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Anonymous asked: Yeah I'm (and very likely most every other nerd out there) will still call it 616

brevoortformspring:

No, you won’t–because you’ll be wrong, and that will be damaging to your fan cried. This would be like insisting that the Post-Crisis DC Earth was Earth-1. It might be what you want, but it isn’t so, and like in that case, you will eventually come to accept the new normal.

Tom is wrong, though, because Marvel said this isn’t a reboot, and if it isn’t a reboot, the Marvel Universe is still 616!

(616 was always more of a fan term than an editorial one, so it really doesn’t matter what editorial says. My question, though, is why is editorial saying anything? Why are the editors so invested in taking this inoffensive term of reference away from their fans?)