COUNCIL of ALIGNED WORLD
(Reality-98120)
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 Membership: Kree, Shi'ar, Skrulls, at least
Purpose: Ruling and controlling "the galaxy" (presumably the Milky Way Galaxy (see comments))
Aliases: None
Affiliations:
Enemies: Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell),
Ely-Vell, Laressa-Vell, various trackers, humanity (and other races
they conquered and/or exterminated);
Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) of Reality-616
Base of Operations: Unrevealed
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First Appearance: Captain Marvel V#15 (November, 2003)
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Powers/Abilities:
The Council wielded the combined might of the Kree, Shi'ar and Skrull
Empires, including numerous soldiers, airships, space ships and armada,
as well as the capacity to create a plague to wipe out 90% of a
planet's population.
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History:
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The Council of Aligned Worlds apparently evolved from the events of
Captain Marvel V#15-18, as they occurred in Reality-616...or not, but
you can check out the profile on the less-named Council for those events.
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Marvel V#15 (flashforward)) - Various unspecified extraterrestrial
races formed a genuine alliance, putting aside all differences and
presenting a united front.
This union subsequently conquered "the galaxy," all with the best intentions.
Regardless, the bodies were stacked three high in apparent crematories on conquered worlds.
(Captain Marvel V#20) <Earth-98120> - The Council had monitored humanity for well over a century.
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(Captain Marvel V#20) <Earth-98120's (approximately 150 years in the relative future)> - When it
appeared as if humanity was going to colonize beyond their solar system, the
Council of Aligned Worlds, after much debating, determined to end humanity's perceived threat to the
universe.
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(Captain Marvel V#20) - They sent a custom-made plague, within numerous tiny containers (too
small to be detected by Earth's defenses) to Earth.
Within a day or two, 9 out
of 10 humans were dead or dying.
(Captain Marvel V#20 (fb) - BTS) - Having been in stasis for 150 years, Marlo Chandler was protected from the plague.
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Those remaining, who had a fluke immunity to
the disease, tried to mount a defense, but they were slaughtered by the
Council's forces (including Shi'ar, Skrull, and Kree forces).
Off-world when this happened and somehow "caught napping,"
Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) returned and fought back.
Possibly because his heart
wasn't in the battle, Genis was overwhelmed, although he did slay at least a hundred Shi'ar (and likely comparable numbers of Kree and Skrulls) before falling.
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(Captain Marvel V#20 (fb) - BTS)-
Genis crawled back to a bunker in which his son Ely -- whose only power
an incredibly long lifespan -- was hiding, and Ely hooked him up to a
life support system.
(Captain Marvel V#20 (fb) - BTS) - Only 5% of Earth's population remained, with most of them enslaved and
miserable.
(Captain Marvel V#21 (fb) - BTS) - Unidentified Kree and Shi'ar commanders had a romance, but it ended on bad terms.
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  (Captain Marvel V#20 (fb) - BTS) - Via quantum phase
shifters, Genis-616 used his natural ability to move through dimensions,
time-traveling to Earth-98120's future while staying in contact with Rick Jones.
(Captain Marvel V#20) <Earth-98120 (22nd Century)> - A pair of Skrull and Shi'ar soldiers
(part of the Council's "Probe Squad") pressured their prisoner, the telepath Laressa to seek out that reality's Genis,
knowing he would be alongside her lover, Ely.
Laressa suddenly died of cerebral
hemorrhage or something like that (see comments).
Deciding that she had killed herself to avoid revealing her lover's
location, the Shi'ar concluded that they must be very close, and so
they reported back to their superiors and continued searching.
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 (Captain Marvel V#20 (fb) - BTS) - Two miles straight down and protected by anti-scanner
devices, Ely wept for his lover's death, wishing she had given him up rather than kill herself.
Genis-616 then arrived. Ely discussed Marlo's, Earth's, and Genis-98120's
fates, after which the Council began to close on the bunker.
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At Genis-98120's urging, Genis-616 used the
Nega-Bands to merge themselves into a single being, combining their
power as well as Genis-98120's experience. The Council's soldiers (a
group of Kree, Shi'ar and Skrulls) then burst into the room.
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The Skrull ordered the Genis to "freeze," but Genis instead drained every iota
of heat from the Skrull and then shattered him.
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  Genis then infused the others
with heat energy, setting them aflame, cursing them as murderers and
perpetrators of genocide.
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The Shi'ar who was the sole surviving member
of the squad attempting to flee, arguing that they had only been
protecting themselves, as the humans were like parasites and would have
destroyed them.
Denying his excuses, Genis initially told him to tell
his superiors what had happened and that he was coming for him, but he
instead killed the Shi'ar and decided to tell the Council himself.
