Phase 17 (Rise of the Mutants Wave 2)
Spider-Man: The Clone Saga
Alpha Flight vs Omega Flight
X-23: Expert Assassin
New Mutants
Fantastic Four: Microverse
X-Force: Hunters
X-Statix
Generation X
Deadpool Goes Bananas
X-Men: The Days of Future Past
Avengers: Fear Itself
Spider-Man The Clone Saga: Spider-Man returns in another high-flying adventure that first starts when he finds a strangely alive Gwen Stacy. Chasing her back to where she lives, the two rekindle and Gwen explains she just woke up one day in a coffin, and was able to dig her way out. Finding this suspicious, Peter takes a strand of her DNA, and realizes that it isn't stable, and that Gwen is a clone. Gwen then breaks down, dissolving in Peter's arms. After much looking, Peter finds Doctor Miles Warren, who first constructed the Gwen clone. Warren explains that he wanted to save Gwen, as he missed her so much when she died.
Peter finds his infatuation strange, and this soon turns to frustration, when he learns Doctor Warren is also creating a Spider-Man clone. However, because of the circumstances that Warren got the DNA from, it is in fact not Peter Parker. No, this clone is one of the clone from another universe, Ben Reilly. A piece of Reilly's hair must have gotten on Peter during Spider-Verse, and as a result, Warren obtained it. This Ben Reilly, however, is a dangerous clone who doesn't share his memories with the original Ben, meaning he only knows what Warren taught him: to kill the person responsible for Gwen Stacy's death, who in his mind, is Spider-Man.
As Spider-Man and Ben Reilly fight, Warren tries to clone Gwen Stacy, but the molecules end up exploding the tank, coating him in radioactive genetic material. Thus, his appearance is horribly altered, transforming him into the Jackal. Along with this, he develops a split-personality of a mindless monster, one which he only has as the Jackal. So, Jackal jumps in and attacks Spider-Man alongside Ben Reilly, and the two almost kill him. However, before their final blow, they're blinded by flash grenades, and when their eyesight returns, Spider-Man is gone.
The unconscious Spider-Man later wakes up and finds that it was Agent Venom and Anti-Venom who saved him, as the two saw the explosions from Warren's facility and heard the webs being fired by Peter and Ben. Spider-Man then explains the issue, and the two agree to help. When Spider-Man and the two return to the facility, however, they find not just Ben Reilly, but two actual Peter Parker clones alongside him. These spiders soon flee, though, and later the next day, news of Spider-Man going out and wreaking havoc has appeared. So, Peter, Flash, and Brock go out, fighting the clones, and eventually, they find Ben Reilly, who is starting to get the memories of the original. Over the course of their fight, Ben's memories are returned, and he stops attacking.
The four then journey back to the lab, where Jackel is trying to make another Gwen Stacy clone using some DNA he got from Peter's suit. This Gwen, however, retains the memories of the Gwen he cloned: Spider-Gwen. With Ben, Spider-Gwen, Agent Venom, and Anti-Venom, they are able to defeat Jackal. As Jackal is being arrested, Spider-Gwen and Ben become unstable and die, apologizing for the trouble they caused.
After credits scene:
Agent Venom is shown coming home to his apartment late at night. He walks in and a man in black is standing in the center of his room.
Venom: "Who are you?!"
Unknown: "Agent Flash Thompson? I'm with the Sentient World Observation and Response Department. You can call us SWORD. I'd like to offer you a position. Let you be a hero on a bigger scale than just New York's friendly neighborhood symbiote."
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
A meteor is shown crashing into Earth. It hits the ground, and the glowing remains are shown.
Screen cuts to black.
Alpha Flight vs Omega Flight: Alpha Flight returns with a new roster including Hudson's wife, Vindicator (Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman, Aurora, Northstar, Marrina, and Sasquatch). But now, Canada's best team is going to be facing their greatest challenge, the people who have been trying to sabotage them from the beginning: Omega Flight. Made secretly by Jerome Jaxon, disgruntled Department H member who believes he should have been Alpha Flight's leader, Omega Flight is a team of villains from across Canada including his robotic assistant Delphine Courtney and the mutants Diamond Lil, Smart Alec, Flashback, and Wild Child.
