Earth 616, aka the 'main' Earth of Marvel comics is just too damn OP. The heroes we know and love have thwarted countless foes that have threatened their planet. From aliens to time travelers to demons to celestial deities, Earth 616 has withstood it all. Whether it's Kang, the Kree, the Skrulls, Galactus, the Phoenix force, Celestials... it doesn't matter, Earth 616 has it covered. They have far too many victories against advanced races and cosmic beings for a "backwater planet".
Let's look at a few examples of their successes in the recent past:
During the Secret Invasion event, the remains of the Skrull empire decide to follow a prophesy which made them believe the Earth would be theirs. So they planned to take it by infiltrating the superhero community. They secretly replaced many heroes and villains with their own agents, took out Tony Stark (and the planet's defenses with him), brought an army of shape changing warriors, including an assortment of super Skrulls who had the powers of many heroes... and then they lost. Even their last resort secret weapon explosive wasp bomb was a failure. Despite meticulous planning, the element of surprise, an armada of ships and an army of super powered beings they still lost. Hell, even their Gods were killed.
Or how about in everyone's favourite Jonathon Hickman books. In his run on the F4, the newly returned Supreme Intelligence of the Kree declared a war on Earth. He brought an armada of ships to finally get rid of those pesky Inhumans but nope, good old Johnny Storm came back from the dead too and brought with him an annihilation wave and Earth was saved once again. Further on, during the run up to Secret Wars, the incursions were wiping out realities left and right but of course the Illuminati and cabal of Earth 616 were successful and got their universe to survive right until the final two universes were left. Everything dies? Everything that isn't 616 maybe.
More recently we have the War of the Realms event. Malekith and his considerable forces from a number of different realms (including some heavy hitters like Laufey, Sindr, the Queen of the Angels, and the Enchantress) have conquered 9 out of 10 realms and just needed one more to complete the set. They were unstoppable and winning the "greatest war in history" every step of the way, but of course in the end Midgard was one realm too many and they too lost.
Now obviously I don't expect the earth to ever really lose. Of course the heroes aren't gonna all be killed and humanity wiped out or enslaved or whatever. But it is getting a bit incredulous that this one specific planet keeps winning no matter the odds, epecially given that most of the time it's only a few dozen heroes and villains defeating these armies and cosmic entities on their own. Somebody should write a comic where Earth decides "you know what it's time we go and invade one of those planets/realms ourselves" and just go to town on showing the human race taking over the universe.
Let's look at a few examples of their successes in the recent past:
During the Secret Invasion event, the remains of the Skrull empire decide to follow a prophesy which made them believe the Earth would be theirs. So they planned to take it by infiltrating the superhero community. They secretly replaced many heroes and villains with their own agents, took out Tony Stark (and the planet's defenses with him), brought an army of shape changing warriors, including an assortment of super Skrulls who had the powers of many heroes... and then they lost. Even their last resort secret weapon explosive wasp bomb was a failure. Despite meticulous planning, the element of surprise, an armada of ships and an army of super powered beings they still lost. Hell, even their Gods were killed.
Or how about in everyone's favourite Jonathon Hickman books. In his run on the F4, the newly returned Supreme Intelligence of the Kree declared a war on Earth. He brought an armada of ships to finally get rid of those pesky Inhumans but nope, good old Johnny Storm came back from the dead too and brought with him an annihilation wave and Earth was saved once again. Further on, during the run up to Secret Wars, the incursions were wiping out realities left and right but of course the Illuminati and cabal of Earth 616 were successful and got their universe to survive right until the final two universes were left. Everything dies? Everything that isn't 616 maybe.
More recently we have the War of the Realms event. Malekith and his considerable forces from a number of different realms (including some heavy hitters like Laufey, Sindr, the Queen of the Angels, and the Enchantress) have conquered 9 out of 10 realms and just needed one more to complete the set. They were unstoppable and winning the "greatest war in history" every step of the way, but of course in the end Midgard was one realm too many and they too lost.
Now obviously I don't expect the earth to ever really lose. Of course the heroes aren't gonna all be killed and humanity wiped out or enslaved or whatever. But it is getting a bit incredulous that this one specific planet keeps winning no matter the odds, epecially given that most of the time it's only a few dozen heroes and villains defeating these armies and cosmic entities on their own. Somebody should write a comic where Earth decides "you know what it's time we go and invade one of those planets/realms ourselves" and just go to town on showing the human race taking over the universe.
