Siege (Marvel Comics)
The Siege is an event that features in Marvel Comics.
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History
The Siege
Norman Osborn launched a catastrophic and illegal strike against the kingdom of Asgard after orchestrating a tragedy in Chicago to justify his military intervention. Following a staged confrontation at Soldier Field involving the unwitting Asgardian Volstagg and the U-Foes, which resulted in massive civilian casualties, Osborn manipulated the President and the public into viewing the Norse gods as a national security threat. Despite a direct order from the President to stand down, Osborn gathered his Dark Avengers and the full might of H.A.M.M.E.R. to initiate an aerial assault on the golden city floating above Oklahoma. Ares initially hesitated to join the cause, but Osborn lied to the God of War, claiming that Loki had taken control of Asgard and needed to be ousted. As the invasion began, the Sentry struck the first blow, tearing through the city's foundations and catching the Asgardians completely off guard. Thor rushed into the fray to defend his home but was quickly overwhelmed by the combined power of Osborn’s heavy hitters, including the Sentry and Taskmaster. Meanwhile, in hiding, Steve Rogers and his underground resistance watched the televised carnage, realizing they had no choice but to assemble and intervene before the gods were slaughtered. (Siege v1 #1)
The siege intensified as Thor lay beaten and bloody beneath the combined might of Norman Osborn's forces, only to be saved by the sudden intervention of Maria Hill and a heavy-duty energy weapon. While the U-Foes and H.A.M.M.E.R. troops continued their relentless bombardment of the golden city, Ares finally realized he had been played for a fool; upon discovering that Osborn had lied about Loki's control over Asgard, the God of War turned on his commander with murderous intent. However, the betrayal was short-lived as Osborn ordered the Sentry to intervene, resulting in a horrific display of power where the golden guardian physically tore Ares in half in front of the assembled armies. This brutal execution horrified both sides, yet Osborn pushed forward, desperate to end the conflict before federal authorities could stop him. As the President officially stripped Osborn of his command and ordered the military to intercept, Steve Rogers and the true Avengers arrived on the battlefield via the Quinjet, signaling that the resistance had finally joined the war to save the gods from total annihilation. (Siege v1 #2)
The tide of the Oklahoma conflict experienced a dramatic shift when Steve Rogers’ reinforcement fleet arrived over the burning ruins of Asgard, launching a surprise counter-strike that completely caught Osborn’s vanguard off guard. Iron Man utilized a localized technological virus to remotely disable Osborn’s high-tech Iron Patriot suit, stripping the tyrannical director of his primary offensive capabilities and exposing his green goblin facial markings to the gathering media crews. Realizing that his political regime and military forces were on the absolute brink of total collapse, a desperate and unhinged Osborn ordered the Sentry to completely destroy the city rather than allow it to be captured by the resistance. The Sentry, completely giving in to his malevolent alter-ego known as the Void, flew directly through the foundational architecture of the kingdom, triggering a catastrophic structural failure that caused the entire floating metropolis of Asgard to crash violently into the Oklahoma desert below. The massive impact leveled the local geography and buried hundreds of combatants from both factions beneath millions of tons of golden debris. (Siege v1 #3)
The catastrophic conflict reached its final, reality-shattering climax amidst the smoking crater of the ruined kingdom, where the surviving heroes were forced to unite to combat the absolute horror of the fully unleashed Void entity. The cosmic monster systematically slaughtered dozens of resistance fighters, prompting the Norse god Loki to realize the absolute error of his manipulations and utilize the mystical Norn Stones to artificially augment the power levels of the surviving heroes. The Void instantly detected the divine subversion and brutally executed Loki on the battlefield, but the momentary distraction allowed Iron Man to guide a fully automated S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier into a direct, high-speed ramming trajectory against the monster. The immense kinetic explosion temporarily reverted the entity back into his human form as Robert Reynolds, who begged Thor to execute him before the darkness could seize control of his mind again. A heartbroken Thor delivered a final, lethal lightning blast, ending the cosmic threat before delivering Reynolds' remains to the sun, formally concluding the dark reign era as the President officially abolished the Registration Act. (Siege v1 #4)
Overview
Participants
- Norman Osborn :
- Ares :
- Thor :
- Sentry :
Notes
- The Siege was created by Brian Michael Bendis where it made its first appearance in Siege Prologue v1 #1 (December, 2009).
Alternate Versions
- In Marvel Zombies v2 #1 (2015), the Siege referred to the event that impacted Battleworld in the reality that was designated as Earth-15513 in the Multiverse. On this world, God-Emperor Doom erected the Shield that was a large wall that separated the living domains from the hordes of Marvel Zombies and the Ultron robots from Perfection. Manning the Shield were the Hel-Rangers that consisted of exiled inhabitants from other domains due to crimes they had committed. As a result, the giant wall found itself constantly under siege from the various attackers on it. After another day of work at the Shield, Commander Brand bid her farewell to Leah of Hel as she prepared to go beyond the Shield to search for Illyana, her long lost lover. Kang approached Brand soon afterwards, boasting about his fighting skills and how he would subdue all the south of Battleworld to his will, which angered her. While she was telling him protecting the Shield wasn't that simple, Kang's wrist began to bleep and his future self suddenly appeared before them. Before fading away, future Kang told them the Shield would fall in twenty days, and that Thanos would doom them all. Fifteen days later, Commander Brand and her men still hadn't found Thanos. Desperate to find him before he could destroy the Shield, Brand resorted to the Unite, robots in love that betrayed Ultron and allied themselves with the Hel-Rangers of the Shield. But, as they spoke, the Unite detected a powerful army of the Ultron Engine (the greatest threat that faced the Shield which married up the technology of the Annihilation Wave with the unrelenting energy of the undead) heading towards the Shield. Brand then alerted everyone so they could prepare themselves to battle. As the Vitruvian Man prepared the Enlightment Cannon to shoot and Kang tried in vain to call chronoallies, Lady Katherine spotted someone on the front line of the Ultron Engine, which to Commander Brand's horror was none other than a monstrous Nick Fury, presumed dead commander of the Shield. Under siege and at risk of failing their duty, the Hel-Rangers of the Shield tried everything they could to stop Nick the Fury, as he was the reason why the Ultron Engine was advancing so viciously. With the Endless Summers being reduced to only one hundred men and Kang unable to navigate through the timestream thanks to chronomines, Brand sought the help of the Unite again. One of the Unite tried to use its ability to control robots to make Nick the Fury kill himself, but was killed instead. Using the remaining Unite as a distraction, Kang was able to take Nick the Fury into the timestream and pilot it into every chronomine he could.
Appearances
- Siege Prologue v1: (2009)
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