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It does not have to conform with any Ultimate-continuity that was created after it. But I still don't think it was an Ultimate book.
As far as the little things go, that people use to throw it out of the 616:
FF in Positive Zone - What? They can't? It's Reed fucking Richards and all! This is what the FF do to keep from getting bored. When there isn't a cosmo-monster to punch and burn and cart off somewhere... which leads to a strange new land of exploring, anyway.
The Bannermen - Again, we accept Weapon Plus as being in the 616, and there's little difference in terms of beauracratic government-weapon people-making. 'Conspiracy' and elsewhere has held that Hulk may have been created by the government, and if not, his amok running was engineered and permitted by the military as an excuse for cool new toys.
Anyhow, I don't see anything that implies that Hulk was a military intentional job. Anybody can backtrack and pick up the pieces of something... given know-how, money, and tech.
They're called the Bannermen for the flag-nature, more than for Brucie, aren't they?
Midas is 616 *now* if not when the series came out.
There is, in fact, nothing I can dredge up that securely invalidates or decimates the possibility that the series is very simply absorbable into the 616 continuity.
The rule that nothing can happen to a guest-character without it being referenced in their home book... it's a stupid rule. If Spider-Man spits on somebody's head from six-storeys up in Fantastic Four Plus Crystal, I don't care that it's not mentioned in Spectacular Not-Sleeping-With-Gwen #127. If he shows up there with horns and a fish in his mouth, and nowhere else, ever again, I may begin to wonder... but then my hypertime sense will twitch and vibrate me into Earth 23 where it was all alright.
If it needs to be crowbarred into continuity that's one thing - maybe - but 'Marvel Boy' slides in perfectly reasonably and simply. Child of Horus you were just made for... well, that too, but 616 continuity and no concern about it, foremost.
And every universe needs girls running around, named after torture restraints, with a gold bullet between her teeth and a weird light-force-blade-shooty weapon. Especially the mainstream Marvelverse. And possibly the post-InfiniChistResurreCrisis DCU |
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