Regardless of what earth in the Marvel multiverse you're on, the members of the Avengers are
a force not to be taken lightly.
Many of the characters who have had membership to the prestigious and popular group of heroes
have appeared on other Earths in the multiverse in compelling but 'non canon' stories, and
some of them are wickedly powerful.
So today, we're counting down our picks for the top 10 strongest alternate versions of
Avengers.
We'll be looking at iterations of multiple different Avengers characters rather than
just entirely alternates of the team, and we tried to add variation, not focusing on
the same character for multiple numbers.
Meaning, yes, there's not nearly as many alternates of the Hulk on this list, despite his character
having some of the most powerful alternates kicking around the multiverse.
So with
that in mind, let's get to it!
But before we do - Tier List promo 10 Henry Pym
Henry Pym of Earth 12091 is a literal humanoid ant.
Pym was a member of the Avengers Federation - an Avengers team that appears in Space:
Punisher issue 4, which was released in 2012.
He differs from his 616 counterpart mainly due to his physical appearance - the character
has three talons on each hand, two talons for each foot, an insect head with antennae
and four insect arms.
Aside from having the same abilities as Henry Pym, and this new bug body upgrade, not much
else is known about this Ant-Man, aside from the fact that he was trying to stop the Kree
Skrull war by eliminating both sides with his fellow Avengers members.
9 Anti-Vision Anti-Vision from Earth 932 is an evil version
of Vision who was a member of the Gatherers, sent to infiltrate the Avengers.
He possesses all of the same abilities as Vision, and ultimately, meets his end when
the Protector cuts him in half for betraying him - something Anti-Vision had done in an
attempt to save his own butt.
So what makes this version of Vision more deadly?
He shows more of a range of emotion than the regular 616 Vision, especially when it comes
to cruelty, depicting more delinquent behaviour and enjoyment when causing others pain.
8 Infernal Hulk This version of the Hulk comes from Earth
11638, in which Bruce Banner was the Sorcerer Supreme of that Earth.
He separated himself from the Hulk, banishing his monstrous half to hell.
In doing so, the Hulk became the Infernal Hulk, a stronger more demonic version of the
character, who eventually broke out of Hell.
Banner eventually came up with a plan, alongside Spider-Man and Deadpool, by reversing his
banishing spell on the Hulk, re-combining himself and Infernal Hulk, with Banner's neck
being snapped in sacrifice in order to keep the Infernal Hulk from ever taking control
of his body and being free.
7 Ghost Spider Ghost spider is the Peter Parker of Earth
11638, an Earth where Uncle Ben never died and aided Peter with his super powers, and
Peter creating a company called Parker Technologies, which made him super rich.
Operating under the mantle of Amazing Spider, he ended up dying, and Bruce Banner, the Sorcerer
Supreme Banner from our last number, would strike a deal with him after Banner had gone
to hell with his angrier half.
Parker was freed, infused with the spirits and powers of the repentant damned, turning
him into an amalgamation of Ghost Rider and Spider-Man, known as Ghost spider.
His abilities are a combination of both the webslingers AND Jonathan Blaze's from Earth
616.
6 The Dark Avengers Let's talk about an alternate version of the
Avengers, as in, the whole team that have appeared on Earth 616 since 2009 - the Dark
Avengers.
The first iteration of the Dark Avengers was assembled by Norman Osborn, who at that point,
was an anti-hero of sorts.
The first group included Sentry, Ares, Noh-Varr, Mac Gargan's Venom, Moonstone (portrayed Ms
Marvel), Bullseye (portraying Hawkeye) and Daken, Wolverine's son, who operated under
his father's mantle.
Osborn led the team as Iron Patriot.
Hawkeye, as his Ronin persona, goes public on television declaring Osborn a threat, reminding
everyone of his murderous past, which only begins a series of unfortunate events for
the team leader, who later finds himself manipulated by Loki, relapsing into his Green Goblin persona,
and declaring war on the Asgardians.
A second iteration of the team post the Fear Itself story event was made up of another
group of characters who 'portrayed' Avengers members - Tomi Shishido was the Wolverine
of the group, Skaar, Hulk's son, fit into the role of his father, and Ragnarok took
on Thor's role, to name a few.
5 Iron Hammer Recently, Marvel released a story arc known
as Infinity Warps - it was a story in which Gamora had possession of the Infinity Stones,
and folded the Marvel universe in half inside of the soul gem, which combined different
characters personas into one, leading to a bunch of mash ups of Marvel characters.
This one is the combination of Thor and Tony Stark's Iron Man, called Stark Odinson, in
which Tony was the son of the chieftain executive of the aesir of Asgard.
Due to his arrogance and vanity, Stark was stripped of his godhood until he learned the
'pain and loss' of being human.
Stark would awake on Earth with no memory of his past, but use his genius level intellect
to build up a tech industrial company, creating himself a suit of armour when he was captured
and kept prisoner by Dark Elves.
4 Thor-El (Earth 9602) Back in the 90s, DC Comics came together with
Marvel to create the Amalgam Comics - a universe in which the characters of the DC and Marvel
universes were amalgamated.
In it, we're introduced to the combination of Thor and DC's man of steel, Superman, creating
Thor-El.
While he didn't get a whole lot of panel time, and the character's true extent of his powers
were never fully explored, he was considered to be the Kryptonian thunder god, wielding
an energy mallet, along with having the combined powers of Thor and Superman, or rather, the
'blue energy' of Superman.
His one weakness is Nornonite, similar to kryptonite.
3 Weapon Hex Weapon Hex is the Infinity Warp version of
X-23 Laura Kinney and Wanda Maximoff's Scarlet Witch.
And just like the other Infinity Warps amalgamations, Weapon Hex had all the same powers as Laura
and Wanda combined - meaning, she's got the magical reality warping abilities of Scarlet
Witch meets the claws, healing factor and adamantium skeleton of X-23.
Her history is similar to X-23's, having been an experiment that was raised by scientist
Sarah Kinney - except this time, rather than it be a part of the Weapon X program, Sarah
was part of an occult scientific sect known as the Evolutionaires.
She would later become a member of the Defenders, alongside other Warped heroes.
2 Solider Supreme The last of the Infinity Warps combos on our
list, here we have the amalgamation of Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange and America's
most patriotic hero, Steve Rogers.
Soldier Supreme's story begins during World War 2, with the super soldier serum being
a cover for mystical rituals which give Stephen Rogers his strength and physicality, all while
giving him the magical abilities of Strange and access to powerful sorcery.
He would go on to fight Dormammu Red, the combination of Dormammu and Red Skull, only
to be banished to the Dark Dimension.
Rogers would live there for years before finding a way out when a satanic cult opened up a
portal to their world.
1 Zombie Hulk While Zombie Hulk might not be the first alternate
to come to mind when one thinks of the strongest alternates in the multiverse, he's a character
who managed to get himself the power cosmic, all thanks to chowing down on the Silver Surfer.
So let's back track here for a sec - Zombie Hulk, aka Bruce Banner of Earth 2149, was
infected by the zombie plague after Nick Fury requested his help in trying to resist against
it.
That didn't work out too well, and after he became a zombie, he went around mowing down
on a bunch of different characters on Earth 2149.
Alongside Wolverine, Iron Man, Power Man, Spider-Man, and Giant-Man, he ate Silver Surfer,
and later Galactus, making him into one of the Zombie Galacti.
This means he has the power to absorb and tap into ambient cosmic energy.
While we never see him use the full extent of his abilities granted thanks to the power
cosmic, he does end up smashing Thanos' head in with his bare hands, something he does
because the mad titan calls him out for eating more than his share.
There we have it friends!
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