All the swans remind me of EMma Frost, I wonder if she'll be one too?
All the swans remind me of EMma Frost, I wonder if she'll be one too?
Killing the Molecule Man can't be killing your Universe though....otherwise the Map Makers wouldn't have any Universes to explore.
I think Doom was right though. For whatever reason Beyonders can't time travel. In that case, making the Molecule Man a time bomb works as it gives the Beyonders time to finish observations and really think about if they want things to end. They can also run final experiments in the time left.
Like I said, I feel like I have almost all the answers to this one now, I just have to process it.
Speaking of the Swans, when I finished this issue something fell into place for me. I'm betting that in her home reality our Black Swan's brother was a Molecule Man. It would explain why she rebelled and explain why it's important she's carrying her families DNA with her. She's literally carrying the last bomb.
I had to go back and read that exchange again. Doom says, "but that isn't what occured. you died and nothing happened." And then Reece says, "Sure it did." I think that there is some delay there between the death of a molecule man and the end of his universe. That way the Mapmakers can do their tracking. Also, I amend what I said earlier- the beyonders definitely created MM with the original intent to destroy the multiverse. Why they put a 25 year fuse on him, I'm not sure. Maybe like how you're saying, that they're doing other experiments and since they're linear beings they're beholden to the passage of time
So Manifolds are meant to find Molecule Men. Killing a molecule man saves your universe. If they reach their terminal point then they all go off at once and everything dies. The incursions are the result of killing molecule men. The mapmakers kill any universe that lacks a molecule man and hunt Swans. The Black Swan is a heretic of the Eternal religion of Doom that destroys planets instead of molecule men. Molecule Men are all aware of this somehow but can't self terminate.
You know Reece that you're crazy but... why didn't you tell everybody what was happening! Why only Doom? This could have solve things much quicker.
The earths they reside on are not the same, but he is:
"still, what few of you (Dooms) remain are all to some degree...different. I am not.I was constructed as a singular being across all of space and time, an old experiment of shared minds. A single consciousness shared throughout all my infinte selves. The moment you saw earlier -- my origin -- was a bit of celestial magic-- the charging of a bomb. And it happened simultaneously across every reality." and you see him looking exactly the same across 4 panels although the earths he resides on are different
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yeah it seems that Reece somehow created (or at least empowered) Manifolds in each reality. But mapmakers don't kill universes. They actually preserve them by destroying each anchor earth after they've mined it for resources. Since they destroy an old earth, there can't be a collision, and therefore no universal destruction.
I guess Reece was too crazy to go seek out help... but there's a plot hole there. If his consciousnesses are linked, he should have gotten someone to start killing MMs way back before the first SW... Im just going to suspend my disbelief on this one and enjoy SW
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That annoyed me lol but it was a cool issue and it made me be able to see Doom as the great destroyer.
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