COMICS: The Destruction Of A Marvel Universe Icon In Fear Itself #5!

An Aesir, who is apparently Odin's brother, is somehow unleashed on the world and drops seven magical hammers all around the globe. They get picked up by both heroes and villains alike, who begin wreaking havoc on the world. Hijinks ensue.

Hasn't his sheild been broken like fifty times already in the comics. That was a hyperbole, by the way, but still can't they think of more creative things to shock us in a company wide crossover?

"GGRR
RRRRRAH
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That onomatopoeia make me lol

yea, i was actually surprised whn tht happened

BaneKill77- you're completely right.
This is just another example of Marvel rehashing old stories.
Zzzzzzzzz.

Try harder Marvel.

@DrCKasady I think that I will pick that trade paper back up as well. It looks like there are some crazy things going on in Fear Itself.

I thought it was pretty cool. I thought more people would be more upset about Spider-Man giving up and wanting to see his family before the end of the world, especially since he was just talking about we have to have hope in his "Fear Itself: Spider-Man" book.

The shield has been shattered loads of times...one time it shattered it even affected the whole of reality for petes sake...

This wont stick very long...whats the point in killing Bucky...giving the shield back to Steve only to have it shattered...again!?

In my vocabulary, retcon means either "retroactive continuity" or "retooling contradictions".

^I'm at least glad they touched on poor empathic Man-Thing.

Oh, until now the only forces that have successfully forced the shield's destruction apparently are:

Molecular Manipulation
Beyonder Power
Infinity Gauntlet
Odinforce

the shield been broken again! its been done a few times now......its begining to lose its shock value.

for the further record kevberg Cap's shield is mixture of vibranium and steel alloy.

he circular shield most associated with Captain America made its debut in Captain America Comics #2 (April 1941). A concavo-convex metal disc approximately 2.5 feet (0.76 m) in diameter, it is virtually indestructible and has remained his most constant shield over the decades.
Again through retroactive continuity, it is established that the shield was presented to Rogers by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The shield is created by a fictional American metallurgist named Myron MacLain, who had been commissioned by the US government to create an indestructible armor material to aid the war effort. MacLain experiments with vibranium, an alien metal found only in Wakanda that has unique vibration absorption properties. During one of his experiments to fuse vibranium with an experimental iron alloy, MacLain falls asleep and awakens to find the experiment a success. This is due to an unknown catalyst entering the process during his slumber, and he is unable to duplicate the result. The vibranium-iron alloy mix is then poured into a mold for a tank's upper hatch to create the disc shape and painted to become Captain America's symbol.

During his early years in the Avengers, when it is not firmly established that the discus-shaped shield is indestructible, the shield is destroyed or lost several times in the comics, to return with no explanation. It is eventually retconned that these are steel replicas, with the actual shield being borrowed by Stark for analysis and returned to Rogers later.

As of 2007, the shield has been damaged or destroyed five times within the confines of the Earth-616 continuity. On each of these occasions, the shield was subjected to a cosmically powerful force capable of reshaping matter on a massive scale. Specifically, the powers that affected the shield are:
The Molecule Man's total control over matter
The godlike power of the Beyonder
The near-omnipotence conferred upon Thanos by the Infinity Gauntlet
The Odinforce wielded by Thor
The divine power of the Serpent, the evil god of fear

The Serpent God destroying/damaging the shield will be #6.

This same thing happened in Secret Wars too, you know.