Marvel Television’s Wonder Man | Official Trailer

pukunui said:

Also nice to know that the Department of Damage Control is still around ... it feels kinda like Feige forgot about them for a while.

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This seems to be the Marvel MO overall. They create a thing, you don't hear about it for 3 movies, and then its back in focus.

Stalker0 said:

This seems to be the Marvel MO overall. They create a thing, you don't hear about it for 3 movies, and then its back in focus.

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The alternative -- mentioning all the things they've introduced in all of their subsequent movies and TV shows -- is a horrifying idea. Let stuff come up naturally.

Stalker0 said:

This seems to be the Marvel MO overall. They create a thing, you don't hear about it for 3 movies, and then its back in focus.

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Pretty similar to DMing, really.

Whizbang Dustyboots said:

The alternative -- mentioning all the things they've introduced in all of their subsequent movies and TV shows -- is a horrifying idea. Let stuff come up naturally.

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Oh that's what I mean. I don't think every single thing in every previous marvel movie should be brought up, but there is a lot of stuff you would expect to come up naturally that didn't.

The blip is probably the biggest example. That is such an intense event, that is going to impact EVERYONE. You would expect that thing to be a factor in every marvel movie for a while. And yet, the most we heard about it for a long while was a few lines in spiderman: far from home.

Stalker0 said:

Oh that's what I mean. I don't think every single thing in every previous marvel movie should be brought up, but there is a lot of stuff you would expect to come up naturally that didn't.

The blip is probably the biggest example. That is such an intense event, that is going to impact EVERYONE. You would expect that thing to be a factor in every marvel movie for a while. And yet, the most we heard about it for a long while was a few lines in spiderman: far from home.

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Yeah, ironically, the Blip was mostly and well-discussed in Black Widow and in Falcon & The Winter Soldier, which were both under-watched. It definitely feels like a vein that could have been more explored.

I don't know that the MCU needs its equivalent to HBO's The Leftovers, but there's a lot of drama in half of the people on Earth vanishing, how the world copes and reorganizes, and then the chaos caused when they all blip back.

With the benefit of hindsight, that would have been an ideal place to start with the post-Endgame movies and TV shows; just have several in a row coping with the Blip and the next wave with the aftermath. Let these big cosmic events have the appropriate impact, so that the stakes for future big events feel more meaningful.

(Obligatory shout-out to Astro City's "The Nearness of You" for an all-time example of showing how big superhero crossover events would feel to an ordinary person.)

Stalker0 said:

Oh that's what I mean. I don't think every single thing in every previous marvel movie should be brought up, but there is a lot of stuff you would expect to come up naturally that didn't.

The blip is probably the biggest example. That is such an intense event, that is going to impact EVERYONE. You would expect that thing to be a factor in every marvel movie for a while. And yet, the most we heard about it for a long while was a few lines in spiderman: far from home.

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Practically every Marvel TV show has referenced the Blip and most of the movies have too unless they were in a different Timeline (Loki, Guardians 3).
Sure some of the references seem a bit frivolous but thats just the MCU idea of moving on.

I suppose that in a world were people are realising that Aliens, Super soldiers and Wizards are all real, the Blip might quickly fade into history (how many of us still talk about the Covid Lockdowns or the fall of the USSR?)

Whizbang Dustyboots said:

With the benefit of hindsight, that would have been an ideal place to start with the post-Endgame movies and TV shows ...

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There might not have been several in a row, but that is more or less how they started the post-Endgame content ... WandaVision was all about Wanda dealing (or not) with her grief over Vision's death and the fact that she'd been blipped for five years.

Tonguez said:

I suppose that in a world were people are realising that Aliens, Super soldiers and Wizards are all real, the Blip might quickly fade into history (how many of us still talk about the Covid Lockdowns or the fall of the USSR?)

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The Blip would never fade into history. It is not like the USSR or COVID at all. It is more akin to The Flood, the one attested to by every culture on Earth, that can trace itself back to the end of the Ice Age. People will be talking about The Blip until there are no more people left to talk.

Kaodi said:

The Blip would never fade into history. It is not like the USSR or COVID at all. It is more akin to The Flood, the one attested to by every culture on Earth, that can trace itself back to the end of the Ice Age. People will be talking about The Blip until there are no more people left to talk.

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Yeah, it's more like WW2.

pukunui said:

There might not have been several in a row, but that is more or less how they started the post-Endgame content ... WandaVision was all about Wanda dealing (or not) with her grief over Vision's death and the fact that she'd been blipped for five years.

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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.)