Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5448995-20151109185416/@comment-61022-20151110164303

All intents this looks like it's going to be part of Earth-616, so I think it's fair to say that all the characters that don't have alternates running around elsewhere on Battleworld (that can be documented) that these are going to be the 616 versions of these characters. The Secret Wars handbook was ambiguous about that (The Jim Skully profile for example) but the interview that Annabell linked to really cements what the editorial policy is going to be going forward. I'm going to put forward what I've said in a previous thread about assuming that Doom is responsible for everything. While he does appear to be all-powerful, I need to remind people that he wasn't the only one who faced the Beyonders (Doctor Strange was there). Also Doom is not the only prime antagonist of a given tale. There may be other reasons why characters are different now than when we last saw them. For example, those Crystar characters have been out of circulation for almost 30 years (or about seven-ish years in Marvel time) a lot could have happened to them in between.