10 Insane Alternate Versions Of The X-Men You Won't Believe Exist

2. The X-Apes

So as a light relief from all those nasty other worlds, we're gonna take a break in the world of Marvel Apes, which is exactly what you think it is, so long as you think it's a world where everybody is monkeys. Because that what it is.

Marvel Apes is a world where everybody is a chimpanzee, including the superheroes, including the X-Men, who are called the X-Apes, which isn't really a pun. And we can't actually tell much of a difference between monkey Wolverine above and regular Wolverine we see everywhere else, but anyway. The original miniseries ran after the publisher had already had success with Marvel Zombies, and had just given up on ever deciding if anything was a good idea for putting it out.

Superhero the Gibbon - whose superpower is "he's a talking monkey" - is informed by a scientist that he may be from an alternate reality and, in searching for it, gets sent back there. To a world where everybody is monkeys. Everybody is monkeys. We just wanna repeat that a few more times so it sinks in: Everybody is monkeys. Everybody is monkeys. Everybody is monkeys. That means Spider-Monkey battles Doc Ooktavious, and the planet's greatest heroes band together to form the Ape-Vengers. And, obviously, we get the X-Apes, who mostly keep their own names if not their rugged good looks (we are treated to Icemonk and Marvel Chimp, if treated is the right word).

The X-Apes ended up falling prey to the Marvel Zombies themselves, which was probably more than they deserved. Everybody is monkeys.