Marvel Cosmology

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**This is the overall cosmology interpretation I came to, this page is not meant to be an official page for the wiki.**

## "Words"

Marvel uses a plethora of words interchangeably to describe the scale of the cosmos; Reality, Universe, Multiverse, Realms, and Dimensions are all used interchangeably to describe Marvel on a scale.

### "Realms"

Realities can mean entire universes (That is Infinite Spatio-Temporal Dimensions), or Structures that transcend Space-Time, Context is important, Universes are sometimes called Multiverses as they encompass multiple dimensions, and Realms are also considered either: Universes, structures beyond space and time, and Pocket Dimensions. The context in which these structures are explained needs to be specific or deduced, without context a lot of things can be misinterpreted. Another thing to note is how Marvel sometimes describe their Higher Tier Structures, Since Paradoxically Structures or planes of existence that transcend Space and Time and is beyond our comprehension are usually substantiated by Literary Devices and contradictions, I.E, ¨Timeless Time and Spaceless Space¨ they use such contradictory language to emphasize that we can't fathom such structures as explaining it would be a paradox as such words would pale in comparison to its true structure.

Outerversal Structures are substantiated this way along with other concrete substantive evidence such as being Transcendental to The Local Multiverse and being Beyond and Transcendental to Reality. This is an essential thing to take note and remember, That The Marvel Cosmology is always expanding with every comic issue released, there may arise contradictions or confusion, when Interpreting Marvel it is best and almost necessary to go by the Standards.

### "Continuity"

That Lore and Establishment > Continuity meaning that pre-established and concrete lore trivialize New Canon and Continuity, whereas It Is established That Asgard exists in The Realm Of Gods since its insinuation and has become synonymous with its lore and a new writer unknowingly or intentional writes Asgard to exist in space as its origin with no other substantiation behind it.

To go with the notation that it exists in the realm of gods, since it has more evidence to suggest and its been expanding upon as such even to the point where Continuity and Canon recognize this and changes, In-Verse it can be explained by the fact that everything is Canon, so the two explanations could also hold true in some form with The Confusion out of the way I will go on to explain The Cosmology.

The Universe also Known as Reality is an reality comprised of Infinite Spatio-Temporal Dimensions.

They are bounded by what is known is Time Stream which contains all of the events of Marvel. This is Overlooked by Time Variance Authority, and is separated by other universes by The Superflow, which is pure information.

## Universe 616

The Main Universe we follow is Known as Reality 616, where an emergence of superheroes dawned in the 60´s and has remained the heroic protectors of the universe. There exist parallel universes that follow a timeline similar to Realities, these are known as Alternate Universes and make up a small part of The Local Multiverse, where the rest of compromised of Universes that take on a entirely different set of events. One can travel to any part of the universe through what is known as Subspace, a warp in The Universe that allows a person to enter FTL travel without breaking the properties of space. There exist other notable Universes, such as The CancerVerse, and MojoVerse.

### Subspace

Space is Infinite Dimensional (Note this is a major mistranslation, while traversing through the infinite or ¨Countless dimensions¨ Reed was entering SubSpace where he confusingly named it both The Crossroads of infinity and The Negative zone, Remember The Negative Zone is an AntiMatter Universe and Crossroads is the first Nexus)

The Beyonder observes reality 616 and discovers there are infinity dimensions calling it a "Multiverse" or some sort.

## 16th Dimension

The Superspace within Marvel or notably called the 16th Dimension which people use to either wank or downplay characters such as the Abstract Entities mainly the Living Tribunal and Eternity or the entire Marvel Multiverse to only call them 16D which this isn't true as the 16th Dimension literally says in the scan it's beyond space-time making it **Low 1-C** "Beyond Space. Beyond Time. A 16 Dimensional DOMAIN at the Juncture of Multiversal Superspace." which the Domain definition can literally mean they live there but just because they live there doesn't mean they are particularly bound by it or weak to it which they aren't considering the fact that both Living Tribunal and Eternity have feats of destroying, creating, affect or embodying structures more powerful than the Superspace.

