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The origins ofMarvel Comics ' most powerful and mysterious villains are finally revealed . The Beyondershave been terrorize Marvel hero since1984’sSecret Wars , and even destroy the full Multiverse at one point before it was rebuild into its current iteration . However , their actual origins and purpose have remain a mystery , until now .
Secret Warswas the first vast Marvel crossover that involved the majority of characters owned by the House of Ideas . An upshot of such scale needed an equally telling scoundrel , so the Beyonder was created . An unfathomable being who could treat even the mighty Galactus as a toy , the Beyonder was later discover to be just an infant of an entire race of creatures with exponent beyond comprehension , superior even tothe cosmic entities of the Marvel Universe . Over the years , the most plausible explanation proposed for the Beyonders ' being was that they were " stand - ins " for Marvel ’s real creatives , hence their propensity for handle the entire Marvel Universe as their playground . However , considering the role toy by the Beyonders in the destruction of the seventh iteration of the Multiverse during the secondSecret Warsevent , a more canonic account of their origin had to be given at some percentage point .
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at last , the questions were answered , thanks toDefenders : Beyond#2 by Al Ewing and Javier Rodrìguez . The Defenders , a " defense system " that the Multiverse get together in time of need , locomote back from the current Eight Cosmos to the Second Cosmos , where they meetthe original Beyonder from the firstSecret Warsand his peers , learning of their origins . The Beyonders were actually created in the Second Cosmos by the Celestials , who are a rogue faction of the Aspirants , the very first beings created in the First Cosmos . When the war between the Aspirants and the Celestials destroyed the First Cosmos , it also created a multiverse of numberless possibilities . To keep orderliness in the chaos , the Celestials create the Omega , limitless lifeforms with the mogul to put down even their own creators - the ultimate failsafe in caseful of another heavenly state of war . When the Second Cosmos also turn over its demise , the Celestials moved to the Third , while the Omega remained behind in the Second , to remain their maintenance duties , and took the name of Beyonders .
Al Ewing has pull off to explainthe origins of the Beyondersby integrating them into the cyclical nature of Marvel ’s cosmology , where every iteration of the Multiverse is destine to be destroyed by some great cataclysm and be reborn anew and unlike . The recurring description of the Beyonders as coming from another dimensionbeyondthe regular Marvel Universe , then , is explicate by making them the last survivor of the Second Cosmos , an iteration of the Multiverse that no longer survive . They occupy an empty space " outside all that is roll in the hay " from where they do their " sustenance " and experiment , including the demolition of the Seventh Cosmos . Ewing also manages to reconcile his story withthe mysterious Omega Council and their Concordance Enginesthat were introduced inDefendersvol . 4 by Matt Fraction and Jamie McKelvie .
Defenders : Beyondalso confirms that the original Beyonder encountered by Marvel ’s poor boy was an infant , whose born development process was hamper by an chance event , lead to his intervention with Earth ( a story partially told inFantastic Fourvol . 1 # 319 for the first meter ) . Overall , shielder : Beyondhas clarified a peck of confusing or contradictory information about theBeyonders , and more significantly integrated these classical villains fromSecret WarsintoMarvel Comics ' cosmology , give way them near tie-up with the Celestials and the Multiverse itself .
