Last edited by ZNOP; 03-17-2015 at 05:21 AM.
So, not this issue, but I didn't want to bump the older thread, but in New Avengers #30, who is the fifth construct on that page that the Beyonders are killing? I was able to identify Infinity, Eternity, Lord Chaos and Master Order, but then there's a body floating off the page, and I don't know who that is.
It makes sense just fine. One Eternity, Death, Infinity, Oblivion per universe. A universe dies, so does the Eternity that represents that universe. Really only the Living Tribunal and The One Above All (Jack, not the head honcho Celestial, that's a different guy) have been shown to be multiversal.
That they need M-Bodies to interact with the material universe is a totally separate issue... they're abstract conceptual personifications, so it's not that they're using the M-Bodies to cross over from some other universe, or even the space between universes that we see in this story, but just to give physicality to their essential (sort of Platonic) nature as abstract concepts.
In light of the big reveal, I'm kind of thinking that the Black Swan may be a version of Valeria Richards
People have put that theory forth. It seems possible.
I don't think that will be the case just because Val is so scientifically inclined, and Black Swan is like a religious zealot. Seems to contradictory.
But of course, alternate universe versions can be different than the ones we know.
It amuses me to compare some of what Hickman is writing to old classic Dr. Who storylines, in this case, the Invasion of Time. The Doctor had been aware that an unknown species the Vardans had telepathically infiltrated Gallifrey including the Matrix. They were unbeatable unless somehow they could be tricked to reveal more about themselves. Therefore the Doctor plotted to disable the shields protecting Gallifrey so that the Vardans would drop their guard, only for waiting K-9 to trap them in a time loop, ending their threat.
So I compare the Beyonders in white space to the Vardans, untouchable by anyone in the Multiverse until they drop their guard after apparent victory. Doom may be playing some part in the incursions to hasten the death of the Multiverse, but he has his version of K-9, the Molecule Man, waiting. In the art of the last few panels, it seems the Molecule Man is brewing up a lot of cubes, perhaps cosmic cubes to imprison the Beyonders in once they drop their guard.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Also using Dr. Who storylines, there is the Douglas Adams-written Pirate Planet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Planet
where the seemingly monstrous Captain is actually using the remnants of devoured planets to construct a device to defeat the actual villain, and the storyline Enlightenment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlight...8Doctor_Who%29
where beings beyond ordinary existence are racing each other in ships sailing in space with the winner to receive enlightenment.
The Molecule Man may be using the remnants of destroyed universes to construct his cosmic cubes. I speculate Doom's plan may be to trap the Beyonders and then use the knowledge in the great library to recreate as much of the Multiverse as he can out of white space. But this effort will not succeed completely leading to Battleworld. With hints that the barons in Battleworld may not be free to move into other domains, it is possible to me the barons are actually Beyonders sharing a corporeal body with a metahuman, each baron ruling over his own fragment of a universe and experiencing what is like to be corporeal.
The multiverse isn't going to be recreated.