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   (Captain
Marvel V#21) - Another Council squadron, with multiple Kree, Shi'ar and
Skrull members, used another human psi-tracker in an effort to local
Captain Marvel. The female Shi'ar leading the squad advised her allies
to watch out, as the Probe Squad's having failed to report back likely
indicated that Captain Marvel was nearby.
The Kree commander in the group noted that
this was a lot of trouble for a halfbreed, and the Shi'ar commander
replied that the halfbreed had killed a hundred of her brethren when he
fought to save his world and that they owed him. The Kree countered
that the debt was paid and that Captain Marvel had been left in no
condition to pose a further threat: "This is a waste of time, if you ask me."
When the Shi'ar commander curtly responded
that she did not believe that any one had asked him, the Skrull noted
to the Kree that he had thought that the two had been an item. The Kree
clarified that that was in the past and noted her to be an ice queen,
which the Shi'ar commander heard and replied to that effect.
Any further argument was halted when their
tracker screamed in pain, and the Shi'ar commander realized that he had
made contact and demanded that the "dog" bring them to Captain Marvel.
The composite Genis assaulted the Council of
Aligned Worlds' forces, manipulating their minds' electrical synapses,
ordering them to leave or die with a voice that shook the ground.
Although the Shi'ar commander initially denounced this as a trick,
Genis caused them to see himself erupting from the ground in giant
form. The Shi'ar assured her troops that he was simply an easier
target, and the Kree supported this assertion, telling them to fire at
him and they would triumph.
As the troops futilely fired on him, the giant
figure of Genis seemingly stomped on then. When a Skrull denounced him
as a murderer, Genis countered that they were the monsters there,
destroying the population of this world and claiming that they were
doing so in the name of self-preservation. Reinforcement airships
arrived and fired futilely on the giant figure. When the Shi'ar
commander insisted that humans presented a long-term threat, Marvel
rebutted that they had created a disease and invented the cure,
comparing it to Münchhausen's Syndrome.
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 He told the troops on the ground, "For
all those who died at your hands...you will die at my feet...all your
troops...all your forces...this is your last day on Earth."
As the giant foot seemingly descended on them, the Kree commander
told the Shi'ar commander, "...I've always loved you. And if I am to
die with anyone, it--" and she interrupted, telling him, "Oh, do shut
up. You and your endless prattling about--"
And then they were seemingly crushed by Genis' giant foot.
Genis then told the tracker that he had nothing to fear from him
and to tell all of his brethren that their day of liberation was at
hand. "Tell them to believe in me.
And as their belief grows...so do I. United with the faith of Earth's
remaining population, there is nothing we cannot do. No enemy we cannot
repel..."
Traveling the world, Genis did the same to other Council forces
and then traveled into space and similarly destroyed Council's fleet of
space ships.
He told the few whom he did not destroy, "Return
to your homes, tails between your legs, and tell your masters...the
Earth is not theirs, it is mine, to protect and to serve. If they even
think of attacking again...I shall reach across the void and crush
their home worlds as easily as I destroy their armadas. For all your
weapons...nothing can stand against the pure power of human
imagination. Now go. Go...and never return home."
Mentally
convinced they were dying, the soldiers indeed perished.
(Captain Marvel V#21 - BTS) - Explaining what he
had done, Genis led Ely to the surface, where they observed the
Council's soldiers' corpses.
When Genis-98120
plotted to track down and slaughter the rest of the Council, their allies, and
their allies' allies, Genis-616 expelled Genis-98120's essence, essentially
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Comments: Created by Peter David and Paul
Azaceta.
I'm not 100% certain of the timing
of the Council's assault on Earth and/or when the two Genises (Genisi?)
merged and eradicated the Council from Earth. Marlo had been in stasis
for 150 years when the plague struck. Marlo was noted as having been
"so young" and looked as young as she did in the modern era when we saw
her in stasis. I think, in Reality-98120, she got sick very soon after
her appearances in the modern era in Captain Marvel V#19-21, etc. So,
that puts the plague about 150 years in the future, and then how much
longer was it before Genis-616 traveled to their future? I think it was
relatively soon after, as the Council was still actively seeking
Captain Marvel. It could have been longer, and they could have
reignited their search after discovery intelligence on his location.
However, the appearance of Eli-Vell's lover, Laressa, as a young woman
would argue against it being more than a decade or so later.
Captain Marvel V#21 notes that Genis-98120 had "two
centuries" worth of hate in him, but I don't think that means 200
years. Peter David was very clever and deliberate with wording, and so
I think two centuries likely just referred to the 21st and 22nd
Centuries.
