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She also hexed Hulk into turning back into Banner just in time to get his head punched into goo. Doom and Thor got roasted while Set feasted on the Phoenix and depowered Rachel.

She was flying at the time. The second volume of What If ended with a story about the original Secret Wars never ending. Galactus and the Beyonder killed each other, taking out Reed Richards in the process. So what would Spider-Man be like two and a half decades later, knowing what we know of his hungry pants? Human Torch seemed in no way surprised about this and the whole situation raises more questions than it answers.

While watching a bunch of heroes fight each other, Venompool was visited by s Sentry, complete with leather jacket, sunglasses, and ponytail. Sentry started to go on a rant about bad costumes and bad character redesigns. A decent issue in its own right. Oheimer was able to run some experiments on Man-Thing and ultimately help him regain his old intellect. Usually, that would be cause for celebration. Unfortunately, Ted Sallis…not so good a person. Man-Thing decided to use his powers and navigation of the Nexus to take over the Everglades and eventually the world.

He horribly killed Oheimer and burned down his lab. But due to fate and maybe some nudging from nature itself, an alligator got hit with a dart full of Man-Thing goop during the chaos and it started to transform. The swampy reptilian confronted the corrupted Man-Thing and they started grappling. Ted Sallis knew fear. This included Betty. Thing and Mr. Fantastic chased him around a zoo and the Hulk started to war with himself.

Various personalities clashed and argued, but it was apparent that soon this new, pure version of the Hulk that we recognize as the Maestro would take over completely.

Bruce told Betty he loved her and ran behind Thing who was extra-mutated due to extra radiation. Thing let loose with a punch strong enough for the Hulk and hit a fragile, puny man instead. This time, Punisher killed Spider-Man on purpose, thinking him to be part of the criminal underworld.

Frank immediately found out he was wrong and it was a setup by the Jackal. He evaded every one of them, but was discovered by the Vulture in a bar.

Vulture introduced him to a collection of Spider-Man villains, all toasting him. Frank turned lemons into lemonade by opening fire on all of them.

Surfer did make some attempts to make the universe a better place by ending hunger, destroying diseases, and even turning Death into an alluring figure that people would no longer fear. But then he vaporized Mephisto, turned himself into a giant, and decided that maybe the universe could do without free will.

Strange brought over Shalla-Bal to help out. At first, Surfer shared some of the power with her and she lashed back. Surfer decided that the best course of action would be to use the Gauntlet to destroy itself…along with himself and Shalla-Bal. In actuality, he created a paradise planet for the two of them to live out the rest of their days. No longer bound by petty revenge and vanity, Doom went on a mission to rescue his mother from Hell, liberate Latveria, and reconnect with the love of his life Valeria.

Unfortunately, while a nicer guy in this reality, there was only so far Doom could change from the man we know.

He needed his kingdom and his kingdom needed him. He allowed Mephisto to take Valeria. For every year that followed, Doom would make a failed attempt to rescue her, much like the mainstream Doom did with his mother. The Guardians fought the Illuminati and Rocket was able to free Thanos. Good times! When the Avengers showed up in the aftermath, the floating hologram head of Star-Lord appeared to chew out Captain America for allowing this to happen.

The Illuminati dropped the ball for the rest of Earth and because of their actions, Earth would be grounded. Nobody was allowed off the big, blue ball. The Guardians were going to guard the galaxy from Earth itself.

In a move that Uatu would pay for moments later, he sent Wolverine back to the age of Cimmeria. Wolverine fell backwards into a Conan the Barbarian story. Clear-headed Wolverine lost against Conan, but then he went all berserker rage and won the rematch.

The sorcerer villain-of-the-week was defeated, but before that, his attempt to send Wolverine back to his era screwed up and Conan time-traveled instead. Wolverine and Sonja went on to have long, adventurous lives together, culminating in them becoming king and queen. Good for them. Conan, meanwhile, saw the X-Men trying to calm down Phoenix. To him, it looked like demons attacking Sonja.

