Board Thread:FanonCon Panels/@comment-4079-20190724014019/@comment-4079-20190725004159

To address the topics at hand:

The Faltine in my universe are actually native to our own universe, being one of the first two races to come into existence after the Big Bang (if you discount the Abstract Entities and the Primordial Galactus). The Faltine engaged in a war with the Celestials, and lost. As a result they were banished to alternative dimensions, such as Mephisto's Realm, the Dark Dimension, and the Crimson Cosmos. In essense Dormammu, Mephisto, Cyttorak and other such beings are all linked together as "Faltine", but each are independent of each other and have their own agendas. I have added a bit in my Doctor Strange plot summary that better explains it, and it is also outlined in Dormammu's bio on his character page for my universe. This story plays a role in several films in my universe, notably anything involving Doctor Strange as well as Captain Britain.

The whole Blackheart/Mephisto thing has been hinted at since Mr. Degli first showed up in my "netflix series". Degli is actually an alias used by Mephisto in the Doctor Strange "Damnation" storyline, so there was your main clue. Mephisto was originally going to be the main villain in Doctor Strange 2, but I decided to use him in Defenders instead as the main big bad. Blackheart comes into play as being Mephisto's operator on Earth, as he can exist on both planes for reasons that will be explained in universe. I am uncertain of what to do with Ghost Rider. I have mentioned the demon Zarathos as an Easter Egg in World War Hulk, and early drafts of both The Defenders and Infinity Gauntlet contained Ghost Riders in them (Johnny Storm in the former and Robbie Reyes in the latter) before being replaced by other characters. I suspect Ghost Rider will eventually show up, I'm just not certain when. Also Omar Sy is in fact playing Brother Voodoo, and the appearance of Iron Fist and Luke Cage will reflect their "Heroes for Hire" company.

The X-Men in my universe are primarily based on the Astonishing X-Men from the early 2000s and the Dark Age X-Men from the 80s and 90s, with heavy influence from the 90s cartoon as well. In case it wasn't clear, mutants did not originally exist in the 11584 universe. They would have, eventually, but this was changed as a result of the time travel in Infinity Gauntlet. If you remember when the four heroes were traversing the Temporal Eddies, they lost control of their craft briefly and caused Quantum Particles to escape into various points in the timestream. As established all the way back in Thunderbolts with Graviton, Quantum Particles can cause mutations in DNA. Some of these mutations gave rise to the early existence of mutants. This is also what happened to Janet van Dyne when she was in the Quantum Realm, though she more technically is a mutate than a mutant (technically speaking Wiccan, having inherited a limited version of his mother's telekinesis, would count as a mutant). In this new universe (which as the Living Tribunal says they have to live with the "consequences" of their actions), some mutants have popped up here and there (Xavier, Shadow King, Magneto, a few others), but are only now beginning to emerge en masse and are only now publically known to the population at large (SHIELD has known of their existence for some time.) The "Howlett" mention in Avengers: Infinity was also meant to show this. The gravestone in the mansion courtyard was of the original version of James Howlett, who was not a mutant and died a hundred years ago. In the new universe, this Howlett became Wolverine, and is still alive today (and will show up, if not in Uncanny X-Men then shortly thereafter).

The Avengers do still exist, and are doing their own thing at the time of the Galactus event. They will be mentioned as helping to fight Galactus, but the crux of the story will focus on the Four, as it was in the comics (as an aside, the Galactus Trilogy is probably my all time favorite Comic Storyline outside of the Phoenix Saga, so I want to do it justice.) You have already seen one herald of Galactus in Firelord (he was last seen amidst the rubble of the Grandmaster's Planet at the end of Thor: Ragnarok) and obviously I have plans for Silver Surfer in the future.

Guardians 3 may seem like a pallet swap of the mainline Guardians 2, but there are significant differences. The film will focus more on everyone's issues, not just Peter's. Nebula is dead in my universe (killed by Infinity Gauntlet) and we've added Beta Ray Bill into the mix. Plus the fact that Kurt Russell is playing the Beyonder instead of Ego adds a lot more I can work with, but it is probably the last of my films that will be close to a mainline MCU film (to my knowledge, it appears they're going to use Warlock and the High Evolutionary for the mainline Guardians 3 and I used them in my Guardians 2 so...what do I know.) I suspect everything will continue to diverge from the mainline MCU fully. I am not planning on doing an Eternals movie, for example, and Shang Chi has a far different origin in my universe than he does IRL.

No definitive plans on Phase 5 yet, but a tentative schedule for Phase 4 is on the main Earth-11584 page (save for one addition that I haven't finalized yet). I am intending another Thor film (also I and others mentioned a "goddess of thunder" before Marvel so...more points there), something involving Hercules (which also tangentally involves Thor...you'll see what I mean when we get there) a sequel to both Captain Marvel and Black Panther and...well other stuff. The Secret Invasion may be on hold, as it did play out in Avengers: Infinity, but there are still unresolved Skrull plot points (such as where is the real Black Widow). You'll notice that the television shows have been streamlined down so that Avengers: Infinity is the last definitive one on Netflix. To reflect real life, the Netflix series that will continue or debut beyond what has been discussed in this panel will debut on Disney Plus. This includes the Punisher, another season of Blade, at least one more season of Daredevil, and possibly more (really considering merging Deadpool with a "What If" style series).

As to my lineup of X-Men...well that will stay a mystery for the time being primarily because I am uncertain as to which ones I will use myself. My guess is that the modern lineup will be close to the classic one, with a couple of additions, while the other lineup (if you read the synopsis I provided this makes sense) will feature more esoteric and lesser known ones. There's only a few certainties in both cases.

I think that answers the questions.