Omega Flight's first move is, of course, to try and have Alpha Flight disbanded due to incompetence. So, the team starts running amuck in Montreal, which forces Alpha Flight into action. As the fight is inside the city, Omega Flight ensures there are civilian casualties, and then flee. Though Alpha Flight is seen as having failed the mission, they are not disbanded as Omega Flight hoped. The only thing to come from this attack is the firing of Jaxon from Department H. Seeking vengeance, Omega Flight once again stages an attack, this time against Parliament, and summons Alpha Flight. But when Alpha Flight arrives, they see each Omega Flight member protected by a human shield. Fortunately, Guardian's training is good enough that he can force each member to let go of the civilians, forcing Omega Flight to just straight out murder them.
With the civilians dead, Alpha Flight's diplomatic abilities are drawn into question by the news, and Omega Flight is able to escape in the chaos. However, over the next few days, Alpha Flight is able to clear their name. So of course, Omega Flight's next move is to just straight up attack and try to kill Alpha Flight's members.
What they do this time is wait until the team is fighting a villain, in this case Deadly Ernest, and go after Guardian. As the battle rages and the members of Alpha Flight go head to head with Omega Flight and Deadly Ernest, Guardian sees more and more civilians dying. So, he decides it would be best if he sacrificed himself to save the others. Thus, he holds Jaxon down and forces his wife to use her powers to blow them up, killing them both. Without their leader, Omega Flight is broken, and the members are unable to put up a solid defense. As a result, they are beat by Alpha Flight. Finally, with Omega Flight defeated, Alpha Flight holds a funeral for Guardian. The team of Canadians may have won, but the cost was great.
After credits scene:
A man is shown riding a horse into his stable, when he is approached by a Department H employee.
Employee: "Mr. Sadler? I'd like to speak to you about the Alpha Flight Project."
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
A mutant is shown walking through Alaska, when he suddenly begins to uncontrollably absorb energy.
Screen cuts to black.
X-23 Expert Assassin: X-23 was once the girl who was used for her abilities by Weapon X, but recently, she was freed from this hell by Wolverine, and now roams New York as a homeless child. Recently, however, she has been picked up a pimp named Zebra Daddy, who intends to use the underage girl as a child prostitute. So, while she agrees to go along with him, she secretly plans to free her fellow friends from this sick pervert, and through her new friends, Kiden Nixon and Tatiana Caban, she is able to do so.
The three part ways, as the former two wish to join Xavier's school. X-23, for reasons unknown to her, seems to remember that years ago, she was there and wishes to stay away. So, instead, she goes to the one other place she can remember: San Francisco. Once there, she finds a woman who looks like her, and eventually confronts her. This woman reveals herself to be Megan, the sister of her mother. They explain that at a young age, she was taken from them, and now that she's back, they want to make up for lost time. She then introduces X-23 to her other mother's sister: Debbie. While Debbie and Megan fawn over getting X-23, Debbie's boyfriend proves less than thrilled, as he views her as a disgusting mutant.
This eventually reaches the open, where it is revealed that Debbie's boyfriend works with Weapon X, or as X-23 knows it, the Facility, and he tries to kidnap her. Debbie sacrifices herself to save X-23, but fortunately, the teenager fights back against the boyfriend, killing him. However, Facility agents storm the house, led by X-23's handler: Kimura. Being the one who enforced the violent treatment on her, X-23 holds a special place in her heart for the hate she has towards Kimura, and forces Debbie and Megan to leave so they can hash it out.
The fight is long and brutal, as the savage X-23 comes face to face with the fact that she is exactly what the Facility always wanted her to be: a monster. She stops, refusing to kill Kimura, seeing that she would only be proving the Facility right about her nature, but in the end, decides that no matter what the Facility says, she should care about her own actions. Thus, she ties Kimura to a radiator, and explodes the house with Kimura inside. After this, she slinks off into the night, only to be found by Professor X, who asks her to return to the mansion. X-23, seeing it as her best option, agrees, and for the first time, X-23 is as peace.
After credits scene:
Wolverine is shown in the X-Men kitchen when X-23 comes up.
X-23: "Logan."
Wolverine: "X."
Silence echoes through the room for a few seconds.
Wolverine: "So...you're back."
X-23: "Yeah, I'm back."
Wolverine: "Good, good...that's good."
X-23: "Yep…"
Wolverine then grabs a beer from the fridge.
Wolverine: "Welp, nice talkin' to ya, kid."
X-23: "Yeah, yeah! See you around, I guess."
