Quote Originally Posted by Wintermoot View Post
"six one six" is easy to say in movie dialog. "one hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine" is cumbersome. Although you could argue that it would've made the other earth seem more impressive by suggesting that they've found and/or explored at 200,000 other earths. Though then you have to ask why they call themselves earth 838 instead of earth 1 or earth 0... or earth prime... waitasecond....

Besides which, I seriously doubt Kevin Feige gives a toss what the comic publishers have decided is "the official designation"
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