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That was actually one of the dumbest things he ever did. Let me set the scene: the 'Illuminati' - a group of powerful men in the Marvel Universe (originally Iron Man, Black Bolt, Professor X, Reed Richards, Doctor Strange and the Submariner), working in secret to fight terrible threats, trying to pre-empt the destruction of the world basically - discovered that the multiverse is slowly dying. An unknown event caused the destruction of an entire universe and now it has become a chain reaction. The destruction works like this: two universes collide at one point, and unless they are seperated again within eight hours, they are both destroyed. The cruncher is that the point where the universes crash into each other is always the same: it's always Earth. That is why the other powerful races of the universe have not realized what's happening yet: the window of opportunity is only eight hours long. And the only way to seperate the universes is to destroy the collision point - Earth. One of the Earths has to be destroyed for both universes to be saved. This is apparently an impossible choice for many people, even though it is of course not a choice at all. For a time the Illuminati lucked out - they actually managed to push the universes apart once using the Infinity Gauntlet; in another case, the other Earth was destroyed by that universe's Galactus (that actually seems like exactly the sort of thing the big G is supposed to do anyway) ; in yet another, the other Earth had already been stripped of all life by Mapmakers (evil, transdimensional super-robots). But it was inevitable that they would get faced with the inevitable necessity of destroying an inhabited world to save two universes. In that case it was Namor, the sub-mariner, who did the deed. Currently it's Thanos and his death squad who have taken it upon themselves to destroy alternate Earths to save their native universe (and incidentally the other universe as well). In any case, let it be clear: there is a choice... the choice is between destroying one Earth, or destroying, through inaction, two universes including the Earth you refused to destroy. Captain America refused to face this choice, instead insanely insisting something would come up that would spare them from making it. This page is from a related story: I mentioned the Illuminati, including, at the time, Captain America, had used the Infinity Gauntlet - the most powerful object in the universe - to push the other universe away, saving them both without destroying either Earth. In the process, however, the Infinity Gems shattered, and are believed lost (although I doubt it... they will probably re-form over time) except for the Time Gem, which fled into the time stream. Now it started to reappear, dragging people with it and ditching them again, until finally only Captain America was left in the distant future, faced with Immortus (the guy with the hat), Kang the Conqueror and Nathaniel Richards, aka Kid Immortus, aka Iron Lad. These three are actually the same person at three points in his own timeline, and they/he were there to stop Captain America from travelling back in time to interfere with the Illuminati. Iron Lad/Kang/Immortus believe that the multiverse has a chance of survival if they take Cap out of the equation and let the Illuminati do whatever it takes to stop the destruction of Earth. And that is his response. He doesn't care about the destruction of the multiverse, or even of the universe. He doesn't even seem to understand the situation, instead inanely insisting on a form of heroics which, in these terrible circumstances, can change nothing and help nobody. He has no idea what to do. Apparently he does not acknowledge the fact that if he stops the Illuminati from destroying another Earth, the result will be the death of everybody in the world, as well as everybody on that other Earth, as well as everybody in their universe. Now, I personally do not think this fits the character of Captain America, but it does suit the increasingly insulting characterization inflicted on him by many modern writers. So while this seems to be a heroic portrayal of him, it is in fact the exact opposite: it depicts him as a blinkered idiot, a suicidally, genocidally blinded lunatic who can't see beyond the immediate to realize the scale of the threat. Simultaneously proving the Illuminati completely justified in what they did before: Erase his memory of the events he took part in. If they hadn't, this would have happened a lot sooner and the Marvel Universe would possibly have been destroyed because a World War II veteran was too small-minded to realize he was toying with the fate of the world. Kind of ironic, isn't it? That this thread is about the exact opposite of what it seems? 'Cap was right' – He wasn't right during Civil War, and he is infinitely less right now. The two preceding pages. It's not fair, I grant you, but that doesn't change that that page was the wrong choice for the subject. I want Cap to be cool again, rather than Grampa Simpson.

Shame they called this Naruto's child Boruto and not Naburo

That is true, but I could very likely see a scenario where Aptom, being a genetic outcast himself, would probably fight for the Morlocks, viewing them as kindred spirits. Hell, maybe he could rally them together to battle Chronos.

Nether Loki and Apocalypse are very trust worthy, Loki always has his own agenda and Apocalypse is so arrogent that if anyone stronger then him appires he would try to destroy them rather then side with them as he did with Onslaught. The most likly candidates for sideing with Cronos would be business minded villians like The Kingpin and Hood as well as villians who are willing to work for money. "Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into hell" - David Xanatos

What about all those villains that Cronos might recruit? Them + Cronos would make a deadly combination. What if the brother hood of mutants decided to work with Cronos who are purely devoted to more or less, mutating humans into Zoanoids? Loki of Asgard might love what Cronos, along with Apocalypse as they are worshiped as gods and might find themselves content on control portions of earth (they've done it before). Norman Osborne wreaks of becoming a new head of Cronos America. Several villians would simply want the power, even if they know about losing the ability to control their will. There are so many others out there. This can tip the balance. Though, should be noted that many villains might appose Cronos too. Namely Dr.Doom.