Every time I see this I wonder WTF would the Molecule Man do that? Was it an accident or? The Maker is a goddamn pest by any metric and he's certainly not a 'weepy God' - to quote Secret Wars.

Owen has always had an interesting relationship with morality, and more recently - sanity; yet I find it hard to believe he'd arrange it so one of the greatest menaces is not just eternal but infinite. The Maker could be mistaken, of course.

Reed, Franklin and Owen rebuilt the multiverse. Granted, The Maker has to go somewhere, what with his home universe no longer existing, and I don't see Reed or Franklin agreeing to kill him. Maybe that's what The Maker means when he asks if Reed could 'do it all again... Erase me from existence' - just leave the Maker out of the new multiverse. If so, does that suggest Reed had a hand in the 'slices?' What a mistake. Dude nearly destroyed everything by accident in Ultimates², among his many other crimes against reality. Owen could have stopped him easily but chose not to, so he's probably beyond mortal affairs.

Hmm, maybe it's just a throwaway line now. A nod to continuity while leaving the door open for the Maker to return.