EARTH-ULTRA-VISION
(UTOPIA)
Type: Alternate Earth
Core Continuum Designation: Earth-90110
Environment: Essentially Earth-like
Usual means of access: Vibrational attunement, time travel.
Dominant Life Form: Same as Earth-616
Prominent Characters: Commander America, Cosmic Avengers, Irondroid, Irondroid successor, Jhen the Gammazon, John Fury,
Jr., Mega-Skrull, Starhawk, Super-Sentry,
Supremor, Tachyon Torch, Thor,
Ultra-Vision
Cameos (Heroes): Angel, Beast, Black Knight, Black Panther, Cannonball, Captain America, Captain Marvel II, Colossus, Cyclops, Daredevil, Hawkeye, Henry Pym, Hercules, Iceman, Invisible Woman, Iron Man, Kitty Pryde, Mad Thinker, Magma, Marvel Girl, Mirage, Mister Fantastic, Nick Fury, Nightcrawler, Power Pack, Professor X, Ronald Reagan, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Starfox, Storm, Sunspot, Thing, Thor, US Agent, Wolverine, Wonderman + other mutants hard to identify in the background of page 6, panel 2?
First Appearance: What If? II#19 (November, 1990)
History:
(Avengers I#233-254) - After battling Annihilus, the Vision lay
comatose; Starfox established a mindlink with ISAAC the super-computer
of Titan. As a result, the Vision formulated a plan to take over
Earth for the good of mankind and usher in a new "Golden Age".
With Isaac's help, the Ultra-Vision used the Encephalatron Chair
to plug his mind into every computer on Earth and became the
Ultra-Vision.
(What If? II#19) - At the U.N., the Vision laid out his plan to
humankind. Nuclear weapons were broken down, large solar power
stations were put up (with Reed Richards' help), the global
economy grew. X-Factor helped the homeless; Black Panther
eradicated famine in Africa; Thor restored the rain forest. The
world became united.
The superheroes of the Earth then helped conquer Outer Space: a
reformed US Agent worked on a permanent space station; later,
Wolverine helped the New Mutants planted the United Earth's flag
on Mars.
(What If II#19/1) <In the year 2136> After learning of a
Kree-Skrull pact to attack Earth from Starhawk, Ultra-Vision
gathered Earth's greatest heroes, the Cosmic Avengers, aboard the
spaceship Henry Pym. The group set out to attack the Kree
and Skrulls before they could use Halley's Comet to destroy the
Earth.
Starhawk attacked Supremor and killed him. Commander America
attacked a large group of Kree. Tachyon Torch and Jhen the
Gammazon attacked a squadron of Skrull soldiers, who fled.
Irondroid faced the Super-Sentry, who crushed him. Torch then
melted the Super-Sentry. Thor fought Mega-Skrull, who turned out
to be a robot and overheated.
Back aboard the Henry Pym, the team mourned the death of
Irondroid, while the Vision told them that the people of the Kree
and Skrull homeworlds were overthrowing their rulers, hopefully
for new, more peaceful regimes to follow.
(What If II#36 - BTS) - Thor returned to Asgard; Starhawk left
the team to engage in space exploration; a new Irondroid joined
the Cosmic Avengers. Earth continued to prosper under the guide
of Ultra-Vision.
(What If II#36) - Commander America, Jhen the Gammazon, Tachyon
Torch and Irondroid appeared to subdue what they thought was a
ship of Skrull raiders, but after boarding were captured by the
Guardians of the Galaxy plucked from an alternate timeline and
mind-controlled by Korvac. The cyborg was himself secretly
controlled by the Time-Twisters (disguised as
the Time-Keepers) in order to
destroy Ultra-Vision, that reality's nexus.
Korvac mesmerized the Cosmic Avengers. Then he used them as a
Trojan Horse to enter Ultra-Vision's heavily-guarded headquarters
on the Martian satellite, Deimos. As Korvac plugged into
Ultavision, the latter broadcast an alarm to John Fury Jr, the
current head of SHIELD on Earth.
SHIELD invaded Deimos but the combined powers of the Cosmic
Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy were nearly too much for
them, until the Whisperer (Immortus in disguise, trying to thwart
the Time-Twisters) told John Fury how to releasse the Avengers
from their hypnotic state.
Due to their alien physiology, the Guardians remained under
Korvac's hypnosis. As the Avengers and Guardians clashed, one of
them realized something was wrong. Yondu, whose mystic senses
were always heightened, jumped in the way of a blast meant for
Jhen and the Torch, and John Fury was able to awaken the
remaining members after modifying his ultrasound gun.
United, the teams rushed to Ultra-Vision's monitor, where Korvac's
image had replaced the android's. The teams were then attacked by
a "murdermeks", but Yondu directed Irondroid to Korvac's
body. Irondroid plugged himself in and reversed the broadcast of
Korvac's unique mental patterns. Korvac sensed his defeat was
near and directed the robots to attack Irondroid, but it was too
late. With a yell, Korvac's face was replaced with Ultra-Vision's
again... This time, dead. That counted as one victory for the
Time Twisters.
The Cosmic Avengers saw the Guardians of the Galaxy off back to
their own timeline. But the Whisperer then plucked Irondroid from
this reality.
The Time Twisters speculated that this Earth could not survive
with Ultra-Vision, but the Watcher secretly knew that it would.
(What If II#39) - After helping to defeat Immortus, Irondroid was
returned to the Cosmic Avengers, who welcomed him back.
Comments: Created by J.-M. Lofficier & Roy Thomas and
Ron Wilson & Sam Delarosa.
Why on Earth would John Walker have ever become US Agent
(as he is specifically named) in a world ran by the Vision? Did the US
Government still replace Cap in this world, and why would the Vision have
allowed that to happen? Just wondering if there was a behind-the-scenes reason
for this one.
--TJ Burns
My thinking was that, in that world, nations would
become like regions in old Europe, say Corsica, Britanny, Sicily, the Basque
etc. which as we all know feel very strongly about their regional identity. So
the USAgent(s) were really a corps of space pioneers, space exploration being
the US's strong suit, as say, Celtic music and making really tasty crepes are
Britanny's, and the astronauts you see in the art are all USAgentsS (with an S)
but this didn't quite make it in the final copy.
--JM
The Whisperer told John Fury that if
Korvac managed to conquer the Ultra-Vision, first all Earthmen would be turned
into hypnotized slaves, and then the galaxy would be turned into an orgy of war
and destruction as Korvac sought to expand his rule. His assaults would cause
both Kree and Skrulls to overthrow the peace-loving regimes fostered by the
recent war and to become belligerent again.
It remains to be seen whether Immortus was merely saying this
to get Fury to fight Korvac with all of his power, or whether he was actually
granting a true glimpse of the future of Earth-90110.
--Snood.
Profile by J.-M. Lofficier (yes, the same).
Clarifications:
No known connection to:
images:
What If? I#19, p. 11 panel 2
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
Last Updated: 10/11/05
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