### **Local Multiverse**

The Local Multiverse is The Collection of Infinite Universes, all spread out through infinity. The Local Multiverse is part of a larger ¨Omniverse¨, and comprises Universes similar to earth 616, rather that it be a direct divergent universe due to Time Travel or a universe that takes on a different set of events from Reality 616.

Due to the Multitude of Universes, The Time Variance Authority oversees these Universes keeping record of these events. The Watchers also passively take record of the events transpiring in these Universes. One Thing To Note is that after Secret Wars 2015, The effects of the incursions seemingly broke Time, meaning that characters begin remembering Retconned events and other events, re in stating that Everything in Marvel is Canon unto itself.

There exists other ¨Multiversal¨ structures within Marvel such as The Web of Life and Destiny which serves as another map of the multiverse containing infinite realities containing avatars of the spider-totem, and The Starlight Citadel which oversees the Infinite realities containing members of The Captain Britain Corps.

### Crossroads

The Crossroads of Infinity serves as the interdimensional gateway to all of reality´s dimensions. It´s fully transcendent to the Local Multiverse, containing various doors that leads to realities within them.

The Crossroads is infinite in size and links to the ¨Between¨ which serves the same purpose as the crossroads, connecting to the congress of realities. The Crossroads exists as being beyond The Local Multiverse where Time conceptually ceases to exist and is beyond reality, being fully transcendental to it. The Crossroads serves as the Gateway to The Mystic Dimensions, a hierarchy of magical dimensions.

The Inner Planes Are The Dimensions that take a close likeness to Earthś Dimension, that being having history with Earth or, relating to it, It is comprised of mostly Pantheon Realms such as Asgard and Olympus, But also contains Realms created By The Elder Gods like Set, Oshturn, and Cthon.

It's also comprised of realms such as the badlands and the Mindscape, All of The Inner Planes are infinite structures being beyond Both the local multiverse and crossroads, and acts as the first planes where magic derives from.

## Mystic Realms

*The Flickering Realms* - The Flickering realms has many names, The Darkheart of Chthon, and the dimension of Darkhold are just a few of them. The Flickering realm is the dimension created by elder god Chthon after the extra dimensional wars banished him from the local multiverse.

Within The Flickering Realms there contains multiple structures such as the Nǵari dimension and other dimensions that correspond to Chthonś demons.

*The Pantheonic Realms-* The Pantheonic Realms contain some structures that exist in The Realm of Gods (For example Olympus and Asgard) Since most of The Pantheons derive from the belief and worship of The Local Mutliverseś denizens they exist within the Mystic dimensions save for Essential and powerful mythologies. Do Note that in some mythologies, There're larger structures containing these realms such as the Tree of Yggdrasil and Zeus´ creation of The World of Greek gods, these structures stretch throughout The Mystic Dimensions and into the Realm of Gods.

There exist Infinite Realms in the inner plane marked by The various Pantheonic Realms and the Various other Elder Gods that created Their dimensions in likeness to The Local Multiverse These include; The Badlands (A emanition of the southwest), Bazaar At The End Of Reason (A realm where magicians and other mythical creatures trade and sell magic), Biphasia (ShadowRealm & Searland), Black Sea (The remnants of Atlantis, who created their own dimension to rule after a religious persecution), Cloudsea (Home of The sorceress council), Katharta (an archetypal world of wizardry, barbarians, and sorcery) WeirdWorld (The home to dwarves and elves)

## The Mindscape

The Mindscape contains the collective unconscious of all the infinite race of humans and aliens (Throughout the entire Multiverse) and their dreams. This place is constituted by The SleepWalkers, and connects the astral plane to the dream dimension. The Mindscape exists in both the inner planes and the celestial concordance and connects to The Dream Dimension and The Nightmare realm.

