10 Modern Comics That TOTALLY Changed Marvel History

Remember when Spider-Man WASN'T Spider-Man?

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Marvel Comics

With a history that spans decades of intricate storylines and elaborate retcons, Marvel's timeline is one of the most detailed fictional chronologies out there.

And this is only made yet more intricate when you remember just how many comics have made huge changes in Marvel's history. Indeed, the past two decades have brought some of the House of Idea's most revolutionary alterations to the universe, both in creating new developments, and retroactively changing how we perceive older events.

While they're not always beloved changes - for example, you see very few people fondly remembering the 'One Day More' Spider-Man storyline - it's these weird and wonderful events that serve to keep comics an interesting and constantly evolving medium. With series like House of M affecting the Marvel universe over a decade after it took place, it's safe to say that these kinds of events are the backbone of the imaginary world we know and love.

Ranging from changing the entire universe in one issue, to changing one character in an unforgettable way, comics that alter Marvel's history are all similar in at least one sense: they're never dull.

10. House Of M - 2005

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Marvel Comics

Forever renowned as the series that legitimately got rid of mutants, House of M managed what, prior to this, would have been considered entirely impossible, by wiping out countless characters' superpowers.

After being driven to her breaking point by an argument with her father, Scarlet Witch uses her immense powers to completely modify the universe by removing the powers of every single mutant. While those well-versed in comics will have instinctively believed it was a move that would be changed back eventually, it actually remained a permanent fixture of the marvel universe for some time, with only 23 mutants having been re-powered by 2013 - some eight years later.

Although recent storylines have since reverted the changes enacted by House of M, it will remain iconic in Marvel history as perhaps the biggest change Marvel signed off on in recent history.

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