The Marvel fan base is a community that strives on theories and rumours. With every new movie comes 10 new theories or it isn’t a Marvel movie. So when people say things like Spider-Man and Deadpool have a biological daughter, you wont believe it, but SUPRISE that actually a fact, her name is Itsy Bitsy (more on Deadpool and Spiderman).

Now if you’re an MCU fan, you already know that the whole Multiverse, Timeline concept itself is very weird. But at this point, there isn’t anything in the Marvel universe that could shock you, after all, it contains a talking racoon, God himself living in New York and some alien goo that bits heads off.

But these facts are from the marvel comic books that genuinely would make you question yourself twice before believing them.

1. Iron Man’s Armor fell in love with him

How can a suit fall in love? Well with Tony Stark anything is possible. In The Invincible Iron Man Vol.3 #26 to 30, Tony built an upgraded version of his suit. While fighting a villain, the suit was hit by a combination of electrical strikes and a lighting bolt that gave the suit true sentience. Now the suit develops feelings for Tony and confesses to him. Realising that Tony has a partner, the suit becomes jealous and tried to end her. When that doesn’t work he kidnaps Tony. One thing leads to another, Tony dies and in an act of love the suit rips it core out to save Tony’s life.

2. The Punisher Once Teamed Up With Eminem

This was an actual comic released in June 2009 titles ‘Eminem/Punisher: Kill You. This was a promo comic created by Fred Van Lente. In this version Eminem wasn’t a fictionalized version or a lookalike, he was actually Eminem one of the biggest rappers in history. The story follows Eminem being tricked into fighting The Punisher. Soon realising Punisher was actually there to save him, the two team up to defeat Barracuda who is a classic ultra violent villain. The comic ends with Eminem brutally slicing up Barracuda. The Punisher then leaves Eminem on a frozen island to go hunt down ‘Parent Music Council’ to which Eminem replies with “Do me a favor and tell ’em Shady sent you”.

3. Venom was originally a Fan Idea

Venom was originally a fan submission. A Marvel fan named Randy Schueller entired a contest held by Marvel comics and submitted a concept that showed an upgraded Spider-Man suit. He believed that Peter needed a suit made with ‘unstable molecules’ that would repair themselves. And you guessed it, it was a jet-black suit with a blood-red spider emblem.Turns out Marvel absolutely loved the idea and bought it for $220 only. But instead of a red logo they changed it to white and officially introduced the black costume during the Secret Wars comic published in 1984, that we today refer to as Venom, a living and thinking alien symbiote that likes biting heads off.

4. Captain America is Hydra

Captian America is the symbol of the American hero. The ever loved Avenger who is loyal to what’s right. But, in Captian America: Steve Rogers #1, the issue ends with Captian America uttering the words ‘Hail Hydra’. This cliffhanger left many Marvel Fans in complete disbelief. However, it was later revealed that this Captain America was a Steve Rogers doppelgänger. This version of Steve has his memory and reality changed by a sentient Cosmic Cube named Kobik. His memories were altered to make him believe that he had been trained and raised by Hydra and is a sleeper soldier.

5. Deadpool killed the MCU

In 2012, Marvel published a comic book storyline titled ‘Daedpool Kills the Marvel Universe. The comic follows an alternate – reality of Wade Wilson named Dreadpool whose role is “saving” the real-world MCU. Dreadpool goes on a dark hunting rampage when he realises that he is a fictional character trapped in a comic book. The objective of the hunt is yo “free” everyone from the endless suffering in the books. This version of Deadpool is absolutely no fun, he is dark and menacing and killed all the MCU characters in gruesome ways.

6. The Punisher is Frankenstein

In a 2010 fan favorite Marvel comic, The Punisher was actually turned into a Frankenstein style monster and dubbed Franken-Castle. Funny ain’t it? This takes place during Marvels Sark Reign Era, where Norman Osbor controls the National Security and sends the Dark Avengers to take out The Punisher. Draken, Wolverine’s son sliced The Punisher into pieces with his claws and kicked his body into the sewer. His body was recovered by Morbius the living vampire who stitched his body together and reanimated him. But this didnt last long, Frank recovered to his human self soon after a powerful mystical artifact called the Bloodstone was fit into him chest like Iron Man.

7. Aunt May married Doctor Octopus

In Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 , Aunty May almost married Doctor Octopus. Imagine that. Dr. Octopus kidnapped Aunt May to torture Peter Parker but treated her with extreme politeness. This of course tricked sweet Aunt May into believing Doctor Octopus was a kind gentleman. So 10 years later in Amazing Spider-Man #131 Otto proposed to Aunt May and the wedding took place on an isolated island. But of course Otto had ulterior motives and didnt actually love Aunt May. One think led to another and Spidey rescued his beloved Aunt May from both Doctor Octopus and Gangster Hammerhead.