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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Well they were never gonna have the royal family debut on the show and chances are they don't even have a clear idea what they're gonna be doing with the Inhumans movie yet.
Cross continuity is more of a problem with AOS than it is with shows like Daredevil, in part because Daredevil has itself a niche that is unlikely to cause any problems should Daredevil or characters from his series show up in the movies, and in part because AOS tends to go really freaking overboard when it comes to canon. It wouldn't be the first time the movies have ignored one of the series' plotlines.
In the case of the Inhumans, they didn't just use the Inhumans and set them up, they developed their entire history on Earth, setting up an entire society and their backstory, practices and the details of what it means to be an Inhuman in the first place, and bringing them to their ultimate destruction. All things that should've been saved for the movie, and which if acknowledged make things difficult to write a further plot around without having to refer the viewer back to the show.
I doubt they'll be entirely unmentioned in the movie, though, simply because AOS did so much with it that ignoring it would be like outright declaring the show non-canon, but nothing beyond maybe seeing Jiaying or Skye being on a list of known/historical Inhumans on Earth.
edited 19th Feb '16 10:04:17 PM by KnownUnknown
I'd be fine with the TV show characters not playing a major role in the movies, but I'd at least like a cameo. Just, some kind of acknowledgement from the movies that, yes, the TV shows are indeed happening in the same universe. It kind of sucks that the burden of TV-movie universe linkage falls solely on the shows.
When we're done, there won't be anything left.This is what Clark Gregg said on the subject
. He doesn't sound hopeful.
It would have been nice if they had stuck Fitzsimmons into the background of the Helicarrier in Age of Ultron, but all in all, I am okay with the way they deal with it now. I think the Inhumans movie can easily acknowledge that there are people with abilities running around at earth without making it necessary for anyone to watch Ao S.
The entire premise the show was using was something established in Infinity, that in addition to Attilan (where the main characters live), there had been various smaller Inhuman settlements hidden all throughout the world.
Therefore the show could use the concept of a hidden city of superhumans without stepping on the toes of whatever the movies decide to do with Attilan and the royal family.
As the physical manifestation of the laws of the universe, I deny any inolvement in this bout.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."That still has problems. In particular, AOS has the entire world know about Inhumans, believes them to be alien invaders, and has already has the whole "hunted down like mutants" thing going on. Even if it's another settlement, they would still be starting in the middle of the plot.
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They don't have to copy X-Men (they live on the moon, after all), but they do need to have a connection to Earth if they're going to bother making to them human at all.
Compare Black Panther. The plot is about, and centered on, Wakanda. It's not about Iron Man, or Captain America, or America or SHIELD or any of the non-Wakandan characters that are nonetheless present in his stories. But he lives on Earth, interacts with the state of the Earth in the Marvel Universe, and that setting is central to his character.
edited 20th Feb '16 1:32:25 PM by KnownUnknown
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Well the TV division is still overseen by Ike Perlmutter, who is a persona non gratae at the film department.
Other than that I don't think there's any animosity. Just that the film division obviously does not really care what's going on in the TV shows.
edited 20th Feb '16 1:34:03 PM by comicwriter

One could try, though generally those things don't really work.