- "The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little."
- ―Doctor Strange to Peter Parker
The Multiverse is the aggregate of all dimensions and parallel realities in existence. Although dimensions are just portions of reality within a universe, there are also parallel universes that coexist with one another.
History[]
Once the first Multiversal War came to an end, a scientist named Nathaniel Richards chose a collection of universes that followed the same baseline and isolated it from the rest of the Multiverse. This collection was dubbed the Sacred Timeline and was assigned to the Time Variance Authority for protection. The Time Variance Authority's secret work was to prune and delete the timelines that branched off either by time travel or unscripted decisions by individuals who lived in the Sacred Timeline that could cause the return of an evil version of He Who Remains which could lead to a new Multiversal War.
The Multiverse is always in fluctuation, and the several outcomes of certain events, which could result in the creation of alternate timelines, applied also to the surrounding dimensions as well. Dimensions where time is irrelevant, like the Quantum Realms, are a mechanism to travel either through time or access alternate timelines. Travel between dimensions of the Multiverse is also possible.
With the death of He Who Remains at the hand of Sylvie Laufeydottir and the Sacred Timeline breaking free, numerous branches were created across different points in time, which paradoxically gave birth to alternate universes that had always been part of what individuals like the Ancient One and The Watcher knew as the Multiverse. Since the Sacred Timeline was unleashed, the Temporal Loom, a failsafe that deleted the branching timelines that were not supposed to exist within the Sacred Timeline, started to overload which threatened the existence of the TVA. To prevent this, Loki and other TVA agents tried to expand the loom's capacity to no success. Loki, who had obtained the ability to time slip across time, went back to the moment before He Who Remains' death. There, Loki discovered the loom's true purpose and that the only way to allow the infinite branches to exist is for him to replace it with his newly gained abilities. As Loki wove the branches together by hand, he created a new loom centered around him at the Citadel at the End of Time.
In the aftermath of Loki's sacrifice, the TVA's new mission was to monitor the many evil versions of He Who Remains, who had been able to establish contact with the Multiverse and were trying to take control of it.
Primary Universes[]
| Universe | First Appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sacred Timeline (Earth-199999) | Iron Man | The collection of realities that were isolated after the Multiversal War by He Who Remains. |
| Retro-Futuristic Earth Universe (Earth-828) | The Fantastic Four: First Steps | The reality in which the Fantastic Four formed in 1960. Four years later, the team would be confronted by the Silver Surfer, who was the herald of Galactus |
| Anchor Being Wolverine Universe (Earth-10005) | Deadpool & Wolverine | James “Logan” Howlett was subjected to intense torture through an experiment to give him an adamantium Skelton. He soon joined the X-Men where they become famous. Another mutant named Deadpool also gets tortured and becomes superabled. Logan eventually dies and Deadpool retires as a mercenary to live a civilian life. |
| Organic Webbing Spider-Man Universe (Earth-96283) | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man in 2002 and confronts a series of enemies such as Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Sandman. |
| Rageful Vigilante Spider-Man Universe (Earth-120703) | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man 2013 and confronts a series of enemies such as Lizard and Electro. |
Marvel Tales[]
What If...? - Into the Multiverse[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Stolen Iron Spider Universe (Earth-15594) | Oliver Osnick finds the Iron Spider Suit during Spider-Man's fight with the Vulture, fusing it to him and gifting him Parker's powers, forcing Parker to take him on as his sidekick.
Osnick befriends the stranded Leah Odinsdottir and Fenris, taking her in and helping her fight and defeat her variant Hela, stopping an Asgardian Invasion and preventing Ragnarok. The Avengers joins them as they disrupt Thanos' invasion of Xandar and destroy the Infinity Gauntlet, preventing the Infinity War from happening. The Web-Warriors continue their adventures throughout Queens, encountering dozens of new heroes and villains around the city and eventually recruiting a variant of Johnny Storm to their team. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Neighborhood Nova Universe (Earth-23315) | Tony Stark gets shot by a Chitauri sniper, causing the nuke to crash into Stark Tower, destroying Manhattan.
The Broken Tesseract absorbs Peter Parker into the portal, empowering him and sending him to Xandar. Parker grows up to protect the universe from intergalactic threats with the Starjammers, stopping Thanos and later Annihilator from destroying the universe. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Annihilation Wave War Universe (Earth-68018) | The Annihilation Wave decimated the forces of the Galactic Council in a tragedy known as Annihilation Day and rules the universe for over 100 years.
