OneDumbG0
Find Your Own Fire
Originally posted by llagrok
The reigning did indeed happen in the 616 timeline, then Thor erased all of it and set time back.
Same thing as 'Age of Apocalypse,' 'Here Comes Tomorrow,' 'Days Of Future Past,' etc. When you screw with timelines and erase events and set time back, they become alternate universes. The only way you can screw with time and not cause a divergent timeline in Marvel is with the Forever Crystal that Kang and Immortus used in 'Avengers Forever.' That crystal allowed Immortus to change things in the past while preventing time divergences.
Everything else, is an alternate universe. Magni, King Thor's son, is not a 616 character. 'The Reigning' and all of it's events are self-contained in it's own alternate universe. It's not canon.
I don't agree that Millar and Hitch's current run on Fantastic Four is an alternate timeline though. It's set in the 616 universe. It's just set around the time of Doom's capture by the Mighty Avengers and before 'Secret Invasion.' Although... it's curious how a certain Doctor makes an appearance in the ending of the latest issue. How that resolves itself, we'll just have to see...