Marvel Is Officially Rewriting The Entire Origin of Superheroes on Earth
Warning: Contains spoilers for Eternals #12
Marvel Comics has officially retconned sixty years of its own stories, confirming that they have rewritten the secret origins of every superhero on Earth. This storyline started in the pages of Avengers and has been further expanded in the Eternals comic book, meaning that this momentous change is here to stay.
When Marvel launched its first superhero comic books, costumed crime fighters and other «wonders» were few and far between. As the years went by and the popularity (and sales) of these characters increased, Marvel's world expanded to include hundreds of superpowered individuals (or millions, if counting the mutant population at its peak). Thus, some Marvel creators felt the need to explain why Earth, in a vast universe full of inhabited worlds, was the only planet where so many superpowered people appeared, and why so many events of cosmic relevance revolved around this small world. In 2018, at the beginning of his Avengers run, Jason Aaron explained both using the space gods known as the Celestials.
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>Readers of Avengers should be familiar with their home base, the dead Celestial called Progenitor, who, billions of years ago, crash-landed on Earth, dying from an infection caused by space parasites. The infected fluids of the dying god poured into the fertile primordial Earth and changed the planet forever, making it a breeding ground for superpowered individuals who would act as the «defense system» of the planet. Eternals #12, by Kieron Gillen, Esad Ribic, and Matthew Wilson, adds an important piece to that story. The Progenitor's bodily fluids were too noxious to produce stable «strange» life forms. So, the
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