EARTH-267 (EARTH-KANG SUCCEEDED AT NUKING THE AVENGERS)

Type: Divergent Earth

Environment: Earth-like

Usual means of access: Presumably vibrational attunement

Dominant Life Form: Gods, humans, mutants

Significant Inhabitants: Arnie, the Avengers (Captain America, Colossus, Hercules, Iron Man, Storm, Wasp), Kang the Conqueror, President Ronald Reagan

First Appearance: Avengers I#267 (May, 1986)

History:  (Avengers I#267 (fb) - BTS) - Iron Man aided the Russian mutant Colossus smuggle his family out of Siberia, escaping Communist rule.

 (Avengers I#267 (fb) - BTS) - Colossus, along with the mutant Storm, joined the Avengers.

 (Avengers Forever#11) - Both Storm and Colossus were plucked from time to battle on behalf of Kang during the so-called "Destiny War."

 (Avengers Forever#12 - BTS) - Storm and Colossus battled numerous Avengers plucked from their respective realities and were sent home following the War.

 (Avengers I#267 (fb) - BTS) - Not long after she had joined the Avengers, Storm was called away to quell a gulf coast hurricane.

 (Avengers I#267) - Upon her return, Storm was welcomed home and surprised to see numerous reporters. Wasp informed her that the reporters were there due to their other new member Colossus, who was conferring with the President. A nervous Colossus soon confronted the reporters side-by-side with President Reagan, where he was bombarded with questions about his Soviet origins. Reagan quickly reminded the press that Colossus was a former Soviet citizen and that he was sure Colossus would make a fine citizen. Soon after, Iron Man (who was actually that Earth's Kang in disguise) arrived and Reagan introduced him as the man responsible for bringing Colossus to the Avengers. Iron Man then informed Reagan that his employer, Tony Stark, had asked him to give him a briefcase. Happy to recieve a gift from Stark, Reagan struggled to open the briefcase with Colossus asking if he needed any help. Suddenly, Tony Stark came running up to the Mansion, yelling for Reagan to stop trying to open the briefcase. Thinking him to be a bum, the President's secret service halted Stark's progress, explaining how he had made a big mistake. Stark frantically tried to explain that he was Iron Man, but before he could, Reagan managed to open the briefcase, setting off the nuclear bomb inside and killing himself, the Avengers, and everyone within the bomb's radius. Once the mushroom cloud had settled, "Iron Man" revealed himself as Kang and gloated about another victory over the Avengers before he was plucked outside of time by the Council of Kangs. The Council revealed to Kang that he had left nothing of the alternate Earth he had just visited due to America thinking that the nuclear device was a bomb sent by Soviet Russia, causing a chain reaction that eventually destroyed the world, leaving Kang as the only survivor.

Comments: Created by Roger Stern, John Buscema, and Tom Palmer.

This Earth diverged from a similar Earth, when this Earth's Kang managed to do what his counterpart on that Earth could not. Both Earths diverged when Iron Man aided Colossus in freeing his family from Soviet rule, as opposed to Colossus leaving with Charles Xavier to join the X-Men.

Arnie was never seen in the story, only mentioned by a reporter.

Iron Man was never seen in armor in this armor, although Cap referred to the Iron Man imposter Kang as "Iron Man," so Stark was active as Iron Man.

This reality's designation was revealed in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Vol.2

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-Kang Had Succeeded in Nuking the Avengers has no known connections to

• Earth-Kang Had Died Trying to Nuke the Avengers, the alternate Earth that the Earth in this profile diverged from, @ Avengers I#267
• any other alternate or divergent