The 10 Darkest Marvel Timelines

[@ReservoirDolphin]

Editor Matt here. I’d like to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to these special effects. They took days to storyboard but I think it was worth it.

[@Hummingbirder1]

Yes!!

[@stefanfilipovits21]

It’s incredible what you can do with special effects. Remember me when you win an Oscar.

[@henryminis1880]

Sincerely, they were my favorite part! 🤣 However much money it cost, they were worth it

[@iandevera5906]

Matthew

[@acgeewhiz]

I was completely immersed in them. Seamless integration of the real world and the special effects, m8.

[@battleupsaber462]

The darkest timeline is the one where Corn Of Coblin reveals himself to not be made of corn, and to actually be Mephisto (played by none other than John Krasinski)

[@naingmon]

The horror!

[@nathanarredondo55]

This joke will never get old

[@Materminds187]

@Bongo Kongo That’s pretty easy

[@Materminds187]

@@ryansmith-jr4gn Have you seen the Rise of Skywalker?

[@drz0b]

Is that what they call a retcorn?

[@mathiaswalker350]

I like how you can tell in the tone of James voice wheter or not he's talking to Maso or himself in these videos. It's always a fun game to play at the intro of every video.

[@hiscountrigal1764]

Thought it was just me lol

[@kegg115]

You're not alone!

[@pinktribble]

Ooh, me too!

[@boodahtrash.]

i thought i was the only one

[@reedraikes7471]

Can tell right from the start masons in the vid lmfao

[@Catilleon]

I love that on the 'wacky road trip' notes Find Bucky and Ride A Dinosaur are already ticked off. Implying that has already happened.

[@StevenRichter]

Shame about the Raycon money, but putting it all into these stunning special effects was worth it.

[@AxxLAfriku]

I am thinking about dropping out of school to focus on my career as a star on KZbin. I already make a lot of money on KZbin. School bores me so much. I need more opinions and since I don't have any friends, I gotta ask you, steve

[@MGsubbie]

@@AxxLAfriku Are you talking about high school or higher education?

@@AxxLAfriku What is "a lot of money" ??? Perhaps it's not as much as you think in the real world.

[@themajicalman086]

@@AxxLAfriku ngl KZbin isn't the best source of income...

[@enoch4024]

@@RocafellaPlaza Well I mean you supported him by checking out his Chanel so nice

[@comicdude4361]

Fun fact: Marvel Zombies had a one page parody ad where they found some little kids and turned them into Hostess meat pies.

[@HambleyBambley]

The forbidden meat

[@ayderla789]

@@HambleyBambley the other other white meat

[@mjcaboose3479]

That was probably the most f***ed parody I’ve ever read

[@NATESOR]

Can we get a Old Man Boss Baby? Now that Disney owns Fox, it can happen.

[@Nenerii]

I don't think Dreamworks is part of Fox

[@Rejukem]

Boss Baby Driver 2: Geriatric Boogaloo

[@BlokHeadAnim]

Wouldn't that just be boss?

[@treyturner9707]

Alec Baldwin wanders thru a desert nude for 2 hours on Disney Plus

[@TupocalypseShakur]

That's just Alec Baldwin

[@ZachBobBob]

Incredible special effects in this video. Must've spent that entire Raycon ad money on them

[@SirAsdf]

Spider-Man Reign: Where Peter Parker looks like one of those chess playing old men in that old Pixar short.

[@TheSuperNaruto96]

Don't forget his radioactive sperm. Never forget.

[@wayfaringstranger8430]

No. We all want to forget that...

[@davidcrook99]

Remember when Spider-Man killed Mary Jane with his radioactive sperm

[@sanjayraju988]

Spider-Man’s nut killed MJ.

[@goodnesswhy]

@@TheSuperNaruto96 Nah. Instead, I'll always remember Spider-Girl, daughter of Peter Parker and MJ. Much better than that embarassing comic.

[@shifttheshaman]

0:43 "Grimm stuff all 'round!" Nice editing, as usual.

[@ArthWoW]

I watched the whole RayCon ad so they can continue to afford those incredible special effects.

[@Mofi357]

Captain America kicking Hench man off the boat was cold and dark.

