Decoupling The Bee-verse

The Bee-verse is a /co/ created Alternate Universe, that focuses on Rule 63. However, many believe that the divergences taken in the creation of the Bee-verse has made it nearly unrecognizable as a believable Alternate Universe for Marvel. Others believe that tying the Bee-verse to the Marvel Universe limits the stories and character interactions that could be told using the characters of the Bee-verse. This article is designed to outline ways a writer could decouple the Bee-verse from the Marvel Universe and use it as a springboard to create an entirely new universe.

## Character Mapping

The general characters, backstories, and personalities should remain the same when decoupling the Bee-verse, though their names should change to be more in line with their new themes. For example, Guard Dog being named "Felix Hardy" works well in the Alternate Universe sense, since it ties him to his Marvel Universe counterpart, Felicia Hardy. However, in a decoupled Bee-verse, it would not make sense for the canine themed character to be named after the word "feline". On the other hand, character names that bear little resemblance to the original Marvel character need not be changed (i.e. Reba Geiger/Radia vs. Maxwell Dillon/Electro). The below mapping table is merely an example for renaming the Bee-verse characters, and can be changed around/rewritten for your own needs.

## Setting Changes

The original setting for the Bee-verse was the greater Marvel Universe. However, when decoupled from the Marvel Universe, the Bee-verse can either work as a stand-alone Universe, or slot in easily into another pre-existing Universe.

### Bee-verse as a Stand-alone Universe

When adapting the Bee-verse into a Stand-alone Universe, you would also need to create expies of all the Marvel Characters, locations, and events, which could become quite a herculean task considering how large the Marvel Universe is. Specifically, if you wish to do a one-to-one translation of the AU Bee-verse to a stand-alone universe, you will need to replicate some kind of Civil War in order to facilitate the creation of Honey-Bee's clones, as well as set up some kind of analog to the X-Mansion/Xavier Institute for the clones to reside following the Clone Saga.

### Bee-verse as an addition to a pre-existing Non-Marvel Universe

Due to the nature of the characters created, Honey-Bee and most of her extended cast can slot in to any other universe. The origins of the clones would once again need to be altered to fit the new universe, if there is no Civil War analog, but they could be sent to any generic Super Hero academy/boarding school following the Clone Saga. The Undead Heart saga can be resolved with any magic-based or artifact-based hero in the setting, either pre-existing in the setting or created specifically for the story arc.

### Honey-Bee's City

One of the ideas pitched regarding the city where Honey-Bee lives and operates, whether it's New York City or an original location, was that as Honey-Bee gets more popular and more influential as a hero and an environmental activist, the city becomes more eco-friendly, with more greenery and solar panels/wind farms around the city, and less industrial as a visual depiction of Honey-Bee's own growth.

## Other Heroes

Some Marvel Universe analogues have been drafted up and designed for a Stand-alone Beeverse. They are listed below:

 Janet Van Dyne/The Wasp
 The Fantastic Four
 Reed Richard/Mr. Fantastic
 Susan Storm/Invisible Woman
 Johnny Storm/Human Torch
 Ben Grimm/The Thing
 Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom

## Gallery

Brave Brand, a patriotic gunslinger, and the Captain America counterpart in the Decoupled Bee-verseA Patriotic Propaganda poster featuring Brave BrandSpider, The Wasp's counterpart in the Decoupled Bee-verseOne artist's take on the Nature Force. From left to right: Torchlight, Nimbus, Rumble Girl, EvergreenThe Nature Force. Clockwise from the top: Evergreen, Nimbus, Rumble Girl, TorchlightAnother artist's take on The Nature Force. Clockwise from top left: Torchlight, Nimbus, Rumble Girl, EvergreenAnother artist's take on Nimbus, imagining him as a wind elemental in a mechanized suitSpider, a fashionista and heroine who has a one-sided rivalry with Honey-Bee