So he beaned Cyclops in the back of the head with a rock. Iron Man thought it would be cool to show the Avengers a window into an alternate reality where the heroes of the s were put together by the government. They went their separate ways and so ended the story. The modern Avengers spent a couple pages pointing out the similarities in teams. But Uatu the Watcher brought up an interesting question.

Were they simply looking at an alternate universe or their own history? Who is to say that there were no secret Avengers in the s? It took decades, but we finally got to see that Avengers team live on in the short-lived comic series Agents of Atlas. In this reality, Galactus decided to feed on Asgard. Thor and company could put up a fight, but they were rightly screwed. Galactus offered to spare Asgard if Thor took over as his herald. Thor reluctantly accepted and dropped his hammer, no longer feeling worthy to carry it.

While Thor was off in space, trying to have Galactus only devour evil planets, Loki killed Odin and took over Asgard. Thor went against his job and left Galactus, only to be warned that Asgard was back on the menu.

In this timeline, Reed and the rest were unable to save Sue from her labor complications. The issue spent time showing the emotional aftermath of the surviving three, though Namor was disturbed by how Reed was taking it. His grief was special and dangerous. Reed ultimately decided that his life was pointless without Sue. All he had left was his vengeance. Three dudes showed up intent on stealing his property and he defended himself.

Now one of them wants to kill him. Despite Thing, Torch, and Namor trying to save him, Reed chose to die in a murder-suicide. When Charles Xavier stopped by to recruit help in saving the original X-Men, Wolverine turned him down, but promised to keep an eye out for those who want to mess with mutantkind. Fury destroyed the robot, but died in the process. Logan was skeptical that it would fly, but Fury already cut through the red tape in advance. And so, Wolverine stepped up and used his government shadiness to counter the anti-mutant government shadiness.

Sentinels were nixed, meaning Jean Grey never became possessed by the Phoenix. In the end, the once-savage anti-authority brute brought peace to humans and mutants by using his authority wisely. Earth was doomed and not even the Avengers had a chance. Doom, and Wasp. Surfer was wounded in battle against Thor, but finished off by Doom, in an act that turned them both into cosmic dust.

This time he was going to end Galactus no matter what the cost! The Fantastic Four became his new heralds, but made sure to search for uninhabited planets. In return, they would help Galactus relearn the humanity he buried away. Aunt May went down the stairs instead of Uncle Ben and got shot by the burglar that Spider-Man chose not to stop. Then he sat him down and confronted him about it.

In one of the most cathartic moments, Ben ranted about how worthless he was in saving May, blaming himself for her death. When Peter told him that the self-guilt trip was unnecessary, Ben smiled and told him to follow that same advice. In that one moment, we were saved years of Spider-Man moping about his mistake.

Another advantage of Ben being alive instead was that he completely tore into Flash Thompson for being a dick to Peter. So to recap: Tony Stark pretended to be dead. Jim Rhodes took over Stark Industries and hired the Living Laser, who was having issues with acceptance in light of his redemption. Laser and Rhodes found out that Stark was alive, albeit in a weak state, and there were three possible endings.

In this ending, Stark revealed that while in a coma, his mind was able to travel into cyberspace. He noticed that Living Laser was on the payroll and was doing a fantastic job.

And so, he asked Laser to continue on as an employee. Laser gladly accepted and a disgusted Rhodes stormed out. Luckily, he had a powerful being on his workforce who could change his form to look like Iron Man while kicking ass in his name. Various characters have wielded the Infinity Gauntlet in What If.

Doom, and Norman Osborn show how much they love their Power Glove. So how about an annoying comedy character for a change of pace? All well and good. Then he realized that he could get revenge on Galactus for eating his planet Poppup. He did just that. I do like how Heroes Reborn Bucky got a cameo despite this taking place years earlier.

The act of murdering his longtime enemy caused Matt to go insane with guilt. Another man affected was Richard Fisk, otherwise known as The Rose. Matt came to him to accept punishment, but Richard had a hard time bringing himself to pull the trigger. Before he could decide one way or another, the Hobgoblin appeared to cause some trouble. Finally, Richard knew where he sided. The passing of the torch was so slick that part of me will always wish that this was how things actually turned out.

