@avenger85 said:
There's only one explanation for the X-men's dialogue in the first issue All-New X-Men to be different from the dialogue in Lee & Kirby's X-men #8 (the 616 version of the story): that Bendis wrote an alternate version of the story, which would be an alternate version of their history, which by definition makes it an alternate reality.
I respectfully disagree with your theory. Bendis might have written it slightly differently ( he's Bendis ), but doesn't change the fact that when young Cyke died, the old one disappeared too. Had this been an alternate timestream, that would not have happened.
It's not a theory. Regardless of what Bendis' intention was, an alternate version of history is what he wrote; and that, by definition, makes it an alternate reality. I don't mean to be stubborn, but that's just what an alternate reality is.
@danhimself said:
but there is absolutely no other possible explanation for older Cyclops disappearing and the fact that Bendis has said that these are not alternate reality versions and that they are definitely the O5 from the 616 plus that dialogue was written 50 years ago they may have just updated it
There's always another explanation. The adult Cyclops that's around now might not be from the 616; he could be a time displaced version of the All-new Cyclops that showed up after Cyclops died as Apocalypse. I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm just saying there could be any number of comic book-y explanations for what happened in BotA.
It doesn't matter what Bendis said outside the story, in the story he's already established that the events in All-new X-men #1 were different from the events in the X-men #8, which is the 616 version of events.
That makes it, by definition, an alternate version of history, and therefore an alternate reality, regardless of his intentions.
Unless and until he can explain in the story why those events would have been different, the only explanation is the obvious one that I've presented.
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