History ComicBook / Empyre

'''''Empyre''''' is the 2020 Creator/MarvelComics event starring ComicBook/TheAvengers and ComicBook/FantasticFour, written by Creator/AlEwing and Dan Slott.

'''''Empyre''''' is the 2020 Creator/MarvelComics event starring ComicBook/TheAvengers and ComicBook/FantasticFour, written by Dan Slott and Creator/AlEwing.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The Skrulls of the Krel system (a bunch of planets the Skrulls have used as an invasion staging ground) were all wiped out by the Cotati as a test of their abilities.

** In ''Fantastic Four: Fallout'', the Privateer attempts to reclaim Jo-Venn and N'Kalla, pointing out that she has a contract with the Skrull and Kree Empires. Reed has just called the AvengersAssemble to defend the kids when Teddy points out the glaring flaw in the Privateer's contract. It was for the Skrull and Kree ''Empires'', but they no longer exist, so the contract's null.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Two of these, first in ''Empyre Fallout: Fantastic Four'' it's discovered that some of the Cotati had golden guns and swords that are far more advanced than anything the Kree or Skrull had, Privateer looks them over and tells the Alliance that the weapons are incredibly ancient. Nick Fury as the Unseen looks at them and discovers they were from the First Race - a species that predates the Elders of the Universe and Celestials, this leads to Uatu the Watcher emerging from one of Nick's eyes and Uatu promises a reckoning. Then there's the IronicEchoCut FlashForward mentioned above where Captain Glory is dead while a badly injured Teddy mutters that his grandma was right and then Abigail Brand with some heavily armed companions barge in to handle things.]]

* ShootTheDog: Kl'rt blew up the Krel system, occupied by generally harmless Skrull dreamers, artists and {{Loony Fan}}s of Earth media, to [[spoiler:try and stop the Cotati's plan. But it was too late.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Two of these, first in ''Empyre Fallout: Fantastic Four'' it's discovered that some of the Cotati had golden guns and swords that are far more advanced than anything the Kree or Skrull had, Privateer looks them over and tells the Alliance that the weapons are incredibly ancient. Nick Fury as the Unseen looks at them and discovers they were from a dead universe predating the current one, this leads to Uatu the Watcher emerging from one of Nick's eyes and Uatu promises a reckoning. Then there's the IronicEchoCut FlashForward mentioned above where Captain Glory is dead while a badly injured Teddy mutters that his grandma was right and then Abigail Brand with some heavily armed companions barge in to handle things.]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Two of these, first it's discovered that some of the Cotati had golden guns and swords that are far more advanced than anything the Kree or Skrull had, Privateer looks them over and tells the Alliance that the weapons were from a dead universe predating the current one. Then there's the IronicEchoCut FlashForward mentioned above where Captain Glory is dead while a badly injured Teddy mutters that his grandma was right and then Abigail Brand with some heavily armed companions barge in to handle things.]]

* TakeUpMySword: Carol Danvers takes on the job of a Kree Accuser, being given the late Ronan's hammer by Tanalth.

** Thor sends the entire Cotati to a desolate rock out of reach of either Earth or any Kree and Skrull territories.

** Teddy is supplanted by none other than [[spoiler:R'klll, his grandmother]], with the help of Captain Glory and the unknowing help of Kl'rt.

* IronicEchoCut: The end of the ''Aftermath'' special as Captain Glory smugly tells Teddy that [[spoiler: he's fine being imprisoned as he knows he's the best warrior and "one day, I'll be all that keeps you alive." FlashForward to the future of Glory lying dead along with pretty much all of Teddy's circle.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:R'Klll reveals how she survived Galactus eating the Skrull homeworld, explaining she had a teleportation device which she ''could'' have used to save herself and Anelle... but she couldn't be bothered, thinking it was less dangerous to save herself alone. Unsurprisingly, she's not tremendously guilty over leaving her daughter to die.]]

* WeddingFinale: [[spoiler:Empyre Aftermath, an epilogue to the series, ends with a proper royal/superhero wedding for Teddy and Billy. Cap, Tony and Thor reminisce about their fallen friend, Captain Mar-Vell. Carol Danvers and Abigail Brand of Alpha Flight have a full-on falling out (with the Kree and Skrull officiants offering to let the two use laser swords to settle the fight). Teddy exercises his royal power and locks up Captain Glory for his coup and makes the Super-Skrull a diplomat to atone for his use of the Pyre. And R'klll prophecies that Teddy's Empire will not survive his kind ways.]] [[spoiler:And apparently it will be ended by none-other than Abigail Brand.]]

** The ''Aftermath'' epilogue ends with a future vision of [[spoiler:Teddy's court apparently massacred to a man as Abigail Brand looks on from a portal over the dying Teddy. WordOfGod says she's actually TheCavalry in this shot!]]
** The ''Fallout'' epilogue ends with [[spoiler:Uatu the Watcher apparently coming BackFromTheDead.]]

