On Earth-42222, V-Day is the day on which vampire terrorist Deacon Frost offered himself as host to the ancient Blood Demon La Magra, annihilating himself and unleashing the V-Wave, a dark magic wave that turned most of the world's population into vampires.^[1]

On Earth-42222, V-Wave is a dark magic wave that swept across the globe, turning billions of humans into vampires. It also affected superhumans, randomly converting them into either human or vampire; A.I.s, blanking them; and Gods, banishing them.

The V-Wave was unleashed by vampire terrorist Deacon Frost when he offered himself as host to the ancient Blood Demon La Magra. The day on which it happened became known as the V-Day.^[1]

Variants are counterparts, usually of a person, from alternate realities and/or displacements in time.

Special Cases

• Some beings are allegedly unique in the Multiverse. For example, Rachel Summers is supposedly a multiversal anomaly with no true counterparts from other timelines. This makes her an especially stable time-traveller.^[1] This also appears to be the case for Morlun and the rest of the Inheritors as they had no counterparts.^[2] It is not clear what happens to these beings if a timeline experiences a divergence.
• Some beings exist throughout the Multiverse simultaneously; thus, their "variants" are actually aspects of themselves.
  • Examples: Celestials,^[3] Eternity and Infinity,^[4] the Living Tribunal,^[5] and the Molecule Man.^[6]
• It's possible for variants to be native to the same reality if one's parents are interdimensional travelers. For example: Anti-Venom II was born when Spider-Venom was visiting Earth-TRN461, where a native Anti-Venom already existed.^[7]
  • It's also possible for variants to be native to the same reality even if there are no discernible reasons for it. For example: Jewel (Jessica Jones) and Knightress (Jessica Jones) existed in the same reality, with Knightress being an adult vigilante and Jewel being a teenaged villain.^[8]

Trivia

• The term was popularized in Marvel Studios' Loki. The comics have since adopted it.
  • Before this, generic terms such as "counterparts", "alternates", and "alternate reality selves" were used interchangeably. And still used occasionally afterwards.

Virtual Immortals will live for millennia but will eventually die.

Vita-Rays are a part of the Super-Soldier Serum that speeds up the potion's effects and makes them work correctly. They were created by Abraham Erskine. The only Vita-Ray Chamber was destroyed.^[1]

Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999)

Vita-Rays were created and used by Abraham Erskine as part of Project Rebirth along with the Super Soldier Serum.

During his transformation into the first super soldier, Steve Rogers screamed in pain as his body absorbed a vita radiation level of 70%. Peggy Carter and Erskine wanted to stop the project; however, Rogers begged them not to cease, saying that he could take it. Howard Stark proceeded to increase the output to 100%, causing the chamber to glow so brightly that Chester Phillips and other observers covered their eyes.^[2]

Nitramene, a chemical created by Howard Stark, which is used to implode even entire buildings,^[3] emits Vita Radiation and it can be detected by a Vita-Ray Detector.^[4]

A religion worshiping deities called the Loa, and a system of mystical practices ultimately derived from the Loa. The term 'Voodoo' is derived either from the Loa's alternate name, "Vodu", or from a 12th century French sect called "Vaudois".^[1]

Some of the most well known practitioners of this magic are Marie Laveau, The Voodoo Queen, and Jericho Drumm better known as Doctor Voodoo.^[2]

Simon Garth was resurrected by a Voodoo cult turning him into a Zombie. They called upon Damballah of the Vodū, the serpent god, and with the aid of matching talismans, resurrected the corpse of her former employer as a mindless zombie. One of the two amulets was placed around Garth's neck; the other was given to Gyps. Using the amulet, Gyps could control the Zombie.^[3]