Normally, such a thing is temporary, but not for this iteration of Spider-Man. Before he became corrupted, he rubbed elbows with his usual villains. Then he easily overpowered Venom and put an end to their rivalry, but offered him a spot as the resident street level webslinging vigilante while Spider-Man ascended into godhood.

That led to a brand new rivalry of the violent superhero with a resemblance to Spider-Man duking it out with a supervillain resembling Peter Parker. Mephisto eventually caught the team and had this plan to keep Surfer as his prisoner in Hell. At first, Surfer refused to sign his contract because his word was enough, but Mephisto was a dick about it and killed Human Torch. Therefore, Surfer signed his stupid contract that stated that his soul would be bound to Hell for eternity. Both Captain America and the Punisher hung up their weapons, realizing that they were no longer needed.

Then again, being the human race, it was only a matter of time before evil started to reappear. Surfer razzed Mephisto enough that Old Scratch decided he was bored with his shiny toy and killed him. Mephisto was forever stuck in a Hell of his own creation. Steve Rogers saved the life of Dr. Erksine, meaning that there was nothing stopping the creation of more super soldiers. Hitler was easily caught, the Japanese quickly surrendered, and the bombs were never dropped.

Captain America led his soldiers into liberating Auschwitz. Cap and Nick Fury were horrified at the sights, but then came across a curious boy who could speak English named Magnus.

This boy seemed to look up to Cap for his power, but the way Cap calmly played up his own humanity rather than his abilities spoke to the young Magnus.

He would grow up to become Magneto, but not the anti-human monster we know. Negating that development sucks, but this scene on its own is rather great. Knowing that they were made, Weapon X went with another test subject in the form of random officer Guy Desjardins.

He lacked the healing factor, but the adamantium did cause jagged knife-like protrusions in his knuckles. Seeing as how he was rage personified the jagged adamantium skeleton tearing through his skin and constantly being fed adrenaline will do that , Weapon X just handed him over to Alpha Flight and told them to do something with it. Desjardins then escaped, went on a killing rampage, and gradually took out all of Alpha Flight. It was the fucking best. Not only did he bring down Weapon X for their actions, but he also weaponed up and took on Desjardins.

Logan with his healing factor vs. Desjardins with his adamantium. Then he decapitated the psychotic monster with a swing of a katana. The first What If based on the New Fantastic Four was a beautiful-looking piece, although it was the most cynical take. The short of it is that the New Fantastic Four kicked a ton of ass, lost a single fight, then decided that that was enough reason for them to quit. The end. During the ass-kicking period, Spider-Man got cornered by the Sinister Six, who were so jazzed about the six-on-one advantage.

Well, the good news was that they still had the numbers on their side. The bad news was that it was six against four. Mary Jane narrated how happy she was that Peter was able to find a new family with interests like his. Black Bolt would work for him, including killing off the Illuminati, and in return, Thanos would defend Earth. Once it came time to unveil, Dazzler revealed herself under a cloak. Her deal is that she can turn sound into energy attacks.

Fun fact: three issues into the series, Iron Man is the first confirmed major death in What If. He certainly made it count. After Hulk left the Avengers, the rest of the team decided that maybe the Neanderthal was right. They all went their separate ways while Iron Man pointed out that, hey, Hulk being on the loose is sort of a big deal!

Especially when he teamed up with fellow human-hater Namor. Between Stark not sleeping in well over a day and the general inexperience of the other three, he quickly blew up at them and told them to GTFO. Still realizing that Namor and Hulk had to be dealt with, Iron Man pumped up his armor more than it could take, fully prepared to go kamikaze on the two powerhouses. The seven-page fight is a damn fine read as Iron Man would fight at his absolute best to try and take down two men who could regularly beat him solo.

The other armored heroes showed up to bail him out, but Iron Man was still too weak. Any and all villains? What would that world be like? While his Horsemen powers were never explained, he appeared to have some level of omnipresence. That led to the world taking a stand and banding together out of fear. No more war or ruining the environment. There was a boogeyman and nobody was safe. Wolverine stopped appearing for a while, but society remained ever vigilant to keep the peace else War, otherwise known as The Great Enemy, would reappear.

