—Reed RichardsYou spend your entire life looking for that one perfect someone, and when you find her, you think you'll never love anything more... Then you have children, and realize what a fool you were to believe that. And now, I have lost everything. We have all lost everything. My entire life I believed in better days. I believed in tomorrow. I hid that belief in my heart--A stronghold against a world that devours hope. But now the walls have fallen. I have been overrun. And I hope... I believe... In nothing.
Appearing in "The End Times"
Featured Characters:
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Nick Fury (Apparent death)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Apparent death)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Apparent death)
- Numerous unnamed agents
- Fantastic Four
- The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Death)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Death)
- Invisible Woman (Sue Richards) (Death)
- Illuminati
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)
- Black Panther (T'Challa)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Apparent death)
- Amadeus Cho (Apparent death)
Supporting Characters:
- Avengers
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
- Thor (Jane Foster)
- Vision (Apparent death)
- Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
- War Machine (Jim Rhodes) (Apparent death)
- War Machine Drones (Apparent death)
- Captain America (Sam Wilson) (Apparent death)
- ⏴ Doc Green (Bruce Banner) (Apparent death)
- Inhumans
- Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) (Apparent death)
- Medusa (Medusalith Amaquelin) (Apparent death)
- Inferno (Dante Pertuz) (Apparent death)
- Future Foundation
- Franklin Richards (Death)
- Val Richards (Death)
- Leech (Death)
- Bentley 23 (Death)
- Sunspot's Avengers
- Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) (Apparent death)
- Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) (Apparent death)
- Manifold (Eden Fesi) (Apparent death)
- Pod (Aikku Jokinen) (Apparent death)
- Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) (Apparent death)
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Star-Lord (Peter Quill)
- Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) (Apparent death)
- Rocket Raccoon (Death)
- Groot (Apparent death)
- Gamora (Apparent death)
- X-Men
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Apparent death)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Apparent death)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake) (Apparent death)
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (Apparent death)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (Apparent death)
- Cyclops/Phoenix (Scott Summers)
- She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Apparent death)
Antagonists:
- Beyonders
- The Maker (Reed Richards) (Apparent death)
- Children of Tomorrow (Apparent death)
- Cabal
- Thanos (Apparent death)
- Black Swan (Yabbat Ummon Tarru) (Apparent death)
- Terrax the Truly Enlightened (Apparent death)
- Namor (Apparent death)
- Maximus (Apparent death)
Other Characters:
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)
- Molecule Man (Owen Reece)
- City (Apparent death)
- Human Torch (Jim Hammond) (Apparent death)
- Luke Cage (Apparent death)
- Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (Apparent death)
- X-Men (Cameo)
- Jean Grey (Cameo) (Apparent death)
- Kitty Pryde (Cameo) (Apparent death)
- Wolverine (Jimmy Hudson) ⏵ (Cameo) (Apparent death)
- Cloak (Ty Johnson) (Cameo) (Apparent death)
- Dagger (Tandy Bowen) (Cameo) (Apparent death)
- Spider-Man (Miles Morales) (Apparent death)
- Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) (Apparent death)
- Norman Osborn (Apparent death)
- Bullseye (Lester) (Apparent death)
- Scorpion (Mac Gargan) (Apparent death)
- Absorbing Man (Carl Creel) (Apparent death)
- Sandman (Flint Marko) (Apparent death)
- ⏴ Punisher (Frank Castle) ⏵ (Apparent death)
- Phoenix Force
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Mutants
- Asgardians
- Synthezoids
- Human-Kree Hybrids
- Inhumans
- Human-Spartax Hybrids
- Halfworlders
- Cyborgs
- Flora colossi
- Zen-Whoberis
- Beyonders
- Mutant Titanian Eternal
- Landlaks
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Genius Loci
- Cosmic Beings
- Robots
Locations:
