Marvelverse

English

Etymology

From Marvel +‎ -verse. From Marvel Comics, from marvel.

Proper noun

the Marvelverse

1. (fandom slang) The fictional universe depicted in the Marvel comics, films, and television series.
   • 2008, Roz Kaveney, Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films, I. B. Tauris Co. Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:

     In the Marvelverse, mutants are potential victims of hate crimes and of state-sponsored pogroms, and of the sort of bureaucratic prying that is often a prelude to the latter.

   • 2010, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology‎, I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, →ISBN:

     Marvelverse characters Araña Corazon and Elektra Natchios were raised by single fathers after the deaths of their mothers.

   • 2015, “Glossary”, in Valerie Estelle Frankel, editor, The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 224:

     Licensed crossovers often appear between characters in the Marvelverse or the Buffyverse.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Marvelverse.

Hyponyms

• MCU
• Ultimateverse

Coordinate terms

• Amalgamverse
• DCverse