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Story Mode premise:
While scanning the cosmos for the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid finds evidence that the Old Gods (specifically the ones whose deaths resulted in the creation of the New Gods) didn't die at all - rather, they fled to a different universe. Wanting to remove any threat to his power, and believing that the Old Gods might have found the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid travels to the midpoint between New Genesis and Apokolips and forces open a portal to where the Old Gods had vanished to - the Marvel universe.
This causes all sorts of instability between the two universes, causing characters to shift between the two seemingly at random in the beginning. This leads to the sort of standard comic book misunderstandings and fights, but even after they sort things out, the instability and the portals spread further, drawing in alternate versions of the heroes from across the multiverse. (this would allow more hero-vs.-hero fights, since the roster seems to largely consist of heroes - fights like Justice Lord Superman vs. Thor, Superior Spider-Man vs. Nightwing, Superman vs. the Dark Knight Returns Batman, Magneto vs. a version of Magneto where he stayed villainous, etc.
Eventually, it's discovered that Darkseid is keeping the portals open by force with Omega Energy, so the goal becomes finding him and sending him back through a portal. This becomes complicated when he teams up with Thanos - in the game's climax, Thanos tries to use the Soul Stone to steal the soul of a weakened Darkseid, but this backfires, leading to Darkseid's soul merging with Thanos to create Thanoseid.
I figured that Jack Kirby (from the accounts that I read) wanted to do a Ragnarok storyline for Thor and follow it up by introducing the New Gods, and Kirby's Fourth World comics imply that the gods that preceded them were Thor and company, so that seems like a good enough reason to tie the two franchises together.
While scanning the cosmos for the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid finds evidence that the Old Gods (specifically the ones whose deaths resulted in the creation of the New Gods) didn't die at all - rather, they fled to a different universe. Wanting to remove any threat to his power, and believing that the Old Gods might have found the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid travels to the midpoint between New Genesis and Apokolips and forces open a portal to where the Old Gods had vanished to - the Marvel universe.
This causes all sorts of instability between the two universes, causing characters to shift between the two seemingly at random in the beginning. This leads to the sort of standard comic book misunderstandings and fights, but even after they sort things out, the instability and the portals spread further, drawing in alternate versions of the heroes from across the multiverse. (this would allow more hero-vs.-hero fights, since the roster seems to largely consist of heroes - fights like Justice Lord Superman vs. Thor, Superior Spider-Man vs. Nightwing, Superman vs. the Dark Knight Returns Batman, Magneto vs. a version of Magneto where he stayed villainous, etc.
Eventually, it's discovered that Darkseid is keeping the portals open by force with Omega Energy, so the goal becomes finding him and sending him back through a portal. This becomes complicated when he teams up with Thanos - in the game's climax, Thanos tries to use the Soul Stone to steal the soul of a weakened Darkseid, but this backfires, leading to Darkseid's soul merging with Thanos to create Thanoseid.
I figured that Jack Kirby (from the accounts that I read) wanted to do a Ragnarok storyline for Thor and follow it up by introducing the New Gods, and Kirby's Fourth World comics imply that the gods that preceded them were Thor and company, so that seems like a good enough reason to tie the two franchises together.
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