Secret Wars

• Core Identity: Secret Wars is Marvel Comics' quintessential, multiverse-altering mega-event, most often initiated by an omnipotent cosmic entity known as the Beyonder, which forces heroes and villains into a cataclysmic conflict on a patchwork planet called Battleworld.
• Key Takeaways:
• Role in the Universe: Secret Wars serves as a recurring crucible for the Marvel Universe, testing its greatest champions and villains on an unimaginable scale. It is the narrative mechanism used for universe-shattering stakes, character-defining moments, and periodic continuity resets or realignments. The original 1984 event established the template for the modern, line-wide comic book crossover.
• Primary Impact: Its most enduring legacy includes the introduction of the alien symbiote that would become venom, the elevation of doctor_doom to a cosmic-level threat capable of stealing godlike power, and the 2015 version's complete destruction and subsequent rebirth of the entire Marvel multiverse.
• Key Incarnations: In the comics, there are two primary, distinct events: the 1984 original, a relatively straightforward “cosmic game” on a single planet, and the 2015 epic, a complex saga born from the collapse of all reality. The upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) adaptation is poised to be the climatic finale of the “Multiverse Saga,” drawing heavily from the 2015 comic's themes of multiversal incursions and likely featuring kang_the_conqueror and his variants in a central antagonistic role.

The genesis of the first Secret Wars is a fascinating intersection of creative