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5 Marvel Teams Who Saved the Universe Without the Avengers · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone. If you love breaking down complex fictional
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  Speaker 1: universes as much as I do, well you are in
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  Speaker 1: for an absolute treat today. In this explainer, we're diving
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  Speaker 1: into a fantastic breakdown by Jackpaca from comicbook dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at the greatest universe saving teams in Marvelcomics history,
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  Speaker 1: but today we are explicitly looking beyond Earth's mightiest heroes.
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  Speaker 1: It's a genuinely great question, right because nowadays, thanks in
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  Speaker 1: massive part to the wild success of the Marvel cinematic Universe,
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  Speaker 1: the Avengers are undeniably the most recognizable superhero team in
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  Speaker 1: pop culture. But the Marvel Universe is staggeringly huge. It
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  Speaker 1: is just way too vast and incredibly dangerous for one
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  Speaker 1: single team to protect, no matter how mighty they might be.
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  Speaker 1: So who steps up when the universe is on the
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  Speaker 1: brink of collapse and the Avengers are nowhere to be found?
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  Speaker 1: We traditionally view the Avengers as that essential first line
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  Speaker 1: of defense, assembling against those big universal threats like Thanos
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  Speaker 1: Kying or the Celestials. But the truth of the Marvel
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  Speaker 1: Comics landscape is so much richer than that. There are
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  Speaker 1: these incredibly important iconic heavy hitter teams who regularly step
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  Speaker 1: out of the shadows to overcome truly impossible odds and
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  Speaker 1: save reality itself. Okay, let's dive into this countdown of
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  Speaker 1: the top five teams who saved the universe. Section one,
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  Speaker 1: the Unlikely Saviors Teams five and four coming in at
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  Speaker 1: number five on our countdown, We've got the Defenders now.
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  Speaker 1: What makes the Defender so endlessly fascinating is that they're
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  Speaker 1: famously known in the comics as Marvel's non Team. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: they're a collection of fiercely independent heroes who generally prefer
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  Speaker 1: to work alone, but who will begrudgingly team up when
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  Speaker 1: it's absolutely necessary to take down a common overwhelming enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Because of this unique dynamic, the Defenders have a constantly
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  Speaker 1: rotating roster. For this specific universe saving event, which happened
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  Speaker 1: in the There Are No Rules storyline, doctor Strange assembled
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  Speaker 1: a wildly eclectic team. He brought together cosmic heavyweights like
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  Speaker 1: the Silver Surfer alongside total wild cards like Masked Reader,
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  Speaker 1: Red Harpie, and Cloud their mission to track down a
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  Speaker 1: rogue scientist named Carlo Zada who had traveled back into
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  Speaker 1: the distant past. This chase pulled our heroes through previous
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  Speaker 1: incarnations of the multiverse itself until they finally landed in
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  Speaker 1: a place known as the Third Cosmos, and that brings
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  Speaker 1: us to the massive threat they uncovered. In the Third Cosmos,
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  Speaker 1: which is an ancient previous iteration of reality, the Defenders
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  Speaker 1: stumbled upon two all powerful beings, life Bringer One and
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  Speaker 1: the Anti All. These weren't just your standard comic book villains.
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  Speaker 1: These were godlike entities representing the eternal cosmic struggle between
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  Speaker 1: good and evil. When the team arrived, the anti All
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  Speaker 1: was literally on the verge of defeating Lifebringer One, which
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  Speaker 1: would have meant the complete eradication of all existence. To
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  Speaker 1: save reality, the Defenders had to pull off a miracle,
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  Speaker 1: managing to heal Lifebringer One just enough so that it
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  Speaker 1: could vanquish the anti All, a true universe saving victory
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  Speaker 1: for the Ultimate n team. Moving right along to number
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  Speaker 1: four on our list, the Thunderbolts. If the Defenders are
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  Speaker 1: a non team, well, the Thunderbolts are something even wilder.
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  Speaker 1: They're a squad that literally went from being villains in
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  Speaker 1: disguise to genuine universal saviors. The origin of this roster
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  Speaker 1: is honestly one of the best twists in comic book history.
