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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And I agree with your hopes. I'm just saying I don't find it likely.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I personally am kind of alright with comics censoring sweawords. It's a artistic flourish I kind of like.
Netflix MCU isn't MCU though. It was MCU-adjacent at best, but now it's basically nothing.
In part because Disney(who owns marvel) killed it.
and the other show aren that much, at best Agent of Shield have is moment of darkness: Hive and graviton plot that saw someone severing the hands of someone else.
But inmortal hulk level? no.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"In regards to Samuel Stern, I say again: the Incredible Hulk is basically non-canon.
My various fanfics.Edited by alliterator on Apr 12th 2020 at 2:38:57 AM
I mean, this isn't even a "but they can't show up in movies!" question; they are literally part of the MCU, Kevin Feige announced them as part of the MCU when they were first announced, their Wikipedia entries say "Part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" and so on.
The problem is that some people believe that there are two MCUs, the movies and the shows, since the shows referenced the movies and not vice-versa, but, of course, that's not true: there is and has always been only one MCU and everything in it is canon (...aside from Inhumans).
"But then how can Mahershala Ali play both Cottonmouth and Blade?" I don't know, Gemma Chan can play both Minn-Erva and Sersi and both Captain Marvel and The Eternals are still canon.
"But the references are just one-way!" And if they weren't part of the MCU, there wouldn't be any references.
Edited by alliterator on Apr 12th 2020 at 2:49:30 AM
There is an argument to be made that specifically the Netflix shows and only the Netflix shows have been retconned out of the MCU, but I don't feel that argument holds water until we're explicitly told so by Word of God.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 12th 2020 at 2:52:55 AM
They have a TV budget. That's pretty much it.
*hesitantly backs away from Legends reference*
I mean, the old Star Wars EU had tiers of canon, while the MCU hasn't reached that point yet. If you ask Kevin Feige, he will say that, of course everything is canon and a crossover could totally happen someday. While probably avoiding any questions about Inhumans.
Edited by alliterator on Apr 12th 2020 at 4:15:35 AM
Amusingly recent Star Wars movies have started making references to the wider EU canon. From the more major in Darth Maul's reappearance in Solo to the more minor in Ashoka Tano having a small voice-cameo in Rise of Skywalker.
Though I'm not sure if the MCU has ever referenced the Netflix shows.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."The only references to the Netflix shows outside of other Netflix shows that I recall were the Judas bullets from Luke Cage (2016) being used in an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Danny Rand being namedropped in an episode Runaways.

Second verse, same as the first: I'll believe when I see it.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."