Wolverine: "Guess so…"
Wolverine then leaves the room, and X-23 stands in silence for a few seconds. She then smiles.
Screen cuts to black.
New Mutants: X-Force was only the first in the new teams Professor X intended to create to expand the X-Men. Another one of those teams is the New Mutants, composed of younger mutants who wanted to prove themselves. This first team includes the mild-mannered Kentuckian Cannonball, the Vietnamese Karma, the Cheyenne Mirage, the Brazilian Sunspot, and the Scottish Wolfsbane. This diverse team of mutants is first tasked with infiltrating and fighting the powerful mutant society known as the Hellfire Club.
Led by Sebastian Shaw, the Hellfire Club has been monitored by Professor X for weeks, and now that he has another team of mutants, he can put an end to their plans. However, that is where another problem arises: Professor X doesn't know what their plans are. Another high ranking member of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost, is a powerful telepath, and is using her abilities to hold back any other telepaths from learning their plans. So, the New Mutants must get into the secret society, and the learn their plans, which Professor X believes are dangerous. Along the way, the group encounters other Hellfire Club members including Red Lotus, Trevor Fitzroy, Harry Leland, and Darwin.
Once they reach the center of the Hellfire Club, they see that Professor X was right to worry, as the group planned to enact deadly acts of violence to begin a war between humans and mutants, one which the humans would easily lose. So, the New Mutants steal the plans and return to the mansion, where they see that they're too late. While they were snooping, the mutant Azazel opened fire at an anti-mutant rally, igniting public outrage and confirming their worst fears about mutants. So, the New Mutants arrive on scene, re-assuring the public that mutants are not there to hurt them, and the culprits will be caught.
The team then breaks back into the Hellfire Club, Azazel and Emma Frost are seen planning the next attack. The New Mutants spring into action, but Wolfsbane is critically injured by Azazel during the scuffle. In the final moments of the battle, Cannonball is able to throw Azazel through a wall, revealing the Hellfire Club to the public. Emma Frost, however, seems less than impressed, and wipes their minds of the incident, fleeing with Azazel.
The New Mutants return to the mansion defeated, but the professor offers an opportunity for a new member: the Roman Magma. With Magma now on the team, the group tracks down Emma Frost's mind barrier in a secret bunker in a mutant district known as Mutant Town. The group then fights Emma, Azazel, Darwin, and Fitzroy in a final showdown, where Cannonball's speed becomes fast enough to crack Emma's diamond form. Thus, the Hellfire Club is stopped, and all is right.
After credits scene:
Sebastian Shaw is seen overlooking a group of teenagers.
Shaw: "The loss of Ms. Frost is...unfortunate. But that cannot slow our plans. Welcome to the club, Hellions."
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
Emma Frost is shown being led into an interrogation room. The camera holds on the closed door, as noises of distress are heard. Suddenly, Emma cuts through the wall in her diamond form and leaves.
Screen cuts to black.
Fantastic Four Microverse: To space, to another dimension, and now another universe. These are the continuing tales of the explorers known as the Fantastic Four. Now that Sue Storm has given birth to her daughter, Valeria Richards, the team can investigate a strange radio signal they have been seeing from the strangest location: their own building. So, as these microwaves are so unbelievably small, Reed believes they are coming from a tiny civilization, and pioneers a shrinking device to shrink them down. When they shrink far enough, the four discover the Microverse.
In this Microverse, they find the source of the signal is a dangerously aggressive authoritarian government known as Sub-Atomica, led by Psycho-Man. The team meets with Psycho-Man as ambassadors of the Macroverse, where they learn that Psycho-Man created the radio waves to draw in Macroverse civilizations with shrinking tech so that he may steal it, take over their world, and colonize new land for his people. Though a noble cause, the Fantastic Four see this as awfully similar to imperialism, and try to persuade him to stop. Of course, he refuses, resulting in a fight where they learn he is a mutant of his world, with the power to grow to massive heights. The Fantastic Four eventually beat him, and cause him to flee the capital.
While Johnny and Sue hunt after him, Ben and Reed wait at the capital, planning with the legislator about how to restructure themselves. Eventually, he is found, captured, and returned to the capital to be put on trial. However, Psycho-Man is able to steal the shrinking tech and grow himself and the Fantastic Four back into the Macroverse. Fighting in the Baxter Building, Psycho-Man comes across the young Franklin Richards, whose mutant power alters reality so Psycho-Man is outside the building, causing him to drop hundreds of stories. The four continue to fight him on the streets of New York, with him growing in size and partially demolishing some towers.
