That had happened way before Dark Cybertron. Heck that was even before Barber was writing for the series, that was something Costa wrote.Dominic wrote:Sunstreaker and Ironhide are both back with the Autobots, like nothing happened.
Out of jail, but is he back to being a bad guy? That has yet to be determined.Starscream is out of jail, and back to being a bad-guy.
Shockwave is really the only one I can give you. Kup we knew was transported to the Dead Universe... Where it had already been established under Furman that character's can't die there.Shockwave and Kup are back from....
They were already doing that long before Secret Wars. Iron-Man's origins had already slid in time and location from originally being the Vietnam War to the Gulf War in the 90's and eventually became more or less like it is in the films. They played around with Spider-Man's powers, giving him organic webshooters like the first film had done, only to undo it giving him his mechanical webshooters again a year later. The X-Men had black leather costumes for a little while (Mystique even adopted the scaled look from the films for a while). Hawkeye ditched his traditional costume for a look closer to the films. More recently they'd introduced Nick Fury Jr. in 2012 to replace Nick Fury Sr.. They didn't need Secret Wars to make the 616 universe more like the films, they'd already done that.Speculation was that the core Marvel universe was going to be more like the movies, visually and with revised character origins. "Squadron Supreme" (one of the many failed titles) was initially written with the explicit premise that the multiverse was gone (complete with fuzzing out details from Hickman's lead-in to "Secret Wars"). Marvel started scaling back the changes before "Secret Wars" ended.
I can't find anything that says Squadron Supreme had an explicit premise that the multiverse was gone like you're claiming. The only thing I'm seeing is that each member of the team was the sole survivor of their respective universes. Not unlike what happened to a few of the Ultimate characters that ended up permanently in the 616 universe following Secret Wars. All you've pointed out is fan theories and speculation, not any actual evidence Secret Wars could have ended any differently than it did.
And...? I'm not seeing how any of this is relevant."Web-Warriors" included a multi-verse (but recognized that some of it was damaged), and followed directly from one of the "Secret Wars" tie-ins. "Old Man Logan" is still running. And, some people speculate that "Contest of Champions" was originally supposed to be the source for alternate universe characters. (That series was the stupidest fun ever.)
That's not the same thing. Those versions of the characters were recreated by the Maker (Ultimate Reed Richards) to help Eternity fight the First Firmament. The Maker later killed their Captain America when they turned against him, and were last seen chasing him through the multiverse. They haven't appeared since from anything I can find. When we saw the new Ultimate universe more recently in Spider-Men II, it was clearly a different team, with their Captain America still alive and a female Iron Man. None of this indicates they had plans to bring back Ultimate.Ultimates also showed up in the Al Ewing series of the same name, and more recently in .....something or another. My guess is that somebody at Marvel (likely Ewing) had a plan to bring back Ultimate (if not as an imprint, as a setting).