Absorbing the power of Sakaar into herself, she chose to go to Earth and wage war. Iron Man and Sentry noticed a huge chunk of the moon had shattered. Namely, the area where the Inhumans lived. As Sentry and Dr. Well, except the framing device.

Matt Murdock visited the grave of Elektra and the Watcher appeared, carrying an umbrella, and told the story of what things would be like if she lived. Oh well. Have fun with your shitty life.

Marvel did an issue about Civil War and they used the same type of framing device. He then told him of two different alternate realities. One was where Iron Man died months before Civil War , meaning Captain America was unopposed in the superhero community.

Things ended up very badly for him there. Stark figured that the story vindicated him, but then Uatu showed a world where Stark was able to get through to Cap and come up with a true solution, all because he showed fragile honesty in his plea to cease fighting. In this world, both sides put their differences aside, the Avengers existed as a single unit, and everything worked out for a better tomorrow.

Not only did Steve Rogers live, but so did their friendship. Too bad for him, the cave he was in crumbled and buried him under lots and lots of mountain. All he could do was slowly burrow his way out while get psychic updates on what the world is like without him. Mainly a world where Magneto was the leader of all mutants and they were too worthless with their powers to matter because nobody ever trained them.

Xaviernaut did finally get out and took over the world. Being indestructibly strong and being a psychic made him unbeatable to all heroes as well as Dr. Doom and Magneto. While well-meaning at first, he was a tyrant who allowed mutants to push around humans and turned a blind eye to their suffering. Xavier and Cyclops had a confrontation on Asteroid M, where a mad Xavier was ready to murder Cyclops and all Cyclops could do was appeal to the dreamer he used to be.

He pointed out how Xavier once wanted a world where humans and mutants could coexist, but he strayed from it.

The Kree-Skrull War was a big deal for the Avengers back in the day, but it never felt as explosive as it could have been.

It just petered out at the end when Rick Jones used mental projections of Golden Age heroes to save the day. By taking Rick out of the equation, the story suddenly became amazing. Despite clocking in at less than 40 pages, this issue of What If feels like a full-on six-issue event story. Not only are there various, exciting subplots going on, but they even take it from being an Avengers story to a full-on Marvel Universe story.

Thor brought in his Asgardian brethren. Silver Surfer chose to blast incoming ships out of the sky. Doom and the Inhumans. Outside of maybe the Fantastic Four wedding, this was the first massive hero team-up on this scale. It was a decision that worked well in some ways and turned dark in others. Although he sealed away Dormammu, he was still fatally wounded. The still-so-egotistical Dr. Strange tried to operate on him, but nothing could be done. If the Fantastic Four died in their origin, it would change quite a bit.

Doom would have become a close ally of Nick Fury. Uatu would have asked the Avengers for help. Iron Man went to go get the Ultimate Nullifier and failed his mission, all while the other Avengers fought Galactus with force. Galactus knocked out all of the heroes until the only ones left were Hercules and Thor himself busy fighting Silver Surfer.

Out of nowhere, street-level villain the Swordsman ran out because technically he was an Avenger and he had the guts to stand up to Galactus one-on-one. He too was zapped into unconsciousness. He punched him in the dick and talked up how Swordsman had more fight in him that Uatu. Peter Parker lost his leg years ago and retired from being Spider-Man. Mary Jane acted worried throughout, but you could see Peter quietly cheering her on and noting how good she was doing.

The Spider-Man clone never got shot and instead sucker-punched the original. He put the original in stasis and decided to go back to his normal life. A lot had changed in that time. Then he realized that his last real memory was giving a blood sample to Dr. Miles Warren and—oh. One could be on a date with Mary Jane while the other would be wearing the webs and stopping a crime. This issue is easily one of the best Spider-Man-centric What Ifs by a mile. A crying J. Jonah Jameson discovered Peter Parker in the wreckage, cradling the dead body of May.

Jameson genuinely loved his son, but hated Spider-Man just as much. Flash, wanting to use the Scorpion identity to help Spider-Man, wore the armor and drank the serum…which made him crazy and violent. Hearing about Flash freaking out, Peter finally snapped and let Jameson know that, yes, he was Spider-Man before storming off.

