Marvelverse

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English

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Etymology

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From Marvel +‎ -verse. From Marvel Comics, from marvel.

Proper noun

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the Marvelverse

  1. (fandom slang) The fictional universe depicted in the Marvel comics, films, and television series.
    • 2008, Roz Kaveney, Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films, I. B. Tauris Co. Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
      In the Marvelverse, mutants are potential victims of hate crimes and of state-sponsored pogroms, and of the sort of bureaucratic prying that is often a prelude to the latter.
    • 2010, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology[1], I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, →ISBN:
      Marvelverse characters Araña Corazon and Elektra Natchios were raised by single fathers after the deaths of their mothers.
    • 2015, “Glossary”, in Valerie Estelle Frankel, editor, The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 224:
      Licensed crossovers often appear between characters in the Marvelverse or the Buffyverse.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Marvelverse.

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