Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3048593-20160419182203/@comment-3406131-20160426172928

ADour wrote: Ewing says that the Marvel Universe has been restarted, which means that there are several iterations of the Marvel Universe, and then almost immediately proceeds to say that Galactus is from the sixth of these iterations. It's pretty clear. Well, he makes a difference between the omniverse and the universe restartings. And he talks bout different/other universes.

To Annabell's tweet, he answered that Galan's universe was "pretty much" "sixth universe", so I believe we can go on this for now (until an handbook or a comic establish things clearer).

Nausiated wrote: I think that before we get into defining what these previous iterations of the Earth-616 universe mean, we should wait until it is better defined in story. Secret Wars ended less than a year ago. They're still fleshing things out. Until then, we should mention it in issue summaries and impacted character profiles, but we shouldn't try to quantify it until it's better explained. THAT will save us a lot of headaches. Wait and see then, that would be a good idea.

Nausiated wrote: As for Galan/Galactus being "different" characters and thus requiring different profiles because they were reborn into a new form. Can we stop and look at all the other characters who have been obliterated and reborn through cosmic means over the entire history of the Marvel Universe? Or characters who have crossed over from one dimension to another *as* their universe of origin was being destroyed. You could use this example for anyone from Earth-616 who survived the Final Incursion and ended up on Doom's Battleworld. We aren't making different profiles for any of those characters. Because they're still the same characters before or after. The only arguable difference is that Galan was endowed with abilities beyond mortal man. If that's going to be a criteria for having two different profiles, then we could argue for having an article for Peter Parker and Spider-Man because they were different people before and after the spider-bite. He is a gestalt character of Galan, Infinity ("Earth-0") and another cosmic entity (the Phoenix ?). Consider him closer to Brother Mutant (Earth-127) than to Spider-Man (Peter Parker), if you're in the mood for comparison. presents the situation as Galactus being the gestated form of the offspring of Galan and Eternity (Eternity presents it that way in-comics).