Destiny War
The Destiny War was a temporal conflict between Kang the Conqueror and his future self, Immortus which appeared within Avengers Forever in Marvel Comics.
History
The Destiny War is ignited when Immortus sends his servant Tempus to kill an apparently critically ill Rick Jones on the moon. Immortus knows that what is killing Rick is the 'Destiny Force', a powerful ability that manifested in him once before, during the Kree-Skrull War)
Rick has been brought to the Kree Supreme Intelligence, who was on the Earth moon and had agreed to examine him. Kang intervenes and the Intelligence causes Rick to use the Destiny Force to call a team of Avengers to him. The team members he calls are plucked from various points in the time stream. They cause Immortus' forces to withdraw before they could fufill their plan.
The team gathered consists of various members taken from different eras. Captain America has been plucked from just after his 1974 adventure (Captain America #176) where he discovered that the leader of the Secret Empire was a high ranking government official. The moment before he is teleported he had witnessed the leader he had been pursuing commit suicide with a pistol in the Oval Office, causing him great emotional distress. Yellowjacket has been taken from the early 1970s when his alter ego, Hank Pym, was mentally unbalanced. Giant-Man (also Hank Pym, but more adjusted) and the Wasp are both plucked from the "present" (1998) Marvel continuity. Hawkeye has been taken from circa Avengers #100 continuity, while Songbird and Captain Marvel are taken from an apparently alternative future.
Kang battles Immortus. Cover to Avengers Forever #3. Art by Carlos Pacheco.In the course of their investigations, which take them to various points in time and Limbo, the Avengers learn that Immortus is serving beings called the Time Keepers. The Keepers know that mankind will eventually go into space and establish the Terran Empire. This will involve wars and the destruction of many alien peoples, with the Avengers at the forefront of the invasions on the grounds of "pacification". The Keepers have charged Immortus with preventing such a disastrous future or else humanity will have to be destroyed. Since Immortus admires the Avengers he resolves to manipulate them and thus delay mankind's space efforts.
At the conclusion, Rick and the Avengers fight by the side of Libra, Kang and the Supreme Intelligence against Immortus and the Time Keepers. The Time Keepers kill Immortus for his failures, and attempt to accelerate Kang into Immortus; however, Kang perseveres and defeats the Time Keepers. Rick burns himself out stopping their plan, and Kang proceeds to kill the Time Keepers. Immortus then splits off from Kang, meaning Kang would never become Immortus. Rick merges with Genis-Vell, the third Captain Marvel, to save his life, and he and all the Avengers return to their original time periods with varying degrees of memory as to what they had been involved in.
Background
As a result of the Destiny War, Rick Jones' injuries were cured (he had been unable to walk), Immortus was separated from Kang's future (Kang was previously destined to become Immortus), and Genis-Vell was reintroduced into an active role as Captain Marvel in addition to bonding with Rick Jones. It also featured a considerable number of alternative futures and versions of Marvel characters, as well as some changes in the timeline.
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