Does God exist inside the Marvel Universe?
Yes.
But, as with so very many things in mainstream comics, it’s simply not enough to give a thumbs up or down. Comics don’t work that way. As they say, comics — in particular, Marvel Comics — are weird.
First it bears noting that it’s hard to nail down any particular detail, be it narrative or theological, about anything in the wide, wild Marvel Universe. The closer you look at any element of it, the more bonkers it gets.
Over almost eight decades, Marvel’s once small interior has grown into a cosmos that encompasses anywhere from 1,000 to 7,000 characters appearing in more than 30,000 printed issues, hundreds of individual television episodes, dozens of big-screen movies and warehouses upon warehouses of licensed products.
Churning it all out has been an army of thousands of writers, artists, directors, producers, editors, actors, production staffers, product designers, marketers, lawyers, executives and more, all of whom have different and sometimes conflicting approaches to the brand’s characters and the various worlds in which they live.
Some of these people are or were devoted members of various faiths (Marvel titans Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were raised Jewish, FYI). Others are or were steadfast atheists. Some just don’t care either way.
The result is a bubbling stew of contradictions that surface in befuddling, if entertaining, ways.
And, yet, despite all these different, diverse creators, various ideas, themes and loosely held truths have floated to the surface over time. Though never concrete, they are about as close to facts as this loopy universe offers.
More:
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/28/does-god-exist-in-the-marvel-universe-all-above-one/Interesting.
