Anomaly

Anomaly's History

The life of this M.O.D.O.K. diverged from his Earth-1226 counterpart when a version of himself traveled back to his time. Seeing his future self, he followed him so he could ask himself questions. Having followed him throughout the older M.O.D.O.K.'s marital struggles, M.O.D.O.K. was disgusted by the present M.O.D.O.K.'s behavior, stealing the Chrono-Crystal and engaging his future self in combat. This fight resulted in the Chrono-Crystal shattering and becoming embedded in M.O.D.O.K.'s head.

Being returned to his own time in another reality, he found that another M.O.D.O.K. was in his place and he had been displaced with no home, taking on a new name, The Anomaly. Looking through the various possible futures for the M.O.D.O.K. of Earth-1226, M.O.D.O.K. went through a million realities and found only one where M.O.D.O.K. succeeded. The Anomaly made it his mission to kill M.O.D.O.K.'s family, as the grief and trauma would result in M.O.D.O.K. becoming emperor.

The Anomaly kidnaps the Super Adaptoid and convinces him to betray the Tarleton family. Working with the Super Adaptoid, the Anomaly had the Adaptoid pose as Brandi, Jodie's publicist, to make her make bad decisions and turn against the family. He then initiated the next stage of the plan with Arcade. During this next phase, The Anomaly kidnapped the Tarleton family and replaced them with robots. Rather than engaging directly, the Anomaly placed a robot version of himself in his place in case his plan failed, which it did.

During Lou's Bar Mitzvah, The Anomaly appeared in a robot mech and launched missiles at the family. At that moment, M.O.D.O.K. shot the chrono-crystal embedded in his head. Giving the two a chance to talk, the Anomaly showed M.O.D.O.K. his past and the various alternate futures that resulted in him dying and that killing his family was the only way to become Emperor. Knowing that M.O.D.O.K. would not be able to do that, the Anomaly played the villain and unfroze time, killing M.O.D.O.K.'s family. This resulted in M.O.D.O.K. defeating the Avengers and becoming Emperor of Earth. M.O.D.O.K. experimented upon the Anomaly in an attempt to harness his Chrono-Crystal and bring back his family, killing the Anomaly in the process.