10 Insane Alternate Multiverse Stories Marvel Fans Must Read

6. Larval Earth

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Without a doubt the scene stealer of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse was good old Spider-Ham. While it’s true that the existence of the X-Men movies, the MCU and the DCEU asks fans to believe in separate superhero universes which are linked in their own way, Spider-Verse challenged audiences in completely different ways.

It showed that you could stack complex realities on top of each other and still tell a great story with fantastic characters. One of those characters, Spider-Ham, was from the Larval Earth, sometimes known as Earth-8311.

Spider-Ham isn’t the only anthropomorphic hero there, oh no, the whole gang is there. Quacksilver, Kangaroo The Conquerer, Captain Americat and Nick Furry have some of the best puns, along with Peter Porker himself, but pretty much you name it, they’re here.

They go unusual with some too, as Wolverine becomes neither a wolf nor a wolverine, but a bug instead.

Typically, these stories are light hearted, goofy comic relief, though solid writing has seen them pick up a big cult following.

Whether John Mulaney’s Spider-Ham will get his own Larval Earth movie spin off remains to be seen, but for now we can just enjoy one of Marvel’s most bonkers alternate universes.

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