Vance Astrovik was sent back a thousand years from this universe to Earth-23315, with orders to find Peter Parker and inform him of this future. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Hala’s Mightiest Heroes Universe (Earth-30115) | The Kree Empire invades and conquers the planet Earth, making it their new capital homeworld, Kree-Lar. Starforce defeats Earth's Mightiest Heroes, taking their technology and weapons to become stronger champions of the Kree.
Yon-Rogg, Kamala Khan, Mel-Varr, and Bron-Char defect from the Kree after learning of Dar-Benn's plans to unleash a potential virus over the planet, teaming up with the resistance to overthrow her. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Ronin’s Ten Rings Universe (Earth-93116) | Xu Wenwu sees Clint Barton's potential as the Ronin, recruiting him into the Ten Rings. Barton slowly plots to overthrow the Wenwu and take his throne.
Barton kipnaps Shang-Chi and Xialing, forcing Wenwu to duel him to save his children. Barton defeats and kills Wenwu, taking the Ten Rings for himself and becoming leader of the organization. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Duplicate Danvers Universe (Earth-98834) | Yon-Rogg and Dar-Benn go to the collector to retrieve the Reality Stone inside the Aether, only for Captain Marvel to intervene and blasts it to stop them from using it. The blast accidentally creating a powerful duplicate of herself who takes up the name of Laurie Danvers and the the codename of Binary. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Iron Man Overtaken Universe (Earth-51321) | Aldritch Killian injects Tony Stark with the Extremis Serum, turning him into a zombie-like creature when he fuses to his Mk. 42 Suit.
James Rhodes, Pepper Potts, and Maya Hansen must join together with the Avengers to stop him as a holiday horror ensues when Iron Maniac unleashes his suits worldwide. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Asgardian Avatar Universe (Earth-57220) | Loki confesses to his involvement with Laufey and the Frostgiants, sacrificing himself to save Thor from Odin's wrath.
Stranded on Earth, a grieving Thor becomes the apprentice of Khonshu, learning how to control his anger and rage, becoming Khonshu's newest Moon Knight. Thor returns to Asgard to stop Odin's warpath against the other Realms. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Rageful Red Queen Universe (Earth-82247) | A bitter Hope van Dyne, angry at her father's negligence of her potential, decides to fake her own death destroy the legacy of Hank Pym.
After Scott Lang's daughter Cassie is hospitalized by a mysterious case of Pym Particles found in her bloodstream, Lang and Jim Paxton team up with Pym to find out the true culprit. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Kamala the Conqueror Universe (Earth-41018) | M.O.D.O.K. hijacks the energy signature of Kamala Khan's Quantum Band to power Kang the Conqueror's Celestium, causing her to get sucked into the Quantum Realm and lose her memory.
Kang takes Khan under his wing as his apprentice, molding her into a more lethal and ruthless version of herself, helping him to escape with his armies. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Red Guardians of the Galaxy Universe (Earth-36995) | Ver's fellow Starforce members retrieve her before Talos can read her mind. The ensuing dogfight sends a stray Skrull sraft crashing into the home of a young Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova. Belova causes the tow of them to get blasted into space and get taken by Starforce back to Hala. After learning of their past with the Red Room, Vers takes the girls under her care.
Dreykov gains access to the Tesseract, using it to expand the Red Room galaxy-wide. Danvers, Romanoff, and Belova return to Earth and team up with Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostakoff to put an end to this. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Avenging Ant-Man and the Wasp Universe (Earth-90163) | Ant-Man and the Wasp's attempts to stop Elihas Starr's Quantum Tunnel results in them being blasted 24 years into the future.
Hope van Dyne gets captured and turned into a weapon for the Red Room by Taskmaster, taking on the moniker of the Red Wasp. Pym and van Dyne discover the truth and work with the Avengers to take down Taskmaster. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Midcentury Marvels Universe (Earth-47122) | Kamala Khan get cornered by Najma during the Partition, causing her to lose her Quantum Band as it returns to the present without her.