* IronicEchoCut: The end of the ''Aftermath'' special as Captain Glory smugly tells Teddy that [[spoiler: he's fine being imprisoned as he knows he's the best warrior and "one day, I'll be all that keeps you alive. FlashForward to the future of Glory lying dead along with pretty much all of Teddy's circle at the hands of Abigail Brand.]]

-->''''Brand''': We are not your backup plan. The program cannot function if we're only "in the loop" when the A-list can be bothered to talk to us! If we are constantly blindsided by---by the idle whims of a celebrity in-group! The second you knew about the Cotai, you should have brought me in. The very second. But, no, your buddies knew better. How many died, Colonel? How many died because seven people decided the fate of the world around a campfire?
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:R'Klll reveals how she survived Galactus eating the Skrull homeworld, explaining she had a teleportation device which she ''could'' have used to save herself and Anelle...but she couldn't be bothered, thinking it was less dangerous to save herself alone. Unsurprisingly, she's not tremendously guilty over leaving her daughter to die.]]

'''Empyre''' is the 2020 Creator/MarvelComics event starring ComicBook/TheAvengers and ComicBook/FantasticFour, written by Dan Slott and Creator/AlEwing.

* TheAtoner: The plot of the X-Men tie-in is Wanda being overcome with guilt over M-Day and, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom following Doctor Strange's advice to try a greater act in penance]], attempting to resurrect the mutants killed in the genocide of Genosha. Needless to say, something like that doesn't go well.

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: [[spoiler:R'Klll asks the scientists who help her disguise herself as Tanalth whether anyone outside the room knows how she can disguise herself as a Kree without being rumbled. The head scientist says no, then actually asks ''why'' she said that. Cut to R'Klll walking out of the room having murdered the lot of them.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:A flashback to how R'Klll survived Galactus eating the Skrull homeworld shows she had a teleportation device which she ''could'' have used to save herself and Anelle... but she couldn't be bothered, thinking it was less dangerous to save herself alone. Unsurprisingly, she's not tremendously guilty over leaving her daughter to die.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Earth is saved, the Kree and Skrull empires end their ForeverWar in earnest with genuine wishes for peace, and the Cotati surrender peacefully after witnessing their champion attempt to murder their own messiah. However, the events have completely broken Quoi who now fully embraces his father's views on animal life and hatefully vows to his mother that he will eventually try to either tame or cull them once more. Also the Cotati are clearly now enslaved and subjugated by the two races that nearly made them extinct, as evidenced by the scores of them in chains and being led away at gunpoint. At best they're probably going to be made an underclass and little is actually done by either Teddy, the Kree or Skrulls to reconcile what their races did to them.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Man-Thing and Shanna end up controlled by the Cotati, although Dr. Voodoo, Scarlet Witch and Ka-Zar manage to snap them out of their control. Magik ends up possessed by a magical scepter previously left by Scarlet Witch, unleashing her demonic powers against both mutants and zombies.]]

** [[spoiler: The Cotati possessing She-Hulk's last moments is seeing [[ComicBook/ImmortalHulk a Green Door]].]]

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Scarlet Witch was so consumed by her sin of erasing the powers of mutantkind that she tried to make up for it by resurrecting those murdered on Genosha...and accidentally brought them back as ''zombies''.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: detailed in Swordsman's solo issue of ''Lords of Empyre'', one had his company observing the Cotati grove at the temple of the Priests of Pama. When they surge in growth he sends a deforestation crew to acquire samples for study. Quoi tries to appease them with a cutting he engineered with miraculous properties, but the one in charge throws it away because it'd take too long to his liking for that to pay off. Thus a grove of innocent Cotati older than most civilizations on Earth ends up completely destroyed, greatly radicalizing Quoi against humanity and by extension animal life.

** It was evil human scientist Wastrel and not Lauri-ell who murdered everyone in the Kree-Skrull refugee city. Yeah Wastrel was harmed decades ago by the Kree in a crossfire between Captain Mar-vell and another Kree warrior, but he's so obsessed with hatred of the Kree that he'll murder innocent Kree (and Skrull even though they had nothing to do with him) just because their existence offends him.

