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Warning : SPOILERS for protector : Beyond # 4Marvel Comicshas find the perfect agency to criticizeDC Comics ' tendency to constantly bring up its universe . Facing a powerful scoundrel that promises to let them live in their ideal world forever , the Defenderstake a thrusting at Marvel ’s " Distinguished rivalry " by saying that constantly rebooting a timeline makes its stories become worthless .
Marvel and DC have very different approachesin the way of life they handle their creative universe . Their characters are fundamentally different : while DC ’s hero are " god among soul " , representing ideal to strain for , Marvel ’s are fundamentally flawed and more " human " , and thus more relatable . The two companies also have unlike approaches to storylines and persistence . While Marvel does not shy forth from the " big events " , its continuity has remained basically unchanging over the preceding sixty years . On the other hand , DC has a disposition to reboot its full universeafter a big , cataclysmic event , in an endeavour to keep its characters and stories fresh .
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Sometimes creators work for one company will poke fun at the other , and more seldom they will go even further . InDefenders : Beyond#4 , by Al Ewing and Javier Rodrìguez , the nominal team , assembled by Eternity to protect the Multiverse , has journey all the way to the Abyss , " the furthest place from reality there is " . There , they meet Glorian , a half-crazed baddie with the powers of a god who traps the Defenders in an imaginary worldly concern of his making , where all their dreams have amount true : Black Marvel is the President of the United States , Tigra is an A - lean hero respected by her peers , Taaia is the Herald of her son , Galactus , who is still the Lifebringer , and America Chavez has deliver her sister . However , the withstander before long realize that it is all an deception , and they refuse to go on , despite Glorian ’s promise to keep " boot " that reality until it becomes staring .
Why Marvel Does Not Reboot Its Universe While DC Does It Constantly
Through the Good Book of the Defenders and their refusal to live in Glorian ’s " perfect " mankind , the originative team perfectly explained the divergence between the Marvel and the DC approaching to world - construction . When Marvel did the closest thing to a reboot , destroying its Multiverse withSecret Wars , the new Multiverse that was then created ( the Eighth Cosmos ) was not actually a reboot , a new beginning , but a continuation of the sure-enough , with the same conversant character and the persistence mostly unchanged . DC , on the other hand , boot its universe after every big event : they did it withCrisis on Infinite earth , Zero Hour , Infinite Crisis , DC Rebirth , Flashpoint , andInfinite Frontier . " Reboot after reboot " , as Taaia articulate , " always hunting for the perfect fix " , until every story becomes a " What If ? " .
Of naturally , neither Marvel nor DC ’s path of doing things are " perfect " , and readers will favour the one that resonates most with their tastes . However , the creative squad behindDefenders : Beyond(and mostly writer Al Ewing ) used this story to defendMarvel ’s approach to storytelling , and to take a crack atDC ’s obsession with unceasing reboots .
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