Origin of Earth-717
The designation of this fictional Earth originates from a Newsarama article focused on an alternate Earth whose time line diverged from our own during the era of Feudal Japan. In this alternate time line a samurai known as "The Devil Who Dares" emerges. The storyline is a counterpart to the Daredevil of Earth-616.
Each story begins when Hector Espejo, a computer hacker from Earth-616, discovers a way to hack into the internet of a parallel universe known as "Earth-717." He discovers the heroes of that Earth, and how they are similar to or different from their Earth-616 counterparts.
This alternate Earth is seen only in six What If one-shot comics released in December 2005. It also features the appearance of Captain America during the Civil War, Wolverine fighting Chicago mobsters in the 1920s, Namor the Sub-Mariner, who was raised by his human father on the surface rather than by his Atlantean mother, Thor as the herald of Galactus, and the Fantastic Four team re-imagined as Russian cosmonauts rather than American astronauts.
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