Notice! This post contains SPOILERS for Aliens vs Avengers #2The latest issue of Marvel Aliens vs Avengers I just gave Captain America and The Incredible Hulk the most tragic and equally epic last stand against a horde of xenomorphs. Unmissable for Foreigner and Marvel fans, Alien vs Avengers began with the Earth already doomed, leaving the last remnants of humanity with very few options other than to abandon their world completely. To that end, Captain America and Hulk’s ultimate team-up in this dark alternate universe is sure to last for centuries.
In Aliens vs Avengers #2 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić, the planet is nearly overrun by xenomorphs after this version of Earth is seeded by David 8. The sinister synth created by Peter Weyland and played by Michael Fassbender in Prometheus and Alien: AllianceDavid 8 and his fellow synths have conquered the entire multiverse, seeding planets with xenomorphs world by world, and that includes an alternate Marvel Universe in their distant future. To that end, older versions of Captain America and Bruce Banner’s Hulk are among the last surviving heroes.:
Unable to wait for Captain America and the Hulk, Tony Stark and some other elderly heroes like Captain Marvel and Miles Morales escape the planet in time with their small colony of humans, having no other choice but to leave Rogers, Banner and many others behind. other condemned souls behind, so they don’t risk being exposed to the xenomorphs and their brutal life cycle.
Captain America arrived too late (but it didn’t matter)
Fighting to the end
Having built an entire colony ship to save humanity beneath one of the last remaining cities on Earth, Tony Stark had already begun the launch sequence when Captain America and as many survivors were seen arriving at the city limits. However, they arrived too late to board. Refusing to surrender even in the face of insurmountable odds, Captain America is shown holding several of the incredibly lethal creatures with his shield, regardless of the inevitable fate that awaited himself and those he was trying to save..
On the one hand, it’s quite fitting that Captain America is one of the last Avengers to fight for Earth. That said, his entire last stand is incredibly dark and made all the more tragic by the confirmation that the fight was already lost before he even started fighting the xenomorphs that had begun to invade the city limits. However, it’s good that he doesn’t have to fall alone Alien vs Avengers #2.
The Hulk had no choice but to team up with Captain America
Anything less would have been monstrous
Despite Stark’s protests that this would do no good, Bruce Banner is shown leaping from the colony ship and entering the fray as The Incredible Hulk. Having determined that letting Rogers die alone would have been monstrous, Hulk’s sacrifice is noble, even if it ultimately makes no difference to humanity’s continued survival. However, Captain America and Hulk taking on an entire horde of xenomorphs while they still can has to be one of their most impressive team-ups in the entire multiverse.. That being said, it is tragic that two more Avengers have been lost in this new series that has only released two issues so far.
Aliens vs Avengers #2 It’s on sale now at Marvel Comics.