If memory serves, since I don't have it next to me: in 1995's X-Men: Omega, the humans bomb Apocalypse and his forces, which maybe wasn't necessary, since Magneto tears him in half. Which also maybe wasn't necessary, since doesn't Bishop use the M'kraan Crystal to fix the timeline? I don't recall, exactly how big a nuke the humans were dropping, though: a good-sized one to get Apocalypse, or a planet-killer like the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes. We next see the Age in What If...? #81, which you could consider an alternate reality or just a continuation: Magneto saves his X-Men from the explosion, and his world goes on to face Galactus. (That one's interesting, but the AoA Night Thrasher and his brother get a lot of the page time!) Sometime also in '96, we get X-Man '96, where Nate returns to the AoA, but I don't think he sees any X-Men. There's a number of one-shots and such, then in 2005 for the tenth anniversary there's a 6-issue Age of Apocalypse mini-series. (The GCD says that's written by C. B. Cebulski, but it was under his pseudonym "Akira Yoshida.") Then, the AoA returns in 2011's Uncanny X-Force #11.
Anyway, out of all of those, I'm not sure the continuity lines up smoothly anywhere.
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That Gambit figure’s not too bad. Could be better, but that’s Hasbro for you. He still got did dirty overall though costume-wise by the artists that decided he should look like post-apocalyptic art school student dropout from the 80’s.
Continuity issues are pretty much the norm when alternate realities are involved and absolutely, AoA was no different. Probably didn’t help that there was hardly any oversight in regards to monitoring all the retcons that were allowed to happen, which further confused everyone, from readers to creators.
Definitively looking forward to seeing how you progress things from here.
No matter the timeline, Gambit's still a sleazebag. And I'm wondering if they're dealing with a bunch of Adaptoids, or if AoA's version of Mr. Sinister is getting up to a bunch of clone nonsense.
*giggle, snort* Wait, is that really what the AoA versions of those guys look like? Magneto with pigtails and Gambit a redhead with a Handsome Squidward face? I guess this is the one post-apocalyptic wasteland where people lose what little fashion sense they had. Seriously, is Wolverine in Day-Glo and lederhosen or something?
Yeah, I have no idea where this is going. Hopefully our Kurt can come get Sat or maybe borrow Wade’s D-Jump belt.
Very true, even though he wasn’t the traitor in his own group (Guido/Strong Guy was) he was still as swarmy as his 616 counterpart.
Well yeah, I guess people there don’t have the luxury of having fashion sense when their entire planet is a vertible shithole 🤷♂️
No, but I can see why you’d think he would. Nope, just blue & red & sporting a stump for a hand on one arm.
No, what I mean is usually in these sort of alternate realities/futures people still look cool and/or tough- lots of leather and metal bits dangling off them a la The Road Warrior or something. These guys (so far) look like weird knockoffs of their main versions.
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