Eventually though, they are able to beat him as he begins to grow dangerously sick. Reed, seeing signs of sickness, relates the coming of Psycho-Man to the arrival of Columbus, and realizes that Psycho-Man has no immunity to human viruses. As he shrinks down, Reed grabs him and takes him to the Baxter Building, where they cure him of his illness and alter his DNA to make him immune to human diseases. He is grateful for their cure, and agrees to not to invade the planet. Reed then says that if Psycho-Man steps down as the dictator of Sub-Atomica, they would allow him to be an ambassador of the Microverse, and they could work out colonizing a world with his people.
Psycho-Man accepts, but requests a representative of the Macroverse to join him in the Microverse. Ben agrees, stating that he can be the bridge between the two universes, and that he wants Reed to establish the team he always wanted to establish: the Future Foundation. This group is intended to encompass all of the multiverse, ensuring everyone is represented equally. Reed agrees, and Ben and Psycho-Man travel to the Microverse.
After credits scene:
Reed, Sue, and Johnny are shown in all white Future Foundation outfits. They then call upon the other members: Peter Parker, Alex Power, Phyla-Vell, Major Victory, and Morbius the Living Vampire.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
The camera pans from the Baxter Building to deep below the Earth, where a mole is shown digging.
Screen cuts to black.
X-Force Hunters: X-Force returns with its classic roster of Deadpool, Cable, Wolverine, Domino, Warpath, and Archangel to fight an old threat: Weapon X. Ever since X-23 rejoined Professor X's school, Weapon X has been more and more active. The professor worries that they plan on attacking the school and stealing back both Wolverine and X-23, so he has X-Force head to their Alkali Lake facility to investigate.
When the team arrives, they realize that now more than ever, Weapon X is armed and dangerous. This is first discovered when they are attacked by a particularly strong mutant known as Fantomex. Fortunately, the team is able to beat Fantomex and destroy all of the data on the Alkali Lake computers. Returning home, X-Force waits for its next assignment, but little do they know, they're being followed. Right behind them are the two best trackers of the entire Weapon X Program: Agent Zero and Predator X.
Using Fantomex as a false flag, the two are able to track X-Force back to Professor X's school, finally giving Weapon X the location of a mutant hotspot they can abuse. Later that night, led by Agent Zero and Predator X, agents of Weapon X invade the school and attempt to kidnap mutants. This, however, doesn't slip past Wolverine, who wakes the rest of X-Force, and the team fights violently to force Weapon X away from the school.
Once they are removed, Warpath tracks the soldiers back to a facility along the coast of New York City, where they have established themselves secretly. The team breaks in and once again, they find themselves face to face with Fantomex. As the mutant creates illusions to distract the mutants, he attempts to capture Wolverine, but because of Deadpool's insanity, the illusions fail to fool him, and he can attack Fantomex. During their fight, Deadpool breaks off an inhibitor bracelet from Fantomex, freeing him from Weapon X. Fantomex then explains that he was experimented on like Wolverine and X-23, and wanted nothing more than to destroy Weapon X. Deadpool appreciates his moxie, and offers him a position on X-Force.
With a new member under their belt, X-Force returns to the school where they plan their next move. Fantomex then tells of how he was placed in New York City as a false flag yet again to draw X-Force in, giving Predator X and Agent Zero time to escape back to Alkali Lake. The team then travels there, where they come face to face with the two hunters, alongside a small army of Weapon X agents. This results in a fight, and eventually, Wolverine slashes through Predator X, but is unable to kill Agent Zero due to his healing factor. So, Deadpool and Wolverine do the best they can chopping him into pieces and scattering them as they leave on helicopter, knowing he will eventually regenerate. For now, however, X-Force is victorious.
After credits scene:
A partially regenerated Agent Zero is shown walking in the wilderness, picking up various pieces of his body and placing them back on himself. Suddenly, he gets a call
Zero: "This is Zero."
Unknown: "Bastion is assembled. Return to base at once. We have a new way to fight X-Force."
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
Deadpool is shown in his house hanging up his X-Force costume.