Not because Peter was Spider-Man but because Peter hated him and his own obsession turned Flash into a frothing psychopath. He was badly injured and his health was very much in jeopardy. There needed to be a new Captain America. The government wanted prime soldier Frank Castle to take over, but he only wanted to be with his family. Several took up the mantle and they all failed. Rogers had become a cyborg and refused to become Captain America again, as he felt it needed to be a man of flesh and blood.

He tried to get through to Frank that by becoming Captain America, it meant he had to be a moral role model. Some gunfire split the two up, leaving Rogers to knock out one Costa and Frank to corner another. In a rare moment of self-reflection, Frank realized the repercussions of his actions.

He also asked himself about what his slain family would think of what he had become. Accepting that his Punisher persona was nothing more than a childish act of selfishness, he took Costa into custody.

Then he turned around to see Rogers standing there, having watched the whole incident unfold. Rogers handed over the shield and from that day on, Frank Castle remained Captain America.

Had the symbiote spent enough time with Spider-Man, it would have taken over completely and run off, making it increasingly hard for Reed Richards to track them down. Over time, it would leave Peter Parker an elderly husk and trade up onto the Hulk. Then it would leave a powerless Bruce Banner behind and latch onto Thor. Symbiote Thor hid out inside Mount Rushmore and after exhausting various options, Reed decided to try one last play.

Only on further review, it realized the grave danger it was in. The Green Goblin escaped his death as well and his next step was to try and get Harry to join him in fighting Spider-Man. Harry kept a good head on his shoulders and told his father to stop being the Goblin and get help. Even if Peter Parker was Spider-Man, he was still their friend.

Norman swatted his son back and called him spineless just in time for Spider-Man to arrive and throw down. Harry got ready to fight Spider-Man because crazy criminal or not, Norman was his father. All the while, Norman prepared to wipe them all out with a bomb until realizing that Harry was seriously preparing to trade punches with Spider-Man just to save him. Seeing his son stand up for him snapped Norman out of his madness.

The story of Rick Jones becoming the Hulk deserves to be in a museum. Use shivs… Heaters! This culminated in a trip to the Negative Zone, where Hulk went one-on-one with Annihilus.

Bruce Banner was able to split Mar-Vell, Rick, and Hulk into separate entities, leaving Hulk to trade blows with Annihilus as the residents of the Negative Zone cheered him on. In the end, everyone was happy. Rick, Banner, and Mar-Vell got to move on with their lives and Hulk found joy and endless freedom in the Negative Zone, where he was regarded as its champion and liberator. That caused some major ripples because the remaining X-Men split into two sides: those who wanted to do regular X-Men stuff and those who wanted to get revenge on Cable and X-Force.

The latter group was led by Wolverine and he did indeed kill Cable. Dying, Cable told him that unlike Xavier, Wolverine had no conviction and his actions were dooming the X-Men. The divided X-Men with no figurehead not only led to the team being easier pickings for their enemies, but their enemies also started branching out, such as Apocalypse fighting the Avengers.

All the while, Magneto took over the White House, but even then, he was taken out by a Sentinel with a nuclear warhead hidden within. At first, others left his revenge squad, but it got worse when Sentinels terminated or apprehended the rest of his crew. Having lost everything, he started to use his brains and figured out that Sebastian Shaw — one of the men behind the Sentinels — would have a mutant cloaking device. How else would he get by?

As the world became a Days of Future Past reality, Wolverine used the cloaking technology to free a handful of mutants. Together, these six became the new X-Men and the hot-headed Wolverine found himself having to be the wise leader, completing his arc. Frank was wary at first, but grew to consider it the best thing to happen to him in years. No longer was he wasting petty drug dealers. Now he was burning the crops and taking out the men in charge. Not only did he survive, but he decided to use the belief in his death to his advantage.

From there, Frank stole an aircraft and dove down into the base. It was a place ready for an all-out assault, but not ready for one man on a suicide mission. Riddled with bullets as he riddled others, Frank narrated about how this was the bestest death ever and was the perfect way to go out.

