teh bunneh Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Someone was asking me the other day on Hero Central about time travel in the Marvel Universe, but my Marvel-fu failed me and I was unable to answer. Who has the ability to manipulate and/or travel the time stream? I know Kang, Immortus, Space Phantom, Dr. Doom's got a time machine... who else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Time Travel in the Marvel Universe Kang the Conqueror uses Time Travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Reed Richards has built time machines. Dr. Strange can time travel. And the Black Panther I believe is still in possession of "King Solomon's Frogs" (A pair of brass frogs which enable their owner to time travel) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Rama-Tut is supposed to have one. Bishop of the X-Men was a time traveler but I think he made a one-way trip. EDIT: I think that Rama-Tut is an alias of Kang (he has many). I have been doing a little Google work and found Dr. Yesterday from the Marvel Universe. Here is data on Widget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certified Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Cable and Phoenix are also a time travelers I believe. As far as Marvel mechanics of time travel I think most of the time is go forward or go to present. I think the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom did a bit of travel back but I'm not sure if anyone else is. Also, it seems most Marvel Futures are fairly bleak, it's why people keep coming back to change it: Bishop, Cable, Phoenix and a shew of other X-Men who are future selves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egyptoid Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe sorry, the preview worked on my PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe http://www.blogography.com/photos17/EssentialDazzler.jpg There's the link that Egyptoid got pwned on. Wasn't there some thing where the Avengers got sent back in time to the old West? And didn't one of the old gunslingers get brought back to the present time? I seem to recall reading about something like this, but not much in the way of real detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe yes the two gun kid was the one ho went to the avengers era Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Cable and Phoenix are also a time travelers I believe. As far as Marvel mechanics of time travel I think most of the time is go forward or go to present. I think the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom did a bit of travel back but I'm not sure if anyone else is. Also' date=' it seems most Marvel Futures are fairly bleak, it's why people keep coming back to change it: Bishop, Cable, Phoenix and a shew of other X-Men who are future selves.[/quote'] Well we know some futures are bleak. And that's why the people from those bad futures come back to try and change things. But the future Earths were everything is cool. Why would they bother going back in time for? So we wouldn't see characters from those futures anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike W Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Marvel's use of time travel is a bit iffy and haphazard. But then, I've never been much for time travel anyway. List of those who can do it: Mechanical(Time Machine or objects) Reed Richards, Dr. Doom, I believe Quasar's power bands let him travel through time, Kang, Immortus, Black Panther(limited), Nathaniel Richards, I believe that the Eternals have a time machine and possibly the Inhumans as well whoever has the Time Gem of the Infinity Gauntlet(I don't remember who had it after Adam Warlock broke up the gems, I think Pip had it at one point) Powers/Magic Dr. Strange, Baron Mordo, Ancient One(most of the truly world class sorcerers really), Count Nefaria(I think), Franklin Richards could if he really wanted to and could figure out how to do so with his powers. There are also a number of "future characters" or characters who have been lost in the time stream. These are characters who have time traveled to the current Earth 666 Marvel Universe. Generally speaking, they are on one way trips, which indicates that 100 years or so in the future, time travel will become, if not common technology, then common enough that everyone knows about it and can find a way to get to a device(albeit possibly by breaking into some place that has such a device). Phoenix, Bishop. Cable, Fitzroy(are we sensing a pattern here) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caris Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe I'm pretty sure the Watchers have some temporal abilities. The Guardians of the Galaxy also traveled through time (machine based, I'm sure). Has anyone mentioned Magik (Illyanna Rasputin), Limbo aparently existed outside of normal time so anyone traveling through it could move through time. There was a member of Omega Flight, Flashback, who had the mutant ability to pull future version of himself to the present (any interesting SFX of Duplication). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adventus Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Actually, Rachel Summers has the power to travel in time. Even when she doesn't have the Phoenix Force enhancing her powers. It is her 'mutant' power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe How are you running time travel, Bill? I thought Marvel had a rule that the past couldn't be changed. And the Yankee Clipper got a belt that allowed him to time travel from a visitor from the future in the Lost Generation. Someone told me that got moved to an alternate world for some reason. Maybe because it had Skrulls in it. