Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-61022-20160330220251/@comment-16461120-20160403221223

Nausiated wrote: Also at this point I don't see what the point of all the hair splitting on the Ultimate End stuff. It's clear that we're all leaning toward categorizing them as Earth-61610. It's the simplest and less intrusive way to explain all this until everything is sorted out.

So far the other profiles in the handbook (Iron Man) point to these not being the original characters they resemble. So lets keep it at that until it's otherwise stated -- Specifically -- instead of trying to dissect everything the characters were saying in those 5 issues.

That wasn't the focus of the story, the focus of the story was having all the characters fighting each other. They didn't focus on the why this is happening and where all these characters came from or the inconsistencies. So lets stop beating our heads against the wall on this. Do you have a slick way to distinguish the three Frank Castles, two Tony Starks, two Bruce Banners, etc.? (That's the main hangup I'm at. I mean you can tell them apart in story 'cause the "Ultimates" use lowercase lettering, but in terms of the database there's nothing simple that comes to mind?)