Marvel Gazzaverse

The Marvel Gazzaverse is the name which GazzaB9 has given to his own take on the Marvel Comics mythos and line of stories. Taking inspiration from all the corners of the Marvel multiverse but mainly from the mainline comics, Ultimate universe, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the many project serves as GazzaB9's personal love letter to Marvel and its many characters, most of whom have been reinvented and reimagined to fit the narrative of the new universe.

Prehistory
Six explosions occured all at once, creating the universe. The oldest being to have ever existed is the Demiurge, the combined consciousness of all living creatures. Along with this entity came the Abstract Entities Eternity, Death, Infinity, and Oblivion, who represented the major aspects of existence. In hopes of gaining more information on reality, the Demiurge created the Celestials with the sole purpose of gathering knowledge. The Celestials eventually reported back that the universe was unstable and collapsing, which led to the four Abstract Entities creating the Pillars of Reality, four sub universes which existed to prop up the main reality. This process though accidentally also led to the creation of the being Galactus.

The first non-cosmic beings to be born in the universe were the Elders of The Universe. Exactly what species they are is unknown and it is unclear if they are even a part of the same species. However, the first mortal races were the Skrulls and the Kree, who were born on Skrullos and Hala, respectively, and were the first to go through the Celestials's Host experiment which would later created the Eternals and Deviants. Upon discovering each other's existence, the Skrulls and Kree almost immediately went to war, which has been on and off for billions of years. The race of beings known as the Watchers were also born during this time and proved to be incredibly powerful, transcending the boarders of reality and dedicating their lives to cataloguing all of history.

Crica this period, the first of the beings called gods were born, later dubbed as the Many-Angled Ones. Created in a pocket dimension that was free from Death's influence, the beings of this dimension were allowed to fester and grow increasingly more mad. Upon discovering the prime universe, the gods were disgusted and declared war on it, one of them, Null the Living Darkness, even going as far as to create a race of symbiotic beings made only to corrupt. This led to a war between the Many-Angled Ones and the Abstract Entities, which ended in the Anstract Entities's victory and the Many-Angeled Ones's home dimension being completely cut off from the prime reality, sealing them away, though the influence they had on the universe would spread for millions of years to come.

Some time following this on Earth, humanity evolved enough for the Celestials to issue their Host on them, creating the human Eternals and Deviants. The Demiurge also took special interest in humanity and left his newest creations, the Elder Gods with them, these gods quickly being worshipped by humanity while the Demiurge sat and crafted what he saw as the ideal humans, although his first attempted at creating the ideal woman ended horribly. However, the dark entity Mephisto wished to corrupt the Demiurge's masterpiece and, in the form of a snake, tricked his new ideal woman into eating from a forbidden tree. His creations having failed to do the one thing he asked of them, the Demiurge banished Adam and Eve to the masses and disappeared with Eden, his whereabouts remaining unknown even to the Celestials for centuries.

Following the Demiurge's disappearance, various societies forme, such as Zardath, ruled by Starr the Slayer, Atlantis, ruled by Tolan, and the Eternal nation of Olympia as well as the Deviant Empire of Lemuria. However, this age would come to an end when the Elder Gods began eating their own kind and transforming into demons. In order to combat her brethren, the goddess Gaea begged her creator to help and, as a final act of kindness, the Demiurge created a second generation of gods with her (such as Atum Ra, Buri, and Ouranos), who defeated the corrupted Elder Gods and went on to begin reforming human society as the new gods of a new age. However, one last tragedy struck before the end of this age, as the Celestials returned and discovered the Deviants had become obsessed with breeding and owning slaves. Deeming them a failure, the Celestials flooded Lemuria, accidentally sinking Atlantis with it in the process.

Africa
Various real world events occured, such as the formation of the Roman Empire, the rise of Ancient Greece, and so on. However, time was heavily altered when a man was found in Egypt by Clan Akkaba, a group of Egyptian barbarians of which the first true mutant, En Sabah Nur, belonged to. The man was nursed to health and took the name Rama-Tut for himself, quickly using what seemed like magic but was actually futuristic technology to convince Clan Akkaba that he was a god. With the clan, Rama-Tut proceeded to overthrow the then current pharaoh and place himself as the new head of Egypt. Rama-Tut ruled for a handful of years until En Sabah Nur reached adulthood, where his mutant abilities peaked and many had begun to see him as a god, leading to a religious war between Rama-Tut and En Sabah Nur's followers. After a long conflict, Rama-Tut came to the conclusion that he would lose and fled, time traveling with a single device and leaving the rest in the past.