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe In an odd way, there's also former New Warrior Timeslip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graywolf777 Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Quicksilver was a time traveler for a while. It was the version of his power that the Terragen mists gave back to him after he lost his powers in House of M. He recently went back to being a straight speedster though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe as i understand marvels policy on time travel everytime trip creates an alternate timeline universe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transmetahuman Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe as i understand marvels policy on time travel everytime trip creates an alternate timeline universeYep. Reed has cured "past-Ben" at least once, but it doesn't do "present-Ben" any good. One of the Runaways had parents from the future, and still has/had (I'm working from collections from my public library, so I'm always out of date on this stuff) a time machine that was either mostly or all out of juice. caris beat me to a mention of Magik - yep, Limbo + her stepping discs mutant power often led to time travel - in fact that's how the X-Men lost lil' Illyana to one and got a teenage Illyana back a second later. Which means that Belasco, S'ymm, and whatever techno-organic beasties are "still" in Limbo (again, hazy on anything since I stopped buying New Mutants long ago) can time travel, too. Heck, theoretically, anyone or anything that has ever been or ever will be in (that) Limbo could pop out any time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Add Son of Satan to the list. Of course Damon Hellstrom can do it now that he's taken over his Daddy's old job,* but he also did it back in the day when he had his own comic book. Went to ancient Atlantis or some such. [Okay, Brain, now that I've written that fact down, am I allowed to forget it?] *Purely on merit, of course; he had the best qualifications of any of the hundreds of applications received. The hiring committee extends its best wishes to all applicants in their future endeavours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe I know the Earth-X graphic novel isn't official canon, but it presented an interesting take on time travel. The basic premise is that travel through Limbo allows one to come out at any point in space & time. The twist, though, is that limbo is Dr. Doom's time machine! The implication is that by creating the time machine Dr. Doom actually created Limbo and thus made time travel possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Given how Earth-X and Universe-X had big "EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW IS WRONG!!!" reveals about every other page just for the hell of it, I'm strongly disinclined to regard anything presented there as even possibly factual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedifensor Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe From what I remember of an issue of Fantastic Four, Doom and Reed not only understand time travel, but are skilled enough to carry out a temporal war, bouncing back and forth through time to attack each other. This made for a VERY interesting comic, as Reed was jumping through comic panels out of order, with a time code next to him showing which panel he was going to next. With Marvel, anyone can have time travel if the writer wants to throw something in - heck, I bet even Spider-Man has been able to time travel at one point or another... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Major Tom Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Well, there's also the Scarlet Centurion from the Squadron Supreme's universe (at least, he showed up in the maxi-series that Marvel put out years ago). Major Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Major Tom Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe From what I remember of an issue of Fantastic Four, Doom and Reed not only understand time travel, but are skilled enough to carry out a temporal war, bouncing back and forth through time to attack each other. This made for a VERY interesting comic, as Reed was jumping through comic panels out of order, with a time code next to him showing which panel he was going to next. With Marvel, anyone can have time travel if the writer wants to throw something in - heck, I bet even Spider-Man has been able to time travel at one point or another... Only if the writers had thought of doing that during the story arc where Spidey had the Captain Universe powers. If he could transform a box or crate into an Adamantium container to contain an exploding bomb, then time travel shouldn't be too difficult. Major Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Hmmm, digging through some old memories, but I believe Illyana's mutant power was her stepping disks, and they allowed time travel as well as geographic displacement -- but I'm not sure if it was related to the fact they seemed to involve a sidetrip through Limbo or not... iirc, when Franklin was a temporally displaced teen, he referred to himself as a 'PSILord of Elsewhen' and a 'protector of the chosen timelines' -- and at least one Marvel villain recognized him as such in one issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Someone was asking me the other day on Hero Central about time travel in the Marvel Universe, but my Marvel-fu failed me and I was unable to answer. Who has the ability to manipulate and/or travel the time stream? I know Kang, Immortus, Space Phantom, Dr. Doom's got a time machine... who else? IIRC Space Phantom(s) is/are from Limbo, but don't themselves have any power over time. Depending on what explanation of her powers you want to believe, Scarlet Witch has the ability to influence time (retroactively making events infinitely more likely). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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