Every Marvel event in chronological order, as I read them: 1. Contest of Champions, 1982. The Grandmaster and Death pick teams of superheroes for an egg hunt. Grandmaster wins, Death cheats, Grandmaster sacrifices his life to get his prize, the resurrection of the Collector.
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2. Secret Wars, 1984. The Beyonder puts Earth's mightiest capes on a planet he built, tells them to fight, promises the victors their hearts' desires. Everyone dies and comes back to life a couple times, Doom steals the Beyonder's power, Beyonder steals it back, they all go home.
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3. Secret Wars II, 1985. The Beyonder visits Earth to study desire, causing a variety of emotional, interpersonal, geological, physical, geopolitical, and metaphysical problems for basically everybody. Eventually he incarnates as a mortal, dies, and refounds his own universe.
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4. Mutant Massacre, 1986. The Marauders, a team of mutants, attack the Morlock tunnels underneath New York, where hundreds of mutants, mostly unable to pass for human, live in hiding. Only a handful survive the massacre, aided by the X-Men, X-Factor, Thor, and the Power Pack.
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5. Kraven's Last Hunt, 1987. Kraven the Hunter drugs, buries, and impersonates Spider-Man. Two weeks later, Spidey digs himself out of his grave and confronts Kraven. Kraven distracts him with the villain Vermin, declares victory, confesses his crimes, and commits suicide.
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6. Fall of the Mutants, 1988. The New Mutants/X-Factor/X-Men battle the Ani-Mates/Apocalypse/a Cheyenne Trickster spirit in order to save the Ani-Mates/New York/reality. After their victories they drop out of school/come out as mutants/fake their own deaths.
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7. Evolutionary War, 1988. The High Evolutionary annoys superheroes and kills civilians in his quest to advance humanity to the next stage of evolution, whatever that means. Eventually the Avengers and assorted others thwart him enough times that he gives up and returns to space.
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8. Inferno, 1989. Madeline Pryor, the wife Cyclops abandoned, is finally, after many years of increasingly obvious hints, confirmed to be an evil clone of Jean Grey. Also demons invade New York and thousands die.
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Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
the behind-the-scenes machinations between Claremont and editorial have a lot to do with what happened to Madelyne Pryor and it makes for a fascinating metahistory of the stories imo
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Replying to @danlistensto
I had a hunch that Claremont wasn't on board with the Jean Grey retcon.
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they bulldozed a lot in order to clear the way for this and they're kinda doing it all over again with this. My conclusion is that bad headgear comes at great cost.pic.twitter.com/JJ0KR2EVLE
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