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Originally Posted by kylactus

ya know I was just thinking about the way Hasbro is "compartmentalizing" all of the MI themes year by year, starting of course with Avengers, then X-men, then what? yeah they could do an awesome year of Spiderman, but after that what could it be? Fantastic Four has trouble filling out one wave! I couldn't imagine them filling a year! but the big problem is this new structure kills a lot of obscure characters, for instance who's
title do the Savage Land characters belong to? they have been in every book! sure they, and others could be in any series, but isn't that true of everyone in the highly interconnected Marvel Universe? wolverine, Spiderman, beast, luke Cage, and almost everyone else have been Avengers at one point. Wolverine and Spidey have even been members of the FF, and now with the teams all mixed to hell in the comics who's to say where anyone really belongs! plus everyone shares villains constantly, I had a heated argument with a ten year old the other day who believed Juggernaut was a Spiderman villain, because he had never seen him with the X-men! oh well, maybe they'll give up eventually and just call the whole line something all encompassing, something "universal" that can put all the characters in the same "universe" that would be nice, and make more since!

Almost all obscures have appeared in under a bigger label at one time.

If they break it down like:
Avengers
X-Men
Cosmic
Fantastic 4
Spider-man
Magical Realms
Period Heroes

They could cover just about everyone. Rotate that around as needed and they could also include mainstays in almost all as well as cover obscures.

Between Avengers, Cosmic, Fantastic 4, and Spider-man they've got a large chunk covered. Toss in X-Men and you've got pretty much everything else missing covered too. There have been enough team-ups and crossovers that even nixing a few of these would still work.

So it could be:
Avengers
X-Men
Fantastic 4
Spider-Man

Then even nixing spiderman, as they could fit him under the fantastic 4 or avengers label which also narrows it down to a rotating 3. Cosmic can fit under avengers or fantastic 4 and x-men as well.
Daredevil fits under avengers or fantastic 4, and hulk stuff can go into avengers easy enough. Alpha flight to X-Men. Thanks to captain america and his eras, that can expand obscures to Avengers. X-Men has ties to the British heroes. So those obscures can fit there or under avengers. Fantastic 4 time travel a hell of a lot, so they're open for period heroes too. Punisher is tied to the thunderbolts now which goes towards avengers, or he also fits under spider-man. New Warriors can fit under avengers or x-men. The list goes on and on. It's only a matter of how you approach it or think outside the box. Both sword and shield fit under avengers and x-men too. So that opens up a massive door for any of them.

In fact, if not for the needed brand recognition. They could almost go two labels. Sword and shield. (Cosmic and Earth.)

Think of it like playing 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon and it becomes really fun trying to think of who fits where. xD