En Sabah Nur became the new pharaoh of Egypt and both he and Clan Akkaba ruled until the 2nd Egyptian Dynasty, where vikings invaded the country and were accompanied by their gods, notably their god of thunder who managed to defeat En Sabah Nur. Following the invasion, the half dead En Sabah Nur was dragged into a sarcophagus which was actually a healing chamber made with Rama-Tut's left behind technology and he remained dormant for millennia. Following En Sabah Nur's supposed death, history began to correct itself and his friend and sometimes enemy Imhotep would take over as pharaoh, at which point the lineage and history of Egypt remains mostly the same.

Elsewhere in Africa, a meteorite made of the rare metal Vibranium struck the Earth and slowly mutated the plantlife around it, creating the legendary Heart-Shaped Herb. The meteorite also became the nest of the goddess Bast, who protected the Heart-Shaped Herbs around it until she found someone worthy of giving them to, which she would eventually find in the form of Bashenga, leader of the Panther Tribe. For his leadership skills, Bast allowed Bashenga to eat the Heart-Shaped Herb and granted him supernatural abilities, which he used to lead his tribe to victory. However, Bashenga believed that the Vibranium and the Herb were too precious for anyone else to use in bulk, and thus he decided to wall his people off from the outside world, forming the nation of Wakanda and becoming the first Black Panther, although some would reject his rule and god.

Europe
In England, the kingdom of Camelot would form under the leadership of King Uther Pendragon, although his true heir went unknown for years until a slave boy named Arthur pulled a magic blade embedded in a stone. Under the rule of King Arthur, Camelot became the biggest kingdom in the known world at the time and is still spoken of in legends to this day, along with his Knights of the Round Table. Of the knights, Sir Percival is notable for his other title of the Black Knight, which he was given after he began wielding the magic Ebony Blade, forged from the mystical Starstone by the wizard Merlin. However, as big as Camelot was, it fell extra hard, as it was discovered that the knight Lancelot had been having an affair with the queen for years, leading to a war between he and Arthur during which, Arthur's traitorous son Mordred crowned himself king. During the proceeding battle, both Arthur and Mordred killed each other and Merlin transported Camelot and its residents to the aetherial Otherworld, leaving Percival behind to spread the tale. Percival's Ebony Blade would be passed down throughout his descendants.

In Denmark, a different legend was formed as a pair of Null the Living Darkness's symbiotes landed near Heorot Hall, with the younger of the two, dubbed Grendel, starting to pick off the human population in the area. With no one to turn to, King Hrothgar summoned the monster slayer Beowulf, who killed Grendel and his mother and ruled as king of the Geats before seemingly dying at the hands of a dragon. In reality, he had simply grown bored with being a king and chose to fake his death.

Around this time in Greece, the Kree would visit Earth and perform an experiment referred to as Terriigenesis, in which a number of Greek citizens were mutated into Inhumans. Horrified by themselves, the Inhumans requested to be seperated from the rest of humanity, which the Kree agreed to, constructing the Blue Area of the Moon and the city of Attilan for them, named after the Greek legend of Atlantis. However, one of these Inhumans would eventually return to Greece, where he would be worshipped by a fringe cult known as the Brotherhood of The Spear.

Asia
The Makluan known as Fin Fang Foom crashed somewhere in Mongolia with ten Makluan rings in his possession, though the crash left him exhausted and he fell asleep for thousands of years. During this time, an entire temple was built around him to keep him from attacking the natives. However, Xu Wenwu, a peasant looking for more power stole the rings and began using them to become a warlord, forming the legendary and infamous Ten Rings group. Wenwu's name would become lost to most as the years went on, which eventually caused him to only be known by the generic name of "The Mandarin". Also around this time, a man named Tuan along with a tribe of martial artists from across the continent found a way of entering the mystical city of K'un-Lun, in which they met and fought against the hostile dragon Shou-Lao, one of their members plunging their fist into its heart to kill it and infusing their fist with magical energy in the process, creating the legend of the Iron Fist. Agamotto, the Sorcerer Supreme, also picked a Tibetan man born in the lost city of Kamar-Taj as his successor.

In Japan, a nameless demon appeared during the Kamakura period, offering the leader of the ninja clan The Hand, Kagenobu Yoshioka, the knowledge on how to achieve immortality. Intrigued, Kagenobu made a deal with the demon and transformed his clan into a religious cult which ran on the power of immortal undead warriors.

North America
North America, specifically the United States, is more or less the beginning of costumed crime fighting. Men such as the Two-Gun Kid took up arms to begin fighting the outlaws of their times and the demon Mephisto created the first Ghost Rider, who refused to uphold his end of the bargain and ran away.

