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Uglyguy25 wrote:

Hugues de Payens wrote: They should mention their existence. I think it’s the best route for them. By mentioning them, it makes fans happy that the movies finally acknowledge the TV branch, they don’t have to mess with scheduling, they don’t have to worry about too little or too much screen time, and they don’t have to pay the actors.

 True. Four Defenders (+ extras like Misty and the Punisher) living in the same city as Iron Man, Spider-Man etc and nobody bothers to mention them. Same about almost everything that happens in Agents of SHIELD. I hope Homecoming makes some kind of reference to them, because if it doesn't it would be just too absurd. On the other hand, the Netflix shows will have to aknowledge Doctor Strange's city bending (I haven't watched it yet, so no spoilers please!), won't they? Ignoring that would have been like ignoring the Incident.

That's one of my main issues with these Netflix shows, actually: they try to stay away from the films so much that sometimes you can't even believe they are in the same universe at all. With all the surreal stuff that happens in the movies, people still find immortal ninjas absurd and laugh at the first Kilgrave they hear of, like those are even hard to believe after Norse gods are confirmed to exist and a green monster is one of Earth's protectors. Remember Malcolm saying he didn't believe in elves in Jessica Jones? Didn't he watch the whole Dark Elf invasion of London? If he had said gnomes he could have gotten away with it lol. For Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is kind of justified, they were a not-so-special team in the first season, only when S.H.I.E.L.D. fell and everyone thought they didn't exist anymore is when they became important. Then during the season 2 and 3, they were a secret team, keeping those problems(Inhuman discovery/Hive) away from the public, only high ranking goverment officials knew about them (and Talbot). Only at the end of season 2 the inhumans are public knowledge, but even in the series public concern was not present until S.H.I.E.L.D. became public again, just as the Avengers Civil War took place.

Since then they have been keeping this new magic problems out of public knowledge as much as they can and no movie, excpet for probably Homecoming but is very self-centered, could touch something related to S.H.I.E.L.D. (GotgVOL2, it's in space; Ragnarok, it's in Asgard/space/little part of earth; Black Panther, it's in Wakanda).

I suppose the elf thing wa because no one got a perfect glimpse of them, if they did, that is such a big plothole.