ShodhPatra: International Journal of Science and Humanities

The Universe of the Avengers: A Rendezvous in the Marvel Universe

Recently, in an animated movie named Batman Ninja (2018)—the scene shifted from Gotham city to the land of Nippon—Batman is seen fighting his arch enemies adopting ―Samurai convention‖ of mediaeval Japan. A location is always necessary for an action to be executed; its multi-dimensional nature gets reflected through the interplay of key elements such as Time, Space, and Settings. The Marvel Universe as a Multiverse provides a location or space in which worlds and universes of superheroes created by Marvel Comics Industry exist in harmony and balance. With the birth of the Avengers team in 1963 by the hand of Stan Lee, the universe of the Avengers occupies a pivotal place in the Marvel Universe. Like the Marvel Universe, the universe of the Avengers also creates a fictional space in which the adventure of the Avengers team takes place. The fictional space of the Avengers universe comes into existence as various superheroes from the Marvel Universe gather under one roof. This aim of this paper is to address why the fictional space or location of the Avengers team is designated as a universe. Moreover, addressing this preceding question, this paper attempts to position the Avengers universe at the centre of the Marvel Universe.