EnygmaSoul
Company of Negotiable Virtue
- Location
- In your eyes and in your arms and in your head.
It's commonly accepted that the mainline Earth-616 Marvel setting (like most comic book settings) has such a diverse and overwhelmingly powerful array of threats in it (especially once you leave earth-local) that anyone living there is essentially on a death world. After all, the heroes have to save the day every time, and there are certain threats out there that only need to win ONCE for Average Joe Citizen to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Odds are that someday, if you aren't starring in your own title, you'll be collateral damage to some scheme or crisis.
It's also commonly accepted that the the MCU's Earth-199999 is a significantly less dangerous place to live, although as the MCU continues to expand over time, this becomes less certain of a statement.
What I was wondering, however, is where Ultimate Marvel's Earth-1610 falls on that spectrum. Is it, like the MCU, a net "safer" timeline simply because it had a more limited period of existence for new threats to be introduced and developed? Or are there reasons why living there would suck far, far worse for the average citizen than living on Earth 616? I really only have tenuous, hazy memories of the Ultimate line myself, having largely ignored everything except the Spider-Man title, so I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on where Average Joe Citizen is more at risk, and deserves to live with more existential dread of their inevitable fate.
It's also commonly accepted that the the MCU's Earth-199999 is a significantly less dangerous place to live, although as the MCU continues to expand over time, this becomes less certain of a statement.
What I was wondering, however, is where Ultimate Marvel's Earth-1610 falls on that spectrum. Is it, like the MCU, a net "safer" timeline simply because it had a more limited period of existence for new threats to be introduced and developed? Or are there reasons why living there would suck far, far worse for the average citizen than living on Earth 616? I really only have tenuous, hazy memories of the Ultimate line myself, having largely ignored everything except the Spider-Man title, so I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on where Average Joe Citizen is more at risk, and deserves to live with more existential dread of their inevitable fate.