In addition to the 2015 agreement hashed out with Sony for Spider-Man, Disney's purchase of Fox in 2019 gave Marvel Studios access to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men properties.

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In Marvel comics canon, the Negative Zone is a parallel universe formed by antimatter in which the laws of physics do not fully apply.

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In one of his many searches to learn more about his universe and others, Reed Richards discovered the Negative Zone.

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the events of Civil War. In the Earth's Mightiest Heroes animated series, something similar happened, except on a larger scale, with Prison 42 used to detain the most dangerous villains of the show.

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In Marvel's Ultimate universe, the Negative Zone was called the N-Zone and was the subject of Reed's study from a very young age.

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