"Helmet."

AoA Jean alludes to the continuity/timeline changes, because like we mentioned there have been a few; but we're referencing a load-bearing piece of mainline Rogue's continuity, ROM #32! In the midst of a battle between the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (or the girl members, Mystique, Destiny, and Rogue!) and the monstrous Hybrid, Rogue had touched Rom, and seen his inner goodness. That changed her: Rogue had previously been kinda mean, and pretty obedient to Mystique; but it's a straight line from her touching Rom to becoming an X-Man. (By the way, we made a subtle change on the AoA Rogue figure for this one!) Read more!

"Events."

The Age of Apocalypse Forge appeared in X-Man, and died there: Jean encountered Nate Grey later and would've picked that up since he had been a father-figure to him. 

We might have to check out Immortal X-Men #7 one of these days; since it features Nightcrawler abusing the hell out of the Krakoan-reincarnation system. Think playing a video game and just plunking in quarter after quarter every time you die...with two rolls of quarters and a lot of determination.

I also think I might have backpedaled on an earlier notion, that someone would need to find another person from the Age of Apocalypse to scan for a return trip there; but Kurt indicates after going back and forth Zero would probably be able to do it again. 

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"Face."

We're extrapolating a bit, from something I remember from the Earth X/Universe X/Paradise X books: despite there being an infinity of alternate universes, there was maybe only one Hell, and Mephisto was maybe behind the proliferation of alternate universes, in the hopes of finding one where he escaped judgement. The idea of Rom's Limbo being the same across the multiverse was horrifying: imagine every Dire Wraith across the multiverse, dumped into the same hole. Is that a little much; do even the Wraiths deserve that? Forever, with no chance of escape or release? Having spent hundreds of years fighting them, Rom might say they have it coming. (I need to do that re-read, since Rom does make an appearance in those books; Cap gets the neutralizer from him!) 

 We've also hopefully established, Magneto does not seem to care for Rom; and we'll see why later: it's an in-continuity answer, or at least related to continuity?

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"Paranoid."

So, if the Age of Apocalypse didn't have the Fantastic Four (with powers, anyway) did a lot of things from the first 50 or so issues of their book just not show up there? Presumably Namor once again died a bum in the bowery, but would the Skrulls have turned up? Or was Apocalypse more a deterrent than we'd maybe care to admit? Read more!

"Welcome."

I finished this strip, before I bought Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse #1, the third of five one-shots with the now-mutant Ms. Marvel travelling back in time to various big X-events to fight what's left of Legion. (The David Haller persona, that used to rein the others in, was gone; leaving a power-hungry monster.) Legion even mentions, this is one place he maybe never saw, because he caused it by killing his dad Xavier. Forced into a truce, Ms. Marvel and Legion eventually find the X-Men, the few that are left, preparing to die: this was the night before their final battle with Apocalypse, which of course turns out differently here. (And not in a good way!) I'm not sure how Legion would know this, but he mentions that world was about to "die in hellfire," which may or may not be overdramatic. 

If memory serves, since I don't have it next to me: in 1995's X-Men: Omega, the humans bomb Apocalypse and his forces, which maybe wasn't necessary, since Magneto tears him in half. Which also maybe wasn't necessary, since doesn't Bishop use the M'kraan Crystal to fix the timeline? I don't recall, exactly how big a nuke the humans were dropping, though: a good-sized one to get Apocalypse, or a planet-killer like the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes. We next see the Age in What If...? #81, which you could consider an alternate reality or just a continuation: Magneto saves his X-Men from the explosion, and his world goes on to face Galactus. (That one's interesting, but the AoA Night Thrasher and his brother get a lot of the page time!) Sometime also in '96, we get X-Man '96, where Nate returns to the AoA, but I don't think he sees any X-Men. There's a number of one-shots and such, then in 2005 for the tenth anniversary there's a 6-issue Age of Apocalypse mini-series. (The GCD says that's written by C. B. Cebulski, but it was under his pseudonym "Akira Yoshida.") Then, the AoA returns in 2011's Uncanny X-Force #11. 

Anyway, out of all of those, I'm not sure the continuity lines up smoothly anywhere.

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