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  Speaker 1: The group was originally formed by Barren Zimo and the
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  Speaker 1: Masters of Evil. Zimo took a bunch of known rogues Goliath, Screaming, Mimi, Fixer, Beetle,
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  Speaker 1: and Moonstone and disguise them as a shiny, brand new
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  Speaker 1: team of bright heroes called the Thunderbolts. The master plant
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  Speaker 1: was to use this manufactured public trust to eventually ambush
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  Speaker 1: the Avengers. But here is the catch. These core members
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  Speaker 1: actually realized they liked being heroes. They enjoyed the public
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  Speaker 1: adoration and doing the right thing, so they totally turned
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  Speaker 1: on Zemo, attempting to truly do good. However, being a
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  Speaker 1: hero is never easy, is it, which brings us to
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  Speaker 1: a critical storyline called the War at Home. In a
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  Speaker 1: brilliant twist to fate, the Thunderbolts were actually forced to
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  Speaker 1: work with their former villainous leader barn Zimo once again,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't to fight the Avengers. It was to
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  Speaker 1: deal with one of their own members, genis Vel, also
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  Speaker 1: known as Photon. Now what's really interesting about this specific
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  Speaker 1: threat is the sheer tragic scale of it all. Genis
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  Speaker 1: Vel had been healed using the power of an alien
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  Speaker 1: artifact called the Moonstone, but this healing process inadvertently tied
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  Speaker 1: his very existence to the fundamental fabric of time and space.
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  Speaker 1: His mere presence began threatening to literally tear the entire
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  Speaker 1: universe apart into absolute nothingness. To save reality from complete annihilation,
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  Speaker 1: Zemo and the Thunderbolts had to make the ultimate incredibly
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  Speaker 1: dark hero play. They had to kill their own teammate.
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  Speaker 1: It proved definitively that these former villains had what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to save the universe, no matter the personal cost.
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  Speaker 1: Section two The Cosmic Guardians Team number three taking the
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  Speaker 1: number three spot. We've got the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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  Speaker 1: While the MCU made them a household name in the comics,
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  Speaker 1: they have always been the ultimate intergalactic anti heroes. They
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  Speaker 1: were specifically assembled to tackle massive, mind bending cosmic threats
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  Speaker 1: that are usually way too big or just way too
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  Speaker 1: far away for earth bound heroes to handle. This is
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  Speaker 1: an expansive, absolute powerhouse of a roster. Beyond familiar faces
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  Speaker 1: like star Lord and Gomorrah, you have cosmic heavyweights like
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  Speaker 1: Adam Worlock and Phil Avel. They were originally brought together
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  Speaker 1: to combat intergalactic menaces like Annihilis and Ultron. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: during the Annihilation Conquest event, Ultron had conquered the techno
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  Speaker 1: organic Flanex race and used them to basically take over
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  Speaker 1: most of the Cree Empire. The Guardians deployed, and it
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  Speaker 1: was actually Phi Lavel who successfully destroyed Ultron's body, stopping
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  Speaker 1: his plans for universal domination right in their tracks. But
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  Speaker 1: I'd say their most terrifying universe saving moment came during
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  Speaker 1: the Thanos Imperative. They faced an invasion from something called
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  Speaker 1: the Cancer Verse, which is a literal nightmare reality where
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  Speaker 1: death had had been defeated and life had mutated into
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  Speaker 1: this unstoppable, corrupted mass. This horrific dimension began bleeding into
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  Speaker 1: the main Universe through tear and reality. To wage war
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  Speaker 1: against the mutated residents of the Cancer Verse, the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: had to team up with, surprisingly enough, Thanos himself. Together
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  Speaker 1: they successfully sealed the Tear, saving the universe from being
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  Speaker 1: consumed by a living nightmare. Section three Mutants and First
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  Speaker 1: Families Teams two and one, Common and Hot. At number two,
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  Speaker 1: we have the X Men, created by Professor Charles Xavier
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  Speaker 1: to protect the innocent and fight for a brighter, peaceful future.
