The Defenders
We’ve Been Told Over And Over No Marvel TV Characters Are Infinity War
This is something rooter have come to carry , as the cinematic universe has almost exclusively avoided even acknowledging the existence of the stories involve home on ABC andNetflix . The one prison term they crossed over right was withCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , which featured characters flesh out by Marvel television set and whose bend totally pivotedAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , but since then the two spiritualist have been distanced and reduced to passing extension . That did n’t block rooter expectingInfinity Warto be a convergence point , although it ’s been clean for a tenacious clock time that such thing will belike never happen . Marvel ’s TV characters seem destined to be bar from the MCU movies .
Indeed , the legal separation between the Marvel video and cinematic globe has n’t on the nose been a harmonious one . In 2016,Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.actress Chloe Bennet , when asked why the Avengers had n’t been called in to carry on with the Hive crisis on the show , frankly said ( viaNerdist),People who make movies for Marvel , why do n’t you acknowledge what pass on our show ? Why do n’t you Guy go inquire them that ? Cause they do n’t seem to care!More late on the other side , Kevin Feige said goggle box crossing over looked incredibly unlikely .
The absence of the planet ’s greatest heroes from the show , as well as everything get going on in theDefendersuniverse on Netflix , presents a commonly hash out game - hollow : if everything S.H.I.E.L.D. is dealing with is so major and potentially cosmos - destroying , why doesn’tIron ManorThororCaptain Americaturn up to help ? And if S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Defenders are such grown deals in what they do , why do n’t the Avengers call them up to help deal with Thanos ? It ’s often hard to consider these tarradiddle even take place in the same vast universe : how can you believeThe Defendersis a Marvel story when it train office in New York but barely glances atStark Tower ? Well , there ’s a ground for that .
Marvel Studios And Marvel TV Aren’t Part Of The Same Disney Subsidiary
The major rationality for no crossovers to begin with was logistics . Obviously , chances are thatRobert Downey Jr.and his A - lean co - star are a tad too busy to take a rupture from their dateless filming schedules to make guest appearance on an ABC or Netflix show . Something like that is in all probability not covered in the standard Marvel player ' contract bridge either .
However , when it comes to dealing with the latter worry the lack of the TV worldly concern ’s bearing in the picture show that has more to do with the division in Marvel Entertainment . Kevin Feige , the header of Marvel Studios and the MCU ’s delineate architect , long had bruit frictions with then Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter . In 2015 , Perlmutter stop superintend development of Marvel Studios , which allowed Feige to report directly to the heads of Disney alternatively .
However , the video variance stay under Perlmutter ’s department . Given the oftentimes - talk over animus between the pair , which allegedly fare to a coming when Feige jeopardize to take leave over budget question regardingCaptain America : Civil War , it make sense that the movies and goggle box shows do n’t crossover in any impactful means .
Things Could Change Soon for Marvel TV
While that ’s the position quo now , change is coming to Marvel idiot box , regardless of storytelling feasibleness . Disney will before long debut their own streaming armed service , and while it wo n’t have any of the Netflix Marvel shows on it , a young live - action Marvel show will be among the single offerings . Should this be done specifically under the Disney umbrella , it would give this finical Marvel television project the kind of exemption and resources the ABC and Netflix establish want ( not to mention a grown budget ) , and thus the chances of a crossing over would be greatly increased .
But that ’s ignoring everything we ’ve obtain so far . As it stands , the most realistic mode that a crossover between the Marvel movie and the current crop of television set shows would bechance is one of stale hard stage business : Disney would have to bring Perlmutter ’s air division entirely under their control . Even then , though , the unsubdivided logistics of lining up the long production of a major motion picture and the relatively discriminating reversal of a weekly television serial make doing anything too grand still improbably complex . We ’re dealing with a profound issue that date stamp back before Marvel Studios and Entertainment divide .
How We Can Expect Marvel Movies & TV To Work Together
In many shipway , it’sgood for the various Marvel storytellers and show - runnersif the two man remain separate . Not have to distribute with airless to 20 films and seven series Charles Frederick Worth of persistence can be freeing , and shows like those on Netflix have the chance to work with more adult story - lines that would n’t vanish in the PG-13 trappings of the movies . There is a sense of satisfaction to be find in the possibility of everything tie together neatly and with purpose , but when circumstances prevent that from happen , the options useable have their benefit that are worth drawing attention to .
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This inescapable situation need n’t be the be all and end all . Creatively , there are various selection undefendable as to how the TV and motion picture earth could meet , they just need to bare lower limit of communication . Even without cameos or cinematic crosswalk , S.H.I.E.L.D. can still be impact byInfinity War , while the New York - based Defenders can continue to live in a world affected by what pass on the braggy covert ; Kingpin ’s rise came directly from the Battle of New York . It just ask the appearance to make some consideration .
The fact persist , though , that it ’s one way . TV can make way for films , but not the other way around;Coulson is returning to the big CRT screen inCaptain Marvel , but as it ’s a prequel it ’s unlikely to even glint withS.H.I.E.LD.However , while that does beg the questions discussed at the start , it ’s good than nothing , and pleases the majority ; fans who do n’t watch any Marvel boob tube are n’t clamoring for anAvengers 4interlude focusing on , say , Melinda May .
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The link between Marvel moving-picture show and TV has always been more complicated than the " it ’s all connected " saw propose , and withAvengers : eternity Warthat illusion is truly being shattered . But render how difficult it would be otherwise , perhaps it ’s for the best .
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