Earth-8810

Earth-8810 diverged from the Earth-616 timeline when Galactus lay dying on Earth after his battle with Terrax and the Fantastic Four.^[1] The Black Celestial secretly restored Galactus to full health but also altered him so that his hunger would increase geometrically.^[2] Driven by his ravenous hunger, Galactus used his advanced technology to create a massive black hole to draw enough matter to him to satisfy that hunger. As planned by the Black Celestial, this would eventually lead to Galactus consuming the entire universe. However, while this would destroy the universe and his brother Celestials, the machines of probability in his base on Earth would ensure that the Black Celestial and his minions would survive even when all else had become a void. This would enable the Black Celestial to become the nucleus and founder of a new universe in which he would be a god.^[2]

Twenty years later, Galactus had gathered so much mass that he warped space and time around him to such an extent that it created a Time Bubble. This Time Bubble prevented time travel before and after, extended across other timelines, and threatened to destroy the entire universe. After various Reed Richards from multiple timelines discovered that whatever was happening in the future was beginning to affect their presents, they decided to take action to investigate and save their futures.^[3] However, although multiple Fantastic Fours, including the team from Earth-9061,^[4] attempted to penetrate the Time Bubble in their time sleds, it was only the FF from Earth-616, accompanied by Thor and Iron Man, who succeeded and discovered that cause of the Time Bubble was Galactus.^[5]

The Fantastic Four and their allies initially planned to use advanced weapons taken from the Shi'ar Empire to destroy the machinery that Galactus was using to consume the universe and they were eventually aided in this by the Gladiator of that era. However, this attempt to disrupt the future that he had planned for Galactus triggered the awakening of the Black Celestial^[6] who was able to easily thwart their efforts. After learning that this Celestial, like his counterpart on Earth-616, might also have a base on Earth, the heroes traveled there and learned all about what the Black Celestial had done and his plans. After Gladiator had sacrificed himself to destroy the base, the Black Celestial arrived. The FF challenged the Celestial by threatening to go back in time with their Time Sled to warn the other Celestials and the Black Celestial followed them through time. However, it was part of Reed Richards' scheme to exhaust the Black Celestial of his energy, as time travel was significantly more difficult around the Time Bubble, and with his base destroyed, the Celestial was forced to rely only on his own energy. In a great chase, both the FF and the Black Celestial went back and forth in time around the Time Bubble many times, weakening him to the point that he was unable to escape from the black hole when they lured him into to it. Consuming the immense energy from the Black Celestial gave Galactus a brief moment of lucidity during which he and Richards shared an unspoken communication^[2] that caused Richards to realize that the Ultimate Nullifier was some sort of failsafe device that Galactus had not had the chance to use. After retrieving the weapon from his Worldship, the FF brought it to Galactus, created another massive energy release to briefly restore his sanity and get his attention, and then threw the Ultimate Nullifier to him. As Galactus used the weapon to nullify himself, his machines, the Time Bubble and that entire future, the FF and their allies fled on the time sled and just barely escaped from that universe before it was nullified.^[7]

• The Bubble at the Heart of Time (Nullified)
• Earth (Nullified)
• Shi'ar Empire (Nullified)
• Worldship of Galactus (Nullified)

• Gladiator (Deceased)
• Black Celestial (Deceased)
• Galactus (Nullified)
• Everyone else in this reality (Nullified)

• The original story claimed that the Time Bubble was in the future of Earth-616 when this storyline was published.^[8] This was later supported by the fact that one of the time infractions for which the FF from Earth-616 were being investigated by the Time Variance Authority was the nullification of the termination of their entire timeline that was supposed to occur 40 years in their future.^[9] As further proof, Kang the Conqueror tried to steal the secret Celestial weapon that will be in the Time Bubble from the sleeping Dreaming Celestial in the present-day Earth-616.^[10] However, Fantastic Four #337–341 retconned many aspects of the Time Bubble and made its history incompatible with the established Earth-616 timeline; thus, it was changed to a divergent reality that handbooks later designated as Earth-8810.^[11]

• This reality is the second known to have been destroyed by the use of an Ultimate Nullifier. The first was Earth-82432 which was destroyed by Korvac-in What If? #32.