[Snowflakian]

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Originally Posted by Kamatayan

I just had a cool idea. What if Hasbro made an SDCC exclusive that was basically one of the variant covers with the figures on them except the figures were actually there. That would be pretty cool.

That'd be awesome! Heck, from how great that custom looks, I almost want to make one! I've got the extra hawkeye gear, but not the extra valkyrie head tho.

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Originally Posted by kylactus

The problem with destroying the multiverse in SW is the law of diminishing return. in the 30's 40's and 50's the villains were bank robbers and gangsters, then they upped the anti with super villains that wanted to rob banks and labs then, take over a city, then a country, then the world, that lead to cosmic threats like Galactus who wanted to eat our world, then Thanos who wanted to destroy the universe! now to draw a crowd you have to collapse the multiverse! at that point the surviving heroes should be literally fearless. you just survived an insane collapse of reality and the destruction and reconstitution of everything! it makes it a bit harder to care if a bank is being robbed.

Yet DC is doing fine and they've done that same thing since their first major crossover event. Following that, they've extinguished the sun, erased time itself, destroyed the multiverse, rebuilt the multiverse, destroyed the multiverse, rebuilt the multiverse, and much more. So I don't think Marvel has anything to worry about so long as the writers keep doing a decent job. Besides, ever since the Beyonder was introduced, something like this was needed to fully define that character and his world. You could say this has been a subtle build up with cosmic cubes and the Beyonder since the first secret wars, even though it wasn't on purpose.

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Originally Posted by Kernel

I could not agree more snowflakian! Excellent and on point! I think a lot of the complaints are coming from those who don't even read the current comics.
I also wonder if some of the changes are so that they can keep the alternate/older versions. This way they can keep OML Clint Hawkeye and Kate bishop Hawkeye, old man Logan and x-23 as wolverine, and cho as hulk and banner as maestro. I also liked odenson running around with jarnborn and the Thorr unworthy hammer and foster with mjolnir.
Miles morales IS NOT the same spiderman. Peter Parker dies in the ultimate universe and miles takes up the mantle. Does it really make sense to have a young and old Parker in the same universe? Then they would have had to do the DC thing with an earth 1 and 2 and kill off the old one. Some of these changes means we get different stories and versions of the same character in the toy line.
As Julius Schwartz would say (God rest his soul) "every 10 years or so the comic book universe needs an enema." After 75+ years I'm not sure Marvel has ever really had one.

Yup! Exposure like this using already established names means retailers ask for the new character when they ask for the name. This keeps retailers happy by having Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-man, Thor, and Hulk, and also allows more diverse character representation to reach shelves. It also means some awesome content for future games when they add in the extra costumes and character stuff. With Cap alone, you can have 3 characters that alter the play style tons. Cap with his shield and fisticuffs, Bucky with his arsenal, and now Falcon with flight. Thor now allows for a diverse range of character swaps too from Dargo Ktor, to Beta Ray, to now even the new one. Heck, and there's also the 2099 one. Hulk is the same. Now besides all the banner hulks, we have Cho, Jones, and the others.

And that's a perfect way to say it about the industry. Though yeah, probably 15 years down the line, someone else will come up with some other major event idea that'll offset secret wars a bit to set up a new dynamic, it also depends on sales for how that new dynamic will take shape. Right now sales are strong. With strong sales, don't expect changes back anytime soon unless it goes with the story needed to be told.