- Earth-1610 (Destruction)
- Earth (Destruction)
- North America (Destruction)
- United States of America (Destruction)
- New York State (Destruction)
- New York City (Destruction)
- Manhattan (Destruction)
- The City (Destruction)
- The Dome (Destruction)
- Financial District (Destruction) (Cameo)
- World Trade Center (Destruction) (Cameo)
- The City (Destruction)
- Triskelion (Destruction)
- Manhattan (Destruction)
- New York City (Destruction)
- New York State (Destruction)
- United States of America (Destruction)
- Europe (Mentioned)
- North America (Destruction)
- Earth (Destruction)
- Earth-616 (Destruction)
- Earth (Destruction)
- North America (Destruction)
- United States of America (Destruction)
- New York State (Destruction)
- New York City (Destruction)
- Manhattan (Destruction)
- 42nd Street and Madison Avenue (Destruction)
- Baxter Building (Destruction)
- Columbus Circle (Destruction)
- 58th Street and Broadway (Destruction)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Station: Golgotha (Destruction)
- 58th Street and Broadway (Destruction)
- 42nd Street and Madison Avenue (Destruction)
- Manhattan (Destruction)
- New York City (Destruction)
- New York State (Destruction)
- United States of America (Destruction)
- Japan (Referenced)
- Riyadh (Referenced)
- Nation X (Mentioned)
- North America (Destruction)
- Earth (Destruction)
Items:
- Doctor Doom's Armor
- Eye of Agamotto
- Cloak of Levitation
- Hawkeye's Suit
- Terrax's Axe
- Spider-Man's Suit
- Web-Shooters
- Mjolnir
- Future Foundation Uniforms
- Panther Habit
- Black Widow's Gauntlets
- War Machine Armor Model 8
- Iron Tech Armor (Destruction)
- Iron Man Six (Destruction)
- Star-Lord's Uniform
- Element Gun
- Captain America's Uniform and Wings (Destruction)
- Sentinels (Destruction)
- Pod Undersuit (Behind the scenes)
- Scorpion's Suit
- Punisher's Arsenal
- Cyclops' Visor
- Phoenix Egg (First full appearance)
- Drax's Knives
Vehicles:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (Destruction)
- Future Foundation's Life Raft
- C.I.T.T. (Destruction)
- Cabal's Life Raft (Behind the scenes)
Synopsis for "The End Times"
On one side of the Multiverse, Doctor Doom was confronting the Beyonders. They demanded to know who dared stand before them, and he presented himself.
Meanwhile, on Earth-1610, Nick Fury was making the final arrangements for the upcoming and final incursion, and soon after sent all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fleet towards Earth-616. The fleet arrived to the incursion point, the Manhattan of Earth-616 and started firing at it. Numerous heroes tried to fend off the attackers.
At the Baxter Building, Mister Fantastic was finishing getting ready the "lifeboat" to be used to save a small portion of humanity. The Iron Man from Earth-1610 deployed the Iron Man Six weapon, but the tide of the battle is turned in favor of the heroes of the Marvel Universe when the Guardians of the Galaxy and Cyclops' Sentinels arrived to help.
Other powerhouse heroes like Doc Green, She-Hulk, and Pod arrived to Earth-1610 and burst through the Triskelion, destroying it and killing Nick Fury and Hawkeye in the process. Once the Triskelion fell, the Maker deployed the Children of Tomorrow to attack.
After the vessel transporting the Earth's "resurrection team" was destroyed by the Children, Mr. Fantastic was forced to put the "lifeboat" in action. As the "lifeboat" is deployed, Manifold teleported numerous heroes into it, including Spider-Man, Cyclops, who had recently used a Phoenix Egg to become the Phoenix once more, and Thor.
As the lifeboat approached to the center point of the incursion, it suffered a hull breach, causing a portion containing Reed's family to drift away. The Invisible Woman tried to reconnect it to the rest of the structure, but failed, and it was destroyed. The rest of the lifeboat teleported away as the two universes collided and were destroyed.
Solicit Synopsis
• THE FINAL INCURSION IS HAPPENING!
• THE MARVEL UNIVERSE IS COLLIDING WITH THE ULTIMATE UNIVERSE!
• AND NEITHER WILL SURVIVE!Notes
- The issue is topped off with a full-page headstone-like inscription that reads "THE MARVEL UNIVERSE • 1961–2015" and "THE ULTIMATE UNIVERSE • 2000–2015." The Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe began with Fantastic Four #1 (1961) and Ultimate Spider-Man #1 (2000), respectively.