M5: Marvel Mark Five

[Van Plexico]

Exactly one decade ago, as we were all mired in the horror that was HEROES REBORN, I came up with the idea for MV-1: Marvel Volume One.

MV-1's purpose was to give us "our" Avengers (and other Marvel characters) the way we felt they should be presented. The name indicated a "return" (prior to the actual "Return") to the volume one runs of Marvel's greatest comics (with Heroes Reborn being volume 2).

Now, exactly ten years later, the Marvel Universe has once again become something that many of us no longer recognize.

We've now had Marvel mark 1 (original), mark 2 (Heroes Reborn), mark 3 (the Heroes Return/Busiek era of Avengers Marvel), and mark 4 (Bendis-verse!).

Thus I give you
M5: Marvel Mark Five
An MV-1 Event in Twelve Parts
Here's the idea:

Volunteers will each take one of the following titles and create a story around it. The resulting "issues" will be posted and featured on the AvengersAssemble! site (and linked here, of course).

The setup follows below. After this first issue I am proposing, the 616 Marvel Universe will be a clean slate-- do your story any way you wish, be it an origin story or a "classic/definitive" story presentation of your character(s).

I am doing this next part somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but you can be as silly or as serious as you'd like, with your story.

It all begins in:
Marvel 616: The Apocalypse
An MV-1 Event
In which a host of Celestials comes to 616-Earth, takes one look (thus seeing things like the Newer New Avengers roster) and says, "Um, yeah, we may have made certain promises and whatnot, but... ugh! Screw it!"

The great cosmic thumb points downward!!

And they destroy the Earth.

Then they say, "Oops-- there was some sort of bookkeeping error. This hasn't been 616-Earth at all!"

So they locate the real 616-Earth and bring it back from wherever they left it, rebooting it from scratch.

Thus we have:

AVENGERS: M5
An MV-1 Event

FANTASTIC FOUR: M5
An MV-1 Event

X-MEN: M5
An MV-1 Event

SPIDER-MAN: M5
An MV-1 Event

HULK: M5
An MV-1 Event

DR. STRANGE: M5
An MV-1 Event

COSMIC: M5
An MV-1 Event

DEFENDERS: M5
An MV-1 Event

DAREDEVIL: M5
An MV-1 Event

IRON MAN: M5
An MV-1 Event

THOR: M5
An MV-1 Event

CAPTAIN AMERICA: M5
An MV-1 Event

MS. MARVEL: M5
An MV-1 Event

MOON KNIGHT: M5
An MV-1 Event

YOUNG AVENGERS: M5
An MV-1 Event

CHAMPIONS: M5
An MV-1 Event

If you'd like to suggest one I've omitted, please do so.

Feel free to use this thread to discuss, throw around ideas, etc. I will make the final decisions as to what is included and posted on the site, etc.

Those who choose to give this a try: Have fun with it, but please don't take it too seriously! This is just for fun!

[ozbot]

Were you just looking for ideas and comments or are you wanting to launch something a bit more official? It's kind of confusing, so maybe that's why there aren't so many comments yet. (which I'd love to see, of course!)

[Van Plexico]

I was just throwing it out there to see what people said. It sort of came to me in a flash, and struck me as an idea worth mentioning, at least. As much in parody of Civil War as anything else. Do with it what ye will.

[ozbot]

Well, I'm all for making MV-1 style alternate earths, of course! I remember trying to drum up support to try and do something similar during the time of Avengers Disassembled. (In the same way that MV-1 was as if the Rob Liefeld-verse never happened, this would be taking events after Disassembled and re-inventing the team, starting with the fact that Hawkeye never died and that Wanda was used as a cover for some other villain).

I got a couple of people involved, but no one wanted to share in a big fanfic universe like MV-1. Not sure why that was. Maybe Van's able to rally people a bit more than I, or maybe fanfic was something people were more inclined to participate in back then, or maybe the events of Disassembled weren't as significant as the Liefeldization of Heroes Reborn.

So, all that to say, of course I'm all for batting around ideas for MV-1 Mark Five or whatever in responce to the Civil War. However, I don't like the ideas of the Celestials having to reboot the universe. I'd rather take the lemons and make lemonade, rather than the more Mary Sue element of destroying what others are doing simply because you can. (Unless, as you said, it was played just for parody.)

Rather, I'd have the Celestials show up during the events of Civil War, so that the heroes and the American public look around and go "uh, there's bigger things here to worry about" and they abandon the Registration Act so that they can fight the bigger menace. Something earth-shattering like that, enough to shake the world out if its mischaracterization AND allow them to build something totally different after the event.

[Engage]

This sounds like it could be fun, but I'm hampered by my total inability to write convincing dialogue and/or plots.

[redstatecap]

Van, I'm interested. In fact, that project of mine we talked about could be considered the first installment.
I'm taking Captain America.

RSC

[Doctor Doom]

While I'm a fan of Civil War, I do feel some Marvel titles- ESPECIALLY Fantastic Four- have strayed wildly from their roots.

I had actually thought of something similar myself. My idea was a forum (simialr to a DC one out there called DC-2) where different writers took over the existant books and wrote them. The big difference is that my plan was set pre-Civil War initially to give people a chance to settle and worked from the continuity that was there, but then we'd do our reboot by scripting our own crossover - for example, the New Avengers would exist at the start but we'd use this crossover to justify bringing back a real roster, etc. Wwas going to nick the marvel slogan and call it "Marvel: YOUR Universe". In fact, even planned on doing some recruiting here for someone to write New Avengers and/or someone to write the Real Avengers upon their return.

Great minds think alike I guess, count me interested.