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Originally envisioned to [[Merchandise-Driven|promote a new line of action figures]], the series features a huge war between the greatest heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe. [[My Friends and Zoidberg|And Bulldozer.]]
An omnipotent [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Cosmic Entity]] by the name of The Beyonder, fascinated by the presence of [[Humans Are Special|superheroes on Earth and their potential]], chooses groups of both heroes and supervillains and teleports them against their will to "Battleworld", a planet created by him in a distant galaxy, stocked with alien weapons, technology and [[Patchwork World|mismatched parts from different worlds]]. He tells them to kill each other, and, to the victor, his greatest desire will be granted. His purpose is to understand the (to him) alien concept of "desire".
The heroes include the [[Fantastic Four]] (minus Sue Storm, who was pregnant at the time), [[The Mighty Thor]], the [[War Machine (Comic Book)|Jim Rhodes]] version of [[Iron Man]], the Monica Rambeau version of [[Captain Mar-Vell|Captain Marvel]], [[She Hulk]], [[Spider-Man]], [[The Incredible Hulk]], [[Hawkeye]], [[Captain America (comics)]] and [[The Wasp]], with the second [[Spider Woman]] (Julia Carpenter) showing up several issues in (in her first appearance). Members of the [[X-Men]] (Professor X, Cyclops, [[Storm]], Colossus, [[Wolverine]], Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Lockheed The Dragon) split off from the main heroic team and act as a separate faction for much of the book. [[Magneto]], buffing up his [[Anti-Villain]] credentials, also does his own thing for awhile before joining with his fellow mutants.
Villains include [[Doctor Doom]], Doctor Octopus, Klaw, Ultron, The Lizard, The Wrecking Crew, The Enchantress, Kang The Conqueror, Molecule Man, The Absorbing Man, and new villains Titania and Volcana. [[Galactus]] The [[Planet Eater]] is also there acting as his own non-allied entity.
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** Towards the end, when it looks like the world's tearing itself apart, Cap runs into the heroes' HQ to free captured villains from their cells, so they're not crushed to death. He learns this was also ''Magneto's'' first impulse.
* [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant]]: Molecule Man. Up till this point, he made very limited application of his powers and believed he was limited to inorganic matter and was very meek and submissive. Over the course of Secret Wars I and II, he first learns that he is capable of affecting all matter on any scale and slowly overcomes his meekness to the point that he goes toe to toe with the Beyonder in the second book having accepted that he's the second most powerful being in the universe.
** It should be pointed out that early in the series, before he gets starts getting more powerful and confident, he is able to casually drop a ''mountain'' on the heroes without so much as breaking a sweat.
** Followed not too long after that by ripping an even larger chunk of the planet's crust (over 2 billion tons of matter) and sweeping it up into almost the vacuum of space with all the heroes on it because he was angry at Doom who had just gained the Beyonder's powers and wanted to get everyone else out of his way and he did it just as casually as waving a hand. That being just before Doom uses the Beyonder's powers to remove Molecule Man's self-imposed limitations.
* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]
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* [[Pivotal Wakeup]]: Galactus.
* [[Plot Hole]]: A retroactive one at least. When Spider-Man gets his new black symbiote costume he celebrates by [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|playfully squirting]] [[Ho Yay|the Human Torch]] in the face with the costume's built-in web shooters, and the Human Torch comments that this new stuff is "even harder to burn off than your old webbing!" However, later comics established that A) the "webbing" created by the symbiotes are actually cast off pieces of the symbiotes themselves made to look like webs, and B) symbiotes are weak against fire. Given that, logically Spidey's new webbing should be ''easier'' for Torch to burn off, not harder.
* [[Power Parasite]]: [[Doctor Doom]] steals Beyonders' ability here.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Spider Man verbally eviscerates [[The Brute|Titania]]. It's brutal to read but well deserved, especially since Titania had just delivered an awful beat down of She-Hulk.
{{quote|'''Spider-Man:''' "You ought to be happy, cuddles! You aspired to be a bully, and, man, you're a classic! You talk tough and nasty when you've got the upper hand--But when you're losing--well, that's when the whining little wimp-''ette'' inside comes spilling out!"
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