What Fate Did The Beyonder Meet In Major Crossover Events?

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Ulysses
Ulysses
2025-08-31 05:14:26
Short take from someone who likes to skip to the cosmic bits: the Beyonder’s fate changes with the storyline. In 'Secret Wars' he’s a godlike experimenter who leaves after learning about human desire. 'Secret Wars II' turns him into a near-tragic figure on Earth who ends up stripped of that absolute status. Decades later Marvel rethinks the concept and treats the Beyonders as a devastating force behind multiversal deaths; in the 2013–2015 lead-up to 'Secret Wars' those Beyonders are slain using a weapon tied to the Molecule Man, and their destruction catalyzes the reality-shaping events that follow. If you want to see all of it, read the 1984–85 books, then Hickman’s 'New Avengers'/'Avengers' and the 2015 'Secret Wars' — it’s wild how one character can be a person, a plot device, and a species across different eras.
Ellie
Ellie
2025-09-03 09:49:56
Man, when I first dug into 'Secret Wars' as a kid I thought the Beyonder was the ultimate impossible being — and in that original 1984 crossover he basically is. He pops out of the Beyond, snaps up heroes and villains to Battleworld, plays god with their lives, and then walks away having been fascinated by human desire and drama. Later, in 'Secret Wars II', he shows up on Earth, obsessed with understanding people and feeling human emotions; that arc plays like a giant, awkward philosophical experiment about power and loneliness.

Over the decades Marvel has repeatedly reinterpreted him. After the big nostalgia trips and retcons, he stops being the clean, omnipotent mystery and becomes tangled into other cosmic bits: the idea of multiple Beyonders, ties to reality-warping artifacts, and eventually his role being folded into larger threats. So his fate depends on which version you read — originally he leaves changed and curious, later runs make him less an all-powerful outsider and more of a pawn in multiversal-level machinations — and that shift is part of what keeps those stories interesting to me.
Marissa
Marissa
2025-09-03 12:14:13
I’m the guy who collects continuity contradictions like souvenirs, so the Beyonder’s journey thrills and annoys me in equal measure. The short, sweet thread through major crossovers: in the original 'Secret Wars' he’s essentially an omnipotent entity who experiments with heroes and then retreats, forever changed by his exposure to human wants. 'Secret Wars II' then drags him onto Earth for a long, weird exploration of identity; it ends with him significantly depowered or at least no longer the inscrutable god he once was.

Then Marvel reinvented the scale — writers later treated the Beyonder not as a one-off curiosity but as part of a race or force (the Beyonders) capable of destroying universes. In the run-up to 2015’s 'Secret Wars', those Beyonders are explicitly responsible for the Multiverse's unraveling. Heroes and villains use the unique physics of the Molecule Man to strike back; ultimately those Beyonders are killed (their deaths play a direct role in the collapse and rebirth of reality during that event). So depending on which era you read, his end is either an introspective retreat, a depowerment, or obliteration as part of a multiversal purge — and that’s what makes him such a fascinating recurring puzzle.
Yasmine
Yasmine
2025-09-04 01:04:25
Reading the 1984 'Secret Wars' next to Jonathan Hickman's stuff feels like watching the same character through different lenses. In the first outing he’s this unknowable near-omnipotent being who builds Battleworld. In 'Secret Wars II' he becomes a story about empathy and cultural collision — showing up on Earth and trying (awkwardly) to be human, even falling for people and learning moral lessons the hard way. That arc ends with him diminished in a narrative sense: he's no longer the untouchable cosmic toy-maker from the first series.

Fast-forward to the modern era and Marvel reframes things: the Beyonder concept is expanded into the idea of multiple Beyonders who are responsible for massive multiversal destruction. Those Beyonders get killed in the lead-up to and during the 2015 'Secret Wars' storyline as part of a huge multiversal reset. So his ‘fate’ is messy — sometimes he walks away, sometimes he’s absorbed into a bigger cosmic conspiracy that gets wiped out — but every version leaves a mark on the Marvel cosmos.
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