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*** According to a canon comic book series [[RecursiveAdaptation spun off]] from ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' , the M'Kraan Crystal was fractured, and destroyed the alternate universe of the 1990s Marvel cartoons. So, I think that when the M'Kraan Crystal is destroyed, it only takes with it its respective universe.
*** So 90's cartoon Spider-Man is dead? That's depressing.
*** Ouch. I think you just killed a piece of my childhood with that reveal.
** If a multiverse is made up of all possible universes, and there are universes that can cause the destruction of the entire multiverse, then it stands to reason those universes are not technically possible, because the multiverse still exists. Or, as has been already said: [[AWizardDidIt A Watcher did it]].
*** In theory, the M'Kraan Crystal could only destroy HALF of all universes, because the other half would be universes where the people worked out how to stop it.

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*** According to a canon comic book series [[RecursiveAdaptation spun off]] from ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' , the M'Kraan Crystal was fractured, and destroyed the alternate universe of the 1990s Marvel cartoons. So, I think that when the M'Kraan Crystal is destroyed, it only takes with it its respective universe.
*** So 90's cartoon Spider-Man is dead? That's depressing.
*** Ouch. I think you just killed a piece of my childhood with that reveal.
** If a multiverse is made up of all possible universes, and there are universes that can cause the destruction of the entire multiverse, then it stands to reason those universes are not technically possible, because the multiverse still exists. Or, as has been already said: [[AWizardDidIt A Watcher did it]].
*** In theory, the M'Kraan Crystal could only destroy HALF of all universes, because the other half would be universes where the people worked out how to stop it.
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*** Prior to that it was caught too late and an overlay page that had Havok using a gun didn't remain intact when producing copies.
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* How is Sugar-man's tongue able to kill Vincente despite the fact that he was in a gaseous form?!? a quote from Wiki/TheOtherWiki : [[AC:On their way to find Illyana Rasputin, they unfortunately ran in to Sugar Man. Although they attempted to shoot the maniac, he stabbed the pair with his razor-sharp tongue, almost killing Husk and delivering a fatal blow to Vincente, ''even though he was in his gaseous form at the time.'']] I call shenanigans. This has irked me for more than a bloody decade.

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* How is Sugar-man's tongue able to kill Vincente despite the fact that he was in a gaseous form?!? a quote from Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki : [[AC:On their way to find Illyana Rasputin, they unfortunately ran in to Sugar Man. Although they attempted to shoot the maniac, he stabbed the pair with his razor-sharp tongue, almost killing Husk and delivering a fatal blow to Vincente, ''even though he was in his gaseous form at the time.'']] I call shenanigans. This has irked me for more than a bloody decade.
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*** According to a canon comic book series [[RecursiveAdaptation spun off]] from the ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' Animated Series, the M'Kraan Crystal was fractured, and destroyed the alternate universe of the 1990s Marvel cartoons. So, I think that when the M'Kraan Crystal is destroyed, it only takes with it its respective universe.

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*** According to a canon comic book series [[RecursiveAdaptation spun off]] from the ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' Animated Series, ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' , the M'Kraan Crystal was fractured, and destroyed the alternate universe of the 1990s Marvel cartoons. So, I think that when the M'Kraan Crystal is destroyed, it only takes with it its respective universe.

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*** It's completely under the radar, but in the issue before the classic Galactus trilogy in ComicBook/FantasticFour, Maximus the Mad sets off a machine that the ComicBook/SilverSurfer appears to "hear" (in quotes because, you know, space). The subtext is that Maximus intentionally drew Galactus to Earth, [[OmnicidalManiac hoping to destroy the humans]] while Attilan was safe behind the negative zone barrier. So, in AoA, that didn't happen, and it took longer for Galactus to notice Earth on his own.

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*** It's completely under the radar, but in the issue before the classic Galactus trilogy in ComicBook/FantasticFour, Maximus the Mad sets off a machine that the ComicBook/SilverSurfer appears to "hear" (in quotes because, you know, space). The subtext is that Maximus intentionally drew Galactus to Earth, [[OmnicidalManiac hoping to destroy the humans]] while Attilan was safe behind the negative zone barrier. So, in AoA, [=AoA=], that didn't happen, and it took longer for Galactus to notice Earth on his own.



** Sabretooth operates on AtLeastIAdmitIt- he thinks that deep down, everyone is just as bad as he is,. In other words part of his identity is that "I do evil things, most people don't; acting evil makes me special and gets me noticed" and thus, doesn't truly think of himself as evil (though he'll play it for effect), just a normal man pushed over the edge by a world that didn't give him the love he used to crave and now barely feels. Someone actually managing to KillAllHumans (or coming close enough) means that there 1) there are a lot less people left to kill (ie. take his problems out on), and 2) he won't get to be as monstrous as he likes to think he is ('cause in a post-apocalyptic hellhole, he's not as scary or special as he is in civilization). Basically he's filled with self-loathing and avoiding his guilt and insecurities by acting like he's pure evil (he's doing a good job, I'll grant) when deep down he feels worthless and damned already, probably felt like he was damned before he did anything worth being damned for. He's ''afraid'' of an actual CrapsackWorld because he can't role-play the Boogeyman anymore and further he might just genuinely think Apocalypse is worse than he (he has a case there, you have to admit). Now he's forced to look in the mirror and realize "no, I'm not an uber-force of evil; I'm just a murderous loser who needs to scare people". And he doesn't like it, so- possibly slowly- he changes. Helps that bad as he was in those days, he probably still hadn't committed his worst excesses.

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** Sabretooth operates on AtLeastIAdmitIt- he thinks that deep down, everyone is just as bad as he is,. In other words part of his identity is that "I do evil things, most people don't; acting evil makes me special and gets me noticed" and thus, doesn't truly think of himself as evil (though he'll play it for effect), just a normal man pushed over the edge by a world that didn't give him the love he used to crave and now barely feels. Someone actually managing to KillAllHumans (or coming close enough) means that there 1) there are a lot less people left to kill (ie. take his problems out on), and 2) he won't get to be as monstrous as he likes to think he is ('cause in a post-apocalyptic hellhole, he's not as scary or special as he is in civilization). Basically he's filled with self-loathing and avoiding his guilt and insecurities by acting like he's pure evil (he's doing a good job, I'll grant) when deep down he feels worthless and damned already, probably felt like he was damned before he did anything worth being damned for. He's ''afraid'' of an actual CrapsackWorld because he can't role-play the Boogeyman anymore and further he might just genuinely think Apocalypse is worse than he (he has a case there, you have to admit). Now he's forced to look in the mirror and realize "no, I'm not an uber-force of evil; I'm just a murderous loser who needs to scare people". And he doesn't like it, so- so — possibly slowly- slowly — he changes. Helps that bad as he was in those days, he probably still hadn't committed his worst excesses.


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** There's actually a moment in the ''Weapon X: First Class'' flashback series that elaborates on this. Turns out, way back in ''Giant–Size X-Men'' when Charles Xavier recruited the iconic second team to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa, Sabretooth was one of the potential recruit instead of Wolverine. Xavier thought that he could, at that point, rehabilitate Sabretooth into a force for good, except that he didn't have the time to do so and so went with Wolverine instead. Remember also that Sabretooth didn't explicitly become a serial killer until his appearances in ''Spectacular Spider–Man'' alongside the Foreigner, and that in his earlier appearances in ''Iron Fist'', he was a only a (admittedly, particularly dangerous) pirate. Since the [=AoA=] point of divergence was well before any of these, Sabretooth developing into a different person is not entirely impossible.

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