Quote Originally Posted by jackolover View Post
This gets me thinking about the problem of aging superheroes linked to real time events as part of Marvels 1960’s policy of “world outside your window”.

There was a chance in 2015, where Marvel elegantly destroyed the 7th iteration of the Marvel Universe, in total, when Marvel could have swept away that whole policy. You see, they killed everybody in the MU, except the few that escaped death in the two life rafts in that story of Secret Wars. What Marvel could have done was transition the 7th iteration heroes into the 8th iteration universe having new back-stories of their origins. And all the dead heros reanimated by Reed Richards, were given 2015 origins.
Totally off topic, but your post raises a lingering question that I've had since the 7th cosmos ended:

Does the destruction of any iteration of the cosmos affect beings who exist outside of everything...like the Beyonders and presumably all of the creatures in Exo-Space/the Neutral Zone? If the Beyonders' modus operandi is basically to venture to our side of "creation" to muck with things, is there a risk that a sufficiently powerful quorum of them will come along and reset everything back to the 7th iteration just so that they have their desired playground, so to speak?