Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-61022-20160330220251/@comment-4651179-20160331204139

Nausiated wrote: On Tom Brevoort saying whatever, it is as I have said a number of times before: What a Marvel staffer says during interviews (particularly for hype) should never be accepted as fact. Ultimately it's the editorial opinion that matters. Meaning, whatever is stated in a Marvel Handbook published after the fact should always accepted as fact.

The link I provided was not from some interview or promotional article. It's Tom Brevoort's personal Q&A. Considering he's the editor of the books, I'd expect it would be considered "editorial opinion."

I didn't just bring it up because it's a contradiction, but also because I found it to be specially odd, considering Secret Wars made it pretty clear the Sue Storm wasn't "our" Sue. Also just read the entire Battleworld entry.. it's pretty clear on the events of Ultimate End: These are variants of Earth-616 and Earth-1610 that were merged, not the original realities. The merging of those two realities was NOT the Incursion but the Tony Starks mutual portal devices. That said, so things are clear we should classify all the characters under the merged reality number. As for how they should be characterized something *simplistic* that requires *less typing* should be used to categorize these characters. Since they are based on 616 and 1610 characters I suggest we label them as Tony Stark (616) (Earth-61610) and Tony Stark (1610) (Earth-61610).

I'm still against using this "Earth-61610" designation. Because, as I previously mentioned, no realities were merged. The two portions of the Kingdom of Manhattan aren't realities. They are chunks of lands with people from pseudo-Earth-616 and pseudo-Earth-1610.