Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5561191-20160731044347

I know everyone can't wait for a Defenders-Avengers crossover, that it's been said Infinity War will have a ton of characters and that one of the first things that comes to everyone's mind is that the Defenders could be there. But there seems to be a fact people keep ignoring: the main reason why the Marvel-Netflix shows are so successful is because they're grounded and urban. What if we take the most realistic side of the MCU to what might be the least one?

Sure, we would get a sweet dose of action and some cool interactions, but that seems to be the only thing people think of this. What about all the realism these shows have worked so hard to build in this Universe? How would the characters themselves explain what happened when they went back to their shows? Try to picture Matt describing his fights with aliens, spaceships and all sorts of weird stuff to Foggy after returning from the War. Does that really work? Is that something you'd like to see in Daredevil season 5 or something? Or would that be ignored for the sake of realism, like the War was erased from these characters' memories?

And now you might say "Even if the Defenders aren't involved in the Infinity War, they do inhabit the same Universe as the Avengers, and it's not like they can just keep ignoring the weird stuff that happens in the films for realism". Well, actually, it is. It's exactly what they're always doing. You don't see the Dark Elves' invasion in Greenwhich or the destruction of Sokovia being even mentioned there, and the Chitauri invasion itself is only referenced because it was incorporated as a plot point in Daredevil. You might also mention the mysticism around the Hand, Madame Gao and almost certainly Iron Fist, or even the sci-fi feel of Jessica's and Luke's origins, but all of those are incorporated for being absolutely essential to these characters' stories and identities, and are still tonally different from anything we might see in IW.

So sorry if I'm being a buzzkill. I'm not against a crossover at all, and it's likely to be coming soon or later. All I'm saying is that the cosmic war involving aliens, energy and lots of other weird stuff might be the worst background for such thing. 