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This move toward retconning and rewriting raises broader questions about the nature of modern comics storytelling, especially in the age of the multiverse. With recent Marvel and DC stories emphasizing multiple realities, time travel, and alternate universes, consequences have become increasingly trivialized. Characters can be killed off, only to reappear in other dimensions, or entire storylines erased with a few digital keystrokes.
The recent Marvel strategy suggests that "there are no real consequences," which some fans find unsatisfying or even damaging to storytelling authenticity. If critical storylines and character arcs can be so easily undone, it diminishes the stakes of the narrative universe.