In the psychic Mindscape, Cobweb and demons such as the Agents of Despair, the Bad Ideas, the Cannibak, Depression, the Mindspawn (N'ogskak, Sk'obe, Sv'ara, T'opalli, and Esk'odin), Manic and Paranoia dwelt there, feeding off the thoughts and dreams of mortals, and were opposed by the Sleepwalkers.

## **Archetypes**

Marvel Gods are all Jungian Archetypes according to J.M DeMatteis

### **What are Jungian Archetypes?**

* **Background information and basic explanation -** Jungian Archetypes are psychic structures inherited by all humans and influence the way humans experience and perceive the world. Carl Jung thought of the idea of the Archetypes, due to analyzing religious and mythological symbolism, noticing many shared elements, patterns, themes and symbols. Since Jung was primarily a psychiatrist, he noticed that these symbols were also found in the dreams and hallucinations of schizophrenic patients. The psyche is the term used to describe the human mind in Jung’s work. He proposed that the psyche is not just the product of personal experience, but that the psyche contains certain elements which were pre-personal, trans-personal and shared between all humans. These elements are the Archetypes. In Jung’s work, he proposed that the influences of these elements, or archetypes on human consciousness and behaviour lead to the common elements in human thought and behaviour.
* **The Psyche -** The psyche is someone’s total personality, which contains all thoughts, behaviours, emotions and feelings. There are 3 major realms in The Psyche:
	+ **The Consciousness -** One’s field of awareness, consisting of those psychic contents one has knowledge of. The center of The Consciousness is the ego. The ego influences what contents of experience are reflected in the consciousness, and which ones are ignored.

* **Personal Unconscious -** The unconscious dwarfs the Consciousness in scope, and consists of everything that is in your mind, but is forgotten, so like forgotten memories. Kinda like information that you have, but you can’t access.

* **Collective Unconscious -** This is the part of the mind, the deepest part of the unconscious, where everything is inherited, and is found in human, and it is not learned from personal experience

* The 3 realms of The Psyche are not completely separate and closed off from each other, but they interact with one another.

## **The Outer Realms**

The Outer Planes exist as the transcendental realms above The Inner, These realms are superior than any Realm within the Inner Planes aside from the Pantheonic Realms, Magic is far stronger here and The Physicality is pure abstract and Intangible, Most of the Outer Planes are Color dimensions and is separated by The Inner Planes by The Prismatic Bridge of Asbru, a large invisible barrier that separates the two.

### Crimson Cosmos

The Red and desert like Realm ruled by Cytorrak, although we can physically see The Crimson Cosmos´ landscape, It does not naturally exist and is merely an illusion of the human mind attempting to perceive the Realm, The Crimson Cosmos contains The Dimension of Cytorrak and The Crimson Dawn.

### The Purple Dimension

The Purple Dimension is ruled by Aggamon, The Purple Dimension like the Crimson Cosmos has a illusionary Landscape of Purple mountains and gems

### Ikonn

Ikonn is a dimension of Kaleidoscopes and colors, Dependent on the Visitor's emotions and feelings the Landscape will manifest itself in that manner.

### Raggadorr

The dimension of Raggadorr exists as the last Plane of existence a wizard can go through via enchantments and irregular travel, Beyond this Magicians of even the highest calibre will be killed, Placed into eternal sleep, or forced to undergo a mystical dimension, The dimension is ruled by the entity known as Raggadorr and is the origin point for the rings of raggadorr whom are implied to be sentient themselves.

### The Splinter Realms

The Splinter Realms all existed as one Large Structure known as The Dark Dimension, but after a long spanning War, the Dimension was split into a myriad of other realms.

The Splinter Realms are dimensions of evil and has a connection with the darker concepts of existence (Death, anger, confusion) most of The Local Multiverse´s ¨Underworlds¨ connect to the splinter realms and transcends Both The Inner Planes and Outer Planes.

