Uhh… they’ve always been canon to the movies. Remember when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was cleaning up the mess left behind from Thor 2? Or the constant references to the Battle of New York? The Netflix Marvel shows made references to the MCU films all the time.
It’s the reason I preferred the MCU over the DCEU. DC’s TV shows had absolutely nothing to do with their new movies, so they didn’t contribute to the world building. It felt pointless to watch stand-alone series that went nowhere, so I skipped them all. But the Marvel series were all set in the MCU, so it was developing more heroes who could potentially make cameos on the big screen. Or further developing heroes who were previously on the big screen, like Wanda, Loki, Phil Coulson, Hawkeye, etc.
simple@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah it’s easy for something to be canon when there are absolutely 0 consequences and an infinite number of universes so they can retcon anything they want later
MortyMcFry@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Iron Man’s snap ended my interest
qooqie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly how I felt. I knew it was heading towards multiverse stuff, but it ruins any impact of any action that the characters take. Sure Ironman might’ve snapped himself into death in that universe, but there’s infinite hims so who cares? Multiverse writing for any fandom is a mistake
wjrii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Retcon, recast, revisit, pivot to standalone stories, nothing “matters” anymore. It might have gone better if they’d used it more sparingly, but leaning in has made it exhausting, and I say that as someone who still generally gets around to seeing things and doesn’t hate them. It definitely reduced my senses of urgency and engagement though. They took too many lessons from the comics and made their stories feel less like events and more like things you’ll catch up on when you’re bored.