This shit had like 20 tie-in issues, yet in the end absolutely nothing in the event mattered in the long run and nothing about it has ever been brought up again. Does anybody even remember the Ruul?
ITT: Crossover events nobody remembers
Charles Scott
Jordan Jenkins
>Standoff
I dunno what the overall reception to it was, but I barely remember it happening.
>Doomwar
>Silentwar
>Eighth Day (the only thing people remember from this was Eighth Day Juggernaut
Gabriel Ross
I remember Standoff because it set up the entire Captain Hydra saga.
Don't remember much about the others, hell I never even read Eight Day.
Levi Parker
And this is why you only remember a handfull events. The good ones mattered or introduced new elements
Juan Robinson
Lol most of the ones that "matter" suck ass. NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME events are terrible.
Gabriel Gonzalez
>doesn't really follow any established DC continuity
>all the actual action happens off panel
Nathan Hernandez
The good ones are that felt like progression or additions.
Name a shitty one, it may be labeled "nothing will be as before", it will not progress the characters or change anything.
Joseph White
>Standoff
Zig Forums was going nuts over how good it was. It wasn't some big end of the world event, it felt grounded compared to all the other events for the last 5 years.
Ethan Morales
Quality has nothing to do with it. Events are only remembered because A) Major change to the status quo that lasted, or B) It being REALLY bad.
Dominic Reyes
>>all the actual action happens off panel
So what are they doing ON panel, standing around talking?
Jacob Campbell
talking about stuff that happens off panel, like "this region of Hell has just fallen to Satanus' forces," and the Earth mage characters spend most of their time asking "why are we here?" and running away from regular hell-guards.
Jack Gray
>>Doomwar
>>Silentwar
These were just minis without tie ins
Cameron Thomas
Sound like awful writing. Man, what a wasted opportunity. They could have had huge cinematic battles between the various factions, the earth mages kicking ass (Detective Chimp was in this!), all kinds of stuff.
Kevin Thomas
Nobody talks about Operation: Galactic Storm despite the huge tie-ins and massive ramifications
Charles Kelly
>Does anybody even remember the Ruul?
I don't know, were the Ruuls violated?
Thomas Hughes
>Fall of the Kree Empire and the Shi'ar annexation of said Kree
>The infighting of the Avengers
>The fallout and resolution of the 1st major schism between Cap & Tony from Armor Wars
Lincoln Murphy
Events where the status quo doesn't change at all can also be remembered. Infinity Gauntlet is a classic even though at the end of the day, it only a long-lasting impact on 90s cosmic books most people didn't read.
Ryder Scott
Whatever happened to the Ruul? By Annihilation, all the Kree had reverted back to the status quo.
Nicholas Peterson
PAD was the only one using them... I think they did disappear after the reality reset, so I guess you can blame Genis for them.
Ian Jackson
What reality reset?
Jason Martin
It set up the Infinity Watch as well as forever made it so the gems would keep being drawn together again and again forever. Hell, almost every time someone makes a gauntlet, it looks like it belongs Thanos even if he isn't even part of the story.
Logan Sullivan
Anyone remember Fear Itself?
Angel Phillips
Heroes Reborn
Bentley Lee
Maximum Security was the story that reset the last of the changes made by Galactic Storm, restoring the Kree as a major power. The divisions in the Avengers and the Steve vs Tony schism had been settled years earlier, and Avengers Forever retconned Tony's actions in Galactic Storm as being because of Immortus.
Eli Moore
People remember it for all the wrong reasons.
Justin Brown
Thomas Bennett
It was almost funny how Superman was sadder about 9/11 than about this event even though in-universe far more people died in OWAW.
Ian Rogers
Genis helped Entropy kill Eternity, destroying reality, and then taking his place as the new Eternity, spawning a new reality which was mostly identical to the pre one.
Keyword being "mostly".
Among the differences, Genis got a sister, Phyla.
One can easily blame the disappear of the kruul on it, as well.
Ryder Martin
Only thing it will ever be remembered for is contributing to the death of every single comic involved
What a waste of a fucking crossover, especially since Worlds Collide was damn near perfect
Jose Morales
So Secret Wars wasn't the first time all of reality was destroyed and recreated?
Jackson Bennett
>It was almost funny how Superman was sadder about 9/11
Where? 9/11 didn't happen in DCU until the New 52 reboot.