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Marvel’s tease of the Avengers’ next epic reveals that the undead, forgotten MCU hero Deathlok might be the key to saving the Marvel Multiverse.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/Hulk #1, available now from Marvel.
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, are usually the first people to respond when a new multiversal threat emerges. And even inside a black hole at the end of infinity, the Avengers are still saving the universe, but this team is made up of thousands of the undead cybernetic hero, Deathlok.
“The Tower at the Center of Everything,” by Jason Aaron, Iban Coello, Brian Reber and Cory Petit, featured a heavily modified version of Avengers Tower at the God Quarry, also known as the Quarry of Creation, a cosmic place outside the bounds of time. Built by alternate versions of Tony Stark, Thor and Vision, the tower was manned by a mysterious individual known only as Avenger Prime, who controlled a cybernetic army of Deathloks that protected the Marvel Multiverse. After detecting shock waves originating from full chronal collapse, Avenger Prime sent off the Deathloks to find out what caused them. The Deathloks, who had been scrapped together from the corpses that make up the God Quarry, flew off into the temporal vortex ready to explore their assigned universes and spearing the warning about Marvel’s next multiversal threat.
One of these Deathloks was sent to investigate Earth-10222, a world where Atlantis had never fallen and was guarded by the Atlantean Avengers. As he traveled through dimensions, Deathlok was attacked by a rampaging Wolverine. Deathlok managed to fight him off but landed in an empty desert, a far cry from the oceanic paradise he was expecting. His computer told him that the Earth had been hit by a temporal cataclysm and Deathlok realized that this Earth’s timeline had been rewritten. The cataclysm apparently wiped out the Avengers and their Atlantis one million years before Deathlok set foot on the world. Before he was able to relocate to the past and fix the cataclysm, a Ghost Rider bomb exploded in front of him. The bomb was seemingly thrown by a multiversal version of the Masters of Evil, who mused that they would destroy whoever was sending the Deathloks into alternate universes. As he burned, Deathlok made an emergency call to all Avengers on every Earth to warn them about the coming threat.
Deathlok the Demolisher originally debuted in Astonishing Tales #25 by Rich Buckler and Doug Moench. The original Deathlok was Luther Manning of Earth-7484, a soldier who was fatally wounded and reanimated using cybernetic parts in the post-apocalyptic future. He eventually made his way into the main Marvel Universe, where he was recruited as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Afterward, he was recruited by Earth-X’s Watcher to become a member of the Heralds, heroes recruited from alternate dimensions to fight the Celestials. Since the introduction of the original Deathlok, several characters have taken up the identity of Deathlok, all corpses merged with machinery to become zombie cyborg super-soldiers.
While this particular Deathlok didn’t manage to fix the problem on Earth-10222, their kind is perfect for a situation like this because they are created from recycled corpses given cybernetic enhancements. Avenger Prime’s Deathlok army included warped versions of familiar faces like a Black Widow-Deathlok and a Captain America-Deathlok, built form the bodies of the late heroes of the Marvel Multiverse.
Using the God Quarry’s corpses, Avenger Prime likely has an almost infinite supply of Deathlok’s to spare. The fact that they can be continually recycled and sent out again en masse against interdimensional threats means that they might be the key to saving the Marvel Universe against the new multiversal Masters of Evil.
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