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In the future where Hulk became the Maestro, one Marvel movie villain arose to take over the world after the tyrant’s fall.
The Marvel multiverse is full of variants of classic characters, often reinvented and reimagined in new forms. This includes plenty of post-apocalyptic hellscapes, often ones reduced to rubble and ash by the chaos that befell their worlds. It’s here that brutal powerhouses like Abomination — who has gone on to become one of the handfuls of prominent Marvel Cinematic Universe villains to not be killed over the years — would be able to find genuine power.
The timeline of Maestro, the evil potential future Hulk, was a brutal one — and when the former hero was dethroned and killed, it fell to his longtime nemesis the Abomination to take up the mantle of rulership.
Earth-9200 was, for a time, very similar to the history of Earth-616 — the core-Marvel Universe. An eventual world war resulted in the deaths of almost every hero on the planet. However, gamma-mutates were spared thanks to the actions of A.I.M. and MODOK, who believed gamma radiation might be the key to restarting humanity down the line. A century later, the Hulk awakened to find a transformed and desolate world, now known as Dystopia. Hulk lost all faith in humanity and, after murdering the then-king of Dystopia Hercules, took up the mantle of Maestro — undisputed lord of his reality. However, a resistance led by the aged Rick Jones allowed the present-day Hulk to confront his dark future incarnation and eventually return to the past (and defeat Maestro in the process).
In the aftermath — as revealed in Abominations by Ivan Velez Jr, Angel Medina, Brad Vancata, Glynis Oliver, and Jim Novak — the leader of the resistance, Rick Jones’ granddaughter Janis, tried to help repair society. Maestro’s soldiers in the Gravity Police are ordered to leave the city-state of Dystopia, and in their subsequent wandering end up alerting Abomination to the Maestro’s disappearance. Meanwhile, Betty-6 (a former concubine for the Maestro) is pregnant with the Hulk’s child, drawing the attention of Abomination and his mutate army when they come to sack the Maestro’s castle. There, they also discover the Jennifer Walters of that reality, trapped within a sarcophagus for an earlier alliance with Abomination against the mentally cracked Maestro.
Although Betty-6 and some of her allies escaped into the past with the use of the same Time-Platform that had brought the Hulk to the future in the first place, Walters followed after her — after resisting any attempts by Abomination to convince her to remain as his bride. Enraged and further mutated over the years, Walters sought to ensure the end of the Banner line by killing Betty-6 and any child she may be carrying. Meanwhile, Abomination embraced his future and was further amplified by cybernetic advancements. But when given the chance to venture into the past to ensure the demise of Betty, Jen, and the child, Abomination casually refuses and orders the factory containing the time-travel technology destroyed — reasoning the past is the past, and he has a future to rule.
It was ultimately for the best for Abomination that he did so, as the present-day incarnation of the classic villain helped save the infant and was there when the She-Hulk of the Dystopia timeline died in battle. With pretty much every other potential powerhouse in his timeline eradicated or gone, Abomination effectively won the Dystopia timeline, with the future seemingly remaining under his control for untold years to come. It’s a brutal reminder that Abomination became one of the Hulk’s greatest nemesis’ not by pure strength, but through also his determination to survive — and to conquer — being just as fierce as any incarnation of the Maestro before him.
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