### The Winding Way

Like The Bridge of Asbru connects the Inner Planes to the Outer Planes, The Winding Way connects The Outer Planes to The Splinter Realms, The dimension is essentially sentient and changes due to the mood and feelings of the sentience, Within the dimension are Weaver Witches who create the tapestry of the dimension, fueling the source of magic, Within The Winding Way, a sorcerer can be as powerful as it inhabitants just as quick as it can make them powerless.

### The Citadels of Sephiroth

The Citadels of Sephiroth acts as the line of defense between the Dark Dimensions and The Outer/Inner Planes, Created by Oshturn and the race of Akah Ma´at, as a response to Set´s serpent people in The Serpent's sea and Chthon´s wolfmen in the flickering realms, The Race would get into a schism that would banish them to The Dark dimensions where they formed the Citadels of Sephiroth as the police force of The Dark Dimensions

### Dyzakk

Dyzakk is considered the Dungeon Dimension, Being The encompassing ¨Prison¨ of the splinter realms, containing angels, witches, demons and devils, anybody The Elder Gods and The Octessence deem a crime or offense are sent here.

### Krakkan

The Krakkan has close connection to Dyzakk and serves the same purpose, With Dyzakk being the Dungeon, and Krakkan being the ¨Torture chamber¨

### Farallah

Farallah is the dimension beyond Krakkan and Dyzakk, ruled by Fang and Fist.

### *The Veils of Valtorr*

The Veils of Valtorr are ruled by a serpentine entity Valtorr, and his vassals look into The vapors within the dimension that stare into possible futures.

### Watoomb

Where the vapors of Valtorr are easily blown by the stormy environment of watoomb, ruled by a human sorcerer who completed the almost impossible task of conquering a splinter realm, The Boreas dimension exists as a layer within Watoomb.

### Balthakk

Even the environments of Watoomb fall at the entrance to Balthakk, a realm of pure destruction overseen by a entity of pure energy, Balthakk.

There exits minor realms within The Dark Dimensions before you reach the last echelon of Dark Dimensions and The Totality of The Mystic Dimensions, These realms are: The Kingdom of Tazza, Shazan´s realm, The Halls of Fear, and The Pseudo Limbo´s.

### The Dream Dimension

The Dream Dimension is the collective unconsciousness of Humans and anything capable of dreaming, It connects The Astral Plane to The Mindscape and The Mindscape into the Dream Dimension, The Dark Dimension´s mirror of This Realm would be The Nightmare dimensions containing the ¨Dream demons¨ and is ruled by the embodiment of Nightmares, Nightmare, The Nightmare connects to The Realm of Madness

### The Dark Dimension

The Dark Dimension is the largest of The Splinter Realms and went about conquering various Other splinter realms, to restore its natural hierarchy, The Dark Dimension is the most feared throughout the Splinter realms, and is ruled By Dormmamu.

A single universe in marvel is infinite in size, contains infinite dimensions (these dimensions are defined as universes), infinite hells, the dark dimension, crossroads of infinity, and the world tree.

The dark dimension alone contains infinite universes, with each universes being the same size and containing the same realms. The world tree contains Transfinite amounts of universes, and each universe is also the same.

The crossroads is the merging point of every universe in the Marvel Omniverse. The Marvel Omniverse contains Transfinite True world tree's. Just one multiverse contains Transfinite universes and there are Transfinite multiverses in the multiverse. Then there are infinite multiverses in a megaverse and Infinite megaverses in a omniverse.

## Abstract Entities

The Abstract Entities in Marvel are living ideas and all have a role to play within the Multiverse,

* Eon and Epoch: Responsible for choosing the Protectors of the Universe, mortal champions elected to face one specific menace to life in the universe each. Killed by Maelstrom, but succeeded by its "daughter" Epoch.
* The Inbetweener: Represents the synthesis between all concepts within the universe, such as life and death, order and chaos, love and hate, god and man, impotence and omnipotence. However, it resents its servitude to Order and Chaos, and has tried to break free several times.
* Master Order and Lord Chaos: Embodies the universal concept of Chaos. Opposite of Master Order. Together with Master Order, Lord Chaos claims to be responsible for assigning fates to mortals. Likened to vengeance by the Living Tribunal. Master Order and Lord Chaos created the In-Betweener as a balance between them.
* The Living Tribunal: The Living Tribunal is the judge of the cosmic entities who ensures that the cosmic laws are obeyed and safeguards the multiverse from mystical imbalance.

