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Off My Mind: Has The Marvel Universe Future Been Revealed?

Avengers #5 will have quite a bit to reveal.

Right before Siege was unleashed on the Marvel Universe, we heard that the events unfolding had been in the making for the past seven years. Bendis and Marvel had everything figured out and knew where the 'universe' was headed. Could that be  happening once again? In today's Avengers #5 we just might be getting a glimpse at what is to come. 

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If you've been reading Avengers, you know that part of the team is in the future with Future Tony Stark and Maestro. From the image above (click HERE to see a bigger, high-rez version!), we see a timeline that could have the secrets of what is in store for the Marvel Universe. 
 
Looking carefully at the image, we see several things that have already happened and some interesting bits that just might be coming up. What are the important parts here? 
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We see "Heroic Age Begins," "Hope Returns!?" "Three," "Man Without Fear" and "Five Lights" listed on the timeline. Maybe we need an even closer look. 

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We can see "What is where Asgard should be?" "What's in the rings" (maybe dealing with Mandarin), something about Iron Lad, "Galactus Seed,"  "Where's Wanda?" "Fear Without Man," "Steve's Vision" (probably from Captain America: Reborn #6), "Ultron War" and "Yesterday's X-Men." There's also a bunch of math scribbling about the whole thing. As a former Mathematics teacher, perhaps I should start working on those. I have a feeling this is going to be one important comic book panel in the months or years to come. 
  
What do you think about this? Is this some of what we can expect or is it just a bunch of crazy writing from a random alternate future?

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The Worthy was about Fear Itself I assume Scorched Earth has to do with AVX. Soooooo now what?

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So what has happened already now ?

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Eh, it's probably nothing

Speaking of future of the Marvel Universe, I would love to see Magneto vs. Red Skull

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- Seven years of planning to give us what we have seen so far....so very, very sad.

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its all happened... so AoU should be happening now

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Nope.
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So what Steve saw in Cap: Reborn was the Ultron War? ...Looked more like War of the Worlds to me, still now sure about all of this, plus I don't see anything other than "Man without Fear" that refers to this whole Fear Itself event coming up, I think the man without fear thing is something to do with Daredevil redeeming himself, but I could be wrong.

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Anyone noticed the word CHAOS on that timeline? Aparently everything is taking place. They also mention the five lights, and given how fast is the world advancing on this timeline, the ultron war could be here in 2 years or less!

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@Metatron_Da_Don   realy? scence we got a new writer for the red hulk serise thats what the whole serise has been revolving around, the scorched earth program! and that leader and MODOCK came up with it as a last ditch effort incase their main plans failed (which they did) hm this is intresting.
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@Whitley said:

" Scorched Earth goes back even farther than that. Back in Zero Tolerance that was a subprogram in the Nimrod undercover Secret Service agents protecting Gyrich. It is a last resort program put into all the Sentinels.   Given the proximity of Yesterday's X-Men to Ultron's War and Kang's forces. I wonder if Ultron gets control of the Sentinels (and why not...outside of Ultron they are the most powerful mechanical beings in the Marvel Universe) and upgrades them so they not only seek out those with metahuman powers (ie anyone not human) but with sufficent AI to try and learn how to duplicate those powers mechanically themselves.   Yesterday's X-Men could then refer to some in the MU that go back into the past(and future) to get those that would have the eletronic genius(Nightcrawler, an unphased Kitty Pryde) and know how (Bishop?, Cable?) to defeat the Nimrod/Ultron sentinels. "

the ongoing co-feature in Jason Aaron's Wolverine is called Scorched Earth. I have no idea what is going on.
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I love this but Bendis is not the one who should be doing it. So many continuity mistakes.
 
(sigh) 
 
Anyway, in changing the Ultron War in #6, everything could change.
 
I wish Hickman was the overseer of Marvel.

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@pikahyper said:
" richlovatt.com has a pretty good potential breakdown of the time line :) "
well the current Master of Kung Fu is in arc, happening in Secret Avengers #6/7, maybe he becomes evil or dies
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The future is so messed up now, I KNOW THE FUTURE!
What spoliers!
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I also noticed a "Fear without Man" 
interesting.......
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@CATMANEXE said:
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Hrm.  So the Mayans were right.
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This might mean nothing, it also says infinite futures, complete with three explanation points.

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@Darthtravis:
Shadow King, maybe?  That's a good question. 
 
It'll be interesting to look back on this comic book in the next few years just to see what's happened, what hasn't, and what's gone terribly out of control in regards to the stories and ideas.  My guess is that several of these will be impacted pretty directly by the popularity of several upcoming Marvel movies.  They're vague enough that they could include quite a range of characters while still falling under these particular notes.
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I've seen this before. It was called 52 and it was awesome. But for some reason...it's so much more bland this time around. I wonder why that is?
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Ok cool.
so hope returns refers to Hope returning in x-men
throwbacks refers to the chaos war
man without fear refers to shadowland
 master of kung fu gots to be an iron fist thing
 
this is cool!

