Marvel Television’s Wonder Man | Official Trailer

[Tonguez]

Yeah, it's more like WW2.

I can support that analogy

 

[pukunui]

WandaVision was a very personal story about her relationship with Vision. If they discussed the Blip's impact on the world, I missed it.

No, I don’t think they discussed it, but they showed some of the impacts. They showed the chaos of the return in the hospital from Monica’s perspective (and made that personal when she discovered she’d been gone for five years and her mother had died).

They showed us some of the other impacts as well, like with SWORD and stuff.


I liked the portrayal of Yelena’s experience of being snapped in Hawkeye.

 

[Tonguez]

WandaVision was a very personal story about her relationship with Vision. If they discussed the Blip's impact on the world, I missed it.

I would have wanted something like apparently ended up partially on the cutting room floor of Falcon & Winter Soldier, showing us the chaos that resulted from everyone vanishing. Maybe do it as an anthology show, showing the surviving heroes trying to keep the world from falling apart between Infinity War and Endgame. End the first season with everyone coming back in Endgame, and then do a second, shorter season, showing how everyone is trying to keep things together once the world has to readjust in a hurry, including the very personal stories of someone reappearing in their home to discover their spouse has remarried, etc.

This is the kind of thing the comics companies love to do in limited series. I would have loved to have seen Marvel try something similar on Disney+. (It certainly would have been more interesting than Secret Invasion.)

WandaVision features the return of Monica Rambeau from the Blip and the hospital in chaos as people suddenly reappear (Monica also learns her mother passed on during the Blip). Monica shows the public chaos contrasting with Wanda's very personal trauma.

Hawkeye shows Yelena's Blip (as an instantaneous timeskip - indicating that those who disappeared have no memory of it) but she does respond to her loss by hunting down Barton
We also see how Hawkeye suffers survivor guilt and becomes the Ronin

Falcon and Winter soldier is all about post-Blip social and political fall out

Shang-Chi, Eternals, Wakanda 2, She-Hulk, DD and Echo reference the Blip as setting background.
(Interesting aside Banner-Hulk integration took 18 months in a Gamma lab that he and Tony built during the Blip)
Spiderman has its memorials, Wong became Sorcerer Supreme after Strange blipped, Wilson Fisk consolidates his power as Kingpin, Wakanda starts its Outreach Programme.
Secret Invasion is horrible, but Fury & Talos discuss the Blip and its impacts

So yeah, while I would love to see a proper Anthology of stories set during the Blip, its not like the Blip has been entirely forgotten.

And despite the chaos implied by the Falcon and Winter Soldier, it does seem that the efforts of Wakanda, the surviving Avengers (Okoye, Black Widow, Warmachine, Carol Danvers, Steve, Rocket) and various Government and NGO entities (SWORD, GRC?) helped to maintain a lot of worldwide stability. Indeed one of the Flagsmashers motivations was that the Blip had seen an emergence of global unity where nations put aside their hostilities and differences, opened their borders and created new communities.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hawkeye shows Yelena's Blip (as an instantaneous timeskip - indicating that those who disappeared have no memory of it) but she does respond to her loss by hunting down Barton

Huh, I remembered that as being Black Widow, but that obviously makes less sense.

We also see how Hawkeye suffers survivor guilt and becomes the Ronin

Hawkeye getting a very cringeworthy dad tattoo and standing around in the rain wasn't really what I was hoping for.

Falcon and Winter soldier is all about post-Blip social and political fall out

Right, and I was saying I wanted more of it. That show was Frankensteined together so you have to sort of piece together for yourself what actually happened. We get them rebuilding an international order after everyone returned, but never saw what the social order looked like in the year where everyone was missing. Society would have undergone massive upheaval and we just know that something happened, but not much.

So yeah, while I would love to see a proper Anthology of stories set during the Blip, its not like the Blip has been entirely forgotten.

How people in Spandex respond wasn't really what I was asking for. I name checked The Leftovers, which is about how society teeters on collapse after a mere 2% of the world population vanishes without warning.

And despite the chaos implied by the Falcon and Winter Soldier, it does seem that the efforts of Wakanda, the surviving Avengers (Okoye, Black Widow, Warmachine, Carol Danvers, Steve, Rocket) and various Government and NGO entities (SWORD, GRC?) helped to maintain a lot of worldwide stability.

Honestly the most improbable aspect of the MCU.

And again, I'd like to see how ordinary people dealt with it. If everyone in your family disappeared for a year, leaving only you, you would be a very different person a year later when they returned without warning and them returning wouldn't magically fix what had happened to you, even if you didn't go off and form a new relationship.

Again, see The Nearness of You in Astro City.

 

[Kaodi]

I was thinking actually that the show that might have given us an idea of what happened in between Blip Out and Blip In was Y: The Last Man. But ironically it had the misfortune of falling apart due to COVID.

 

[sabrinathecat]

I have absolute zero hope of this being remotely good in any meaningful way.
The chances of my getting a girlfriend and having a meaningful relationship are better.

 

[jian]

I think, weirdly, the Blip is often taken as an analogy for Covid in the MCU these days and that both works and doesn’t. It works because Covid is, culturally speaking, a topic for a great deal of cultural amnesia and general brushing under the rug while having affected absolutely everyone, some (unfortunately) very profoundly, in dozens of ways.

But as Dorian Lynskey pointed out, Covid is a subject for collective amnesia because it was both irresistible and meaningless - we didn’t make it happen, it wasn’t a war or other deliberate act, it didn’t make us better or worse, we just had to learn from it and move on. In this it’s quite like the 1918-9 flu pandemic, which killed far more people than Covid (50m vs 7m) and indeed more people than WW1 (17m), but in the same way was meaningless and horrific, and almost everyone tried to forget it had happened as soon as possible.

It doesn’t work because the Blip was a deliberate act, and by a threat most people didn’t really know about before (Thanos and alien invaders in general, the Battle of New York notwithstanding). It affected everyone on a much more catastrophic level, killing 4bn people and probably bringing our civilisation to its knees - you really can’t run things with half the people, never mind the accompanying psychological damage, accidents, etc. - before suddenly resurrecting them again. I think people would be trying to forget it and move on as hard as possible, but I think it wouldn’t allow them to, mostly.