Super Hero Purpose

[Huntsman Spider]

Okay, you bring up something that progresses into my next instalment of Super Hero Purpose. I think we have to acknowledge the isolation of superheroes is a little more complicated than just accepting them into Earth 616. Here goes.

What followed (after 1961 appearance of transferred special ability people to Prime Earth) was an exuberant outpouring of exultation at having super powers in a depressed world of drudgery and world war (amidst the Atlas Monster Age). This was the start of their training, the superheroes needed, to get them cooperating and battle hardened in use of their powers, to prepare for the purpose they were always placed here for. These were not Earth 616 citizens. These were alternated Earth “aliens”, acclimatised to their new world, to be its protector, and with no memory of their birth planets anymore.

The actual purpose of this hard wrenching from their home planets is jarring in concept, because the Omega saw it necessary that Prime Earth, 616, had to be protected from Mad Celestial destruction for the sake of all the other Alternate Reality worlds, like the origin worlds of the superheroes. And though Secret Wars 2015 destroyed their Multiversal home origin worlds, the Reed Richards (of another reality, we have to remember), restored all the Multiverse (and his own Reality Earth) for them to live again, in the All New All Different (ANAD) Marvel.

So we have a storyline yet to be explored where all these proto-superheroes go back to their home reality planets to live out their lives in those realities, splitting the Fantastic Four up so they can return, (even Sue and Johnny, who are not brother and sister at all, but from different Alternate realities). So you can see the discussion on isolation in the superheroes case is far wider than just a sociological sense. It’s because they don’t come from Prime Earth.

That's a twist, having the superheroes literally be from another world and having to acclimate to living in a world comparable to ours, although as far as they know, they've always been part of that world, they just didn't have superpowers before a certain point in time. If that were the case and they realized one day they literally weren't from this world, yet were tasked with protecting it . . .

[jackolover]

That's a twist, having the superheroes literally be from another world and having to acclimate to living in a world comparable to ours, although as far as they know, they've always been part of that world, they just didn't have superpowers before a certain point in time. If that were the case and they realized one day they literally weren't from this world, yet were tasked with protecting it . . .

... would they be p....ed? As a first instinct I think the superheros would feel used until someone explained how urgent it was. After that sunk in, I think they would have to realise they had been absorbed into the 616, and live their lives out there. But a visit to their original world would be too attractive not to just see what they missed .

[Zelena]

That's a twist, having the superheroes literally be from another world and having to acclimate to living in a world comparable to ours, although as far as they know, they've always been part of that world, they just didn't have superpowers before a certain point in time. If that were the case and they realized one day they literally weren't from this world, yet were tasked with protecting it . . .

A bit like Superman?