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So long as there is no Clone Spiderman on there or Wolverine bone claws will be alright! heh :p

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i see academy traitor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD
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It sounds as if they've got some great stuff planed for the comics. I wonder how far this time line goes into the future.

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@Darthtravis:  Could be Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans.
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Scorched Earth goes back even farther than that. Back in Zero Tolerance that was a subprogram in the Nimrod undercover Secret Service agents protecting Gyrich. It is a last resort program put into all the Sentinels.  
 
Given the proximity of Yesterday's X-Men to Ultron's War and Kang's forces. I wonder if Ultron gets control of the Sentinels (and why not...outside of Ultron they are the most powerful mechanical beings in the Marvel Universe) and upgrades them so they not only seek out those with metahuman powers (ie anyone not human) but with sufficent AI to try and learn how to duplicate those powers mechanically themselves.  
 
Yesterday's X-Men could then refer to some in the MU that go back into the past(and future) to get those that would have the eletronic genius(Nightcrawler, an unphased Kitty Pryde) and know how (Bishop?, Cable?) to defeat the Nimrod/Ultron sentinels.
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clever stuff, i like it.

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@kimeraevet:  Bendis is good (specially in Avengers Dissassembled, New Avengers and The Mighty Avengers) but this new Avengers book I´m not liking at all
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@CATMANEXE said:
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LOL
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 Calling it now, Spider-Man joins the Fantastic Four.
 
Top of the image, above HEROIC AGE: 4 - 1 = spider. 
 
Also that series of letters and numbers at the top looks like ST...365KRATS to me.  Whatever that means.  Krats is Stark backwards, btw.  Could also be ST..(365).RATS or something like that.  

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@Nightshade50 said:
" I see "Scorched Earth?" as the last thing on there. I am really interested to see someone 'decode' it. I see "Who is worthy?", doesn't tell you much though. I can't wait to see what this means. "
Scorched Earth was part of the Intelligencia's plan. It turned up in today's Hulk #25.
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I wish Bendis would release his death grip on the Avengers.

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Wow, there are lots of Bendis haters on Comic Vine. Am I the only one who has enjoyed the various almost yearly company wide events?   How pathetic considering how terrible Marvels story arcs were before he did take over.  
All these events have moved things forward quite well. House of M was amazing and its ramifications has spurred years of X-men story lines. Avengers Disassembled started it all and came full circle with the end of Siege. Captain America has been spectacular and Hulk has gone through a very extended series of events that are still unfolding. That timeline, if adhered to, would integrate the Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow into the 616 reality. The various stories showcased on the scale seem intriguing. Stop harping on it and look at it for what it is, a damn good teaser. Besides it isn't as if the board-with-future-jibber-jabber hasn't been seen in movies and t.v before. Or comics. It wasn't original in 52 and it isn't now. Stop crying about it. Now suck your false discontent down slow, because in the end you will still buy the comics. You SCABS.

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Actually, it's saying Iron Lad re(turns) which seems to indicate he might be turning on the Young Avengers when he does return. And the Ultron War is what we are actually seeing take place in the future, and what has caused the time stream to be broken. So, I don't know if we will ever see this Ultron War.

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Disappointing to see that the inspiration for all this is so obviously similar to DC's 52 and specifically Rip Hunter's Lab notes scrawled on various surfaces. Definitely feels like a lack of creativity at Marvel lately. Maybe it's time to let someone else take the helm instead of Bendis. 
 
At this point I feel they may as well rename it to the Bendis Universe. 

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@Slayeric said:
" I hate to sound like a pessimist and a fanboy here, because I want to like Marvel. I really do. But... I remember when DC did something this for their continuity. :/ Bendis is  lacking in creativity lately, it seems. "
Fixed.
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I can't wait for Iron Lad to return ^_^ Drama xD

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is the return of the king refering to black bolt and vulcan?

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"Galactus Seed" could be their way of working Galacta into 616 continuity.

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Ultron war to me from just title alone sounds like the big stand out most exciting one.

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Time for Crisis On Infinite Earths

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it says the return of iron lad

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It seems rather short, I mean Heroic Age starting and Hope Returning are fairly far apart in the spacing. Not to mention Five Lights. The rate it's going we've got 2011 mapped out if even.

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I hate to sound like a pessimist and a fanboy here, because I want to like Marvel. I really do. But... I remember when DC did something this for their continuity. :/ Marvel's lacking in creativity lately, it seems.

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"Man Without Fear" . Um... does that ring a bell?!
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This is pretty much what Booster Gold saw in Rip Hunter's lab in 52, right?

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Academy traitor. Quicksilver anyone?

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they will forget they did this in three weeks. just sound and fury signifying nothing.
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Very Rip Hunter-ish! lol
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We need Doc Brown on this one guys.

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Ultron sounds cool and as long as Hawkeye is still alive I'm happy