universe. Scans or it didn't happen.
Marvel: 1607 threatened to do that, via cascade effect (not even simultaneous distortion), but ultimately did not. Show me where it happened in
Age of Apocalypse.
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Wanda changed history through bringing about HOM. That is why HOM is recognised as an alternate reality with a unique reality designation. The No More Mutants change meant from that point onwards the x gene for the most part was inert. Therefore understandably, alternate or more specifically divergent realities stemming from 616 from this point would be affected by Wandas spell.So until we have concrete confirmation, it is not certain whether the multiversal affect of this spell was direct or just carried across by the connected nature of realities within a multiverse.
Even if we were to treat your interpretation as the way forward, it wouldnt make Wanda a multiversal power. All she is doing is switching off a gene in each universe. She is not dealing with multiple universes total amount of matter and energy, but instead making a very small(in terms of a universes total matter and energy) change in each dimension. Why would that require her to be anything more than a universal power?
A battle between the post retcon Molecule Man and Beyonder resulted in small warpings of reality across the multiverse and post retcon theyre by canon below the Celestials and abstracts. The 616 Phoenix duplcated the essence of a tower and projected this in one act across the multiverse so it existed in every reality of the multiverse linking them. A relatively small change applied to each reality of a multiverse does not make you a multiversal power. Once again, manipulating the total(or near total at least) matter and energy of multiple universes simulataneously is what makes for a true multiversal power.
So either way youre arguing, Wanda doesnt become or lose out on being a multiversal power.
HOM Wanda affected every alternate universe simultaneously. You have no proof that her power was only limited to the 616 universe, and thereafter cascaded out via the 616' universe's distortion. You don't even have any sample precedent in all of Marvel canon history. What you do have is an on-panel description of HOM Wanda's power being attributed as the direct cause for the distortion across every alternate universe simultaneously:
^ This sh1t doesn't happen every time reality/history changes in the 616 universe. In fact, it hasn't... ever. Until HOM Wanda. There's a clear distinction here you're trying to avoid for whatever reason.