Marvel doesn't just hit the Reset Button, they smash it with Mjolnir.
After all, this is not the sort of shit that just goes away. America spent a year taken over by a fascist government. Mutantkind took over their own chunk of America and immediately turned it into House of M 2.0. Vegas was destroyed. Barricading New York City should have resulted in millions of deaths from starvation, disease, and demon attack.
By all rights, every one of these should have massive, irrevocable consequences. Such consequences, though, would utterly break the Marvel Universe's "real world but with added fantasy elements" setting.
So Marvel's decided to have their cake and eat it too, telling readers that Secret Empire both matters and doesn't matter.
Destroying completely good buildings for no in-universe reason is the perfect fucking metaphor.
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After all, this is not the sort of shit that just goes away. America spent a year taken over by a fascist government. Mutantkind took over their own chunk of America and immediately turned it into House of M 2.0. Vegas was destroyed. Barricading New York City should have resulted in millions of deaths from starvation, disease, and demon attack.
By all rights, every one of these should have massive, irrevocable consequences. Such consequences, though, would utterly break the Marvel Universe's "real world but with added fantasy elements" setting.
So Marvel's decided to have their cake and eat it too, telling readers that Secret Empire both matters and doesn't matter.
Destroying completely good buildings for no in-universe reason is the perfect fucking metaphor.