America Chavez's Conflicting Origins Create a Marvel Continuity Problem
Since her introduction, America Chavez's origin story has remained clear and consistent until America Chavez: Made in The USA created continuity issues last summer. This comic miniseries attempted to retcon America's history and ground her more personally in Marvel's 616 universe. However, key plot threads remain unaddressed that seem to validate America Chavez's original backstory. What is the truth? Also, where does this journey leave America as she is set to star in the upcoming Thunderbolts relaunch?
Before the retcon, America Chavez was established as an interdimensional immigrant. Chavez's original backstory is best clarified in the pages of Gabby Rivera and Joe Quinones' 2017 series America. She comes from the Utopian Parallel, a paradise on another plane of existence created by the Demiurge, the future deity-level version of Wiccan. After Chavez's moms, Elena and Amalia sacrifice themselves to protect the Utopian Parallel, she fleas from home. While studying at the multiversal Sotomayor University, America reconnects with an old flame from her adolescence on Earth-616, meets Amalia's mother Madrimar, and learns about Planeta Fuertona, the ancestral home of Amalia and Madrimar. America even travels to Fuertona and defends it alongside other portal-punching Starlings.
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A successful retcon recontextualizes characters and events; enriching them by shedding new light on previous stories. Kalinda Vazquez and Carlos Gomez's America Chavez: Made in The USA retcons nearly all of America's origin story out of existence. It is a bold move, but how it was done has ultimately created a continuity problem for Marvel. Throughout the miniseries, America
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