Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3406131-20140314000018/@comment-3406131-20140326055433

GrnMarvl14 wrote: As far as alternate universe characters...it's tough. There are certain things that can just flat-out be assumed based on how different the reality is: if Daredevil killed Kingpin circa Daredevil #200, we can mostly assume events happened the same as they did in Earth-616 up to that point, and we can reasonably assume he hasn't gained half-an-inch in height between realities. But if we have a 1602 scenario...we kind of run into problems. Or, especially, an Ultimate universe scenario, where the characters are purposefully different, not simply time-displaced.

I do agree that simply going through and adding generic info based on the 616 character is a bad idea, but I'd say we CAN assume certain things, safely. What we can assume is really a case-by-case basis. For Ultimate and Age of Apocalypse, there is handbooks.

Well, the idea is kind of "What if the What ifs? weren't set in a Earth-616 diverging at some point, but in a reality similar to Earth-616 but diverging furthermore at that crossroads ?".

In that way, we avoid both once for all speculation and debate around those characteristics. We block those possibilities of speculation, in order to focus on what is sure.