Mar-Vell arrives to Earth to investigate the Quantum anomaly, meeting and befriending Khan, whom she helps to get back to the future with the help of Ajak, Phastos, and Kingo. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| House of Hawkeyes Universe (Earth-52520) | Kate Bishop loses both her parents in the Battle of New York, resulting in her being adopted by the Parker Family and becoming Peter Parker's adoptive sister.
Parker and Bishop get caught in the middle of a conflict between Clint Barton and Wilson Fisk that nearly threatens their family. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Gamma-Blooded Bishop Universe (Earth-82218) | Jennifer Walter's car crash results in massive criminals stealing samples of hers and Bruce Banner's gamma-irradiated blood to sell on the black market.
Kate Bishop's attempts to sneak into an underground auction results in her getting accidentally injected with Banner's blood, foring hulk and She-Hulk to train the young hero to control her rage. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Bigshot Barton Universe (Earth-71039) | Bill Foster gets hired for a new version of Project G.O.L.I.A.T.H., and he recruits the retired Clint Barton to help him in exchange for time off his house arrest. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Worldkiller Wasp Universe (Earth-24084) | Kang the Conqueror kills Janet van Dyne's family, leading her to kill him and M.O.D.O.K. out of revenge. After several months, she recruits her grieving granddaughter Cassie Lang to help her catch his variant on Earth-41005. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Baxter-Benfactor Universe (Earth-41005) | Nathaniel Richards begins his work on discovering interuniversal travel in the earlier 3000s, eventually creating an Iron-Man-like suit of Armor and a Growing Man Stimuloid to help traverse it. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Runaway Royal Universe (Earth-624) | Leah Odinsdottir runs away from Asgard with Fenris after Odin tries to give her her crown, taking Mjolnir with her and using the hidden Bifrost leaks in the mountains to escape to Earth. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Possessed Peter Parker Universe (Earth-12117) | Wanda Maximoff's Dreamwalking collides with the runes of Kof-Kol, causing Peter Parker's Spider-Sense to absorb the chaos of the Darkhold's influence and go insane.
Parker eventually seeks out Agatha Harkness and Billy Maximoff to acquire their power, forcing Maximoff, Doctor Strange, and Parker's friends to intervene to try and stop him. Maximoff sacrifices herself to save her son's life, as Parker takes his friends and escapes his decaying reality. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Invaders Intervention Universe (Earth-77110) | Namor partners with Captain America, Bucky Barnes, and the Human Torch to take down Red Skull and save his people from the forces of Hydra. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Forgotten Spider-Man and Spinneret Universe (Earth-21127) | Michelle Jones-Watson decides to be forgotten alongside Peter Parker to keep him from being alone.
Wanting to atone for her inadvertent responsibility for what happened to Peter, Watson became the heroine Spinneret alongside Spider-Man to protect the citizens of New York. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Ego Threatened Emergence Universe (Earth-51788) | Ajak and the Eternals intercept the Ravagers' attempt to abduct Peter Quill after his mother's death, vowing to look after him and train him in how to use his powers to protect him from his father Ego.
Sometime after living with the Eternals, Ego comes to Earth once again to retrieve Quill once again. His attempts to use Quill's powers to fuel the Expansion prematurely triggers the Emergence, forcing the Eternals - through Quill, Mantis, and Sersi - to turn Tiamut into stone |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Invincible Ant-Man Universe (Earth-50215) | Hank Pym gets pulled out of retirement to save Tony Stark's life in Afghanistan, retrieving him and Ho Yinsen from the Ten Rings' capture.
Stark decides to help Pym build out his designs for the Quantum Tunnel to save his long lost wife, Janet. |
What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| WandaVision Worldwide Universe (Earth-32119) | Wanda Maximoff expanding the Hex of Westview inadvertantly created a young being known as Amaranth, with the power to allow beings like Billy, Tommy, and Vision to exist outside the Hex, causing a skirmish between S.W.O.R.D.'s forces and the other remaining Avengers. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Marvelous Wasp Universe (Earth-87713) | Mar-Vell's intervention in Ant-Man and the Wasp's mission causes Janet van Dyne to get empowered by the energy of the Space Stone, becoming the heroine Captain Marvel. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Sensational Synthezoid Universe (Earth-84014) | The radioactive spider bite paralyzes Peter Parker's entire body except his brain, leaving him trapped in his own mind. Parker's brianwaves and consciousness get uploaded into a synthezoid replica of his original body, modeled after the design of the Vision. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Future Fantastic Four Universe (Earth-32447) | A new group of heroes consisting of Peter Parker, Scott Lang, Jennifer Walters, and Kamala Khan, get empowered via exposure to an explosive blast of energy caused by Hank Pym's particle accelerator. The groups decides to take up the legacy of the Fantastic Four, becoming a new iteration of the team together. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
| Golden Guardian of the Galaxy (Earth-21150) | Carol Danvers loses both her team and her powers during the clash with Dar-Benn, sending her into a downward spiral and leading her into the pathway of Project Sentry. | What If...? - Into the Multiverse |
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Fallen Fantastic Four Universe (Earth-82113) | Johnny Storm sacrifices himself to stop Galactus from destroying their planet.
