Anonymous asked: How does 616 being "gone" not spit in the face of the "Everything lives" line at the end of Secret Wars? Wouldn't it make more sense for our endless multiverse to mostly be the same?

brevoortformspring:

And maybe it will once Reed and family are done with it. But they started with the Marvel U first, so by definition it isn’t Universe 616 anymore–they didn’t do 615 other universes before it.

I don’t think it was ever stated that Earth 616 was so named because it was a first-come-first-served numbering, and that this was the 616th Earth to exist/be discovered/ask for a number/etc. Since we don’t know WHY it was called Earth 616, how can it be said that it is no longer fulfilling those criteria? 

Also, here, I will do this for you:

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But I can cry and still be right. It’s a super power!