Am I the Only One Who Thinks Marvel Just Quietly Changed Its Entire Timeline?

I’ve a terrifying principle that, within the Marvel

Universe, Hydra, the Nazis, and the Axis powers gained World Conflict II. Whereas I do know this sounds outlandish, Marvel has already performed with this concept previously. However now, Marvel has as soon as once more toyed with the concept the Allies had been destined to falter within the face of worldwide authoritarianism. All it comes right down to is a single resolution.

…Marvel is persistently attempting to say that Earth-616’s WWII was alleged to lean within the fascists’ favor.

In Nick Fury Vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025)–by J. Michael Straczynski and Elena Casagrande–Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos start their struggle for freedom on the entrance strains of World Conflict II. On this telling of occasions, the reality is that the Allied powers had been dropping the conflict.

Whereas the U.S. had but to enter the conflict, Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos had been despatched into the fray of the Second Shino-Japanese Conflict to guard China from Japanese invasion. Nonetheless, when Fury and his staff are despatched to analyze a mysterious menace, historical past is perpetually modified.

Nick Fury Learns the Axis Powers Had been Imagined to Win WWII

Nick Fury Vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025)–Written by J. Michael Straczynski; Artwork by Elena Casagrande; Colour by Mattia Iacono; Lettering by VC’s Travis Lanham; Cowl Artwork by Gary Frank & Alex Sinclair

Nick Fury sees a possible future where the Nazis win WWII.

Like many People on the time,

Nick Fury had little interest in joining the war
in opposition to the Axis powers until the U.S. authorities brazenly declared conflict. After being satisfied by Common Sam Sawyer to affix his secret operation in China, Fury begrudgingly gives his help with the promise of respectable pay. Inside hours, Fury, Sam, and the longer term Howling Commandos contact down on Chinese language soil to analyze the disappearance of worldwide volunteer freedom fighters. A rumor has unfold that a gargantuan cloud with enamel has been killing all who enter its area.

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Fury and his ally, Gabe Jones, set into the sky to search out this monstrously mythical-sounding cloud. Inside moments of their search, the duo are attacked by the abominable visage of a shapeshifting inexperienced dragon

known simply as Fin Fang Foom
. Nick and his ally lose the dogfight, forcing Fury to return to the bottom and search shelter. Unknowingly, Fury enters the dragon’s resting place, the place he’s assaulted by a imaginative and prescient of the probably future: The Axis powers will win the conflict. On this second, Fury makes a snap resolution that in the end modifications the course of the conflict.

One Prophetic Imaginative and prescient Helped Change the Course of Historical past

With out Fin Fang Foom, The Allies Would Have Misplaced WWII

Nick Fury believes one man can change the world.

As I mentioned earlier,

Nick Fury’s hesitation
to prematurely be a part of WWII was not an unusual feeling on the time. It wasn’t till the Pearl Harbor bombing that the US formally entered the struggle. Nonetheless, Fury prematurely broke his obstinate resolve after witnessing Fin Fang Foom’s prophecy. Within the span of some brief hours, Nick is pressured to confront a brand new face of the conflict that he had by no means identified. Beforehand unbeknownst to him and nearly all of the world, there are larger powers at play within the conflict than males and their bullets.

It’s due to this imaginative and prescient that Fury decides to formally be a part of

the Howling Commandos
and their mission to face the unrecorded and forgotten mystical and cosmic threats in movement. With out this motivation, Fury would merely have been drafted to struggle on the entrance strains, leaving the U.S. navy with out certainly one of its biggest leaders. The Howling Commandos, alongside heroes like Captain America, are straight accountable for the Allies’ victory in WWII. However with out Fin Fang Foom, these fateful interactions would by no means have occurred, and the world would have remained destined to face international fascist rule.

Marvel Has Already Performed With This WWII Concept As soon as Earlier than

Nick Fury’s Imaginative and prescient Proves Secret Empire Might Have Grow to be Actuality

Oddly sufficient, this isn’t the primary time Marvel has toyed with this idea. Throughout

Marvel’s Secret Empire event
, readers are launched to a fabricated world the place the Allies shouldn’t have gained WWII. On this false actuality, the Allies used the powers of the Cosmic Dice to rewrite historical past and sway the course of the conflict of their favor. Whereas this model of occasions was purely fictitious and designed to spur Hydra’s domination of Earth-616, I do surprise if there’s any reality behind the lie. As seen within the visions Nick Fury endured, the Allies nonetheless weren’t alleged to win.

Nick Fury and Wolverine in front of a green background.

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To me, plainly Marvel is persistently attempting to say that Earth-616’s WWII was alleged to lean within the fascists’ favor. Nick Fury Vs. Fin Fang Foom reinforces that with out

Nick Fury’s change of heart
, fascism would have gained. The Howling Commandos wouldn’t have existed to counteract Hydra’s paranormal powers. With out the staff, the Cosmic Dice would have remained in Hydra’s possession, permitting the Nazis and their allies to formally win the conflict. It’s laborious to say for sure if there’s such a factor as a set timeline within the Marvel Universe, however by its personal admittance, with out this opportunity encounter with Fin Fang Foom, the timeline would have adopted a unique course of occasions, and the free world would have died with it.

Nick Fury Vs. Fin Fang Foom #1 (2025) is now accessible from Marvel Comics.