Deadpool: "Oh hey, audience! Deadpool here! Just wanted to announce I plan on taking a break from X-Force, just so I can go back to being a cool mercenary. Being good and having to listen to Captain Picard isn't as fun as going around shooting everyone! So don't expect me in the next X-Force movie! And remember, Deadpool Goes Bananas is coming soon!"
Screen cuts to black
X-Statix: A new team of mutants is assembled by pro-mutant television producer, Spike Freeman. This team would be an example of how mutants can enhance and help the world, as opposed to showing how evil mutants are like many others are. The first team of X-Statix is composed of Anarchist, Battering Ram, Bloke, and U-Go Girl. Coordinated by Coach, this team begins their show with a rocky start, as when a popular boy band is captured and the team goes to rescue them, Battering Ram and Bloke are killed. Unbeknownst to the team, however, is that Coach and Freeman hired the gunmen who killed the mutants to bring high ratings by frequently killing cast members.
Coach has the depressed mutant Orphan, called Mister Sensitive by others, and the strange mutant Doop join the team. As the new X-Statix, the team finds itself success with stopping small time criminals. Coach, though, has other plans, and starts convincing the team that Orphan is a traitor. This is backed up by Coach sending Orphan to kill a young mutant who is locked up for experimentation named Pasco. Orphan refuses, and instead frees him. Coach shows the others, saying Pasco was one of the gunmen who killed Battering Ram and Bloke.
Understandably, the team starts to resent Orphan, isolating him more and more. Coach then convinces U-Go Girl to load Orphan's gun with actual bullets, as he usually played Russian Roulette with himself. U-Go refuses, and she too is accused of being a traitor by X-Statix. When she sides with Orphan, however, the two locate the security room and realize that this is all fake drama created by Coach to bring high ratings. They show this to the rest of X-Statix, who are outraged.
The team then waits for their next meeting with Coach, and have the show broadcast live. They back Coach into a corner and convince him to admit all he did. Anarchist then shoots him, warning the people on TV that they're not just puppets. With Coach dead, the team hopes for great things in the future, not realizing that Freeman also helped Coach.
After credits scene:
Doop is shown sleeping in bed, as a government agent watches from the shadows.
Agent: "Sir, we found it. What now?"
Unknown (over radio): "Now we take our prize."
Screen cuts to black.
Generation X: It is time again for another team of mutants to arise. This team, however, is not taught by Professor X, but by a former apprentice of his that left the school to pursue a career in teaching. This student was Banshee, and he now educates this team of mutants separately from the professor in Massachusetts. The team, known as Generation X, is composed of the British Chamber, the mall rat Jubilee, the Kentucky mutant Husk, the rich girl M, the mute Penance, the African-American Synch, and the former gang member Skin.
This team's first mission is to answer to a call about a vampire stalking the streets of Boston. After closer investigation, they discover that the culprit is not a vampire, but a violent mutant known as Emplate that feeds off of bone marrow. It attacks Generation X, trying to feed off of Chamber's extreme energy signals, but they are able to fight him back. When the team return to base, they see just how much Penance was affected by the sight of Emplate. When they prod at her requesting answers, M breaks into tears and reveals the truth: she is not Monet, the rich girl who was supposedly M. She was Monet's sisters, Nicole and Clarissa.
Years ago, their brother, Marius, was banished from their home, and when he returned, he called himself Emplate. Emplate dragged Monet with him to another dimension, transforming her into Penance. At the same time, the twins merged their bodies to form a new Monet, so that their parents wouldn't worry about their favorite child. Thus, the real Monet has been Penance, and M is really two people in one body.
So, with the knowledge about Emplate's true past, the team tracks him back to Monet and M's family home, where he now resides. Monet, for the first time since her transformation into Penance, speaks, saying she forgives Emplate for everything he did, and apologises for being so mean. This does nothing for Emplate, who is too far gone and wishes nothing more than to kill M and Monet. Generation X has no choice but to help Monet and M recast the spell that banished him to another dimension. But in the end, though it works, Monet follows him into the dimension, saying she can't allow him to die. Thus, Generation X has won, but with the cost of one of their members.
After credits scene:
Monet and Emplate are shown in the dimension together, with Emplate feeding off of her bone marrow as he did long ago. Suddenly, Monet smiles, and her body begins to fade.
Emplate: "What are you doing?! I need you to live!"
Penance: "You have drained too many, brother. This is your penance. To know that you were so close to destroying me, but in the end, I took my own life, and you will never be able to hurt our sisters ever again."