And then there's the sliding timescale. The stories
were published in 2004 A.D., so 150 years in the future would be around
2154 A.D.. But, as of the time that I write this profile, it is
2025 A.D., and so 3-5 years may have passed in Marvel Time, meaning
that 150 years in the future would be more like 2170.
Ultimately, it's somewhat moot, and I will be long
dead before the actual dating matters, but I'd still like to know.
The Skrull initially assumed that
Genis had slain Laressa, but the Shi'ar soldier convinced him that she
had destroyed her own mind rather than betray Ely. Ely also believed
that Laressa had killed herself to spare him.
However, she was surprised and wondered what was happening right before she died.
I think Genis-98120 slew her and just let Ely assume that she had killed herself.
It wasn't spelled out in the story, but I think Peter David planted the evidence for us to figure it out.
In this timeline, Songbird
(Melissa Gold) and Mimi-Vell died heroically. It is unrevealed whether
this was against the Council of Aligned Worlds or not.
Captain Marvel V#17 shows a somewhat different version of the Council's attack on Earth.
This profile was completed 6/22/2025 but saved for Peter David's birthday!
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Council of Aligned Worlds of Reality-98120 is an alternate reality incarnation/progression of:
- COUNCIL ( ) - members of a number of
extraterrestrials who gathered to discuss the threat of Captain Marvel
(Genis-Vell), futilely opposed him--Captain Marvel V#15
but has no KNOWN connections to
- INTERGALACTIC COUNCIL (Aakon, Axi-Tun, Badoon,
Blip race, Elan, Kakarantharnians, Klklk,
Krylorians, Kt'kn, Kymellians, Laxidazians, Poppupians,
Rigellians, Sagittarians, Shiar, Siris, Sneepers, Stonians,
Taurians, Tribbitites, Troyjans, Wobbow, Xandarians, Xeronians,
Yrds, Z'Nox, others) - union of numerous extraterrestrial races,
meet on planet Selandiar, duped by Ruul/Kree into ruling against Earth due to its heroes interference in galactic matters,
resulting in the events of Maximum Security, attacked by the Kree/Ruul--Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet
- CHARTER
(Axi-Tun (expelled), Lem, Lumina, M'Ndavians, Myndai, Nanda, Pheragots
races) - intergalactic union of races--Shogun Warriors#19
- other interplanetary alliances or "Councils," whether Reality-98120, -616, or otherwise...
alternate assault on Earth?
(Captain Marvel V#17 (ff)) -
The mightiest races in the galaxy truly joined forces to act for the
greatest good of sentient beings; adopting the policy of preemption,
they struck down humanity precisely, thoroughly and finally.
--Captain Marvel V#17
Note: This open assault
on otherwise normal human society differs somewhat from what was shown
in Captain Marvel V#20, as this did not appear to be a humanity already
90% wiped out by a plague.
Was this just a focal portion of
Earth-98120 that was not affected by the plague for some reason, or was
it perhaps an alternate reality in which the Council engaged in open
rather than chemical warfare?
The world may never know...
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images: (without ads)
Captain Marvel V#15, pg. 19, panel 3 (Council of Aligned Worlds troops patrolling mass crematory facility/region);
#17, pg. 1-2 (aliens slaughtering humans in Manhattan);
#20, story pg. 1, panel 3 (Skrull holding gun and leash);
pg. 2, panel 7 (Shi'ar face);
pg. 14, panel 3 (Council dropping microbes on Earth);
panel 4 (people dying from plague);
pg. 15 (futile resistance from humanity);
pg. 16 (futile resistance from Captain Marvel);
pg. 18, panel 2 (squad);
pg. 19, panel 3-6 (combined Genis freezing & shattering skrull);
pg. 20, panel 2 (Genis burning squad);
panel 4 (fleeing Shi'ar);
#21, pg. 7, panel 1 (squad with human psi-slave);
panel 2 (Kree face)
panel 4 (Skrull face);
pg. 8, panel 1 (Shi'ar commander face);
pg. 13, panel 3 (giant Captain Marvel vs. Council ships on Earth);
pg. 14 (giant Captain Marvel vs. Council ships in space)
Appearances:
Captain Marvel V#15 (November, 2003) - Peter David (writer), Paul
Azaceta (penciler), uncredited inker, Mark Sumerak (assistant editor),
Andy Schmidt (editor)
Captain Marvel V#17 (February, 2004) - Peter David
(writer), Paul Azaceta (penciler), uncredited inker, Mark Sumerak
(assistant editor), Andy Schmidt (editor)
Captain Marvel V#19-21 (March-May, 2004) - Peter David (writer), Aaron Lopresti
(penciler), Marc Sumerak & Nicole Wiley (assistant editors), Andy Schmidt
(editor)
First posted: 09/23/2025
Last updated: 06/22/2025
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