Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33690333-20171119230642/@comment-33690333-20180106064605

Infinity War is going to be a hard reboot? I just thought the Avengers lineup was going to change drastically with all the older heroes being phased out, but the continuity would continue.

No, Secret Wars won't be a hard reboot of the universe. Everything will keep on going afterwards, but it will be the first big universal threat our heroes face.

The idea is that, throughout Phase 3, all these portals are being opened up by the unstable Cosmic Cube, which, unbeknownst to everyone, contains the Beyonder's pocket universe, AKA Battleworld. The Illuminati forms in response to this (I was thinking this could consist of Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Abigail Brand), trying to find a way to protect the Earth from this threat without knowledge of it spreading, as the entire universe falling apart at the seams would likely cause mass hysteria. Hank Pym ends up creating Ultron, an artificial intelligence to secretly safeguard the Earth, but of course, Ultron ends up deducing that mankind is inherently evil and that they are killing the planet. Knowledge of this gets out, the Avengers fight amongst themselves, end up pulling through to defeat Ultron, but they aren't really on good terms when they're pulled into Battleworld by the Beyonder for what he calls "an experiment", but is more like a deadly battle royale between the heroes and villains of Earth.