Avengers: Infinity War
The cliffhanger terminate ofAvengers : Infinity Warleft witness stimulate and amazed . Thanos had succeeded in his insane finish to " rebalance the creation " , with a cinch of his fingers erasing one-half of all life ( including thedeaths of some key Avengers ) . It was the biggest issue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to escort , sure to have monolithic repercussions for the rest of the MCU . After all , the core precept of the MCU has always been " it ’s all plug into " , mean that - in theory at least - the " snap " should have consequences in every other Marvel movie and TV serial .
Except it ’s now become clean-cut that it wo n’t . Marvel Studios is actually avoiding treat with the impingement ofAvengers : Infinity War ’s termination , reserve any consequences forAvengers 4 . Marvel Television seem to be studiously ignoring it , with evenAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.dodging the bullet due to programming . Far from having repercussions on the residuum of the MCU , Infinity War ’s cliffhanger appears to exist in a bubble , one that will only be research in next year ’s sequel movie .
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It ’s frankly more than a slight disappointing , and feels like a breach of the partake in universe model that has made Marvel so successful . But is the problem really so severe ? And if it is , why is Marvel going to such elbow grease to avoid exploring the impact ofAvengers : Infinity War ?
The Movies Themselves Are Avoiding The “Snap”
Until Phase 3 , the MCU has largely build up in a analog pattern , with every film plant chronologically after the next . But phase angle 3 is completely out of sequence , withGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2set in 2014 , and bothBlack PantherandSpider - Man : Homecomingexploring the radioactive dust fromCaptain America : Civil War . The next two films are even more dramatically out of sync with the rest of the timeline . Ant - Man & the Waspreturns to the pre-“snap " status quo , although some marketing for the film has suggested event are happeningat the same time asInfinity War . AndCaptain Marvelis actually plant in the ' 90s .
Avengers : eternity Warset up a potentially fascinating - and frightening - new status quo . Half of the human race has vanished from universe in a moment at random . Thanos does n’t care for occupation , riches , societal standing , sex , language , kin , or ethnicity , and as a result the intact worldly concern would have been steep into bedlam . Planes would have dropped from the sky , all of a sudden pilotless ; flaming would have gravel out of control ; skilled surgeons would have vanish even as they were about to operate ; world leaders would have vanish in the midsection of their speech . Some area would fall into polite state of war , with revolt and other dark act . It ’s impossible to conceive of the scale of measurement of the topsy-turvydom - which candidly intend that it deserved to be explored .
Until we get toAvengers 4 , however , the Marvel movie are avoiding it altogether , and when we get to that culmination it may be glossed over ; whileAvengers 4will surely open with a episode give way viewers a sense of how the existence has change ( possibly after atime jump ) , the movie will then move on . It has to do so . We know the hero who disappeared are all confirmed for their own sequels , so this is n’t a story of if the heroessurvivethe end of the human beings , it ’s how they put it right . There ’s no agency forAvengers 4to do jurist to the " snap " without sidelining its own narrative . And so , oddly , Marvel Studios has just carried out the most striking patch twist in the history of the MCU - but has no intent of exploring it .
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Won’t Explore Infinity War’s Consequences
This gap is whereAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.usually comes in . Although the relationship between Marvel Studios and Marvel Television has been rather more distant since 2015 ’s corporate restructure , the series remains Marvel ’s prescribed tie - in show . factor of S.H.I.E.L.D.Season 5 built up towardsInfinity War ’s cliffhanger , with several reference of the Black Order ’s attack on New York . Then , to viewers ' surprise , the series ended on a overconfident note , with no confidential information of the " snap " . It just did n’t make mother wit .
In an interview withEW , S.H.I.E.L.D. ’s showrunners were contract on quite why the series had taken this unexpected feeler . Jed Whedon explained that " there would really be no way for us to address it and keep our show integral . " The scale of the Thanos ' snap bean was even more intimidating givenAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.was , at the time , in " the bubble " - it had a 50/50 luck of either being renew or scrub by ABC . That meant the showrunners had to create a time of year finish that could in reality bring an end to the entire serial publication , and the disappearance of half the world would scarce be the veracious note . As Whedon added , " What we find was that the good play for our story , and for the integrity of our universe , was to engage outside of it . "
ABC ultimately decided in favor ofrenewingAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.for an foreshorten sixth season . But that ’s really schedule to vent in Summer 2019 , after the theatrical acquittance ofAvengers 4 . Although ABC head up Channing Dungey has insisted she has no cognition of Marvel Studios ' programme , this is for sure a fortuitous decisiveness for the show . Not only did the time of year last ignoreAvengers : Infinity War ’s ending , but the next time of year will kick off after the issue has been conclude . The most important event in the history of the MCU has been sidestepped by the idiot box serial that usually devote itself to filling out the movies .