[@andye4579]

Every reality where Corn of Coblin does not reign supreme is the darkest timeline

[@NathanS__]

The real Darkest Timeline were the friends we made along the way.

[@jovankandola]

Why does this get me every time

[@MaxGideonActor]

Bhahaha damn skippy 👍🏻

[@RumbleBee1102]

*friends we lost

[@KeithFraser82]

"The Darkest Timeline was inside you all along."

[@nicknorris8592]

This joke always gets me but I have no idea where it originally came from lmao

[@pikagammerpluspizza7478]

What If Idea: The meteorite that landed in Wakanda actually had Venom symbiotes on it instead of vibranium

[@chrisdemetriou8593]

So Cap's shield is made out of goo?

[@olivermeloche2042]

all life on earth are completely taken over the symbiotes, plant earth is just a symbiote planet. depending on the writer this a true unified utopia or the conquest of a dark army.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

@@olivermeloche2042 Knull leads his army of Wakandan Cavemen and Dinosaurs the end

[@wugglesx]

Or why not both. Vibranium + symbiotes. It'd even help counter the vulnerabilities some. Also a venom \ symbiote dinosaur always sounds terrifying lol

[@QyfieK]

Just finished Community yesterday, and now you post a video about dark timelines? This is truly the darkest timeline.

[@mathiaswalker350]

You've seen all of Community? That means you're streets ahead!

[@philcorrigan5641]

@@mathiaswalker350 not seen all of a Community *yet*. We’ve had #sixseasons but we still need #andamovie

[@FTNChicken]

I think James and Maso were forced to operate on 40% for this one in order to compensate for those stunning special effects

[@multiverseguy1239]

There's Renew your Vows where Peter and MJ have a kid named May in which they become a crime-fighting trio and Avengers World where there's a planet with the Avengers logo on it.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

The Peter/MJ/May crimefighting team sounds especially bonkers

[@CommanderShepard-wq3wo]

I’d love to see *’The 10 Darkest DC Timelines’* next.

[@ethancampbell7998]

Number 1 is the green lantern movie timeline

[@thepirate8765]

Number 2, WW1984

[@blyat8832]

Deadpool killing all of marvel was pretty dark. Just the idea that if Deadpool loses his voices he just goes on a murder spree like holy shit

[@stefanfilipovits21]

What he does to the fantastic 4 alone is dark and brutal. Or wolverine?! DKTMU can be equal parts funny and bleak.

[@arthand7672]

How about when he paints that fence with tom Sawyer's brain in the follow up?

[@Popcultureguy3000]

@@arthand7672 Those mini-series were just so depressing and graphic, I’m glad it ended with that Deadpool trying to kill all alternate versions of himself, leading 616 Deadpool (or “Deadpool Prime” if you will) to kill the Deadpool from the Deadpool Kills trilogy, finally putting him out of his genocidal misery.

[@arthand7672]

@@Popcultureguy3000 funnily enough, the "deadpool killustrated" one where he kills the literary characters was one of the first marvel comic books I got as an adult and that one you mentioned where he hunts down that deadpool I think might have actually been my last.

[@Popcultureguy3000]

@@arthand7672 I wouldn’t let some aggressively “grim-dark” bunch of comics dissuade you from exploring other adult oriented comic books. From Marvel you could check out Marvels and Marvels: Eye of the Camera, The Superior Foes of Spider-Man, from Image you can check out The Wicked + The Divine, Saga, I [Hate] Fairyland, from Dark Horse you can check out The Mask series (much darker than the movies, but still hilarious) Hellboy and all the assorted spin-offs of it and from DC you can read Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, Transmetropolitan, Kingdom Come, the newest Hellblazer series, and the new Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen limited series.

[@usagi32211]

My favorite part of the original Marvel Zombies series was that Hulk had a huge hole blasted in his stomach, so every time he ate, the food would just fall out. He was so grumpy and frustrated.

[@doctormid-nyte5483]

I'm surprised No one's brought up Marvel Ruins-

[@HackFunkDoc]

Exactly. I was expecting it til the very end of the video.

[@icantcomeupwithaname4583]

Same, that's literally the darkest Marvel timeline imo.