Second World War
Most of the world wrapped in a war for the ages, every side and country wanted the upper hand. The first attempted at this was in Nazi Germany, where a little boy was discovered to possess superhuman abilities, though his abilities proved to be too powerful to control and he escaped. At the same time, an SS commander, scientist, and founder of Hydra Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull, worked with his partner Abraham Erskine to develop a type of Super-Soldier Serum in hopes of winning the war. Seeing his partner descend into madness, Erskine questioned his ideals and eventually fled to America and joined the Allies, where he continued his Super-Soldier Serum project and eventually tested it on a soldier who would become Captain America, though Erskine was assassinated not long after. During this time, Hydra would also discover the existence of the Terrigen Crystals and the Inhumans, some of whom were hunted down by Hydra forces.

The same mindset that created Captain America also led Dr. Phineas Horton to build the "Nazi fighting android", The Torch, who went on to fight against an attempted attack from the Atlantean Namor McKenzie due to a misunderstanding. Repeated attempts were also made by different governments to recreate Captain America and reinvent Erksine's formula, which led to the creation of various other heroes such as Union Jack, The Whizzer, and Miss America. Several of these heroes would go on to form the first official superhero team, the Invaders. However, near the end of the war the team disbanded as Captain America and Red Skull seemingly died together in a plane crashing into the Antarctic Ocean.

Post World War II
Following the defeat of the Nazis, the group known as the SSR became dedicated to handling the new threats of the world, many of whom would be dubbed as "supervillains". To reflect this, the SSR changed its name to S.H.I.E.L.D., headed by Peggy Carter. The many scientists who attempted to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum would all eventually form the government organization Weapons Plus, their first trial being in the 1950s on a variety of animals, one of which was a monkey who was the first great success but ended up escaping from the lab. Following the success of animal experimentation, it was decided to move to human testing, with 300 black soldiers being experimented on. Of which, one survived.

The greatest success of Weapons Plus came in the 1960s with their tenth attempt, with the immortal mutant Logan. Also in the 1960s, a new hero named the Sentry made his debut but quickly disappeared for mysterious reasons. The rise of mutants following the second world war sparked major paranoia in the general populace, which eventually led to the election of the anti-mutant governor Robert Kelly. Kelly went as far as to fund Trask Industries's Project Sentinel, which hoped to monitor mutants and eliminate potential mutant threats.

Age of Heroes
What would eventually be dubbed as the Age of Heroes began in the early 1990s, when the youngest space research crew in history, led by Dr. Reed Richards, were sent to study what Reed dubbed "Cosmic Radiation" and were bombarded by it, coming home with superhuman abilities. With these powers, the group formed what is now known as the Fantastic Four, the first superheroes of the modern age. Following this came the assembly of the X-Men, who were initially assembled under the supervision of Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert in order to combat an operation from the Hellfire Club, who wished to spark a third world war. While this mission ended on a bittersweet note, it inspired Charles to form Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which he hoped would combat the "Mutant Scare" and train young mutants how to use their abilities.

Not everything was great in this time, as from 1998 to 2000, America was engaged in a heated war against the European nation of Sokovia. This war was, unbeknownst to anyone else, heavily influenced by the Mandarin from behind the scenes. During the war, Stark Industries became known as a massive weapons manufacturer and a soldier named Frank Castle earned the nickname "Punisher". General Thunderbolt Ross teamed up with Weapons Plus in an attempt to create a super-soldier to fight against Sokovia, but the lead researcher, Bruce Banner ended up mutating into a monster and disappearing for some years, known as a fugitive. Near the end of the war, Tony Stark, CEO of Stark Industries, was kidnapped by the Ten Rings organization and kept hostage until the war's end. Hank Pym and his wife Janet van Dyne would also discover what he dubbed Pym Particles around this time, and around the world reports came in about a "man in an iron suit" and a supposed god saving people.

In 2003, the hero Spider-Man made his debut and not long after in 2005, humanity made first contact with alien life. It was unfortunately on poor terms, as the extraterrestrials, the Chitauri, attempted to invade the planet, which forced many of the up and coming heroes at the time and a recently unfrozen Captain America to assemble and fight off the attack, in the aftermath being dubbed as the Avengers and going on to become the biggest heroes the world had ever seen.

Notes & Trivia

 * GazzaB9 has been working on this universe for a long time, since around circa 2018, inspired by the film Into the Spider-Verse and wondering what the life of its rendition of Peter Parker was like before the movie's start. The project quickly grew and began incorporating a number of other characters and heroes.
 * The designation of the Gazzaverse is Earth-16402 and the current year in the Gazzaverse is 2018.