#theaftermathintro

A brief summary: This version of Robbie is from Earth 616, the main comic book continuity in Marvel Comics. He’s been Ghost Rider a little over a year now, and his version of things is... a little different than Aftermath!Robbie’s. Instead of a Spirit of Vengeance, this Robbie is possessed by the spirit of Eli Morrow, his deceased uncle. Unlike Aftermath!Robbie’s Spirit of Vengeance, Eli doesn’t particularly care whether or not the people he kills are evil... but Robbie still does. His deal with Eli is that he’ll satiate the spirit’s bloodlust, but only by taking out the worst of humanity. 

There is no alternate version of Danny Rand running rampant through this universe, and that’s probably a good thing. One Danny is stupid enough on his own. He doesn’t need an idiot sidekick! What Danny does get is Wendell Rand, an alternate version of the father he lost when he was ten years old. Family reunions are fun, right?

Not when I’m writing them, baby!

Wendell, as it turns out, is extraordinarily unstable. There are things about Danny’s father that he never knew, things he was too young to understand. One of those things is that his father, at his core, was a man with an obsession. Wendell was an orphan who traveled to K’un Lun at a young age in order to gain the power of the Iron Fist, but he failed. He wasn’t strong enough to defeat the dragon, but K’un Lun’s fortune tellers told him his son would be. Wendell traveled back to New York, met Harold Meachum, started a company... and had a son. And, when that son was ten years old, he loaded him onto a plane in hopes of finding K’un Lun and forcing his son into a legacy he couldn’t carry himself.

He failed at that, too.

This Wendell’s obsession didn’t get him killed, but it did result in the deaths of both Danny and Heather. Wendell mourned only what his son could have been and, when he found himself in a universe where Danny managed tot live up to that potential, he was elated. This version of Wendell doesn’t care about Danny Rand --- but he does care about the Iron Fist. 

This version of Miles worked for the Rigoletto crime family after his cousin, a high-up member of the gang, recruited him. When Miles’s cousin needed someone to cover for him, Miles jumped at the opportunity, earning himself some jail time and the respect of Don Rigoletto, who sent his enforcer, Wilson Fisk, to protect Miles during his time in jail. The two men were cellmates, and they became close when Miles saved Fisk’s life.

Miles and Fisk’s friendship extended after their eventual release from Riker’s, and when Fisk killed Don Rigoletto to take over his operation, he set it up so that Miles could retire from the life with his fiance. It didn’t last. Eventually, Miles’s old life caught up with him and his fiance was killed. Fisk welcomed him back into his operation, and told him that somewhere, out in the multiverse, some version of his fiance was alive. Miles became desperate to find such a world and, when Fisk’s men began detecting rips in the multiverse, Miles didn’t hesitate to step through one.

Meet Phoenix Scott! Pulled from the middle of the events of the Avengers vs. X-Men event, this version of Scott is... A lot. He’s spent the last few years grappling with the aftermath of M-Day and trying to keep his species alive. When he got word the Phoenix force was coming to Earth in search of Hope Summers, his time-displaced granddaughter, he was convinced it meant mutantkind would be saved. 

The Avengers disagreed.

They wanted to destroy the Phoenix before it could reach Hope and, in a sense, they succeeded. When Iron Man attacked the Phoenix, it wasn’t destroyed --- instead, it split into five pieces. One of those pieces went into Scott. Eventually, Scott absorbed the other four pieces of the Phoenix and became its sole host... which never ends well for anyone. Scott lost control and went full Dark Phoenix, killing Charles Xavier. Before he could be apprehended, the universe swallowed him whole and spit him out in a new world.