Penance fades away.
Screen cuts to black.
Deadpool Goes Bananas: Hi everyone! It's me, Deadpool! Welcome to the plot of Deadpool 3! But where are your X-Force buddies, Deadpool? Do you have any idea how expensive team-up movies are? No, because you can't learn to appreciate what you have. Sorry, off topic. Either way, I'm flying solo this time, so get ready for some more Deadpool!
Deadpool returns to his life of being a mercenary now that X-Force is cramping his style. But being a mercenary makes you powerful enemies, and one of them has is the murderous Hit-Monkey. Once just a normal Japanese Macaque, Hit-Monkey learned his abilities from an assassin his clan took in. When Hit-Monkey turned on the assassin, however, he was banished, and when he saw other assassins coming to kill the one with his clan, he tried to save them, to no avail. Now, Hit-Monkey dedicates himself to killing every assassin he finds, Deadpool included.
So, it's banana versus chimichanga as Deadpool and Hit-Monkey compete in a complex game of cat and mouse (human and monkey?). As Deadpool tries to kill the little bastard, Hit-Monkey somehow stays one step ahead of him, foiling him at every turn, but in turn, has his assassination attempts foiled by the merc with the mouth. With Hit-Monkey as his Wile E Coyote, Deadpool fools every plan the primate can come up with, though at the cost of many, many civilians.
Deadpool's final attempt is to dress up as Spider-Man, which Hit-Monkey falls for, and feels bad for when he shoots him. It would appear that Hit-Monkey's conscious is his downfall. Deadpool fakes death, and when the funeral is held, Hit-Monkey arrives to pay his respects, only for Deadpool to jump out of the casket and attack him. The two then have a badass final fight scene, and in the end, Deadpool blows them both up, killing Hit-Monkey. Thus, the Merc with the Mouth wins again.
After credits scene:
Deadpool is shown in his closet, when suddenly, a zombie Deadpool head rolls out.
Deadpool: "Shit! Dammit! Ah, you weren't supposed to see that! That was a secret! Ah, screw it! Deadpool Corps is next everyone! See you next time!"
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
The exploded location where Hit-Monkey died is shown. Suddenly, from the rubble, a monkey hand reaches up.
Screen cuts to black.
X-Men The Days of Future Past: In a dystopian future, the mutant hunting robots known as Sentinels reign supreme. Killing every mutant they can find, the sentinels have become to exterminate regular humans, getting close to wiping out the entire human race. So it's up to the few remaining mutants to go back in time and stop the Sentinels from ever being created. These mutants, specifically an old Kitty Pryde, Bishop, Rachel Summers, Gentle, and Manifold, decide to send back Bishop using Rachel Summers' powers. Kitty Pryde has Bishop sent back in time to when she first joined the X-Men, which was around the same time that the Sentinels first really came into existence.
In this time period, Bishop finds the X-Men (at that time composed of Cyclops, Colossus, Jean Grey, Storm, Iceman, and Kitty Pryde), and requests that they help him. He says that Mystique will assassinate Senator Robert Kelly, which makes the world fear mutants even more, and eventually leads to the Sentinel Program. Professor X explains that Mystique was arrested long ago for her affiliation with Magneto, but this changes as the news behind them reports the breakout of a mutant that can change its appearance.
Meanwhile, Mystique is assembling her own Brotherhood of Mutants, composed of Avalanche, the Blob, and Peppers. With this team, Mystique plans to break into the US Senate, assassinate Senator Kelly, and show that everyone should fear mutants. So it's up to the X-Men to stop Mystique from killing the Senator, while Bishop hunts down the creator of the Sentinels, Bolivar Trask. Robert Kelly is then found by the X-Men, but refuses any protection, as he would rather die than have a mutant protect him.
The X-Men do their best to try and sway him, but nothing seems to change his mind, and he forces them to leave. Meanwhile, Bishop discovers a prototype Sentinel in Trask's workshop, but is captured. As this happens, Mystique breaks into Robert Kelly's office and attempts to assassinate him, only to kill his body double who is a mutant who can change his appearance just like Mystique. When the X-Men learn this, they tell Robert Kelly, making him agree to get mutant protection from the team.
