My head canon for AoS at least was that the Avengers most likely had a global press conference that explained what happened. Since the SHIELD agents didn't really have a role in those events, they most likely felt it was better to just "move on" and try to protect the world as it now was. This likely motivated other people to want to do their part, which explains the influx of SHIELD agents in season 6. And since season 6 takes place a year after the snap, I'm sure more and more people felt they could move on and continue living the best they could given the circumstance.

@HPfanatic08 That's exactly what I was thinking. The AoS weren't involved, it had been over a year, they had probably adapted and accepted it. Helstrom was set a couple years after the Snap, so again, people adapted and accepted. I can't speak for Runaways, as I'm not completely sure where the post-Snap part falls, but surely there isn't a need to mention the Snap in every conversation. What I've always reasoned is that anytime those characters have mentioned the Snap has been offscreen. Also, wasn't there a scene in The Punisher that was set post-Snap?

I mean people probably panicked for the first year because they didn't know

But of course since there was a 5 year gap, humanity probably had the accept what happened and moved on with their lives.

For the remaining four years humanity had to live on with half of the universe gone

I have a hard time believing any of those are canon. Especially since the movies seem to completely ignore them. You'd think that the inhumans showing up would be mentioned somewhere in the movies and literally none of the AOS cast gets dusted when at least a few should have.

The movies are starting to crossover with the old MCU shows. We are going to see even more integration in the upcoming years. We have had 3 characters crossing over, one attempt to cross over with AoS in Endgame and very very soon another character is returning.

They are definitely starting to be acknowledged.

Also if you want to talk about stuff not being mentioned, I remember Tiamut and Ego's mass in Missouri haven't been mentioned anywhere else.

And about AoS, they just survived, end of the story.

I mean runaways were stuck in the dark dimension then came back to a society that was completely brainwashed and agents of Shield you can just assume that they were lucky no one important got snapped and they just moved on it takes place a year later if you compare the snap to something like corona how often do you bring it up in conversation now

@ThatGuyNamedJoe Runaways S3 has a plot point where the Runaways spend six months in the Dark Dimension and come back to the real world after all those months have passed. Since they would have been transported to the Dark Dimension in February 2018, six months after is August 2018, which is unavoidably post-Snap territory. There are also some alternate timeline futures where the Runaways have moved on and grown up with their lives, and then they go back in time and do some stuff, its a bit complicated, but we can assume those are also set in a post-Snap reality.

The Punisher S2's epilogue is set three months after the main events of the season, and given those are dated to May 2018 (just weeks before the Snap, iirc), the epilogue would be August 2018. There's not much going on in the epilogue, just that we see Punisher hired by the CIA going out to kill off some gang members or something, which should is superficially fitting for a post-Snap reality.

@Edinson113 Because Kevin Feige doesn't actually care about long lasting stakes or things making sense. And he's never cared about any of the shows except Daredevil and only because of its acclaim.

The reason why Runaways and SHIELD ignore the Snap is because:

1: Feige allowed Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely to have the Snap last 5 years and be a permanent part of history (instead of erasing it from history which is what they should have done)

2: The writers didn't know that was going to happen. Feige couldn't be bothered to tell Jeph Loeb or any of the TV show show runners about this development, because as far as he was concerned, those shows didn't matter.

But the main reason is because Feige wanted to have his cake and eat it too. He wanted the brownie points of having a jaw-dropping game-changing event in Infinity War & Endgame, but he also wanted to continue business as usual.

Thus, he allows the Snap to happen -- and then allows everyone - even under his own watch - to ignore or downplay the Snap, so that business can continue as usual. It's a very typical and cynical approach to shared storytelling.

I don't think Feige or Markus or McFeely realize or care just how devastating losing 50% of the population - and then gaining it back - would be on society. The world would be an unrecognizable pile of chaos.

Instead, we have people occasionally mentioning it, or not mentioning it at all, and society functioning normally. If that's the world Feige wanted, then he should have only had them erase 5% or 2% of the population. That way, you can still have your jaw-dropping tragedy, but society can still function. 2% of the population is still devastating.

On top of that, most of the characters in the new movies and shows didn't even Blip. The Blip didn't affect their lives at all, so it might as well not have even happened.

The Eternals were exempt from the Blip and all it did was delay the Emergence.

Neither Shang-Chi, Xialing, nor Wenwu Blipped. Their lives were unaffected.

Neither Steven/Marc, Layla, nor Harrow appear to have Blipped. It might as well not have happened.

Neither Kate Bishop, her mother, Echo, or Kingpin Blipped (Kate had to survive so she could grow to be a 20 year old).

The only characters who were confirmed to have Blipped were characters from the movies who we already know Blipped like Spider-Man, Falcon, Bucky, Wanda, Hawkeye's family, etc.

The stories that were most affected by the Blip were WandaVision, Falcon, & Far From Home, and even there, the Blip's impact was weak sauce at best, with Falcon being the only show to even attempt to show any global political ramifications.

And it's because it doesn't matter to them. They wanted to wow the audience with the fact that they did it, and then treat everything like the way it was before Infinity War, because that's more convenient for new writers and their "creative freedom." Never mind continuity or consequences.

@Neutron Lightning

Yelena and possibly the rest of Nat's Family got Blipped away from Thanos Snap. We still Don't know if Kingpin and the Rest of the Defenders Cast got blipped but it's makes more sense for Kingpin to get blipped since his character is completely different then he was in Daredevil. Yelena lost her sister and Alexei and Melina lost a daughter cause of the blipped.

also the AOS Crew as busy at the time dealing with Chronicoms at the time and the runaways was trapped for six months in the Dark Dimension and come back to the real world after all those months have passed.

Lol Kingpin is different since it’s a soft reboot