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"The End" of AVENGERS VS. X-MEN is Coming

What could possibly bring an end to this huge conflict?

As Marvel forced us to wait for the ninth issue of AVENGERS VS. X-MEN, we can't help but wonder how the heck this big fight is going to end? Throughout the series, there have been some big developments but it's been more about the fighting. In order to end this war between the two teams and to (most likely) usher in the Marvel NOW! era, something really big has to happen to end this series.

Marvel has released a teaser today for 'The End.' While the silhouette looks familiar, it's likely not who some of us have been hoping for.

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The biggest comic event of the year comes to its Universe shattering conclusion in Avengers VS. X-Men #12 this October.

Here comes the pain as all your favorite super heroes enter the battle—and only one team will emerge victorious! Don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime comic event in, Avengers VS. X-Men #12, on sale October 3rd in comic shops everywhere, on the Marvel Comics app, and the all-new Marvel Comics Webstore!

AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #12 (JUL120535)

Written by JASON AARON

Penciled by ADAM KUBERT

Cover by JIM CHEUNG

FOC – 9/10/12, ON SALE – 10/3/12

How do you think it's all going to end?

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its not jean because she doesnt have any leadership skills like emma frost has thats why marvel keeps killing jean off

@AskaniSon295: @CircularLogic:

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@TheCrowbar: lol

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It's more than likely Hope in the silouhette. I'm pretty much convinced they're going to kill Cyclops. I hope not though because he's my favorite Marvel character. They've already revealed that they're bringing the five original X-Men back from the past to the current timeline. If that's the case, I'm wondering if there's just going to be two Beasts, two Icemen, etc.

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Jean grey

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Awesome! Yes it's either the jean, hope or Scarlet witch. hehehe

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It's Jean, or a projection of Jean through the Phoenix force that Hope will have to fight with her kung fu treachery!

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just throwing this out there as another red head. Madelyne Pryor, assuming she got a boob reduction...

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It's scott in drag.

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@davelecave: Yeah, i'm sure emma's top priority is suddenly growing, recoloring and curling her hair when she becomes the full host of the Phoenix.

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@Daycrawler said:

@X35 said:

@Daycrawler said:

@X35 said:

@davelecave: No, i think hair that's clearly auburn colored, curly, long and thick that is in no way remotely similar to the straight and much shorter blonde hair means the person is a redhead.

Hope and Scarlet Witch may have (roughly) the right color hair, but it ain't curly my friend. You counting them out too then?

I'm not saying it's either of them (but Wanda does have curly hair then and again depending on the artist), i just think saying it's Emma is ridiculous since there is absolutely nothing at all similar to Emma except the fact it's a woman.

Given the lack of recognizable detail in the picture I'd say that everything is similar to Emma Frost, apart from the hair. If you change the hairstyle, you could sub in any MU super-lady you wanted to be honest. Besides, the PF is all powerful, maybe Emma becomes mental enough that she imitates Jean to piss off Scott? Yeah, I know, ridiculous, but then ridiculous stuff happens in events!

My bet is it's Hope to be honest, which still doesn't fit in with the promo image as Hope doesn't have curly hair. Gah!! Never thought I'd ever be so concerned about goddam hair!!

I forgot, curling irons don't exist in the Marvel U.

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What if Rachel got the phoenix and her hair grew longer?

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if its jean gray...

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@Tyrannotaur: The red headed girl on the right hand side is also sporting a "marvel girl" costume in red not green but I'll take it as a small sign of hope no pun intended.

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Maybe we found out what happened to Wally West!

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Don't over think this you guys. Its obviously Pepper Pots

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Not trying to sound like a perv...buuuut...

Flat chested...not Jean.

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My money is on the woman in the corner of this picture by team Wolverine. The sash seems like an obvious hint at the Phoenix. It's not Kitty, Emma, or Jean from the past. It's not Wanda because she is in Uncanny Avengers and is still Scarlet Witch there. The only characters who make sense for me are Hope, Rachael, and Jean herself. Hope seems the obvious choice, Rachael and Jean are more longshots. There's also the possibility of it being someone from left field like Black Widow . Now I know the character in question has shorter hair, but that could be to throw people off the trail and not suspect her. She also could very likely be a Red Herring. This is all conjecture on my part. I honestly hope its either Jean back from the dead or Hope. Also I have not been actively reading AvX. I plan to pick up the trades if the reviews are good, but right now I am not reading it. What I know is from reviews and hearing about it through others. I could be totally off base.

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I have the feeling is Jean........

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My guess is that this is going to be Hope. Especially since her story has been concentrated on in other issues of AVX

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Okay, now why does she have to have big hair? I'm serious. It was different in the early 80's but now we can move into maybe some softer curls...something a bit slicker? I mean, for gods sake, it just looks ridiculous. Can Jean or the Phoenix or whatever, can she have hair that isn't so damn curly? That would be nice.

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It's Northstar! lol!

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Are people still reading this? I swear I don't even care anymore. It seemed like there was all this hype and it dissipated, as the series continued to stumble on. Same thing happened with Fear Itself.

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Looks a lot like a teen body, which means it could be KITTY or Hope

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pleasebejeanpleasebejeanpleasebejeanpleasebejean Hey! What if it is Jean! And she turns Dark Phoenix! Then the Avengers and X-men join forces to kill her yet again?!?! Then they bring the x-kids to the future to warn them not to go into space ever! Surely Marvel wouldn't do this to me...

