Thread:Spencerz/@comment-5977347-20130504190857/@comment-4651179-20130504202610

The reason why some characters died in Age of Ultron as are still in their own titles is continuity.

Continuity means that certain book takes place between other comics, not that every book takes place in the same exact time.

For instance, Iron Man is currently in space, but also fighting Starbrand with the Avengers. Continuity means you can explain why is he in different situations at the "same time", it can be easily explained that he is currently in space, but before fought Starbrand with the Avengers.

So it can be easily explained why Captain America is dead and alive. All the things that have happened (and are happening) in his title take place before Age of Ultron started. A issue which is not even out yet (e.g.: Captain America #10) takes place before a issue released months ago (Age of Ultron #1).

It has also been explained that the way Age of Ultron will end will fit perfectly on how the Fantastic Four died in Fantastic Four #5AU and were perfectly alive as nothing happened in Fantastic Four #6.

And there's an obvious explanation on how Hank Pym is alive. It can be explained using the basics of time-travelling theories: If you go the the past and kill your father before you were even conceived, you would create an alternate timeline in which you never existed, but the timeline you come from would still exist.

Age of Ultron is similar to Age of Apocalypse, a universe created after Legion went back in time and accidentally killed Charles Xavier. The Age of Apocalype was created as an alternate timeline, while Charles Xavier still existed and Earth-616 was untouched.