Originally Posted by
jackolover
I wonder if Marvel can just ignore the Hickman run and write stories like it never happened? I suppose they could do a HoM and just have a white out and everybody is back in 2004. But I don't think the writers ever want to go back. They have a formula now where they rip the MU apart, and the next big thing takes over as the DoS and another good guy becomes the bad guy that everybody dumps on.
What could happen after the Hickman run is that the people of the MU have to accept the super heroes as viable allies again, and not marginalise them again, like they have in the past. But one things for sure. Everybody is going to be more aware of everybody's failings after this. Nobody is going to act high and mighty because everybody will have been taken to purgatory and made naked in front of everybody else. The psychology of the planet Earth will have to be resown back into place, just so countries and parties can become viable again. This doesn't just reflect on the super heroes. This takes away from the citizens as well. Everybody is incriminated.
Otherwise, why bother with such an elaborate plot? Where is the point of showing what a really human Universe this is, where everybody is tempted and found to be wanting, and then it is just ignored? I don't see the point of building such a strong humane story, showing what it is to be human and then turning a page, and it's a new day, and who cares what happened yesterday? You have a perfectly set up plot, where nobody can act like they are superior to anybody else, and from that starting point you begin.