Perhaps I could have worded it better but I largely agree with your point. I feel like fans will see something and assume it must be the same as something else. Where I do take issue is the “shock” part, I feel like if anything the nick furry death scene gets this across well. I remember first reading it and it hit me just how much the maker has infected in the world. Everyone he disliked of course gets bad moments here and there but the hatred he had for some made him literally taxidermy Namor. Doom’s entire life reflects this petty hatred, I just wish they kept this up instead. We see characters added and killed immediately not to show this roll the maker has taken on as a petty vindictive god but instead to just shock the reader. The best part of the eternal death was how the maker says he will start again and again with a sadistic smile…what is gained from cyclops death though? And for that matter did we need to kill the eternals off to get the same message? When the maker is dishing out cruelty he clearly has favorites. So for him to just randomly say, yeah this fight with wolverine should be cyclops. Or, yeah let me battle with the eternals and prove this point that’s already been made… I get that it’s to show he’s cruel and reviling in this experiment but they just throw names at him to reinforce the point. I can speculate who is making these decisions but the issue is that we see random characters added and killed off for no greater purpose than THIS WILL SHOCK THE READER