** For all his derision of humans, [[spoiler: Swordsman is all too willing to hold his own son hostage just to make the Avengers hesitant in attacking when it seems like the battle is lost. This is what ultimately makes T'Challa and the other Avengers decide that he is no longer the Avenger that once sacrificed his own life for everyone.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:A flashback to how R'Klll survived Galactus eating the Skrull homeworld shows she had a teleportation device which she ''could'' have used to save herself and Anelle...but she couldn't be bothered, thinking it was less dangerous to save herself alone. Unsurprisingly, she's not tremendously guilty over leaving her daughter to die.]]
* KleptomaniacHero: He felt guilty about it, but his curiosity got the better of him. So when the chance came - Beast steals one of Hordeculture's gate-hacking devices.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Cotati supposedly want to bring peace to the universe, which sure doesn't sound bad...but [[spoiler:it involves eliminating animal life as what they believe to be the cause of strife across the universe]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Abigail Brand [[spoiler: slaps Carol for forgetting to call Alpha Flight. She lays into Carol for not informing Alpha Flight about the Cotati or the Kree/Skrull alliance, pointing out that if the organization had known that there was an alien species hidden on the moon they could’ve acted quicker and saved more lives. She condemns Carol's policy of merely treating Alpha Flight like backup that only needs to be kept "in the loop" whenever the Avengers decide to do so and promptly quits.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Earth is saved, the Kree and Skrull empires end their ForeverWar in earnest with genuine wishes for peace, and the Cotati surrender peacefully after witnessing their champion attempt to murder their own messiah. However, the events have completely broken Quoi who now fully embraces his father's views on animal life and hatefully vows to his mother that he will eventually try to either tame or cull them once more]].
[[spoilers:-Also the Cotati are clearly now enslaved and subjugated by the two races that nearly made them extinct, as evidenced by the scores of them in chains and being led away at gunpoint. At best they're probably going to be made an underclass and little is actually done by either Teddy, the Kree or Skrulls to reconcile what their races did to them.]]

** Swordsman's reappearance has him and the Avengers going over his history (joined the Avengers, died saving Mantis, sort-of came back as a human-cotati hybrid, conceived Quoi.)

** At the beginning of issue 5, Teddy mentions he's been taking notes from Roberto "Sunspot" Da Costa (from when he and Billy worked for him in the [[ComicBook/NewAvengers2015 Avengers Ideas Mechanics]]).

** In ''Aftermath'' Roberto makes a flesh and blood appearance, along with the rest of the A.I.M. team, mentioning he brought Champagne Robot with him. Meanwhile, America Chavez chimes in that if Teddy turns evil, she'll bludgeon him with a chair, as she did to Carol Danvers during ''Civil War II''.

%%* BeleagueredBoss: There was a terrorist attack in a city of the alliance, and Altman sends Captain Marvel to capture the one who did it. Sounds easy...until she escapes with the main suspect [[spoiler:because it's her lost sister]], leaves the suspect on Earth with no supervision, desecrates the Accuser's weapon, and so on.

* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Quoi]] despises all humankind and rants about how they're animals, ruled by animal instincts... despite being at least part-human himself.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:When Brand yells at Carol, Hulkling tries intervening and saying it's not the time and place. The Kree and Skrull ambassadors chime in with agreement... because if they want to argue to the death, the alliance has a specially prepared arena on-board their ship for just such a purpose. The Thing whispers to them to stop trying to help.]]

** The Cotati in general are pretty hypocritical. Quoi calls Mantis out for psychically pushing the Guardians of the Galaxy to reform even though the event is kicked off by them psychically manipulating Tony Stark into attacking the Alliance for their cause. They also previously rejected Swordsman for being half animal even though they all chose for him to do that to father their messiah, who's (originally) intended to unite animals and plants in peace. They also deride animals for being emotional, cruel, violent, and having a whole laundry list of flaws... all of which they display themselves.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:A flashback to how R'Klll survived Galactus eating the Skrull homeworld shows she had a teleportation device which she ''could'' have used to save herself and Anelle... but she couldn't be bothered, thinking it was less dangerous to save herself alone. Unsurprisingly, she's not tremendously guilty over leaving her daughter to die.]]

** Teddy gets his own in the finale of Issue #6, rallying the Kree/Skrull allies and telling [[spoiler:R'klll]] what truly makes a person royalty.

* TheStarscream: Tanalth isn't ''entirely'' onboard with Hulkling's agenda, manipulating him for her own gain and [[spoiler:organizing an assassination attempt on him by like-minded Kree. Then it turns out she's not Tanalth, but Teddy's grandmother R'Klll and [[LadyMacbeth actually wants to manipulate Teddy into becoming a more ruthless ruler]].]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Cotati supposedly want to bring peace to the universe, which sure doesn't sound bad... but [[spoiler:it involves eliminating animal life as what they believe to be the cause of strife across the universe]].

* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Zombie Explodey Boy gets a visit from his resurrected self who's living in Krakoa. Live Explodey tells his zombie self that he EarnYourHappyEnding since the day he died in Genosha. Zombie is happy for his new living self and does a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the undead Cotatinaut.

** It was evil human scientist Wastrel and not Lauri'ell who murdered everyone in the Kree-Skrull refugee city. Yeah Wastrel was harmed decades ago by the Kree in a crossfire between Captain Mar-vell and another Kree warrior, but he's so obsessed with hatred of the Kree that he'll murder innocent Kree (and Skrull even though they had nothing to do with him) just because their existence offends him.

* BeleagueredBoss: There was a terrorist attack in a city of the alliance, and Altman sends Captain Marvel to capture the one who did it. Sounds easy...until she escapes with the main suspect [[spoiler:because it's her lost sister]], leaves the suspect on Earth with no supervision, desecrates the Accuser's weapon, and so on.