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Since her launching , America Chavez ’s origin story has remain unclouded and consistent untilAmerica Chavez : Made in The USAcreated continuity proceeds last summer . This amusing miniseries attempt to retcon America ’s history and ground her more personally in Marvel ’s 616 existence . However , cardinal plot threads stay unaddressed that seem to corroborate America Chavez ’s original backstory . What is the accuracy ? Also , where does this journeying entrust America as she is set to star in the upcomingThunderboltsrelaunch ?
Before the retcon , America Chavez was established as an interdimensional immigrant . Chavez ’s original backstory is best clarify in the pages of Gabby Rivera and Joe Quinones ' 2017 seriesAmerica . She add up from the Utopian Parallel , a promised land on another plane of beingness created by the Demiurge , the future deity - level version of Wiccan . After Chavez ’s mama , Elena and Amalia sacrifice themselves to protect the Utopian Parallel , she fleas from home base . While study at the multiversal Sotomayor University , America reconnects with an old flame from her adolescence on Earth-616 , meets Amalia ’s mother Madrimar , and watch about Planeta Fuertona , the hereditary home of Amalia and Madrimar . America even travel to Fuertona and support it alongside other portal - punch starling .
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A successful retcon recontextualizes case and events ; enriching them by shedding new sparkle on previous chronicle . Kalinda Vazquez and Carlos Gomez’sAmerica Chavez : Made in The USAretcons nearly all of America ’s origin level out of existence . It is a bold move , but how it was done has ultimately created a persistence problem for Marvel . Throughout the miniseries , America Chavez discovers a long - lost sister who separate America thatElena and Amalia Chavez were researchersfrom Earth 616 . Through a dubious drug - bring on flashback , America get a line that she and her baby Catalina were test subjects at an experimental research laboratory called the Utopian Parallel , and America ’s standard root was a fabrication of the young girl ’s mind to protect herself from the trauma of it all .
Regardless of personal public opinion in favour of one backstory or another , a few key facts from America Chavez ’s recent adventures make the retconned stemma into a continuity sore . InMade in The USA # 2 , a young America is seen take up a family unit tree that features her ma , Madrimar , and the Demiurge at the Utopian Parallel . This creates disarray since America did not lie with Madrimar even existed untilAmerica#4 . Rather than being fancied , Madrimar is quite genuine , display the same Starling ability America has as well as interacting with America ’s exes Lisa and Magdalena , andher fellow Young Avenger Kate Bishop . Wiccan , one of America Chavez ’s other teammate in Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie ’s 2013Young Avengersrun , also happens to be the Demiurge . The same Demiurge created the Utopian Parallel in America ’s primary origin narrative .
The cosmos of Billy Kaplan - Altman and Madrimar does not inevitably disprove the Revelation ofAmerica Chavez : Made in The USA . But result unaddressed they leave a problem in Marvel ’s continuity . The end ofMade in The USAalso seriously lowers America ’s superpower , limiting her speciality , escape , and star - punch powers . These large shifts in her status quo go forth pile of doubtfulness as to the state of America ’s power and her backstory heading intoJim Zub and Sean Izaaske ’s upcomingThunderboltsseries . Only time will narrate whenAmerica Chavez ’s story continues whenThunderbolts # 1goes on sale May 25 , 2022 .
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