How could it in any way jibe with the Kosmos story? Bendis has said that he kept the story deliberately vague, so that we could interpret it however we want. It seems unlikely, considering the number of actual developments that came out of Secret Wars II, like the first appearance of Boom Boom and the curing of Rick Jones’ cancer. It also implied that all of Secret Wars II was just an illusion played out on an unpopulated moon out in space. The nearly incomprehensible third issue suggested the Beyonder was a mutant Inhuman all along.
#Terragen mist bomb series#
Then, we have the second, most recent, “fix” from the New Avengers Illuminati series by Brian Michael Bendis.
#Terragen mist bomb free#
Now, instead of having a nice finite ending, the Beyonder is free to menace the Marvel universe (and us!) without notice, as s/he did in the 2003 Thanos series. Molecule Man eventually disentangled himself from the Beyonder, or Kosmos or whatever we have to call it, and went back to his usual routine. Of course, this “fix” actually had the opposite of Macchio’s intended result. Fantastic Four #318-319 showed the Beyonder merging with Molecule Man so they could become a cosmic cube.
Apparently, Ralph Macchio disliked the Beyonder so much that even though the character was done/finished/caput/off being another universe where he would never bother us again, he ordered Steve Englehart to bring him back just so he could do away with him again. It seems like a step too far even for his godlike powers. Molecule Man was never shown to be able to create something with a consciousness.
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe says something about the son being a construct he created to serve as a companion, but I never liked that. The Shooter story in Avengers #215-216 gave a quick hand-waving explanation about the wand possessions, but offered no explanation for the son thing or the reversal of his power limitation. The first Secret Wars was a fun story, and Molecule Man’s interaction with the Beyonder was one of the best parts of the second series.) Molecule Man even regained his inability to affect organic materials. Molecule Man re-grew a body for himself, ditched the wand, and went back to his old nebbish self that we all know and love from the first Secret Wars. Then, in the early 80s, Jim Shooter brought back Molecule Man as the original Silver Age version. Along the way, he also seems to become his original self again, dropping the idea that he was actually Molecule Man’s son. But, that starts creeping back in later stories, beginning with an inability to affect unstable molecules. The resurrection as his son was also supposed to eliminate his inability to affect organic molecules. He loses his body and instead possesses whoever holds his wand. When his “son” comes back to Earth, he’s a much more generic villain in terms of personality. It was Molecule Man’s son, which he somehow produced in the isolated dimension where the Watcher had trapped him. Steve Gerber brought the character back in the first issue of Marvel Two-In-One, but it wasn’t really him. That was Molecule Man’s only Silver Age appearance. Then, the Watcher spirits him away in the end. This triggered the Watcher to break his personal vow to never interfere (we know it doesn’t take much) and alert the Fantastic Four.
Molecule Man first appeared in Fantastic Four #20 as a nerdy dweeb who suddenly had vast power and was immediately corrupted by it. And that’s what I’m hoping to get at with this piece: a way to unfix the fixes with my own fix.īut before we get to that, a more esoteric and personal bugaboo of mine: the handling of Molecule Man in the 1970s. It’s a shame it got ruined when the Beyonder was brought back and “fixed” in a really weird way – actually, in two really weird ways.
#Terragen mist bomb full#
Whether you see Secret Wars II as a metaphor for Jim Shooter thrashing about and disrupting the status quo in the Marvel offices, or just a cosmic storyline full of admittedly goofy moments, the ending has a nice sense of closure. He would forego his consciousness and become a new universe – perhaps even a New Universe. After he spent the series thrashing about in our universe in various ill-advised ways, the Beyonder decided to return to the void of his previous existence. The Beyonder, we had learned, was once a universe unto himself. But, you have to admit the ending of Secret Wars II was pretty good.
I know we all hated Secret Wars II, and that’s fair enough. I know no one wants to hear any more about the Beyonder ever again. This time around, he has decided to unpick the fixes for the Beyonder’s origin, and the character’s connection to the Molecule Man, thereby weaving a logical rat’s nest into a wearable garment. Today’s post is fnord12’s, of the Marvel Comics Chronology project.
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