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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

The thing is, he's not a Marvel character any more. Technically, he never was. He was only a Marvel character in the same way that Shogun Warriors, Godzilla, and Transformers were. He just contributed a lot more to the overall Marvel Universe lore in his book than the others, which has remained canon.

Putting him in an actual ML wave would essentially be Hasbro saying, "Sure, we're could add another figure from Marvel's huge stable of characters, but screw that, we're gonna put in one of our characters." Which, you know, isn't really a wise move to pull on a franchise line owned by another company.

ROM is even more complicated. While technically Hasbro owns him, the original Parker Brother's toy designers still hold some "Creator Rights" to him. So they need to be cut in on any use. So there are extra rights and royalties involved. Something that tends to discourage what would already be an expensive figure.

There are some other weird backroom rules and rights issues with Rom and the Micronauts that still crop up with some of the tertiary characters that are not directly pinned down by the named toys. Such as Bug. Marvel created Bug (sort of) but since he is loosely tied to "Galactic Warrior" they are limited to using him in the comics. And somewhat sparingly. Some rights issues prevented him (or rather dissuaded Marvel) from being used in the GotG movies or cartoon.