User blog comment:Pijuyo2/Deceased Characters (final version)/@comment-61022-20110102225052/@comment-3127363-20110103142040

I actually think that the Molecule man is a bad guy in essence, he just has different motivations than your typical wealth and power. His goal in life is pretty much to retire and be left alone, and he is willing to kill or destroy anything that interrupts that.

During his last appearance in the Dark Avengers, he was in retirement in a small town in the middle of nowhere, and he immediately vanished into thin air any outsiders stopping by, because he wanted his little quite town unaltered. So when Osborn came to check out what the problem was, the Molecule Man even told Osborn that he did not want to kill him because that would bring reed Richards in to outsmart him again and put him to jail and his peace would be bothered even further.

That's why I think the Molecule Man is pretending to be dead, because if they discovered he was alive, they would come after him again to arrest him.