Marvel Theory: The Avenger Prime is Actually The Future [SPOILER]

Warning: contains spoilers for Avengers #51 and Avengers: Forever #1

The Multiversal War is kicking off in the pages of Avengers as the enigmatic Avenger Prime is sending his Deathloks throughout the Multiverse to warn the Avengers of their impending doom, but who exactly is this figure? Thanks to some hints dropped in Avengers #51, it is possible to finally start unraveling this mystery.

The Multiversal War is an event that takes place in the pages of Avengers and Avengers: Forever, both written by Jason Aaron, starting in December 2021. Everything begins with the prehistoric Avengers. The team, composed of the earliest versions of the legacy heroes, has to fight off many time-traveling villains who are trying to conquer the Earth before it spawns too many super-powered protectors. Eventually, a version of Dr. Doom realizes that the best thing to do is to team up with the worst villains in the Multiverse and kill off the prehistoric Avengers, in order to rewrite these Earths and stop the Marvel age of heroes from ever happening. Standing in their way is the mysterious Avenger Prime, operating from "The watchtower at infinity's end," who tries to rally together the Avengers from across the Multiverse. Exactly like he might have done in the past.

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There is a possibility that Avenger Prime is none other than Loki, the mischievous Asgardian god who was also the Avengers' very first foe. There are a few clues that point in that direction. In the Free Comic Book Day 2021 book Avengers-Hulk, readers saw Avenger Prime's base, the Avengers Tower, standing tall at "infinity's end" in a place called the God Quarry. This location was first introduced in Thanos vol. 2 #8 - by Jeff Lemire and Germàn Peralta - as a strange realm at the edge of the universe where gods go to die, their fossilized corpses forming the walls of the quarry. The true purpose of the place was revealed in the pages of Infinity Wars, Marvel's big 2018 crossover event. At the bottom of the Quarry lies an almost-impenetrable barrier that leads to the primordial universe, the "First Cosmos" that existed at the beginning of creation (the "current" Marvel Universe is the eighth iteration of the Cosmos, the latest in a cycle of destruction and rebirth). There is only one being in all of creation who managed to pass through that barrier and access the First Cosmos: Loki.

Loki was the last Marvel character associated with the Quarry, but there is more. The word "prime" could indicate the most important Avengers in the history of the Multiverse, but prime also means "first in time, original." Who was the original Avenger? The first Avengers team was composed of Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Ant-Man, and Wasp, but the reason they all gathered was to fight a common threat, and that threat was Loki. Without Loki, the Avengers would not exist. This concept was reutilized by Jason Aaron at the beginning of his Avengers run: it is Loki who schemes to bring the Last Host of the Celestials to Earth, the event that brought the current Avengers team together.

This was Loki's plan all along, to prepare Earth for future threats he knows about. In the pages of  Avengers #10, in fact, Loki gets rescued from the Celestials by a future version of Wolverine (holding the Phoenix Force), who compliments him for getting the team back together, but also warns him that there are even worse threats on the horizon, and "they got some more assembling to do." A future version of Loki, then, could be the one who is trying to warn the Avengers and protect the Multiverse.

Loki's connection to the God Quarry and his significance in the history of the Avengers make him a perfect candidate to be the Avenger Prime, but readers will have to wait for the exciting developments of the Multiversal War to find out.

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