X-Factor took over control of the ship when they defeated Apocalypse in battle. In X-Factor #24 (by Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson and Al Milgrom), we learn that Apocalypse is really old.Īpocalypse had control of a ship that once belonged to the Celestials.

RELATED: How Marvel Secretly Changed Hawkeye's History Just to Get Him on The Avengers WHAT WAS APOCALYPSE'S ORIGINAL CONNECTION TO THE CELESTIALS? We see that change play out in the story of Apocalypse's evolving (another word for retconned) connection to the Celestials. Now, suddenly, the Celestials seem to secretly be behind EVERYthing. That has changed in a big way the last 20 years or so, especially the last five years, as the Eternals were being prepared for joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So Celestials were forgotten by the people of Earth in the Marvel Universe, but also, for the most part, the Celestials were forgotten by the creators behind the Marvel Universe, as well. A later retcon revealed that the Celestials erased the events of the original series from the collective memory of the world.

A couple years after the series was canceled, though, Roy Thomas decided to work the Eternals into the Marvel Universe. That story has less of an impact when Galactus visits Earth every other week, so Kirby wanted the story to have its own continuity and it did. The whole concept of the comic was how would the world react if they discovered that Earth was basically created by giant space gods and, guess what? - they're BAAAAACK! The Eternals and Deviants then reveal themselves to the world as the Celestials return. Obviously, as you may or may not know, Jack Kirby did not intend for his original Eternals comic book series from the mid-1970s to be set in the Marvel Universe.

One of the more interesting changes in the Marvel Universe over the past 40 years is the way that the Celestials have been treated in the comics. In Abandoned an' Forsaked, we examine comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically 'overturned' by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Today, we look at how Marvel retconned Apocalypse's connection to the Celestials in a way that dramatically changed his relation to the towering Marvel cosmic beings.

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