## Nexus of All Realities

The Nexus of All Realities is the source of all creation and an OM point meaning everything comes from the Nexus which to all things return to it. The Nexus of All Realities connects to every universe, dimension and plane of existence with it's interior being described as not being bound by space and time.

### Superflow

the Superflow is the space between realities collapsing with Incursions containing all information...It is all information along with it being the highest level of existence, metaphor and reality collide, where concepts make war

## Exo Space

The Exo Space is basically the gate to the Outside and being described as a Manifestation of the Omniverse beyond everything

### The Outside

The Outside is the 'sheer absence beyond everything', transcending dream and reality which Eternity is all there is and is only visible from the Outside considering he is the Omniverse which the Outside is beyond the Omniverse, the white space beyond everything...the 'sheer absence'

## The Omniverse

The Omniverse contains everything within Marvel, every universe, every dimension, every multiverse, every megaverse, etc. and Megaverses within Marvel supposedly contain an Infinite amount of Multiverses meaning Omniverse (Contains Everything) > Megaverse (Contains infinite Multiverses) > Multiverse (Contains infinite Universes), Megaverses generally contain enough universes outside of a "main" multiverse that the universes can gather into their own multiverses. As such, megaverses are often collections of multiverses. This is proven by the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, which says that "collections of associated realms from different Multiverses are referred to as Megaverses", which means that a Megaverse is a collection of multiple multiverses though I could be wrong.

## Tiering

### Universal Characters In Marvel

A **single** universe within Marvel is transfinite (greater than infinite) stacked/layered with infinite dimensions stretching across conceptual infinity with each infinite being transcendent over each other stretching across conceptual infinity making the universe **High 1-B**, a universal character within marvel easily surpasses the concept of Multiversal ascending into the 1 Tier stopping at **High 1-B** at best, It can be downplayed but it will still be above Multiversal since transfinite is greater than infinite (countable) it should be **Low 1-C** being equal to **Aleph 1** (1 Uncountable Infinite) The Universes can also be scaled higher if I'm not mistaken but I do think they're High 1-B at best.

### Multiversal Characters

Multiversal Characters in Marvel are easily **Low 1-A** since the Multiverse contains infinite universes which are **High 1-B** structures meaning the Multiverse contains an infinite amount of **High 1-B** structures along with containing Multiple 1-A realms If I'm not mistaken. We never got an official Multiverse Map for Marvel like we did for DC but If we count the Multiverse containing the Superflow, Hyperspace/Subspace, Star Chamber, Nexus of All Realities, etc. then the Multiverse would be 1-A but I wouldn't count that so the Multiverse is indeed a Low 1-A structure containing an infinite amount of **High 1-B** structures. Megaverses also contain an infinite amount of Multiverses or just Multiple/Low 1-A structures making Megaverses **1-A** (depending on your interperptation, either way it's still **1-A**)

### Omniversal Characters

Omniversal Characters are easily **High 1-A** since the Omniverse contains anything and everything that's ever been in Marvel along with containing multiple **1-A** structures that contain an infinite amount of **Low 1-A** structures containing an infinite amount of **High 1-B** structures)

The Marvel handbook defines it as all of fiction and reality combined. If this is the definition, then no fictional character can logically reach this high, as each supposedly "omnipotent" fictional entity only has influence over its own fictional continuity. Their reach stops with the copyrights for the franchise, and they certainly have no influence over our reality outside of fiction.
**Link:** https://character-level.fandom.com/wiki/Omniverse