Thread:ADour/@comment-5537483-20150226202635/@comment-24383490-20150227044004

Tom Brevoort said: "I’m sorry, but MARVEL: THE END still isn’t canon. It’s a THE END story, it’s non-canonical right in the title." and "Nope. By definition, any THE END story is set outside of continuity. And at the end of MARVEL: THE END, Death was made absolute again, something that clearly didn’t happen in the regular MU."

He said nothing about the 616 continuity. He said "continuity", period. As in at all. He is saying that all "The End" stories are set completely outside of continuity. They have no effect on anything official whatsoever. You are using semantics to validate a biased standpoint.

And yes, if Death was made absolute again, it would have affected the regular MU, given that something that could defeat the Living Tribunal, the embodiment of the Marvel Multiverse, would logically have multiversal reach. The alternative (which I don't believe in, but you seem to argue for) would be that it only had universal reach and thus only defeated an M-Body of the Tribunal, which reaches the same conclusion: The Living Tribunal would not truly have been defeated. Ergo, you are contradicting yourself.