This article contains SPOILERS for Defenders: Next #2
origins Marvel ComicsFinally, the most powerful and mysterious villains are revealed. otherworldly have been terrorizing Marvel heroes since 1984. Secret Wars, and even destroyed the entire Multiverse at some point before it was rebuilt into its current iteration. However, their true origin and purpose is still a mystery.
Secret Wars was the first major Marvel crossover to feature most of the characters owned by the House of Ideas. An event of this magnitude needed an equally impressive villain, so Beyonder was created. An unfathomable being who could even treat the mighty Galactus as a toy, it was later revealed that the Beyonder was merely the infant of an entire race of beings with unfathomable power surpassing even the cosmic beings of the Marvel Universe. Over the years, the most plausible explanation offered for the existence of the Beyonders has been that they were “deputies” to the real Marvel creatives, hence their tendency to view the entire Marvel Universe as their playground. However, given the role of the Beyonders in the destruction of the seventh version of the Multiverse during the second Secret Wars case, a more canonical explanation of their origin should have been given at some point.
Finally the questions have been answered thank you Defenders: Next No. 2 Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez. The Defenders, a “defense system” that the Multiverse assembles when needed, return from the current Eight Cosmos to the Second Cosmos, where they meet with the original Beyonder from the first. Secret Wars and his peers, learning about their origins. In fact, the Beyonders were created in the Second Cosmos by the Celestials, who are a rogue faction of the Pretenders, the very first beings created in the First Cosmos. When the war between the Pretenders and the Celestials destroyed the First Cosmos, it also created a multiverse of endless possibilities. To maintain order in this chaos, the Celestials created Omega, limitless lifeforms capable of destroying even their own creators – absolute reliability in the event of another Celestial war. When the Second Cosmos also fell into disrepair, the Celestials moved to the Third, while the Omega remained in the Second to continue their maintenance duties and took on the name of the Beyonders.
Al Ewing has succeeded in explaining the origin of the Beyonders by integrating them into the cyclical nature of Marvel’s cosmology, where each iteration of the Multiverse is destined to be destroyed by some great catastrophe and reborn in a different way. Recurring description of the Beyonders as coming from another dimension. outside Thus, the regular Marvel Universe is explained as being the last survivors of the Second Cosmos, an iteration of the Multiverse that no longer exists. They take up empty space.”beyond all that is known“Where do they perform”Maintenanceand experiments, including the destruction of the Seventh Cosmos. Ewing also manages to reconcile his history with the mysterious Omega Council and their Coordination Engines, which were introduced in Defenders about. 4 Matt Fraction and Jamie McKelvey.
Defenders: Next also confirms that the original Beyonder encountered by the Marvel heroes was an infant whose natural developmental process was hampered by an accident, leading to his interference with Earth (a story partly told in Fantastic Four about. 1 #319 for the first time). General, Defenders: Next cleared up a lot of confusing or conflicting information about otherworldlyand, more importantly, brought together these classic villains from Secret Wars in Marvel Comicscosmology, giving them a close connection to the Celestials and the Multiverse itself.