[@Ryan-0413]

That’s what I was thinking haha

[@doctormid-nyte5483]

@@umbraan1ma641 Marvel Ruins is a timeline where anything that Can go wrong, DID. Peter Parker was turned into a shambling, walking mass of cancerous radioactive tumors from his spider bite. Wolverine became deathly allergic to His adamantium, so now all his flesh is constantly sagging off his bones. I think Nick Fury ate Captain America in the past...and Jean Grey became a prostitute. And The X-Men were all mutilated so they could fit into normal society. And Daredevil was violently killed by a hit & run while saving the old man.

[@Fanged.Fiend.Reactor]

@@doctormid-nyte5483 Dam I gotta read that

[@owenmonckton2713]

Hulk: The End was a fantastic alternative universe where the world is destroyed in a nuclear war and only bruce banner is left along with the hulk. Absolutely brilliant read, a very dark story tho.

[@Fyrmer]

I really liked the MC2 continuity back in the day, where most of the OG Avengers were either dead or retired after a horrible experience in an alternate reality, so a bunch of kids of superheroes, one kid of a supervillain, and an android allegedly programmed with a personality based on tony Stark reformed the avengers after battling Loki together. Oh, and in the same continuity, Peter Parker's daughter is Spider-Girl.

[@arthand7672]

Deadpool killustrated is interesting. He kills the marvel universe, he kills alternate universe people, then he starts going into literary works like tom Sawyer and killing them... and a team of people I think lead by sherlock holmes have to stop him

[@raybuoy]

I literally have a Pavlovian impulse to hit like even before his videos start

[@washgaming5825]

You and every other good person out there

[@rondajones7526]

They make me laugh, maybe you already know they will make you smile

[@deathbydazza88]

This is why I love this channel paying millions to give us special effects

[@dingle2987]

Betty Ross was originally hinted to have been killed off by radioactive Hulk exposure, but then it revealed that the Hulk was framed. This is the 616 universe btw, so Spider-Man Reign didn’t do the idea first like the internet thinks.

[@eastvandb]

I'm so glad to run into this again a couple years later.

[@kietus]

Shocked that literally the best apocalypse story wasn't listed. Age of Apocalypse. That will always be my all-time favorite series marvel has done.

[@chand911]

The budget for this episode was really through the roof.

[@SylarMagic]

“The terrible reality, the real one” - I felt that

[@lastrebelmedia8683]

I feel CherKNOByl was an extremely underrated pun

[@jonathanberkovitch]

The special effects in this video are amazing!

[@B-Dawgg]

As a kid, my favourite apocalyptic present was the age of apocolypse. Not a dystopian future, as it got nuked into the past until they kept dredging it up for diminishing returns.

[@busdriverguy]

Ya know, I was planning on having a career in CG special effects/animation, but hell there is no point when y'all special effects THIS DAMN BEAUTIFUL!

[@johnsharplin]

Well there goes the special effects budget for the quarter. Worth it tho, I'd say.

[@AdriaanHimself]

I gave a like for the special effects work in this video.

[@DiegoBQZ]

I was expecting a shouout to Ruins. It's depressing, mean and sad but also short and weirdly fascinating with sort of an ugly but not really ugly artstyle to complement. I like it.

[@KEE4S]

I love the anticipation of hearing Mason’s voice. You both are better together

[@SpoonDude]

Spider-man Reign certainly WANTS to be the Dark Knight for Spider-man

[@lincolnpascual]

Marvel Zombies- they don't retin ALL their powers... Wolverine lost his healing factor. HA!

[@astew5134]

Excellent video. The special effects blew me away. Must have been expensive

[@SilverHyozanryu]

That Planet Hulk story was giving me massive 'Primal' vibes just looking at it.

[@MsMaydayGoingDown]

I get what they WANTED to say with Spider-Man Reign, like Peter being too intimate with someone ultimately caused their death, because being with someone that has radioactive blood is dangerous. But I and a lot of others couldn't take the 'death by semen' scene seriously. Otherwise it wasn't a bad comic, but just as James and Maso said.... weird.

[@hollandscottthomas]

There were multiple people in the editing/publishing process that read that and said: "Yes. This is a fine and normal thing to put in a Spider-Man comic."

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Mason reused his "Hugh Jackman is handsome and lied about Old Man Logan" joke from a previous video

[@nccdogg16]

Is that Matt?! if so I hope him surfing those canyons becomes a recurring bit.

