Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26838855-20190803131136/@comment-26838855-20190811121445

Shabook wrote: To draw an analogy, both Lamarck and Darwin's theories served to explain the same "giraffe evolution" phenomenon, but only Darwin's serves to explain all evolution phenomenons. Change that to time travel phenomenons, and it is the same.

You are forgetting that the MCU is itself a "separate reality" within the Marvel multiverse. One of the Guardians of the Galaxy animated shows considers the movie canon for their universe, which means that the events seen in Earth-199999 happened the same way in that series' universe. I think this is ultimately where we differ, and what I was saying about the comics rules. In the same way that the MCU Wiki is not beholden to the Marvel Database Wiki, I don't think the MCU is beholden to the Marvel multiverse's rules. With Markus and McFeely and the Russos discussing starting from scratch over time travel rules and not feeling beholden themselves to any sort of established law, I personally think that the MCU is allowed to establish its own rules. After all, if this universe is fundamentally different enough that its population looks like live-action humans in comparison to a universe with a population of drawings, I believe the universe is allowed to have its own time travel rules that it establishes itself, with some time loops and some offshoot timelines/universes.

Also, I was under the impression that that Guardians of the Galaxy show was just an entirely separate universe where events very similar to those of the 2014 film have played out.

Shabook wrote: Didn't want to say that, just that everything points that we'll have to use it. OK cool. Hopefully a good discussion happens and the wiki has a good, clean outcome. I definitely wouldn't say "everything" points that way, but hey.

Shabook wrote: And I'm not sure why Uskok, who is on the verge of not being an admin anymore due to unannounced inactivity, decided that system by himself before waiting to have all the facts, as it should have been done. I believe he did it because, like myself and many other users, we didn't realise there was any sort of debate involved over how it worked, simply taking the show's word for it that it's a time loop that they then broke.

Shabook wrote: It's not, that's why it's work, but thanks anyway. I'm just back home for the weekend to wash clothes and stuff. Sorry to hear that. Good luck with the rest.