As he choked on his own blood, his only regret was knowing that he and his family would be on different sides of the afterlife. All that remained was the Juggernaut, who soon ran out of Sentinels to smash. Juggernaut spent decades alone, finding that being a destructive force and being immortal made for a horrific combination. As he stopped by the X-Mansion, it became apparent that in this world, he killed Xavier and the original X-Men in their first meeting.

Then one day, he came across Magneto. Magneto was off-planet during the genocide, a captive of the Stranger. The good news was that he was able to escape and find survivors. There, he found the entrance to where the survivors were living. He broke through the huge, metal door and rushed in to find dozens of humans and mutants, including old versions of Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Toad.

Spiritually broken over knowing that he just killed everyone again , Juggernaut walked off to endure his eternity alone. This is a direct sequel to that Mike Weiringo tribute issue where the New Fantastic Four remained a team and continued to remain a team. Only here, we get to see what it would have been like had this concept extended into the Infinity Gauntlet storyline. Apologies to Ghost Rider fans, as he was one of the billions of lives wiped out in the opening.

Iron Man quickly took his spot, which made sense in a meta way. The original New Fantastic Four was about the popular characters taking over the team despite how contrived it came off and this was when Iron Man was king. The difference was that Wolverine was able to notice how Thanos played off of Mephisto and Death. All the power in the universe, and Thanos was still being molded by their actions. Then he tried giving Thanos some advice on women, saying that if he wanted Death to be into him, he at least had to touch her.

Thanos hesitated to do so, but soon reached out his gauntlet hand…. Instead, he was imprisoned, escaped, and learned to adapt to the new surroundings. This gave us the fondly-remembered page where Conan dressed like a pimp and kept a leopard on a leash as a failed attempt to impress his love interest from the first issue.

Conan soon started his own street gang and a museum robbery got him in some hot water with one Captain America. Sometime later, the two met again and Cap offered him membership into the Avengers. His co-creators had nothing to do with it.

Even for a 90s comic, it was rather graphic. Namor got his head cut off, Thing and Cage got exploded, and War Machine had blades shoved through his eye-holes.

They failed, Xavier made everyone forget about them, and sent a second, more memorable team of mutants to save the day. In this story, the team of Vulcan, Sway, Petra, and Darwin survived Krakoa, though the original team outside of Cyclops died. Turns out that on Krakoa, Vulcan accidentally killed Jean Grey and Havok before purposely killing the rest of the X-Men to keep everything quiet.

Then he secretly killed others over the years to hide any of his mistakes. Xavier and the rest of the living team found out about this and confronted him. Vulcan prepared to slaughter them all to protect his name, but Sway slowed him down to a standstill.

He needed to protect others from Vulcan and that meant using his powers offensively. Vulcan remained a mutant, but had no access to his abilities, putting him at the mercy of a very disappointed Charles Xavier. The third ending in the comic about Tony Stark and Jim Rhodes being scummy good guys while a villain tried to right his life had Rhodey run into the room to find a weakened Stark and confused Living Laser.

Stark told Rhodes to save him, but Rhodes cursed out his so-called friend and backed up Laser as a hard-worker. Stark reluctantly kept Laser on the payroll, but told Rhodes to keep an eye on him. Like how he wore a special type of armor to protect him from Laser and had a gun on him at all times specifically made to take Living Laser out. A Stark Enterprises satellite was taken over and Living Laser volunteered to investigate.

Horrified by the loss of life up there, he was confronted by a being called the Technovore. Rather than having to interact with people who feared and distrusted him, he opted to remain on the satellite and do his work from there.

World War Hulk could have ended a lot more tragically. Many would have died. With her out of the picture, a Skrull bishop took control of their plan to conquer Earth. Months later, a surviving Bruce Banner worked to dig graves for all the victims of his epic tantrum.

Vision appeared to him to explain the big Skrull invasion and how the remaining heroes were no match for it. Hulk and the last pockets of resistance worked together and went to war with the Skrulls. Hulk would be able to find redemption. Unfortunately, a Skrull Wasp impersonator infiltrated the group and wiped out everyone but the Hulk.

