The year is 2040. World war three, ane scale pandemid several localized catastrophes have happened. None of that really matters though. Who cares about president what’s his name or how due to the ilitary volunteers America had to reinstate the draft. The billion dead meant radical ges to policies and glomerates were torn apart and highly reguted.
One pany wouldn’t be able to hold heavy trol over pharmaceuticals charging an arm and a leg so you wouldn’t die from the super flu. Several of the rger glomerates were pletely dismantled during this time and one of them happeo be disney. With the years of financial mistakes and them publicly deg the war they were torn apart ruthlessly afterwards.
As a result marvel became avaible and while the movie franchise was far too expehe ic characters were up frabs. Miraculously Daged to gain the ic rights for marvel in 2030 and thus begarue golden age of ics. Dozens of writers came together and started writing the golden rules that must be followed if they were to avoid the same huge problems id movies have had in the past.
The three strict rules they had to follow were thus called the ias because breaking any would be sacrilege. Death had to matter, no time travel and no alternate dimensions. There couldn’t be any blips or zarus pits infinitely reviving characters makih meaningless. Time travel to solve problems would ofte in gigantic plotholes and were deemed zy writing. Alternate universes had bee even more troupelike iure whehird ant man movie came out copying spider verse it bombed so hard it pyed a part in disney’s downfall.
They began to write and for the first four years ic sales doubled every year. People began to buy i case the power had to be rationed like it did in the war. Four years of Batman vs the Punisher or Batman and the Punisher. Spidermas Superman, Thor challenges Superman, Wonder woman loves Stark, Brainiac vs Ultron, Captain marvel saves Shazam. No series created did poorly and many one off ics succeeded as well.
Stories well boiled doerfected. The Mutants, Inhumans aa humans were rolled into one and the inhumans were ged to be the eternal races mutants that fled their homeworld. Most people would call people with special abilities Meta humans and the word Mutant became a slur. Some of the more wacky vilins tied to the Xmeoned down like Sublime being one of the first mutants who could mind transfer instead of him being a bacteria.
Fathers would talk to their daughters about the new Bck cats team up id mothers would talk to sons about the Supers high ic. It wasn’t until the fourth year before sales started to fall. Brainst a solution they would have universal ges every fifth year to keep the stories iing. Thus began the first universal shakeup with the death of gods series in the ibsp;
Not many gods were mentioned iories so far. Only a handful of deaths but this soon ged with several gods or entities of godlike strength fought. Thanos fights Darkseid and loses badly, crippling himself on the avatar of Darkseid whily held a portion of his true strength.
Trigon fought Mephisto and while her of them were killed both were injured with Mephisto severely weakened and losing many of his tracts. Superman, Thor and Wonder woman stopped a pn from Ares. Highfather sin Gactus. The final big series ended with new gods vs old gods. Zeus and Odin teamed up together to kill Darkseid, while he would be reborn as it is impossible to kill a god it would take hundreds if not thousands of years.
The fight was so inte started tearing the fabric of the world. In order to stop the destru of the universe all gods had to lock themselves away in domains or pocket dimensions. Only demigods and avatars could exist in the universe after that point. Many, many side characters were written out of the story through deaths at this point as well.
Many of the vilins also began to fight which led to some pretty iing stories being told. Kingpin mao e out on top in the vilin world of New York city eveing out the Joker. Batman's catalog of vilins fought against Spiderman’s leading to deaths on both sides. Rhino had his suit destroyed and head crushed by the Kingpin. Twoface was killed in a fight against the sinister six where the Penguin killed Flint Marco’s daughter. That same fight left the Riddler paralyzed by Electro.
Almost every city had fights simir to that as the world slowly stabilized itself to what was called the Crush in the ics. The merging of the two worlds was mostly unnoticed except by gods and itities one of which was Superman who ended up telling the Justice league. Superman would obviously notice that the Justice league roster had suddenly expao over double its inal size.
No one was sure what caused it but with previous knowledge gaihrough fake memories the vast majority of people didn’t know about it until Iron ma slip during pillow talk with a reporter. The four years of ics people slowly started to fall off, still sellier than the previous thirty years but slowing down steadily.
There were talks about bringing back the ematiiverse sinany years had passed and they had a decade of fresh ics to steal from. The big tenth year anniversary event drew near and no one could imagine what would e in the ics.
