A Marvel Villain Group Butchered the Avengers & Made the World Watch
Warning: contains spoilers for Spider-Man 2099: Exodus — Alpha #1
Marvel's grim future timeline of 2099 just got even darker, as a mysterious new group of villains known as the Cabal not only slaughtered the Avengers, but made the entire world watch.
Marvel 2099 is an imprint launched in 1992 which featured stories set in a dystopian, cyberpunk-influenced future (Earth-928) where megacorporations rule the world and North America is a cruel police state. The most successful character was Spider-Man 2099, the first «superhero» to appear in this age, who fought against the ruthless corporation called Alchemax. The character was so successful that Spider-Man 2099 is set to appear in Across The Spider-Verse. Other characters were launched after Spider-Man 2099, mostly futuristic versions of established Marvel heroes such as the Hulk, the Punisher, Doom, or Ghost Rider, but also brand new ones such as Ravage, which was written for a time by Stan Lee himself. The X-Men of 2099 also appeared, but the most famous of Marvel superhero teams, the Avengers, never made their debut in the 2099 universe before the imprint was discontinued.
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WithSpider-Man 2099: Exodus — Alpha #1, by Steve Orlando, Paul Fry, Neeraj Menon, and Joe Caramagna, Marvel celebrates the 30th anniversary of the 2099 universe and also its return to continuity, with new stories and characters. The Avengers of 2099 are finally mentioned, but it's in a tragic way. The world is now under the sway of a villainous group called the Cabal, "the world's only real superpower, a cartel above nations and above law." How did this group gain such power? By butchering the Avengers as the world watched. No
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