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@DominionX said:

@Lvenger: Good luck with that. They probably planning something that will "Change The Marvel Universe Forever"...or at least 6 months....right now!

I agree. I was just thinking today that the next Marvel Event will be in six months.

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@brucecapell said:

Jean needs to appear and remind everyone what heroes are suppose to do enough of this fighting with each other

Yes pleas I really would love to see jean walk out of a fire cloud with the phoenix shard that the P5 had and quote "We are phoenix". She would then undo what the P5 did before leaving again for the WHR.

Pleas don't be hope pleas don't be hope. Cross fingers.

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@jorgeareizaga said:

BRING BACK JEAN GREY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes please!!

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Its never gonna come to an end. It will just keep creating multiple realities that we will have to suffer through till the end of time.

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BRING BACK JEAN GREY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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C'mon people that's obviously red hair!!! It's either Poison Ivy, Barbara Gordon or Starfire...

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Let us now pause, and marinate in the knowledge that if Cyclops had been allowed to complete his plan, most of this ish never would've happened to begin with.

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It might as well have been called Avengers vs the evil x-men. the thing has been a x-men bash from the start and in every tie in.

such a joke

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Maybe it is a skrull! Or a LMD! Or cyclops in drag?

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Jean should come back most def!!!!!!!!! shes the ultimate Phoenix avatar she should yank the Phoenix force right outta the Ph5 & put em in their place then marvel should leave the phoenix alone for at least 2 years! im over it

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@X35 said:

@Daycrawler said:

@X35 said:

@davelecave: No, i think hair that's clearly auburn colored, curly, long and thick that is in no way remotely similar to the straight and much shorter blonde hair means the person is a redhead.

Hope and Scarlet Witch may have (roughly) the right color hair, but it ain't curly my friend. You counting them out too then?

I'm not saying it's either of them (but Wanda does have curly hair then and again depending on the artist), i just think saying it's Emma is ridiculous since there is absolutely nothing at all similar to Emma except the fact it's a woman.

Given the lack of recognizable detail in the picture I'd say that everything is similar to Emma Frost, apart from the hair. If you change the hairstyle, you could sub in any MU super-lady you wanted to be honest. Besides, the PF is all powerful, maybe Emma becomes mental enough that she imitates Jean to piss off Scott? Yeah, I know, ridiculous, but then ridiculous stuff happens in events!

My bet is it's Hope to be honest, which still doesn't fit in with the promo image as Hope doesn't have curly hair. Gah!! Never thought I'd ever be so concerned about goddam hair!!

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Oh, and all the comments concerning the hair - you must have forgotten when Jean went dark or Phoenix-fied, it tended to get curly too...must be all that ambient energy, better than a perm. And look what it did to the five, costume changes and everything, even brought back Colossus's hair...(the eight ball do was horrible).

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@Daycrawler said:

@X35 said:

@davelecave: No, i think hair that's clearly auburn colored, curly, long and thick that is in no way remotely similar to the straight and much shorter blonde hair means the person is a redhead.

Hope and Scarlet Witch may have (roughly) the right color hair, but it ain't curly my friend. You counting them out too then?

I'm not saying it's either of them (but Wanda does have curly hair then and again depending on the artist), i just think saying it's Emma is ridiculous since there is absolutely nothing at all similar to Emma except the fact it's a woman.

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I'm amazed how many people are suggesting it's Jean, Jean is coming back in the All New X-Men, and marvel says: they're the same ones as in 616, just plucked from time. So Jean is coming back...but I doubt it's her. The body looks young, so I'm guessing Hope will finally emerge as the Phoenix, whether she stays or not, gets killed and perhaps in doing so, restarts the mutant gene, they're all possibilities. One thing that would be very cool, is that Hope has always been Jean, and therefore becomes an anchor to their younger selves. I hope they clarify the connection with the Scarlet Witch, I keep thinking that Hope is really her baby, pulled from another timeline (Could be Scarlet Witches and Nightcrawlers from Days of Future Past). I'm hoping for something unexpected....but as others have stated, Marvel doesn't seem to be too inspired by surprises. I do think however, a Hope/Phoenix, could create some interesting dynamics between herself, Jean and Rachel, (as long as Rachel isn't thrown to the side like she is a lot of times).

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Its hope.... basic knowledge

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I think it's Wanda.

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@zackattack529 said:

its either scarlett witch, Hope or Jean grey.

but possibly and i say possibly could it be black widow???

Maybe it's Mary Jane!

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@venomoushatred1001 said:

@Miss_Garrick said:

It's Hope.

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@X35 said:

@davelecave: No, i think hair that's clearly auburn colored, curly, long and thick that is in no way remotely similar to the straight and much shorter blonde hair means the person is a redhead.

Hope and Scarlet Witch may have (roughly) the right color hair, but it ain't curly my friend. You counting them out too then?

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Really hope its not Jean. Makes me sick just thinking about it

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@davelecave: No, i think hair that's clearly auburn colored, curly, long and thick that is in no way remotely similar to the straight and much shorter blonde hair means the person is a redhead.

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From Bendis' blog, looks like Emma is herself.

http://brianmichaelbendis.tumblr.com/post/30338498016/the-newly-released-image-is-the-third

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@X35: You honestly think a slight red hue on the hair of a shadowy figure SURROUNDED by fire automatically means the person is a redhead?

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Clearly Hope with HELLA hair extensions.

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If it is Hope...Im so going to be winning some wagers I made months ago, and I intend to collect. Predictable no doubt, but that's just how it is.

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I'm going with either jean or hope