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  Speaker 1: For both mutant kind and mankind alike. The X Men
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  Speaker 1: boast a roster that easily rivals and arguably sometimes surpasses
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  Speaker 1: the cultural popularity of the Avengers. Boasting heavy hitters ranging
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  Speaker 1: from Cyclops and Phoenix to Storm and Emma Frost, this
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  Speaker 1: team possesses immense and wildly diverse power sets. As you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine, a team that's powerful has had to save
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  Speaker 1: the world and the universe numerous times. One of their
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  Speaker 1: absolutely legendary universe saving missions occurred during the iconic Phoenix saga.
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  Speaker 1: The X Men were transported across the galaxy to an
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  Speaker 1: alien planet just to rescue Princess Lalandra. While there, they
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  Speaker 1: uncovered a plot by her insane brother, Emperor Decan, who
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  Speaker 1: wanted to weaponize the all powerful Macron Crystal to conquer
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  Speaker 1: the universe. The X Men managed to defeat de Kan,
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  Speaker 1: but during the battle, the crystal actually cracked, and that
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  Speaker 1: fracture threatened to destroy the universe entirely. It was in
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  Speaker 1: that dire final moment that Phoenix utilized her immense cosmic
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  Speaker 1: power to literally heal the crystal and the universe itself.
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  Speaker 1: It was a masterclass an incredible teamwork combined with godlike mutantabilities,
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  Speaker 1: and finally we've reached the highly anticipated number one spot
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  Speaker 1: on our countdown. The team that tops the list is
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  Speaker 1: none other than Marvel's first family, the Fantastic Four. The
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic Four have saved the universe just about as many
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  Speaker 1: times as they have explored it. At their core, they
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  Speaker 1: are scientists and explorers who were bathed in cosmic rays
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  Speaker 1: during a spaceflight, transforming them into superheroes. Together, Mister Fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing constantly
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  Speaker 1: pushed the boundaries of scientific advancement. But because they are
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  Speaker 1: always exploring the unknown, their discoveries often inadvertently unleash untold
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  Speaker 1: horrific cosmic threats upon the universe, and this brilliantly illustrates
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  Speaker 1: the emotional stakes of their adventures, which are just immense.
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  Speaker 1: In the gut wrenching storyline simply titled three, the team
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  Speaker 1: faced the Negative Zone tyrant Annihilis. He planned to bring
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  Speaker 1: his devastating annihilation wave into the Positive Universe to basically
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  Speaker 1: exterminate all life. To stop him and ensure that wave
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  Speaker 1: didn't cross over, the Human Torch had to stay behind,
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  Speaker 1: tragically sacrificing his own life to seal the portal and
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  Speaker 1: save everyone else. But their most monumental achievement and the
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  Speaker 1: real reason they hold the number one spot, happened during
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  Speaker 1: the massive twenty fifteen Secret Wars event. The entire multiverse
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  Speaker 1: had been destroyed, and their greatest foe, Doctor Doom, had
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  Speaker 1: seized the remaining fragments of reality to become God Emperor Doom.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Fantastic Four, utilizing their unmatched brain power,
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  Speaker 1: immense strength, and most importantly, their unbreakable familial bond, who
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  Speaker 1: work together to defeat Doom and literally restore the infinite Multiverse.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't just save a universe, guys, they saved all
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  Speaker 1: of existence. So as we wrap up this explainer, I
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  Speaker 1: want to leave you with a thought. We've seen a
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  Speaker 1: roster of non teams, disguised villains, cosmic outlaws, powerful mutants,
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  Speaker 1: and a family of scientists. If brain power, familial bonds,
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  Speaker 1: and a few cosmic misfits can step up to save
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  Speaker 1: the infinite multiverse time and time again, who really needs
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  Speaker 1: the Avengers. It just goes to show how incredibly deep
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  Speaker 1: and rich the lore of Marvel Comics truly is. I
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  Speaker 1: highly recommend checking out these specific storylines if you want
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  Speaker 1: to see these incredible universe saving moments for yourself. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining me on this deep dive, and
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  Speaker 1: keep exploring