After ten old age , the Marvel Cinematic Universe has created a immense electronic internet of films and video show with a shared continuity . The annunciation of something being part of the MCU is a nod to come out in this wider persistence .   If Marvel cartoon strip take place , primarily , on one of sheet of Marvel ’s multiverse , then all of the show and films of the MCU take place on another . This ambitious concept has made it necessary for the case that take place in one motion picture or episode to live in the background of all other moving picture or episodes .

Sure , this allows for fan decoy and uninterrupted summertime subsequence , but it ’s also an attempt at a magnanimous form of serialized storytelling . When one walk into a comic shop , and sees all the Marvel title on the wall , it ’s presume that all of the event are taking place mostly concurrently in existent time . There ’s a presence and immediacy that comics and the subscription sales model have grown into attractively . As a lector , this opens more and more doors in the imagination ; seek to connect outcome between comics , or understand something and enquire how another title will respond to it , is part of the fun .

By connecting the shows and movies even nearer together , fan of both can be exponentially excited by the multitudinous crossing potential of their favorite eccentric . It ’s all one universe , but it ’s not always as unsubdivided as that .

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Here are10 Times Marvel TV Shows Fit With MCU Continuity ( And 10 Times They Ignored It )

FIT - THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK

TheAvengers , directed and written by Joss Whedon united the superteam and simultaneously present audience to what it can be like when the superhero musical genre is in full realize on the openhanded screen door . The ultimate showdown in that movie ’s flood tide showed a group of heroes defending the planet from their domicile in New York City .

The television receiver side of the MCU references The Battle of New York frequently in each of the Netflix shows and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

IGNORED - LUKE CAGE ISN’T APPROACHED BY THE AVENGERS

He ’s only been in the universe for two season , but of all the Netflix Defenders , Luke Cage at least should be approached to work with the Avengers . ,   alike to the way Tony Stark scouted Spider - Man .

It seems like a rank omission on the team ’s behalf to miss this highly powered hero who ’s become a Harlem phenomenon .

Between Cage ’s high invulnerability and super specialty , he ’s definitely as powerful as some member already on the squad , and he ’s a local guy , so at least they should contact out .

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Now , the first few times they inquire , Luke Cage should turn them down . He ’s never been much of a team role player .   Maybe sometime in the future tense , though .

FIT - NICK FURY INAGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nick Fury , make for to life , and back to life , by Samuel L. Jackson , was last find summoning Captain Marvel to help in the Thanos encroachment , but before that , he was also a fundamental part of the birth of Marvel’sAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

He only seem in two episode   - first to determine Agent Phil Coulson , Clark Gregg , on his charge , then to bail him out once Grant Ward ’s malign architectural plan throws the team into flux .

The cameo find a little gimmicky , but it was still Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg , so it recalled The   Avengers film .

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There are no rumor of Jackson ’s reappearance to that show , butAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.has acquire a solid followers , in part because of that link to the movies .

IGNORED - THE ATTACK OF THE HAND

It ’s a big domain , even within New York City , but the crossover between these major reprehensible events is n’t quite where it should be .

When the Hand infiltrated the high rises of Manhattan , and Alexandra launched her attack on the city in Netflix’sDefendersminiseries , her team cause an temblor and tried to turn up mystical energy for a safe while before she was found out .

The Avengers team is in complete mental confusion at this point in the timeline , understandably , but Doctor Strange seemed conspicuously scatty .

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unusual is the Sorcerer Supreme for Earth , he last blocks off , and he was wholly abstracted during a major magical event in his town .

FIT - AGENT CARTERSPINNING OFF FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA

Taking after the Agent Phil Coulson model of show - building , Marvel next spin off Agent Peggy Carter into her own show .   Taking the theatrical role that first endeared fans on cover inCaptain America , Agent Carterexpanded on her part in the state of war drive and as an early progenitor of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The show was pepper with address to character and applied science that would one day come along in the MCU ’s timeline on the big screen , as well as featuring characters who had seem inThe First Avenger .

For its entire eighteen episodes , Agent Carterreminded fan why superheroes were invent in the first shoes , and demonstrate an exemplar of how these stories are timeless .

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IGNORED - FITZSIMMONS AND TONY STARK HAVEN’T MET

While they ’re already work pretty well individually , the fact that three of the top scientist in the MCU have n’t met and worked together is just unfortunate .

If S.H.I.E.L.D. ever reconnects with the Avengers , Agent Leo Fitz ( technology ) and Agent Jemma Simmons ( biochemistry ) could be of great aid to any of Tony Stark ’s works in progress . At the very least , they could match him for laboratory banter .

To take things a measure further , Shuri , Princess of Wakanda is   another character who would play amazingly off the television receiver twosome .

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believe of all the patch twist that could be rationalized by having that much brain power in one laboratory .

FIT - AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. INTRODUCES THE KREE

Under Marvel Studios ’ watchful regard , Agents of S.H.I.E.L.Dhas , at prison term , worked as a narrative farm for the larger MCU , fell in so many references and Easter eggs , that it save continuity before of the movie plots .

The Kree specie were present in season three of the show , but in the most late season , Agent Coulson and his squad have present off against the alien species to protect the farming of Earth ’s cold-blooded population .

It ’s unsung if that storyline , temporarily wrapped up , will connect to the Kree - Skrull War in theCaptain Marvelmovie , but S.H.I.E.L.D. agentive role Nick Fury and Phil Coulson are report to be on the cast leaning for the ' 90s period of time piece , so slow the MCU ’s next motion-picture show will take another step toward cross - medium collaboration .

Nick Fury and Agent Coulson stand together in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

IGNORED - RUNAWAYS

It ’s betimes in the fib ofRunawayson Hulu , but a connection to the present day MCU was sorely miss in the first season ’s ten instalment .

There was an abundance of Marvel Easter eggs , but the show kept its distance from any acknowledgment of the Avengers or event since the Battle of New York .

The studio apartment has said this was an knowing selection , but it ’s still jarring . In the humanity where power are common position , everything would react to those events . Otherwise , afterNew Warriorsand the next Avengers team , the question becomes : how many dissimilar 18 - 35 twelvemonth old crack groups can the MCU drive around the bumper car course of action without doss down them into one another ?

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FIT - THE SOKOVIA ACCORDS RIPPLE EFFECT

The Sokovia Accords , reenact inCaptain America : Civil War , have been a permeating plot of land machine ever since .

The Accords have kept Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on the run for a couple season , attempt to protect Inhumans who are being targeted .

Jessica   Jonesreferenced the anti - superhero sentiment as the champion ’s conflict with discrimination , with the Sokovia Accords playing a part in concisely threatening her with jail time .

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This is the kind of wide - swan event that the MCU necessitate , but beyond a convenient address and a glowering , forbidding menace , the Sokovia Accords   seem   improbable to have any real branching going forwards , in films or telly .

IGNORED - HULK IN LUKE CAGE’S HARLEM

Luke Cage is n’t the first superpowered strong man to brawl on the streets of Harlem . In the early days of the MCU ’s formation , the Hulk bring into one of his most terrible brawls in that very neighborhood in the movieThe Incredible Hulk(2008 ) .

General Thaddeus Ross and peculiar operative Emil Blonsky pursue a fugitive Bruce Banner , but are thwarted by his force until a cocktail of Super Soldier Serum and Banner ’s own profligate combine to turn Blonsky into the Abomination .

The Hulk and the Abomination had   a vicious scrap all over Harlem .

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One would cerebrate that ’s the kind of thing people might blab about in   Luke Cage ,   which have that locality and its history with superheroes .

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