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You would expect the death of eighteen million mutants (or however many died in Genosha) to have had some impact.
But yeah, what they said, basically. X-Force and New X-Men are clearly "shaking hands" a bit, with Wolverine turning up in the latest one, but continuity is perforce somewhat loose, since a vast number of tales have been told in the Marvel Universe and it is almost impossible to keep a tight grip on things. This is usually shown by characters not remembering having met before (because the researchers missed a particular issue of Marvel Comics Presents, say), or, in extreme cases, coming back from the dead. This is further complicated by "retcons" - bits of retroactive continuity which do not jibe with evgents in the past. For example, the retcon that Luke and Leia are brother and sister sort of jibes with a) Luke fancying her and b) Leia snogging Luke.
Thing is, Marvel have never had a "reboot", so all their characters exist in an eternal present, and will continue to do so, with history being forced to adapt. So, for example, Prof. X and Magneto first met in World War 2, then in Korea and finally in Israel in the 60s, IIRC.
"Crisis on Infinte Earths" was DC's attemnpt to deal with the fact that, partly as a result of being formed from a number of different comics imprints taken over at various times, their universe had become insanely complicated - There were, for example, two Supermen, one a reasonably tough cookie from the Justice Society of America and the other the ridiculously powerful superhero from the John Byrne reinvention - necessitating two different Earths to exist. Then add the Charlton heroes (Blue beetle, the Question etc), the Fawcett Heroes (the insanely populous Marvel family, whose villains were generally too fuckign stupid for any self-respecting hero to go near, so had an ambiguous relationship to the rest of the Universe), and basically a great big mess of entangled continuity developed over 50 years. The crisis was an attempt to resolve this, create a single consistent world, kill off the surplus characters and start anew. The fact that they had to have *another * one - Zero Hour - might give you an idea of how successfully it went.
Marvel, however, have never had one fo these, and as such all the books (except the aforementioned Ultimate line, the "What If.." books and the Transformers, way back when) theoretically take place in the same place. The "Heroes Reborn" farrago (in which, for reasons it is probably best not to go into, all the pre-X-Men heavy hitters were placed in a pocket universe) could have been such a reboot, but they cocked it, again IIRC.
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(Similarly, Buffy works on the assumption that this *is* our universe - except with demons and *without* that popular show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. No, it still hurts my mind to think about it.)