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The logic about justifying the difference between the Marvel comic universe and the Doctor Who Universe (which, realistically, was indeed intended to be the same fictional multiverse at one point) is that most of these stories were still only meant to have a loose connection, and that it's most logical to interpret things like the Sleaze Brothers appearing in DWM as a crossover, since the was how it was meant to come across.

To explain it better, something like the Iris Wildthyme series is intended to have a clear connection to other Doctor Who stories, and they pretty clearly meant for someone like us to point those connections out. Meanwhile, a connection between the Doctor Who universe and most of the other Marvel stories is likely coincidental -- they would never imagine us trying to rectify the shared universe to that extent.

The issue here is that the linking segments are set in the Doctor Who Universe -- without debate. It's set during a Doctor Who Magazine comic on the same planet, and the main villain is a Doctor Who Magazine character, and the Seventh Doctor shows up at the end. And the plot surrounds that villain, who again is Hob, collecting date files about events which have taken place in his universe (which is the Doctor Who Universe). By extrapolation, this is the only Marvel comic that tries to discuss the implications of the Doctor Who universe being the same as other Marvel comics -- meaning that to properly cover it, we essentially need to be able to discuss the stories that Hob has kept on file.