My Cho’ is 666 on this Easter Sunday
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Firstly, the number of the beast isn’t associated with angels, but humans.
Secondly:
666 is generally believed to have been the original Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible. In 2005, however, a fragment of papyrus 115 was revealed, containing the earliest known version of that part of the Book of Revelation discussing the Number of the Beast. It gave the number as 616, suggesting that this may have been the original.
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Wait, that’s the main Marvel universe.
No wonder Disney bought them.
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The Multiverse numbering system as well as the designation Earth-616 were conceived by Dave Thorpe, then-writer of Captain Britain for Marvel UK. He originally intended for Earth-616 to be the designation for “the worst of the parallel Earths that was holding the others back from achieving the shift forward to the next evolutionary stage.” Its designation comes the Number of the Beast (666); however, Thorpe thought the connection would have been too obvious, so he decided to subtract 50 (“a nice round number”) from it. When Alan Moore succeeded Thorpe, he assigned this crooked reality the designation Earth-238 instead, and the number 616 was used for the universe of origin of Captain Britain, therefore the mainstream Marvel reality. The term “Earth 616” was used for the first time in Daredevils #7.
How ironic is that?