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The Marvel Netflix Shows Won’t Deal with It Either
Do n’t anticipate the Marvel Netflix present to conduct with the consequences ofAvengers : Infinity War , either . disregard the Marvel Studios / Television space , those serial publication are n’t in reality limit in material - time;Jessica JonesSeason 2 was actually the first serial publication to be set after the passing of the Sokovia Accords inCaptain America : Civil War , as let out byreferences to the Raft . That means the next few serial are likely set in recent 2016 and early - to - mid 2017 , over a year before the event ofAvengers : Infinity War . It will in all probability be 2020 before the Marvel Netflix shows are actually place in the sentence of the Black Order ’s attack - at which distributor point it would be easy to skip over over .
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Besides which , the Marvel Netflix serial all have their own stories to tell apart . UnlikeAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , these appearance have stayed more or less separate from the Marvel movies . It ’s true thatDaredevilSeason 1 apparently launch off the back of the reconstruction of New York , which had been ravaged by the Chitauri in 2012’sThe Avengers . Since then , though , the Marvel Netflix shows have kept their references to a bare minimum;Jessica Jones ’s honorable mention of the Raft was the most significant crossover component in the last three years .
Marvel’s Other TV Series Are Likely To Avoid Infinity War’s Consequences
That brings us to the last two Marvel Television serial publication , RunawaysandCloak & Dagger . In the shell ofRunaways , the serial publication is so tangential to the rest of the MCU at present that only the most thoughtful viewers will have realized it ’s part of the same share population . Again , Runawaysis severalize its own news report , and the ending ofAvengers : Infinity Warwould complicate that ; imagine the showrunners trying to deal with the idea of half the Pride suddenly disappearing . Besides which , Season 2 will probably pick up where the first time of year left off , stand for it too will technically be set before the events ofAvengers : Infinity War .
There ’s only one series left that could potentially explore the upshot ofAvengers : Infinity War , namelyCloak & Dagger , and there ’s no grounds that it will do so . WhileCloak & Daggeris clearly more strongly connected to the rest of the MCU thanRunaways- the protuberance given toRoxxonin the trailers proves that - there have been no hints in marketing of a post - Infinity Warplot . The series appear to be grounded in the racial political sympathies of New Orleans , and it ’s improbable a cosmic " snap " would fit well with this . It will be gripping to watch the show for clue as to when it ’s actually set in the MCU timeline , but the fact remain thatCloak & Daggeris unlikely to be affected byAvengers : Infinity War .
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely , writers ofInfinity War , note thatthey did n’t begrudge Marvel TVdealing with the " ripple effect " from the motion-picture show . The result seems to be a simple one ; on the whole , Marvel Television designate to ignore it .
Is Thanos' “Snap” Really That Important?
Both Marvel Studios and Marvel Television seem to be give out to unprecedented length to fend off plow with the consequences ofAvengers : Infinity War ’s " snap . " And that raises a difficult query : is the " snap " really quite so of import as it seems ? On the face of it , that seems like a ludicrous question - after all , this involves the deaths of half the life in the macrocosm . In reality , though , it ’s actually a disturbing one . The torpedo who are killed are all characters who are screw to appear in sequels , mean the " grab " will be undone - or possibly even averted instantly .
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One common theory is thatAvengers 4involves some constituent oftime - locomotion . If that ’s the compositor’s case , it ’s quite possible the Avengers will be able to rewrite account , keep the " snap " from ever take place . That would certainly explain why Marvel do n’t seem to be using the " snap " to set up a new position quo - because that condition quo will be wipe off from continuity next year . Any pic or TV show set in the sentence after the " child’s play " would be wipe out of continuity too .
The " walkover " should be the most authoritative event in the history of the MCU . Instead , both Marvel Studios and Marvel Television are doing their degree - good to ignore it . In dramatic terminus , that ’s the least acceptable approach Marvel can possibly take , and it propose the cliffhanger ending ofAvengers : Infinity Warmay not be quite so important to the time to come of the MCU as it seems at first viewing .
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