What if Marvel didn’t survive 1997?

In this alternate timeline, a federal judge orders the full liquidation of Marvel Entertainment. Spider-Man, the X-Men, and thousands of heroes are auctioned off—scattered across rival studios, their universe dismembered before it ever assembled. There is no Marvel Studios. No Avengers. Just fragments.

As pop culture splinters, a generation grows up without a shared mythology. A father tells stories that no longer exist in print. A child plays with a forgotten hero no one recognizes.

“Marvel Liquidates” explores the quiet cultural fallout of a mythos unraveled—how its absence reshaped film, fandom, family, and the stories we pass down when the world forgets them.