A grief-stricken Sue Storm goes down a dark path as Kang the Conqueror, causing an incursion that leaves her estranged family stranded in different worlds. |
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends |
| Octavius Victorius Universe (Earth-63394) | Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man in 2015, becoming friends with Firestar and Iceman and forming the Web-Warriors and confronts a series of enemies such as Doc Ock.
Earth was destroyed when Otto Octavius' Fusion Reactor exploded, killing nearly everyone on the planet and leaving the Earth an uninhabitable wasteland. The remnants of humanity lived in a bunker, where Firestar and Iceman defended them. |
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends |
| Goblin Horde Havoc Universe (Earth-42211) | Norman Osborn infects both Peter Parker and his friends into Goblins, spreading his madness across the New York and then the rest of the country.
A group of surviving rebels attempt to reacquire the Machina Di Kadavus as the Goblins close in on them. |
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends |
Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Spectacular Spider-Kid Universe (Earth-12263) | Oliver Osnick never gets fused to the Iron Spider Suit, allowing Peter Parker to reacquire it to stop Adrian Toomes at Coney Island.
Still inspired, Osnick built his own version of what he saw of the Iron Spider using designs of other hero-tech from around the internet, becoming the young hero Spider-Kid. |
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends |
| Spinneret and Firestar (Earth-63115) | Michelle Jones-Watson gets bitten by the radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker, turning her into the heroine Spinneret. | Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends |
| Powerless Peter Parker Universe (Earth-81995) | Spider-Man loses his powers during the Battle of Earth, going into retirement until a crisis in New York forces him to take up the webs once again. | Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends |
Fantastic Four: World of Tomorrow[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| World of Tomorrow Universe (Earth-61881) | The Fantastic Four successfully managed to teleport the planet Earth to another Galaxy away from Galactus, arriving in a brand new universe with their planet and their son Galactus. | Fantastic Four: World of Tomorrow |
| Sole Survivor Summers Universe (Earth-91611) | Scott Summers' family was killed by in a deadly plane crash that resulted in the awakening of his mutant powers. | Fantastic Four: World of Tomorrow |
X-Men 101[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Uncanny X-Men Universe (Earth-63117) | The reality in which the X-Men emerged into the public eye in 1986 following the Chernobyl Disaster. | X-Men 101 |
| Age of Apocalypse Universe (Earth-51227) | Alex Summers's attempts to take out Apocalypse results in the demise of the entire Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters.
The surviving young X-Men attempt to fight off the might of the Sentinels as the world erupts into war. |
X-Men 101 |
Untold Tales of Spider-Man[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Spider-Man Life Story Universe (Earth-97114) | Kang the Conqueror travels back to the 1970's to inform Hydra of the future, in an attempt to destroy the existence of the Web-Warriors. | Untold Tales of Spider-Man |
Leah: Journey Into Mystery[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Oliver Odinson Universe (Earth-12992) | Oliver Odinson gets adopted by the Asgardian Royal Family after Hela's defeat, with him and Peter Parker becoming a representative to the League of Realms. | Leah: Journey Into Mystery |
Steel Spider[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Second-Stringer Avengers Universe (Earth-51194) | The Civil War Event that divided the Avengers left the superhero community severely depleted, resulting in the deaths of many of the Avengers, X-Men and other hero groups, leaving a few stragglers, including Steel Spider, who was apprehended after being attacked by Venom and the Thunderbolts.