[@ReservoirDolphin]

It is me but I’m afraid there’s simply not enough budget to continue the special effects.

[@Hummingbirder1]

@@ReservoirDolphin So there's no hope seeing a continuation of A) that metal-fan (but maybe an ordinary rock-fan?) or B) the epic caterpillar-fight?

[@ReservoirDolphin]

@@Hummingbirder1 We’ll have to bring it up at the next investor presentation and see what the top investors say.

[@bensmith9253]

Cant tell you how happy I am to see this video in my recommended. I just worked an awful 6am till 10pm shift and Im gonna sit now and have a beer and fully relax.... hell of a day but so happy for the next 15mins.

[@ZeroZeke-]

Finally something good to watch on KZbin

[@andrewshandle]

The original Age of Apocalypse series was amazing.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

The Last Avengers Story may fall short of being a classic, but it has some cool moments. And I think the running gag on "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" of Steve Rogers being on the Moon was inspired by that comic

[@ErrorEmpirE]

Dig into the Kills The Universe series! Would love to hear your takes on those.

[@mattrutherford4641]

I’m late to the good job Matt party but Good job, Matt!!! What a fun edit!

[@l0u13__3]

I can’t wait for more Miguel O’Hara in spiderverse 2 I’m surprised you didn’t mention Age Of Apocalypse

[@TwistedTB]

Yeah one of the first Marvel dark timelines I thought of too.

[@Dante-td8cb]

I really like the future that's shown in Jason Aaron's run on Thor, specifically King Thor

[@pinktribble]

INCREDIBLE special effects from Matt here! 👏

[@TheTurbulator_]

Yes! Great video. Love this type of stuff

[@aidanrogers4438]

Any timeline that doesn’t feature Corn of Cobblin is the darkest timeline.

[@jamiehausen]

No Age of Apocalypse? Some of my favorite issues are the ones dealing with what everyone else not X is up to in the Marvel Universe. Good list.

[@josephkolar3443]

The old What If? series was always an excuse to do alternate timelines where your favorite heroes died horribly. I remember one was What If Death’s Head I Had Lived? It had Baron Zemo in an unstoppable robot body, brutally killing The Fantastic Four, Captain America, War Machine, Luke Cage and Namor, but that all means that Death’s Head I, a character I have never heard of or seen anywhere else, got to survive. Worth it?

[@eddymccarthy]

Great vid my doods!! Been waiting for this type of video for forever 💓❤💓

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

"Can we decapitate somebody with a shield at the end? _ Yeaaah" I expect no less from two Australians on a road trip

[@SuperBananaSalad]

I would like to say I would genuinely enjoy if this turned into a series of dark timeline videos

[@halfbee7886]

Give the man behind the special effects an Oscar.

[@MarkyMarc413]

Glad to see The Last Avengers Story here. One of my favorite stories, sadly it was only 2 issues, but what a powerful story!

[@prestonburks4218]

Definitely need a part 2

[@SamJonesS4mmyd48ull]

Was that a "Justice Fruit Pies" reference!? I love this show.

[@barthalen]

The Exiles series is full of these, great stuff and a fun premise. Earth having been taken over by the Phalanx for example.

[@jameshutcheson5718]

I think the real special effects were the friends we made along the way

[@danielhodgins8611]

God I love the editors of this channel. They're great.

[@Rilenz13]

Cn they do age of ultron again, but the comic version, that looks way better 👀

[@SimonBuchanNz]

Comic AoU is a delightful mess of time travel parody taken completely seriously, I love it

[@scottking8189]

So marvel fans just want them to make the same movies over and over and over and over and over again, greaaaat

[@darealjoshua3982]

@@scottking8189 eh, not really the same movie at all. Read the Age of Ultron comics, they're completely different from the movie.

[@Rilenz13]

@@scottking8189 if the movie was anything like what the comic looks like I wouldn't have said what I said

[@scottking8189]

Also no they can’t yet, they still haven’t introduced like 80% of the heroes in that, so what your asking for is them to remake age of ultranationalist with some of the comic characters but still not the important ones, just dumb lmao

[@Flukex-ew7yo]

Cher-Knob-yl ladies and gentlemen 👏👏 that's it. We've peaked. Shut it down boys

[@samuelperezgarcia]

I don't get it...

