Which was the worst Mega cross over event?

[Hcmarvel]

I'm actually a big fan of crossovers. I like big stories where all the heroes team-up or deal with a threat mostly associated with one character. I think even a lot of the events that have terrible reputations, have moments that I've enjoyed. Axis, which is....really quite bad...still has a few things to enjoy about it. I like the moment where Magneto arrives with all the villains to fight Red Skull and I think the Deadpool/Apocalypse moments are effective. But obviously it's a mess.

Which of the following events do you find to be the worst? I know this is a very subjective question so I am probably failing to include some that others would put on the list. But these are the ones I considered to be the greatest failures (I used Wikipedia's article on Marvel crossovers to help define what counted). I also didn't put things like Shadowland and Maximum Clonage that were incredibly character specific and did not feature as many tie-ins. So the list I compiled is:

Secret Wars 2
Onslaught
Age of Ultron
Fear Itself
Avengers Vs. X-Men
Axis
Civil War 2
Secret Empire


If I had to rank them, worst to least worst I think I would go with:

1. Secret Wars 2 -
2. Age of Ultron
3. Civil War 2
4. Secret Empire
5. Axis
6. Onslaught
7. Avengers Vs. X-Men
8. Fear Itself (I actually kind of like Fear Itself)

[Snoop Dogg]

Secret Empire (rocks) >>> AvX (solid) > Secret Wars II (weird) > Fear Itself (wack) > Age of Ultron (why) > Civil War II (why) > Axis (actually fuckin' terrible)

im not reading all of onslaught
not yet

[charliehustle415]

Civil War 2 was such a blatant cash grab that it is unforgivable.

It was so badly written and the characterization was so bad I have no idea what Bendis was thinking and this is coming from a HUGE Bendis fan.

I love his New Avengers, Spidey, and everything else he writes but Civil War 2 is by far the worst.

[your_name_here]

Axis is probably the worst. Civil War II also bad.

[Adset]

14 year old me is furious you included Onslaught. I ate, drank, and breathed Onslaught back in the summer of 96...

It’s Axis. It was so inexplicably bad I don’t even think there’s a close number two.

[Superfly Frankenstein]

I don’t think I read Axis. Lol

[Anthony W]

Civil War 2 was such a blatant cash grab that it is unforgivable.

It was so badly written and the characterization was so bad I have no idea what Bendis was thinking and this is coming from a HUGE Bendis fan.

I love his New Avengers, Spidey, and everything else he writes but Civil War 2 is by far the worst.

It pretty much wrecked Captain Marvel and set in stone her angry, stubborn and unlikable persona that she can't seem to shake. If there was ever a character that needed to broken down completely and built back up again it's Captain Marvel. We're talking radical character surgery. We're talking character surgery on the level that John Byrne did to Superman in the 80s.

[Captain Nash]

Age of Ultron beats out Civil War 2 slightly. At least Civil War 2 had a POINT. Age of Ultron was just ....ugh. it was a nothingness of ridiculousness. Fear Itself wasn't too bad - the beginning, the concept of it was actually extremely interesting to me, but the ending was definitely lackluster.

[Mike_Murdock]

Secret Empire (rocks) >>> AvX (solid) > Secret Wars II (weird) > Fear Itself (wack) > Age of Ultron (why) > Civil War II (why) > Axis (actually fuckin' terrible)

im not reading all of onslaught
not yet

Onslaught is a mess. It can be readable in a sort of fever dream state, but I think the same is true with AXIS. Civil War II has really pretty art. Everyone is acting like a psychopath in the beginning, but it really only falls completely off the rails halfway through when Bendis starts stalling for time. I think I agree with this order except I'd rank Age of Ultron worse and Secret Wars II above AvX. That being said, I'm unclear if they're talking about the Jim Shooter Secret Wars II or not.