Later, Bishop wakes up on a table, where he is being experimented on by Trask's scientists. Bishop breaks free and finds that Trask is looking for a mutant gene that can adapt to other mutant's abilities. He then rushes to the Senate, seeing that if they stop Mystique and she is arrested, Trask will use her DNA to create the Sentinels. In the end, at the Senate, Mystique shoots Robert Kelly, only to see that Jean Grey had altered her mind to make her see the redhead as Robert Kelly. Thus, Jean Grey dies, sacrificing herself to save Robert Kelly, and Mystique escapes. Finally, Bishop returns to the future, where all is right.
After credits scene:
Above the Senate, a Phoenix made of pure fire is shown stretching its wings.
Screen cuts to black with Nightcrawler's bamf.
After credits scene 2:
The prototype Sentinel is shown being moved to underneath the Denver Airport. The name Bastion can be seen on its left leg.
Screen cuts to black.
Avengers Fear Itself: The Avengers return with a new roster (Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, Hawkeye, Spider-Man, and Scarlet Witch). This time, they have discovered a Hydra Base in Antarctica, where the daughter of Red Skull, Sin, has not only survived, but has obtained a powerful Asgardian relic known as the Hammer of Skadi. She then tells of how during WWII, a ritual performed by her father summoned the hammer, and with it, she could summon the Serpent, an Asgardian with unimaginable power.
As she says this, the Serpent actually breaks through the remaining Hydra forces and kills Sin, thanking her for his return. With her final breath, Sin tells the Avengers of the seven divine hammers around the world that will grant the Serpent his power. Realizing her mistake, she begs the Avengers to stop the Serpent. They agree, and she passes, followed by the Serpent leaving with the Hammer of Skadi.
Meanwhile, in Asgard, Odin speaks with Thor, saying they must destroy Earth to destroy the Serpent, who is Odin's brother, as he is too powerful to risk it. Thor refuses to allow this, and agrees with his father to stay in Asgard if Odin gives the Avengers a chance to beat the Serpent. Back on Earth, the Avengers are tracking the divine hammers, locating a few that have already transformed their hosts into the Worthy. These hosts are Hulk, She-Hulk, Titania, and Colossus. The Avengers do their best to fight them, but the enchanted Asgardian Magic is too strong.
So, the Avengers call upon Doctor Strange, who opens the door to Asgard for Iron Man, who wishes to head there and speak with Thor. When he arrives, however, he finds Asgard on lockdown, but eventually is able to speak with Thor and get a deal with Odin going. Meanwhile, the other three hammers are found by Abomination, Sasquatch, and the Absorbing Man. With all seven of his hammers found, Serpent attacks Washington DC, where the Avengers (accompanied by War Machine and Falcon) make their last stand and attempt to fight against the enhanced enemies.
Back in Asgard, however, Tony's job is just finishing, as he and the dwarves have crafted various Uru items that they can use to fight the Serpent's Worthy. With an Asgardian suit, Iron Man returns to Midgard, where he witnesses the Serpent tear Captain America's shield in half with little to no effort. Fortunately, Tony brought some presents: an Uru shield, Uru claws, Uru arrows, an Uru headpiece, and Uru webshooters. With their Uru equipment, the team is able to fight back against the worthy, holding the divine hammers away from them for long enough for them to wear off. With the seven heroes reversed, it seems like Serpent is near defeat, until he instantly re-powers them, returning their hammers.
But when all seems bleak, Thor arrives, clad in Odin's armor with his sword, Ragnarok. With Odin and his own power, Thor banishes the spirits of the Worthy, as well as stabs through the Serpent, costing him his own life. As Thor lays dead, Odin arrives from Asgard, and with the last of his power, revives Thor, but dies instead. Thus, the Serpent is beaten, but at the cost of Thor's father.
After credits scene:
Captain America is shown sitting in his room, when Iron Man comes in with a wrapped gift.
Stark: "Rogers, I pulled some strings and...well just open it."
Rogers opens it to reveal his original shield, now welded with Asgardian Magic.
Rogers: "Thank you, Tony. I appreciate the sentiment."
Stark: "We can't have the leader of the Avengers running around weapon less! Oh and Steve…"
Rogers: "Yes, Tony?"
There is a pause.
Stark: "...take care of yourself…"
Tony walks out, and looks at his watch, which has a call from Star-Lord.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
A funeral for Odin is shown, with Thor standing as king alongside Angela and a shackled Loki. Sif, Valkyrie, the Warriors Three, and Beta Ray Bill stand nearby.
Screen cuts to black.