Thread:AnnabellRice/@comment-5448995-20160913213840/@comment-61022-20161015011126

I wouldn't hold this with much of a grain of salt because writers have said this before only to be wrong (many times).

Annabell made a clear point about the 2099 universes being the "future" of Earth-616.

Also, the X-Men '92 universe being the "Future" of Earth-92131 doesn't make any sense because every OTHER possible future from the X-Men animated series has an alternate reality designation:

Earth-31393 the animated "Days of Future Past" where Bishop comes from. Earth-121193 the future with the "Plague" (basically the Animated universes version of the Legacy Virus) Earth-13393 the future where Cable comes from and Earth-95099 the animated "Age of Apocalypse"

Why do we need to have this discussion every time a writer says something in an interview that is (a) used to hype a title (b) we know they probably didn't do their research and (c) the rules about time travel in the Marvel Universe are very very very clearly defined?

And hopefully this will be the final nail in the coffin on any further discussion about any future being "The" future being the future of Earth-616: How many countless other possible futures have been said to be the future of Earth-616 only for it to pass by and never happen, and/or get shuttled into an "alternate future" that is removed from Earth-616 dimensionally? Days of Future Past, Guardians of the Galaxy, the original Deathlok reality. Time and time again.

Just because they say 2099 is "the" future of Earth-616 *now* doesn't mean that's going to stay that way. We're talking 83 years into our future. That's like saying Cable's future of Earth-4935 is going to be THE future of the Marvel Universe. Cable has actively spent his time trying to change that future that it's likely not going to happen, there's nothing that says that because you have characters from 2099 running around on Earth-616 isn't going to alter the course of history in a different direction.

The basic fact is that to have a "locked in" future like that is going to stifle creativity. They're not going to deadlock themselves in a set future because that limits the story telling potential.