He was alone on a planet infested with Skrulls who considered him a prophet to their cause. Now, in the original story, Hulk got so mad at one point that his stomps almost destroyed the planet. Here, his rage took a more creative route. He summoned the Silver Surfer and demanded he send Galactus to feast on Earth.

Galactus made sure Hulk survived the aftermath so that he could erase his memories and make him his new herald: Worldbreaker. He and the X-Men turned some villains to their side and moved on to whatever heroes and villains they could sink their teeth into.

Strange reading a special spell from the Darkhold. Wolverine took care of that by turning Juggernaut and having him crush Strange. Wolverine killed Castle, but came to his senses and used the Darkhold to wipe out his vampire kind.

For the most part, this issue was pretty dumb. Then in this continuity, soon after, there was a serial killer going around killing mutants. The X-Factor decided to capture mutant factions for their own protection while they tried to figure out who the killer was. Shockers of shockers, it was Archangel behind the killings, still working for Apocalypse.

The final four pages kicked so much ass that it redeemed the issue. Apocalypse woke up from months of rest, at first in a good mood, but then angry upon seeing some monitors surrounding Archangel. Archangel turned his chair around and his new appearance even took Apocalypse aback.

Also, his wings appeared to be reshaped bones. Now Apocalypse found himself the comparatively sane one, up against a madman who felt that anyone who died against him was weak and deserved it.

With his bladed wings out and his golden skull mask on, Archangel got ready to test whether or not Apocalypse was strong enough to survive. Written in a time before Marvel realized Venom would make for a decent vigilante and before Frank Castle was an Ennis-level sadist, they did a What If where the Punisher visited the fateful church moments before Eddie Brock.

Frank figured his new costume was some kind of SHIELD tech and made the most of it, including having it fire bullets instead of webbing. The symbiote took over his body and almost made him kill Spider-Man. During a confrontation with Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Moon Knight, Frank was shot with a sonic blast and went into a comatose state.

In his mind, the Punisher and the symbiote fought for control. It works for me now. After coming back from his origin story, Tony Stark wondered about the future. Should he fight crime as a flying superhero in armor using technology kept to himself or should he just go public with that technology and try to make the world a better place that way?

In this version, he went with the latter. The results were a bit mixed. The world was nearly crime-free, but Sentinels were nigh-unstoppable. Frank Castle never had reason to become the Punisher, but Captain America was never found, and an advanced Dr. Doom killed the Fantastic Four. Would you enjoy it? What if you had a friend that you spoke to the same way you speak to yourself?

Would that friend stay your friend? What if you had to choose between a wonderful romantic spouse to whom you would be married for only a few years or a boring, unromantic spouse for your entire life? What if you had to choose between money or no love or love and no money? Which would you choose and why? What if you could only live somewhere that was always above degrees?

Always below freezing? What if you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, a handsome chauffeur, or daily house cleaner? What if you woke up one morning to find you had switched bodies and families with your best friend? What if you could have any one supernatural power reading minds, great strength, flying, or being invisible?

What if you could only wear one set of clothes for the rest of your life? What would you choose to wear and why? What if you could neglect one personal hygiene routine shaving, brushing your teeth, cutting your nails, etc. What if you were allowed to eat only one food for the rest of your life?

Which food would you choose and why? What if you won the lottery and had enough money to change the world? How would you do it and why? What if we were given the chance to go somewhere far away and beautiful? Where would we go and what would we do there? What if you were given the chance to have dinner with your idol—what would you say to them and what favor would you ask of them? What if we were forced to live in a zombie apocalypse? Where would we go and what would we do to survive?

What if teleportation was possible and also cheap? Where would you want to live, and where would you like to work? What if you could design your dream house without any financial limits?

What would you put in it and why? What if you could choose to be one of the most famous billionaires in the world? Who would it be and why? So these are our top picks for the what-if questions. And we are pretty sure you would like to ask them sometime.

These questions would definitely lead to an interesting conversation where you can share your thoughtful views on a particular matter and take views from others as well. Pick the questions that suit the place where you wanna ask them and you will be good to go.