Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: What is Counter-Earth?

Counter-Earth in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 sends the team on a new a♈dventure that puts them face-to-face against the villainous scientist known as the High Evolutionary, a journey which will take them all the way t💛o the bizarre world of Counter-Earth.

Glimpsed in the trailers for Guardians Vol. 3, C𒉰ounter-Earth is an artificial planet created by the High Evolutionary as a place where he can carry out brutal experiments designed to kickstart the evolution of a race of perfect bein🔴gs.

That's essentially the same co🎃ncept as the comic book ꦓhistory of Counter-Earth, which first appeared in 1972's Marvel Premiere #1 by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane, though the story goes a bit deeper in comics.

Counter-Earth in Marvel Comics

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In comics, Counter-Earth orbits the same sun as Earth - but on the exact opposite side. The planet was made by the High Evolutionary as in the MCU, but in comics, he uses several of the Infin🎀ity Stones to create his perfect experimental world.

At first, ▨the comic Counter-Earth is populated by humans living in a society very similar to modern Earth - but with no superherဣoes. The lack of heroes becomes a problem when a rogue creation of the High Evolutionary known as the Man-Beast begins terrorizing the humans of Counter-Earth.

This leads the High Evolutionary to empower 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Adam Warlock to take on the Man-Beast as Counter-Earth's resident superhero protector, embedding the powerful Soul Stone in his forehead (kindaಞ like how the original MCU Vision had the Mind Stone embedded in his). 

It's actually on Counter-Earth i๊tself where Adam Warlock gets his name (he🐠 was previously known only as 'Him'), which is given to him by the citizens he saves.

Adam Warlock later departs Counter-Earth, becoming a cosmic hero across the Marvel Universe, leaving the planet to change hands and even forms several times🔜, with the High Evolutionary at one time abandoning his experiments there.

But the High Evolutionary eventually returns, fully populating the planet with his animalistic, antꦇhropomorphic New-Me♋n, as adapted into Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. And that's how the High Evolutionary's Counter-Earth has been portrayed in comics since.

There have also been other versions of Counter-Earth in Marv🌃el Comics. In the 1996-97 event Heroes Reborn, in which characters such as the Avengers and Fantastic Four were fully rebooted with a different history in an alternate reality away from the core Marvel Universe, it turned out they were actually trapped in a version of Counter-Earth created by the cosmically powerful Franklin Richards, the young son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four. 

Franklin Richards later created another short-lived Counter-Earth while fighting Onslaught, the same villain whose attac💟k led to the creation of the original. 

Counter-Earth was also the setting of the 1999-200🌟1 animated show Spid♛er-Man Unlimited, in which the Peter Parker of the core Marvel Universe Earth was transported to Counter-Earth, becoming its greatest hero.

Funny enough, the Spider-Man Unlimited incarnation of Peter Parker can be glimpsed in the first Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer as one of the many Spider-heroes chasing down🤪 Miles Mor♛ales.

Does this indicate any kind of return for Counter-Earth after Guardians of th𒅌e Galaxy Vol. 3, or perhaps a crossover with the Spider-Man Unlimited version of Counter-Earth?

As much fun as that would be, it doesn't seem likely. Still, with the lines blurring around the MCU and its adjacent stories and the Guardians embarking on a totally different path by the movie's end,💦 anything is possibꦕle.

If you can't get enough Guardians, it's a perfect time to check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Guardians of the Galaxy comics ever.

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