The purpose of this wiki is to catalog the in-game divergences from the continuity of real life Marvel Comics in order for players of "Marvel Next Generation" to better follow the history of their characters. Each character entry will explain the divergences in game their character has from "real life" Marvel Comics (or, in the case of the kids, their complete wiki origin and how they interact with the Marvel Universe in this game).

It started with a group of heroes coming together to save the world to form a team called the Avengers. A hero from World War II was found frozen in ice and thawed out. A group of five teens came together to help one man achieve his dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. One man used technology to create a suit of armor to help the greater good. A blind lawyer in Hell's Kitchen donned red spandex and tried to clean up the streets. A surgeon discovered the mystical arts and became Sorcerer Supreme. Slowly more and more heroes began to emerge.

The threats these heroes faced were varied and many. Megalomaniacal dictators, powerful mutants who wanted to see mutants superior over humans, world devouring beings, and terrorist organizations were just some of the threats they faced.

Time continued to move on. Somehow, our heroes and villains found time to have families when they weren't saving the world or trying to take it over. Superhuman parents, for the most part, had superhuman offspring, and mutations continued to appear in the children of baseline humans. The new generation of heroes and villains has been born, and are beginning to come into their own.

Marvel - NextGen is a second generation Marvel RPG set in the entire Marvel Universe. While it deals with the next generation of heroes and villains, the setting is sent in the present. The timeline roughly departs from canon in 1988.