Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-61022-20160330220251/@comment-61022-20160404190903

Ben 1,000,911 wrote: Okay fine I do concede that this means that the Ultimate End characters are the ones from 616 and 1610, respectively, with their memories altered. Awesome. That's settled. And to what Nausiated said, who is "all of us" that are supposedly leaning towards categorizing the Ultimate End characters as 61610? I don't think anyone wants to do that. It would make sense and be easier to keep them the way they are.

I don't think anyone is saying anything of the sort. In fact I'd fight against classifying them as 616 and 1610 characters. That's why I'm saying we categorize them all as Earth-61610 characters for the entire run.

Honestly, if you pull back from the actual story here for a second and realize this story for what it is -- It's Brian Michael Benis doing his last hoorah of the Ultimate Universe and pitting it against the mainstream Marvel Universe. It was a sandbox for him to play in without any need to be concerned about what was going on in both respective universes and not get mired in how the continuity played out before or after.

Clearly the intention here is that it's a merged reality of two very similar worlds for the sake of simplicity.

Also another obvious marketing ploy is that it's the "End" of the Ultimate Universe. I highly doubt Marvel has done away with it for good and will revisit it later when there is enough nostalgia for it. Just like any other other alternate realities that have exist and were ended or "destroyed" only to pop up again 10-15-20 years down the road. Age of Apocalypse is a great example of this.

That said, if you take a look at how Marvel deals with these sorts of scenarios --- It was assigned a reality number for the "merged" reality, and they left it ambiguous. Probably the main intent of that is for the purposes of revisiting the Ultimate Universe down the road. It gives them a way of doing this epic "final story" without having to adhere to the outcome of it should they choose to revisit the Ultimate Universe later however many years down the road.