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The Last Annihilation: Wiccan and Hulkling one-shot reintroduces a classic Avengers threat in a horrifying new form to plague Marvel’s cosmic heroes.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Last Annihilation: Wiccan and Hulkling #1, available now from Marvel.
The Last Annihilation has evolved into one of the greatest threats Marvel’s cosmic heroes have ever faced. In what seemed like no time at all, Dormammu emerged from within his new celestial host and sent his hordes across the galaxy in a bid to claim this dimension as his own. In the midst of the battle to save the universe, the Guardians of the Galaxy face a resurrected version of a classic Avengers foe in the form of the Kree Supreme Intelligence, who has been remade into something more terrifying than ever.
In The Last Annihilation: Wiccan and Hulkling #1 (by Anthony Oliveira, Jan Bazaldua, Rachelle Rosenberg, and VC’s Ariana Maher), the mutants of S.W.O.R.D. show up just in time to help Wiccan fight back the Mindless Ones who are invading the planet Skrullos. Meanwhile, Emperor Hulkling and the Guardians of the Galaxy deal with a similar situation on the ruins of Hala. When Dormammu’s army forces Hulkling and the Guardians to retreat, the mutant Avalanche puts an impassable gap between the heroes and their assailants, leaving them stranded in an ancient underground temple in the process.
Inside the massive, hallowed halls of this foreboding place, Marvel Boy identifies an interfacing chamber once used to communicate with the Kree Supreme Intelligence. Emperor Hulkling shudders at the thought of the being, even muttering that it was “an undead fascist hive-mind.” However, Marvel Boy somehow “recycled” the Intelligence, bringing it back online in a strange new form.
First introduced in 1967’s Fantastic Four #65 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Supreme Intelligence was developed over one million years ago by the Kree in an effort to surpass the Skrulls in the long running war between the two interstellar races. Upon death, the minds of the greatest Kree generals, scientists, and philosophers were assimilated into the Intelligence, which eventually became a being with its own mind rather than being a compilation of many. Eventually the Supreme Intelligence would replace the Kree government almost entirely before becoming a messiah-like figure to many of the Kree.
Over the years the Supreme Intelligence orchestrated various schemes leading to the creation of the Inhumans, Captain Mar-Vell’s bond with Rick Jones, and multiple interstellar conflicts. When Hala was poised to fall, the Intelligence sacrificed itself and its world in an effort to stave off the power of the Black Vortex. Since then, Marvel Boy has come into contact with what little remained of it, and parts of it were used to transform the Inhuman known as Vox into a more lethal version of himself.
Still, the Supreme Intelligence has never appeared as ghoulish as it appears here. After coming online, the Intelligence begins ranting and raving in a disturbingly ominous manner, its words being cut off by strings of numbers and error notifications. The Intelligence, or rather what is left of it, acknowledges the coming incursion of Dark Dimension and initiates a countdown to destroy what remains of the planet, possibly under the thrall of Dormammu.
While it isn’t particularly surprising that the Supreme Intelligence has resurfaced during The Last Annihilation, its new form does come as a bit of a shock. Even weakened, the Intelligence has never been easily swayed. However, this may go to prove that Dormammu is even more powerful than ever in his own new form, and is now a threat that no one, not even the combined forces of the Guardians of the Galaxy and S.W.O.R.D. could have ever anticipated.
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