[@RubesMcG]

These special effects are outrageously good!

[@Rrusso92]

Heroes reborn that’s happening now is a alternate timeline not future, but I’m digging it because I’m fascinated by the squadron supreme!

[@johnkelly7920]

Avengers: Weekend at Ultron’s

[@HUASHU03]

Wow! The special effects in this video are astounding!

[@jimes.l]

Wow, after all these years of being subscribed, I can't believe I WON that special effect! I'm so honored. Thank you Mr. Sunday Movies!

[@FanNaf-tt6xi]

I only got the community post on my home page but this only popped up in the suggestions if I opened a video it wasn’t on my home page

[@shinylr8091]

Love the nod to the community timelines

[@Xxsnipedawg72xX]

Imagine Ultron coming around and saying"aye it's the couple of days of Ultron"

[@evan6338]

Ultron's 3-Day Weekend.

[@TheBigTunaMunster]

The bleakest future I've read was in the Thanos run by Danny Cotes, with Cosmic Ghost Rider. Just a grim time all around.

[@Lynch2507]

man don't read Ruins so lmao

[@PapiPoole]

@@Lynch2507 ruins is much darker there is no plot armor

[@TheBigTunaMunster]

@@Lynch2507 Ruins was peak 90s extreme grim stuff. It was fine but not great, Warren Ellis has done much better work.

[@TheBigTunaMunster]

@@PapiPoole also not much plot :)

[@jujuhorrorpictureshow3349]

Speaking of dark timelines, you guys briefly spoke about it but never did a review here or on the podcast. The Watchmen TV show is incredible and I actually just finally watched it. I would love a Caravan of Garbage on it, it is honestly my favorite Superhero TV show or movie. It was incredible and I’d love to see what you guys felt about it.

[@damnrapunzel8130]

Including Hank, i recognised 6 names. Thank you for my prize

[@runthejudes]

Maso was on his A game today, CherNOByle in particular was outstanding

[@foleylione]

Age of Apocalypse was the first big alternative timeline I remember reading. It had the way cooler version of Nightcrawler.

[@CyborgNinja86]

Maybe the Darkest Marvel Timeline is the friends we made along the way

[@matthewdufty606]

I can't wait for the future

[@SylarMagic]

Those social effects rival the best of Hollywood

[@TheCelticTiger32]

6:48 Earth X came after Kingdom Come and it was conceptualised because Alex was asked to do a dystopian version of older Marvel characters. He drew concept art and bullet points of each characters synopsis, however he didn’t write the eventually gravel novel, as an other writer complied these notes to write the story. That’s why the story isn’t that good but the concepts are brilliant.

[@dylankuehner]

I really like the special effects

[@andrewcurtis2337]

I got me some of those Raycons. Used the 45 day return policy and got a pair I’m using now to watch this. They are good!

[@charliemarley598]

The Age of Apocalypse was a favorite of mine when I was a wee lad in the nineties.

[@dakotawilliams229]

That extra cash for the special effects was well worth it.

[@forty_two42]

I was about to give this video a like. But I already gave this video a like. Mr. Sunday Goathead? What do I dooooo

[@deanofcool]

Not so much a future apocalypse, but I the one where all the superhero origins go wrong, the hulk dies from cancerous tumours, captain America becomes a cannibal etc. I like the concept.

[@isaachanson323]

my favorite alternate marvel apocalypse is when everyone in the world sneezed at the same time and the earth imploded

[@TheHammertime51]

Don't yet have time to watch, but this is to spite the algorithm.

[@williamhawthorne7034]

There is a what if timeline for what if the superhero civil war never stopped, its pretty depressing. I don't know how good it is but I enjoyed it

[@au6769]

“With a different version of the Grim Reaper” bruh that’s Billy Maximoff!!!

[@KeithFraser82]

Judging by the panel shown at 9:43, Ultron's super-special ultra-secret mega-intelligent fiendishly complex plan to kill the Avengers in The Last Avengers Story simply read DROP A NUKE ON THEM WHEN THEY'RE ALL GATHERED IN ONE PLACE. I probably would have been able to come up with that one, and one would have thought Kang the Conqueror could too.