Plot
Collects What If?: Avengers Disassembled (2007), Spider-Man: The Other (2007), Wolverine: Enemy of the State (2007), X-Men: Age of Apocalypse (2007), and X-Men: Deadly Genesis (2007).
Cover by AARON LOPRESTI. Marvel once again poses the question, 'What If...?' In 'The Other,' Peter Parker returned from the dead and embraced his 'inner spider.' But what if he had been completely consumed by his inner, bestial impulses and became more spider than man? 'Disassembled' was the darkest day in Avengers history. But what if the greatest threat had gone undetected? Hydra made Wolverine an 'Enemy of the State.' But what if the world's deadliest killing machine was never de-programmed? In 'Deadly Genesis,' Professor X sent a secret squad of young mutants to the living island, Krakoa, in an ill-fated attempt to rescue the original X-Men before he formed the now-famous All-New, All-Different team. But what if this second team had survived? Attempting to slay Magneto, Legion accidentally killed Professor X, giving rise to the 'Age of Apocalypse.' But what if Legion killed both Magneto and Xavier, leaving no leader to create any incarnation of X-Men to resist the onslaught of Apocalypse?