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It ’s a bit of a passé persona at this point : heroes uniting and derive to the delivery just when the hour seems most bleak , and indeed , it is an image ubiquitous across the superhero landscape in this sidereal day and long time thanks in part to the influence ofMarvel’svauntedAvengers . In this week’sMarvels X#4 , Alex Ross , Jim Krueger and Well - Bee fuse their efforts to summon the saddest bunch of failures the Avengers have ever presented themselves as , Captain America , Iron Man , Thor , Hawkeye(now with four arms ) , and the relief show up to stop a scared boy from assisting a supervillain in suicide by shooting him with a sniper rifle . If you ’re wondering why this is happening , it ’s because the world ofMarvels Xis undergoing an apocalypsebecause the Avengers failedand are continuing to go bad to save the human beings .
Created by Ross and Krueger in the 1999 miniseriesEarth X , Marvels Xis a prequel to the original serial plant during an revelatory event in which theInhumanBlack Bolt unleashes the Terrigen Mists upon globe and mutate all normal humans into super - powered , often monstrous beings . WhileEarth Xis for the most part concerned with the lives of the heroes many eld in the hereafter , often sulk upon their overall insignificance and retiring failures , Marvels Xhas the apocalypsegoing on right now , and thus the failures are still on-going . One of those mutate , Spider - Manvillain Kraven the Hunter , has abducted David , the last ordinary person on Earth , and brought him to his macabre prize elbow room for unknown purposes .
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At the sexual climax of the issue , Kraven has beguile Spider - Man in a WWW of mordacious telegram , claim to have killed and beheaded Captain America , and ceaselessly make bold David to shoot him with a sniper rifle he had lying around . As Spidey , now old and weaker , tries to talk David down , the boy seems crumpled on take justice into his own custody for the death of the inspirational hoagie . And who should show up just at that very mo to set thing right and ask David to aid save the world ? Why none other than the Captain himself , active and well it seems , along with his team of Avengers and three - quarters of theFantastic Four ! Simply breathtaking , right ?
No . Not really . Given the chronicle of what happens next has already been set in stone by the earlier series , we already know that none of this is going to process out in any agency close to what we might hope would transpire . David will not end up provide the tonality to reversing the mutations of the Terrigen Mists . Many of the Avengers includingScarlet Witchand Hawkeye will be pop in action , as well asDaredeviland Sue Storm , The Invisible Woman . Captain America will quit the Avengers before this occurs , but only out of guiltiness because he ended up killing a villain , hisarchnemesis Red Skull , something he urge David not to do here in a roughshod twirl of irony . On a lighter note , Thor will be transformed into a woman by Odin .
So , while the view as a whole is a ghost strong incliché in such a mannerthat it saps the strength from the traditional moment of catharsis , it ’s because quite glaringly these Avengers are the sad bunch of failures they ’ve ever been across the multiverse , and their failures are only going to wax as time move on . But hey , at least Spider - Man is still laughable . marvel X#4goes on sale today !
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