After being released from his wrongful imprisonment by Norman Osborn, Oliver Osnick attempted to return to a normal life, only to get pulled back into the ways in an attempt to overtake the Earth. Steel Spider joined with a handful of other targeted superpowered people - Jubilee, Nova, Speedball, and Jolt, and becoming a new version of the Avengers. |
Steel Spider |
Web of Spider-Man[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Amazing Friends Assembled Universe (Earth-63314) | Norman Osborn's particle accelerator causes a spider to be irradiated by the accelerator bites both Peter Parker and Michelle Jones-Watson, giving them both arachnid abilities.
Otto Octavius' fusion reactor accidentally destroys the world in a nuclear holocaust |
Web of Spider-Man |
Spider-Man Presents: Doctor Octopus[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Osnick Orphaned Universe (Earth-88217) | A young Ollie Osnick loses his parents early in his life during the Battle of New York. | Spider-Man Presents: Doctor Octopus (mentioned) |
| Power of the Sun Universe (Earth-72330) | Ollie Osnick arrived in a branched timeline of Earth-96283 through a TVA Timedoor. He then came across Otto Octavius fusion reactor, eventually meeting and being adopted by both Otto and his wife Rosie. | Spider-Man Presents: Doctor Octopus |
| Amazing Spider-Man Family Universe (Earth-98812) | To be added | Spider-Man Presents: Doctor Octopus |
House of M[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| House of M Universe (Earth-98115) | An orphaned Wanda Maximoff gets adopted by Richard and Mary Parker, becoming the adoptive sister to Peter Parker. | House of M |
The Variant Saga[]
Iron Man 3000[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Armored Earth Universe (Earth-24419) | In the year 3000, Morgan Stark attempts to carry on her late father's dreams of a suit of armor around the world, coming into conflict with her rival Nathaniel Richards. | Iron Man 3000 |
Thor: Flight of the Valkyrie[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Lost Loki Universe (Earth-25144) | To be added | Thor: Flight of the Valkyrie |
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Tales To Astonish[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Pym Family Fractured Universe (Earth-31174) | In 1987, while Hank Pym is away on a mission in East Berlin, Janet van Dyne gets killed by the Red Room, who takes her daughter Hope in as one of their Widows and give her the name Nadia.
Now going by the name Yellowjacket, Pym goes on a warpath through the Red Room to get her back. Nadia builds her own Wasp suit to escape the Red Room, which malfunctions and sends her into an alternate future. |
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Tales to Astonish |
Captain Marvel: Legacy[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Day of Captain Marvel (Earth-67112) | The universe of a Mar-Vell who to defected and becoming Captain Marvel to prevent more Skrulls from being hunted, including his wife Anelle, and his son, Teddy. Along the way, Mar-Vell befriended Carol Danvers, who became his partner Ms. Marvel, but she died saving Teddy's life from a Kree assassin.
At the height of the Kree-Skrull War, the Kree radical group known as the Lunatic Legion attempted to unleash the power of Quantum Bands to attempt to banish the Skrulls, opening a tear in their reality's UNTN and sending everyone on the planet of Skrullos, including Captain Marvel, Hulkling, Veranke, and Pitt'o Nili to another universe. |
Captain Marvel: Legacy |
Asgardians of the Galaxy[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Annihilated Asgard Universe (Earth-51228) | Loki Laufeydottir is informed of her adoptive sister Hela's existence. One day while venturing out into the mountains, she finds a portal that teleports her to the planet housing the Aether, causing her to absorb it.
Upon the awakening of Malekith, the Dark Elves attacked and destroyed Asgard, looking for the Aether. When Loki was about to be captured and killed by Malekith, she accidentally activated the power of the Aether, teleporting her to a new world. |
Asgardians of the Galaxy |
The New Avengers[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Ultron Unlimited Universe (Earth-71511) | Pietro Maximoff managed to save Clint Barton and himself from Ultron's attack. However, Ultron managed to kill his sister Wanda instead, successfully dropping Sokovia down to Earth and ravaging the planet. | The New Avengers |
Champions[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| X-Men Exterminated Universe (Earth-61211) | To be added | Champions |
Marvel Tales[]
Avengers 1988[]
| Universe | Description | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Cosmic Cold War Universe (Earth-21223) | The Avengers of 1988 and their allies attempt to take on the efforts of the Living Planet, Ego, and all other kinds of threats to their world. | Avengers 1988 |