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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Oh, if anyone wants to leave comments on that Google doc or make suggestions/alternate ideas, they would all be welcome. I've kinda hit a wall.
Way I see it, all movies after Infinity War are set in one of two different time periods: pre-snap and post-snap. The pre-snap movies focus more on the characters who got dusted, and the post-snap movies focus on the characters who didn't. The pre-snap movies are lighter in tone, the post-snap movies are darker in tone.
Yeah at this point I'm certain that everyone who got dusted is going to be revived.
However, I'm wondering if they're going to be revived a year after the events of their dusting, and just, half of the world going to have to cope with the other half living a year without them. And half the world if just, horribly traumatised for ever. Or will some time travel stuff mean that only the protagonists of Avengers 4 remember the year?
Like, I don't mind resets if characters remember what was reset? Because I don't like seing character development thrown away. But the issue is, that, there's no way you could do a temporal reset and have every non-dusted protagonist remember stuff, because that's just way too many characters to have go back in time?
Non dusted super hero characters are the original six, rocket, Nebula, Okeyo, M'baku, Shuri (possibly), War Machine, Captain Marvel, Ant-Man, Wasp (I think that's been confirmed?), Valkyrie (also confirmed). That's sixteen characters! Are all of them going to be able to remember the year? Only some of them? Like, when these characters appear in future films, are they going to have different memories?
Those two scenarios would be my favourite. But I wonder if future movies could do justice to how traumatising it would be for families to have to deal with their children and parents being lost for a year.
Perhaps Spiderman Far From Home could do it. Peter dealing with half his friends now being a year above him, and Aunt May dealing with outlining him for a year is thematically very Spider-man.
But would Black Panther 2 have to address Shuri presumibly being Queen for as year? That's a lot of baggage to put on a film.
Really I'd love to see Agents of Shield spend a season exploring a year without half the population. I think other TV shows should avoid it, but I think SHIELD could really get into this Y: The Last Man scenario.
Speaking of the TV shows...Luke Cage last season mentioned in passing a character named "O'Reilly" leaving the police force. This also happens to be the name of the detective character in Cloak and Dagger. So far I thought this was just a coincidence, but nope, the last episode it was mentioned that she was working in Harlem before going to New Orleans...making this the first time a Netflix show is referring in any way to a non-Netflix show and I think hinting to them putting a little bit more effort in building lose connections.
I'm expecting references to the TV shows to start becoming more frequent in the films now. Given that marvel films usually spend three years in production, we're getting to the point that the films are being scripted after the first few Netflix seasons.
Daredevil had an Easter egg in Infinity War, and the Russio brothers said they were tempted to include TV characters if the scope wasn't already so bloated.
Spider-man would be the IP you'd most expect defenders to be namedropped in given that they work in the same city. So we'll see.
I don't really expect any one Defender to turn up in the films until their series leave active development. Because it's difficult to script a TV series and a film at the same time given the different production time spans.
Same is true for the other shows. If series 6 proves to be SHIELD's last, at that point I would suspect live action film appearances for the characters.
I really would love a Runaways/Defenders crossover in a later Runaways season. Escape to New York was one of my favourite Runaways storylines.

I really like how bulky War Machine is this time around. It's a good way to differentiate it from Iron Man.