Marvel Underground (610) - Road to Doomsday Part 2: The Rise and Fall of Earth-616

The Road to Doomsday continues!

Before we can explore the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spider-Verse, and the many alternate Marvel universes colliding in Avengers: Doomsday, we need to understand the timeline that started it all: Earth-616, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In this episode, we break down how the MCU evolved from a bold experiment with Iron Man into the biggest connected franchise in movie history. We discuss the rise and fracture of the Avengers, the Infinity Saga, the birth of the Multiverse Saga, and the key events that transformed Earth-616 from a single timeline into the center of an increasingly unstable multiverse.

Along the way, we dive into the Time Heist, Loki and the TVA, incursions, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Marvels, and why all roads now lead to Avengers: Doomsday.

If you've been wondering how we got here—or want to be fully caught up before Doomsday arrives—this is the episode for you.

In this episode:

• Why Earth-616 became Marvel's "main" universe
• The rise, fall, and future of the Avengers
• The events that fractured reality
• How the Multiverse Saga began
• Why Earth-616 is the center of the coming multiversal war

Next up in the Road to Doomsday series: the other Marvel timelines—Fox's X-Men universe, Sony's Spider-Man worlds, the Fantastic Four, and how they all fit into the road to Secret Wars.

Excelsior!

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